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Start Your Weekend at the Library with Family Storytime!
(All Ages)
Saturdays: 10:30 a.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When the Southern states seceded from the Union in 1861 to form their own nation with Jefferson Davis as President, his wife Varina became the second first lady, for the first and only time in American history. It was a position she accepted with dismay and held for almost the same length of time as her Union counterpart, Mary Todd Lincoln. Mrs. Lincoln is well remembered by history, but Mrs. Davis seems to be forgotten. This film tells Mrs. Davis'...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Anyone acquainted with the American Civil War will readily recognize the names of the Confederacy's most prominent generals. Robert E. Lee. Stonewall Jackson. James Longstreet. These men have long been lionized as fearless commanders and genius tacticians. Yet few have heard of the hundreds of generals who led under and alongside them. Men whose battlefield resolve spurred the Confederacy through four years of the bloodiest combat Americans have...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A profile of the iconic Civil War general explores the paradoxes attributed to his character to discuss such topics as his achievements as a military strategist, his contributions to the Transcontinental Railroad, and his tempestuous family relationships.
7) The man who would not be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and his decision that changed history
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Included in this encyclopedia are Union and Confederate naval officers down to the rank of mate; army officers and partisan leaders who played a role in combat. Each of the biographies includes (where known) birth, death and residence data; unit organization or ship; wartime involvement in the river war; pre- and post-war careers; and source documentation"--
13) Robert E. Lee
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and reputation of Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American. Chronicles Lee's military successes, which made him the scourge of the Union and hero of the Confederacy, and reveals how Lee has been elevated to almost god-like status by his admirers after his death.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It was the turning point of the Civil War, the biggest and bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil. Discover the stories of the Battle of Gettysburg, of the ordinary heroes, generals, and campaigns, through rare photographs, reenactments, and interviews with leading Gettysburg historians.
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