Scholars and general readers alike will enjoy these superbly edited letters. At once insightful and entertaining, they vividly illustrate the reactions of both Union soldiers and Southern civilians to the hardships and fortunes of war. Daniel E. Sutherland, University of Arkansas
Under the careful editorial eye of Frank Byrne, Harvey Reid s letters have re-emerged, and for scholars seeking to bring the war in the West into its proper political and social context, this volume will be of special interest. Stephen D. Engle, Florida Atlantic University
As a noncommissioned officer and...

A little-known but revolutionary approach to beginning guitar, the "Duck Soup" Guitar Method has been in print since 1982. It shows six ways to use partial capos to allow greatly simplified but full-sounding guitar chords. It was "replaced" in March 2015 by the "Liberty Guitar Beginner's Book," which shows a new and better way to play these same 30 songs with a different partial capo set-up. It remains available for mostly historical reasons. Most of the songs in Duck Soup Guitar are in the key of E, and in the new book 25 of them have been transposed to better keys (C, G and A) for most to...

The first book of partial capo guitar arrangements, and a vital one if you are interested in partial capos This little-known but important book of 20 of Harvey Reid's intermediate-level solo guitar pieces has been in print since 1983. Solo guitar for 7 different capo configurations, in standard notation and TAB, with tips, strategy & notes. Play all pieces with Third Hand or Spider partial capos, many with Esus capos. Includes some classical, folk, fiddle tunes, blues. Mostly for solo fingerstyle guitar, there are also 3 flatpicked tunes and 2 pieces for 12-string guitar. These 20...

Finally A guitar chord book for the rest of us... Did you ever notice that encyclopedic guitar chord books are all tailored for jazz guitarists, and that solo troubadour-style players don't have their own complete chord book? The Troubadour Guitar Chord Book is here to solve this problem. Thorough, readable, detailed and accurate, it also has a number of valuable new features to help songwriters, pickers and troubadour-style guitarists: The whole fingerboard is shown for each chord, which helps you see and understand the geometry. The note names and scale degrees are shown for every chord,...

The Most Detailed & complete DADGAD Chord Book... DADGAD has become the most popular open tuning, yet until now there have been no extensive libraries of chord fingerings. The Big DADGAD Chord Book is thorough, readable, detailed and accurate, carefully mapping out the fingerboard like never before. It also has many valuable features to help songwriters, strummers and pickers find their way around: - The whole fingerboard is shown for every chord, which helps you see and understand the geometry. - The note names and scale degrees are shown for all chords, so you can clearly see the precise...