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1-2260806 BLACK POWDER EPIC BATTLES American Civil War Iron Brigade The Iron Brigade (or black hats) was an infantry brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac, formed of regiments of three now Midwest states. Known for their strong fighting prowess and distinctive uniform, the Iron Brigade suffered the highest casualties of any formation during the Civil War. These are 15mm scale (each man stands 13.5mm from foot to mid-eye level). Plastic foot figures are cast in blocks of 10 figures. 300 Figures total1 vol, 1 pgs 2021 UK, WARLORD GAMES NEW-box ......$72.00 discount: :20% rct ..see our Miniatures page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-194290 Anderson, George and Toews, Ryan IN COMMAND - American Civil War Campaigns - Pea Ridge/Elkhorn Tavern and Bermuda Hundred 20-page A4 paperback booklet. Unlike the other books in the Potomac Publications series this booklet does not provide details of individual battles but gives an umpire's guide to conducting two campaigns within the American Civil War: Pea Ridge/Elkhorn Tavern and Bermuda Hundred. For each campaign the background is given, followed by an historical chronology. More detailed information is then given on terrain, movement rates, weather, and the armies involved. This includes notes on the personalities of the commanders and other characters allowing for a certain amount of roleplaying when conducting the campaign. Extensive umpires notes are given followed by the main objectives of the two armies. The final section in each campaign gives a complete order of battle followed by a sketch map. The leaders and regimental units are graded for the Johnny Reb rules (number of men, type of weapon, and quality), but these campaigns can be adapted to other rules systems.1 vol, 20 pgs 1996 UK, POTOMAC PUBLICATIONS NEW-softcover ......$20.00 ..see our WARGAMING page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-194301 Anderson, George and Toews, Ryan American Civil War Scenarios #1 - Bullets & Dirt ACW scenarios: Wilson's Creek, Logan's Cross Roads, Fort Donelson, Winchester, Port Republic, Baton rouge, Port Gibson, Salem Church, McPherson's Ridge, Droop Mountain, New Market and Monocacy. Most of these are a brigade to a division per side. Each scenario includes short background, full-page gridded map, order of battle by regiment (includes number of men, weapon type, and quality), and miscellaneous terrain and wargaming notes.1 vol, 38 pgs 1993 UK, POTOMAC PUBLICATIONS NEW-softcover ......$20.00 ..see our WARGAMING page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-194302 Anderson, George and Toews, Ryan American Civil War Scenarios #2 - Rebel Yell. Yankee Hurrah More ACW scenarios: Fort Donelson (Smith's Attack), Tazewell, Iuka, Hatchie Bridge, Richmond, Thompson's Station, Dutton's Hill, Port Hudson, Wauhatchie, Ringgold Gap, Pickett's Mill, and Overall Creek. Most of these are one division to one brigade per side. Each scenario includes short background, full-page gridded map, order of battle by regiment (includes number of men, weapon type, and quality), and miscellaneous terrain and wargaming notes.1 vol, 38 pgs 1996 UK, POTOMAC PUBLICATIONS NEW-softcover ......$20.00 ..see our WARGAMING page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-194303 Anderson, George and Toews, Ryan American Civil War Scenarios #3- Kirby Smith's Confederacy More ACW scenarios: Little Sugar Creek, Valverde, Leetown, Elkhorn tavern, Prairie Grove, Helena, Honey Springs, Bayou Fourche, Bayou Borbeaux, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry. Some of these are larger two or so divisions per side. Each scenario includes short background, full-page gridded map, order of battle by regiment (includes number of men, weapon type, and quality), and miscellaneous terrain and wargaming notes.1 vol, 38 pgs 1996 UK, POTOMAC PUBLICATIONS NEW-softcover ......$20.00 ..see our WARGAMING page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-194304 Anderson, George and Toews, Ryan American Civil War Scenarios #4 - Across a Deadly Space More ACW scenarios: Greenbrier River, Allegheney Mountains, Cedar Run, Kettle Run, Crampton's Gap, East Cavalry Field, Morton's Ford, Olustee, Piedmont, Saltville, Honey Hill, and Bentonville. Usually one division per side, with some larger battles. Each scenario includes short background, full-page gridded map, order of battle by regiment (includes number of men, weapon type, and quality), and miscellaneous terrain and wargaming notes.1 vol, 38 pgs 1996 UK, POTOMAC PUBLICATIONS NEW-softcover ......$20.00 ..see our WARGAMING page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
2-198831 Simon, Wally; edited by Russ Lockwood SECRETS OF WARGAME DESIGN: A Tabletop Toolkit of Ideas, Analysis, and Rule Mechanics From the Center for Provocative Wargaming... For decades, Wally Simon helped shape miniatures wargaming through Potomac Wargamers Review -- his monthly photocopied newsletter that analyzed the mechanics of wargame rules. First published in the 1970s, PWR ran monthly through August 2002, delving into the nuts and bolts of how rules worked -- and how they did not. Published rules, home-grown rules, and even his own rules came under scrutiny as he created, destroyed, and tweaked rules mechanisms to try and 'produce a game which keeps all players continually busy and interested in what's going on.' In Volume 1, we offer an introduction to 'Wally Rules' and a dozen of his best articles pulled from the pages of PWR. Stuffed full of ideas, concepts, and rules mechanics covering wargaming action across all eras, they offer provocative wit, wisdom, and imagination to help you tweak an existing set of rules or create your own rules to make a better wargame. Contents: * Wally Rules: The Search for Tabletop Perfection * ACW Telescoping Battlefield: Battleline Melee, Reaction Points, and the d6 Crowd * Renaissancing The Rules: Support, Rally Zones, and River Crossings * Revolutionary Morale: Reaction Levels, Cards, and AWI Battles * The Parade Ground Indian Mutiny: Loyalty Quotients and Rally Points * Pushing Panzers in WWII: Barbarossa Ho! Thunder From The Sky Artillery * The Theory Of Melee: Routs, Rallies, and 'Rithmetic * Card Movement Systems: Wild West Gunfights and British Colonials * Ancient City Fight: Gridded Play, Reinforcements, and a Melee Template * Ancient Country Fight: Nodes, Battle Boards, and Command Points * Great Napoleonic Thoughts: National Characteristics and Quantitative Playability * Big Picture Siege Game: A Variable Time Strategy Idea * Sixth Sense For Sequences Of Play: Options, Consequences, and the Future Wally Simon was one of the founders of HMGS, hosting the first meeting in his basement. A statistician by trade, he used his mathematical skills to analyze probabilities within wargame mechanics. Wally's Basement is named after him. Edited by Russ 'MagWeb' Lockwood. EXCERPTS FROM REVIEW FROM MINIATURES WARGAMES 355 (pg 64) 'It does contain some valuable insights that have a deceiving subtlety at times: it contains much in a series of nutshells ... It contains a lot of very experienced gamer's know how. I will be reading this again and again for inspiration and purely for entertainment ... If you are looking for an injection of fresh enthusiasm and something to make you see the hobby with fresh eyes, this first volume is what you are looking for. Very Highly Recommended.'1 vol, 60 pgs 2019 HOPEWELL, OMM PUBLISHING NEW-softcover ......$20.00 ..see our WARGAMING page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-205851 Hill, John ACROSS A DEADLY FIELD: The War in the East The War in the East, a supplement for John Hill's Across a Deadly Field, gives players the resources to recreate the battles, great and small, of the Eastern Theater of the Civil War. Step into the shoes of Robert E. Lee and drive towards Washington with the Army of Northern Virginia, or take command of the Army of the Potomac, and attempt to capture Richmond. With scenarios, including an optional mini-campaign for the first day of Gettysburg, and special rules that enhance gameplay, this volume offers players, whether Union or Confederate, a versatility that can accommodate their preferences and miniatures collections without sacrificing either playability or historical accuracy. Contents: Introduction, Scenarios, and Index.1 vol, 148 pgs 2014 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING NEW-hardcover ......$35.00 discount: :15% ..see our WARGAMING RULES page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
2-198832 Simon, Wally; edited by Russ Lockwood MORE SECRETS OF WARGAME DESIGN: A Tabletop Toolkit of Ideas, Analysis, and Rule Mechanics From the Center for Provocative Wargaming... For decades, Wally Simon helped shape miniatures wargaming through Potomac Wargamers Review -- his monthly photocopied newsletter that analyzed the mechanics of wargame rules. First published in the 1970s, PWR ran monthly through August 2002, delving into the nuts and bolts of how rules worked -- and how they did not. Published rules, home-grown rules, and even his own rules came under scrutiny as he created, destroyed, and tweaked rules mechanisms to try and 'produce a game which keeps all players continually busy and interested in what's going on.' Volume 2 of Wally Simon's More Secrets of Wargame Design accents the best efforts of 'Wally Rules' with a dozen more top articles pulled from the pages of PWR. Stuffed full of ideas, concepts, and rules mechanics covering wargaming action across all eras, they offer provocative wit, wisdom, and imagination to help you tweak an existing set of rules or create your own rules to make a better wargame. More Genius Within: * Movement Procedures in Wargaming: Sequencing, Scales, and Splits * Seven Years War Over Six Towns: Importance and Bloody Battles * Seven Skirmishing Samurai: Card-Based Actions and Triangular Hit Rosters * Pip, Pip, Hooray! An Alternative to Pip Systems Using Cards * Points of Command: Attrition and Breakthrough in an ACW Battle * Battle-Line Ancient Warfare: Actions, Re-actions, and Concepts in Progress * Renaissance Warfare for the Beady Eyed: Distributing Orders, Combat Divisors, and Decisions * An Altered WWII Mini-Campaign: Movement, Morale, and Airstrikes * Probability and Ploys: Alternative Morale, Firing, and Melee Systems * Napoleonic Slugfest in the Peninsula: Fire-Oriented Wargame with Card-Based Variable * Fighting Swashbucklers of the Foreign Legion: Skirmish with a Hyper Twist * Meet the Clock: A Variable Time Strategy Idea Wally Simon was one of the founders of HMGS, hosting the first meeting in his basement. A statistician by trade, he used his mathematical skills to analyze probabilities within wargame mechanics. Wally's Basement is named after him. Edited by Russ 'MagWeb' Lockwood. 1 vol, 60 pgs 2019 HOPEWELL, OMM PUBLISHING NEW-softcover ......