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Thompson, Ben,
1980-
Guts & glory
[Book] :
the American Civil War /
Ben Thompson ; illustrations by C.M. Butzer.
Guts and glory.
First edition.
New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2014.
317 pages :
illustrations ;
20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index.
First blood -- A clash of ironclads -- Shiloh -- The Cleopatra of the secession -- The great locomotive chase -- Robert E. Lee in Northern Virginia -- The deadliest day -- Chancellorsville -- Horse and steel -- Gettysburg -- The making of the Confederate navy -- The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts -- Morgan's Raid -- Second Sabine Pass -- The Rock of Chickamauga -- Union nurse -- Grant versus Lee -- Mobile Bay -- The election of 1864 -- The end of the line.
An educational collection of amazing-but-true facts about the Civil War shares accounts of such events as female spies fighting for the Rebel cause, cavalry rides in enemy territory, and the reelection of President Lincoln.
20141215.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Campaigns.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865.
Butzer, C. M,
illustrator.
RV8