Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
by Andrew W. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In the last months of the American Civil War, the upper Texas coast became a hive of blockade running. Though Texas was often considered an isolated backwater in the conflict, the Union's pervasive and systematic seizure of Southern ports left Galveston as one of the only strongholds of foreign imports...
American Queen
The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague--Civil War ""Belle of the North"" and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Had People magazine been around during the Civil War and after, Kate Chase would have made its Most Beautiful” and Most Intriguing” lists every year.
Kate Chase, the charismatic daughter of Abraham Lincoln's treasury secretary, enjoyed unprecedented political power for a woman. As her...
"Chaotic Freedom" in Civil War Louisiana
The Origins of an Iconic Image
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
"Chaotic Freedom" is the story of two men transformed for the better through the Civil War. It is also the biography of an iconic photograph. The men are printer and newspaper publisher Henry S. Gere and currier and carpenter Marshall S. Stearns, both from western Massachusetts. The photograph...
General Henry Lockwood of Delaware
Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
General Henry Lockwood of Delaware: Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander depicts the fascinating and accomplished life of nineteenth-century Delaware son, Brig. Gen. Henry Lockwood. Excerpt for a leave of absence to fight as a Union general during the Civil War,...
The Revolution of 1861
The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
It was no coincidence that the Civil War occurred during an age of violent political upheaval in Europe and the Americas. Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Andre M. Fleche examines how questions of national self-determination, race, class, and labor...
The Campaigns for Vicksburg 1862-63
Leadership Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Long relegated to a secondary position behind Gettysburg, Vicksburg has more recently earned consideration by historians as the truly decisive battle of the Civil War. Indeed, Vicksburg is fascinating on many levels. A focal point of both western armies, the Federal campaign of maneuver that finally...
by Stanley Harrold
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019
Abraham Lincoln has often been called the “Great Emancipator.” But he was not among those Americans who, decades before the Civil War, favored immediate emancipation of all slaves inside the United States. Those who did were the abolitionists—the...
American Civil Wars
The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world,...
The Loyal Republic
Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights....
Calculating the Value of the Union
Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James...
Slavery and War in the Americas
Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864–70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict...
Shepherdstown in the Civil War
One Vast Confederate Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Because they were situated near the Mason-Dixon line, Shepherdstown residents witnessed the realities of the Civil War firsthand. Marching armies, sounds of battle and fear of war had arrived on their doorsteps by the summer of 1862. The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 brought thousands of wounded...
by Joshua K. Callaway
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
From the Kentucky Campaign to Tullahoma, Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge, junior officer Joshua K. Callaway took part in some of the most critical campaigns of the Civil War. His twice-weekly letters home, written between April 1862 and November 1863, chronicle his gradual change from an ardent Confederate...
Nelson County
A Portrait of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 1999
The occupation of Bardstown and Nelson County, Kentucky, by Union troops began in September of 1861 and ended in September of 1865�a turbulent time in the �neutral� county, and a piece of history rarely explored by Kentuckians. In this unprecedented visualjourney, discover the unique role that...