Civil category: 10105 books
A House Divided
The Civil War and Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Consolidating one of the most complex and multi-faceted eras in American History, this new edition of Jonathan Wells’s A House Divided unifies the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War. Amassing a variety of research, this accessible and readable text introduces readers toboth the...
Knights of the Golden Circle
Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sought to establish a slave-holding empire in the "Golden Circle" region of Mexico, the Caribbean,...
Paying Freedom's Price
A History of African Americans in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans—both slave and free—from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or...
The Fort Pillow Massacre
North, South, and the Status of African Americans in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
On April 12, 1864, a small Union force occupying Fort Pillow, Tennessee, a fortress located on the Mississippi River just north of Memphis, was overwhelmed by a larger Confederate force under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest. While the battle was insignificant from a strategic standpoint, the...
The Battle of Fort Sumter
The First Shots of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
On April 12, 1861, the long-simmering tensions between the American North and South exploded as Southern troops in the seceding state of South Carolina fired on the Federal forces at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. The battle of Fort Sumter marked the outbreak of Civil War in the United States....
Pickett’s Charge, July 3 and Beyond, Omnibus E-book
Includes Pickett’s Charge—The Last Attack at Gettysburg by Earl J. Hess and Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory by Carol Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Pickett's Charge, the assault on the Union lines on Cemetery Ridge ordered by Robert E. Lee on 3 July 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, holds a central place in the nation's collective memory of the Civil War. Available for the first time as an Omnibus E-book Edition, this two-volume...
Corps Commanders in Blue
Union Major Generals in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. Mutual trust and respect between generals and their corps commanders, though vital to military success, was all too rare: Corps commanders were often forced...
Memoirs of the Civil War
Between the Northern and Southern Sections of the United States of America 1861 to 1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
“William Wilson Chamberlaine’s Memoirs of the Civil War, though relatively little known because of its rarity in the original edition, contains much valuable information and engaging narrative passages. A Virginian whose Confederate career included service in an infantry regiment early in the...
by Stephen W. Sears
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Now published for the first time, For Country, Cause & Leader offers an eyewitness account of the Civil War by a Union soldier who fought from Bull Run to Knoxville. This remarkable book presents the transcription of some twenty pocket diaries kept throughout the first three years of the Civil...
Reconstruction
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with...
The Unwritten War
American Writers and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In The Unwritten War, Daniel Aaron examines the literary output of American writers—major and minor—who treated the Civil War in their works. He seeks to understand why this devastating and defining military conflict has failed to produce more literature of a notably high and lasting order, why...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves, to follow the dictates of their own conscience and to make an art of their lives. This representative sampling of his thought includes five of his...
Irrepressible Conflict: the Cause of the American Civil War
And the Sad, Tragic, Story of It Resulting in Deaths of so Many
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The Civil War resulted from the insistence of Southern firebrands that the 1820 restrictions on where slavery could be practiced in the Western territories of the USA be removed. And the dogged determination of some Northerners to restrict the brutal treatment of blacks and finally put slavery on...
Californio Lancers
The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 1863–1866
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
More than 16,000 Californians served as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War. One California unit, the 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry, consisted largely of Californio Hispanic volunteers from the “Cow Counties” of Southern California and the Central Coast. Out-of-work vaqueros who...