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The result is a fascinating, informative and engrossing account of the turning of the Confederacy's left flank and the resulting defeat of the Army of the Rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach chapter is extensively annotated and the original index has been retained. This work is truly an essential addition to your Civil War library. Chapters include: From St. Louis to Belmont, Fort Donelson and Shiloh, The Capture of New Orleans, From Corinth to Stone River, The Vicksburg Problem, The Fall of Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Nashville. Facsimile reprints of photographs include: Ulysses Simpson Grant (1864), George Henry Thomas, Albert Sidney Johnston, William Tecumseh Sherman, David Glasgow Farragut, Joseph Eccleston Johnston, James Longstreet, and John Bell Hood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Fiske\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1902, ?), 2015, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 450 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788412233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-F1223\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39321289949302,"sku":"101-F1223","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-f1223-1500px.png?v=1777213060"},{"product_id":"101-b0349","title":"The Confederate Mail Carrier, or From Missouri to Arkansas through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeing an Account of the Battles, Marches, and Hardships of the First and Second Brigades, Mo., C.S.A. Together with the Thrilling Adventures and Narrow Escapes of Captain Grimes and his Fair Accomplice, who Carried the Mail by \"the Underground Route\" from the Brigade to Missouri\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a charming eyewitness account of the battles, marches, and hardships of the 1st and 2nd Brigades of Missouri troops enlisted to serve the Confederacy. Interwoven into the story is a description of how members of these two brigades corresponded with their families back home while blocked from easy, direct communication by intervening Union forces. The mail carriers, one Capt. Grimes and a Miss Ella Herbert, were the major instruments of the \"Underground\" mail service. Battles mentioned include: Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, Corinth, Iuka, Port Gibson, Siege of Vicksburg, Sherman's Georgia Campaign, Franklin, and Nashville. The author includes comments about the brutal, costly, marauder-bandit warfare in Missouri conducted by irregular troops and common criminal elements taking advantage of wartime conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA short appendage to the volume gives a history of the Confederate Home in Higginsville, Missouri, and biographical sketches of the people responsible for its establishment. Students of Civil War operations west of Appalachia will find this history fascinating and eye-opening in many ways. The text is attractively illustrated with photos of many of the principals. A new full-name index has been added.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Bradley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1894, 1990), 2013, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 318 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781556133497\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-B0349\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42137902096,"sku":"101-B0349","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-b0349-1500px.png?v=1776975031"},{"product_id":"101-s0695","title":"Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Florida and Arkansas","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work is intended to be the companion set to Frederick H. Dyer's Compendium of the War of the Rebellion for the Confederacy. Civil War historians and genealogists with ties to Florida or Arkansas will want to own this volume that details the activities of Florida and Arkansas' units in the Confederacy. Chapters are included for artillery, cavalry and infantry units that are broken down by size: battalions, batteries, companies and regiments, as well as any other special designations such as Militia, State Troops and Volunteers. Entries include (as available) the name of the unit and any nicknames or other mistaken designations; a summary of the unit's organizational details: its date and location of organization, mustering into service, the number of companies for battalion organizations, armament for artillery batteries, surrenders, paroles, exchanges and disbandment or mustering out; the first commanding officer and an alphabetical listing of the other field-grade officers; the brigade and higher-level command assignments of the unit; a listing of the battles and campaigns the unit engaged in; and suggested further reading. 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