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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865
by Brooks D. Simpson   Hardcover (2000)

Ulysses S. Grant
by Simpson    Hardcover (2000)

Grant: A Biography
by William S. McFeely   Hardcover (1997)

Grant: A Biography
by William S. McFeely  Paperback (1982)

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
by Ulysses S. Grant, James M. McPherson  Paperback (1999)

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
by Ulysses S. Grant   Hardcover (1994)

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
by Ulysses S. Grant   CD-ROM (1998)

The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)
by John Simon, Julia Dent Grant  Paperback (1988)

Grant Takes Command: 1863-1865
by Bruce Catton   Paperback (1990)

Grant Moves South: 1861-1863
by Bruce Catton  Paperback (1990)

Memoirs and Selected Letters: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Selected Letters, 1839-1865
by Ulysses S. Grant, Mary D. McFeely, William S. McFeely  Hardcover (1990)

Edward Porter Alexander

Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander
by Edward Porter Alexander, Gary W. Gallagher  Paperback (1998)

Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander
by Gary W. Gallagher, Edward Porter Alexander   Hardcover (1989)

James Longstreet

General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier-A Biography
by Jeffry D. Wert   Paperback (1994)

Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History
by William Garrett Piston   Paperback (1990)

Pickett

Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863
by George Rippey Stewart   Paperback (1991)

The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command
by Edwin B. Coddington   Paperback (1997)

Guide to the Battle of Gettysburg
by Jay Luvaas, Harold Nelson  Paperback (1994)

The Battle of Gettysburg: A Guided Tour
by Edward Stackpole, Bradley Gottfried   Paperback (1998)

William Sherman

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
by William T. Sherman, William S. McFeely    Paperback (1988)

Sherman : Soldier, Realist, American
by B. H. Liddell Hart, Jay Luvaas   Paperback (1993)

Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
by William Tecumseh Sherman, Charles Royster    Hardcover (1990)

Phil Sheridan

Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan: General United States Army
by Philip Henry Sheridan, Jeffry D. Wert    Paperback (1992)

Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan
by Roy, Jr. Morris  Paperback (1993)

A.P.Hill

A.P. Hill: Lee's Forgotten General
by William Woods Hassler    Paperback (1995)

A. P. Hill: Lee's Forgotten General
by William Woods Hassler   Hardcover (December 1957)

Robert E. Lee

General Lee: A Biography of Robert E. Lee
by Fitzhugh Lee, Blake Magner    Paperback (1994)

Four Years With General Lee
by Walter Taylor, James I. Robertson  Paperback (1996)

Four Years With General Lee
by Walter Taylor, James I. Robertson  Hardcover (1996)

General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1865 : With Personal Reminiscences
by Walter Taylor    Paperback (1994)

Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative
by Edward Porter, General Alexander    Paperback (1993)

Three Months in the Southern State: April-June, 1863
by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle   Paperback (1991)

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George Armstrong Custer

Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier
by Robert M. Utley   Paperback  (1991)

Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed
by John Shapley Gray, Robert M. Utley   Paperback  (1993)

I Fought With Custer: The Story of Sergeant Windolph, Last Survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn
by Charles Windolph, Robert Hunt   Paperback  (1987)

Custer and Company: Walter Camp's Notes on the Custer Fight
by Walter Mason Camp, Bruce R. Liddic, Paul Harbaugh   Paperback  (1998)

The Reno Court of Inquiry: Abstract of the Official Record of Proceedings
by W. A. Graham, Brian C. Pohanka   Hardcover  (1995)

Cheyenne Memories of the Custer Fight
by Richard G. Hardorff, Robert Wooster   Paperback   (1998)

A Complete Life of General George A. Custer: From Appomattox to the Little Big Horn
by Frederick Whittaker, Robert M. Utley    Paperback   (1993)

The Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custeriana
by W. A. Graham   Hardcover   (1995)

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
by Stephen E. Ambrose   Paperback  (1996)

The River and the Horsemen: A Novel of the Little Bighorn
by Robert Skimin    Hardcover  (1999)
 

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