Gary Ecelbarger: 4 books
Three Days in the Shenandoah
Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
The battles of Front Royal and Winchester are the stuff of Civil War legend. Stonewall Jackson swept away an isolated Union division under the command of Nathaniel Banks and made his presence in the northern Shenandoah Valley so frightful a prospect that it triggered an overreaction from President...
Slaughter at the Chapel
The Battle of Ezra Church, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
The Battle of Ezra Church was one of the deadliest engagements in the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War and continues to be one of the least understood. Both official and unofficial reports failed to illuminate the true bloodshed of the conflict: one of every three engaged Confederates was killed...
The Day Dixie Died
The Battle of Atlanta
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
One of the most dramatic and important battles ever to be waged on American soil, the Battle of Atlanta changed the course of the Civil War and helped decide a presidential election.
In the North, a growing peace movement and increasing criticism of President Abraham Lincoln's conduct of the...
The Great Comeback
How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
In the fall of 1858, Abraham Lincoln looked to be anything but destined for greatness. Just shy of his fiftieth birthday, Lincoln was wallowing in the depths of despair following his loss to Stephen Douglas in the 1858 senatorial campaign and was taking stock in his life. The author takes us on a...