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Civil War Desk Reference by Margaret E. Wagner (Editor); Gary W. Gallagher (Editor); Paul Finkelman (Editor); Library of Congress Staff (Contribution by); James M. McPherson (Foreword by)
Call Number: 973.7 LIB
ISBN: 0684863502
Publication Date: 2002-09-03
The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference looks beyond the major events and figures and examines the lives of common soldiers, from their diet, training, and medical treatment to the struggles of the Union's black soldiers.
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War by David S. Heidler (Editor); Jeanne T. Heidler (Editor); David J. Coles (Editor); Gary W. Gallagher (Editor); James M. McPherson; Mark E. Neeley (Editor)
Call Number: 973.7 ENC
ISBN: 1576070662
Publication Date: 2000-12-13
5 volume set.
Civil War Medicine by C. Keith Wilbur
Call Number: 973.7 WIL
ISBN: 9780762703418
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
In Civil War Medicine 1861-1865, takes you on a detailed and fascinating tour through the medical history of this bloody war.
Civil War Weapons by Graham Smith
ISBN: 9780785828549
Publication Date: 2011-08-04
The Battlefields of the Civil War by William C. Davis; Russ A. Pritchard (Assisted by)
ISBN: 9780806128825
Publication Date: 1996-10-15
With 63 color illustrations of artifacts and soldiers, 16 full-page color battlefield maps and 106 historical photographs.
The Civil War by Rachel Filene Seidman
Call Number: 973.7 SEI
ISBN: 9780195115581
Publication Date: 2001-02-01
This book contains primary sources, documentary evidence including news articles,government documents, memoirs, letters, diaries, and photographs.

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Gale library of daily life slavery in America
Orville Vernon Burton, editor.
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Illuminates daily life in slave society in America from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Provides information on the business and regulation of slavery, the plantation way of life, work, family and community, culture and leisure, health and medicine, religion, resistance and rebellion, and slavery and freedom in the North.

Series: Gale virtual reference library
Published: 2008

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