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Product Description: Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe's escape from encirclement by 1,000 Northern Plateau Indians in 1858 is a familiar story from the Indian Wars. Yet the details of the Battle of Pine Creek (or Tohotonimme) and its aftermath remain subjects of debate...read more

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9781476662329 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 20, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Lieutenant Colonel Edward J.

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By Timothy D. Johnson (editor)

Hardcover:

9781621901631 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, June 28, 2015, cover price $59.95

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9780700609147 | Univ Pr of Kansas, November 1, 1998, cover price $29.95

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9780700621064 | Univ Pr of Kansas, June 26, 2015, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: On May 9, 1846, Second Lieutenant Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne, United States Army, fell in the battle of Resaca de la Palma during the war with Mexico. Dead at twenty-three in a remote desert, his promise outweighing his accomplishments, Chadbourne slid into obscurity...read more

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9780820315034 | Univ of Georgia Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: On May 9, 1846, Second Lieutenant Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne, United States Army, fell in the battle of Resaca de la Palma during the war with Mexico.

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9780820338040 | Univ of Georgia Pr, January 1, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: On May 9, 1846, Second Lieutenant Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne, United States Army, fell in the battle of Resaca de la Palma during the war with Mexico.

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Product Description: While researching this book, Jack C. Mason made the kind of discovery that historians dream of. He found more than one hundred unpublished and unknown letters from Union general Israel B. Richardson to his family, written from his time as a West Point cadet until the day before his fatal wounding at the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history...read more

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9780809329472 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, November 3, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: While researching this book, Jack C.

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Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox, they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both fighting in the same cadre in the Mexican War. They were not alone: Sherman, Davis, Jackson-nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers had been forged in the heat of Vera Cruz and Monterrey.

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9780316166256 | Little Brown & Co, May 14, 2008, cover price $29.99

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9780803228122 | Reprint edition (Bison Books, December 1, 2009), cover price $24.95

Miscellaneous:

9780316032537 | Little Brown & Co, June 16, 2008, cover price $14.99

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9781433214608 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 16, 2008), cover price $29.95
9781433214592 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 1, 2008), cover price $32.95

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9781433214585 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 1, 2008), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S.

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Product Description: Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox, they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both fighting in the same cadre in the Mexican War...read more
By Robertson Dean (narrator)

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9781433214578 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 16, 2008), cover price $90.00

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9781433214561 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 16, 2008), cover price $72.95 | About this edition: Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S.

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Product Description: J. Patton Anderson was from Florida, the seceding state that was referred to as the "tadpole" of the Confederate states, but nevertheless he was one of the Confederacy's great military leaders. Anderson oversaw a large plantation, Casa Bianca, and his views meshed with secessionist views sufficiently for him to be elected as a delegate to the Secession Conference held in Montgomery, Alabama...read more

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9780786417667 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: J.

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The son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and an accomplished historian presents the first biography of General Winfield Scott, who played a key role in shaping America's borders in the wars of the nineteenth century, as well as America's military. 20,000 first printing.

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9780684844510 | Free Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: The son of President Dwight D.

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9780806131283 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: One of nineteenth-century America’s most controversial military figures, Gideon Johnson Pillow gained notoriety early in the Civil War for turning an apparent Confederate victory at Fort Donelson into an ignominious defeat. Dismissed by contemporaries and historians alike as a political general with dangerous aspirations, his famous failures have overshadowed the tremendous energy, rare talent, and great organizational skills that also marked his career...read more

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9780807821077 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Commonly portrayed in Civil War literature as a bungling general who disgraced himself at Fort Donelson, Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-78) is one of the most controversial military figures of nineteenth-century America.

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9781572337558 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, May 30, 2011, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: One of nineteenth-century America’s most controversial military figures, Gideon Johnson Pillow gained notoriety early in the Civil War for turning an apparent Confederate victory at Fort Donelson into an ignominious defeat.

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