Civil category: 10105 books
Freedom's Witness
The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper The Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from the perspective of a civilian observer in Washington, D.C., and later, as one of the Union army’s first...
Awaiting the Heavenly Country
The Civil War and America's Culture of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to be killed. They understood that death awaited all who were born and prized the ability to face death with a spirit of calm resignation. They believed...
Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America
A Revolution on the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Most literature on the Civil War focuses on soldiers, battles, and politics. But for every soldier in the United States Army, there were nine civilians at home. The war affected those left on the home front in many ways. Westward expansion and land ownership increased. The draft disrupted families...
The Suppressed History of American Banking
How Big Banks Fought Jackson, Killed Lincoln, and Caused the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Reveals how the Rothschild Banking Dynasty fomented war and assassination attempts on 4 presidents in order to create the Federal Reserve Bank
• Explains how the Rothschild family began the War of 1812 because Congress failed to renew a 20-year charter for their Central Bank as well as how...
Themes of the American Civil War
The War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Themes of the American Civil War offers a timely and useful guide to this vast topic for a new generation of students. The volume provides a broad-ranging assessment of the causes, complexities, and consequences of America’s most destructive conflict to date. The essays, written by top scholars...
Targeted Tracks
The Cumberland Valley Railroad in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
The Civil War was the first conflict in which railroads played a major role. Although much has been written about their role in general, little has been written about specific lines. The Cumberland Valley Railroad, for example, played an important strategic role by connecting Hagerstown, Maryland...
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by Major Mark R. Stricker
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes more than 25 maps and illustrations
This study investigates the American Civil War role and contributions of Major General John Buford. Buford, a 1848 graduate of the United States Military Academy, began his Army career on America’s frontier with the First United States Dragoons. With...
The Civil War on the Mississippi
Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Flowing from its source in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River borders or passes through ten different states and serves as one of the most important transportation systems in the United States. During the Civil War, both sides believed that whoever controlled the river...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report by the U.S. Army examines the Petersburg and Appomattox campaigns of 1864 and 1865 in the American Civil War.By mid-June 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of all United States armies fighting...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this book about the U.S. Army campaigns of the Civil War examines the Mississippi and Tennessee campaigns of 1864. As 1863 gave way to 1864, the American Civil War concluded its pivotal year. In the East, the Confederates'...
Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War
The Trials of John Merryman
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman...
Blind No More
African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre–Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value...
by Michael B. Graham
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
West Virginia is the only state formed by seceding from a Confederate state. And its connections to the Civil War run deep. One day at a time, award-winning historian Michael Graham presents intriguing, event-driven anecdotes and history related to the state. On July 11, 1861, a Union force attacked...
Our Union Soldier’S Four Wars 1840-1863
The Story of Recovering One Family’S Lost Billy Yank
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
What began as an attempt to learn about the service of a family ancestor lost in the Civil War became an exciting journey following him through two decades and a half of some of the most critical years in Americas history. Irish Immigrant Peter Gregory Curry was one of the few soldiers who served...