Battles of the American Civll War - Great american civil war books

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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era 4.40 avg rating — 33,177 ratings
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Grant
Grant 4.50 avg rating — 42,006 ratings
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Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West
Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West 4.29 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Landscape Turned Red
Landscape Turned Red 4.24 avg rating — 4,700 ratings
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Lincoln
Lincoln 4.19 avg rating — 48,074 ratings
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 90,453 ratings
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The Civil War: A Narrative
The Civil War: A Narrative 4.53 avg rating — 8,028 ratings
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson 4.28 avg rating — 8,559 ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville 4.44 avg rating — 13,429 ratings
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A Stillness at Appomattox
A Stillness at Appomattox 4.37 avg rating — 6,515 ratings
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1861: The Civil War Awakening
1861: The Civil War Awakening 4.06 avg rating — 6,097 ratings
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Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters
Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters 4.09 avg rating — 3,256 ratings
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Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Campaign, May 1864
Valley Thunder: The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Campaign, May 1864 4.38 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating — 196,288 ratings
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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam 4.24 avg rating — 4,700 ratings
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The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864 4.37 avg rating — 769 ratings
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The Battle of Allatoona Pass: Civil War Skirmish in Bartow County, Georgia (Civil War Series)
The Battle of Allatoona Pass: Civil War Skirmish in Bartow County, Georgia (Civil War Series) 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864 4.37 avg rating — 769 ratings
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Grant Takes Command 1863-1865
Grant Takes Command 1863-1865 4.43 avg rating — 2,342 ratings
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The Army of the Potomac, 3 Vols
The Army of the Potomac, 3 Vols 4.48 avg rating — 461 ratings
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Terrible Swift Sword
Terrible Swift Sword 4.39 avg rating — 1,922 ratings
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864 4.04 avg rating — 508 ratings
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This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga
This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga 4.22 avg rating — 503 ratings
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Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West
Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West 4.18 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga
The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga 4.36 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Shiloh: Bloody April
Shiloh: Bloody April 4.14 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It
Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It 4.06 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian 4.54 avg rating — 7,474 ratings
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The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville 4.31 avg rating — 552 ratings
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The March
The March 3.78 avg rating — 13,886 ratings
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Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign
Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign 4.30 avg rating — 98 ratings
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From Manassas To Appomattox
From Manassas To Appomattox 3.95 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
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The Most Glorious Fourth: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, July 4th, 1863
The Most Glorious Fourth: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, July 4th, 1863 4.14 avg rating — 65 ratings
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To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign
To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign 4.24 avg rating — 1,200 ratings
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
by: E.B. Long
4.13 avg rating — 9,496 ratings
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The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox
The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox 4.55 avg rating — 7,325 ratings
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The Chickamauga Campaign: A Mad Irregular Battle: From the Crossing of Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22–September 19, 1863
The Chickamauga Campaign: A Mad Irregular Battle: From the Crossing of Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22–September 19, 1863 4.44 avg rating — 133 ratings
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War 4.04 avg rating — 7,249 ratings
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Shiloh: Bloody April
Shiloh: Bloody April 4.14 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Liddell's Record
Liddell's Record 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River
No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River 4.13 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War
Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War 3.92 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam: The Battle that Changed the Course of the Civil War
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam: The Battle that Changed the Course of the Civil War 4.02 avg rating — 2,888 ratings
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War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta
War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta 4.28 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief 4.09 avg rating — 5,895 ratings
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Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign
Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign 4.06 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Mountains Touched With Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863
Mountains Touched With Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863 4.20 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion 4.30 avg rating — 3,077 ratings
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Vicksburg 1863
Vicksburg 1863 4.12 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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Robert E. Lee: A Biography
Robert E. Lee: A Biography 4.11 avg rating — 777 ratings
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General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West
General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West 4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Lee
Lee 4.27 avg rating — 1,802 ratings
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Lincoln's Bishop: A President, A Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors
Lincoln's Bishop: A President, A Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors 3.82 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble
Nashville: The Western Confederacy's Final Gamble really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Decapitating the Union: Jefferson Davis, Judah Benjamin and the Plot to Assassinate Lincoln
Decapitating the Union: Jefferson Davis, Judah Benjamin and the Plot to Assassinate Lincoln 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy
The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy 3.88 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Never Call Retreat
Never Call Retreat 4.37 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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Atlanta: A Portrait of the Civil War
Atlanta: A Portrait of the Civil War 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862--1865
Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862--1865 4.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Glory Road
Glory Road 4.43 avg rating — 2,292 ratings
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The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta 3.81 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Action before Westport, 1864: Revised Edition
Action before Westport, 1864: Revised Edition 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain
Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain 4.24 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 383 ratings
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The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7 - September 19, 1864
The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7 - September 19, 1864 4.54 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Battle of Seven Pines, May 31-June 1, 1862
The Battle of Seven Pines, May 31-June 1, 1862 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era
Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era 4.02 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher
Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher
by: Rod Gragg
4.32 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Mr. Lincoln's Army
Mr. Lincoln's Army 4.33 avg rating — 2,947 ratings
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The Civil War at Sea
The Civil War at Sea 4.02 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays Of Departing Hope
The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays Of Departing Hope 4.43 avg rating — 47 ratings
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War Along the Bayous: The 1864 Red River Campaign in Louisiana
War Along the Bayous: The 1864 Red River Campaign in Louisiana 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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October 25th and the Battle of Mine Creek
October 25th and the Battle of Mine Creek 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania
If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania 4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Gettysburg: Day Two A Study In Maps
Gettysburg: Day Two A Study In Maps 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey
Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey 4.11 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862
Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Spring 1862 4.22 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Freedom: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
Freedom: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War 4.13 avg rating — 736 ratings
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Lincoln's Generals (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)
Lincoln's Generals (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books) 3.54 avg rating — 89 ratings
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General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War
General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War 4.15 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston
Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston 4.02 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War
Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War 3.83 avg rating — 356 ratings
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The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia
The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia 3.48 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862
Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy
Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth
The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth 4.34 avg rating — 151 ratings
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The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South
The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South 4.12 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History
Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History 3.91 avg rating — 169 ratings
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R. E. Lee's Cheat Mountain campaign
R. E. Lee's Cheat Mountain campaign
by: Jack Zinn
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest (Volume 41) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest (Volume 41) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) 3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings
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In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War
In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War 4.19 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns
Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns 4.06 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863
Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 4.15 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Battle of New Market
Battle of New Market really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History 3.90 avg rating — 343 ratings
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A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy (Brown Thrasher Books)
A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta
The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Campaigning With Grant
Campaigning With Grant 4.30 avg rating — 286 ratings
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The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta
The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta 4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg
Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg 4.19 avg rating — 133 ratings
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