Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
by Kenneth W. Howell, ed.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Following the Civil War, the United States was fully engaged in a bloody conflict with ex-Confederates, conservative Democrats, and members of organized terrorist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, for control of the southern states. Texas became one of the earliest battleground states in the War of...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
June 1865–December 1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
"Being powerless to direct the current, I can only wait to see whither it runs," wrote Jefferson Davis to his wife, Varina, on October 11, 1865, five months after the victorious United States Army took him prisoner. Indeed, in the tumultuous years immediately after the Civil War, Davis found...
Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana
A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
In July 1862, Union Lieutenant Stephen Spalding wrote a long letter from his post in Algiers, Louisiana, to his former college roommate. Equally fascinating and unsettling for modern readers, the comic cynicism of the young soldier’s correspondence offers an unusually candid and intimate account...
by David M. Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
David McMurtrie Gregg (April 10, 1833 August 7, 1916) was a prominent Union cavalry general in the Civil War who distinguished himself in the Seven Days Battles, expertly screening retreating Union infantry. He fought at Antietam and during the Chancellorsville campaign, but cavalry had little role...
by Annie Wittenmyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This remarkable book has been out of print for over a century and yet is one of the most intimate and compelling personal memoirs of the Civil War. Widow Annie Turner Wittenmyer spent the years of the American Civil War in the thick of exploding shells, shattered bodies, exhausted souls, and the...
Lincoln on the Civil War
Selected Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War.
This well-rounded selection of Abraham Lincoln's finest speeches combines the classic and obscure, the lyrical and historical, and the inspirational and intellectual to present a historical arc marking periods of...
by Peter G. Tsouras
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Once too often in the War Between the States, Great Britain's support for the Confederacy takes it to the brink of war with the Union. The escape of a British-built Confederate ironclad finally ignites the heap of combustible animosities and national interests. When the U.S. Navy seizes it in British...
The H. L. Hunley
The Secret Hope of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H. L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship. Not until World War I—half a century later—would a submarine again accomplish such a feat. But also perishing that moonlit night, vanishing...
Civil War Milledgeville
Tales from the Confederate Capital of Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
As the reader is sure to discover in Civil War Milledgeville: Tales from the Confederate Capital of Georgia, the division between combatant and civilian at the local level is not always clear. With a natural curiosity to unearth the unknown, local Milledgeville author and historian Hugh T. Harrington...
Fighting Means Killing
Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.” Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest famously declared.
The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan Steplyk explores in Fighting Means Killing, the first...
by James M. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 1992
James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called "history writing of the highest order." In that volume, McPherson...
Belligerent Muse
Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper...
by Damian Shiels
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Twenty-four stories of the Irish in the U.S. Civil War—true tales of sacrifice, gallantry, and chanceThis is the story of the forgotten role of the 200,000 Irish men and women who were involved in various ways in the U.S. Civil War. It includes the story of James Shields, who challenged Abraham...
Storm over Texas:The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War
The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
In the Spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union, a hard-fought and bitter controversy that profoundly changed the course of American history. Indeed, as Joel Silbey argues in Storm Over Texas, the battle over Texas marked the crucial moment when...