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In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was comprised of almost six hundred troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to attack the fort with about 1,500 men. The Confederates overran the fort and drove the Federals into a deadly crossfire. Only sixty-two of the U.S. colored troops survived the fight unwounded. Many accused...
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Travis lives isolated in the Allegheny Mountains in the mid-1800s. He loves God, loves his family, and is well respected by all on the mountain. But one decision- for the right reason-causes his unintentional entry into the Civil War. While he fights to survive in a hostile environment, his family has a fight of their own. Travis returns home to find most of his family gone.
Now he must find a way to help his injured daughter. He has no one to...
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While shelves are filled with accounts of industry titans, politicians, and exalted military leaders, this is a tale of an estranged young man making his way in a hard, cold, and often cruel world. Escaping a dull future with little meaning, he follows the example of his childhood hero and comes west into the Kansas Territory to seek his fortune. He first joins a freighting company down the Santa Fe Trail and then returns to the turbulent "Bleeding...
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Two cultures met in Minnesota-one striving to maintain its homeland and traditions, another trying to create a life of freedom, prosperity, and abundance.
Samuel Copeland was just a teenager in 1859 when he and his family left Vermont for the promise of a new life in Minnesota. But life is harder and more dangerous than he expected. Devastated by the loss of his father at the hands of Indians and seeking to protect his brother, Samuel joins the...
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Imagine a life engulfed by a civil war that will change everything about the world as you know it. A world built by your father for you and your son on and on into perpetuity, a world built on the promises of slavery with the acquiescence of God but compromised by the ideals and will of the new nation. This is the world Seth Hunter Jr., heir to Covenant Plantation, must learn to live in. The basic issues of life: love, hate, revenge, desire, survival,...
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Galveston, Texas, where slaves were, once auctioned. The Last Paradise follows the freed slaves and laborers through injustice and bigotry in post-Civil War America. The novel artfully weaves a tapestry of vivid and historic detail in this inspiring story of strength and survival. The alley people in Galveston band together against racism and poverty hidden within the hypocrisy of civic and corporate corruption. Men and women such as Fanny, Maxwell,...
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Un hombre y una mujer en busca de saldar las cuentas con su pasado se conocen en el Hotel Voramar de Benicasim, mediada ya la década de los cincuenta del siglo pasado.
Él, miembro del PCE, en desconexión militante, ella, exesposa de un alto dirigente del Partido Nazi, tratando de olvidar y recomponer su vida. Ambos, damnificados por fuego amigo de las dos grandes ideologías totalitarias del siglo XX, encuentran en el amor que va surgiendo entre...
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"Passing Strange" is the fictionalized story seen through the lens of an educated, older woman who experiences the devastating loss of her husband at the beginning of the Overland Trail in 1852. Determined to fulfill his plan to build a school in Oregon, she travels in an ox-driven covered wagon with a large coffin filled with books, unaware thousands of gold coins lay hidden in the flour bin. Knowing she cannot travel alone, she hires a weary, older...
9) Tennessee
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This is about a boy who was crippled at the early age of seven and started out with a troubled life. His rich great-uncle considered him a useless burden. A concerned judge had him protected by the court, then he was sent to a boarding school and later to a distant college to keep him out of the way.
He met a medical student and fell in love, but was called back to Murfreesboro by Judge Chamberlin to inherit the remarkable Vinson Plantation. He became...
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Ben Butterfield, ex-circus performer, is living out his days in a small backwater town. He spends much of his time dwelling on the past, pondering his glory days with the circus, and his first grand adventure-an odyssey across Missouri and Illinois to Bright Star, Indiana, during the Civil War. It was a journey that laid the groundwork for the man he would become, and on which he got to know the two people who meant the world to him, and still do.
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11) Gettysburg
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What lessons do we learn from the Battle of Gettysburg? What are the leadership principles that emerge out of contest that transcends time and space? Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address said, "that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion." This book deals with leadership principles that apply across different venues of leadership including, Church leadership, government,...
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Han pasado más de 83 años desde el comienzo de la Guerra Civil Española y todavía sigue de actualidad todo lo relacionado sobre ella. La huerta de La Paloma es una novela histórica que trata, a través de la narración de una etapa importante de la vida de nuestro protagonista, Eduardo, mostrar mediante sus experiencias personales, una visión particular del entorno que le tocó vivir, un conflicto civil provocado por unos pocos y que repercutió...
13) Once Struck
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Nebraska, 1873 Peach MaCauley has only 49 acrees of wheat standing between her and becoming a poor relation. On the eve of the harvest a storm threatens her crop--and her independence. Only one mans steps forward to help her. A man she isn't sure she should trust. Kit Taggart is no longer the dirt poor boy with soulful brown eyes who kissed her behind the church at the Fourth of July social. Now he's a handsome and hard-edged ex-soldier. His price...
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What is the nature of true courage?
In March of 1896, Andrew Jackson Mundy, a senator from the Deep South, is secretly urged by Marc Hanna, the rich kingmaker, to become William McKinley's running mate in the upcoming presidential election. Hanna argues that Mundy, a reconstructed Southern Democrat and wounded Confederate veteran of the Civil War, running with McKinley, a Republican veteran of the Union Army, would help to heal the still festering...
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In Gone to Kansas, 1855, young Hiram Lockwood left a broken family and St. Louis to seek his fortunes on the frontier in Kansas Territory and on the Santa Fe Trail. In Kansas 1856, Hiram is shedding his greenhorn ways and gaining experience as a muleskinner and stage driver. Soon he finds himself in the midst of the turbulent times of "Bleeding Kansas," where a man could be shot for not being "on the right side of the goose." Surrounded by rogues,...
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Quiet and dreamy-eyed, Stephen Foster wants nothing more than to be a musician in a world where boys are supposed to grow up and go into business, like the family hero, his older brother William. Even though he can play the flute perfectly from the age of six, his family's expectations of a traditional profession drive him to Cincinnati, where he works at his older brother Dunning's warehouse. While in Cincinnati, he publishes his first great hit...
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In 1849, a young and determined urban family departs Chicago to make an incredible seven- hundred-mile trek across the plains of Illinois and hills of Missouri to settle in Indian Territory called Kansas. Challenged by storms and thieves, the Walker family completes their months-long trek with five children, four horses, and much resolve. They settle into their new home to establish a homestead in the tallgrass of Kansas. Vera had a hard life with...
18) Patches
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Using historical facts as a time line reference gives my story some reasonable objectivity and even credibility.
Patch has dedicated his life to the responsibility of upholding the law of the frontier. This includes the time he served as an army scout. Later he moved on to become the sheriff of Rutherford County, Tennessee.
After being assigned as the temporary governor while the territory waited to be readmitted to the United States, he was...
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In the last few paragraphs of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, his protagonist, the young Henry Fleming, struggles with the aftermath of his wartime experiences. He is, tormented by his guilt from having abandoned the tattered soldier during the Battle of Chancellorsville and by the death of his best friend, Jim Conklin. Scholars have questioned Crane's implications here. Has Henry truly become "a man" because of the trauma he has experienced?...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest novels and stories written in the aftermath of the Civil War, trying to show the truth in disguise of fiction, the trauma, the turmoil, the massacre and the heroism of all people involved:
Stephen Crane:
The Red Badge of Courage
The Little Regiment
The Veteran
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed & A Curious Experience (Mark Twain)
Ambrose Bierce:
An Occurrence...
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