Who beside the enlisted men can tell how the fierce Confederates looked and fought behind their earthworks and in the open; how the heroic soldiers of the impoverished South were clothed, armed, and fed?
The memoirs of Grant, Lee, Hood, Gordon, Johnston, and other Civil War generals are some of our most common sources that we look at when learning about this tumultuous conflict.
But what about the voices of the common soldier?
Frank Wilkeson, when he wrote his account of the Civil War, aimed to rectify this and reassert the importance of looking at the accounts of the men who carried the muskets, served the guns, and rode their saddles into the heat of battle.
As he states in his preface, ""The epauleted history has been largely inspired by vanity or jealousy, saving and excepting forever the immortal record.""
Wilkeson and his fellow comrades who lived on the frontlines of the conflict had no need to rescue their reputations or assert their actions and thus their accounts provide a brilliant and unbiased alternative view of this bloody war.
After lying about his age Frank Wilkeson was just sixteen when he joined the Union Army in 1864.
Through the course of the next year he saw some of the ferocious battles of Grant's Overland Campaign.
Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac is a wonderfully refreshing account of the American Civil War that takes the reader to the heart of what it would have been like to have served in the front ranks.

Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac

History

Frank Wilkeson

Americas

Blackstone Public Domain

Maggie, a Girl of the Streets & Other New York Stories

Literature & Fiction

Stephen, Crane

Literary

In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple's trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent time travelers arrive in a world that corresponds exactly to Barnstaple's ideals: a utopian state, free of crime, poverty, war, disease, and bigotry. Unfettered by the constraints of government and organized religion, the citizens lead rich, meaningful lives, passed in pursuit of their creative fancies. Barnstaple's traveling companions, however, quickly contrive a scheme to remake the utopia in the image of their twentieth-century world. A century after its initial publication, H. G. Wells's novel offers an enduringly relevant look at an ideal society. Conceived in the aftermath of World War I, it reflects the failings of human nature but offers hope for the future, when men and women may live like gods.

Men like Gods

H.G.Wells

Classics

Algernon Blackwood, a journalist and broadcast narrator, was one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Included here are thirteen of his stories. The title story, "The Touch of Pan," explores the lingering presence of myth in everyday life. In "The Glamour of the Snow," Blackwood winds a tale about a man's infatuation with a supernatural winter beauty. In "The Attic," the ghost of an usurer haunts the old Chateaux and, on the anniversary of a young boy's death, the boy's cat brings the family together. "The Willows" follows two campers who are on a canoe trip down the Danube, with the sense of a looming threat following them. When darkness falls, they pick the wrong place to sleep for the night--a place where another dimension impinges on our own. American horror author H. P. Lovecraft considered "The Willows" to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. Full contents: "The Touch of Pan," read by Stefan Rudnicki"The Transfer," read by Justine Eyre"The Occupant of the Room," read by Paul Boehmer"The Valley of the Beasts," read by Stefan Rudnicki"The Glamour of the Snow," read by Paul Boehmer"The Pikestaff Case," read by Kate Orsini"The Tryst," read by Paul Boehmer"Wayfarers," read by Stefan Rudnicki"The House of the Past," read by Paul Boehmer"Initiation," read by Stefan Rudnicki"The Wings of Horus," read by Gabrielle de Cuir"The Attic," read by Paul Boehmer"The Willows," read by Stefan Rudnicki

The Touch of Pan & Other Stories: An Original Compilation

Algernon, Blackwood

Genre Fiction

The debut novel from the creator of the Regency genre of romance fiction Based on a story she had written for her brother and published when she was nineteen years old, The Black Moth is set during the Georgian era in the 1750s and follows Lord Jack Carstares, the eldest son of the Earl of Wyncham. Six years ago, Jack took the blame when his younger brother Richard cheated at cards. Jack consequently faced social exile and fled England for the European continent. He has now secretly returned, robbing carriages as a highwayman. One day, he rescues Miss Diana Beauleigh when she is almost abducted by the Duke of Andover. Jack and Diana fall in love, but his troubled past and current profession threaten their happiness. In a contemporary review published in 1921, the Times Literary Supplement deemed the protagonist Jack a "fascinating hero of romance" and added that the novel was "a well-filled story which keeps the reader pleased."

