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Michigan and the Civil War : a great and bloody sacrifice

Call Numbers

  • H 973.7 D3892 (CEN)
  • 973.7 D3892 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011.

Physical Description

188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents

  • Rockets' red glare
  • The coming fury
  • Answering Lincoln's call
  • 1862: swings of the pendulum
  • Women of war
  • War on water
  • Special forces
  • Turning the tide
  • The fighting 102nd
  • The generals
  • The war politicians
  • POWs: the hard life and Andersonville
  • 1864: year of ascendancy
  • Coda: Appomattox, Irwinville, and the Sultana.

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