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Brother of Mine: The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie
by Hampton Smith
Hampton Smith is a reference librarian at the Minnesota Historical Society. The Christie letters are a treasured part of MHS collections.
$19.95
Brother of Mine		 Go If You Think It Your Duty: A Minnesota Couple's Civil War Letters
by Andrea R. Foroughi
During the American Civil War, James Madison Bowler and Elizabeth Caleff Bowler courted, married, became parents and bought a farm. They attended dances, talked politics, and confided their deepest fears. Because of the war, however they experienced all of these events separately, sharing them through hundreds of letters from 1861-1865 while Madison served in the Third Minnesota Volunteer Regiment and Lizzie stayed in Nininger, Minnesota. In four years they spent only twelve weeks under the same roof.
$22.95
Go If You Think It Your Duty		 Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg
Minnesota Book Award Winner by Brian Leehan
Through painsaking research of eyewitness reports and official records, Brian Leehan constructs a detailed study of a single regiment at a crucial moment in American history, and he tells the story of a remarkable band of soldiers.
$17.95
Pale Horse at Plum Run
The Last Full Measure - SORRY THIS BOOK IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FROM US
The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
By Richard Moe.Through Richard Moe's gifted pen, his extensive research and historical imagination, you can follow these Minnesota Volunteer Soldiers as they pursue their duty and then describes the hardened veterans, in the final leg of their journey.
$17.95
The Last Full Measure		 The Oranges Are Sweet
By Paul M. Sailer. Hill City's Don Beerbower led all Minnesota aces in aerial and ground victories in WW II. This major American fighter pilot's brief, valiant life is told by Paul Sailer in The Oranges are Sweet. With the support of the Beerbower family and others, the author spent years researching the remarkable story of Don's childhood, college at Iowa State, training as an Aviation Cadet, marriage to his hometown sweetheart, and aerial combat in the European theater. Don's squadron colleague and future four star general, F. Michael Rogers, called the book a "scholarly work . . . a tour de force."
$34.99
The Oranges Are Sweet