BLUE ACORN PRESS CATALOG OF CIVIL WAR BOOKS |
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| Too Young To Die Boy Soldiers of the Union Army 1861-1865 by Dennis M. Keesee |
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Drawn from extensive primary research, Too Young To Die brings to life hundreds of the Union Army's most youthful soldiers in enlightening and vivid fashion. Through childs' eyes they saw the Civil War as an all-consuming adventure -- an experience not to be missed even at the expense of their lives. From the first rumors of war to enlistment, training, camp life, fatiguing marches, meeting the enemy in battle and horrors of imprisonment, author Dennis M. Keesee blends a wide range of narratives and anecdotes written by or about Union boy soldiers (aged 8 to 16 from 17 Northern and border states) with 213 photographs and illustrations. Many of these images are published here for the first time (an established Blue Acorn Press tradition), and hauntingly illustrate a generation of youngsters that, perhaps, was unique in American history. Too Young To Die is as moving to the heart to read as it is to view. Hardcover with dust jacket, 304 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 format, 213 photographs & illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 1-885033-28-1 Price: $35 |
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Winner of the 1999 MOS&B Basil W. Duke Award, the year's best reprint in Confederate history. |
Born in New Jersey in 1818 and a graduate of West Point in 1843, Samuel G. French won distinction in the Mexican War as a lieutenant of light artillery, serving in the same company with Braxton Bragg, George H. Thomas and John F. Reynolds. He was actively engaged at Palo Alto, Resaca and Monterey, receiving two brevets for gallantry and a serious leg wound in the battle of Buena Vista. Settling later in Mississippi, he readily immersed himself in Southern culture. With the outbreak of war in 1861 French, despite his Northern birth, plainly proved that the South did not have a more devoted adherent. He eventually reached the grade of major general and division commander, serving with Gen. James Longstreet in Virginia, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in Mississippi and Georgia, and under Gen. John Bell Hood in some of the Army of Tennessee's last battles. His division saw bloody action at Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Allatoona, Franklin and Nashville, all graphically described by French's able pen. Confederate Gen. Stephen D. Lee called French's narrative, first published in 1901 and long out of print, "one of the most interesting books gotten out since the War Between the States." This Blue Acorn Press reprint features the addition of a number of photographs not part of the original edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 432 pages, photos, illustrations, maps. ISBN 1-885033-22-2. $22.50 "The autobiography of one who was prominent in two wars - the Mexican and that of the Confederacy, both of such momentous importance in the history of the United States - cannot fail to interest the majority of American readers. Two Wars is in many respects a remarkable publication, showing the development and great changes which occurred in the lifetime of one man, and particularly the advances made in military science in the period between the two wars of which the book treats, as illustrated in Gen. French's realistic descriptions of the battles of Monterey, Buena Vista, and that of Kennesaw Mountain and others of the civil war" - The Washington Post |
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Loyal West Virginia 1861-1865 By Theodore F. Lang |
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| An enhanced reprint of Theodore F. Lang's
classic, very rare 1895 edition. Loyal West Virginia 1861-1865 details how West
Virginia achieved statehood in 1863, while highlighting military operations within the
state and a host of skirmishes and battles involving West Virginia troops. Includes
regimental histories, rosters of all West Virginia officers and more than 60 photographs. |
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