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Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster

Embattled Rebel

The Republic for Which It Stands

Battle Cry of Freedom

Vicksburg, 1863

This Hallowed Ground

Escape on the Underground Railroad

Quantrill's War

Midnight Rising

Freewater (newbery & Coretta Scott King Award Winner)

The First Eight

Lincoln's Virtues

This Republic of Suffering

The Zealot and the Emancipator

Thunder in the Mountains

The Fiery Trial

The Second Founding

A Fate Worse Than Hell

The Civil War: a Narrative

The Civil War: a Narrative - 3 Volume Box Set

Across Five Aprils

What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?

Who Was Robert E. Lee?

Brought Forth on This Continent

The Red Badge of Courage

Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier

May I Quote You, General Lee?

On Great Fields

The Civil War (a Step Into History)

The Civil War

The Immortal Irishman

How I Found the Strong







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