Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Why Custer Was Never Warned
The Forgotten Story of the True Genesis of America's Most Iconic Military Disaster, Custer's Last Stand
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
For the first time, this ground-breaking book tells the forgotten story of the true genesis of the June 25, 1876 disaster along the Little Bighorn, "Custer's Last Stand." The failure of the southern column to continue to advance north after the battle of the Rosebud set the stage for the annihilation...
From Battlefields Rising
How The Civil War Transformed American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
When Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--the bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its political, racial, and social landscape. Prior...
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by General John B. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Few generals of the Confederate States Army had such a glittering career as John Brown Gordon, although without any formal military training he rose from captain of a company of Georgia mountineers to the rank of Major-General. He was described by the Robert E. Lee as one of his finest commanders...
The American Civil War (2)
The war in the West 1861–July 1863
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The American Civil War's vast Western Theater witnessed enormously important military campaigning during the period 1861 - 1863. This book, the third in a four-volume series, examines the geographical, logistical and strategic factors that shaped fighting in this theater, as well as assessing officers...
The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War
The best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal top ten rankings of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
"The single best kickoff to the American Civil War...I can't imagine a better guide for any of us, whether student or scholar."
-Robert Hicks author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Widow of the South
"A detailed and enjoyable set of facts and stories that will engage...
Appomattox
Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction Winner, Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies, New York Military Affairs Symposium Winner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round Table Finalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy Best Books of...
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by Sam R. Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
“A classic account of Civil War combat. This is a justifiably famous account of the Civil War told by an ordinary soldier from within...
by Eric Foner
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1981
Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period. The first section of this book deals with the causes of the sectional conflict; the second, with the antislavery...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
First published in 1962 as a special edition of Civil War History journal, Civil War Prisons remains the standard on the topic. Editor Hesseltine tackles the historiography of northern and southern prisons during the American Civil War. He attempts to bring closure to the legendary northern myth that...
by Ronald S. Coddington
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A renowned collector of Civil War photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War soldiers contains previously unpublished photographs of...
Living Hell
The Dark Side of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude but who...
TIME-LIFE The Civil War - On the Front Lines
From Fort Sumter to Appomattox
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
North vs. South. Brother against brother. The War of Northern Aggression. The Civil War, over 150 years in our nation's past, still weighs upon American culture and politics to this day. Now, in an all-new special edition, TIME LIFE brings readers a thorough overview of what remains the largest, longest...
Illinois’s War
The Civil War in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
On the eve of the Civil War and after, Illinois was one of the most significant states in the Union. Its history is, in many respects, the history of the Union writ large: its political leaders figured centrally in the war’s origins, progress, and legacies; and its diverse residents made sacrifices...
Drawn with the Sword
Reflections on the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1997
James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of...