Earl Schenck Miers

The battles and people of the Civil War as viewed by the soldiers who fought the battles and the people who lived through them. Grades 6-9.

Contains Alcott's fictionalized account of her service as a nurse. These short stories weave dramatic tales about the personal effects of the Civil War.

"This story is about Sam [Clemens] and how he grew up to become Mark Twain, one of our most beloved Americans. Sam's story is presented as fiction, but is largely truth."

This is a book about the American people and what happened to them during one Christmas week, as the result of a tragic Thursday, and on a Palm Sunday. It is a book of love and hate, of faith and fear, of tormented loyalties and unyielding principles, of passion and patience and greed and sacrifice. It is a book of some moments that took years to crystallize and of other moments that were clear and complete in the winking of an eye. It is a book about...

The author recaptures the glory of that age when the American colonies reached toward military victory. His book covers the entire complex campaign from Fort Washington to Trenton and Princeton, Morristown to Monomouth, ending with the battle of Springfield and the defeat of the British in the last serious military operation in New Jersey. It relates the siege of Trenton and Valley Forge, the arrest of Howe's advance on Philadelphia, and the defense...