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2) Cold shot
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Chesapeake valor volume 1
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English
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Three friends-- a former SWAT-team sniper turned park ranger, an FBI agent, and a crime scene analyst-- reunite and join with a beautiful forensic anthropologist to identify skeletal remains uncovered near Little Round Top in Gettysburg National Military Park. Their investigation causes them to become targets themselves.
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English
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This book describes over 200 different sites in Gettysburg's National Military Park. More than 270 color photographs are accompanied by maps showing where each photo was taken. Narratives describe the sites and what took place in the immediate area describing some lesser-known stories behind the battle.
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English
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The picturesque Gettysburg Battlefield has long been memorialized as an iconic landscape of Americas national identity. The tumultuous Civil War battle and Abraham Lincolns subsequent address transformed the country in profound ways that continue to echo throughout the ages. In the aftermath of the struggle, Gettysburg National Military Park was embraced by citizens not only as a shrine of commemoration but also as a public space utilized for leisure,...
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English
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THE BATTLE OF LITTLE ROUND TOP AS IT HAS NEVER BEFORE SEEN-THROUGH THE EYES OF THE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT THERE
"Here is the real story of the epic fight for Little Round Top, shorn of the mythology long obscuring this pivotal Gettysburg moment. A vivid and eloquent book." -Stephen W. Sears, author of Gettysburg
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I survived volume 7
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English
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"It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone--they're marching with the army. But then orders...
10) The Yankee widow
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Language
English
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"In The Yankee Widow, gifted storyteller Linda Lael Miller explores the complexities and heartbreak that families experienced as men took up arms to preserve the nation and defend their way of life. Told in a smart, assured and compelling voice, this is the story of Caroline, the young wife and childhood sweetheart of Jacob, who together live on a farm raising their daughter, Rachel, just outside of Gettysburg. When Jacob joins the Northern army to...
13) Gettysburg
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Describes the bloodiest engagement of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, and its impact on the people in that part of Pennsylvania.
Series
Civil War journal volume 6
Publisher
History Channel Club
Pub. Date
�2005
Language
English
Description
Gettysburg was the most famous battle of the American Civil War. History forgot one of the battle's chapters: how the citizens of Gettysburg fared during the three days of battle. Re-live their experiences through diaries, photographs and factual re-enactments. They never expected the war to come to their town, but when it did, the residents of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania became heroes. Some townsmen, including seventy-year-old John Burns, joined the...
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Publisher
Willow Creek Press
Pub. Date
�1995
Language
English
Description
Gettysburg is a haunted place. The battlefield and many of the Civil War-era buildings that still stand are bursting with stories of ghosts and strange occurrences. Though this book is fiction, it draws sustenance from these real Gettysburg hauntings. When The Drummer Falls will take you on a midnight ride through this hallowed, haunted land. A ride which will take you beyond the mortal and into that which lies beyond.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
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"Experience for yourself the historical and personal impact of the Civil War in a way that only HISTORY can present it, in this moving megaset filled with over 25 hours of documentaries. A multifacted look at "The War Between the States," this definitive collection brings the most legendary Civil War battles, and the soldiers and leaders who fought them, vividly to life. From Gettysburg and Antietam to Shiloh, and led by the likes of Sherman, McClellan,...
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Boys of wartime volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In 1863, twelve-year-old Will, who longs to be a drummer in the Union army, is stuck in his sleepy hometown of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but when the Union and Confederate armies meet right there in his town, he and his family are caught up in the fight. Includes historical notes, glossary, and a timeline of events.
Publisher
FOX CHAPEL
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Regarded as the turning point of the American Civil War, Gettysburg commemorates the three-day battle that took place over 150 years ago. From the first shots fired on the morning of July 1, 1863 to Robert E. Lee's losing gamble known as Pickett's Charge on July 3 that resulted in thousands of Confederates being driven back by Union forces, Gettysburg is a snapshot of three of the most important days in US history. From cover to cover, discover
...Publisher
Quindaro Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Imagine being fifteen years old, facing the bloodiest battle ever to take place on U.S. soil: the Battle of Gettysburg. In July 1863, this is exactly what happened to Tillie Pierce, a normal teenager who became an unlikely heroine of the Civil War (1861-1865). Tillie and other women and girls like her found themselves trapped during this critical three-day battle in southern Pennsylvania. Without training, but with enormous courage and compassion,...
20) The graphic history of Gettysburg: America's most famous battle and turning point of the Civil War
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Publisher
Zenith Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Battle of Gettysburg is one of the most famous battles in American history, and is widely recognized as the turning point of the Civil War. A landmark event in United States history, it accounted for the most casualties of any battle during the war and spelled the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. In this powerful graphic history, Wayne Vansant describes the period leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg, as well all of the major military...