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Sharpshooter by David Madden (Paperback - Univ of Tennessee Pr)
 

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Sharpshooter by David Madden (Hardcover - Illustrated)
 

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A gripping and thought-provoking work that is unlike any Civil War novel previously written, Sharpshooter takes us into the mind of one of the war's veterans as he attempts, years after the conflict, to reconstruct his experiences and to find some measure of meaning in them. A child of the divided East Tennessee mountain region, Willis Carr left home at age thirteen to follow his father and brothers on a bridge-burning mission for the Union cause. Imprisoned at Knoxville, he agreed to join the Confederate army to avoid being hanged and became a sharpshooter serving under General Longstreet. He survived several major battles, including Gettysburg, and eventually found himself guarding prisoners at the infamous Andersonville stockade, where a former slave taught him to read. After the war, haunted by his memories, Carr writes down his story, revisits the battlefields, studies photographs and drawings, listens to other veterans as they tell their stories, and pores over memoirs and other books. Above all, he imbues whatever he hears, sees, and reads with his emotions, his imaginations, and his intellect. Yet, even as an old man nearing death, he still feels that he has somehow missed the war, that something essential about it has eluded him. Finally, in a searing moment of personal revelation, a particular memory, long suppressed, rises to the surface of Carr's consciousness and draws his long quest to a poignant close.

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When one of Elizabeth Westbrook's photographs becomes key evidence in a murder charge, her life is in peril, and when her interests clash with those of a former Confederate sharpshooter, she begins to question her own motivation. (Religious Fiction)
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Georgia Sharpshooter by William Rhadamanthus Montgomery (Paperback - Mercer Univ Pr)
 

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Georgia Sharpshooter by William Rhadamanthus Montgomery (Paperback - Mercer Univ Pr)
William Rhadamanthus Montgomery (1839-1906) was present at some of the most memorable battles of the Civil War. Among them were Chickahominy, Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredricksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and Cold Harbor. Wounded seven or eight times, Montgomery remained in service throughout the entire war. After the war, he returned to Marietta where he lived out the rest of his days. The diary and the letters contained herein is a testament to his time as a soldier during the Civil War. But as the diary and letters indicate, the war was not the end all of his life. His loyalty for the South was surpassed only by his loyalty for and to his family.

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The Sharpshooter Blues by Lewis Nordan (Hardcover - Algonquin Books)
 

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The Sharpshooter Blues by Lewis Nordan (Hardcover - Algonquin Books)
The first question this remarkable new tale of mayhem and misunderstanding asks is: Who is singing the Sharpshooter Blues? Is it Morgan, the teenage trick-shot artist, who stops by The William Tell grocery in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi, one day to show off some fancy moves? Or is it Marshal Chisolm who enforces Law and Order? Or is it one of the two lovely children who pick the wrong country store to rob? Or is it maybe Hydro Raney, a sweet, simple boy who does the right thing and loses everything? But the story asks a deeper question: Can the power of love hold up to the power of bullets? Don't expect an easy answer, for, as one Arrow Catcher citizen puts it, "You wouldn't want to hurt anybody, but when you were singing the blues...sometimes there was just nothing as satisfying as shooting a gun inside a house...it relieved stress, it cemented relationships, strangers or partners in marriage...it cleared the air". The Sharpshooter Blues is, in part, an exuberant meditation on America's love affair with blue-steel barrels and snub-nose bullets, and in part, a heartbreaking look at the violence and loss that ensue when the guns come out to play one day in a small town. But most of all, after the bullets have flown, it's a story of love - between fathers and sons, between husbands and wives, between gay lovers, and between longtime neighbors and friends.

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The Sharpshooter Blues by Lewis Nordan (Paperback - Algonquin Books)
 

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This heartbreaking novel from award-winning Mississippi writer Lewis Nordan is a meditation upon guns and love. One fateful day in the Delta town of Arrow Catcher, a sweet, simple boy tries his hand at sharpshooting and blows away a young couple committing a robbery at the country store. This acclaimed narrative looks at all kinds of love--and the loss that accompanies our modern infatuation with guns.

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Sharpshooter by David Healey (Paperback - Bella Rosa Books)
 

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Annie Oakley by Elaine Landau (Reinforced Hardcover - Enslow Pub Inc)
 

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Annie Oakley by Elaine Landau (Reinforced Hardcover - Enslow Pub Inc)
Introduces the life of Phoebe Ann Moses, later known as Annie Oakley, who began shooting game after her father's death to feed her family and became the star sharpshooter of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.

