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ALI021
From That Terrible Field. Civil War Letters of James
M. Williams 21st Alabama Infantry.
ed. J. K. Folmar
Not only a useful account of the Mobile
theater, but also a first-person guide to the rigors -- and boredom
-- of camp life and the concerns of the men in the field.
New. Only two left in stock
Bookguy price $32.95
AL075
This War So Horrible. The Civil War Diary of Hiram
Smith Williams (Pioneer Corps)
ed. by Wynne/Taylor
Hiram, born in New Jersey, settled in Livingston,
Alabama, in 1859 and in 1862, he enlisted in the 40th Alabama
Infantry,. New only 1 copy left.
Bookguy price $24.95
Getting Used to Being Shot at: The Spence Family Civil War Letters
A. E. Spence
Arkansas Mounted Rifles, 2nd; Army; Arkansas Infantry Regiment, 1st; Hardcover 240 pp. $29.95
BookGuy price $24.95
Florida
Rose Cottage
Chronicles: Civil War Letters of the Bryant-Stephens Families of
North Florida
Stephens & Lainhart
Hardcover 416 pp.
BookGuy price
$34.95
GA008
Charlotte's Boys. Civil War Letters of the Branch
Family of Savannah
M. P. Joslyn
The Branch letters present a family's personal travail in
wartime, yet in a larger sense they reveal the trauma suffered by
Savannah herself. New only one left.
Bookguy price $32
Kentucky
AL064 Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie.
Reminiscences of a Confederate Cavalryman
His eyewitness account illuminates the western theater of
the CW in Kentucky, east Tennessee, and southwest Virginia..
Bookguy price $14.99
Louisiana
Brothers in Gray: The Civil War Letters of the Pierson
Family
Cutrer & Parish
Written by the three sons of William
Pierson of Bienville Parish, LA, these letters offer glimpese of
Rebel sodier experiences in the Louisiswna 3rd, 9th, and 26th
Infantries.
Hardcover 336 pp.
BookGuy price $39.95
AL008 Civil
War Memoirs of Capt. W. J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana
Tiger: l
ed. T. Jones.
As a staff officer he presents a critical analysis of the
tactics and strategies the army employed. hardcover.
out-of-print. one copy left
Bookguy price $24.95
also one paper edition left.
$14.95
Mississippi
Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry:
Civil War Letters and Reminiscences
ed: Robert Evans
Hardcover 350 pp.
BookGuy price $39.99
AL041
Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia. The Civil War
Memoirs of Private David Holt.
ed. by T. Cockrell. Born
His comments on social
customs, slavery, and education add details to our picture of
antebellum southern plantation society.
Bookguy price $34.95
MISS03
The Free State of Jones:
Mississippi's Longest Civil War
by Victoria E. Bynum
Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate
deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of
Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company
after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the
swamps of the Leaf River, where, legend has it, they declared the
Free State of Jones.. Hardcover 336 pp.
BookGuy price $29.95
Let Us Meet in Heaven: The Civil War
Letters of James Michael Barr, 5th South Carolina Cavalry
J. M. Barr
A good primary source.
Hardcover 350 pp
BookGuy price $29.95
Your Affectionate Brother: Letters of
a Confederate Soldier
Burgen & Burnette
Found in the bottom of an old trunk,
references are made to many Civil War sites, Confederate officers
and soldiers and several slaves owned by the Lees and other
well-known citizens of Charleston.
Paper 120 pp.
BookGuy price $12
Hardcover available: only 1 left $21.50
AL081 A Rising
Star Of Promise. The Wartime Diary and Letters of David Jackson
Logan, 17th South Carolina Volunteers
ed Thomas, Jr./Silverman
He supplied newspaper articles to his small hometown newspapers,
wrote dozens of detailed letters to his wife, and kept a diary as
well. only one left
Bookguy price $29.95
AL011 Confederacy Is
on Her Way Up the Spout. Letters to South Carolina, 1861 - 64.
ed. J. Heller & C. Heller.
"The soldiers has a byword when any body or anything is lost
saying it's gone up the spout...I say the Confederacy is on her way
up the spout."
Bookguy price $16.95
AL042 Band of Brothers.
James R. Fleming
Out-of-print one copy left
Bookguy price $32.95
AL035 Soldiering In
The Army Of Tennessee. A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army.
L. J. Daniel
Offers by far the best portrait to date of the soldiers of the
Army of Tennessee $32.50
Bookguy price $24.47
Widows by the Thousand: The Civil War Correspondence
of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862-1864
M. J. Johannson
Letter from a member of
the Texas 28th Cavalry. One copy left.
Hardcover 352 pp.
BookGuy price $34.95
TEX031 A Texas
Cavalry Officer's Civil War. The Diary and Letters of James C.
Bates
Led by R. Lowe
College educated and unusually articulate, he recorded his
impressions in a detailed diary and dozens of long letters
Bookguy price $39.95
TEX030 Chaplain Davis and Hood's
Texas Brigade ed by Donald E. Everett
Originally published in 1863 and expanded in 1962. Davis, a
Presbyterian minister, joined the Fourth Regiment of Texas
Volunteers as chaplain in 1861. $18.95
TEX009 A
Terry's Texas Ranger Trilogy
Blackburn, Giles & Dodd
Bookguy price $24.95
TEX011 Rebels on the Rio
Grande: Civil War Journal of A.B. Peticolas
ed by D. Alberts
The 1862 Confederate invasion of New Mexico is a little known
episode of Civil War history.
Bookguy price $17.95
out of print one copy left
AL047 A Rebel's
Recollections. Memoir of George C. Eggleston.
Originally published in 1875,
Eggleston's memoir is a nostalgic, often amusing collection of
essays..
Bookguy price $17.95
one copy left.