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Joan of Arc

1985
Chronicles the experiences of the peasant girl who led a French army against the English, was burned at the stake for witchcraft, and became a saint.

Napoleon

1986
A biography of the military genius who crowned himself Emperor of the French and whose empire covered most of western and central Europe.

Abraham Lincoln

to preserve the Union
1991
A biography of the President who led the country through the stormy years of the Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant and the strategy of victory

1991
A biography of war hero and President Ulysses S. Grant.

Who comes with cannons?

1992
In 1861 twelve-year-old Truth, a Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad, when her world is changed by the beginning of the Civil War.

Culpepper's cannon

1992
When Dunc and Amos research the Civil War, they enter a time portal and find themselves in 1862 on the day before the historic clash between the Monitor and the Merrimac. Will they make it back to the future?.

Reconstruction

America after the Civil War
1994
Based on first-person accounts, and illustrated with photographs and drawings, this book portrays a period of brutal repression--and surprising progress--as former enemies struggled to remake a society.

Here and then

1994
Through ghostly visitation and a diary that seems mysteriously to write itself with twelve-year-old Abby's hands, a Civil War nurse asks for help with medical supplies across an abyss of 133 years.

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