$20.00 ..see our WARGAMING RULES page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-225041 Wagman, Greg ALL QUIET ON THE POTOMAC: Scenario Book for Altar of Freedom ACW Rules Grand Tactical Scenarios for the 18 largest ACW battles fought in the East from 1861 through 1865. Historical orders of battle, full color maps, and period details.1 vol, 156 pgs 2020 US, ON MILITARY MATTERS NEW-wire bound softback ......$50.00 rct ..see our WARGAMING RULES page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-990011 011 GETTYSBURG O/B:ARMY OF THE POTOMAC JULY 3RD (20) detailed o/b's, (25) color maps, 50+ illust.1 vol, 96 pgs 1999 LONDON, OSPREY PUBLISHING NEW-pb, O/P ......$21.00 discount: :15% ..see our ORDER OF BATTLE page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-996279 Field, Ron 279 APPOMATTOX 1865 This highly illustrated title details the curtain-closing campaign of the American Civil War in the East. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac and Robert E Lee's Army of Northern Virginia faced up to one another one last time, resulting in Lee conducting a desperate series of withdrawals and retreats down the line of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, hoping to join forces with General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee. This book, with informative full-color illustrations and maps, tells the full story of the skirmishes and pursuits that led directly to Lee's surrender, as his frantic efforts to extricate his forces from ever more perilous positions became increasingly untenable. 1 vol, 96 pgs 2015 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING NEW-softcover ......$22.00 discount: :15% ..see our CAMPAIGN page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-996295 Lardas, Mark 295 CHATTANOOGA 1863: Grant and Bragg in Central Tennessee Following the disastrous defeat at Chickamauga, Union forces were in disarray and the tactically vital Chattanooga was under siege and on the brink of falling. In this dire situation, President Abraham Lincoln decided Grant was the man for the occasion. In early October, Grant was promoted to command of the Military District of Mississippi and told to clean up the mess created by Chickamauga. This book tracks how over the next three months Grant would orchestrate the movements of three Union Armies - The Army of the Cumberland, The Army of the Tennessee, and two Corps from the Army of the Potomac. He would lead them into a series of battles that saw them break the siege of Chattanooga with three battles in three days.1 vol, 96 pgs 2016 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING NEW-pb, available late June 2016 ......$24.00 discount: :15% ..see our CAMPAIGN page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-996267 Nunez, Andy 267 WILDERNESS AND SPOTSYLVANIA 1864: Grant versus Lee in the East In May 1864 the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade had been in a leisurely pursuit of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia for nearly a year after the defeat of the Rebels at Gettysburg. Confederate commander General Robert E. Lee still retained his awe-inspiring reputation for wrecking Union armies that got too close to Richmond and Meade was still cautious. His tactics at Gettysburg were defensive and he was unsure that he was able to take the offensive against Lee. However, things changed when President Abraham Lincoln appointed General Ulysses S. Grant to command all Union armies. Grant came east and laid out a comprehensive strategy for the rest of the war. In the deep South, General William T. Sherman would march out of Tennessee to cut the Confederacy in half by taking Atlanta. Grant would lead the Army of the Potomac across the Rapidan River and march on Richmond. He had the manpower and equipment to accomplish his objective, easily outnumbering Lee. Lee, on the other hand, was far from beaten. The stage was set for one of the defining campaigns of the Civil War in the East. Contents * Origins of the campaign * Chronology * Opposing commanders * Opposing armies * Orders of battle * Opposing plans * The campaign * Aftermath * The battlefields today * Further reading * Index 1 vol, 96 pgs 2014 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING NEW-softcover, available mid May 2014 ......$22.00 discount: :15% ..see our CAMPAIGN page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-999000 OSPREY MEN AT ARMS SERIES We just bought a large collection of Osprey Men-At-Arms series, in between # 1 to 500. Your choice $8.00 each 010 THE BUFFS 012 THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS 018 GEORGE WASHINGTON'S ARMY 020 JAPANESE ARMY OF WORLD WAR II 021 THE KING'S REGIMENT 022 LUFTWAFFE AIRBORNE AND FIELD UNITS 025 THE ROYAL ARTILLERY 030 THE STONEWALL BRIGADE 032 UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS 033 U.S. CAVALRY 037 THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA 038 ARMY OF THE POTOMAC 039 THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AMERICA:1775-1783 041 THE GURKHA RIFLES 046 ROMAN ARMY FROM CAESAR TO TRAJAN 047 THE SOUTH WALES BORDERERS 048 WOLFE'S ARMY 052 THE ROYAL GREEN JACKETS 057 THE ZULU WAR 059 THE SUDAN CAMPAIGNS 1881-1898 063 THE AMERICAN INDIAN WAR, 1860-1890 067 THE INDIAN MUTINY 070 THE U.S. ARMY 1941-45 071 THE BRITISH ARMY 1965-80 073 THE GRENADIER GUARDS 081 THE BRITISH ARMY:1914-1918 085 SAXONS, VIKINGS & NORMAN 087 NAPOLEON'S MARSHALS 089 BYZANTINE ARMIES, 886-1118 093 THE ROMAN ARMY FROM HADRIAN TO CONSTANTINE 096 ARTILLERY EQUIPMENT OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS 100 WOMEN AT WAR 101 THE CONQUISTADORES 102 THE WILD GEESE: Irish Brigades of France and Spain 104 ARMIES OF THE VIETNAM WAR 1962-75 107 BRITISH INFANTRY EQUIPMENT 1808-1908 108 BRITISH INFANTRY EQUIPMENT 1908-1980 110 NEW MODEL ARMY 1645-60 111 THE ARMIES OF CRECY AND POITIERS 112 BRITISH BATTLEDRESS 1937-61 116 THE SPECIAL AIR SERVICE 120 ALLIED COMMANDERS OF WORLD WAR II 132 THE MALAYAN CAMPAIGN 1948-60 135 BATTLE FOR THE FALKLANDS(3): Air Forces 138 BRITISH CAVALRY EQUIPMENT 1800-1941 140 ARMIES OF THE OTTOMAN TURKS 1300-1774 143 ARMIES OF THE VIETNAM WAR (2) 148 THE ARMY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT 151 THE SCOTTISH AND WELSH WARS 1250-1400 156 THE ROYAL MARINES 1956-84 157 FLAK JACKETS 159 GRENADA 1983 166 GERMAN MEDIEVAL ARMIES 1300-1500 168 US CAVALRY ON THE PLAINS 1850-90 174 THE KOREAN WAR 1950-53 175 ROME'S ENEMIES (3), PARTHIANS & SASSANID PERSIA 179 AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ARMIES (3), SPECIALIST TROOPS 180 ROME'S ENEMIES (4), SPANISH ARMIES 186 THE APACHES 191 HENRY VIII'S ARMY 195 HUNGARY AND THE FALL OF EASTERN EUROPE 1000-1568 203 LOUIS XIV'S ARMY 207 AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ARMIES (5), VOLUNTEER MILITIA 208 LAWRENCE AND THE ARAB REVOLTS 209 THE WAR IN CAMBODIA 1970-75 218 ANCIENT CHINESE ARMIES, 1500-200 BC 224 QUEEN VICTORIA'S ENEMIES (4), ASIA, AUSTRALASIA, AND THE AMERICAS 230 THE US ARMY, 1890-1920 231 FRENCH MEDIEVAL ARMIES 1000-1300 235 THE ARMY OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS (1), INFANTRY 243 ROME'S ENEMIES (5), THE DESERT FRONTIER 251 MEDIEVAL CHINESE ARMIES, 1260-1520? 255 ARMIES OF THE MUSLIM CONQUEST 270 FLAGS OF THE THIRD REICH (1), WEHRMATCHT 274 FLAGS OF THE THIRD REICH (2), WAFFEN SS 276 THE AUSTRIAN ARMY, 1740-82 (2), INFANTRY 278 FLAGS OF THE THIRD REICH (3), PARTY & POLICE 285 KING GEORGE'S ARMY (1): Infantry 287 BYZANTINE ARMY 1118-1462 320 ARMIES OF THE CALIPHATES, 862-198 344 TRIBES OF THE SIOUX NATION 352 THE UNITED STATES ARMY 1783-1811 357 WWII ALLIED WOMEN 361 AXIS CAVALRY OF WWII 366 COLONIAL AMERICAN TROOPS 1610-1774 (1) 370 WWII ALLIED NURSING SERVICES 372 COLONIAL AMERICAN TROOPS 1610-1774 (2) 374 ROMAN MILITARY CLOTHING (1): 100BC-AD450 376 ITALIAN MEDIEVAL ARMIES 1000-1300 395 TRIBES OF THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY 396 MEDIEVAL SCANDINAVIAN ARMIES (1):1100-1300 409 THE HUSSITE WARS 1420-34 410 NAPOLEON'S BALKAN TROOPS 411 WARRIOR PEOPLE OF EAST AFRICA 1840-1900 417 IRISH DEFENSE FORCES SINCE 1922 418 AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE PACIFIC NORTH WEST 425 ROMAN MILITARY CLOTHING (3): AD 400-640 439 THE CANADIAN CORPS IN WWI 451 IMPERIAL ROMAN NAVAL FORCES 31 BC-AD 500 458 ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM 1955-75 459 THE VARANGIAN GUARD 988-1453 461 THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION 1872-1914 473 THE NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN WORLD WAR I 482 US 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION IN WORLD WAR II 500 ARMIES OF CASTILE AND ARAGORN 1370-1516 511 ROMAN ARMY UNITS IN THE EASTERN PROVINCES (1): 31 BC-AD 195 516 WORLD WAR II VICHY FRENCH SECURITY TROOPS 527 ROMAN ARMY UNITS IN THE WESTERN PROVINCES (2): 3rd Century AD 552 MEDIEVAL INDIAN ARMIES (2): Indo-Islamic Forces, 7th-Early 16th Centuries 554 CZECHOSLOVAK ARMIES 1939-451 vol, 48 pgs 19?? LONDON, OSPREY PUBLISHING V.GOOD-softcover, Limited quantities (mostly 1 each) ......$8.00 ..see our MAA page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-999037 Katcher, Philip 037 ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, THE Osprey Men-At-Arms series, 8 color plates, text. On the 27 June, 1862, with the American Civil War already a year old, General Robert E. Lee assumed personal command of troops engaged in driving the Federal Army of the Potomac out of the Richmond area - troops which would henceforth be known as The Army of Northern Virginia. Philip Katcher explores in absorbing detail all aspects of the army, including infantry, cavalry, artillery, technical and medical corps, paying particular attention to equipment, weapons and uniforms. Contemporary and museum photographs, together with the author's expert text, combine to a paint a vivid and accurate picture of what life was like for the average Confederate soldier. 1 vol, 48 pgs 1981 LONDON, OSPREY PUBLISHING NEW-pb ......$19.00 discount: :30% ..see our MAA page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-999038 Katcher, Philip 038 ARMY OF THE POTOMAC Osprey Men-At-Arms series, 8 color plates, text. For General George B. McClellan, the dejected Union troops who poured into Washington fresh from defeat at Bull Run on Monday 22 July, 1861, were to provide the raw material which he would train, equip, organize and ultimately transform from a mere mob into an effective fighting force. In October 1861 the Army of the Potomac officially came into being. This entertaining volume from the same team of author Philip Katcher and artist Michael Youens who produced Men-at-Arms 37 The Army of Northern Virginia, explores how this transition came about, with a particular emphasis on weapons, uniforms and equipment. 1 vol, 48 pgs 1981 LONDON, OSPREY PUBLISHING NEW-softcover, REDUCED PRICE ......