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...The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication T... ...ty university. 3 Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane CHAPTER I THE COLD PASSED reluctantly f... ...sity. 3 Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane CHAPTER I THE COLD PASSED reluctantly from the e... ... 3 Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane CHAPTER I THE COLD PASSED reluctantly from the earth, ... ...d disappeared forever. From his home his youthful eyes had looked upon the war in his own country with distrust. It must be some sort of a play affair...

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...There comes a time in the course of battle when a participant casts his fate to the gods of war, and carries on without question, the task at hand. Living, dying, right or wrong, can be contemplated later. The spirit of the bayonet takes over and carries the youth through the crucible of battle to emerge a short tim...

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...Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...This is a short novel published in 1895 and based vaguely on the battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. Unlike other works on the subject, Crane's novel does not concentrate on the big picture or the glory of war but on the psychology of one of its soldiers....

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...d States history. It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...A review of events prior to, during and following the American Civil War bringing an insightful perspective on Lincoln's true attitude toward slavery and emancipation. (Summary by Guero)...

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...bservation and light touch make this a most engaging book. It is a fascinating insight into the Englishman's travels abroad within two decades of the American Civil War and the end of Japanese isolationism. This is the first of two volumes covering his journey with his wife. This first volume includes his travels in America and in Japan, including the Atlantic and Pacific ...

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...Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his own fast ship and run guns to the Co...

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...The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms — as sounds and rhythms — and includes elaborate annotations to guide its spoken performance. Lindsay categorized The Congo as “h...

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...livered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated the Confederates at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...ntasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and ride a spaceship fired from it to the moon. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In February 1862 he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served on the staff of General William Babcock Hazen as ...

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...mo; but apart from the locality, and that a pretty wide one (all the South American Continent), the novel and the story have nothing in common, neithe... ... J. C. 8 A Set of Six A SET OF SIX GASPAR RUIZ I A REVOLUTIONARY WAR raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common... ...ssion disap- peared in the growth of political hatred. And, as is usual in war, the mass of the people, who had the least to gain by the issue, suffer... ...the time, and unused as yet to the sanguinary imbecili- ties of a state of war, had lingered near by, as if fasci- nated by the sight of these men who... ...n with that feeling of superiority the success of our cause inspired in us Americans. I suppose I re- ally despised him because he was an old Castilia... ...e raised a partida. But his leniency to the conquered foe dis- pleased the Civil Governor, who was a formal, un- easy man, full of suspicions. He forw... ...re to arise between these two men of very different character. At last the Civil Governor began to complain of his inactivity and to hint at treachery... ...omplained afterwards—send orders for his arrest. It seems certain that the Civil Governor be- gan to tamper with his officers, and that Gaspar Ruiz di... ...rds made himself master by surprise of two more ships, one English and one American. “It was rumoured at the time that he dreamed of setting up a navy...

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...Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today for his memoir Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show , often heralded as one of the best primary sources about the common soldier's Civil War experience....Sam’s writing style is...

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...Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short sto...

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...o play the piano and play with her kitties. Finally, the youngest, artistic Amy, who longs for an aristocratic nose! The story takes place during the American Civil War, and begins with Mr. March away from home as a chaplain to the Union army, while his wife and daughters remain at home to work and wait for his safe return. This book follows their joys and sorrows and scra...

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...The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. In the spring of 1858, Hawthorne was inspired to write his romance when he s...

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...g his life. This story follows Willie as a young orphan, later as a journalist, and finally as a soldier who enlists in the army at the outset of the American Civil War. The book was immensely popular when it was published in 1900 and the years to follow, as the characters were all drawn from people who the author had known himself. (Summary by Roger Melin)...

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...John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength on this planet, due to its...

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...The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. As famine and death ravage the city,...