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"Stand to It and Give Them Hell"
Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced it From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
“[A] stirring narrative of the common soldier’s experiences on the southern end of the battlefield on the second day of fighting at Gettysburg.” —Civil War News
“Stand to It and Give Them Hell” chronicles the Gettysburg fighting from Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top on July 2, 1863,...
by Nancy Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War. The accounts of gallantry and heroism have spread far and wide. Nancy Roberts grew up listening to her father's stories of the War Between the States and she trekked over many battle sites with him during...
Women in the Civil War
Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
When the Civil War broke out, women answered the call for help. They broke away from their traditional roles and served in many capacities, some of them even going so far as to disguise themselves as men and enlist in the army. Estimates of such women enlistees range from 400 to 700. About 60 women...
by Michael C. Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
In the Southern Appalachian Mountains, no character was more loved or despised than Union officer George W. Kirk. He led a group of deserters on numerous raids between Tennessee and North Carolina in 1863. At Camp Vance in Morganton, Kirk's mounted raiders showcased guerrilla warfare penetrating deep...
New York's North Country and the Civil War
Soldiers, Civilians and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Although Northern New York did not host any Civil War battles, it did not come out unscathed in the War Between the States. Brave soldiers fought in many major clashes, such as those of Jefferson County's Thirty-fifth New York Volunteer Regiment. Civilians struggled for the cause in their own way, with...
by Edward Porter Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and officer in the U.S. Army, but the native Georgian resigned his commission in May 1861 and joined the Confederacy...
Joshua L. Chamberlain
The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
His life is a remarkable story of perseverance, tragedy and triumph. From an insecure young man with a considerable stutter who grew up in a small town in eastern Maine, Joshua Chamberlain rose to become a major general, recipient of the Medal of Honor, Governor of Maine and President of Bowdoin College....
The Better Angel
Walt Whitman in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2000
For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experiences with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world. In The Better Angel, acclaimed biographer Roy Morris,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
The long agony of the American Civil War inspired a wealth of contemporary verse — from sentimental doggerel to sublime lyrics that rank among the finest American poetry. This inexpensive anthology brings together a superb selection of poems from both North and South, comprising the best and most...
by Debra Goodrich Bisel
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
In the 1850s, the eyes of the world were on Kansas. The Civil War in Kansas will be an overview of the years 1854-1865, since the war began in Kansas nearly seven years before it spread to the rest of the nation. From the repeal of the Missouri Compromise to its entry in the Union, Kansas played a small...
The Mortal Wounding of Stonewall Jackson
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The stunning Confederate victory at Chancellorsville came at an enormous cost: an estimated 13,000 Confederate casualties. The most prominent, of course, was Stonewall Jackson, who was wounded by friendly fire and died several days later, on 10 May 1863. This Civil War Short presents Robert K. Krick's...
Union Infantryman vs Confederate Infantryman
Eastern Theater 1861–65
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The enthusiastic but largely inexperienced soldiers serving on both sides in the Civil War had to adapt quickly to the appalling realities of warfare in the industrial age. Author Ron Field, an authority on the Civil War, investigates three clashes that illustrate the changing realities of combat....
by James W. Erwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Missouri ranks third in the number of Civil War battles fought on its soil. Although some sizable actions were fought in the state, most of the battles were the result of the intense guerrilla activity. These battles are only the actions reported by Federal troops against the guerrillas. The attacks...
The Golden State in the Civil War
Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
This book breaks new ground, not only in its coverage of California, but also in its treatment of the role of cultural links in enhancing national loyalty, in its attention to many groups of people of color, including Chinese and Latinos, and what happened to them during the Civil War. In addition,...