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Product Description: Earthen Walls, Iron Men tells the story of Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, a major Confederate fortification that defended the lower Red River in 1863-64 during the last stages of the Civil War. Long regarded as little more than a footnote by historians, the fort in fact played a critical role in the defense of the Red River region...read more
Hardcover:
9781572335769 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, September 10, 2007, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This book will be of great use to historians of the western theatre of the Civil War, to the reader of nineteenth-century history, and to students of the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Paperback:
9781621901969, titled "Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort Derussy, Louisiana, and the Defense of Red River" | Reprint edition (Univ of Tennessee Pr, April 30, 2015), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Earthen Walls, Iron Men tells the story of Fort DeRussy, Louisiana, a major Confederate fortification that defended the lower Red River in 1863-64 during the last stages of the Civil War.
Paperback:
9781482610116 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 23, 2013, cover price $19.99
Hardcover:
9781611210903 | Savas Beatie, October 19, 2012, cover price $34.95
Paperback:
9781609490119 | History Pr, April 13, 2011, cover price $24.99
Hardcover:
9780786433100 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 9, 2008, cover price $55.00
Paperback:
9780786461066 | Reprint edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 19, 2010), cover price $35.00
Miscellaneous:
9781426205606 | Natl Geographic Society, May 18, 2010, cover price $28.00
During the American Civil War, Washington, D.C. was the most heavily fortified city in North America. As President Abraham Lincoln's Capital, the city became the symbol of Union determination, as well as a target for Robert E. Lee's Confederates. As a Union army and navy logistical base, it contained a complex of hospitals, storehouses, equipment repair facilities, and animal corrals. These were in addition to other public buildings, small urban areas, and vast open space that constituted the capital on the Potomac. To protect Washington with all it contained and symbolized, the Army constructed a shield of fortifications: 68 enclosed earthen forts, 93 supplemental batteries, miles of military roads, and support structures for commissary, quartermaster, engineer, and civilian labor force, some of which still exist today. Thousands of troops were held back from active operations to garrison this complex. And the Commanders of the Army of the Potomac from Irvin McDowell to George Meade, and informally U.S. Grant himself, always had to keep in mind their responsibility of protecting this city, at the same time that they were moving against the Confederate forces arrayed against them. Revised in style, format, and content, the new edition of Mr. Lincoln's Forts is the premier historical reference and tour guide to the Civil War defenses of Washington, D.C.
Hardcover:
9780810867598 | Revised edition (Scarecrow Pr, August 30, 2009), cover price $87.00 | About this edition: During the American Civil War, Washington, D.
Paperback:
9780810860674 | New edition (Scarecrow Pr, October 30, 2009), cover price $58.00 | About this edition: During the American Civil War, Washington, D.
Miscellaneous:
9780810863071 | Scarecrow Pr, December 16, 2009, cover price $75.00
Paperback:
9781570720451 | Overmountain Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $6.95
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