Civil category: 10105 books
by Denis Hambucken, Chris Benedetto
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This book provides a glimpse at the lives, weapons, and equipment of these soldiers through a collection of artifacts and exacting reproductions.
As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed...
by Ron Field
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The part played in the Civil War by the small Marine Corps of the United and Confederate States is overshadowed by the confrontations of the great armies. Nevertheless, the coastal and riverine campaigns were of real importance, given the strategic significance of the Federal blockade of southern...
Hell Itself
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Soldiers called it one of the “waste places of nature” and “a region of gloom”—the Wilderness of Virginia, seventy square miles of dense, second-growth forest known as “the dark, close wood.” “A more unpromising theatre of war was never seen,” said another. Yet here, in the spring...
American Civil War Armies (3)
Specialist Troops
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
At the time of the American Civil War, with two million men under arms, a US Army that in pre-war days had depended upon a minute number of technical troops now required virtually an army of specialists alone. Special sharpshooters were recruited for skirmishing duty; men whose wounds would have led...
Shadows of Blue & Gray
The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War, he lived through it--on the battlefields and over the graves--and in doing so gave birth to a literary chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon. The fact that some of these stories verged on the supernatural, others...
by Stephen Crane
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This is a short novel published in 1895 and based vaguely on the battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. Unlike other works on the subject, Crane's novel does not concentrate on the big picture or the glory of war but on the psychology of one of its soldiers.
by Murray Pura, Joy Ross Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
150 years ago the history of America changed forever. Live 1863 through the stories of some of our finest writers – the passion, the romance, the tragedy, and the triumph.
Carrie Fancett Pagels. Kathleen Maher. Joy Ross Davis. Sarah Price. Karen Anna Vogel. Patrick E. Craig. Willard Carpenter....
Sherman's Other War
The General and the Civil War Press, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Marszalek traces the roots of Sherman’s hostility toward the press and details his attempts to muzzle reporters during the Civil War, culminating in Sherman’s exclusion of all reporters from his famous March to the Sea.
Despite the passage of over a century, the question of press rights...
Blackballed
The Black Vote and US Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Blackballedis Darryl Pinckney’s meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction through...
The Civil War
An Unvarnished Account
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The title says it all. An irreverent, journalistic survey that may never have been placed on a must read list by history professors or research specialists, but nevertheless is a succinct and down-home account by an author who speaks with the bite and honesty of someone you...
The Battle of Gettysburg
A Soldier's First-Hand Account
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The bloody, three-day battle of Gettysburg in the summer of 1863 resulted in thousands of casualties on both sides. Considered the turning point of the Civil War, the campaign rallied the Union troops. A few weeks after the epic military confrontation, Colonel Frank Haskell, a member of the Army...
by Ambrose Bierce
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Ambrose Bierce enlisted in the Union Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War and fought with distinction for 4 years, even earning recognition of his bravery in the newspapers of the day for a daring rescue attempt of gravely wounded comrade. His wartime experiences greatly effected his later...
I Am Perhaps Dying
The Medical Backstory of Spinal Tuberculosis Hidden in the Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Invalid teenager Leroy Wiley Gresham left a seven-volume diary spanning the years of secession and the Civil War (1860-1865). He was just 12 when he began and he died at 17, just weeks after the war ended. His remarkable account, recently published as *The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary...
Now the Drum of War
Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother, George, who led his men in twenty-one major battles, almost to die in a Confederate prison camp as the...