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Scanned Bar Code Title Price 9780803297432 A Complete Life of General George A. Custer: From Appomattox to the Little ... 12.25 9780807130889 A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi35.00 9780809016211 A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr 13.50 9780873387392 A Fighter from Way Back: The Mexican War Diary of Lt. Daniel Harvey Hill ... 29.00 9781577470045 A Generation on the March: The Union Army at Gettysburg 19.00 9780803247918 A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War 29.00 9781557285614 A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory During the Year 1819 24.00 9781577470021 A Keystone Rebel: The Civil War Diary of Joseph Garey, Hudson's Battery, Mississippi Volunteers 10.95 9780521591997 A Nation Collapses: The Italian Surrender of September 1943 15.00 9780060505479 A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation 35.00 NO CODE A Snowman in Hell 15.00 9780385044516 A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac #3) 12.00 9781570030086 A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours 25.00 9780971347014 Abandoned at the Leyte: The WWII Memories of Dr. Doy Duncan, Wildcat Pilot 24.00 0-87338-397-4 Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist : Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse 7.50 NO CODE Advice after Appomattox. Letters to Andrew Johnson 14.00 9780816049011 African Americans in the Military 12.00 9780806131283 Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott 17.50 9780760322017 All American, All the Way: A Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II: From Market30.00 Garden to Berlin 9780759630796 All My Love, Forever : Letters Home from a World War II 20.00 0-87474-836-4 Amelia Earhart : A Biography 10.00 658804031845 American Indians and World War II : Toward a New Era in Indian Affairs 12.50 9780805068832 American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age 25.00 0-7884-1131-4 Amherst Papers, 1756 - 1763 33.00 9780807824818 Antietam Campaign 21.00 0-87338-400-8 Antietam: Essays on the 1862 Maryland Campaign 8.25 9780394569222 Arguing about Slavery : The Great Battle in the United States Congress 25.00 0-8078-1860-7 Arms and the Woman : War, Gender, and Literary Representation 9.50 9780891415947 August 1944 : The Campaign for France 11.00 0-8071-1672-6 Back Door to Richmond: The Bermuda Hundred Campaing, April-June 1864 9.00 9780803223806 Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River 31.00 0-300-04429-1 Behind the Lines : Gender and the Two World Wars 10.95 9780874747423 Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American : An Autobiography 19.50 9781904010302 Beyond Courage : Air Sea Rescue by Walrus Squadrons 32.95 9781574270471 Black Brass : Black Generals and Admirals in the Armed Forces of the United States 12.00 9781883283186 Blood and Bushido: Japanese Atrocities at Sea 1941-1945 24.95 9780195046335 Bloody Dawn : The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North 20.00 9780807126448 Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864 19.50 9781574882957 Blue & Grey in Black & White: Newspapers in the Civil War 19.00 9780195071047 Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines 20.00 9781898800224 Bruce Catton's Civil War: three volumes in one 40.00 9780891415381 Bunker's War: The World War II Diary of Col. Paul D. Bunker 25.00 9780425219706 Call Of Duty 24.00 9781450089548 Caught Between Three Fires: Cass County, Mo. 22.00 9780786411559 Civil and Merchant Vessel Encounters with United States Navy Ships, 1800-2000 15.00 9781572492547 Civil War Acoustic Shadows 22.00 9780985314521 Civil War Camp Songs 20.00 9780807116463 Civil War Memoirs Of Captain William J. 16.75 9780806904146 Civil War Prisons & Escapes: A Day-By-Day Chronicle 27.00 0-7884-0007-X Civil War Record of the 144th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry 25.00 9780700612499 Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard, 1636-200 17.95 9780979948299 Collections of a Civil War Trivia Junkie 29.95 9780670034086 Conduct under Fire : Four American Doctors and their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese 1941-194520.00 9780873385930 Conrad Wise Chapman: Artist & Soldier of the Confederacy 45.00 9780817307608 Crossing the Deadly Ground: United States Army Tactics, 1865-1899 25.00 9781557504067 CRUISE OF THE LANIKAI: Incitement to War 16.00 9780938289876 Custer And His Wolverines 27.00 NO CODE Custer's Southern Officer 15.95 Page 1 of 6 Scanned Bar Code Title Price 9781416541196 Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949 20.00 9780760317396 Defenseless: Command Failure at Pearl Harbor 26.50 5180227041613 Desert Between the Mountains 25.00 9780688098834 Desperate Venture: The Story of Operation Torch, the Allied Invasion of North Africa 12.00 