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Eyewitness to the Civil War

the complete history from secession to Reconstruction
2006
Addresses every military, political, and social aspect of the Civil War including campaigns and battles, strategies and tactics of Union and Confederate generals, and the everyday lives of soldiers through eyewitness accounts, vintage photographs, artifacts, and illustrations.

Campaigns of a non-combatant, and his romaunt abroad during the war

1982
Reminiscences of a Northern army war correspondent during the Civil War.

The citizen-soldier, or, Memoirs of a volunteer

1983
Memoirs of a member of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Red azalea

2006
A first-hand account by Anchee Min of living in China under Mao who led the nation with cruel oppression. She never experiences a genuine childhood during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. She was compelled to betray her favorite teacher, and to become a peasant worker where she was later humiliated.

Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

1990
A self-portrait of the Civil War General with firsthand accounts of crucial Civil War events.

Life and death in Shanghai

1988
The author tells of her solitary confinement and torture as a wealthy Chinese woman during the Cultural Revolution.

Desolating this fair country

the Civil War diary and letters of Lt. Henry C. Lyon, 34th New York
1999

Almost a revolution

1990
An account of growing up in China, describing political restraints and political demonstrations starting in the mid-1980s.

The Century war book

the famous history of the Civil War by the people who actually fought it
1978

Chainbreaker's war

a Seneca chief remembers the American Revolution : an authentic narrative
2002
Presents the narrative of Chainbreaker, who fought to save the Iroquois from being overrun by the Continental armies and eventually met his old enemy, George Washington, to arrange treaty negotiations and become an emissary for peace to other Native American nations.

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