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Allan Pinkerton is best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.  But the central drama of his career was his work as protector of President Abraham Lincoln and head of a network of Union spies during the Civil War.  This is a thrilling new account of Civil War espionage and the birth of the U.S. Secret Service. 

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Burlingame, one of the best Lincoln scholars working today, demonstrates how, long before the rigors of his presidency and the Civil War began to affect him, Lincoln wrestled with the demons of midlife to ultimately emerge as arguably the most self-aware, humble, and confident leader in American history.  The metamorphosis from sarcastic young politician to profound statesman uniquely prepared him for the selfless dedication the war years would demand.  “The idea that Abraham Lincoln was an essential element in Union victory is hardly a new one, but never before has the case been made so forcefully or at such length.” --- William C. Davis.  

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“Cooling has produced a triumphant third volume to his definitive study of Tennessee and Kentucky in the Civil War.  Like the first two, this one perfectly integrates the home front and battlefield, demonstrating that civilians were continually embroiled in the war in intense ways comparable to and often surpassing the violence experienced by soldiers on the battlefield.  The impact of armies, guerrillas, and other military forces on civilians was continual, terrifying, and brutal in nearly all parts of the Confederate heartland.” --- T. Michael Parrish. 

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As a president's son, a Union soldier, an ambassador to Great Britain, and a Secretary of War, Lincoln was indisputably a titan of his age. Much like his father, he became one of the nation's most respected and influential men, building a successful law practice in Chicago, serving shrewdly as president of the Pullman Car Company, and at one time even being considered as a candidate for president. Along the way he bore witness to some of the most dramatic moments in America's history, including Lee's surrender at Appomattox; the advent of the railroad, telephone, electrical, and automobile industries; the half a century after the last biography of Abraham Lincoln's oldest and last surviving son.

Jason Emerson draws upon previously unavailable materials to offer the first truly definitive biography of a lawyer, businessman, and statesman, who, much more than merely the son of America's most famous president, made his own indelible mark on one of the most progressive and dynamic eras in United States history. DUE IN APRIL.

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Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War—by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brilliant revisionist history, it is an anachronistic judgment. In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters, diaries, and documents, The Union War argues that what motivated the North to go to war and persist in an increasingly bloody effort was primarily preservation of the Union. Devotion to the Union bonded 19th-century Americans in the North and West against a slaveholding aristocracy in the South and a Europe that seemed destined for oligarchy. Northerners believed they were fighting to save the republic, and with it the world’s best hope for democracy. “A rare volume that forces us to reconsider how we think about the Civil War.” --- Matthew Gallman. “Gary Gallagher has written another gem in The Union War.” --- Joseph T. Glatthaar.

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Where past scholars have seen the Civil War as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown that surged through America, as political questions became matters of good and evil to be fought to the death. The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the United States one nation, and abolished slavery. “This masterful synthesis of the Civil War is a stunning achievement. With fresh perspective and inspiring, often provocative ideas, Goldfield challenges some of the old narratives of sectional conflict, war, and Reconstruction. His examination of disparate, even divergent ways of thinking in the nineteenth century is brilliant, especially his exploration of the power of evangelical religion before and its diminished authority after the Civil War.” --- Orville Vernon Burton. Signed bookplate; as new; d.j.

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Green examines how, through a combination of political intrigue and deep commitment to the principle of freedom, Lincoln journeyed from Republican underdog to an improbable victor who changed the course of American history.  Moving well beyond a study of the man to provide insight into the era’s fiery political scene and its key players, Green offers perspective analysis of the evolution of American politics and Lincoln’s political career, the processes of the national state conventions, how political parties selected their candidates, national developments of the time and their effects on Lincoln and his candidacy, and Lincoln’s own sharp --- and often surprising --- assessments of his opponents and colleagues. 

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The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War, with 23,000 casualties on both sides. After the battle, two photographers sent by Mathew Brady-Alexander Gardner and James Gibson-recorded the horror of war with the first-ever images of dead American soldiers. Gardner's and Gibson's legendary photos have been the subject of debate for decades, in regard to locations, dates, and times.

Kalasky has painstakingly re-created Gardner's and Gibson's output, retracing their footsteps by location, date, and time to chronologically and sequentially place their images, and has assembled a comprehensive study, based on sunlight and shadow, of the 74 known glass plates recorded by Gardner and Gibson at Antietam, doing groundbreaking research for correcting previous errors and misjudgments made about the photographers' trek across the battlefield and for answering 150-year-old questions about their photographs.

