Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
by Dennis Adler
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Guns of the Civil War celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War (1861–1865) with an elegant and richly detailed history of Colt, Henry, Manhattan, Remington, Sharps, Spencer, and S&W Firearms, and guns by many other rivals and contemporaries. This essential overview of the legendary...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The Civil War experiences of Albert C. Ellithorpe, a Caucasian Union Army officer commanding the tri-racial First Indian Home Guards, illuminate remarkable and understudied facets of campaigning west of the Mississippi River. Major Ellithorpe’s unit—comprised primarily of refugee Muscogee Creek...
Rebels on the Border
Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Rebels on the Border offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South's highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the "borderland" between the free North and the Confederate...
Civil War Commando
William Cushing's Daring Raid to Sink the Invincible Ironclad C.S.S. Albemarle
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2020
"I…recommend that Lieutenant William B. Cushing, US Navy, receive a vote of thanks from Congress for his important, gallant and perilous achievement in destroying the rebel ironclad steamer Albemarle.
–Abraham Lincoln to Congress, December 18, 1864
Civil War Commando is the incredible tale...
Beyond Redemption
Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone’s lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked the land as slaves to the white supremacists...
by David D. Finney Jr., Judith Stermer McIntosh
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
When the 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry regiment arrived in Washington, DC, President Lincoln exclaimed: "Thank God for Michigan!" The state raised more than 90,000 men to serve during the Civil War, and 69 of them received the Medal of Honor. Notable Michiganders include Gens. Israel Richardson,...
The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine
The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
On September 28, 1863, the Galveston Tri-Weekly News caught its readers' attention with an item headlined "A Yankee Note-Book." It was the first installment of a diary confiscated from U.S. Marine Henry O. Gusley, who had been captured at the Battle of Sabine Pass. Gusley's diary proved so popular...
Armistead and Garnett
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Virginians Lewis A. Armistead and Richard B. Garnett, two Confederate officers killed during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, lived remarkably parallel lives. In this Civil War Short, Robert K. Krick follows the two men from their early military careers fighting against American Indians and Mormons...
Horses and Mules in the Civil War
A Complete History with a Roster of More Than 700 War Horses
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Horses and mules served during the Civil War in greater number and suffered more casualties than the men of the Union and Confederate armies combined. Using firsthand accounts, this history addresses the many uses of equines during the war, the methods by which they were obtained, their costs, their...
by James Longstreet
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
One of the most important, and controversial, Confederate generals during the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lees old warhorse. Longstreet was Lees principal subordinate for most of the war, ably managing a corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. Longstreet was instrumental...
Journey to the Wilderness
War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
On the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the war—and the way we remember it—through letters written by his family, including his great-great grandfather and his two sons, both of whom were Confederate officers. As Gaillard explains...
The Civil War Era, 1848-1873
History of Wisconsin, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This second volume in the History of Wisconsin series introduces us to the first generation of statehood, from the conversion of prairie and forests into farmland to the development of cities and industry. In addition, this volume presents a synthesis of the Civil War and Reconstruction era in Wisconsin....
The Earl J. Hess Fortifications Trilogy, Omnibus E-book
Includes Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War; Trench Warfare Under Grant and Lee; and In the Trenches at Petersburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This three-volume Omnibus e-Book set is a collection of Earl J. Hess's definitive works on trench warfare during the Civil War. The set includes:
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864, covering the eastern campaigns, from Big Bethel and the Peninsula...
Albert Sidney Johnston
Soldier of Three Republics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
" With a new foreword by Gary W. Gallagher Selected as one of the best one hundred books ever written on the Civil War by Civil War Times Illustrated and by Civil War: The Magazine of the Civil War Society A new, revised edition of the only full-scale biography of the Confederacy's top-ranking field general during the opening campaigns of the Civil War.