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1) Grant
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Language
English
Description
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. He is often caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't capture the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War...
Author
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...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy of George Washington and the hopes of leaders across a divided land. Both North and South knew Robert E. Lee as the son of George Washington's most famous eulogist and the son-in-law of Washington's adopted child. Each side sought his service for high command. Lee could choose only one. Here, former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn reveals how the officer most associated with Washington...
Author
Language
English
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Description
After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The beautiful widow, Rose O'Neale Greenhow, engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians to gather intelligence for the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles ten Confederate Generals : Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Joseph Hardee, Ambrose Powell Hill, John Bell Hood, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, George Edward Pickett, James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations. If that cause had succeeded, it would have torn the United States in two and preserved the institution of slavery. Many Americans in Davis's own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, if not a traitor. Not so, argues James M. McPherson. In Embattled Rebel, McPherson shows us that Davis...
18) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
There are some things you might not know about the man responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation. Kids learn about Abraham Lincoln through timeliness, quotes, and peculiar facts.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows Abraham Lincoln from his childhood to the presidency, showing how he spoke up about fairness and eventually led the country to abolish slavery.
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