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Civil War Logistics
A Study of Military Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
During the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transportation systems. Moving men, supplies, and equipment required coordination on a massive scale, and Earl J. Hess’s Civil War Logistics offers the first comprehensive analysis of this vital...
A Savage War
A Military History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
How the Civil War changed the face of war
The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects...
by John W. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from...
The Guerrilla Hunters
Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors...
by Terry L. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The Civil War was the most traumatic event in American history, pitting Americans against one another, rending the national fabric, leaving death and devastation in its wake, and instilling an anger that has not entirely dissipated even to this day, 150 years later.
This updated and expanded...
Traces of the Bloody Struggle
The Civil War at Stevenson Ridge, Spotsylvania Court House
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
As the 1864 Overland Campaign shifted from the Wilderness toward Spotsylvania Court House, Confederate commander Robert E. Lee successfully bottlenecked the Federal army just outside the village. Undeterred, Union commander Ulysses S. Grant sent part of his forces on a wide flanking maneuver to attack...
by Lt Col Cheryl A. Heimerman USAF
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The role of women in the Civil War has often been overlooked in history. Women’s roles prior to the Civil War were primarily confined to the home and family. Single women or those who were financially challenged could find work outside the home but opportunities were limited. At the outset of the...
by Michael R. Bradley, Shirley Farris Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
As the Civil War unfolded, Murfreesboro became hotly contested by Confederate and Union forces. Both sides occupied the town for significant periods, with power changing hands as the fighting raged. Punctuated by events like Nathan Bedford Forrest�s raid on Union forces in July 1862, Jefferson Davis�s...
Robert E. Lee in War and Peace
The Photographic History of a Confederate and American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Robert E. Lee is well known as a Confederate general and as an educator later in life, but most people are exposed to the same handful of images of one of America’s most famous sons. It has been almost seven decades since anyone has attempted a serious study of Lee in photographs, and with Don Hopkins’s...
Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana
A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
In July 1862, Union Lieutenant Stephen Spalding wrote a long letter from his post in Algiers, Louisiana, to his former college roommate. Equally fascinating and unsettling for modern readers, the comic cynicism of the young soldier’s correspondence offers an unusually candid and intimate account...
by Adelaide W. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
One of the most prominent nurses to serve in the American Civil War, Ada Smith was at the center of action. She met Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton, and many of the other military men and civilians in the conflict. This lively and engaging memoir is like many of those...
Lincoln on the Civil War
Selected Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War.
This well-rounded selection of Abraham Lincoln's finest speeches combines the classic and obscure, the lyrical and historical, and the inspirational and intellectual to present a historical arc marking periods of...
by Philip Van Doren Stern
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Civil War historian and celebrated author Philip Van Doren Stern presents an underground history woven from first hand accounts of Civil War spies, scouts, detectives and double agents. Secret Missions of the Civil War gives an inside look into the birth of modern spy warfare: secret codes, Allen Pinkerton,...
Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic
First Naval Actions of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began when shots were fired on an unfinished fort in Charleston Harbor. From that thunderous opening salvo, the naval battles to control the Atlantic coast that followed–daring, savage, and often deadly–were not only crucial in determining the outcome of the war...