$19.00 discount: :30% ..see our MAA page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-192240 Gabriel, Richard Philip II of Macedonia - Greater Than Alexander Philip II of Macedonia (382-336 BCE), unifier of Greece, author of Greece's first federal constitution, founder of the first territorial state with a centralized administrative structure in Europe, forger of the first Western national army, first great general of the Greek imperial age, strategic and tactical genius, and military reformer who revolutionized warfare in Greece and the West, was one of the greatest captains in the military history of the West. Philip prepared the ground, assembled the resources, conceived the strategic vision, and launched the first modern, tactically sophisticated and strategically capable army in Western military history, making the later victories of his son Alexander possible. Philip's death marked the passing of the classical age of Greek history and warfare and the beginning of its imperial age. To Philip belongs the title of the first great general of a new age of warfare in the West, an age that he initiated with his introduction of a new instrument of war, the Macedonian phalanx, and the tactical doctrines to ensure its success. As a practitioner of the political art, Philip also had no equal. In all these things, Philip exceeded Alexander's triumphs. This book establishes Philip's legitimate and deserved place in military history, which, until now, has been largely minimized in favor of his son by the classicist writers who have dominated the field of ancient biography. Richard Gabriel, renowned military historian, has given us the first military biography of Philip II of Macedonia. 1 vol, 324 pgs 2010 US, POTOMAC BOOKS NEW-dj ......$30.00 discount: :15% ..see our ANCIENT page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-199140 Howard, Hugh MR. AND MRS. MADISON'S WAR: America's First Couple and the Second War of Independence August 28, 1814. Dressed in black, James Madison mourns the nation's loss. Smoke rises from the ruin of the Capitol before him; a mile away stands the blackened shell of the White House. The British have laid waste to Washington City, and as Mr. Madison gazes at the terrible vista, he ponders the future -- his country's defeat or victory -- in a war he began over the unanimous objections of his political adversaries. The War of 1812 remains the least understood of America's wars. To some it was a conflict that resolved nothing, but to others, it was our second war of independence, settling once and for all that America would never again submit to Britain. At its center was James Madison, our most meditative of presidents, yet the first one to declare war. And at his side was the extraordinary Dolley, who defined the role of first lady for all to follow, and who would prove perhaps her husband's most indispensable ally. Examines the conflict fought on land and sea -- from the shores of the Potomac to the Great Lakes -- that proved to be a critical turning point in American history.1 vol, 384 pgs 2012 US, BLOOMSBURY PRESS NEW-dj, available late July 2012 ......$30.00 discount: :10% ..see our WAR OF 1812 page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-199901 Bearss, Edwin PETERSBURG CAMPAIGN, THE - The Eastern Front Battles June - August 1864 Vol. 1 The wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fighting that began in early June 1864 when advance elements from the Union Army of the Potomac crossed the James River and botched a series of attacks against a thinly defended city would not end for nine long months. This important - many would say decisive - fighting is presented by legendary Civil War author Edwin C. Bearss in The Petersburg Campaign: The Eastern Front Battles, June - August 1864, the first in a ground-breaking two-volume compendium. Although commonly referred to as the Siege of Petersburg, that city (as well as the Confederate capital at Richmond) was never fully isolated and the combat involved much more than static trench warfare. In fact, much of the wide-ranging fighting involved large-scale Union offensives designed to cut important roads and the five rail lines feeding Petersburg and Richmond. This volume of Bearss' study of these major battles includes: The Attack on Petersburg (June 9, 1864) The Second Assault on Petersburg (June 15 - 18, 1864) The Battle of the Jerusalem Plank Road (June 21 - 24, 1864) The Crater (July 30, 1864) The Battle of the Weldon Railroad (August 18 - 21, 1864) The Battle of Reams' Station (August 25, 1864). Accompanying these salient chapters are original maps by Civil War cartographer George Skoch, together with photos and illustrations. The result is a richer and deeper understanding of the major military episodes comprising the Petersburg Campaign.1 vol, 488 pgs 2012 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj ......$35.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-COM1078 Beyma, Rob THE WAR FOR THE UNION: Designer's Edition The War for the Union is a strategic level simulation of the American Civil War. It is the long awaited 2nd edition of the game originally published in 1992. Players command the Union and Confederate forces that fought from 1861 to 1865. The map runs from southeastern Texas to the Atlantic and from Harrisburg, PA to southern Florida. The new map is 34x44 inches to accommodate larger counters. Atlanta and Pensacola are now in the Western Theater. Terrain types include forests, rough, swamps, bayou, mountain hexsides, river hexsides (tidal, navigable, and minor), lakes, bluffs, and major and minor cities. Ground units include infantry and cavalry strength points. Quality varies from Militia (worst) to Volunteers to Veterans (best). There are about 5,000 men per strength point. There are corps and army leaders and a few division leaders. Leaders have a Command Rating which indicates how many strength points (SPs) they can command, a Battle Rating (combat DRM), and a Movement Factor which also affects their force march DRM. Union militia recruits now have 3 MPs but a very poor force march DRM. There are seagoing and riverine naval units, including ironclads. There are also river transports which are very valuable to the Union player in developing campaigns along rivers. Since the Confederates cannot use sea movement, the Union sea movement capability is somewhat abstracted. The quality of the armies, particularly the Union, improves as the war progresses. The Confederate player starts out with a small qualitative advantage but the Union catches up by the spring of 1863. The Confederates also have better leaders early in the war but the Union gets more and better leaders as the war progresses. Army counters, such as the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, are central to the play of the game. Armies enable more efficient use of strength points, leaders, and supply. Details: * Complexity: 6 out of 10 * Solitaire Suitability: 8 out of 10 * Time Scale: 1 turn = 1 month * Map Scale: Approximately 22 miles per hex * Unit Scale: Approximately 5,000 men per strength point * Number of Players: 2 to 4 plus solitaire * Playing Time: An hour for an introductory scenario, an evening for a 1 year scenario, and a weekend for the Campaign Game Components: * 2 maps - each at 22x34 inches * 3-1/2 sheets of 9/16-inch counters * 1 deck of 25 Tactical cards * 2 reinforcement schedules - 1 each for North and South * 2 identical Terrain Effects cards with additional charts/tables * 2 identical Combat Results Table cards with additional charts/tables * 1 rulesbook * 1 scenario book * 2 ten-sided dice * 1 box and lid set1 vol, 1 pgs 2018 US, COMPASS GAMES NEW-box ......$95.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-228100 Bruns, James CROSSHAIRS ON THE CAPITAL: Jubal Early's Raid on Washington, D.C., July 1864 - Reasons, Reactions, and Results Focuses on the reasons, reactions and results of Jubal Early's raid towards Washington DC in 1864. History has judged it to have been a serious threat to the capital, but James H. Bruns examines how the nature of the Confederate raid on Washington in 1864 has been greatly misinterpreted-Jubal Early's maneuvers were in fact only the latest in a series of annual southern food raids. It also corrects some of the thinking about Early's raid, including the reason behind his orders from General Lee to cross the Potomac and the thoughts behind the proposed raid on Point Lookout and the role of the Confederate Navy in that failed effort. Presents a new perspective by explaining on why things happened as they did in 1864. It identifies the cause-and-effect connections that are truly the stuff of history, forging some of the critical background links that oftentimes are ignored or overlooked in books dominated by battles and leaders. In an era of battlefield one-upmanship, the raid on the Nation's Capital in July 1864 was prompted by an earlier failed Union attempt to destroy Richmond and free the Union prisoners held there. Jubal Early's mission was in part to let the North have a taste of its own medicine by attacking Washington and freeing the Confederate prisoners at Point Lookout in southern Maryland. He was also to fill the South's larder from unmolested Union fields, mills and barns. By 1864 such southern food raids had become annual wartime events. And he was to threaten and, if possible, capture Washington. This latter task was unrealistic in an age when the success of rifle fire was judged to be successful not by accuracy, but by the amount of lead that was shot into the air. Initially, the Union defenders of the city were larger former slaves, freemen, mechanic, shopkeepers and government clerks, as well as invalids. They might not have known much about firearms and accuracy, but they were capable of putting ample lead on the long until Regular Union regiments arrived. Jubal Early hesitated in attacking Washington, but he held the City at bay while his troops pillaged the countryside for the food Lee's Army needed to survive.1 vol, 256 pgs 2021 US, CASEMATE NEW-dj, available mid September 2021 ......$35.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-229680 Bryan, Chris CEDAR MOUNTAIN TO ANTIETAM: A Civil War Campaign History of the Union XII Corps, July - September 1862 Study blends unit histories with leadership and character assessments to put the XII Corps' actions in context along with a significant and substantive examination of its Confederate opponents. Includes 28 detailed maps and 53 images. The diminutive Union XII corps swept through the East Woods and the Miller Cornfield -- permanently clearing both of Confederates -- repelled multiple CSA assaults against the Dunker Church plateau, and eventually secured a foothold in the West Woods. Its achievement is especially notable given its string of disappointments and hardships in the months leading up to Antietam. Federal leadership largely ignored this signal achievement and the opportunity it presented. Explains how the corps endured a bloody and demoralizing loss after coming within a whisker of defeating Maj. Gen. 