Civil category: 10105 books
by walter shreffler
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Part One of the book contains brief biographies of 49 Shrefflers who served in the Civil War, including their post war lives and pertinent genealogical information. Part Two offers an overview and statistical analysis of the men as a group. The work is annotated and indexed with selected sources noted. 200 pages
by Walter Gable
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Though hundreds of miles away from the death and destruction of the battlefield, Seneca County, New York, contributed more than its share for the preservation of the Union. Many brave men left home to fight, suffering hardships and casualties. John Hoster was captured in 1864 and held at the infamous...
Ruin Nation
Destruction and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern, black and white, male and female—make of this proliferation...
"I Hope to Do My Country Service"
The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters sharing...
Brothers One and All
Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
During the Civil War, the regiment was the fundamental component of armies both North and South, its reliability and effectiveness crucial to military success. Soldiers' devotion to their regiment -- their esprit de corps -- encouraged unit cohesion and motivated the individual soldier to march into...
by Robert Scott Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Prior to the Civil War, Atlanta was at the intersection of four rail lines, rendering the Georgia crossroads the fastest-growing city in the Deep South. As the Confederate States formed, Atlanta was a city deeply divided about secession. By the spring of 1863, war had arrived at the doorstep of Atlanta....
by David Herbert Donald
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s penetrating analysis of the crisis of democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
In Liberty and Union, David Herbert Donald persuasively examines one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. With the same wit, eloquence, and willingness...
Divided Loyalties
Kentucky’s Struggle for Armed Neutrality in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
On May 16, 1861, the Kentucky state legislature passed an ordinance declaring its neutrality, which the state’s governor, Beriah Magoffin, confirmed four days later. Kentucky’s declaration and ultimate support for the Union stood at odds with the state’s social and cultural heritage....
by Reid Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The American Civil War caused upheaval and massive private bereavement, but the years 1861-1865 also defined a great nation.
This book provides a concise introduction to events from the secession to the end of the war. It focuses on
the military progress of the war
Union and Confederate...
Boston and the Civil War
Hub of the Second Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Boston's black and white abolitionists forged a second American revolution dedicated to ending slavery and honoring the promise of liberty made in the Declaration of Independence. Before the war, Bostonians were bitterly divided between those who supported the Union and those opposed to its endorsement...
Ohio’s War
The Civil War in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
In 1860, Ohio was among the most influential states in the nation. As the third-most-populous state and the largest in the middle west, it embraced those elements that were in concert-but also at odds-in American society during the Civil War era. Ohio's War uses documents from that vibrant and tumultuous...
A Spy for the Union
The Life and Execution of Timothy Webster
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid–1850s he left the police department and took a job for Allan Pinkerton with his newly formed detective agency. As an operative for Pinkerton’s agency,...
The 116
The True Story of Abraham Lincoln’s Lost Guard
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The 116 is the definitive account of the Frontier Guards who defended President Lincoln from a kidnapping and assassination plot in the opening days of the Civil War. Based on original sources discovered at the Library of Congress, The 116 delves into the lives of these 116 men and their charismatic...
Contested Borderland
The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
During the four years of the Civil War, the border between eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia was highly contested territory, alternately occupied by both the Confederacy and the Union. Though this territory was sparsely populated, the geography of the region made it a desirable stronghold...