Product Description: Born in 1796, James Gettys McGready Ramsey was a man of broad talents who left a permanent imprint on Tennessee. He was a physician, public servant, religious leader, banker, railroad advocate, and tireless scholar of early Tennessee history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An impartial analysis of the much criticized presidency of war-hero U. S. Grant, a remarkable biography by historian Hesseltine of the University of Wisconsin. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Upon its publication in 1930, Civil War Prisons immediately provoked controversy. The first authoritative study of both Southern and Northern wartime prison systems, the book exposed several myths, including the widely held assumption that Confederate leaders conspired to kill their prisoners through deliberate neglect...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)