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To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams. For men who endured the horrors of the Civil War, Andersonville Prison represented an even more terrifying level of hell. The prisoners starved while disease ran rampant. John McElroy was captured in battle and transferred...
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"Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and almost 1,500 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which has a capacity of just under 400 passengers. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas finds himself further adrift. Returning home...
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"Near the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only fourteen months. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with the prison's atrocities and learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given." -- Page [4] cover.
4) Red Cap
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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820L
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A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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760L
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Young Jake Clay joins the Union Army in the spring of 1864. His dreams of glory vanish, when he is wounded and taken prisoner in his first battle at Cold Harbor, Virginia, and confined to the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, where 30,000 soldiers face violence, disease and starvation. Frightened and disillusioned, Jake takes up with Billy Sharp, an unscrupulous opportunist who shows him how to survive, no matter what the cost. By the war's...
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Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 of them died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on a conspiracy of higher-ranking officials. According to William Marvel, virulent disease and severe shortages of vegetables, medical supplies, and other...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 62
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980L
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From the Publisher: Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly twenty-five years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's bestselling masterwork tells the heartbreaking...
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A Union trooper struggles to survive violence, overcrowding and disease in a Confederate prison during the Civil War. Ira Cahill Stevens must also fight the temptation to gain his freedom by switching sides. By the author of The Importance of High Places. Ira Cahill Stevens shares his experiences in an overcrowded Confederate prison camp, where he fights to survive under desperate conditions.
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[2010]
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IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 8
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990L
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Details the conditions at Andersonville Prison in Georgia--including overcrowding, lack of supplies, harsh rules, and prison gangs--that led to the deaths of 13,000 Union prisoners, and recounts the trial of the camp's commandant, Henry Wirz.
12) Repentance Creek
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Sharpshooter volume 03
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Former Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells had vowed to give up killing after the war ended. Even after the last shot was fired, he continued to carry his hated sharpshooter's rifle as a grim reminder of what he once was. But while on a trip to a remote cattle town, his stagecoach is robbed, a man is killed, and his rifle is stolen. With the help of a hard-hitting cowboy named Charlie Crowder, Jed sets out to hunt down the two masked men responsible...
13) Gold fever
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Sharpshooter volume 02
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Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells met the possibly mad artist Josephus McCade when they were prisoners in Andersonville, and he remembers well the strange man's rants about a "key" to unimaginable wealth. Now that the guns of the war between North and South have fallen forever silent, curiosity is drawing Jed back onto the trail of the eccentric McCade. But the artist's charmed life may soon be coming to a brutal end, thanks to a secret he will tell...
14) Brimstone
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Sharpshooter volume 01
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The story of Andersonville prison camp was written in blood, with few left alive to tell it. Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells was one of them, a man of conscience sworn to share the tales of those who suffered and died beside him.
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[2000]
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Presents the 1861-65 diaries, personal sketches, and maps of Private Robert Knox Sneden, a Union soldier whose appointment as a mapmaker led him to witness some of the Civil War's most important campaigns, and who spent a year imprisoned in Georgia's Andersonville prison camp.
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Union officer Nathan Parker and his soldiers find themselves imprisoned at Andersonville in July 1864. After hatching a plan for him to escape, make his way to Vicksburg and alert his superiors of his men's plight, he assures his men that a rescue effort will be attempted. When his efforts are blocked by superiors, he organizes a private rescue mission with the help of Marcel Lafarge, a dangerous ex-soldier and smuggler.
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