Civil War Ii

In this audiobook, we'll delve into the events leading up to this pivotal battle, the key players, the gruesome fighting itself, and the profound effects that rippled across the United States and the world. The Battle of Antietam is not merely a tale of generals and strategies, of charges and retreats; it is a story of individual valor, national identity, and the ceaseless quest for freedom. It is a single day that encapsulates the immense human drama that was the American Civil War.

The story of Cathay Williams continues, with her life forever changed as the fate of America fell onto the scales of the American Civil War. Brutally beaten to within a breath of life, Cathay and her mother Martha, survived a lifetime of slavery only to be called to serve the Union Armies in close proximity to the bloody battles the reshaped the United States. Cathay has to lean on her friends in order to survive and in the process, learns what it takes to be a fighter and soldier. As the war draws to an end, Cathay finds herself making a choice based on her life lessons. Life is a gamble ...

FDR Goes to War expands on the premise that FDR's legacy has damaged America and helped lay the groundwork for the current economic crisis.

The Folsoms continue to expose the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. Many government programs that are widely used today have their seeds in the New Deal.

This is Volume Two of the series Personal Views of War from the perspective of the civilans found in war. Volumes One and Two are the memoirs of Confederate spy Belle Boyd during the Civil War between the North and the South. Originally written in 1865 and titled Belle Boyd In Camp and Prison, this edition includes, maps, old photographs and historical backgrounds of the Civil War not included with the original nor with any other publications. It is especially formatted for Kindle or other eBook readers.

Wild Swan, the horse farm Alexandria Falconer built up from nothing in the border state of Maryland, has been Alex's sanctuary through years of turmoil, and she has come of age in this land of opportunity. But the storm clouds of civil war are gathering, and Alex knows she has a choice to make to protect her family and maintain the precarious peace at Wild Swan.

The Second Civil War of the United States has resumed its bloody course. Under its new President, Mitchell Spector, the United Constitutional States of America has taken the Blue Faction stronghold of Pittsburgh and now has its eyes set on Washington. To the north, Canada’s prime minister, Merielle Martel, must face off against agents of chaos and corruption that will stop at nothing to see her and her country destroyed. As shadowy forces work against the CANZUK nations from all sides, the countries of Canada, Australia, New Zealand the United Kingdom have no choice – if the light of ...

The second book in this series continues of the second generation of Shane Taylor, and his son Weston. Together they and their steamboats, and Shane's ferry which was the first ferry in Hannibal, and St. Louis, Missouri. Together they will make history from 1832 -1865. Weston and the first steam gun boat will become involved in the early days of the Civil War on the Mississippi, Tennessee, and Columbia Rivers, before the Ironclads appear. Their loyalty to the Union cause will help free all the rivers from the Confederate advancement, and control of the Mississippi River.

Compassionate Soldier illuminates some of the most fascinating and yet largely unknown stories of men and women whose humanity led them to perform courageous acts of mercy and compassion amid the chaos and carnage of war. Arranged by war from the American Revolution to the Iraq War and global in perspective, it features extraordinary stories of grace under fire from valiant soldiers and noncombatants who rose above the inhumanity of lethal conflict and chose compassion.

Civil War Battles is an informative introduction to the subject. For four straight years, the people of the United States fought against one another in a brutal civil war that resulted in the deaths of approximately 620,000 men in uniform. Between 1861 and 1865, more Americans died during this bloody conflict than in all other American wars combined. With fighting across the South and in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Kentucky, some battles proved to be key in the overall outcome of the war.

Imagine a much stronger Bill of Rights. Couple that with a Bill of Responsibilities. Return most power to the community. Have our legislature reflect our counties. Work together under one leader for all. Our New Albion: Rebirth of the West This second book in the New Albion quartet covers the laws and planned governance for the Atlantic Kingdom.

Renowned yet private, thriller writer Hayden Winters lives a life colored by lies. As he is deeply ashamed of his past, his hunger for an honest relationship and dreams of starting a family remain unsatisfied, and he can trust no one with his secrets. He's determined to outrun his personal demons, but the charming old Peach Orchard Inn and a woman whose presence is as gentle as a sparrow's song stops him in his tracks.

Ellie Ballantyne, youngest child of Silas and Eden, has left finishing school. But back at her family home in Pittsburgh, Ellie finds that her parents are away on a long trip, and her siblings don't seem to want her to stay. When she opens a day school for young ladies, she begins tutoring the incorrigible daughter of the enemy Turlock clan. The Turlocks are slaveholders and whiskey magnates, envious of the powerful Ballantynes and suspicious of their abolitionist leanings.

The South’s James Bulloch, charming and devious, was to acquire a cutting-edge clandestine fleet intended to break President Lincoln’s blockade of Confederate ports, sink Northern merchant vessels, and drown the U.S. Navy’s mightiest ships at sea. The profits from gunrunning and smuggling cotton—Dixie’s notorious “white gold”—would finance the scheme. Opposing him was Thomas Dudley, a resolute Quaker lawyer and abolitionist. He was determined to stop Bulloch by any means necessary in a spy-versus-spy game of move and countermove, gambit and sacrifice, intrigue and betrayal.

Born to wealth that the Civil War ravaged, held captive by renegade Comanche, and rejected by family and friends, Mary Elizabeth (“Libby”) Haley ran away from home at the age of 14. Libby learned to navigate the dangerous and volatile Old West and made a name for herself as Squirrel Tooth Alice. Given her moniker because of a gap in her front teeth and her passion for raising ground squirrels as pets, Libby made the best of a difficult situation.

President Barack Obama won a decisive victory in the 2012 Presidential election over his challenger Mitt Romney. The voting public spoke loudly on the direction they wanted the United States to proceed, but there seems to a political revolt taking place at the state government level. Many Republican governors and other GOP politicians decided that they would go in a different direction than the national electorate and started a political uncivil war to oppose implementing as many Obama initiatives as possible at the state level. The day after President Obama defeated Mitt Romney in the ...

A former English cavalry officer and committed Jacobean Highlander, who fought on opposite sides at the Battle of Culloden, unexpectedly find themselves living as neighbours in adjacent valleys in the heart of the sparsely populated Highlands of Scotland. One breeding cattle and the other, sheep. Initially, they become close friends, giving each other assistance and support when required, until an incident occurs resulting in a disturbing conflict that divides the two families. Emotions run high and as both enterprises continue to prosper, the divide and bitterness between the neighbours ...

The bloody barbarism of the Civil War scarred Morgan’s soul as well as his body. He sent so many soldiers to Hell and almost joined them when he was struck by a bullet from the sniper known as the Arkansas Traveler. The only man to ever survive the notorious Rebel’s sharpshooting skills, Morgan finds himself back in the assassin’s sights. But the ex-Confederate isn’t the only one gunning for Morgan.

My latest book, Mist on the Santee Book Two 1850-1866 is a continuation of the Campbell's who settled, and built their rice plantation along the banks of the Santee River. Now the third, and fourth generation will have to face the upcoming Civil War that the knew was coming. How would they protect their beloved Cypress Hill Plantation, and their free Gullah people from the Confederates, and Union armies that will soon surround them, as well as Charleston, South Carolina! Being surrounded by swamps, lowlands, and deep forest, they hope they will not see any enemies marching upon their lands,...

For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often malnourished combatants; the effective absence of decisive battles among some two to three hundred known to us by name.

Vermont, 1850s. Bell's Star is a brown Morgan colt with a white star and two white stockings. He was bred for hard work, yet he longs to run free with his human friend, Katie, on his back. But when Star helps rescue a runaway slave girl, his ideas about freedom may change forever. Here is Star's story . . . in his own words.