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Thomas Ewing Jr.
Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
An Ohio family with roots in the South, the Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than fifty years. Patriarch Thomas Ewing, a former Whig senator and cabinet member who made his fortune as a real estate lawyer, raised four major players in the nation’s history—including William...
by Spencer C. Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
This book treats 30 important civil wars and revolutions across the world, including Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East, covering a broad swath of recorded history from ancient times to the present.
• Provides the reader with an informative, accessible account of important...
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by Spencer C. Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Intended for general-interest readers and high school and college students, American Civil War: A State-by-State Encyclopedia serves as a unique ready reference that documents the important contributions of each individual state to the American Civil War and underscores the similarities and differences...
Civil War Places
Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us understand our own history? What kinds of places are worth remembering and why? In this collection of essays,...
by William L. Richter
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated. There was a very real possibility that the union could have been sundered, resulting in a very different American history, and probably world history. But the union was held together by tough...
Thank God My Regiment an African One
The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
"Incredible!... Anyone interested in the hardship, frustration, and courage of soldiers at war will be enthralled by this book." -- James G. Hollandsworth, author of The Louisiana Native Guards
Until now, Union army colonel Nathan W. Daniels has been a forgotten man with a forgotten regiment. The...
by Sean M. Heuvel, Lisa L. Heuvel
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
America’s second oldest higher education institution experienced the full violence of the Civil War, with a wartime destiny of destruction compounded by its strategic location in Virginia’s Tidewater region between Union and Confederate lines. This book describes the fate of the College and also...
Pursuit:
The Chase, Capture, Persecution & Surprising Release of Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
"A Spellbinding Tale Of The Last Days Of The Confederacy." --David J. Eicher, author of The Longest Night
In the only book to tell the definitive story of Confederate President Jefferson Davis's chase, capture, imprisonment, and release, journalist and Civil War writer Clint Johnson...
Confederate Outlaw
Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
In the fall of 1865, the United States Army executed Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson for his role in murdering fifty-three loyal citizens of Kentucky and Tennessee during the Civil War. Long remembered as the most unforgiving and inglorious warrior of the Confederacy, Ferguson has often been...
A Politician Turned General
The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A new case study of one of Lincoln’s political generals in the Civil War
A Politician Turned General offers a critical examination of the turbulent early political career and the controversial military service of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, an Illinois Whig, Republican politician, and Northern...
Black Jack
John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
John A. Logan, called "Black Jack" by the men he led in Civil War battles from the Henry-Donelson campaign to Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, was one of the Union Army’s most colorful generals.
James Pickett Jones places Logan in his southern Illinois surroundings as...
Reconstruction in Alabama
From Civil War to Redemption in the Cotton South
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
The civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social history of emancipation and the hopefulness that reunification would bring equality. Much of this revisionist work served to counter and correct the racist and pro-Confederate...
The Diary of a Civil War Marine
Private Josiah Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Diary of a Civil War Marine: Private Josiah Gregg is a rare firsthand account of a United States Marine during the Civil War, written within hours of the events described. Gregg enlisted as a private at the beginning of the war, and served as a shipboard Marine on the Vanderbilt as it hunted Confederate...
Teacher of Civil War Generals
Major General Charles Ferguson Smith, Soldier and West Point Commandant
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier’s soldier. He served at the U.S. Military Academy from 1829 to 1842 as Instructor of Tactics, Adjutant to the Superintendent and Commandant of Cadets. During his 42-year career he was a teacher, mentor and role model...