Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Cannoneers in Gray
The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Winner of the 1984 Mrs. Simon Baruch University Award from the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Winner of the 1984 Fletcher Pratt Award from the Civil War Roundtable of New York
This enlarged edition of Cannoneers in Gray provides new detail concerning the activities of artillery units operating...
General David S. Stanley, USA
A Civil War Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Medical student turned professional soldier David S. Stanley offered forty years of service to his country on the western frontier and during the Civil War. He participated in some of most important Civil War battles, including the Battle of Iuka, the Battle of Corinth, the Battle of Stones Rivers,...
Grant Invades Tennessee
The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts Henry and Donelson, he penetrated the Confederacy at one of its most vulnerable points, setting in motion events that would elevate his own status, demoralize the Confederate leadership and citizenry, and, significantly, tear the western Confederacy asunder....
A Refugee at Hanover Tavern
The Civil War Diary of Margaret Wight
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
An account of life on the home front written by a Southern woman trying to survive the daily struggles of the Civil War.
The Hanover Tavern outside Richmond was a place of refuge during the Civil War. Life at the Tavern was not always safe as residents weathered frequent Union cavalry raids...
The Gentlemen and the Roughs
Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
During the Civil War, the Union army—like the society from which it sprang—appeared cohesive enough to withstand four years of grueling war against the Confederates and to claim victory in 1865. But fractiousness bubbled below the surface of the North’s presumably united front. Internal fissures...
Railroads in the Civil War
The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained in both the North and...
by John Philip Cashon
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Despite Kentucky's aim to keep a neutral position in the Civil War and Paducah's Confederate tendencies, the Union captured the town soon after Confederate troops occupied Columbus. As a result, the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River became permeable entry points for infiltrating farther south...
Greyhound Commander
Confederate General John G. Walker's History of the Civil War West of the Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
While a political refugee in London, former Confederate general John G. Walker wrote a history of the Civil War west of the Mississippi River. Walker's account, composed shortly after the war and unpublished until now, remains one of only two memoirs by high-ranking Confederate officials who fought...
Atlanta, Cradle of the New South
Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the contested meaning...
by Jonathan W. White
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
The Union army's overwhelming vote for Abraham Lincoln's reelection in 1864 has led many Civil War scholars to conclude that the soldiers supported the Republican Party and its effort to abolish slavery. In Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln Jonathan W. White challenges...
Reconstruction in Alabama
From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
The civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social history of emancipation and the hopefulness that reunification would bring equality. Much of this revisionist work served to counter and correct the racist and pro-Confederate...
For Cause and Country
A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill & the Battle of Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The battles at Spring Hill and Franklin, Tennessee, in the late autumn of 1864 were watershed moments in the American Civil War. Thousands of hardened veterans and a number of recruits, as well as former West Point classmates, found themselves moving through Middle Tennessee in the last great campaign...
Army of the Potomac
McClellan's First Campaign, March 1862–May 1862
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2007
The third volume of this masterful Civil War history series covers the pivotal early months of General George McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign.
As he did in his first two volumes of this magisterial series, Russel Beatie tells the story largely through the eyes and from the perspective of high-ranking...
I Had Rather Die
Rape in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The American Civil War is often regarded as a “low-rape” war, due to gentlemanly “restraint.” Nearly thirty Union soldiers were executed for the crime. As a result, rape is perceived to have been dealt with harshly. On the surface, the numbers reflect the view that rape was indeed far from...