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Monday, December 01, 2008

CWBA Profile - The Kent State University Press

THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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* August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen: Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry
* Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British-American Relations
* Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms

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* In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat by Earl J. Hess.

* Sister States, Enemy States: The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee edited by Kent T. Dollar, Larry H. Whiteaker, and W. Calvin Dickinson.

* A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War by Daniel E. Sutherland.

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* Never for Want of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta, Georgia by Bragg, Blaker, Ross, Jacobe & Savas.

* The Civil War in the Big Sandy Valley of Kentucky, 2nd Edition by John David Preston.

* A Thousand Texans: Men of the 9th Texas Cavalry by Stephen S. Kirk.

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* The Maps of First Bull Run: An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball's Bluff, June-October 1861 by Bradley M. Gottfried.

* Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee's Union Cavalry in the Civil War by James Alex Baggett.
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