Search Results: History of the Civil War from Elk Creek Heritage Books

New York: Doubleday, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition May 1999 in addition to complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with tan, lightly speckled, boards, black spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. End papers contain maps: same on front and rear - on board verso: Seven Days' Battles; and on free end paper: Chattanooga to Atlanta. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contains 182 black & white illustrations and photographs throughout. Each of the 1,001 'things' are numbered from 1 to 1,001. Book size is almost square at 7 1/2"" wide x 9 1/4"" tall; 276 numbered pages concluding with an extensive Index. Dust jacket very good; 3 1/2"" closed slit along front jacket fold line - not visible in protective jacket. Not price clipped. * From the jacket back, '....presents 1001 key facts about the war that tore the Union asunder.… Read More

William Morrow, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one. Glossy hard covers in fine condition with facsimile photographs of newspaper articles relating to events in the book. End papers have two page wide black & whote photos from the Library of Congress: front-Lincoln's funeral procession; rear-the U.S. Capitol. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Side edges deckle. Dust jacket, 1 1/4"" shorter than height of book, allowing the pictorial boards to be seen. See photos of book with jacket, without jacket and jacket itself on plain black book. Not price clipped; in fine condition * From the jacket, ""...masterfully weaves together the stories of two fallen leaders as they made their last expeditions through the bloody landscape of a wounded nation."" From the Introduction, ""...The spring of 1865 was the most remarkable… Read More

Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company, 1972. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean & tight. Text block tight; spine uncreased. TOC has the page numbers of the first five sections circled in ink with an arrow in margin next to them. Page 3 containing introductory remarks has three lines of text underlined in ink; no other writing or marking noted. Contains several pages of black & white line drawings / newspaper caricaturists from newspapers of the time, such as Punch & Harpers. 324 numbered pages.

New York: World Almanac Publications, 1983. Soft cover. Fine. Soft cover in fine condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. A section of eight leaves / 16 pages glossy paper contains color portraits, scenes, maps, etc. Contains black & white illustrations, photos, portraits and maps throughout. Chapter I: Arranged chronologically through April 1877. Chapter II: Weapons of the Civil War. Chapter III: Naval Warfare in the Civil War. Chapter IV: Biographies. Concludes with a comprehensive Index. In all, 400 numbered pages. * From the book, "". . . an invaluable compendium. No Civil War buff should be without it."" ""It is a splendid reference work and belongs in every historian's library.""

Stamford, Connecticut: Longmeadow Press, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book was originally published by Perrien-Keydel Co. Detroit, Michigan, in 1903. Hard cover in very good condition with navy boards and gold gilt lettering on spine and front board. Text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contains over 500 black and white illustrations/photographs throughout. Dust jacket in likewise very good condition; not price clipped (there is no printed price.) * From the book, ""Some of the remarkable stories in this book are told in the simple language of the heroes themselves--partly out of modesty, but also because of their lack of literary and reportorial skills. On the other hand, many of the incidents have been related by officers who were witnesses to the deeds of their subordinates, and who had the facility to describe them in the manner they deserved, but without exaggeration or embellishment. The Congressional Medal of Honor is thus the nation's grateful… Read More

Little Brown & Company, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Good. 2nd Printing Stated Second Printing. Light gray boards show age toning / sun fading with light stains along right front and top front corner. Slightly bumped corners. Front endpaper has a small rip where it appears a sticker was removed. Text block is clean & tight with no markings noted. DJ is good but age toned and slightly chipped at top & bottom of spine, spine sides, along top, and along flap folds. In protective cover. Not price clipped. Contains maps by Russell Lenz and 64 pages of glossy black & white photographs. Endpapers contain maps: Front - The United States in 1860. Back endpapers - The Area of Military Operations 1861-1865. Concludes with an extensive bibliography and comprehensive index.0

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5th Printing Hardcover in very good condition. Gray boards with black spine cloth containing silver spine lettering. Beige end papers show sepia-toned signature of Lincoln. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Contains a section of glossy black & white photographs / illustrations and several other illustrations/photographs in text. Dust jacket very good. Not price clipped. Concludes with four Appendixes: (A) The Program at the Soldiers' National Cemetery, November 19, 1863, (B) A Beautiful Hand: Facsimiles of the Five Versions of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's Hand, (C) Parsing Lincoln, and (D) Dollar Signs (A Brief Look at the Monetary Afterlives of the Five Versions of the Gettysburg Address.) These are followed by an extension section of notes to the chapters, Bibliographical information, Acknowledgments, and a comprehensive Index. 415 pages.

