Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
by Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This powerful collection contains the very best of this world-renowned author’s writings. All of the short stories and factual accounts of the Civil War presented here form a searing, unflinching portrait of this terrible war. For fiction and non-fiction fans and history buffs alike.
by William Pittenger
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
William Pittenger was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He was one of the first recipients of the Medal of Honor. He is the author of Daring and Suffering, a History of the Great Railroad Adventurers (Philadelphia, 1863; enlarged ed., New York, 1887); Oratory, Sacred and Secular (Philadelphia, 1881); and Extempore Speech (1882).
by Luther William Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This is a very short account of one soldier's experience of war collected by his daughter. Very colloquial and charming. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones.
A Long and Bloody Task
The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5–July 18, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
“Explores the first phase of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign in the summer of 1864 . . . Clear and concise” (The Civil War Monitor).
Poised on the edge of Georgia for the first time in the war, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, newly elevated to command the Union’s western...
by Stephen R. Bockmiller
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Washington County's involvement in the Civil War conjures images of the terrible aftermath of the Battle of Antietam. But many other events occurred there during the war. Wedged into a narrow neck between Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the area was the setting for many important events in the conflict....
James Garfield and the Civil War
For Ohio and the Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
When the United States was divided by war, future president James Abram Garfield was one of many who stepped forward to defend the Union. While his presidency was tragically cut short by his assassination, Garfield's historic life covered some of the most consequential years of American history. From...
"The Devil's to Pay"
John Buford at Gettysburg: A History and Walking Tour
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
An award-winning Civil War historian’s profile of the brilliant Union cavalry officer and the strategies he employed to prevent catastrophe at Gettysburg.
The Battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of the Civil War. But the outcome of the decisive confrontation between North and South might...
Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions
Farnsworths Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
An award-winning historical study of the important role played by Union and Confederate horse soldiers on the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg.
The Union army’s victory at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1863, is widely considered to have been the turning point in America’s War between...
Baltimore in the Civil War
The Pratt Street Riot and a City Occupied
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
On April 19, 1861, the first blood of the Civil War was spilled in the streets of Baltimore. En route to Camden Station, Union forces were confronted by angry Southern sympathizers, and at Pratt Street the crowd rushed the troops, who responded with lethal volleys. Four soldiers and twelve Baltimoreans...
War upon the Land
Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M. Brady argues that ideas about nature and the environment were central to the development and success of Union military strategy.
From the start of the war, both sides had to contend with forces of nature, even...
by John D. Billings
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Artillery Battery during the Civil War, but he is best known for his 1888 book Hardtack and Coffee, a reference to the most common food and drink given to soldiers during the war. Billings book is not about battles but is instead about everyday...
Stopping the Killing
How Civil Wars End
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1993
Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Liberia, Somalia, Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Cambodia -- all provide bloody evidence that civil wars continue to have a powerful impact on the international scene. Because they tear at the very fabric of a society and pit countryman against countryman,...
by John Lockwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This is a memoir written by a Union soldier from New York who fought in the Civil War, most notably at the Battle of Gettysburg. Without question, the most famous battle of the American Civil War took place outside of the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which happened to be a transportation...
Galveston and the Civil War
An Island City in the Maelstrom
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
On the eve of the Civil War, Galveston was a jewel of the Gulf Coast--a booming city with a fine natural harbor and all the commerce, culture and improvements that attended it. Galveston was also home to the largest slave market west of New Orleans and a hotbed of secessionist sentiment. Once the war...