Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
In the Hands of Providence
Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Deserve[s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review
"[Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brilliant career. One can easily say that the definitive work on Joshua Chamberlain has now been done.--James Robertson, Richmond Times-Dispatch
"An...
The Guerrilla Hunters
Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors...
by Jack Coggins
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The first military conflict to use iron-clad gunboats, metallic cartridges, and submarines, the Civil War also introduced such inventions as the telegraph and military balloon, utilized by the Signal Corps. This comprehensive reference brings a fresh perspective to wartime victories and defeats,...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
In 1852, the United States of America was anything but united. The divisive issue of slavery was roiling the nation, which argued ad nauseam about the extension of slavery in new states as the nation pushed westward. Less than a decade later, Americans would fight each other in a Civil War that would...
Death, Disease, and Life at War
The Civil War Letters of Surgeon James D. Benton, 111th and 98th New York Infantry Regiments, 1862-1865
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Union surgeon James Dana Benton witnessed firsthand the suffering and death brought about by the ghastly wounds, infections, and diseases that wreaked havoc to both the Union and Confederate armies. A native of New York, Dr. Benton penned a series of letters throughout the war to his family relating...
by Joseph B. Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Joseph Brevard Kershaw (January 5, 1822 April 13, 1894) was a lawyer, judge, and a Confederate general in the Civil War who commanded the 2nd South Carolina Infantry regiment at the beginning of the war, taking part in the First Battle of Bull Run. From there, Kershaw began to rise in command, eventually...
by William E. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Without question, the most famous battle of the Civil War took place outside of the small town of Gettysburg from July 1-3, 1863. Over those three days, nearly 8,000 would die, over 30,000 would be casualties, and the most famous attack of the war, Picketts Charge, would fail Robert E. Lees Army of Northern...
by John D. Imboden
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Despite having no military training, John D. Imboden (1823-1895) became a well regarded cavalry officer and partisan fighter during the Civil War, distinguishing himself in Stonewall Jacksons famous Valley Campaign in 1862. In the Gettysburg Campaign, Imboden's brigade of cavalry guarded the Army of...
Traces of the Bloody Struggle
The Civil War at Stevenson Ridge, Spotsylvania Court House
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
As the 1864 Overland Campaign shifted from the Wilderness toward Spotsylvania Court House, Confederate commander Robert E. Lee successfully bottlenecked the Federal army just outside the village. Undeterred, Union commander Ulysses S. Grant sent part of his forces on a wide flanking maneuver to attack...
Two Charlestonians at War
The Civil War Odysseys of a Lowcountry Aristocrat and a Black Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Tracing the intersecting lives of a Confederate plantation owner and a free black Union soldier, Barbara L. Bellows’ Two Charlestonians at War offers a poignant allegory of the fraught, interdependent relationship between wartime enemies in the Civil War South. Through the eyes of these very different...
Testament
A Soldier's Story of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The story of the author's great-grandfather's Civil War experience, based on a remarkable set of newly discoverd letters—a powerful, moving addition to the firsthand soldiers' accounts of the Civil War.
Dear Mother,
I was very glad to hear from home this morning. It is the first time since...
A Palmetto Boy
Civil War-Era Diaries and Letters of James Adams Tillman
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The Tillman family of Edgefield, South Carolina, is forever linked to Palmetto State history, but not all of its members have yet had their stories told. James Adams Tillman (1842–1866) never had the chance to become a governor or U.S. senator like his younger brother "Pitchfork" Ben or...
Midnight in America
Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night. Sleeplessness plagued the Union and Confederate armies, and dreams of war glided through the minds of Americans in both the North and South. Sometimes their nightly visions brought the...
Ohio’s War
The Civil War in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
In 1860, Ohio was among the most influential states in the nation. As the third-most-populous state and the largest in the middle west, it embraced those elements that were in concert-but also at odds-in American society during the Civil War era. Ohio's War uses documents from that vibrant and tumultuous...