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War Bird: The Life and Times of Elliott White Springs

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Product Description: This is the first biography of Elliott White Springs (1896-1959), who was fifth-ranking U.S. pilot of World War I, best-selling author, advertising genius, and maverick maser of a textile manufacturing empire. War Birds, his masterpiece, inspired many books and films on the youth of World War I and the twenties...read more

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9780807817520 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Traces the life of Springs, a World War I pilot, author, and industrialist, and describes his unique approach to advertizing the products of his textile mills

Paperback:

9780807865286 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, June 1, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This is the first biography of Elliott White Springs (1896-1959), who was fifth-ranking U.

The Southern Railway: Roads of the Innovators

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Product Description: Davis traces railroad development in the South by a cast of remarkable entrepreneurs and the subsequent creation of the Southern Railway's network from the ruins of those early enterprises. This is also a full account of the many innovations wrought by the Southern's leaders: the first major railroad to convert to diesel power; a pioneer in mechanized maintenance of right-of-way; the use of gigantic box cars to carry bulky cargo; and the operation of coal trains in continuous shuttle...read more

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9780807868607 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, October 1, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Davis traces railroad development in the South by a cast of remarkable entrepreneurs and the subsequent creation of the Southern Railway's network from the ruins of those early enterprises.

Jeb Stuart the Last Cavalier: Library Edition

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Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.] [Read by Barrett Whitener] Here is a full and definitive biography of the dashing and enigmatic Confederate hero of the Civil War, General J.E.B. Stuart. This life-size portrait of Stuart surveys his life from childhood through his training at West Point, his years on the Western frontier, and his decision to stand with Virginia when war arrived...read more

By Burke Davis and Barrett Whitener (narrator)

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9780786193899 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2002), cover price $104.00 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786123629, titled "Jeb Stuart: The Last Cavalier: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2002), cover price $76.95 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.

Jeb Stuart: The Last Cavalier

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Product Description: [MP3CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.][Read by Barrett Whitener] Here is a full and definitive biography of the dashing and enigmatic Confederate hero of the Civil War, General J.E.B. Stuart. This life-size portrait of Stuart surveys his life from childhood through his training at West Point, his years on the Western frontier, and his decision to stand with Virginia when war arrived...read more

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9780517185971 | Reissue edition (Outlet, September 1, 1992), cover price $10.99 | About this edition: A romantic portrayal in biographical form of one of the Confederate army's most charismatic leaders

Paperback:

9781580800754 | Burford Books, July 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A romantic portrayal in biographical form of one of the Confederate army's most charismatic leaders.

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9781433297496 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 2009), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [MP3CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.

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9781435277373 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in Vinyl case.

Black Heroes of the American Revolution

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Presents an account of the black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence. Reprint.

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9780152085612 | Rei rep edition (Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 2007), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: An account of the black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence

Reinforced:

9780606025225 | Demco Media, January 1, 1992, cover price $13.60 | About this edition: An account of the black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence

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9781435201125 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 30, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An account of the black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence

9780833573926 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: An account of the black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence

They Called Him Stonewall

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Product Description: Stonewall Jackson was a military genius at once peculiar and perfect, a fearless soldier in battle but a God-fearing man who hesitated to kill on Sunday. He broke the rules of war to win, and yet his tactics are studied in military academies the world over...read more

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9780786189649 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 1998), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Stonewall Jackson was a military genius at once peculiar and perfect, a fearless soldier in battle but a God-fearing man who hesitated to kill on Sunday.

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9780786101573 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 1990), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Davis brings the color, vivid characterization, and immediacy of the best fiction to this fascinating biography of a military genius, but God-fearing man, who hesitated to kill on Sunday.

