Bob O'Connor Books
The store will feature my published books, including five non-fiction, two children's books, and thirteen historical novels. The novels are all well researched and mostly true. Each has a local connection to Jefferson County where I live.
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“The Greatest Gun of the Ages” Lorenzo Sibert’s Forty-eight Shot Repeating Rifle 1861
$20.00This amazing firearm may have changed the length of the war of the outcome. Imagine one side having the traditional single shot rifle while the other side carried the Virginia Pacificator, which could fire 48 times without reloading. But the gun was never manufactured. Only one prototype still exists.
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A House Divided Against Itself
$16.00The account of the only two brothers in the American Civil War who fought against each other twice — Wesley and William Culp, both from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Book: Abner Doubleday The Civil War General Who Did Not Invent Baseball
$14.95Novel which debunks the long-time notion that Abner Doubleday invented baseball. In spite of the Baseball Hall of Fame being opened in Cooperstown, NY on the 100th anniversary of Doubleday’s alleged invention, Doubleday himself never claimed to have invented baseball. A commission fourteen years after his death made the determination way too late for Doubleday…
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Book: Assembling John Brown’s Freedom Fighters
$20.95The is a prequel to my first book “The Perfect Steel Trap Harpers Ferry 1859”. This book gives the bios of all the participants, how they got affiliated with John Brown, how they got to the Kennedy Farm, what their role was in the raid, and what happened to each of them.
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Catesby Eyewitness to the Civil War
$18.00The story of Catesby, a slave who lived at Bel Aire outside of Charles Town and was captured by John Brown during the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. The book follows Catesby’s escape from slavery and his escapades along the way. Based on Catesby’s journals. First book of a Catesby trilogy.
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Catesby The Final Chapter
$18.00The story of Catesby, a former slave, who lives in Harpers Ferry and works at Storer College.
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Civil War Spirituality
$16.95The book gives an in-depth look of church leaders, political and military leaders and their take on religion and spirituality.
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Countdown to West Virginia Statehood
$12.00The true story of the formation of the state of West Virginia which became a state on June 20, 1863, in the middle of the American Civil War.
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Dennis Hart Mahan Military Tactics Instructor at West Point
$14.00Story of the teacher of nine hundred and sixty-seven Cadets who fought in the American Civil War including five hundred forty-five Civil War generals on both sides.
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Excerpts from Diaries of Civil War Soldiers
$10.00It is difficult to know what was happeni9ng during the Civil War unless you go the source. This book provides eye-witness accounts from men who were there. Here’s an example, from the diary of M. A. Cooper, 4th Alabama, at the Battle of the Wilderness: “I received thirty-seven holes through my blanket which was around my shoulders, one through my hat, and five through my canteen.”
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Harriet Lane Original First Lady of Washington
$22.00Story of the original lady who lived in the Executive Mansion and was called the “First Lady”. She was not married to a U. S. President. She was the niece of unmarried president James Buchanan, president just prior to the American Civil War.
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I Was a Drummer Boy in the American Civil War
$14.00The story of the nephew of my great uncle who was the drummer boy for the 105th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and marched with Sherman’s army in the capture of Atlanta and Savannah in late 1864. Appropriate for students around ten years old and above.