Civil category: 10105 books
Why Confederates Fought
Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even those who...
by Mark A. Noll
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all...
New Hampshire and the Civil War
Voices from the Granite State
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Granite State has a remarkable record of service during the Civil War. It supplied a total of 10,657 recruits for the infantry, cavalry and field artillery divisions in 1861, with the majority of these first recruits enlisting for three years of service. Historian Bruce Heald lets the soldiers and...
The Civil War Months
A Month-By-Month Compendium of the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Civil War obliterated Americas past, along with many of the founders visions of what America should be. Replacing those visions was the America that we have today. Any true understanding of America, both past and present, must include a specific understanding of this conflict.
This work,...
The Civil War in the West
Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West, there would be little hope of preserving the Confederacy....
Mountains Touched with Fire
Chattanooga Besieged, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1997
An Award-Winning Historian Dramatically Re-Creates a Turning Point of the Civil War
It was one of the most startling events of the civil war, the "hour of destiny" for the Union. Faced with the prospect of catastrophic defeat, the North's greatest generals--Ulysses Grant, William...
A Single Grand Victory
The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
More than 800 men lost their lives and 2,700 were wounded. Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson earned his legendary nickname "Stonewall" here as fellow Confederate General Barnard Bee, later fatally wounded in the battle, shouted, "Yonder stands Jackson like a stone wall!" Both...
Last Days of the Civil War
The Enormous Silence
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning history A Stillness at Appomattox, an electrifying account of the end of the Civil War—Grant and Lee’s final maneuvers as four years of internecine conflict inched to a close.
“The end of the war was like the beginning, with the...
by Henry J. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Henry Jackson Hunt (September 14, 1819 February 11, 1889) was Chief of Artillery in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Considered by his contemporaries the greatest artillery tactician and strategist of the war, he was a master of the science of gunnery and rewrote the manual on the organization...
by Daniel M. Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
When President Lincoln issued his 1861 call to arms, the 63rd, 69th and 88th New York Volunteers were among the first to step forward. Comprised primarily of first and second generation Irish immigrants, these three regiments were later joined by the 28th Massachusetts and the 116th Pennsylvania....
The Reconstruction of Mark Twain
How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in the border state of Missouri in a slave-holding family, was among them. Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer...
A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War
Marcus M. Spiegel of the Ohio Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Marcus Spiegel, a German Jewish immigrant, served with the 67th and 120th Ohio Volunteer regiments during the Civil War. He saw action in Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, where he was fatally wounded in May 1864. These letters to Caroline, his wife, reveal the traumatizing experience of a soldier and the constant concern of a husband and father.
Two Charlestonians at War
The Civil War Odysseys of a Lowcountry Aristocrat and a Black Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Tracing the intersecting lives of a Confederate plantation owner and a free black Union soldier, Barbara L. Bellows’ Two Charlestonians at War offers a poignant allegory of the fraught, interdependent relationship between wartime enemies in the Civil War South. Through the eyes of these very different...
The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot
The Fort Stevens Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story recounts the story of President Abraham Lincoln’s role in the Battle of Fort Stevens in July 1864. This engagement stands apart in American history as the only time a sitting American president came under enemy fire while in office. In this...