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1) Across five Aprils

Author

Hunt, Irene

Publisher

Not Supplied

Pub. Date

Not Supplied

Language

English

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Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.

2) John Brown's body

Author

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Publisher

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Pub. Date

c 1955

Language

English

3) Girl in Blue

Author

Rinaldi, Ann

Publisher

Not Supplied

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

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To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.

4) Reconstruction: Rebuilding After the Civil War

Author

Peacock, Judith

Publisher

Bridgestone Books

Pub. Date

2003

Language

English

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Discusses the Civil War and Reconstruction and their effects on the nation and on Black Americans in particular.

5) The New York Times disunion: a history of the Civil War

Author

Widmer, Edward L. , editor

Publisher

Oxford

Pub. Date

2016

Language

English

6) Gettysburg: history and legend

Author

Roberts, Russell

Series

Haunted battlefields

Publisher

Purple Toad Publishing

Pub. Date

2015

Language

English

7) The Battle of Gettysburg

Author

Sabrina Crewe, Dale Anderson

Publisher

Bareth Stevens Publishing

Pub. Date

2003

Language

English

Description

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Description of events leading up to the Civil War, approach of the armies, the battle and events following. Includes bibliographical references and index, glossary, time line, illustrated.

8) The Civil War: the final year told by those who lived it

Publisher

The Library of America

Pub. Date

[2014]

Language

English

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" ... [Draws from] letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages and poems to provide an incomparable literary portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory and slavery and secession to their ultimate destruction ..."--Dust jacket flap.

9) The most fearful ordeal: original coverage of the Civil War

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

[2004]

Language

English

Description

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Collects the "New York Times" articles that documented the Civil War as it was transmitted by the era's recently developed telegraph, in a volume that includes coverage of key events and issues and is complemented by period photography and maps.