The Battle of Gettysburg is told from a fresh perspective--the women, immigrants, and African Americans who participated in this epic battle, through memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspaper accounts culled from the documentary history of the period. 30,000 first printing.

Gettysburg has been written about and studied in great detail over the last 140 years, but there are still many participants whose experiences have been overlooked. In augmenting this incomplete history, Margaret Creighton presents a new look at the decisive battle through the eyes of Gettysburg's women, immigrant soldiers, and African Americans. An academic with a superb flair for storytelling, Creighton draws on memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspapers to get to the hearts of her subjects. Mag Palm, a free black woman living with her family outside of town on Cemetery Ridge, was understandably threatened by the arrival of Lee's Confederate Army; slavers had tried to capture her three years before. Carl Schurz, a political exile who had fled Germany after the failed 1848 revolution, brought a deeply held fervor for abolitionism to the Union Army. Sadie Bushman, a nine-year-old cabinetmaker's daughter, was commandeered by a Union doctor to assist at a field hospital. In telling the stories of these and a dozen other participants, Margaret Creighton has written a stunningly fluid work of original history -- a narrative that is sure to redefine the Civil War's most essential battle.

Tired of being in a land where everything is blue, Blue and his cow, Polly, travel in search of other hues and eventually find a way to share their own color with the world around them.

Only faith sustained Lindsey Mandel after theloss of her beloved twin brother. Now a freakaccident would test the U.S. Army corporal'smettle once again. Desperate to save herbrother's injured horse, Lindsey placed hertrust in handsome veterinarian Brian Cutter. When Brian saw Lindsey pinned beneath thesteed, his only thought was to save her. Withhis own faith shaken by the death of his wife,he was amazed by this plucky female soldierwho gave her all personally and professionally.Inspired by Lindsey's commitment to kin andcountry, Brian soon found a love that made him feel truly blessed.

U.S. Army sergeant Lindsey Mandel is desperate to save her twin brother's injured horse and puts her trust in handsome veterinarian Brian Cutter.

Explains the virtue of courage, or the strength to take risks and complete hard jobs, and describes ways to show courage within the family, at school, with friends, and in the community.

The Courage to Encourage hopes to remind us that we all have the ability to soar beyond our losses, tragedies and disasters. More so, we have within us the divine spark to give the world our light, compassion and love from what we have experienced in our lives. As we lift others up to give them unwavering hope, our spirits are emboldened to continue facing life with utmost courage.

The Colors of Courage is a stunningly fluid work of original history-one that redefines the Civil War's most remarkable battle.