The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign

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Product Description: On January 17, 1781, near Cowpens, a drover's camp on the old Cherokee trading trail in Carolina territory, Continental troops and horsemen under the direction of Daniel Morgan inflicted a stunning defeat on a crack British detachment led by the ruthless Banastre Tarleton, commander of Lord Cornwallis's cavalry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780812218329 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, August 19, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: On January 17, 1781, near Cowpens, a drover's camp on the old Cherokee trading trail in Carolina territory, Continental troops and horsemen under the direction of Daniel Morgan inflicted a stunning defeat on a crack British detachment led by the ruthless Banastre Tarleton, commander of Lord Cornwallis's cavalry.

To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865

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Product Description: Here is a riveting chronicle of the nine final days of the Civil War, and anecdotal and intimate portrait of Grant, Lee, Lincoln, and the war's other notable personalities as they play out the end-game to America's bloodiest war. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781580800976 | Burford Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Here is a riveting chronicle of the nine final days of the Civil War, and anecdotal and intimate portrait of Grant, Lee, Lincoln, and the war's other notable personalities as they play out the end-game to America's bloodiest war.

9780915992171 | Eastern Acorn Pr, June 1, 1959, cover price $4.25 | About this edition: Re-creates the last days of the Civil War with vivid accounts of the actions of General Lee and General Grant during those last hours

The Incredible Civil War

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9781580800846 | Burford Books, April 1, 2001, cover price $14.95

They Called Him Stonewall: A Life of Lt. General T.J. Jackson, C.S.A

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Traces the challenges, accomplishments, and death on the battlefield of Chancellorsville of General Stonewall Jackson (view table of contents)

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9780517662045, titled "They Called Him Stonewall: A Life of Lt. General T.J. Jackson, C.S.A." | Bonanza Books, March 1, 1988, cover price $11.99

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9781580800297 | Burford Books, July 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Traces the challenges, accomplishments, and death on the battlefield of Chancellorsville of General Stonewall Jackson

Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War

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Product Description: Robert E. Lee, a Christian and a gentleman, was the most remarkable man to emerge from the Civil War and is one of the greatest tragic figures of American history. Reserved and unflappable, savvy and fearless, shrewd and tenacious, fatherly and kind are but a few of the adjectives commonly used to describe this noble hero...read more

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9780517347720 | Gramercy, September 1, 1992, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Maps and photographs complement this weighty, sweeping narrative about one of the most dramatic figures in the Civil War.

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9781580800693 | Reprint edition (Burford Books, September 1, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Traces the challenges, accomplishments, and final defeat of General Lee during the Civil War

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9781441746498 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 20, 2010), cover price $109.00 | About this edition: Robert E.

9781441746528 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 20, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Robert E.

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9780786101672 | Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 1990, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: witness accounts, Burke Davis brings the southern Civil War leader to life.

I Rode With Jeb Stuart: The Life and Campaigns of Major General J.E.B. Stuart

By Burke Davis and H. B. McClellan

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9780253210999 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $42.01 | also contains A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

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9780306806056 | Da Capo Pr, August 21, 1994, cover price $19.00

The Civil War: Strange and Fascinating Facts

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Surveys technological inventions, prominent personalities, battles, and clandestine operations in addition to relating bizarre incidents, famous firsts, and unusual facts about the Civil War

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9780517371510 | Gramercy, May 1, 1991, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Surveys technological inventions, prominent personalities, battles, and clandestine operations in addition to relating bizarre incidents, famous firsts, and unusual facts about the Civil War

Marine! the Life Chesty Puller

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9780553271829 | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $7.99 | also contains Too Perfect

The Long Surrender

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Chronicles the collapse of the Confederacy and the flight of Jefferson Davis and his cabinet in an effort to escape capture and surrender

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9780394520834 | Random House Inc, March 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the collapse of the Confederacy and the flight of Jefferson Davis and his cabinet in an effort to escape capture and surrender

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9780679724094 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, December 1, 1989), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the collapse of the Confederacy and the flight of Jefferson Davis and his cabinet in an effort to escape capture and surrender

