Edward Longacre: 13 books
General Ulysses S. Grant
The Soldier and the Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
In this new biography of General Ulysses S. Grant, acclaimed Civil War historian, Edward G. Longacre, examines Grant's early life and his military career for insights into his great battlefield successes as well as his personal misfortunes. Longacre concentrates on Grant's boyhood and early married...
The Early Morning of War
Bull Run, 1861
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early end to the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack, both sides realized the war would be longer and costlier than...
Joshua Chamberlain
The Solider And The Man
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Joshua Chamberlain became the "hero of Gettysburg" when he and his regiment, the 20th Maine, bravely held Little Round Top against a determined Rebel assault. Chamberlain's reputation as a celebrated soldier continued to grow in the decades that followed the war. Yet, Joshua Chamberlain,...
by Edward G. Longacre
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2006
Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler served in two armies, playing a major role in the development of Confederate cavalry in the Civil War's western theater, and, more than thirty years afterwards, commanded troops in the Spanish-American War. After leaving the U.S. Army to join the Confederacy, Wheeler served...
Custer
The Making of a Young General
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his leadership in the American Indian Wars and unfortunate fall at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer: The Making...
The Sharpshooters
A History of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Recruited as sharpshooters and clothed in distinctive uniforms with green trim, the hand-picked regiment of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was renowned and admired far and wide. The only New Jersey regiment to reenlist for the duration of the Civil War at the close of its initial three-year...
Worthy Opponents
William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston—Antagonists in War, Friends in Peace
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Worthy Opponents tells the parallel stories of Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston and Union general William Tecumseh Sherman. Their armies clashed repeatedly, so it was only natural for these two commanding offers to become adversaries. Yet, as the war continued, Johnston and Sherman came to respect...
A Regiment of Slaves
The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The 4th United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiment saw considerable action in the eastern theater of operations from late 1863 to mid-1865. The regiment—drawn largely from freedmen and liberated slaves in the Middle Atlantic and New England states—served in Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler’s Army...
Fitz Lee
A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, C.S.A.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
As the grandson of Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee and the nephew of Robert E. Lee, Fitzhugh Lee—nicknamed “Fitz”—was born into one of Virginia’s most distinguished families.
Upon graduation from West Point, Fitz Lee served in the U.S. Army until the outbreak of the Civil...
by Edward G. Longacre
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Born in Shawneetown, Illinois in time to be newly graduated from West Point when the Civil War started, James H. Wilson became a brigadier general by the age of twenty-six. Fueled by boundless ambition and the desire to serve his country, he reorganized the Union cavalry in time to gain the upper...
The Commanders of Chancellorsville
The Gentleman vs. The Rogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2005
As equally matched in skill as they were opposite in personality, the brash Union Gen. Joseph Hooker boasted of a sure defeat of the reserved Gen. Robert E. Lee. "I've got Robert E. Lee right where I want him, and even God Himself cannot stop me from destroying him," Boasted Hooker. Yet...
General William Dorsey Pender
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
The talented William Dorsey Pender is a prime example of the advantage held by the Confederacy in junior-level commanders during the opening months of the Civil War. Pender, a native North Carolinian, graduated in the top half of the West Point class of 1856.
One of the first Southern-born officers...
Gentleman and Soldier
A Biography of Wade Hampton III
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, Gentleman and Soldier is the first biography in more than fifty years of Wade Hampton III (1818–1902), a Confederate general whose life provides a unique, sweeping insight into the entire history of the Civil War in the South. Hampton was a leading...