'Stonewall' Jackson at Cedar Mountain on August 9; suffered through the hardships of Pope's campaign before and after the Battle of Second Manassas; and triumphed after entering Maryland and joining the reorganized Army of the Potomac. The men of this small corps earned a solid reputation in the Army of the Potomac at Antietam that would only grow during the battles of 1863. 1 vol, 408 pgs 2022 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available late February 2022 ......$35.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-200121 Carman, General Erza A and Thomas G. Clemens editor MARYLAND CAMPAIGN Of September 1862 - Volume 1, South Mountain When Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Maryland in early September 1862, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan moved his reorganized and revitalized Army of the Potomac to meet him. The campaign included some of the bloodiest, most dramatic, and influential combat of the entire Civil War. Combined with Southern failures in the Western Theater, the fighting dashed the Confederacy's best hope for independence, convinced President Abraham Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation, and left America with what is still its bloodiest day in history. One of the campaign's participants was Ezra A. Carman, the colonel of the 13th New Jersey Infantry. Wounded earlier in the war, Carman would achieve brigade command and fight in more than twenty battles before being mustered out as a brevet brigadier general. After the horrific fighting of September 17, 1862, he recorded in his diary that he was preparing 'a good map of the Antietam battle and a full account of the action.' Unbeknownst to the young officer, the project would become the most significant work of his life. Appointed as the 'Historical Expert' to the Antietam Battlefield Board in 1894, Carman and the other members solicited accounts from hundreds of veterans, scoured through thousands of letters and maps, and assimilated the material into the hundreds of cast iron tablets that still mark the field today. Carman also wrote an 1,800-page manuscript on the campaign, from its start in northern Virginia through McClellan's removal from command in November 1862. Although it remained unpublished for more than a century, many historians and students of the war consider it to be the best overall treatment of the campaign ever written. 10 b/w photos and 10 maps. 1 vol, 624 pgs 2010 US, SAVAS BEATTIE NEW-dj ......$37.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-200123 Carman, General Erza A and Thomas G. Clemens editor THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN: September 1862 - Volume 3, Shepherdstown Ford and the End of the Campaign This is the third and final volume of Ezra Carman's The Maryland Campaign of September 1862. As bloody and horrific as the battle of Antietam was, historian Ezra Carman-who penned a 1,800-page manuscript on the Maryland campaign-did not believe it was the decisive battle of the campaign. Generals Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan intended to continue fighting after Sharpsburg, but the battle of Shepherdstown Ford (September 19 and 20) forced them to abandon their goals and end the campaign. Carman was one of the few who gave this smaller engagement its due importance, detailing the disaster that befell the 118th Pennsylvania Infantry and Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill's success in repulsing the Union advance, and the often overlooked foray of Jeb Stuart's cavalry to seize the Potomac River ford at Williamsport. Carman also added a statistical study of the casualties in the various battles of the entire Maryland Campaign, and covered Lincoln's decision to relieve McClellan of command on November 7. He also explored the relations between President Lincoln and General McClellan before and after the Maryland Campaign, which he appended to his original manuscript. The before section, a thorough examination of the controversy about McClellan's role in the aftermath of Second Manassas campaign, will surprise some and discomfort others, and includes an interesting narrative about McClellan's reluctance to commit General Franklin's corps to aid Maj. Gen. John Pope's army at Manassas. Carman concludes with an executive summary of the entire campaign. Dr. Clemens concludes Carman's invaluable narrative with a bibliographical dictionary (and genealogical goldmine) of the soldiers, politicians, and diplomats who had an impact on shaping Carman's manuscript. While many names will be familiar to readers, others upon whom Carman relied for creating his campaign narrative are as obscure to us today as they were during the war. This concludes the most comprehensive and detailed account of the campaign ever produced. Jammed with first-hand accounts, personal anecdotes, detailed footnotes, maps, and photos, this long-awaited study will be appreciated as Civil War history at its finest.1 vol, 624 pgs 2017 US, SAVAS BEATTIE NEW-dj ......$33.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-2238803 Christini, Luca editor Civil War sketch book - V3 Imagine being a young landscape painter sent to the American Civil War, not to fight but to draw it: that's the story of Edwin Forbes, one of the best war artists of his time. In two years spent covering the Potomac Army, Forbes draw everything caught his attention with meticulous and fervent realism. In this volume the art of Forbes is developed around the great battle of Gettysburg! All this, and more, in now collected in this second volume dedicated to him in 96 illustrated pages, some of which have been colored for the very first time1 vol, 96 pgs 2020 ITALY, SOLDIER SHOP NEW-pb, [English text], available late June 2020 ......$40.00 rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-205140 Dunkley, Robert NO TURNING BACK: A Guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4 - June 13, 1864 With the Union Army of the Potomac as his sledge, Grant crossed the Rapidan River, intending to draw the Army of Northern Virginia into one final battle. Short of that, he planned 'to hammer continuously against the armed forces of the enemy and his resources, until by mere attrition, if in no other way, there should be nothing left to him.' Includes 25 maps and 194 images Almost immediately, though, Robert E. Lee's Confederates brought Grant to bay in the thick tangle of the Wilderness. Rather than retreat, as other army commanders had done in the past, Grant outmaneuvered Lee, swinging left and south. The 1864 Overland Campaign would be a nonstop grind of fighting, maneuvering, and marching, with much of it in rain and mud, and with casualty lists longer than anything yet seen in the war.1 vol, 192 pgs 2014 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-softcover, available mid May 2014 ......$13.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-203609 Gottfried, Bradley THE MAPS OF SPOTSYLVANIA THROUGH COLD HARBOR: An Atlas of the Fighting at Spotsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor, Including all Cavalry Operations -- May 7 Through June 3, 1864 The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor continues Bradley M. Gottfried's efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War's Eastern Theater. This is the ninth book in the ongoing Savas Beatie Military Atlas Series. Includes 134 maps. Continues the actions of both armies through the completion of the Overland Campaign. After the Wilderness fighting, the Army of the Potomac attempted to swing around the right flank of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and shoot straight for Richmond. The Confederate capital was never the goal; the move was intended to force Lee out into the open, where the larger and well-stocked Union army could destroy it.1 vol, 384 pgs 2023 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available mid April 2023 ......$38.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-242970 Gottfried, Bradley RACE TO THE POTOMAC: Lee and Meade After Gettysburg, July 4-14, 1863 Even before the guns fell silent at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee was preparing for the arduous task of getting his defeated Confederate army back safely into northern Virginia. It was an enormous, complex, and exceedingly dangerous undertaking -- all in a pouring rainstorm and all under the shadow of a possible attack from the Federal Army of the Potomac. Lee first needed to assemble two wagon trains, one to transport the wounded and the other to deliver the tons of supplies acquired by the army as it roamed across Pennsylvania and Maryland on the way to Gettysburg. Once the wagon trains were set, he mapped routes for his infantry and artillery on different roads to speed the journey and protect his command. Includes 13 maps and 134 images.1 vol, 192 pgs 2024 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-pb, available late March 2024 ......$17.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-242440 Gottfried, Bradley and Linda Gottfried RACE TO THE POTOMAC: Lee and Meade after Gettysburg, July 4-14, 1863 Covers the period after Gettysburg, when Robert E. Lee withdrew his defeated Confederate army back to Virginia. Covers the assembly of two wagon trains, one to transport the wounded and the other with tons of supplies, followed by sending infantry and artillery on different roads to speed the journey and protect his command as the Union cavalry set out in pursuit. Discusses the encounters that followed, including several engagements with Jeb Stuart's horsemen, as the Rebels reached Hagerstown, Maryland largely unscathed and began building a strong defensive line while a pontoon bridge was built across the Potomac at Falling Waters. Contains 75 images and 10 maps.1 vol, 192 pgs 2024 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-pb, available mid March 2024 ......$17.00 discount: :15% inc ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-241960 Granger, Edward AN AIDE TO CUSTER: The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger In August 1862, 19-year-old Edward G. Granger joined the 5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment as a second lieutenant. On August 20, 1863, the newly promoted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer appointed Granger as one of his aides, a position Granger would hold until his death in August 1864. Many of the 44 letters the young lieutenant wrote home during those two years provide a unique look into the words and actions of his legendary commander. At the same time, Granger's correspondence offers an intimate picture of life on the picket lines of the Army of the Potomac and a staff officer's experiences in the field. Includes 38 black and white illustrations and 10 maps.1 vol, 320 pgs 2024 US, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS NEW-pb, available late April 2024 ......$30.00 rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-236450 Hessler, James GETTYSBURG'S PEACH ORCHARD: Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the Commanding Ground Along the Emmitsburg Road Hessler and Isenberg, both Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides, combine the military aspects of the July 2, 1863 fighting with human interest stories in a balanced treatment of the bloody attack and defense of Gettysburg's Peach Orchard. General Sickles's questionable advance forced Longstreet's artillery and infantry to fight for every inch of ground on the way to Cemetery Ridge. The Confederate attack crushed the Peach Orchard salient and other parts of the Union line and threatened the left flank of Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac. The command decisions made on and around the Sherfy property influenced actions on every part of the battlefield. The occupation of the high ground at the Peach Orchard helped General Lee rationalize ordering the tragic July 3 assault known as Pickett's Charge.1 vol, 408 pgs 2023 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available mid April 2023 ......$35.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