Sherman's March

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Weaving together hundreds of eyewitness accounts, a noted historian recreates Sherman's devastating sweep through Georgia and the Carolinas in 1864 and 1865 and narrates the experiences of soldiers and civilians (view table of contents)

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9780394507392 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, April 1, 1980), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Weaving together hundreds of eyewitness accounts, a noted historian recreates Sherman's devastating sweep through Georgia and the Carolinas in 1864 and 1865 and narrates the experiences of soldiers and civilians

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9780394757636 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1988), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Weaving together hundreds of eyewitness accounts, a noted historian recreates Sherman's devastating sweep through Georgia and the Carolinas in 1864 and 1865 and narrates the experiences of soldiers and civilians

The World of Currier and Ives

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Product Description: A Large Format Reissue Collection of Currier and Ives lithographs from the Roy King Collection. Includes an introduction, a collecting and buying prints section; a selected list of 200 Currier and Ives prints with their values in rear of book...read more

By Burke Davis and Roy King

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Hardcover:

9780517014080 | Outlet, February 1, 1987, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: A Large Format Reissue Collection of Currier and Ives lithographs from the Roy King Collection.

The Southern Railway: Road of the Innovators

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Product Description: Davis traces railroad development in the South by a cast of remarkable entrepreneurs and the subsequent creation of the Southern Railway's network from the ruins of those early enterprises. This is also a full account of the many innovations wrought by the Southern's leaders: the first major railroad to convert to diesel power; a pioneer in mechanized maintenance of right-of-way; the use of gigantic box cars to carry bulky cargo; and the operation of coal trains in continuous shuttle...read more

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9780807816363 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Davis traces railroad development in the South by a cast of remarkable entrepreneurs and the subsequent creation of the Southern Railway's network from the ruins of those early enterprises.

Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers

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Twelve-year-old Grace Bedell, of Westfield, New York, sees a picture of the campaigning Abraham Lincoln and writes the president-to-be to tell him that a beard might improve his appearance

By Burke Davis and Douglas W. Gorsline

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9780698204553 | Putnam Pub Group, January 1, 1979, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: At the suggestion of a young girl, Abraham Lincoln grows a beard.

Old Hickory: A Life of Andrew Jackson

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The personal life and turbulent military and political career of Andrew Jackson are considered in light of major twentieth-century reappraisals of America's seventh president and his time

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9780385270922 | Doubleday, October 1, 1977, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The personal life and turbulent military and political career of Andrew Jackson are considered in light of major twentieth-century reappraisals of America's seventh president and his time

Runaway Balloon: The Last Flight of Confederate Air Force One

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Recounts the brief and near-disastrous history of the balloon created by the Confederate army to spy on Federal troops who had used the same means to observe Southern troop movements

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9780698203723 | Coward Mc Cann, May 1, 1976, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Recounts the brief and near-disastrous history of the balloon created by the Confederate army to spy on Federal troops who had used the same means to observe Southern troop movements

George Washington and the American Revolution

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Recounts Washington's tenure as commander-in-chief of the Colonial Army, highlighting important decisions, actions, and events and profiling the noteworthy figures with whom the general came into contact

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9780394463889 | Random House Inc, November 1, 1975, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Recounts Washington's tenure as commander-in-chief of the Colonial Army, highlighting important decisions, actions, and events and profiling the noteworthy figures with whom the general came into contact

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9780891763741 | Mockingbird Books, April 1, 1975, cover price $1.50

Amelia Earhart.

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Records the personal history of the American aviatrix from her childhood days spent in Kansas to her mysterious disappearance in the Pacific in 1937

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9780399607233 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1972, cover price $6.29 | About this edition: A biography of the aviation pioneer who was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic.

Heroes of the American Revolution

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Provides in-depth portraits of eleven revolutionary leaders whose actions were crucial to the success of the War for Independence

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9780394821528 | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1971, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Provides in-depth portraits of eleven revolutionary leaders whose actions were crucial to the success of the War for Independence

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