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Refiner's fire volume 1
Language
English
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Book 1 in the Refiner's Fire series. The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline's eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her. Her journey of maturity and faith will draw her into the abolitionist...
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Series
Williamsburg series volume 2
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a yankee comes to Williamsburg in the tense autumn of 1860, Eden Day falls heels over head in love with him.
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Language
English
Description
"On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen is the youngest of three children living on a hardscrabble ranch in Southwestern Missouri. But in 1861, shots were fired in Charleston harbor, and Kirby's father and brother went to war. Smoke Jensen The Beginning follows the Jensen clan during these volatile years, from Civil War battles to border state raids to the kind of frontier justice achieved only by bullets and blood. William W. Johnstone chronicles...
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Beacons of hope volume 2
Language
English
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"In 1865, Caroline has tended the Windmill Point Lighthouse in Michigan since her father's death, but her home and livelihood are threatened when a wounded Civil War veteran arrives to take her place"--
5) Little women
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Series
Language
English
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
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Series
Language
English
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1865--Marietta Hughes never wanted to be a spy, but the family legacy of espionage is thrust upon her as the War Between the States rolls on. Unknown to her, the Knights of the Golden Circle--a Confederate secret society bent on destroying the Union her brother died for--has been meeting in a hidden lair beneath her home. Faced with the secrets of her late husband and his brother, whom she thought she could trust with anything, Marietta's world tilts...
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Language
English
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"The Civil War South comes to vivid life in this electrifying story of a woman's plight and a legacy of deceit that echoes for generations. When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days...
Author
Series
Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 1
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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The extraordinary lives, passions, and careers of four great military leaders--Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee--come to a climax as Union and Confederate forces clash on the battlefields of the Civil War. A worthy companion to The Killer Angels ... Shaara brilliantly charts the war, the exploits of the combatants and their motivations. He also concisely shows how the early parts of the campaign unfolded....
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, History presents a special episode of American Pickers. Mike and Frank, on assignment from the Gettysburg Museum, hunt down Civil War items. While joining a local re-enactment group, they uncover rare items and memorabilia. Their time spent with local characters provides general and sometimes quirky information about the war and what was left behind.
11) Bitter Trail
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
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In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico. Sounds like a peaceable enterprise. The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold, gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.
And, added to his balky mules, the broiling heat, and killing drought of the Mexican dessert, Wheeler has even more...
12) Union bound
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Based on the amazing true story of Joseph Hoover, a Union Soldier was captured and then aided by slaves on his journey back to the Union and to freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
"It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Confederates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land. Eliza is confident that he will return home, and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep Will warm during his winter months in the army. When the unthinkable happens, she takes in a a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war,...
14) Clockwiser
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Publisher
ESB Publishing
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
"The last year has been smooth sailing for Casey Donovan. She and her boyfriend Nate are doing better than ever, and things at home are good, too. Everything's been so calm, she hasn't "tripped" back to the nineteenth century in ages. Then the unthinkable happens and she accidentally takes her rebellious brother Tim back in time. It's 1862 with the Civil War brewing, and for Tim this spells adventure and excitement. Finding himself stuck in the past,...
15) Hanging Mary
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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"This is my favorite kind of historical fiction: evocative, deeply moving, and meticulously researched."—Jillian Cantor, author of Margot and The Hours Count
Meet Mary Surratt, the woman who could have saved Lincoln. Find out what stopped her in this vivid reimagining of Lincoln's assassination.
1864, Washington City. One has to be careful with talk of secession, of Confederate whispers falling on
...16) Mercy Street
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
Alexandria, Virginia, 1862. Mary Phinney, a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a native Confederate belle, collide at Mansion House, the Green family's luxury hotel that has been transformed into a Union Army hospital. Ruled under martial law, the border town in Alexandria is now...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
Lincoln : the miniseries about the life story of one of the greatest leaders in the history our nation.
Surrender at Appomattox : explores all the details leading up to the discussion of the terms of surrender as if captured by news reel cameras.
20) Little women
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jo, resolved to be a writer, is unaware that the elusive muse she seeks is the life she shares with her sisters and mother.
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