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White Mane Books
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c2004
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English
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Myers, a descendent of a member of the 53d Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry of the Civil War, recounts the history of the regiment, from its creation in 1861 to its dissolution at the end of the war in 1865. B&w historical photos and maps are included. Myers is retired from a career in the US Army. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. Brian Matthew Jordan's Marching Home, a powerful exploration (Washington Post) of the fates of Union veterans, vaulted him into the first rank of Civil War historians. Now, in A Thousand May Fall, Jordan sends us trundling along dusty roads with the 107th Ohio, an ethnically German infantry regiment...
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John Daniel Imboden carved out one of the most unique and fascinating careers of the Civil War. In 1859, the lawyer and politician was commissioned a captain in the Staunton (Va.) Artillery. When war broke out in 1861, he served with his battery at Harpers Ferry and First Manassas. In 1862, Imboden raised the 1st Virginia Partisan Rangers and fought in Stonewall Jackson's famed Shenandoah Valley Campaign. A promotion to brigadier general followed...
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