Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Civil War Dynasty
The Ewing Family of Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it was the Ewing family who raised Sherman, got him into West Point, and provided him with the financial resources and political connections to succeed...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes an original introduction for each leader.*Includes a bibliography for each leader.*Includes a Table of ContentsDespite the fact that the Civil War began over 150 years ago, it remains one of the most widely discussed topics in America...
Mississippi in the Civil War
The Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
In Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, Timothy B. Smith examines Mississippi's Civil War defeat by both outside and inside forces. The invading Union army dismantled the state's political system, infrastructure, economy, and fighting capability. The state saw extensive military operations,...
Meade and Lee After Gettysburg
The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14–31, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This “very satisfying blow-by-blow account of the final stages of the Gettysburg Campaign” fills an important gap in Civil War history (Civil War Books and Authors).
Winner of the Gettysburg Civil War Round Table Book Award
This fascinating book exposes what has been hiding in plain...
by Larry Wood
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Though the First and Second Battles of Newtonia did not match epic Civil War battles like Antietam, where over thirty-five hundred soldiers were killed in a single day, and Gettysburg, where twice that number died in three days of fighting, such smaller engagements were just as important to the men who...
The Civil War in Arizona
The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Bull Run, Gettysburg, Appomattox. For Americans, these battlegrounds, all located in the eastern United States, will forever be associated with the Civil War. But few realize that the Civil War was also fought far to the west of these sites. The westernmost battle of the war took place in the remote...
The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan
Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 1989
From the author of Gettysburg: A “valuable” collection of the letters of this controversial Civil War general (James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books).
No one played as many major roles during the Civil War as Gen. George B. McClellan, nor did any other figure write such candid letters...
Killing Dixie
Volume I - The Rise: 1860 to 1861
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
KILLING DIXIEThe Rise and Fall of the Confederate States of America Volume I The Rise: 1860 to 1861 The Killing Dixie volume collection is a chronological, day-to-day account of the activities of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War from its birth to its downfall. Not only is...
Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War 2
The United States History for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War tells stories about the ideas and issues that have shaped the United States in the era of Abraham Lincoln’s presidential term and the Civil War. You can think of it not just as a series of history of America and its people, but a series of lessons....
A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time
Julia Wilbur's Struggle for Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family’s farm near Rochester, New York, and boarded a train to Washington DC. As an ardent abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old Wilbur left a sad but stable life, headed toward the chaos of the Civil War, and spent most of the next several years in Alexandria...
Civil War Washington
History, Place, and Digital Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
While it is impossible to re-create the tumultuous Washington DC of the Civil War, Civil War Washington sets out to examine the nation’s capital during the Civil War along with the digital platform (civilwardc.org) that reimagines it during those turbulent years.
Among the many topics covered...
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809--1877), a principal architect of the South's "Lost Cause" mythology, remains one of the Civil War generation's most controversial intellectuals. In Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Defender of the Old South and Architect of the Lost Cause, Terry A. Barnhart sheds new light on this...
Civil War Pharmacy
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
When the Civil War began, the U.S. pharmaceutical industry was concentrated almost exclusively in Philadelphia and was dominated by just a few major firms; when the war ended, it was poised to expand nationwide. Civil War Pharmacy is the first book to delineate how the growing field of pharmacy gained...
by William J. Cooper Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Initially published between 1970 and 2012, the essays in Approaching Civil War and Southern History span almost the entirety of William J. Cooper’s illustrious scholarly career and range widely across a broad spectrum of subjects in Civil War and southern history. Together, they illustrate the broad...