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This comprehensive and engaging narrative explores the Civil War ordeals and triumphs of the "Lead Mine men," the 45th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, who hailed from eleven counties in northern Illinois. Thomas B. Mack uncovers the history on this unit of resilient midwesterners and how they brought hard-war to the Confederacy in 1862.

This collective biography illuminates how the lives and successes of fourteen African American physicians who became surgeons during the American Civil War challenged the prescribed notions of race in America and played a crucial role in the evolving definition of freedom and patriotism.

Describes the organisation and management of the Confederate army's medical department. Guy Hasegawa investigates how political considerations, personalities, and, as the war progressed, the diminishing availability of human and material resources influenced decision-making.

Utilizing an array of local and national archives, as well as private papers, the microhistorical approach of this book records events that often go unnoticed, such as a farmer enlisting in the middle of a crop field, a sister searching her brother's face for signs of war, and an immigrant dying in an effort to become a good American citizen.

Rather than attempt to tease truth from fiction, coauthors Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill investigate the ways in which James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok embodied the culture of glamorized violence Americans embraced after the Civil War and examine the process of how his story emerged, evolved, and turned into a viral multimedia sensation.

This remarkable biography and edited diary tell the story of William Ellis Jones (1838-1910), an artillerist in the Army of Northern Virginia. One of the few extant diaries by a Confederate artillerist, Jones's articulate writings cover camp life as well as many of the key military events of 1862.

Popular media can spark the national consciousness in a way that captures people's attention, interests them in history, and inspires them to visit historic sites. This collection of essays and feature stories celebrates the popular media that have enticed Americans to learn more about the country's most dramatic historical era.

Many books discuss in great detail what happened during Civil War battles. This is one of the few that investigates what happened to the remains of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. It explores a battle's immediate and long-term aftermath by focusing on Fredericksburg National Cemetery, one of the largest cemeteries created by the US government after the Civil War.

Although most Americans believe that the Battle of Gettysburg was the only turning point of the Civil War, the war actually turned repeatedly. Events unfolded in completely unexpected ways and had unintended consequences. Turning Points of the American Civil War examines key shifts and the context surrounding them, demonstrating that the war was a continuum of watershed events.