Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
A Kingdom Divided
Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
A Kingdom Divided uncovers how evangelical Christians in the border states influenced debates about slavery, morality, and politics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Using little-studied events and surprising incidents from the region, April E. Holm argues that evangelicals on the border powerfully shaped...
A Visitation of God
Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
This book examines the Civil War from the perspective of the northern laity, those religious civilians whose personal faith influenced their views on politics and slavery, helped them cope with physical separation and death engendered by the war, and ultimately enabled them to discern the hand of...
Women During the Civil War
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2004
For more information, including a full list of entries, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Women During the Civil War website.
Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia is the first A-Z reference work to offer a panoramic presentation of the contributions, achievements,...
by MacKinlay Kantor
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2001
Just a touch here and a tweak there . . . .
MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, master storyteller, shows us how the South could have won the Civil War, how two small shifts in history (as we know it) in the summer of 1863 could have turned the tide for the Confederacy. What would...
Sickles at Gettysburg
The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
“Sickles is as dividing a figure in Civil War history as there is. In his masterful work . . . Hessler . . . puts him out there with all his wrinkles” (Confederate Book Review).
Winner of the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey’s Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award
Winner...
by Vanessa Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Most observers and historians rarely acknowledge the history of civil rights predating the twentieth-century. The book Black Rights in the Reconstruction Era pays significant scholarly attention to the intellectual ferment—legal and political—of the nineteenth-century by tracing the history of...
by Elizabeth B. Custer, General George A. Custer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
"General Custer Indian Fighter" comprises (4) complete volumes written by General George Custer & his wife Elizabeth Custer; covering the period from the end of the American Civil War in 1865 to the Custer Massacre in 1876. In more than 600 pages, with more than 491,000 words, and...
by William Hallett
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The smoke of cannon fire and the sound of rifles were not seen or heard in Newburyport, Massachusetts during the Civil War yet it was an all too familiar experience for many of its inhabitants. Local author William Hallett describes in thrilling detail the lives and deeds of those from the Clipper City...
Civil War Memories
Nineteen stories of battle, bravery, love, and tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Civil War Memories is a collection of nineteen stories of the Civil War written in the late 1800's, giving them a ring of authenticity. The voices are both Northern and Southern, male and female, angry and melancholy, serious and comic; but they all treat the Civil War as a watershed in American history and in the lives of those who lived through it.
Confederate Cities
The Urban South during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few urban historians have studied the war,...
by James Longstreet
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
The bloodiest day in the history of the United States took place on the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. On September 17, 1862, Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia fought George McClellans Army of the Potomac outside Sharpsburg along Antietam Creek. That day, nearly 25,000 would...
by Mark P. Brugh, Julia Stinson Brugh
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The Maryland town devastated by the bloodiest day of the Civil War—the Battle of Antietam—is now home to its ghostly victims.
In September 1862, fighting from the Battle of Antietam spilled into Sharpsburg’s streets. Residents were left to bury the dead from both sides. Today, locals...
Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War
The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almost...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Despite the fact that the Civil War ended over 140 years ago, it remains a polarizing topic for the country to this day. Nowhere is this more evident than in Americans' opinion of Confederate cavalry officer Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest is universally regarded as a courageous and capable cavalry...