A rare book that is equally relevant to the general reader and the biologist. Bliss, who died in 1987, was Curator of Invertebrates at The American Museum of Natural History. This readable volume, first published in 1982, collects information interesting to a wide range of readers, accompanied by photographs and original drawings. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs: Their Fascinating Life Story

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Bliss, Dorothy E.

Biological Sciences

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A highly practical text on how to play figured basses. It contains excerpts from the theoretical works by Praetorius, Niedy, Telemann, Mattheson, Heinichen, J. S. and C. P. E. Bach, Quantz, Padre Mattei; numerous examples, including complete pieces, from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and many exercises for the student.

Thoroughbass Method: With Excerpts from the Theoretical Works of Practorius, Niedt, Telemann, Mattheson, Heinichen, J.S. & C.P.E. Bach, Quantz, and

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Keller, Hermann

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The raid that inspired John Wayne's film, The Horse Soldiers.

Grierson's Raid

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D. Alexander Brown

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It is my object to give a connected account of the brigade from its organization to the close of the war. I shall describe the battles, marches, camp life, discipline and whatever else relates to the military history of the command. I shall, before each battle, give the names of all the general and field officers of the brigade; I shall give the strength and relative position of each regiment in battle, and I shall follow each engagement with a list of casualties, and with sketches of the most prominent of the dead, whether in commission or in the ranks. It is impossible that the work should be exhaustive; but I think it will be found a fair account of the Confederate soldier's life, and I know that it will be strictly true, if there be any truth in a carefully guarded memory. Author J.F.J. Caldwell, from the Introduction.

History of a Brigade of South Carolinians: Known First As Greggs and Subsequently As McGowan's Brigade

History

Caldwell, James F.

Americas

clean solid copy from non smoking home; no dust jacket but with illustrated front. Not a remainder, not ex library.

Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade

Casler, John O.

Reminiscences of Company "H" First Arkansas Mounted Rifles (cloth)

Dacus Robert

History of Kershaw's Brigade

For three reasons, one purely personal (as you will soon see), I am pleased to play even a small part in the reprinting of D. Augustus Dickert's The History of Kershaw's Brigade ... an undertaking in my judgment long, long, overdue. First, it is a very rare and valuable book. Privately published by Dickert's friend and neighbor, Elbert H. Aull, owner-editor of the small-town weekly Newberry (S.C.) Herald and News, almost all of the copies were shortly after water-logged in storage and destroyed. Meantime, only a few copies had been distributed, mostly to veterans and to libraries within the state. Small wonder, then, that Kershaw's Brigade ... so long out-of-print, is among the scarcest of Confederate War books—a point underscored by the fact that no copy has been listed in American Book Prices Current in fifty years. Only one sale of the book is recorded in John Mebane'sBooks Relating to the Civil War (1963), an ex-library copy which sold for $150. More recently, another copy, oddly described as "library indicia, extremely rare," was offered for sale by second-hand dealer for $200. Under these circumstances it is difficult to determine why, amidst the ever-increasing interest in the irrepressible conflict, this unique book has had to wait seventy-five years to make its reappearance on the American historical scene. My second reason is that, in company with other devotees of the Confederacy, I consider Kershaw's Brigade ... one of the best eye-witness accounts of its kind, complete, trustworthy, and intensely interesting. Beginning with the secession of South Carolina on December 20, 1860, Dickert describes in detail the formation, organization, and myriad military activities of his brigade until its surrender at Durham, N.C., April 28, 1865. During these four years and four months, as he slowly rose in rank from private to captain, Dickert leaves precious little untold. In his own earthy fashion he tells of the merging of the Second, Third, Seventh, Eighth, Fifteenth, and Twentieth regiments and the Third Battalion of South Carolina Volunteer Infantry into a brigade under the command of General Joseph Brevard Kershaw, McLaws' division, Longstreet's corps, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. First Manassas was the brigade's, baptism of fire. Seven Pines, the Seven Days, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg followed. And when the enemy began knocking at the back door of the Confederacy in late 1863, it was Longstreet's corps that Lee rushed to the aid of Bragg's faltering Army of Tennessee. After the victory at Chickamaugaand a winter in Tennessee, the corps was recalled to Virginia—and to the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and the Shenandoah Valley. Then, once again, as Sherman's mighty machine rolled relentlessly over Georgia and into South Carolina in 1865, Kershaw's Brigade was transferred "back home," as Dickert proudly put it, "to fight the invader on our own native soil." But Kershaw's Brigade ... is much more than a recounting of military movements and the ordeals of battles. It is at once a panorama of the agonies and the ecstacies of cold-steel war. Few such narratives are so replete with quiet, meditative asides, bold delineations of daily life in camp and on the march, descriptions of places and peoples, and—by no means least—the raucous, all relieving humor of the common soldier who resolutely makes merry to-day because to-morrow he may die.

Dickert, Augustus

There has been a dearth of official information regarding a certain class of regimental statistics which are essential to the history of the war, and are of interest, not only to the surviving participants, but to all who are interested in the story. Regimental affairs are of more importance to the average soldier than Corps or Army matters; and, so, an effort has been made to supply within these pages certain facts regarding regimental losses which are outside the province of the Government publications. No statistics are given here that are not warranted by the official records. Chapter I deals with the casualties of war, maximum of killed in Union regiments, maximum of percentages. Chapter II presents the maximum of regimental loss in killed in any one battle-proportion of wounded to killed. Chapter III contains the percentage of Killed in Regiments in Particular Battles--Comparison of Such Losses With Those of European Regiments. Chapter IV: Loss in Officers--List of Generals Killed--Surgeons and Chaplains Killed. Chapter V: This chapter deals with the losses in the Civil War compared with those of European wars, Loss in each arm of the service, classification of deaths by causes, etc. This deals with the Union Army only! Chapter VI: The colored troops. History of their organization, their losses in battle and by disease. Chapter VII : Muster -Out Rolls --Anthropological Statistics. Chapter VIII: Union Corps Organization. A little history of each Union Corps that fought in the late Rebellion. Chapter IX deals with famous Divisions/Brigades, the Union Army only! Chapter XII: List Of Regiments And Batteries In The Union Armies With Mortuary Losses Of Each--The Number Killed And Number Of Deaths From Disease Or Other Causes. Chapter XIV deals with the greatest battles (and many minor ones) of the late Rebellion with stats such as killed, wounded, captured, etc. Chapter XV: Confederate Losses Strength of the Confederate Armies--Casualities, Generals Killed.

Regimental Losses in the American Civil War 1861-1865: A Treatise on the Extent and Nature of the Mortuary Losses in the Union Regiments, With Full ... Statistics Compiled from the Official reco

Fox, William F.

Chickamauga: Bloody Battle in the West

TUCKER, GLENN

High Tide at Gettysburg: The Campaign in Pennsylvania

High Tide at Gettysburg tells the story of the Army of Virginia. How near the South came to victory is clearly set forth in these pages. The author vividly conveys the background of the crucial b attle of the Civil War so that the reader can fully appreciate its unfolding.

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