Civil category: 10105 books
Lincoln's Trident
The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In Lincoln’s Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union’s naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Established by the Navy Department in 1862, the West Gulf Blockading Squadron operated from St. Andrews Bay (Panama...
by Edward F. Winslow
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Born in Maine, Edward F. Winslow is a direct descendant of a man who came to America on the first voyage of the Mayflower. Winslow moves to Iowa and is working as a railway contractor when the Civil War starts. Winslow volunteers, mustering in as the Captain of Company F, 4th Iowa Cavalry in October...
The War for the Common Soldier
How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the...
Bitterly Divided
The South's Inner Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
The little-known history of anti-secession Southerners: “Absolutely essential Civil War reading.” —Booklist, starred review
Bitterly Divided reveals that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars—the external one that we know so much about, and an internal one about which there...
Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War
Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America’s Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society. At the beginning of the rebellion, state governors in Ohio,...
by Major William H. Burks USAF
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The United States’ Civil War ended in 1865. However, the post-conflict period immediately following, known as Reconstruction, lasted another twelve years. This era provides a great case study to examine the impacts of politics on military stability operations. This paper studies the Freedmen’s...
by Stevan F. Meserve, James A. Morgan III
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
A no-man's land through which raiding armies frequently passed, Loudoun County, Virginia, was itself a land of divided loyalties--one in three voters rejected secession in 1861--but with each new regiment came strengthened resolve to salvage their shattered lives despite defeat and military occupation.In...
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons
Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons confronts the enduring claim that Civil War military prisons represented an apocalyptic and a historical rupture in America's otherwise linear and progressive carceral history. Instead, it places the war years in the broader context of imprisonment...
by HANS L. TREFOUSSE
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
This is the story of the men who, as political realists, fought for the cause of racial reform in America before, during, and after the Civil War. Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, Benjamin F. Wade, and Zachariah Chandler are the central figures in Mr. Trefousse's study of the Radical Republicans...
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
A civil proceeding is filled with legalities and wordings that usually require the explanation of a lawyer but sometimes, the lawyer's explanations would only lead to more questions. This quick study guide has been laid out to take you from the commencement of a case through to a judgement. Never again fall victim to the lack of understanding of a civil proceeding. Pick a copy today.
Tobias's Story
The Life and Civil War Career of Tobias B. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
The focus of the book is a biographical telling of the Civil War career of Colonel Tobias B. Kaufman. Colonel Kaufman has rightly been called one of the most illustrious of the Civil War heroes of Central Pennsylvania by the well-known Pennsylvania Civil War soldier and author, J. Howard Wert. Kaufman...
by Andi Stix, Frank Hrbek
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Dive into the strife, conflict, and fractures that caused our universal divide during the American Civil War. Active History: Civil War provides students with meaningful learning experiences through five engaging and easy-to-implement simulations that appeal to a variety of learning modalities and...
The Advances in Civil Engineering Materials
Selected Papers of the ICACE 2018 held in Batu Ferringhi, Penang Malaysia on 9th -10th May 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
This volume presents a compilation of research works in civil engineering. All manuscripts in this volume were presented during the 2nd International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering (ICACE 2018) which was held at Parkroyal Hotel, Penang, Malaysia on 09–10 May 2018. The editor(s)...
Washington City Citadel
A Civil War Romance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Memories of my grandfather, Frederick John Burns (18751956), a homeopathic doctor who graduated from Rush Medical School in Chicago, and his daughter who was my mother, Lois Burns Stoddard (19162003), a graduate of the Henry Ford Nurses Training School in Detroit, stirred my interest in the history...