2-236450 Hessler, James GETTYSBURG'S PEACH ORCHARD: Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the Commanding Ground Along the Emmitsburg Road Hessler and Isenberg, both Gettysburg Licensed Battlefield Guides, combine the military aspects of the July 2, 1863 fighting with human interest stories in a balanced treatment of the bloody attack and defense of Gettysburg's Peach Orchard. General Sickles's questionable advance forced Longstreet's artillery and infantry to fight for every inch of ground on the way to Cemetery Ridge. The Confederate attack crushed the Peach Orchard salient and other parts of the Union line and threatened the left flank of Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac. The command decisions made on and around the Sherfy property influenced actions on every part of the battlefield. The occupation of the high ground at the Peach Orchard helped General Lee rationalize ordering the tragic July 3 assault known as Pickett's Charge.1 vol, 408 pgs 2023 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-pb ......$25.00 discount: :15% inc ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-226760 Hughes, Dwight UNLIKE ANYTHING THAT EVER FLOATED: The Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 The Monitor, an untried iron coffin-like ship of which the gloomiest predictions were made, met the CSS Virginia, the brainchild of innovative, dedicated, and courageous men, but the victim of hurried design, untested technology, poor planning and coordination, and a dearth of critical resources. Nevertheless, the Virginia rendered the wooden ship obsolete, threatened the strategically vital US Navy blockade, and disrupted General McClellan's plans to take Richmond. From flaming, bloody decks of sinking ships, to the dim confines of the first rotating armored turret, to the smoky depths of a Rebel gundeck-with shells screaming, clanging, booming, and splashing all around-to the office of a worried president with his cabinet peering down the Potomac for a Rebel monster, this dramatic story unfolds through the accounts of men who lived it in. 1 vol, 192 pgs 2021 US SAVAS BEATIE NEW-pb available mid March 2021 ......$15.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-226621 Hunt, Jeffrey MEADE AND LEE AFTER GETTYSBURG: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14-31, 1863 Continues the campaign after the battle after aftermath deep in central Virginia two weeks later along the line of the Rappahannock. First of three volumes includes 12 maps and 25 images. Rather than follow in Lee's wake, however, Meade moved south on the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains in a cat-and-mouse game to outthink his enemy and capture the strategic gaps penetrating the high wooded terrain. Doing so would trap Lee in the northern reaches of the Shenandoah Valley and potentially bring about the decisive victory that had eluded Union arms north of the Potomac. The two weeks that followed was a grand chess match with everything at stake -- high drama filled with hard marching, cavalry charges, heavy skirmishing, and set-piece fighting that threatened to escalate into a major engagement with the potential to end the war in the Eastern Theater. Throughout, one thing remains clear: Union soldiers from private to general continued to fear the lethality of Lee's army. Uses Official Records, regimental histories, letters, newspapers, and other sources to provide a day-by-day account of this fascinating high-stakes affair1 vol, 312 pgs 2021 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj ......$30.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-226623 Hunt, Jeffrey MEADE AND LEE AT RAPPAHANNOCK STATION: The Army of the Potomac's First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, From Kelly's Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863 Third volume of three. Lee's bold strategy was to hold the Rappahannock River line as the Army of the Potomac retraced its steps south. Pressured by Washington to fight but denied strategic flexibility, Meade launched a risky offensive to carry Lee's Rappahannock defenses and bring on a decisive battle. The fighting included a stunning Federal triumph at Rappahannock Station which destroyed two entire Confederate brigades and gave Meade the upper hand and the initiative in his deadly duel with Lee, who retreated south to a new position behind the Rapidan River. It seemed as though Lee's vaunted Army of Northern Virginia had lost its magic after its defeat in Pennsylvania. In addition to politics, strategy, and tactics, examines the intricate command relationships, Lee's questionable decision-making, and the courageous spirit of the fighting men. Uses official reports, regimental histories, letters, newspapers, and other archival sources. Includes maps and photos 1 vol, 324 pgs 2021 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available mid March 2021 ......$33.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-197770 Jordan, Brian Matthew UNHOLY SABBATH: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862 Fresh finds fight at South Mountain a decisive Federal victory and important turning point in the campaign, providing a substantial boost for the downtrodden men of the Union army, who recognized the battle as hard fought and deservedly won-a ferocious hours-long fight with instances of hand-to-hand combat and thousands of casualties. This was the first time the Army of the Potomac held the field and were tasked with the responsibility of burying the dead. Based upon extensive archival research, newspaper accounts, regimental histories, official records, postwar reunion materials, public addresses, letters, and diaries, complete with outstanding maps, photographs, a complete order of battle with losses, and an in-depth interview with the author. 6 x 9, 12 maps, 40 photos 1 vol, 408 pgs 2012 UK, Savas Beatie NEW, hardback, available late February ......$33.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-240410 Longacre, Edward GENERAL J. E. B. STUART: The Soldier and the Man Biography of Confederate General James Ewell Brown Stuart of Virginia who led the Army of Northern Virginia's cavalry arm during the ACW. His superiors generally praised his actions, but he also underperformed on several occasions -- notably at Gettysburg. Yet on more than a few occasions he underestimated his opponents, took unnecessary risks with his habitually understrength command, failed to properly discipline and motivate his troopers, and was prone to errors both strategic and tactical. Also probes elements of his character and personality that contributed to his battlefield performance. These flaws were especially evident during the Gettysburg Campaign (June-July 1863), when his wayward path to the battlefield deprived Lee of the ability to negotiate safely his path toward a climactic confrontation with the Union Army of the Potomac. Because of the cavalryman's outsized reputation gained during the war-one embellished in the century and a half since-most of these errors have gone virtually unnoticed or, when addressed, have been excused in some fashion.1 vol, 504 pgs 2023 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available mid December 2023 ......$35.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-211860 Mackowsli, Chris DON'T GIVE AN INCH: The Second Day at Gettysburg - July 2, 1863 George Gordon Meade could hardly believe it: only three days earlier, he had been thrust unexpectedly into command of the Army of the Potomac, which was cautiously stalking its long-time foe, the Army of Northern Virginia, as it launched a bold invasion northward. Meade had hardly wrapped his head around the situation before everything exploded. 150 images and maps. Outside the small college town of Gettysburg, Confederates had inexplicably turned on the lead elements of Meade's army and attacked. The first day of battle had ended poorly for Federals, but by nightfall, they had found a lodgment on high ground south of town. There, they fortified and waited. 'Don't give an inch, boys!' one Federal commander told his men. The next day, July 2, 1863, would be one of the Civil War's bloodiest. Confederate commander Robert E. Lee would launch his army at the Federal position in a series of assaults that would test the mettle of men on both sides in a way few had ever before been tested-and the Pennsylvania landscape would run red as a result. With names that have become legendary - Little Round Top, Devil's Den, the Peach Orchard, the Wheatfield, Culp's Hill - the second day at Gettysburg encompasses some of the best-known engagements of the Civil War. Yet those same stories have also become shrouded in mythology and misunderstanding.1 vol, 192 pgs 2016 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-pb, available mid July 2016 ......$15.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-218990 Mackowsli, Chris The Great Battle Never Fought - The Mine Run Campaign, November 26 - December 2, 1863 The stakes for George Gordon Meade could not have been higher. 150 images, maps After his stunning victory at Gettysburg in July of 1863, the Union commander spent the following months trying to bring the Army of Northern Virginia to battle once more and finish the job. The Confederate army, robbed of much of its offensive strength, nevertheless parried Meade's moves time after time. Although the armies remained in constant contact during those long months of cavalry clashes, quick maneuvers, and sudden skirmishes, Lee continued to frustrate Meade's efforts. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., Meade's political enemies launched an all-out assault against his reputation and generalship. Even the very credibility of his victory at Gettysburg came under assault. Pressure mounted for the army commander to score a decisive victory and prove himself once more. Smaller victories, like those at Bristoe Station and Rappahannock Station, did little to quell the growing clamor-particularly because out west, in Chattanooga, another Union general, Ulysses S. Grant, was once again reversing Federal misfortunes. Meade needed a comparable victory in the east. And so, on Thanksgiving Day, 1863, the Army of the Potomac rumbled into motion once more, intent on trying again to bring about the great battle that would end the war. The Great Battle Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign, November 26-December 2 1863 recounts the final chapter of the forgotten fall of 1863-when George Gordon Meade made one final attempt to save the Union and, in doing so, save himself. 1 vol, 192 pgs 2016 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-pb, available mid July 2016 ......$15.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-ST166 Markam, Robert ST #166: Savage Station & Olustee Two complete ACW games Savage Station, took place on June 29, 1862, as the fourth of the Seven Days Battles (Peninsula Campaign) of the American Civil War. The main body of the Union Army of the Potomac began a general withdrawal toward the James River. Confederate Brig. Gen. John B. Magruder pursued along the railroad and the Williamsburg Road and struck Maj. Gen. Edwin Vose Sumner's II Corps (the Union rearguard) with three brigades near Savage's Station, while Maj. Gen. Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson's divisions were stalled north of the Chickahominy River. Union forces continued to withdraw across White Oak Swamp, abandoning supplies and more than 2,500 wounded soldiers in a field hospital. Uses a slightly modified version of SPI's Blue & Gray rules, called Battles of the American Civil War that started with Seven Days Battles. Originally published by Decision Games (I) in Strategy & Tactics magazine #166, along with Olustee. Integrates with: *Seven Days Battles Game Scale: Turn: approximately 1 hour Hex: 300 yards / 274 meters Units: 1 strength = 250 men Game Inventory: One 22 x 34' full color mapsheet One dual-side printed countersheet (120 1/2' counters) One 12-page combined Olustee/Savage Station rules booklet 1 vol, 80 pgs 1994 US, SPI V.GOOD-softcover unpunched, (1) copy available ......$20.00 ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-200580 McCoy, Richard KEYSTONE THUNDER: Pennsylvania Field Artillery in the Civil War The story of Pennsylvania's field batteries during the Civil War is, to a great extent, the story of the war itself. Pennsylvania field batteries served through the duration of the war and in every major theatre of the conflict. A Pennsylvania field battery was one of the first units to rush to the defense of Washington after the attack on Fort Sumter, and others fought with the Army of the Potomac in every one of its major engagements except the First Battle of Bull Run. Pennsylvania batteries were stationed in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and as far away as Texas. Some Pennsylvania batteries also served within their home state during the war, and during the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania that culminated in the Battle of Gettysburg, some fought in the direct defense of their home state's soil. This work tells the story of the entire Pennsylvania field artillery service collectively rather than as a series of individual unit sketches. It chronicles the entire service of the Pennsylvania field artillery, and shares each step along the way-not only what each Pennsylvania battery did, but also what other Pennsylvania batteries were doing at the same time, and how their stories are all interconnected. Numerous illustrations, appendices which include 'Officer Listings by Organization' and 'Battery Assignments,' a bibliography, and an index to full-names, places and subjects augment this exceptionally well-written narrative history.1 vol, 278 pgs 2012 US, HERITAGE BOOKS NEW-softcover, late December 2012 ......$27.00 ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-235032 Mingus, Scott and Wittenberg, Eric IF WE ARE STRIKING FOR PENNSYLVANIA: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg - Volume 2: June 22-30, 1863 The second volume covers June 22-30, 1863 and completes the march to Gettysburg. Details the actions and whereabouts of each component of the armies up to the eve of the fighting. The large-scale maneuvering in late June prompted General Hooker to move his Army of the Potomac north after his opponent and eventually above the Potomac, where he is removed from command and replaced by V Corps commander George G. Meade. Jeb Stuart begins his controversial and consequential ride that strips away the eyes and ears of the Virginia army. Throughout northern Virginia, central Maryland, and south-central Pennsylvania, civilians, politicians, and soldiers alike struggle with the reality of a mobile campaign and the massive logistical needs of the armies. Includes 58 images and 22 maps. Mined primary accounts, newspapers, and other sources to describe the passage of the long martial columns, the thunderous galloping of hooves, and the looting, fighting, suffering, and dying. Gain a firm appreciation of what the armies and the civilians did during the days leading up to the fateful meeting at the small crossroads town in Adams County, Pennsylvania. 1 vol, 456 pgs 2023 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj available mid May 2023 ......$35.00 discount: :15% inc ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-215010 Owen, Joe TEXANS AT ANTIETAM: A Terrible Clash of Arms, September 16-17, 1862 The soldiers in Hood's Texas Brigade who fought at Antietam on September 16- 17, 1862 described intense and harrowing experiences of the fierce battle in the days, weeks, and decades after the battle. Their experiences were written in official reports, diary entries, interviews, newspaper articles, and letters to families at home. These memories provide a fascinating and descriptive account of the battle against the Union Army of the Potomac at Miller's Cornfield, the Dunker Church and other locations at the battlefield. The 1st Texas Infantry at Miller's Cornfield would suffer an 82.3% casualty rate and their heroics were written down by the soldiers of the 1st Texas Infantry. All the other regiments of Hood's Texas Brigade would suffer over a 50% casualty rate at the battle. Testimonials of Union soldiers who fought against the soldiers of Hood's Texas Brigade are included together for the first time. 1 vol, 272 pgs 2017 UK, PEN & SWORD NEW-pb, available early September 2017 ......$29.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-211100 Owen, Joseph TEXANS AT GETTYSBURG: Blood and Glory with Hood's Texas Brigade The Texans from Hood's Texas Brigade and other regiments who fought at Gettysburg on 1-3 July 1863 described their experiences of the battle in personal diaries, interviews, newspaper articles, letters, and speeches. Their reminiscences provide a fascinating and harrowing account of the battle as they fought the Army of the Potomac. Speeches were given in the decades after the battle during the annual reunions of Hood's Brigade Association and the dedication of the Hood's Brigade Monument that took place on 26-27 October 1910 at the state capital in Austin, Texas. These accounts describe their actions at Devil's Den, Little Round Top, and other areas during the battle.1 vol, 240 pgs 2016 UK, FONTHILL MEDIA NEW-pb, available mid April 2016 ......$29.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-197630 Patchan, Scott C SECOND MANASSAS - Longstreet's Attack and the Struggle for Chinn Ridge 19 B&W Photos; 12 Maps; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index In 1862, looking for an opportunity to attack Union general John Pope, Confederate general Robert E. Lee ordered Maj. Gen. James Longstreet to conduct a reconnaissance and possible assault on the Chinn Ridge front in Northern Virginia. At the time Longstreet launched his attack, only a handful of Union troops stood between Robert E. Lee and Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia. Northern Virginia's rolling terrain and Bull Run also provided Lee with a unique opportunity seldom seen during the entire Civil War - that of 'bagging' an army, an elusive feat keenly desired by political leaders of both sides. Second Manassas: Longstreet's Attack and the Struggle for Chinn Ridge details the story of Longstreet and his men's efforts to obtain the ultimate victory that Lee desperately sought. At the same time, this account tells of the Union soldiers who, despite poor leadership and lack of support from Pope and his senior officers, bravely battled Longstreet and saved their army from destruction along the banks of Bull Run. Longstreet's men were able to push the Union forces back, but only after they had purchased enough time for the Union army to retreat in good order. Although Lee did not achieve a decisive victory, his success at Chinn Ridge allowed him to carry the war north of the Potomac River, thus setting the stage for his Maryland Campaign. Within three weeks, the armies would meet again along the banks of Antietam Creek in western Maryland. Uncovering new sources, Scott Patchan gives a vivid picture of the battleground and a fresh perspective that sharpens the detail and removes the guesswork found in previous works dealing with the climactic clash at Second Manassas.1 vol, 214 pgs 2010 US, POTOMAC BOOKS NEW-dj ......$27.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-209250 Robertson,Wwilliam Glenn THE FIRST BATTLE FOR PETERSBURG: The Attack and Defense of the Cockade City, June 9, 1864 Despite its significance, very little has been written about the nearly ten-month struggle for Petersburg, Virginia. It comes as no surprise, then, that few readers are even aware that Petersburg's citizens felt war's hard hand nearly a week before the armies of Grant and Lee arrived on their doorstep in the middle of June 1864. During his ill-fated Bermuda Hundred Campaign, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler in late May took note of the Petersburg, Virginia (nicknamed the Cockade City) position astride Richmond's railroad lifeline and its minuscule garrison. When two attempts to seize the city and destroy the bridges over the Appomattox River failed, Butler mounted an expedition to Petersburg on June 9. Led by Maj. Gen. Quincy Gillmore and Brig. Gen. August Kautz, the Federal force of 3,300 infantry and 1,300 cavalry appeared large enough to overwhelm Brig. Gen. Henry Wise's paltry 1,200 Confederate defenders, one-quarter of which were reserves that included several companies of elderly men and teenagers. The attack on the critical logistical center, and how the Confederates managed to hold the city, is the subject of Robertson's groundbreaking study. Ironically, Butler's effort resulted in Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's decision to slightly enlarge Petersburg's garrison-troops that may have provided the razor-thin margin of difference when the head of the Army of the Potomac appeared in strength six days later. The First Battle for Petersburg describes the strategy, tactics, and generalship of the Battle of June 9 in full detail, as well as the impact on the city's citizens, both in and out of the ranks. Robertson's study is grounded in extensive primary sources supported by original maps and photos and illustrations. It remains the most comprehensive analysis of the June 9 engagement of Petersburg's old men and young boys. Includes b/w illustrations and maps.1 vol, 192 pgs 2015 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available early August 2015 ......