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American Civil War History Books PDF – Battles and Campaigns
- Confederate Women Stories
- Jefferson Davis, 1808-1889
- Destruction and Pillage
- Economic aspects
- Fiction
- Foreign Public Opinion
- Juvenile Fiction
- Robert E. Lee, 1807-1870
- Naval operations
- Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910
- NYPL Regimental Histories
- Participation by African Americans
- Personal Narratives
- Poetry
- Public Opinion
Civil War Era Books – U.S. History 1861-1865
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