Civil category: 10105 books
Rashness of That Hour
Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
WINNER, 2010, DR. JAMES I. ROBERTSON LITERARY PRIZE FOR CONFEDERATE HISTORY AWARD
WINNER, 2011, THE BACHELDER-CODDINGTON LITERARY AWARD, GIVEN BY THE ROBERT E. LEE CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE OF CENTRAL NEW JERSEY
No commander in the Army of Northern Virginia suffered more damage to his reputation...
Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862
The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Many readers of Civil War history have been led to believe the battle of South Mountain (September 14, 1862) was but a trifling skirmish, a preliminary engagement of little strategic or tactical consequence overshadowed by Antietams horrific carnage just three days later. In fact, the fight was a...
The Sword of Lincoln
The Army of the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
The Sword of Lincoln is the first authoritative single-volume history of the Army of the Potomac in many years.
From Bull Run to Gettysburg to Appomattox, the Army of the Potomac repeatedly fought -- and eventually defeated -- Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia. Jeffry D. Wert, one of...
Seven Days Before Richmond
Mcclellan’S Peninsula Campaign of 1862 and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Combining meticulous research with a unique perspective, Seven Days Before Richmond examines the 1862 Peninsula Campaign of Union General George McClellan and the profound effects it had on the lives of McClellan and Confederate General Robert E. Lee, as well as its lasting impact on the war itself.
Rudolph...
Confederate Tide Rising
Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Confederate Tide Rising is one of the most significant evaluations of Civil War strategy to be published in the past fifty years. It contributes critically to our understanding of the war, and it will influence the course of Civil War scholarship for decades to comes. I cannot overemphasize the...
Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland
Confederate High Tide in the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The Battle of Shiloh was one of the most important battles of the Civil War, and it offers a particularly rich opportunity to study the ways in which different leaders reacted to unexpected challenges. Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland provides a fascinating and fast-paced narrative history...
Petersburg to Appomattox
The End of the War in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The last days of fighting in the Civil War's eastern theater have been wrapped in mythology since the moment of Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House. War veterans and generations of historians alike have focused on the seemingly inevitable defeat of the Confederacy after Lee's flight...
Defeating Lee
A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
“Kreiser breathes new life into this most important of Union Army units. . . . A remarkably well-written and superbly researched account.” —David E. Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-election and the End of Slavery
Fair Oaks, the Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg,...
Sick from Freedom
African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking...
Yorktown's Civil War Siege
Drums Along the Warwick
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
On 4 April 1862, Major General George McClellan marched his 121,500-strong Army of the Potomac from Fort Monroe toward Richmond. Blocking his path were Major General John B. Magruder's Warwick-Yorktown Line fortifications and the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia. Despite outnumbering Magruder almost...
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by Fletcher Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
This one-volume history on the Civil War brings the events, figures, and battles of monumental conflict vividly to life. Absorbing details of military campaigns, battlefield strategies, and personalities revealed in an audacious style that carries readers breathlessly along from the day of Lincoln's...
by Robert I. Girardi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Selected from nearly 700 articles that first appeared in the Philadelphia Weekly Times from 1877 to 1889. Corrections of misconceptions about the Civil War. Compelling perspectives on familiar campaigns, personalities, and controversies.
African American Soldier in the Civil War
USCT 1862–66
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Approximately 200,000 African Americans fought for the Union during the Civil War. Initially, many white soldiers doubted their bravery and skill; they were soon proved wrong. The United States Colored Troops performed countless acts of courage, most famously at the battle of Fort Wagner where the...
American Civil War Fortifications (3)
The Mississippi and River Forts
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2013
The Mississippi River played a decisive role in the American Civil War. The Confederate fortifications that controlled the lower Mississippi valley were put to the test in the lengthy Federal campaign of 1862-63. Vicksburg was a fortress city, known as the 'Gibraltar of the Confederacy', whose capture...