Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
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The American War Of Sucession – 1863 [Illustrated Edition]
Chancellorsville And Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps, and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
The American Civil War had been raging since 1861. In the eastern theatre of the war, the Confederate forces - under the brilliant leadership...
Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War
Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America’s Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society. At the beginning of the rebellion, state governors in Ohio,...
Washington City Citadel
A Civil War Romance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Memories of my grandfather, Frederick John Burns (18751956), a homeopathic doctor who graduated from Rush Medical School in Chicago, and his daughter who was my mother, Lois Burns Stoddard (19162003), a graduate of the Henry Ford Nurses Training School in Detroit, stirred my interest in the history...
8th Texas Rangers Cavalry: Reminisces Of The Terry Rangers
Civil War Texas Ranger & Cavalry, #4
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
"8th Texas Rangers Cavalry: Reminisces Of The Terry Rangers" by James Knox Polk Blackburn is a short history of this Texas cavalry regiment during the Civil War. J. K. P. Blackburn was a member of Company F, rising from volunteer private to captain of this famous cavalry unit so the history...
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (Civil War Classics)
Volume 1 (1832-1843)
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.The first entry in the comprehensive collection of the writings...
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington
Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The “compelling…modern and readable perpective” (USA TODAY) of Robert E. Lee, the brilliant soldier bound by marriage to George Washington’s family but turned by war against Washington’s crowning achievement, the Union.
On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy...
by Samuel R. Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Told from the point of view of an ordinary foot soldier, this personal memoir has been hailed as one of the liveliest, wittiest, and most significant commentaries ever written on the Civil War.
Among the plethora of books about the Civil War, Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal...
by David Herbert Donald
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
A Pulitzer Prize winner's “magisterial” biography of the Civil War–era Massachusetts senator, a Radical Republican who fought for slavery’s abolition (The New York Times).
In his follow-up to Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, acclaimed historian David Herbert Donald examines...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
When the Civil War halted steamboat travel on the Mississippi River in 1861, an unemployed riverboat pilot named Samuel Clemens enlisted in the Missouri militia. After two weeks of service, Clemens abandoned his post and fled westward to begin a writing career -- a turn of events that precipitated...
by Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
After the American Civil War began in April 1861, Ulysses S. Grant made a meteoric rise to the top of the Union war effort. Illinois. On April 6, 1862 a determined full-force attack from the Confederate Army took place at the Battle of Shiloh; the objective was to destroy the entire Western Union...
How the South Could Have Won the Civil War
The Fatal Errors That Led to Confederate Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
Could the South have won the Civil War?
To many, the very question seems absurd. After all, the Confederacy had only a third of the population and one-eleventh of the industry of the North. Wasn’t the South’s defeat inevitable?
Not at all, as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
This Army history publication provides details and analysis of the Civil War from its beginnings in 1816 through its conclusion.
Contents include: Secession, Sumter, and Standing to Arms * The Balloon Experiment * The Baltimore Riots * The Opponents * Anaconda Plan * First Bull Run (First Manassas)...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
The Vicksburg Campaign: November 1862 - July 1863 - The campaign for the control of Vicksburg was one of the most important contests in determining the outcome of the Civil War. As President Abraham Lincoln observed, "Vicksburg is the key. The war can never be brought to a close until that key...
The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory
The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Why another book on the Iron Brigade? Because this is really the first book on this storied outfit—and it could not have been written without the lifetime of study undertaken by award-winning author Lance J. Herdegen. More than a standard military account, Herdegen’s latest puts flesh and faces...