Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Civil War Arkansas, 1863
The Battle for a State
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South. During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving troops and supplies. In 1863 the battle to wrest control of the valley was, in effect, a battle for the state itself. In spite of its importance, however,...
Fields of Honor
Pivotal Battles of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Few historians have ever captured the drama, excitement, and tragedy of the Civil War with the headlong elan of Edwin Bearss, who has won a huge, devoted following with his extraordinary battlefield tours and eloquent soliloquies about the heroes, scoundrels, and little-known moments of a conflict...
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by Jennifer M. Murray
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes 6 maps and numerous other illustrations
The Civil War Begins: Opening Clashes, 1861 is the first in a series of campaign brochures commemorating our national sacrifices during the American Civil War. Author Jennifer Murray examines the successes and challenges of both the Union and...
by Harold Holzer, New-York Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects, a fresh, visual perspective on the Civil War
From a soldier’s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown’s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln’s bier, here is a unique and surprisingly...
The Confederate Nation
1861 to 1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
“The Confederate Nation has yet to be superseded as the standard title on the subject. ” —Journal of Southern History, 2007
“Incisive and insightful…. As good a short history of the Southern war effort was we have.” —T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln...
The Fire of Freedom
Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the most significant and stirring black leaders in the South during the Civil War. Throughout his brief, mercurial life, Galloway fought against slavery and injustice....
A People at War
Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it brought freedom to millions. This book shows how average Americans coped with despair as well as hope during this vast upheaval. A People at War brings...
Battle of Big Bethel
Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
“A comprehensive study of the Civil War’s first major battle . . . well leavened with strategic and political context” (Robert E. L. Krick, author of Staff Officers in Gray).
Battle of Big Bethel is the first full-length treatment of the small but consequential June 1861 Virginia battle...
Triumph and Defeat
The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2006
The study of the Civil War in the Western Theater is more popular now than ever before, and the center of that interest is the months-long Vicksburg Campaign, which is the subject of National Park Historian Terrence J. Winschel’s new book Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign, Vol 2.
Following...
Lee’s Army Has Not Lost Any of Its Prestige
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this Civil War Short, Gary W. Gallagher surveys Confederate sentiment in the summer of 1863 and argues that many southerners did not view the battle of Gettysburg as a resounding defeat. Gallagher makes the compelling case that, although southern casualties were tremendous, Confederates across...
Remembering the Civil War
Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation--men and women, black...
Paying Freedom's Price
A History of African Americans in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans—both slave and free—from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or...
by Ezra J. Warner Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1975
"This is a very valuable reference work, the non-existence of which has long been deplored by Civil War historians. The research, which is impressive, has turned up a considerable amount of detail not generally known, even among Civil War specialists." -- Bell I. Wiley
This vital...
Days of Defiance
Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
“Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
In November 1860, telegraph lines carried the news that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president. Over the next five months the United States drifted, stumbled,...