Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Three Years With Grant
As Recalled by War Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
During the Civil War, Sylvanus Cadwallader, a war correspondent employed first by the Chicago Times and later for the New York Herald, was attached to General Grant’s headquarters from 1862 to 1865. Three Years with Grant is his account of that period.
As a portrait of Grant, the personality...
Commanders of the Civil War
Brief Biographies of Selected Generals and Statesmen in the Conflict of the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Entering the service on either side at various ranks and from all walks of life, thousands of men commanded as officers over the course of the Civil War. Some rose meteorically to high rank, while others ended their service considerably lower than their initial commission. The select group of forty-four...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
This unique compilation of three documents provides a fascinating look at the role of spies and intelligence in the conduct of the American Civil War.
The U.S. Army Military Intelligence History Sourcebook excerpt on the civil war covers many aspects of intelligence in the Civil War, including...
Ohio Confederate Connection
Facts You May Not Know About the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
In Ohio Confederate Connection, Curtis Early, descendent of Lt. General Jubal A. Early of the Confederate States of America, and his wife, Gloria, present facts about the Civil War that may not be widely known. Gloria and Curtis Early have been doing Civil War re-enactments for the past twenty years,...
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...
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by G.A. Henty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With 91 pages of additional articles, references, and bibliographies of recommended reading. In Henty’s words, “The Great War between the Northern and Southern States of America possesses a peculiar interest for us, not only because it was a struggle between two sections of a people akin to us...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes maps of the battles. *Includes accounts of the fighting at Fort Sumter and First Bull Run by important generals and leaders who fought there. *Explains the causes and chain of events that led to the secession of Southern states and...
Remixing the Civil War
Meditations on the Sesquicentennial
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In 1961, the historian and poet Robert Penn Warren remarked that "the Civil War is, for the American imagination, the great single event of our history." This volume reconsiders whether, fifty years later, Warren’s claim still holds true.
Essays from specialists in art, literature,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Although over one hundred fifty years have passed since the start of the American Civil War, that titanic conflict continues to matter. The forces unleashed by that war were immensely destructive because of the significant issues involved: the existence of the Union, the end of slavery, and the very...
by Lonely Planet, Amy C Balfour, Michael Grosberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road withLonely Planet's **Civil War TrailRoad Trips. Featuring& four amazing road trips, plusup-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit...
National Geographic's The Civil War
The Conflict That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, this special ebook from National Geographic Magazine covers one of the most significant periods in the history of the United States. Full of maps, information graphics, timelines, and archival photographs to illuminate and educate,...
Scars to Prove It
The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
“When the first cannon sounded over Charleston Harbor in 1861, it announced the beginning of an American literary phenomenon. Readers North and South hungered for imaginative writing about the escalating war, and canny publishers were swift to deliver. . . . Today even the most conservative estimate...
A Southern Writer and the Civil War
The Confederate Imagination of William Gilmore Simms
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Historians of the American Civil War have debated a wide range of questions raised by the war and its outcome. None have been more vigorously argued as those surrounding its outcome. One of the leading explanations for Confederate defeat has been the argument that the Civil War South lacked a national...
by George F. Price
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
"Across The Continent with the Fifth Cavalry" by George F. Price, Captain Fifth Cavalry, U. S. A., is the history of the Fifth Cavalry of the United States Army from its organization in 1855 to 1883 when the book was published. The book is divided into two main parts: Part I is a narrative...