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By: N/A
Price: $39.95
Publisher: Oklahoma Press:
Seller ID: 123943
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: CD2390
This is probably the first such work on the U.S. Cavalry to be published. To that end, this modest-sized volume is packed with information about many aspects of the horse soldiers. Beginning with the cavalry's origins in 1793, the history moves through the War of 1812, the Creek War, the Black Hawk War, the Florida War, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. It also covers the formation and disbanding of selected regiments, numerous battles and skirmishes, commentary on ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: P0038
In the 1960s the National Archives staff culled out selected "settled accounts" that had genealogical value from the pension payments (these are records not found in the pension application files). These are the records for the District of Columbia pension office, they cover Revolutionary War pensions for the most part but include other wars. They include such information as remarriage of widows, places and length of residence. They contain more than just DC resi... View more info
Price: $27.50
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: F2195
“It was as the result of a suggestion made to the authorities by Duncan Forbes of Culloden that in 1729 it was determined on that a certain number of Highland clansmen should be embodied in the character of a species of local gendarmerie. …The ‘Black Watch,’ or as is its Gaelic name, ‘Am Freiceadan Dubh,’ was the appellation given to the independent companies of which, with reinforcements, the regiment was subsequently formed. From the time that the companies... View more info
By: Bob Bearor
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: B2348
Volume Two covers Daniel Greysolon DuLuth, Madeleine Vercheres, St. Luc de la Corne, Daniel Beaujeu and Jean-Daniel Dumas, with a brief chapter on native foods for wilderness survival. “The partisan leaders have vanished forever, like the prints of their snowshoes and the swirls of their paddles. The accounts of their lives must not.” Bob Bearor is a person whom I refer to as a “trekker’s Trekker.” He possesses a focus that not only encompasses the written wor... View more info
By: Bob Bearor
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: B2514
In this Bob Bearor's third and final book in the 'Leading by Example' trilogy we learn of the exploits of Nicolas D'Allieboust de Manthet who, in the late seventeenth century, routed Iroquois warriors at the Lake of Two Mountains, helped mount an attack on Albany, and led punitive raids against the Mohawks. This work also records the accomplishments of French-Canadian partisan fighters who were active during the last great war for the empire from 1754 to 1760. The three ... View more info
Price: $18.50
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: K0905
Illustrated by Joe Lee. The vital Lake George - Lake Champlain corridor, always a strategic link between New England and Canada, is the geographical setting of this study of the uniforms and clothing of British and Yankee soldiers and their Native American allies during the French and Indian War. Historians and reenactors alike will consider this book indispensable! Brief historical sketches of the British campaigns of 1755-1760 provide ample background information. A ge... View more info
Price: $37.00
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: L1575
This collectible classic, much sought after by connoisseurs of colonial American military history, is once again in print. Originally published in 1969, it constitutes Volume II of Burt Loescher's meticulously researched History of Rogers' Rangers. This work offers the complete record of every action, ambuscade, scout and expedition of Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers from April 6, 1758 (just after their defeat in the Battle on Snowshoes during the French and Indian ... View more info
By: Charles Conklin
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: C4117
This book is a convenient source of reference material for the collector in a handy table format. Headstamps are rendered in detailed drawings under the flag of their respective country of origin. Actual enhanced headstamp and side view photo examples are shown along with case length, rim, neck and bullet diameter measurements. The process of evolving cartridge components that perform well in the field will no doubt become evident to you as you compare form and function ... View more info
By: Daniel T. Goggin and H. Stephen Helton
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc:
Seller ID: CD4200
"Today the responsibilities of the Department of State lie almost entirely in the field of foreign affairs. In this field the Department assists the President to promote and maintain friendly relations with foreign countries. Specifically, it aids in negotiating treaties and other international agreements, in determining measures to be taken to fulfill treaty obligations, in protecting U.S. citizens abroad and U.S. foreign interests, in deciding on the recognition of... View more info
Price: $43.50
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: T3860
First published in 1876 it was written from the contemporary perspective of Frederick Whittaker, an author who was well-known for his dime novels about swashbuckling adventurers, and who greatly admired Custer. In a new introduction, the editor discusses Custer, both man and myth, as well as his symbolic importance today. He traces the development of the public perception of Custer as a hero and as a villain, and eventually as a Civil War and Western hero, worthy of hono... View more info
Price: $19.00
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: H0620
This company was organized in Dallas, Paulding County, Georgia on 24 February 1862 and was commanded by Colonel Adba Johnson. It fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and North Carolina. This unit fought in the last battle at Bentonville and surrendered at Greensboro. View more info
By: Drew D. Dukett
Price: $22.50
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: D1405
March with the 61st Illinois Volunteers through the American Civil War in the Western Theater, and you will understand the character of the men who fought to preserve the Union during our nation's greatest challenge. Drew Dukett has written a wonderful story about ordinary men and their families enmeshed in extraordinary events. Glimpses of Glory provides a moving experience of the human dimension of war."- Dr. Charles E. White, author of The Enlightened Soldier and ... View more info
Price: $22.50
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: S0652
During the American Revolution men from the Old Dominion served in both Continental and state military establishments consisting of a sometimes bewildering array of regiments, battalions, corps, legions, detachments, and companies. A valuable aid to the study of Virginia’s military contributions to American Independence. View more info
By: edited by Thomas T. Smith.
Price: $14.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press: c1994
Seller ID: 261608
Emil Adolph Bode, a German immigrant down on his luck, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1877 and served for five years. More literate than most of his fellow soldiers, Bode described western flora and fauna, commenting on the American Indians he encountered as well as the slaughter of the buffalo, the hard and lonely life of the cowboy, and towns and settlements he passed through. His observations, seasoned with wry wit and sympathy, offer a truer picture of the frontier mil... View more info
By: Elaine Everly
Price: $15.95
Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc:
Seller ID: CD4038
The Freedmen's Bureau was a part of the War Department whose duties included "the supervision and management of all abandoned lands and the control of all subjects relating to refugees and freedmen from rebel states, or from any district or country within the territory embraced in the operations of the Army," During the first year of its existence the Bureau issued rations and clothing to destitute freedmen and refugees, operated hospitals and freedmen's camps, p... View more info
