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 Clash of Loyalties: A Border County in the Civil War West Virginia and Appalachia The story of one county in the mountainous Northwest of Virginia, is a telling microcosm of the deep divisions which both caused the war and were caused by it. With a meticulous examination of census and military records this is a compelling account of the passion and violence which tore apart Barbour County and the Nation |
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  View of Harper's Ferry, West Viginia, c.1860 Photographic Print 24 in. x 18 in. Buy at AllPosters.com Framed Mounted |
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 72 Piece Civil War Army Men Play Set 52mm Union and Confederate Figures, Bridge, Horses, Canon
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West Virginia State Battle Map State Battle Maps American Civil War Exhibits Civil War Timeline Women in the War Southern Commanders Union Generals Civil War Summary Documents of the Civil War Civil War Cooking Civil War Submarines Civil War Store |
 Confederate Toy Soldiers Playsets of Confederate and Union Soldiers. Sets come in pieces of 30 to 100. Artillery Cavalry foot soldiers and cannon sets |
 The Divided Family in Civil War America In hundreds of border state households, brothers--and sisters--really did fight one another, while fathers and sons argued over secession and husbands and wives struggled with opposing national loyalties. Even enslaved men and women found themselves divided over how to respond to the war |
 Lee's Endangered Left: The Civil War In Western Virginia, Spring Of 1864 Grant devised a plan of concerted action to bring down the Confederacy. He aimed to destroy General Lee's supply source for his Army in Western Virginia and to use military activity there as an extended turning movement to threaten Lee from the west |
 Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie: Reminiscences of a Confederate Cavalryman Mosgrove was born in Kentucky, in 1844, and enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment on September 10, 1862. His eyewitness account illuminates the western theater of the Civil War in Kentucky, east Tennessee, and southwest Virginia |
 Rebels At The Gate The dramatic story of the first Union victories of the Civil War and the events that caused Virginians to divide their state. In a defiant act to sustain President Lincoln's war effort, Virginia Unionists created their own state government in 1861-destined to become the new state of West Virginia. Their actions blocked what should have been Confederate control of the territory and closed one of their key gateways to the Union states |
 The Railroads of the Confederacy The story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war. A complex and fascinating tale, with the railroads of the American South playing the part of tragic hero in the Civil War: at first vigorous though immature; then overloaded, driven unmercifully, starved for iron; and eventually worn out |
 The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Account of the impact of the railroads on the American Civil War and vice versa. How the North was helped to victory through its effective use of the rails, also how the war changed the way railroads were built, run and financed after the war. |
 Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History The Army of Northern Virginia was able to compile a large number of impressive victories during the war. The Army of Tennessee was only able to win at Chickamauga, and even that victory proved barren strategically. |
 Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart James Ewell Brown Stuart was the premier cavalry commander of the Confederacy. He gained a reputation for daring early in the war when he rode around the Union army in the Peninsula Campaign, providing valuable intelligence to General Robert E. Lee at the expense of Union commander George B. McClellan |
Sources:
U.S. National Park Service
U.S. Library of Congress.