Civil category: 10105 books
Friendly Fire in the Civil War
More Than 100 True Stories of Comrade Killing Comrade
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 1999
More than 100 true stories of comrade killing comrade:
defective ammunition
accidental shootings
blinding smoke
deliberate fire upon comrade
mistaken uniforms
inexperienced troops
unknown passwords
On May 2, 1863, Stonewall Jackson was on the verge of the greatest victory of his career. Shortly...
Let the People Decide
Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate racial communities over four decades.
Sunflower...
A People's History of the Civil War
Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
“Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States did for the study of American history in general.” —Library Journal
Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot...
Civil War Stories
A 150th Anniversary Collection
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
This fascinating compendium examines the legacy of the War Between the States.
At the Washington Post, the Civil War has held an enduring fascination for both readers and writers. Raging from 1861 to 1865, the War Between the States has left a lasting imprint on the United States’s collective...
by Fred Dubose
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaches, the fascination with all things Civil War continues ever more strongly. With I Used to Know That: Civil War, snippets of history class will come rushing back as you recall that:
The mere election of Abraham Lincoln pushed seven Southern states...
Triumph and Defeat
The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2006
The study of the Civil War in the Western Theater is more popular now than ever before, and the center of that interest is the months-long Vicksburg Campaign, which is the subject of National Park Historian Terrence J. Winschel’s new book Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign, Vol 2.
Following...
by Ford Risley
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Civil War Journalism presents a unique synthesis of the journalism of both the North and South during the war. It features a compelling cast of characters, including editors Horace Greeley and John M. Daniel, correspondents George Smalley and Peter W. Alexander, photographers Mathew Brady and Alexander...
Lee’s Army Has Not Lost Any of Its Prestige
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
In this Civil War Short, Gary W. Gallagher surveys Confederate sentiment in the summer of 1863 and argues that many southerners did not view the battle of Gettysburg as a resounding defeat. Gallagher makes the compelling case that, although southern casualties were tremendous, Confederates across...
Sister States, Enemy States
The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...
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by Prof. J. G. Randall, Prof. David Donald
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This is a revised edition by David Herbert Donald of his former professor J. G. Randall’s book The Civil War and Reconstruction, which was originally published in 1937 and had long been regarded as “the standard work in its field”, serving as a useful basic Civil War reference tool for general...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Although North Carolina was a "home front" state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effort and experienced many conflicts as a result. North Carolinians were divided over the issue of secession, and changes in race and...
by William J. Cooper, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In his masterpiece, Jefferson Davis, American, William J. Cooper, Jr., crafted a sweeping, definitive biography and established himself as the foremost scholar on the intriguing Confederate president. Cooper narrows his focus considerably in Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era, training his expert...
by Ezra J. Warner Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1975
"This is a very valuable reference work, the non-existence of which has long been deplored by Civil War historians. The research, which is impressive, has turned up a considerable amount of detail not generally known, even among Civil War specialists." -- Bell I. Wiley
This vital...
The Enigmatic South
Toward Civil War and Its Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American...