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Get the Edge at Craps by "Sharpshooter" (Paperback - Illustrated)
 

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Sharpshooter in the Crimea by Michael Springman (Hardcover - Pen & Sword)
 

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Berry Benson's Civil War Book by Berry Benson (Paperback - Univ of Georgia Pr)
 

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Berry Benson's Civil War Book by Susan Williams Benson (Hardcover - Univ of Georgia Pr)
 

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Berry Benson's Civil War Book by Susan Williams Benson (Hardcover - Univ of Georgia Pr)
Confederate scout and sharpshooter Berry Greenwood Benson witnessed the first shot fired on Fort Sumter, retreated with Lee's Army to its surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, and missed little of the action in between. This memoir of his service is a remarkable narrative, filled with the minutiae of the soldier's life and paced by a continual succession of battlefield anecdotes. Three main stories emerge from Benson's account: his reconnaissance exploits, his experiences in battle, and his escape from prison. Though not yet eighteen years old when he left his home in Augusta, Georgia, to join the army, Benson was soon singled out for the abilities that would serve him well as a scout. Not only was he a crack shot, a natural leader, and a fierce Southern partisan, but he had a kind of restless energy and curiosity, loved to take risks, and was an instant and infallible judge of human nature. His recollections of scouting take readers within an arm's reach of Union trenches and encampments. Benson recalls that while eavesdropping he never failed to be shocked by the Yankees' foul language; he had never heard that kind of talk in a Confederate camp! Benson's descriptions of the many battles in which he fought - including Cold Harbor, the Seven Days', Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg - convey the desperation of a full frontal charge and the blind panic of a disorganized retreat. Yet, in these accounts, Benson's own demeanor under fire is manifest in the coolly measured tone he employs. A natural writer, Benson captures the dark absurdities of war in descriptions such as those of hardened veterans delighting in the new shoes and other equipment they found oncorpse-littered battlefields. His clothing often torn by bullets, Benson was also badly bruised a number of times by spent rounds. At one point, in May 1863, he was wounded seriously enough in the leg to be hospitalized, but he returned to the field before full recuperation. Benson was captured behind enemy lines in May 1864 while on a scouting mission for General Lee. Confined to Point Lookout Prison in Maryland, he escaped after only two days and swam the Potomac to get back into Virginia. Recaptured near Washington, D.C., he was briefly held in Old Capitol Prison, then sent to Elmira Prison in New York. There he joined a group of ten men who made the only successful tunnel escape in Elmira's history. After nearly six months in captivity or on the run, he rejoined his unit in Virginia. Even at Appomattox, Benson refused to surrender but stole off with his brother to North Carolina where they planned to join General Johnston. Finding the roads choked with Union forces and surrendered Confederates, the Benson brothers ultimately bore their unsurrendered rifles home to Augusta. Berry Benson first wrote his memoirs for his family and friends. Completed in 1878, they drew on his - and partially on his brother's - wartime diaries, as well as on letters that both brothers had written to family members during the war. The memoirs were first published in book form in 1962 but have long been unavailable. This edition, with a new foreword by the noted Civil War historian Herman Hattaway, will introduce this compelling story to a new generation of readers.

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Sharpshooter by Wiley Sword (Paperback - Andrew Mowbray Pub)
 

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Annie Oakley by Theodore Link (Paperback - Rosen Pub Group)
 

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Annie Oakley by Theodore Link (Paperback - Rosen Pub Group)
Profiles Phoebe Ann Moses, the star sharpshooter of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show under the name Annie Oakley, who began shooting to help feed her family after her father's death.

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Sharpshooter by Rich Archer (Paperback - Publishamerica Inc)
 

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Annie Oakley by Brenda Haugen (Reinforced Hardcover - Compass Point Books)
 

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The Sharpshooter's Secret Son by Mallory Kane (Paperback - Harlequin Books)
 

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The World's Greatest Sharpshooter by Michael Blackburn (Paperback - Insight Pub Co)
 

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Sharpshooter by Rich Archer (Paperback - Publishamerica Inc)
 

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Annie Oakley by Rosen Publishing Group (Reinforced Hardcover - Buenas Letras)
 

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Profiles Phoebe Ann Moses, the star sharpshooter of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show under the name Annie Oakley, who began shooting to help feed her family after her father's death.

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