Presenting the best current archaeological scholarship on the American Civil War, From These Honored Dead shows how historical archaeology can uncover the facts beneath the many myths and conflicting memories of the war that have been passed down through generations. By incorporating the results of archaeological investigations, the essays in this volume shed new light on many aspects of the Civil War. Topics include soldier life in camp and on the battlefield, defense mechanisms such as earthworks construction, the role of animals during military operations, and a refreshing focus on the conflict in the Trans-Mississippi West. Supplying a range of methods and exciting conclusions, this book displays the power of archaeology in interpreting this devastating period in U.S. history.

Finale of the on-going archaelogical search for the Confederate warship CSS Pee Dee. This was the only ocean going warship built at an inland South Carolina shipyard located 100 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. An absorbing tale of dedication to the preservation of an important part of the history of the American Civil War.

Guns of the Pee Dee is a fantastic spell-binding tale woven between a group of Civil War hobbyists searching for a sunken Confederate warship and the last days of a Confederate Naval Unit in South Carolina at the end of the American Civil War. The title gives the reader a clue...The missing cannons from the Confederate Warship have puzzled the U.S. Navy, archaeologists, and historians for over a century as to their whereabouts. Finally the guns have been found by the CSS Pee Dee Research and Recovery Team. 'Guns of the Pee Dee' takes the reader along on the exploratory search along the banks of South Carolina's legendary Great Pee Dee River and into its dark, swirling, and muddy waters with the intrepid divers of the CSS Peedee Research and Recovery Team as they search the river's bottom for the missing ordnance of the Confederate States Navy's vessel CSS Peedee. 'Guns of the Pee Dee' is an historical adventure. The reader experiences the building and launching of one of the Confederate Navy's warships that is destined to escape to sea and join the ranks of the CSS Alabama and the CSS Shenandoah. The war ends badly for the Confederacy and the ship CSS Peedee. But 150 years later history comes to life with the search for the missing vessel and her guns. History awaits, adventure is in the next page...and the next...until the quest reaches its conclusion. It's a page burner. Don your mask, put on your gear, and step back into time along with the members of the CSS Peedee Research and Recovery Team....the Quest begins.

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Historian Ben Cleary takes readers beyond the legend of Stonewall Jackson and directly onto the Civil War battlefields on which he fought, and where a country once again finds itself at a crossroads. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was the embodiment of Southern contradictions. He was a slave owner who fought and died, at least in part, to perpetuate slavery, yet he founded an African-American Sunday School and personally taught classes for almost a decade. For all his sternness and rigidity, Jackson was a deeply thoughtful and incredibly intelligent man. But his reputation and mythic status, then and now, was due to more than combat success. In a deeply religious age, he was revered for a piety that was far beyond the norm. How did one man meld his religion with the institution of slavery? How did he reconcile it with the business of killing, at which he so excelled? In SEARCHING FOR STONEWALL JACKSON, historian Ben Cleary examines not only Jackson's life, but his own, contemplating what it means to be a white Southerner in the 21st century. Now, as statues commemorating the Civil War are toppled and Confederate flags come down, Cleary walks the famous battlefields, following in the footsteps of his subject as he questions the legacy of Stonewall Jackson and the South's Lost Cause at a time when the contentions of politics, civil rights, and social justice are at a fever pitch. Combining nuanced, authoritative research with deeply personal stories of life in the modern American South, SEARCHING FOR STONEWALL JACKSON is a thrilling, vivid portrait of a soldier, a war, and a country still contending with its past.