Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1998
This new edition of the definitive guide to Civil War battlefields is really a completely new book. While the first edition covered 60 major battlefields, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, the second covers all of the 384 designated as the "principal battlefields" in the Civil War Sites Advisory...
The Civil War in Mississippi
Major Campaigns and Battles
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring of 1862 through Benjamin Grierson's last raid through Mississippi in late 1864 and early 1865, this book traces the campaigns, fighting, and causes and effects of armed conflict in central and North Mississippi, where major campaigns were waged...
New Men
Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Scholars of the Civil War era have commonly assumed that veterans of the Union and Confederate armies effortlessly melted back into society and that they adjusted to the demands of peacetime with little or no difficulty. Yet the path these soldiers followed on the road to reintegration was far more...
Bugle Resounding
Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
In the mid-nineteenth century the United States was musically vibrant. Rising industrialization, a growing middle class, and increasing concern for the founding of American centers of art created a culture that was rich in musical capital. Beyond its importance to the people who created and played...
The Greatest Brigade
How the Irish Brigade Cleared the Way to Victory in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
"The Greatest Brigade is an exciting journey through the major battles of the Civil War alongside the members of the famed Irish Brigade. Well researched, compellingly written, filled with fascinating illustrations, and with a story that holds the reader with a 'bulldog grip,' Thomas Craughwell...
by Col USA Roy Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
How Did Texas Survive The Civil War?
More specifically, how did Texas manage to repulse invading Union armies? And why were there no major battles like Antietam, Shiloh or Gettysburg fought in Texas?
Answers include that Texas was too far, too large and that Texans (over 80,000 fought...
Dispatches From Bermuda
The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861-1868
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Civil War diplomacy and espionageIn the summer of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Charles Maxwell Allen U.S. consul to Bermuda. During the Civil War, Allen's post became one of vital importance to the United States as this British colony became a center for Confederate blockade-running activities....
The Suppressed History of American Banking
How Big Banks Fought Jackson, Killed Lincoln, and Caused the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Reveals how the Rothschild Banking Dynasty fomented war and assassination attempts on 4 presidents in order to create the Federal Reserve Bank
• Explains how the Rothschild family began the War of 1812 because Congress failed to renew a 20-year charter for their Central Bank as well as how...
Civil War Infantry Tactics
Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
For decades, military historians have argued that the introduction of the rifle musket-with a range five times longer than that of the smoothbore musket-made the shoulder-to-shoulder formations of linear tactics obsolete. Author Earl J. Hess challenges this deeply entrenched assumption. He contends...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
This Army history publication, prepared in commemoration of our national sacrifices, provides details and analysis of the opening clashes of the War Between the States in 1861, including Fort Sumter, Virginia and Bull Run, the Fight for Missouri, Belmont, and Port Royal.
Although over one hundred...
The Last Citadel
Petersburg, June 1864 - April 1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
This revised Sesquicentennial edition of Noah Andre Trudeau’s The Last Citadel, which includes updated text, redrawn maps, and new material, is a groundbreaking study of the most extensive military operation of the Civil War—the investment of Petersburg, Virginia.
The Petersburg campaign...
Attack and Die
Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
“In the first twenty-seven months of combat 175,000 Southern soldiers died. This number was more than the entire Confederate military force in the summer of 1861, and it far exceeded the strength of any army that Lee ever commanded. More than 80,000 Southerners fell in just five battles. At Gettysburg...
The Civil War in Mississippi
Major Campaigns and Battles
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring of 1862 through Benjamin Grierson's last raid through Mississippi in late 1864 and early 1865, this book traces the campaigns, fighting, and causes and effects of armed conflict in central and North Mississippi, where major campaigns were waged...
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by General G. Moxley Sorrel
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
“As a young man in Georgia, G. Moxley Sorrel enlisted in a cavalry unit even before the Civil War erupted, so eager was he to serve his home...