"Stars and Bars"
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Seven stars represent the original seven confederate states.

Southern Invincibility -- Southern pride--the notion that the South's character distinguishes it from the rest of the country--had a profound impact on how and why Confederates fought the civil War, and continued to mold their psyche after they had been defeated. In Southern Invincibility, award-winning historian Wiley Sword traces the roots of the South's belief in its own superiority and examines the ways in which that conviction contributed to the war effort, even when it became clear that the South would not win. Through the letters and diaries of soldiers and civilians--men and women, gentrified plantation owners and rural farmers--Sword demonstrates how the spirit of invincibility fueled the South's initial victories and how it metamorphosed into a noble pride that enabled the South to endure after it had lost the war.

Capturing a Locomotive -- Unlike other books from this time period dealing with the historical aspects of war, Capturing a Locomotive focuses not on the already well known battles and marches, but instead upon the secret work that goes on through spies and scouts. While these stories may not be as well known, this book aims to show their importance to the outcome of the war, in addition to their value as romantic and adventurous stories. No single story of war combines so many of the hidden underground elements that are rarely brought to the surface through historical analysis of warfare. While this story contains all of the romantic elements to keep the reader enthralled in its pages, it is also completely accurate. Names, dates, and localities are so fully given throughout the work that it is easy to verify the prominent features of the account.

Hard Tack and Coffee -- First published more than 100 years ago, Hard Tack And Coffee is John Billings’ absorbing first-person account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier during the Civil War. Illustrated with over 200 sketches by C.W. Reed.

A Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie -- The author narrates the suffering he endured as a prisoner in the Southern Confederacy. After being captured at the battle of Shiloh, Geer was tried and cast into military prisons and common jails. He managed to escape, overcoming malaria-infested marshes and bloodhounds only to be recaptured.

Outbreak of Rebellion -- This story runs from Governor Gist's circular letter to Southern governors dated October 5th, 1860, to the Battle of Bull Run, July 21st 1861. It is well-proportioned, full of interest, written with intense convictions of right, an impatient contempt of opposite opinions, and a disposition not to mince words, but unhesitatingly to call treason treason, and civil war conspiracy. To him it was all a miserable conspiracy of office-holders, dragging the people after them by political jugglery at conventions. February 1882

Prison Life in Dixie -- The author describes his harrowing capture and imprisonment by the Rebels at Sumter Prison a.k.a. "Andersonville Prison Pen". Renowned as one of the worst prisons of the Civil War, the Andersonville pen spread over only 11 acres, with a 12-foot wall surrounding over 33,000 Union soldiers. The writer endeavors to furnish such descriptions and incidents that give the reader a true picture of Rebel prisons and the means and methods of either surviving or dying in them.

The True Story of Andersonville Prison -- A captivating defense of Andersonville Prison Warden Wirtz by a prisoner. Originally published in 1908.

McClellan's Campaign of 1862 -- On every page, there is abundant evidence that the author is not so much concerned about the reputation of the commanding general, as about historical truth. Investigated in this spirit, both campaigns [McClellan's and Pope's] prove to be total failures. In attempting to fix the responsibility of these defeats, the author believes that they are invaluable from the fact that they lead people to think of these campaigns as an epoch of the war in which these officers failed to achieve success, from causes partly within and partly beyond their own control. February 1882

The Soldier's Story -- During the Civil War tens of thousands of soldiers died in prisons. In Andersonville Prison Pen alone over 11,000 soldiers of the 33,000 died of starvation, exposure and consumption or other disease. Warren Lee Goss was a member of the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment of Heavy Artillery during the war. Goss writes of his captivity at Andersonville and Belle Isle prisons. Goss was a prisoner twice, once in 1862 for four months and in 1864 for nine months. His experience in these prisons was of a kind that few endure and live to write about. Although he attempts to relate the tale of horrors experienced in these prisons without exaggeration, he realizes that it is hard to comprehend that men can live through some of the cruelties of which he writes, to understand man's inhumanity to man. With 24 Illustrations, maps and drawings by Thomas Nast from Harpers Weekly.

From Henry to Corinth -- This campaign drove the rebellion once and for all out of Kentucky; it broke the rebel line from Columbus to Bowling Green hopelessly in pieces; it opened the Mississippi from Cairo to Memphis; it contained the first great Union victories; and at Donelson and Island No.10, it received the first surrenders of rebel armies; it cheered and encouraged the the North, going far to compensate the delays and defeats in Virginia, and was correspondingly depressing in its effect upon the South. It ended the bloodiest battle ever fought up to that time on this continent.