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"Simply the last word we are ever likely to have or need on this crucial small action in 1864. Even handed and non-partisan, Knight gives credit where credit is due, and in the process brings to the fore the actions of some units hitherto slighted, especially on the Confederate side. No one understands the topography of the battlefield better, and Knight's maps reveal a grasp of the nuances of the ground that --- when integrated with the movements of the combatants --- show better than ever before how this action played out. This book surely takes its place now among the dozen finest and most complete accounts of any Civil War action, and it would be hard to name any account of a secondary fight of this size that has been better treated.' --- From William C. Davis' Foreword.

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In the fall of 1864, during the last brutal months of the Civil War, the Confederates made one final, desperate attempt to rampage through the Shenandoah Valley, Tennessee, and Missouri. Price's Raid was the common name for the Missouri campaign led by General Sterling Price, one too long unexamined by a book-length modern study. Lause fills this long-standing gap, providing keen insights on the problems encountered during and the myths propagated about this campaign. Additionally, he reveals the clear connection between the military campaign and the outcome of the elections that fall. In showing how both sides during Price's Raid used self-serving fictions to provide a rationale for their politically motivated brutality and were unwilling to risk defeat, Lause reveals the underlying nature of the American Civil War as a modern war.

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Focusing on the oceanic war rather than the war in the Great Lakes, this study charts the War of 1812 from the perspectives of the two opposing navies at sea --- one of the largest fleets in the world and a small, upstart navy just three decades old. While American naval leadership searched for a means of contesting Britain's naval dominance, the English sought to destroy the U.S. Navy and protect its oceanic highways. Instead of describing battles between opposing warships, McCranie evaluates entire cruises by men-of-war, noting both success and failures and how they translated into broader strategies. In the process, his study becomes a history of how they fought the oceanic war. An action packed account, drawn from archival sources on both sides of the Atlantic, just in time for the bicentennial!

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Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General George Crook was considered by William T. Sherman to be his greatest Indian-fighting general.

Paul Magid's detailed and engaging narrative focuses on Crook's early years through the end of the Civil War. It was in the Far West before the war that Crook acquired the experience and skills essential to his success as an Indian fighter. This is primarily an account of Crook's dramatic and sometimes controversial role in the Civil War, who saw action during the battle of Antietam and played important roles in two major offensives in the Shenandoah Valley and in the Chattanooga and Appomattox campaigns. His courage, leadership, and tactical skills won him the respect and admiration of his commanding officers, including Generals Grant and Sheridan.

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William Marvel, whom Stephen Sears has called "the Civil War's master historical detective," concludes his sweeping four-part series beginning with the Virginia and Atlanta campaigns in May 1864 and closing with the final surrender of Confederate forces in June 1865. In the course of that year, the war grows ever more deadly, the home front is stripped to fill the armies, and the economy is crippled by debt and inflation, while the stubborn survival of the Confederacy seriously undermines support for Lincoln's war. In the end, it seems that Lincoln's early critics, who played such a pivotal role in the beginning of the series, are proven correct. Victory did require massive bloodshed and complete conquest of the South. It also required decades of occupation to cement the achievements of 1865, and the ultimate failure of Lincoln's political heirs to carry through with that occupation squandered the most commendable of those achievements, making it ultimately a tarnished victory. First editions of the first three volumes are also available.

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A complete work presenting “the postal usages which were associated with the Union troops and patriotic civilians during the Civil War.

A number of Federal military letters are included along with special usages, hospital and prisoner mail, flag of truce mail, specialized postmarks, and maritime mail from both coastal and inland river locations – this for the first time – are among the wealth of postal usages covered in great and graphic detail. Other chapters cover slave-related stationary, the election of 1860, and federal postal usages in the South, while the Confederacy was forming – and much more. Dr. Milgram has already published six other books, including ABRAHAM LINCOLN ILLUSTRATED ENVELOPES, PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ILLUSTRATED ENVELOPES, and UNLISTED STATES REGISTERED MAIL 1845-1870.