9780807825129 Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All 35.00 0-7884-0345-1 Drums and Guns Around Petersburg 16.00 9780688109677 Duel of Eagles: The Mexican and U. S. Fight for the Alamo 12.50 9780879385224 Eagle's Wings : The Autobiography of a Luftwaffe Pilot 20.00 9781605981963 Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East 10.00 9780375508257 Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 25.00 9780805035001 Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century 26.00 9780872498778 Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront 17.25 0-913729-05-1 Evasions: The American Way of Military Service 9.50 9780803273238 Fighting Joe Hooker 15.50 1-55778-093-5 Fighting Words From War Rebellion 10.00 9780760331460 First to the Rhine : The 6th Army Group in World War II 22.00 9780738524245 Florida's Seminole Wars, 1817-1858 24.00 9780395663608 For Country, Cause & Leader: The Civil War Journal of Charles B. Haydon 15.00 0-7884-0571-3 Forgotten Soldiers: History of the 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment (USA) 1861-1865 21.00 0-7884-0241-2 Forgotten Soldiers: History of the 4th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (USA), 1863-1865 18.00 9780806130712 Fort Riley and Its Neighbors 28.00 9780807117248 Frederick Douglass' Civil War : Keeping Faith in Jubilee 8.50 9780807821930 Fredericksburg Campaign: Decision on the Rappahannock 23.00 0-939631-72-5 From Ball's Bluff to Gettysburg-- and beyond: t 21.00 0-942597-20-6 From New Bern to Fredericksburg; Captain James Wren's Diary 24.00 9781181146209 From Playing Field to Battlefield: Great Atheletes who Served 12.00 9780195109979 From Selma to Appomattox: The History of the Jeff Davis Artillery 16.00 9780806136073 Frontier Diplomats: Alexander Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksina' Among the ... 24.50 9780807118009 General Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.A. 16.00 9780899199146 George B McClellan: The Young Napoleon 10.00 0-8071-0990-8 Gleam Of Bayonets 9.00 9780806124742 Glittering Misery: Dependents of the Indian Fighting Army 12.45 0-87480-336-5 Glory Hunter: A Biography of Patrick Edward Connor 25.00 9780061148712 Grant And Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War 15.00 9780807823217 Guardians of Empire : The U. S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940 29.95 9780807823217 Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940 29.95 0-7884-0672-8 Guide to Tracing Your African Ameripean Civil War Ancestor 17.50 9781846033353 Hell in the Pacific: The Battle for Iwo Jima 20.00 9780393039412 His Promised Land : The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground15.00 Railroad 9780803212947 Holding Stone Hands : On the Trail of the Cheyenne Exodus 29.00 9780811707886 Homeward Bound 20.00 9780891416081 Honor by Fire: Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific 15.00 0-935284-80-X I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore 9.50 9780700610938 Igniting King Philip's War : The John Sassamon Murder Trial 15.00 0-399-13201-5 Ike the Soldier : As They Knew Him 20.00 9780436068133 Ike: Life and Times of Dwight D. Eisenhower 15.00 9780815604105 In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives about a Native People 17.95 0-939631-73-3 In the Woods Before Dawn: The Samuel Richey Collection of the Southern Confederacy 21.95 9780195042368 Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps 14.00 9780803292574 Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary 24.50 9780943231914 Into Darkness: A Pilots Journey Through Headhunter Territory 19.00 9780803211018 Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg 22.00 9780785821915 Jeff Davis's Own: Cavalry, Comanches, and the Battle for the Texas Frontier 20.00 1-877853-06-2 Jefferson Davis: A Memoir by His Wife 30.00 1-877853-07-0 Jefferson Davis: A Memoir by His Wife 30.00 9780806131351 John Charles Fremont: Character As Destiny 15.50 9780806131351 John Charles Fremont: Character as Destiny 15.50 9780807830079 John M. Schofield and the Politics of Generalship 23.00 Page 2 of 6 Scanned Bar Code Title Price 0-8203-0466-2 John Taylor Wood: Sea Ghost of the Confederacy 10.50 9780700609215 Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond 29.00 0-8032-6595-6 Lee's Last Campaign: The Story of Lee and His Men against Grant-1864 14.00 9780385730914 Left for Dead 8.95 9780872498655 Let My People Go : The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolitionist Movement20.00 9780807104767 Life Of Billy Yank 18.95 9780807104750 Life Of Johnny Reb 18.95 9781416598664 Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain 20.00 9781560980124 LIGHTNING OVER BOUGAINVILLE 21.95 9780061237614 Lincoln's Assassins 25.00 9781574883855 Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen.
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