Civil category: 10105 books
Meade's Army
The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's aide-de-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. Lyman was a Harvard-trained natural scientist who was exceptionally disciplined in recording the events, the players, and his surroundings during his wartime duty. His private...
Nelson County
A Portrait of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 1999
The occupation of Bardstown and Nelson County, Kentucky, by Union troops began in September of 1861 and ended in September of 1865�a turbulent time in the �neutral� county, and a piece of history rarely explored by Kentuckians. In this unprecedented visualjourney, discover the unique role that...
by George D.N. Coletti
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Buck Jernigan, his wife Betty Gail and their twins, Norman and Polly, live in the small hamlet of Stone Mountain, Georgia. The Civil War reshapes their environment from a thriving tourist and granite Mecca to a war-ravaged county. Although the Jernigans are pro-Union their family becomes entangled...
by John F. Locke
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
John F. Locke was a Confederate soldier in the 14th Tennessee, Company D, and served in the Army of Northern Viriginia throughout the American Civil War. This portion of the diary exposes the reader to the mind of John F. Locke and his experiences in 1861.
Sing Not War
The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences...
Bleeding Borders
Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In Bleeding Borders, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel offers a fresh, multifaceted interpretation of the quintessential sectional conflict in pre--Civil War Kansas. Instead of focusing on the white, male politicians and settlers who vied for control of the Kansas territorial legislature, Oertel explores the...
by John Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
A look at the administration and functioning of the civil war era hospitals at Fortress Monroe. Illustrated.
by General Forsyth U. S. A.
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
General Forsyth U. S. A. 1837-1915 was a United States military officer who served in the cavalry during the American Civil War and the Plains Indian Wars of 1870 to 1890.
Forsyth was born in Pennsylvania, and enlisted as a private in a 3 month regiment, Barker's Company, Chicago Volunteer...
Spying on Democracy
Government Surveillance, Corporate Power and Public Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly...
Operational Modal Analysis of Civil Engineering Structures
An Introduction and Guide for Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
This book covers all aspects of operational modal analysis for civil engineering, from theoretical background to applications, including measurement hardware, software development, and data processing. In particular, this book provides an extensive description and discussion of OMA methods, their...
The Loyal West
Civil War and Reunion in Middle America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War-era America. Here grew a Unionism steeped in the mythology of the Loyal West--a myth rooted in regional and racial animosities and the belief that westerners had won...
Knocking on the Door
The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present. Providing a particularly detailed analysis of the period 1968 to 1973, the book examines how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) attempted...
Soldier of Southwestern Virginia
The Civil War Letters of Captain John Preston Sheffey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Far more than a documentation of the horrors and banality of the Civil War, John Preston Sheffey's literate and witty writings demonstrate his ardor for battle, his love of Virginia, and his passion in waging a most arduous and suspenseful campaign: to win Josephine Spiller as his wife. Superbly edited...
by Major Jeremy B. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Considering the history of unconventional warfare in the United States, and specifically, during the Civil War, it begs the question: Did the Confederacy’s strategy to engage in unconventional warfare significantly contribute to its conventional strategy? Two assertions remain most accepted by historians...