New Yoik: Minotaur Books, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated: First Edition February 2013. In addition contains complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with deep maroon boards and gold gilt spine lettering. End papers contain a map of the ""Route of President-Elect Lincoln's Inaugural Train 1861."" Interior text block clean & tight, no writings, no markings noted. Concludes with a section of Acknowledgments, a Select Bibliography, and an extensive Index. Dust jacket in very good condition but does have a ""scar"" near top of front panel where it appears the removal of a label also removed the top layer of the paper; tiny bumps to corners of bottom edge; not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap, ""In February 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a ""clear and fully matured"" threat of assassination as he… Read More

Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. A hefty soft cover in very good condition. Wraps good; no rips or tears, however plasticized coating to the heavy paper wraps is beginning to bubble & wrinkle but no tearing or peeling off. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings. 514 numbered pages, section of 8 leaaves/16 pages of black & white photographs, 21 maps, concludes with Notes, a Bibliography, a Note on the Organization of Forces, and a Listing of all the Forces by name & unit / corps, ending with an extensive Index. * From the back of book, ""The Last Citadel is the only full-length treatment of the most extensive military operation of the Civil War - the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, which by its bloody end had added more than seventy thousand casualties to the war's total.""

Little Brown & Company, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition complete number line including number one. Hard cover with cream boards, brown spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering in very good condition. Verso of front board has shadow of a one inch square removed sticker. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. However does have a black line remainder mark on bottom of text block. Black & white maps and illustrations throughout. Concludes with Notes to the chapters, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, Note on the Organization of Forces, Organization of Forces (1864-1865) and a comprehensive Index. Dust very good with just ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. * From the jacket, "". . .the first full-length treatment of the most extensive military operation of the Civil War - the siege of Petersburg, Virginia. The Petersburg campaign officially began on June 9, 1864, and ended on April 3,… Read More

Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1992. Soft cover. Fine. Soft cover in fine condition with wraps bright, unmarked, uncreased. * From the back cover, ""The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead he gave the whole nation ""a new birth of freedom"" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.""

New York: Little Brown & Company, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with cream boards, green spine cloth, and orange spine lettering. Light wrinkles to front board above blind stamped publisher's initial decorative. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Text block edges show light foxing. Contains a section of four leaves / eight pages of glossy black & white photos; several black & white maps & illustrations throughout. Dust jacket very good; not price clipped. * From the book, "". . . a moving and dramatic account of the final months of the American Civil War. In the spring of 1865, after four years of devastating conflict, the North and south had their final reckoning.. . . ""

New York: The Fairfax Press, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated: First published in 1990 by The Fairfax Press. In addition, there is a complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with navy blue boards and silver gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition. * From the jacket, "". . . a unique volume in which the fierce patriotism and high emotions aroused in a nation divided and at war with itself run as thickly as the blood on the battlefields. It is the voice of America singing in joy and sorrow and it is the literary heritage of the Civil War.""

Charleston, South Carolina: The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Originally published in 1876; reprinted in 1976; this edition 1998. Hard cover in fine condition with gray boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition. * From the Introduction, ""Eleven years after the close of the Civil War, Abner Doubleday wrote 'Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-61.' According to Doubleday, he wrote the book "". . .to record the facts and incidents connected with the first conflict of the Rebellion . . . aware that later and more absorbing events have caused the earlier struggles of the war to recede in the distance . . . "" From 1865 to the present day, the opening events of the Civil War have received scant attention while stories of the great campaigns, records of battles and leaders have dominated bookshelves. . . . In… Read More

London and New York: Routledge, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. Stated: First Published 1992 by Routledge, London, and simultaneously in the US and Canada by Routledge. Trade Paperback in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. Price sticker on back cover. * From the back of book, a review by J. William Harris, University of NH,""Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this dynamic field. It includes substantial excerpts from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential interpretation of the South as a ""paternalistic"" society and culture, and contributions from recent scholars who provide dissenting or alternative interpretations of the relations between masters and slaves, men and women. The essays draw on a wide range of disciplines, including economics, psychology and… Read More

The Free Press, A Division of Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. 6th Printing Stated First Free Press Paperback Edition 1995; 6th printing per number line. Soft cover in very good condition showing a small crease at top corner of back cover. Text clean and tight. Pictorial wraps bright and crisp. * Clara Barton, after the Civil War, went on to found the American Red Cross. From a review on the back cover by James Mc Pherson, ""Clara Barton was truly a woman of valor in the Civil War, and Stephen Oates has written the full story of her courage and dedication to healing the wounded for the first time. This book provides the best description of Civil War medicine and battlefield hospitals that I have ever read. The vivid writing brings the reader into the midst of the sights, sounds, even the smells of war.""