This is another classic reference book that provides timeless research information about land and property records. These records often enable a genealogy researcher to find important clues to their ancestors. For example, land records provide proof of your ancestor's location in a particular time period as well as give clues of where they might have moved from or relocated to another area. While this book is long out of print, it is of equal help to the long-time researcher as well as to beginners. View More...
This volume adds an important perspective to understanding this critical military operation. Generals and privates share the pages a the mounted opponents parry and thrust across hundreds of miles of territory. The organizational, strategic, and tactical viewpoints are examined thoroughly. Index. 338 p. # View More...
Finest single volume on the war and its background. He brings to vivid life not just commanding officers, but enlisted men, politicians, Abolitionists, Southern fire-eaters, Northern barn-burners, Copperheads, Know-Nothings. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Indexed. 904 p. # View More...
Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy is a history of the Confederate guerrillas who?under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson?plunged Missouri into a bloody, vicious conflict of an intensity unequaled in any other theater of the Civil War. Among their numbers were Frank and Jesse James and Cole and James Younger, who would later become infamous by extending the tactics they had learned during the war into civilian life. View More...
