Civil category: 10105 books
by John Milton Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
When the American Civil War came, John Hubbard joined the Confederate cavalry. Early in the war he made this observation: "...one day I met a soldier speeding a magnificent black horse along a country road as if for exercise, and the pleasure of being astride of so fine an animal. On closer inspection,...
A Corporal's Story
Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
When George Kimball (1840–1916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in 1861, he’d been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned to newspaper...
Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill
The "War Memories" of John Henry Otto, Captain, Company D, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
John Henry Otto was born September 12, 1822, in Westphalia, Germany, and enlisted in the Prussian army sometime around 1845. According to his own account, he served in the war between Prussia and Denmark in 1848 and as a sergeant fought to suppress revolution in southern Germany. He was discharged in...
Civil War Letters
From Home, Camp and Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This fascinating anthology commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with heartfelt letters by Union and Confederate sympathizers and soldiers of all ranks. Authentic illustrations accompany insightful missives by Lincoln, several generals (including Grant, Lee, Butler, Jackson, and Sherman), Walt Whitman, Jefferson Davis, and many of their contemporaries.
by Robert Jefferson Norrell
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Bringing us close to the complex history of the civil rights movement in the American South—the currents that involved thousands of communities and millions of individual lives—this book looks deeply into the experiences of a single Alabama town, Tuskegee, and its surrounding Macon County. It...
Dividing Lines
Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
With this bold offering from two decades of research, J. Mills Thornton III presents the story of the civil rights movement from the perspective of community-municipal history at the grassroots level. Thornton demonstrates that the movement had powerful local sources in its three birth cities—Montgomery,...
Answering the Call
An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
“Jones, a trailblazing African American judge, delivers an urgently needed perspective on American history . . . [A] passionate and informative account” (Booklist, starred review).
Answering the Call is an extraordinary eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality...
Secession Winter
When the Union Fell Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays...
Loathing Lincoln
An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
While most Americans count Abraham Lincoln among the most beloved and admired former presidents, a dedicated minority has long viewed him not only as the worst president in the country's history, but also as a criminal who defied the Constitution and advanced federal power and the idea of racial equality....
by Eric Foner
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1981
Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period. The first section of this book deals with the causes of the sectional conflict; the second, with the antislavery...
by Lyde Cullen Sizer
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction,...
Apostles of Disunion
Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book...
Inside War
The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 1990
During the Civil War, the state of Missouri witnessed the most widespread, prolonged, and destructive guerrilla fighting in American history. With its horrific combination of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and swift and bloody raids on farms and settlements, the conflict approached total war, engulfing...
A Savage Conflict
The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large...