Dee Brown's Civil War anthology

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Ian Westwell

"In a time line format, describes the causes leading up to the Civil War, events and battles during the war, and the aftermath of the war. Includes primary source quotes"--Provided by publisher.

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Janet Dailey

Originally published as AMERICAN DESTINY. LEGACIES OF A FAMILY DIVIDED BY HATRED, AND A PASSION TWO PEOPLE COULD NOT FORGET Debutante Diane Parmalee was a U.S. Army officer‘s daughter; Lije Stuart was the handsome Harvard educated son of the part-Cherokee Stuart clan. Nothing, not even their different worlds, seemed able to stop their love–except a tragic legacy. The wealthy Stuart family burned with the memory of the government‘s forced march of the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears. Now, as the nation exploded in civil war, Lije‘s family split in a violent feud, driving Lije to do the one thing Diane could not forgive–fight for the South. At his father‘s side, Lije was riding away on a journey of blood and sorrow, perhaps forever. The lovers‘ only hope was another legacy: a passion strong enough to reunite them before betrayal and death claimed their hearts… (Description copied from Goodreads.com)

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C. Keith Wilbur

Describes the state of medical knowledge and the practice of medicine, particularly by military medical personnel, during the Civil War.

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David N. Keightley

The sources of Shang history is focused on the era of the eight or nine kings from Wu Ting to Ti Hsin for which contemporary Shang inscriptions, a series of divination inscriptions carved onto approximately one hundred thousand scapula and plastron fragments over three thousand years ago, are available.