Product Description: Before the heroic stand of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top, the 2nd and 20th Georgia infantries, led by Brig. Gen. Robert Toombs, held off a veritable Yankee juggernaut and triumphed at Burnside's Bridge on Antietam Creek in 1862...read more

Product Description: The Civil War continues to fascinate historians and general readers. Contemporary Civil War scholarship has brought to light the important roles certain ethnic groups played during that tumultuous time in our nation's history. Adding to that genre of literature is this brief but informative history of the Irish Brigade...read more

Product Description: Few infantry regiments in the Civil War compiled a more distinguished record than the Fifth Missouri. The unique blending of fiery Irish Confederates from St. Louis with rural pro-Southern Missourians forged an unshakable esprit de corps, making the unit the crack infantry regiment in the western sector...read more

Product Description: Contemporary Civil War scholarship has brought to light the important roles certain ethnic groups played during that tumultuous time in our nation's history. The axiom that the winners of wars write the histories is especially valid in regard to the story of the Irish who fought for the Confederacy from 1861–1865...read more

Product Description: Victor Vifquain’s memoir is an engaging, firsthand account of a bold attempt to kidnap the president of the Confederate States of America. Archived for nearly a century, the chronicle of this previously unknown and daring plot has been brought to light by historians Jeffrey H...read more

"The Confederacy's Fighting Chaplain" is the story of the Irishman who brought the Bible and his own resourcefulness and daring to both the battlefield and the diplomatic field - a story that has been largely ignored for more than 130 years. The biography of John B. Bannon also chronicles the forgotten Southerners - the Irish immigrants of the Confederacy whose colourful and crucial role in the Civil War has been seriously neglected. John B. Bannon was born in Ireland in 1829 and raised in peat-bog country. Educated at the Royal College of St.Patrick at Maynooth, he was ordained a priest in May 1853. Ireland was still suffering from the effects of the Potato Famine, which caused thousands of Irish to emigrate to the United States. In response to the need for Roman Catholic priests to minister to America's immigrant population, Father Bannon was sent to the Archidiocese of St Louis, Missouri, shortly after his ordination. Many of the Irish parishioners of St Louis lived in a crowded corner of the city without money, assistance or land. Father Bannon soon became a leading civic and religious figure in St Louis. An impressive character, he was described as a "handsome man, over six feet in height, with splendid form and intellectual face, courteous manners, and of great personal magnetism, conversing entertainingly and with originality and great wit, in a manner all his own". By 1860, Missouri contained the second largest Irish population and the largest German population in the Southern and border states, and when war reached Missouri, Father Bannon volunteered to serve on the battlefield by tending the wounded and dying. During the war he served as a chaplain-soldier in perhaps the finest combat unit on either side - the First Missouri Confederate Brigade. He impressed his fellow Confederates by attending the wounded at the front lines during battle, while most chaplains stayed to the rear. This tall, athletic man was a striking figure with his slouch hat and butternut coloured uniform with a red cloth cross on the left shoulder. Various accounts praised the chaplain. A veteran wrote that the chaplain "was everywhere in the midst of the battle when the fire was heaviest and the bullets thickest". General Sterling Price wrote "The greatest soldier I ever saw was Father Bannon. In the midst of the fray he would step in and take up a fallen soldier". After the fall of Vicksburg, where Bannon had worked under dangerous fire, he journeyed to Richmond and received recognition and special diplomatic duties from President Jefferson Davis. Bannon conceived a brilliant strategy to gain recognition for the Confederacy from Pope Pius IX and thus to open the door for recognition from Britain and France. On a mission for Davis, he acted as a secret agent in Ireland during an all-important clandestine effort to stop the flood of Irish immigrants pouring into the Union armies at a critical time - before the decisive campaigns of 1864. After the war, he joined the Jesuit order in Ireland, where he served until his death in 1913. The story of Father Bannon is the story of the Missouri Irish Confederates, whose role in the conflict has been neglected. Without doubt, Father Bannon stands out as an important religious diplomatic personality of the Confederacy. Few men played such a distinguished and diverse role during the Civil War.

Recounts the Civil War events at Little Round Top at the battle of Gettysburg from a Confederate perspective, sharing the stories of the soldiers and officers of the 15th Alabama, from a description of the Alabamans' Chattahoochee River valley home to sketches of William C. Oates. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: The role of Cubans in the American Civil War is seldom appreciated. This work is the first to provide a close look at the often distinguished services they performed. Although Cubans are recorded in the rosters of both Union and Confederate forces, Cuban ties with the Confederacy were particularly strong, partly because Cuban patriots fighting for liberation from Spain tended to identify with the Southern cause as a revolutionary struggle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Few people today, black or white, know about the incredible life of Cathy Williams. From her beginnings as a slave in Independence, Missouri, to her enlistment with Company A, 38th US Infantry, in November, 1866, the story of this remarkable woman deserves to finally be told...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: 5 maps 6 x 9 * First thoroughly researched study of the struggle for Burnside's Bridge * New perspective on Robert Toombs's role in the Army of Northern Virginia Before the heroic stand of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top, the 2nd and 20th Georgia Infantries, led by Brig...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Tucker, Phillip Thomas

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