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At the end of the Civil War, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman was surprisingly more popular in the newly defeated South than he was in the North. Yet, only thirty years later, his name was synonymous with evil and destruction in the South, particularly as the creator and enactor of the "total war" policy. Wesley Moody examines these perplexing contradictions and how they and others function in past and present myths about Sherman. Moody reveals that Sherman's shifting reputation was formed by whoever controlled the message, whether it was the Lost Cause historians of the South, Sherman's enemies in the North, or Sherman himself. Demon of the Lost Cause reveals the machinations behind the Sherman myth and the reasons behind the acceptance of such myths, no matter who invented them. In the case of Sherman's own mythmaking, Moody postulates that his motivation was to secure a military position to support his wife and children. For the other Sherman mythmakers, personal or political gain was typically the rationale behind the stories they told and believed.

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The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented strain. Renowned Pulitzer historian Mark Neely examines the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate Constitution, and the ways the documents shaped the struggle for national survival. Previous scholars have examined wartime challenges to civil liberties and questions of presidential power. But Neely argues that the constitutional conflict extended to the largest questions of national existence. Neely reveals how judges, lawyers, editors, politicians, and government officials, both North and South, used their constitutions to fight the war and save, or create, their nation, illuminating how the U.S. Constitution not only survived its greatest test, but emerged stronger after the war. That this happened at a time when the nation's very existence was threatened, Neely argues, speaks ultimately to the wisdom of the Union leadership, notably President Lincoln and his vision of the American nation. AVAILABLE LATE NOVEMBER.

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In early 1861, most Missourians hoped they could remain neutral in the upcoming conflict between North and South. By that summer, however, due to the actions of politicians and soldiers such as Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson and Union General Nathaniel Lyon, Missourians found themselves forced to take sides. The Park Service librarian at Wilson's Creek Battlefield tells the fascinating story of high-stakes military gambles, aggressive leadership and lost opportunities. It is also a tale of unique military units, untried but determined commanders, colorful volunteers and professional soldiers. The first major campaign of the Civil War west of the Mississippi guaranteed that Missouri would be engaged in a long, cruel war within the larger national struggle. A "Civil War Campaigns and Commanders" title.

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There are few moments in military history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force had been sunk by American planes. Though the Second World War had three more years to run, the Imperial Japanese Navy would never again initiate a strategic offensive. In this spellbinding account of a key turning point, one of America's leading naval historians, Craig L. Symonds (author of Lincoln and His Admirals), paints a spellbinding account of ingenuity, courage, sacrifice, and chance, while offering telling portraits of Nimitz, King, Halsey, Spruance, Yamamoto and Nagumo. "Deeply researched, shrewdly argued, and powerfully narrated...a superb work of the historian's craft. It easily takes its place as the best and most comprehensive account of the pivotal battle from the American perspective." --- Richard B. Frank.

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General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U.S. Army during World War II, faced the daunting task not only of overseeing two theaters of a global conflict but also of selecting the best generals to carry out American grand strategy. This is the first and only book to focus entirely on that selection process and the performances, both stellar and disappointing, that followed from it. Stephen Taaffe, the author of Commanding Lincoln's Navy and Commanding the Army of the Potomac, chronicles and critiques the background, character, achievements, and failures of the more than three dozen general officers chosen for top combat group commands--from commanders like Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur to some nearly forgotten.

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In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman petitioned Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger B. Taney for release through a writ of habeas corpus. Taney issued the writ, but Lincoln ignored it. Jonathan White reveals how the arrest and prosecution of this little-known Baltimore farmer had a lasting impact on both the Lincoln administration and Congress as they struggled to develop policies to deal with northern traitors and southern rebels. His work exposes several perennially controversial legal and constitutional issues in American history, including the nature and extent of presidential war powers, the development of national policies for dealing with disloyalty and treason, and the protection of civil liberties in wartime.

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The author of The Young Eagle traces the Lincolns from their starkly contrasting childhoods, through their courtship and rise to power, to their years in the White House during the Civil War, ultimately revealing a dynamic love story set against the backdrop of the greatest peril the nation has ever seen.  “The final words of this superb and balanced study neatly sum up Kenneth Winkle’s own achievement in writing it:  he has shed new and original light on ‘a fascinating and enigmatic marriage’.  Winkle chooses no favorites, takes no sides, and eschews psychobabble.  The result is an adept look at one of the most closely observed marriages in American history.” --- Harold Holzer.  “Evenhanded and well researched…Winkle knows the historical context of their lives and presents their relationship in lively readable prose.  This book is a striking success.” --- Jean H. Baker. 

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