Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot
The Fort Stevens Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story recounts the story of President Abraham Lincoln’s role in the Battle of Fort Stevens in July 1864. This engagement stands apart in American history as the only time a sitting American president came under enemy fire while in office. In this...
Battle Hymns
The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Music was everywhere during the Civil War. Tunes could be heard ringing out from parlor pianos, thundering at political rallies, and setting the rhythms of military and domestic life. With literacy still limited, music was an important vehicle for communicating ideas about the war, and it had a lasting...
by David Herbert Donald
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s penetrating analysis of the crisis of democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
In Liberty and Union, David Herbert Donald persuasively examines one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. With the same wit, eloquence, and willingness...
A Spy for the Union
The Life and Execution of Timothy Webster
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid–1850s he left the police department and took a job for Allan Pinkerton with his newly formed detective agency. As an operative for Pinkerton’s agency,...
by Patrick M. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2007
Here in an entertaining illustrated format are hundreds of little-known facts about the always-fascinating Civil War. Did you know...
-A January 1861 plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln was thwarted with the helpf of a police chief named...John Kennedy?
-The Confederacy briefly had...
by Brian McGinty
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daring—and long-forgotten—heroes of the Civil War.
Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps back into...
by Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
"Great anxiety is expressed by all to reach home by the Fourth of July, which at present looks very probable. But, dear Journal, I cannot write, I feel too good." Jenk Jones would make it home on the 3rd of July, 1865. After three long years away from home with the 6th Wisconsin Artillery Battery,...
God and General Longstreet
The Lost Cause and the Southern Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
More than a century after Appomattox, the Civil War and the idea of the
"Lost Cause" remain at the center of the southern mind. God and General
Longstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of the Lost Cause from the
first generation of former Confederates to more recent times,...
Sea Wolf of the Confederacy
The Daring Civil War Raids of Naval Lt. Charles W. Read
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2004
In June 1863, just days before the epic clash at Gettysburg ended the last rebel land invasion of the North, a small party of the Confederate Navy mounted a devastating series of raids on the New England coast, culminating in a battle off Portland, Maine. Veteran author David W. Shaw brilliantly re-creates...
Homegrown Yankees
Tennessee's Union Cavalry in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Of all the states in the Confederacy, Tennessee was the most sectionally divided. East Tennesseans opposed secession at the ballot box in 1861, petitioned unsuccessfully for separate statehood, resisted the Confederate government, enlisted in Union militias, elected U.S. congressmen, and fled as refugees...
One of Morgan's Men
Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
John Marion Porter (1839--1898) grew up working at his family's farm and dry goods store in Butler County, Kentucky. The oldest of Reverend Nathaniel Porter's nine children, he was studying to become a lawyer when the Civil War began. As the son of a family of slave owners, Porter identified with...
All that Makes a Man
Love and Ambition in the Civil War South
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2002
In May 1861, Jefferson Davis issued a general call for volunteers for the Confederate Army. Men responded in such numbers that 200,000 had to be turned away. Few of these men would have attributed their zeal to the cause of states' rights or slavery. As All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 18181895), an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. His list of accomplishments would be impressive...
Abraham Lincoln Civil War Stories
Heartwarming Stories about Our Most Beloved President
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
This new edition of this classic collection of stories about Abraham Lincoln includes rewritten introductions to each story that draw relevancies and lessons from this great man of leadership and apply them to the political climate of today.
Each story in this rare and beautiful heirloom collection...