Civil category: 10105 books
A Unionist in East Tennessee
Captain William K. Byrd and the Mysterious Raid of 1861
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Civil War that tore America in two also pit one Tennessean against another—with deadly consequences . . .
During the Civil War, Tennessee was perhaps the most conflicted state in the Confederacy. Allegiance to either side could mean life or death, as Union militia captain and longtime...
Oxford in the Civil War
Battle for a Vanquished Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Though no legendary battles took place at Oxford, the community was deeply affected by the War Between the States and deeply involved in its proceedings. Oxford in the Civil War tells the story of the steadfast men and women who fought to defend their homeland. Join author Stephen Enzweiler as he recounts...
by Brian Matthew Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
An acclaimed, groundbreaking, and “powerful exploration” (Washington Post) of the fate of Union veterans, who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace.
For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning...
by Stephen V. Ash
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
A nearly forgotten Civil War episode is restored to history in this masterful account.
In March 1863, nine hundred black Union soldiers, led by white officers, invaded Florida and seized the town of Jacksonville. They were among the first African American troops in the Northern army, and their...
They Fought Like Demons
Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional picture does not tell...
In the Hands of Providence
Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Deserve[s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review
"[Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brilliant career. One can easily say that the definitive work on Joshua Chamberlain has now been done.--James Robertson, Richmond Times-Dispatch
"An...
Tragedy in the Shenandoah Valley
The Story of the Summers-Koontz Execution
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Try to meet me in Heaven where I hope to go.These poignant words were written in the summer of 1865 by twenty-year-old Confederate Sergeant Isaac Newton Koontz, in a letter he penned for his fianc�e just hours before his death at the hands of Union firing squad in the heart of Virginia�s Shenandoah...
by Michael K. Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The citizens of Washington County, Virginia gave up their sons and daughters to the Confederate cause of the Civil War. Contributing six Confederate generals as well as Union officers, the region is emblematic of communities throughout the nation that sacrificed during the war. Though the sounds of cannon...
by Jack Coggins
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The first military conflict to use iron-clad gunboats, metallic cartridges, and submarines, the Civil War also introduced such inventions as the telegraph and military balloon, utilized by the Signal Corps. This comprehensive reference brings a fresh perspective to wartime victories and defeats,...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities’ civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 1818–1895), an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. His list of accomplishments would...
Rhode Island and the Civil War
Voices From the Ocean State
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The Ocean State has a remarkable record of service during the Civil War. It supplied over twenty-three thousand men for the infantry, cavalry and artillery units between 1861 and 1865. From Bull Run to Appomattox and many battles along the way, including Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, Rhode...
Death, Disease, and Life at War
The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D. Benton, 111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments, 1862-1865
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Union surgeon James Dana Benton witnessed firsthand the suffering and death brought about by the ghastly wounds, infections, and diseases that wreaked havoc to both the Union and Confederate armies. A native of New York, Dr. Benton penned a series of letters throughout the war to his family relating...
by Joseph B. Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Joseph Brevard Kershaw (January 5, 1822 April 13, 1894) was a lawyer, judge, and a Confederate general in the Civil War who commanded the 2nd South Carolina Infantry regiment at the beginning of the war, taking part in the First Battle of Bull Run. From there, Kershaw began to rise in command, eventually...
by William E. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Without question, the most famous battle of the Civil War took place outside of the small town of Gettysburg from July 1-3, 1863. Over those three days, nearly 8,000 would die, over 30,000 would be casualties, and the most famous attack of the war, Picketts Charge, would fail Robert E. Lees Army of Northern...