Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
by Robert C. Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Civil War histories typically center on the deeds of generals and sweeping depictions of battle. This unique study of one Southern county’s war experience tells of ordinary soldiers and their wives, mothers and children, slaves, farmers, merchants, Unionists and deserters—through an examination...
April’S Revolution
A Modern Perspective of American Medical Care of Civil War Soldiers and African Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
The American Civil War is often studied because of its battles, but people tend to ignore how it helped revolutionize the medical field. Bloodshed on the battlefield and the spread of disease led to advances in medical decision making and clinical knowledge. The war also triggered the birth of the...
by William E Barton
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Like Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton was so much more than the "Angel of the Battlefield." It was not until the American Civil War that she found her calling. As a young woman, she struggled with the deep emotions that would be a lifelong trait. "1852: I have found it extremely hard to restrain...
by Mary Phinney
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
American Mary Phinney was ahead of her time. A rebel against the restrictions placed on women of her day, the sad death of her husband, the Barron von Olnhausen, proved to be the real beginning of her life. Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, this remarkable woman enlisted herself...
Rebel Chief
The Motley Life of Colonel William Holland Thomas, C.S.A.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
After the phenomenal success of his first novel Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier described his next novel as being based on the life of a white man who was made an Indian chief, served in the government in Washington D.C., fought on the side of the South in the Civil War by leading a band of guerilla...
The Story of A Thousand
A History of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
This facsimile edition of Albion W. Tourgées regimental history of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was first published in 1896. Tourgée, a lawyer and outspoken abolitionist from Williamsfield, Ohio, is best known for his semi-fictional novels about the reconstruction of the South following the Civil...
by Jerry W. Holsworth
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The Confederacy's lynchpin in the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester was the most disputed town of the Civil War. As control shifted between North and South over seventy-five times, civilians coped with skirmishes in the streets, wracking disease and makeshift hospitals in their homes and churches. Out of...
The Sacred Cause of Union
Iowa in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The Sacred Cause**of Union highlights Iowans’ important role in reuniting the nation when the battle over slavery tore it asunder. In this first-ever survey of the state’s Civil War history, Thomas Baker interweaves economics, politics, army recruitment, battlefield performance, and government...
Rebel Bulldog
The Story of One Family, Two States, and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Rebel Bulldog tells the story of Preston Davidson, a Northerner who fought for the Confederacy, and his family who lived in Indiana and Virginia. It is a story that examines antebellum religion, education, reform, and politics, and how they affected the identity of not just one young man, but of a...
Patrick Henry Jones
Irish American, Civil War General, and Gilded Age Politician
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Patrick Henry Jones's obituary vowed that "his memory shall not fade among men." Yet in little more than a century, history has largely forgotten Jones's considerable accomplishments in the Civil War and the Gilded Age that followed. In this masterful biography, Mark H. Dunkelman resurrects Jones's...
The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory
How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the guerrilla theater, the conflict was a vast sequence of home invasions, local traumas, and social degeneration that did not necessarily end in 1865. This...
The Vacant Chair
The Northern Soldier Leaves Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1995
In many ways, the Northern soldier in the Civil War fought as if he had never left home. On campsites and battlefields, the Union volunteer adapted to military life with attitudes shaped by networks of family relationships, in units of men from the same hometown. Understanding these links between...
The Harp and the Eagle
Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
On the eve of the Civil War, the Irish were one of America's largest ethnic groups, and approximately 150,000 fought for the Union. Analyzing letters and diaries written by soldiers and civilians; military, church, and diplomatic records; and community newspapers, Susannah Ural Bruce significantly...
by Daughters of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book is a hidden treasure of American Civil War history. If you buy it only for the section titled "A Confederate Girl's Diary," you'll find it worth the price of admission. Yet the collection is so much richer than that. Included are excerpts from the famous diary of Mary Chesnut, close friend...