$28.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-228730 Rossino, Alexander THEIR MARYLAND: The Army of Northern Virginia From the Potomac Crossing to Sharpsburg in September 1862 Addresses issues: Did supply problems in Virginia force Lee north to press the advantage he had won after the Battle of Second Manassas? What did Rebel troops believe about the strength of secessionist sentiment in Maryland, and why? Did the entire Army of Northern Virginia really camp at Best's Farm near Frederick, Maryland? Did D. H. Hill lose Special Orders No. 191, or is there more to the story? How did Maryland civilians respond to the Rebel army in their midst, and what part did women play? Finally, why did Robert E. Lee choose to fight at Sharpsburg, and how personally was he involved in directing the fighting? Reassesses the history of Robert E. Lee's 1862 Maryland Campaign in seven chapters: Rebel Revolutionary: Did Robert E. Lee Hope to Foment Rebellion in Maryland in September 1862 High Hope for Liberating Maryland: The Army of Northern Virginia Crosses the Potomac River, September 4-7, 1862 Four Days on the Monocacy: Confederate Encampments Near Frederick City and the Implications for the Lost Orders Debate Dreams Dashed on the Rocks of Reality: The Army of Northern Virginia's Mixed Reception in Maryland Rebels Photographed in Frederick, Maryland: The Case for September 1862 The Army of Northern Virginia Makes a Stand: A Critical Assessment of Robert E. Lee's Defensive Strategy at Sharpsburg on September 15-16, 1862 A Very Personal Fight: The Role of Robert E. Lee on the Field at Sharpsburg, September 17, 18621 vol, 312 pgs 2021 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available early December 2021 ......$33.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-240690 Rossino, Alexander CALAMITY AT FREDERICK: Robert E. Lee, Special Orders No. 191, and Confederate Misfortune on the Road to Antietam New interpretation of the evidence surrounding the creation, distribution, and loss of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 outside Frederick, Maryland, in September 1862. Examines why General Lee thought his army could operate north of the Potomac until winter; why Lee found it necessary to seize the Federal garrison at Harpers Ferry; what Lee hoped to accomplish after capturing Harpers Ferry; where Corporal Barton Mitchell of the 27th Indiana found the Lost Orders; and if D. H. Hill or someone else was to blame for losing the orders. 1 vol, 168 pgs 2023 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-pb, available mid November 2023 ......$19.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-227390 Ryan, Thomas LEE IS TRAPPED, AND MUST BE TAKEN: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg -- July 4 - 14, 1863 Focuses on the immediate aftermath of the battle and addresses how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organized and motivated his Army of the Potomac in response to President Abraham Lincoln's mandate to bring about the 'literal or substantial destruction' of Gen. Robert E. Lee's retreating Army of Northern Virginia. As far as the president was concerned, if Meade aggressively pursued and confronted Lee before he could escape across the flooded Potomac River, the rebellion would be over. Includes 40 images and 11 maps. The long and bloody three-day battle exhausted both armies. Their respective commanders faced difficult tasks, including the rallying of their troops for more marching and fighting. Lee had to keep his army organized and motivated enough to conduct an orderly withdrawal away from the field. Meade faced the same organizational and motivational challenges, while assessing the condition of his victorious but heavily damaged army, to determine if it had sufficient strength to pursue and crush a still-dangerous enemy. Central to the respective commanders' decisions was the information they received from their intelligence-gathering resources about the movements, intentions, and capability of the enemy. The eleven-day period after Gettysburg was a battle of wits to determine which commander better understood the information he received, and directed the movements of his army accordingly. Woven into this account is the fate of thousands of Union prisoners who envisioned rescue to avoid incarceration in wretched Confederate prisons, and a characterization of how the Union and Confederate media portrayed the ongoing conflict for consumption on the home front.1 vol, 384 pgs 2021 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available late June 2021 ......$33.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-210160 Shuiltz, David and Mingus, Scott THE SECOND DAY AT GETTYSBURG: The Attack and Defense of Cemetery Ridge, July 2, 1863 Includes 44 illustrations and 12 maps. Based upon a faulty early-morning reconnaissance, General Robert E. Lee decided to attack up the Emmitsburg Road in an effort to collapse the left flank of General George Meade's Army of the Potomac and decisively defeat it. The effort got underway when General James Longstreet's First Corps troops crushed General Sickles' Peach Orchard salient and turned north and east to drive deeply into the Union rear. A third Confederate division under Richard Anderson, part of A. P. Hill's Third Corps, joined in the attack, slamming one brigade after another into the overstretched Union line stitched northward along the Emmitsburg Road. The bloody fighting stair-stepped its way up Cemetery Ridge, tearing open a large gap in the center of the Federal line that threatened to split the Union army in two. The fate of the Battle of Gettysburg hung in the balance. Despite the importance of the position, surprisingly few Union troops were available to defend the yawning gap on the ridge. Major General Winfield S. Hancock's Second Corps had been reduced to less than one division when his other two were sucked southward to reinforce the collapsing Third Corps front. Reprising Horatio at the Bridge, the gallant commander cobbled together a wide variety of infantry and artillery commands and threw them into the action, refusing to yield even one acre of ground. The long and intense fighting included hand-to-hand combat and the personal heroics of which legends are made. Demonstrating how the fighting on the far Union left directly affected the combat to come in the center of General Meade's line, the authors also address some of the most commonly overlooked aspects of the fighting: what routes did some of the key units take to reach the front? What could the commanders actually see, and when could they see it? How did the fences, roads, farms, trees, ravines, creeks, and others obstacles directly affect tactical decisions, and ultimately the battle itself?1 vol, 552 pgs 2015 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available late December 2015 ......$33.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-235750 Thorp, Gene THE TALE UNTWISTED: General George B. McClellan, the Maryland Campaign, and the Discovery of Lee's Lost Orders The discovery of Robert E. Lee's Special Orders No. 191 outside of Frederick, Maryland, on September 13, 1862, is one of the most important and hotly disputed events of the American Civil War. For more than 150 years, historians have debated if George McClellan, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, dawdled after receiving a copy of the orders before warily advancing to challenge Lee's forces atop South Mountain. Explains in exhaustive fashion how McClellan in fact moved with uncharacteristic energy to counter the Confederate threat and take advantage of Lee's divided forces, seizing the initiative and striking a blow in the process that wrecked Lee's plans and sent his army reeling back toward Virginia.1 vol, 192 pgs 2023 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-pb, available late January 2023 ......$19.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-198310 Tidball, John C THE ARTILLERY SERVICE IN THE WAR OF REBELLION: 1861-65 A comprehensive overview and analysis of the US Army's field artillery service in the Civil War's principal battles, written by John C. Tidball, a distinguished artilleryman of the era. The overview, which appeared in the Journal of the Military Service Institution from 1891 to 1893, and nearly impossible to find today, examines the Army of the Potomac, including the battles of Fair Oaks, Gaines's Mill, Mechanicsville, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; the Army of the Tennessee, including the battles of Stones River and Chickamauga, and the Army of the Ohio's battle of Shiloh. Tidball, a decorated Civil War veteran and superintendent of artillery instruction for the army, expertly presents the war through an artilleryman's eyes in explaining the organization, equipping, and manning of the artillery service. His analysis highlights how the improper use of artillery, tying batteries down to relatively small infantry commands that diluted their firepower, seriously undermined the army's effectiveness until reforms produced independent artillery commands that could properly mass artillery fire in battle. Presented here in one volume for the first time, this includes additional material from an unpublished paper Tidball wrote in 1905 which contains further insights into the artillery service, as well as a general overview of the Petersburg campaign. 1 vol, 400 pgs 2012 US, WESTHOLME PUBLISHING NEW-dj ......