Guts & Glory
The American Civil War
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
An educational collection of amazing-but-true facts about the Civil War shares accounts of such events as female spies fighting for the Rebel cause, cavalry rides in enemy territory, and the reelection of President Lincoln.
Contents:
First blood -- A clash of ironclads -- Shiloh -- The Cleopatra of the secession -- The great locomotive chase -- Robert E. Lee in Northern Virginia -- The deadliest day -- Chancellorsville -- Horse and steel -- Gettysburg -- The making of the Confederate navy -- The 54th Massachusetts -- Morgan's Raid -- The Confederate Thermopylae -- The Rock of Chickamauga -- Mary Edwards Walker, Union nurse -- Grant versus Lee -- Mobile Bay -- The presidential election of 1864 -- The end of the line.
Subjects:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780316320504
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C HISTORY War Am. Civil Tho | Ballentine Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index.