Charles F. Gunther is a Yankee ice peddlar who is trapped in the South at the outbreak of the war. Presented here are two years of diaries of Gunther's experien

This thorough account of the South’s efforts to hold the Mississippi River is “fast-paced, easy to read, and well supported by archival research”(The Civi

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Robert Henry Thurston's present book 'A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine', as evident from the title itself, gives the history of the development and c

Traces the development of steamboats.