$30.00 ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-218360 Tsouras, Peter MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE H. SHARPE: And The Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War The vital role of the military all-source intelligence in the eastern theater of operations during the American Civil War is told through the biography of its creator, George H. Sharpe. Renowned historian Peter Tsouras contends that this creation under Sharpe's leadership was the combat multiplier that ultimately allowed the Union to be victorious. Sharpe is celebrated as one of the most remarkable Americans of the 19th century. He built an intelligence organization (The Bureau of Military Information - BMI) from a standing start beginning in February 1863. He was the first man in military history to create a professional all-source intelligence operation, defined by the US Army as -- the intelligence products, organizations, and activities that incorporates all sources of information, in the production of intelligence. By early 1863, in the two and half months before the Chancellorsville Campaign, Sharpe had conducted a breath-taking Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) effort. His reports identified every brigade and its location in Lee's army, provided an accurate order-of-battle down to the regiment level and a complete analysis of the railroad. The eventual failure of the campaign was outside of the control of Sharpe, who had assembled a staff of 30-50 scouts and support personnel to run the military intelligence operation of the Army of the Potomac. He later supported Grant's Armies Operating Against Richmond (AOAR) during the Siege of Petersburg, where the BMI played a fundamental role in the victory. His career did not end in 1865. Sharpe crossed paths with almost everyone prominent in America after the Civil War. He became one of the most powerful Republican politicians in New York State, had close friendships with Presidents Grant and Arthur, and was a champion of African-American Civil rights. With the discovery of the day-by-day journal of John C. Babcock, Sharpe's civilian deputy and order-of-battle analyst in late 1963, and the unpublished Hooker papers, the military correspondence of Joseph Hooker during his time as a commander of the Army of the Potomac, Tsouras has discovered a unique window into the flow of intelligence reporting which gives a new perspective in the study of military operations in the American Civil War.1 vol, 592 pgs 2018 US, CASEMATE NEW-dj, available mid October 2018 ......$35.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-240990 Vignola, Victor CONTRASTS IN COMMAND: The Battle of Fair Oaks -- May 31 - June 1, 1862 This first major combat in the Eastern Theater since Bull Run (Manassas) almost a year earlier left more than 11,000 casualties in its wake and cost the primary Southern field army its commander. The possession of Richmond hung in its balance. Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan marched his Army of the Potomac up the Virginia Peninsula during the early spring of 1862 and placed his inexperienced IV Corps at the tip of the spear south of the flood-prone Chickahominy River. McClellan's opponent Joe Johnston took the opportunity to strike and crafted an overly complex attack plan for his Virginia army to crush the exposed corps. A series of bungled marches, piecemeal attacks, and a lack of assertive leadership doomed the Southern plan. One of the wounded late in the day on May 31 was Johnston, whose injury led to the appointment of Robert E. Lee to take his place -- a decision that changed the course of the entire Civil War. 1 vol, 288 pgs 2023 US, SAVAS BEATIE NEW-dj, available late November 2023 ......$35.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-211700 Welch, Dan THE LAST ROAD NORTH: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign 1863 A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the spring of 1863 with Lee's greatest victory yet: the battle of Chancellorsville. Propelled by the momentum of that supreme moment, confident in the abilities of his men, Lee decided to once more take the fight to the Yankees and launched this army on another invasion of the North, ending at Gettysburg. The book follows in the footsteps of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac as they made their way to Gettysburg. Based on the Gettysburg Civil War Trails, it's packed with dozens of lesser-known sites related to the Gettysburg Campaign.1 vol, 192 pgs 2016 UK, PEN & SWORD NEW-pb, available late June 2016 ......$15.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-237660 Wittenberg, Eric SIX DAYS OF AWFUL FIGHTING: Cavalry Operations on the Road to Cold Harbor Examines the severe cavalry fighting from May 27 to June 1, as the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac and the Cavalry Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia slugged it out at places like Hanovertown, Haw's Shop, Matadequin Creek, Hanover Court House, and Ashland. Finally, Union and Confederate armies clashed at Cold Harbor, setting the stage for the well-known infantry battle that broke out on the afternoon of June 1, 1864. Includes 70 photographs and 25 maps.1 vol, 345 pgs 2023 US, FOX RUN PUBLISHING NEW-dj, available mid July 2023 ......$37.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-201110 Wittenberg, Eric J. PROTECTING THE FLANK AT GETTYSBURG: The Battles for Brinkerhoff's Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2 -3, 1863 First and only book to examine in significant detail how the mounted arm directly affected the outcome of the battle. On July 3, 1863, a large-scale cavalry fight was waged on Cress Ridge four miles east of Gettysburg. There, on what is commonly referred to as East Cavalry Field, Union horsemen under Brig. Gen. David M. Gregg tangled with the vaunted Confederates riding with Maj. Gen. Jeb Stuart. This magnificent mounted clash, however, cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of what happened the previous day at Brinkerhoff's Ridge, where elements of Gregg's division pinned down the legendary infantry of the Stonewall Brigade, preventing it from participating in the fighting for Culp's Hill that raged that evening. Stuart arrived at Gettysburg on the afternoon of July 2 after his long ride around the Army of the Potomac just in time to witness the climax of the fighting at Brinkerhoff's Ridge, and spot good ground for mounted operations one ridge line to the east. Stuart also knew that Gregg's troopers held the important Hanover and Low Dutch road intersection, blocking a direct route into the rear of the Union center. If Stuart could defeat Gregg's troopers, he could dash thousands of his own men behind enemy lines and wreak havoc. The ambitious offensive thrust resulted the following day in a giant clash of horse and steel on East Cavalry Field. The combat featured artillery duels, dismounted fighting, hand-to-hand engagements, and the most magnificent mounted charge and countercharge of the entire Civil War. This fully revised edition of Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg is the most detailed tactical treatment of the fighting on Brinkerhoff's Ridge yet published, and includes a new Introduction, a detailed walking and driving tour with GPS coordinates, and a new appendix refuting claims that Stuart's actions on East Cavalry Field were intended to be coordinated with the Pickett/Pettigrew/Trimble attack on the Union center on the main battlefield.1 vol, 224 pgs 2012 NEW-softcover, available mid March 2013 ......$17.00 discount: :15% ..see our AMERICAN CIVIL WAR page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-220440 Hamilton, Aaron Stephen GERMAN SUBMARINE U-1105 'Black Panther': The Naval Archaeology of a U-boat Now in its final resting place at the bottom of the Potomac River in Maryland, the U-Boat U-1105 is unique among German World War II submarines. Technologically innovative, it was the only U-Boat to conduct a wartime patrol while equipped with the snorkel, GHG Balkon passive sonar, and a rubberized coating known as Alberich designed to reduce its acoustic signature and hide from Allied sonar. After the end of World War II, it was the subject of intense testing and evaluation by the Allies, before finally being sunk to the bottom of the Potomac River. This highly illustrated book uses many new and previously unpublished images to tell the full story of this remarkable U-Boat, evaluating the effectiveness of its late war technologies, document its extensive postwar testing and detail all the features still present on the wreck site today.1 vol, 0 pgs 2019 UK, OSPREY PUBLISHING NEW-dj, available mid June 2019 ......$35.00 discount: :15% rct ..see our NAVAL:1880-2000 page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-80290 Cassar, George H. KITCHENER'S WAR:British Strategy from 1914 to 1916 Superb analysis of the many crises faced by the British during Kitchener's leadership, b/w maps and illust, biblio, index.1 vol, 364 pgs 2004 US, POTOMAC BOOKS NEW-dj ......$35.00 ..see our WWI page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-46090 Showalter, Dennis E. TANNENBERG:Clash of Empires The battle of Tannenberg (August 27-30, 1914) opened World War I with a decisive German victory over Russia-indeed the Kaiser's only clear-cut victory in a non-attritional battle during four years of war. In this first paperback edition of the classic work, historian Dennis Showalter analyzes this battle's causes, effects, and implications for subsequent German military policy. The author carefully guides the reader through what actually happened on the battlefield, from its grand strategy down to the level of improvised squad actions. Examining the battle in the context of contemporary diplomatic, political, and economic affairs, he also reviews both armies' social settings and military doctrine, and shows how the battle may be understood as a case study of problems that military organizations face in the initial stages of a major war. In addition, he demolishes many myths about the battle, such as the supposed superiority of the German military, the animosity among Russian field commanders, and the assumption that the Germans viewed their opponents as a horde of uniformed illiterates. Tannenberg's mystique later served the Weimar Republic and Third Reich propagandists. For years its legends helped to shape German nationalist ideology and military policy. In 1941, Hitler's Wehrmacht grossly underestimated Soviet military capability, leading to disaster in World War II. Extremely perceptive analysis, from the concerns of grand strategy to squad action, should be in every WWI library, maps, unit index, and extensive chapter notes.1 vol, 419 pgs 2004 US, POTOMAC BOOKS NEW-softcover ......$48.00 discount: :15% ..see our WWI page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart
1-WAHOO Bomba, Ty WAHOO!: The Battle of Washington July 8 1863 -- Board Game Alternate-history game covering the climactic 8 July 1863 Battle of Washington. One player takes the role of Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, while the other player represents a combined Lincoln/Grant persona. The game postulates that on the second day at the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate attack began earlier... Little Round Top was overrun and the bulk of the Army of the Potomac was forced to fall back on Baltimore to regroup. The Confederate player is trying to conquer the City of Washington while (optimally) also destroying the Northerner's high command. The degree in which the Rebels succeed or fail is measured in victory points. This basically means, barring Lincoln's death, the Confederate player must gain control of the Capitol and the White House hexes to win.1 vol, 1 pgs 1991 US, XTE CORP NEW-softcover, inventory clear out ......$20.00 discount: :25% gam ..see our HISTORICAL GAME page for more books on this subject	Add to Cart