The Black Moth

Romance

Georgette-Heyer

Historical

The Haunted House at Latchford & The Haunted Hotel

Wilkie, Collins

J. H. Riddell

On the Border with Crook

Biographies & Memoirs

John Gregory Bourke

Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer

G. Moxley Sorrel

"Logic will solve any problem; not most of them, but any problem." --The Thinking Machine Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, with the help of his friend Hutchison Hatch, solves a variety of mysteries using cold, hard logic. No matter how twisted the trail of clues or how clever the perpetrator, Professor Van Dusen, aptly dubbed "The Thinking Machine," reminds us that "two and two make four, not some times, but all the time." So when a woman begs a surgeon to amputate part of her finger or when a pearl necklace disappears from a woman's neck at a party or when a man presents the court with his "perfect" alibi, The Thinking Machine methodically investigates all of the (logical) possibilities. In fact, the author's own wife, May Futrelle, set out to stump her husband's talented detective with an unsolvable mystery of her own, in which a lonely traveler takes a wrong turn and ends up in a mysterious house. Was she successful? Discover for yourself in this original audio compilation produced by Skyboat Media for Blackstone Publishing. Full contents: Introduction - read by Paul Boehmer"Problem of Dressing Room A" - read by Stefan Rudnicki"Problem of the Perfect Alibi" - read by Paul Boehmer"The Problem of Cell 13" - read by Stefan Rudnicki"Problem of the Superfluous Finger" - read by Paul Boehmer"Problem of the Cross Mark" - read by Paul Boehmer"Problem of the Stolen Bank Notes" - read by Paul Boehmer"Problem of the Green Eyed Monster" - read by Paul Boehmer"My First Experience with the Great Logician" - read by Stefan Rudnicki"The First Problem" - read by Paul Boehmer"Problem of the Missing Necklace" - read by Paul Boehmer"Problem of the Souvenir Cards" - read by Paul Boehmer"The Tragedy of the Life Raft" - read by Paul Boehmer"Problem of the Deserted House" - read by Paul Boehmer"The Grinning God, Part I: Wraiths of the Storm" - read by Stefan Rudnicki with Gabrielle de Cuir"The Grinning God, Part II: The House That Was" - read by Paul Boehmer

The Thinking Machine at Work

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Jacques Futrelle

Mystery

Discover the many faces of Arsène Lupin as you've never seen them before in this original compilation from Skyboat Media and Blackstone Publishing. Arsène Lupin boldly makes a name for himself in "Madame Imbert's Safe" as he attempts to steal from a couple who may be hiding more than just money, and flaunts his keen eye as he traces a cold case in "The Queen's Necklace." In "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin," passengers onboard a transatlantic steamer fear for their valuables when the captain announces that Arsène Lupin has snuck onto the ship ... and he could be disguised as anyone. In "Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late," Lupin goes head-to-head with Holmes, but someone from Lupin's past may get in the way. Just when it seems like Lupin is in a criminal league all his own, Herlock Sholmes appears. Similar to the famous English detective (but, owing to the complaints of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, possessing an entirely different name), Sholmes travels to Paris to solve the case of the stolen blue diamond. Monsieur Lupin must employ all his ingenuity to avoid arrest and protect his reputation as the greatest thief the world has ever known. With daring escapes and intricate heists, this compilation showcases Lupin at his most cunning--and his most outrageous Full contents: Introduction by Alison Belle Bews - "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin" - "The Escape of Arsène Lupin" - "Madame Imbert's Safe" - "The Black Pearl" - "Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late" - "The Queen's Necklace" - "Lottery Ticket No. 514" - "The Blue Diamond" - "Herlock Sholmes Opens Hostilities" - "Light in the Darkness" - "An Abduction" - "The Second Arrest of Arsène Lupin"

An Arsène Lupin Casebook (The Arsène Lupin Series)

Maurice, LeBlanc

Short Stories & Anthologies

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