Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Includes accounts of the fighting at Fort Wagner written by some of the 54th's soldiers. *Profiles men of the 54th, including Robert Gould Shaw *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. “A deserted homestead...
Bushwhackers
The Civil War in North Carolina: The Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Bushwhackers recounts hundreds of incidents that brought the Civil War home to the mountains of the Old North State. Some are violent, some humorous; some are heroic, some shameful. From the opening shots of the war to the vicious acts of vengeance that continued for months and even years after the...
One Continuous Fight
The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
The titanic three-day battle of Gettysburg left 50,000 casualties in its wake, a battered Southern army far from its base of supplies, and a rich historiographic legacy. Thousands of books and articles cover nearly every aspect of the battle, but not a single volume focuses on the military aspects...
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War
The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications--particularly trenches and other semi-permanent earthworks--used by Confederate and Union field armies at all major battle sites in the eastern theater of the Civil War. Hess moves beyond the technical aspects of construction to...
John Ransom's Civil War Diary
Notes from Inside Andersonville, the Civil War's Most Notorious Prison
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
"The Civil War produced many diaries, but few as appealing and readable as this one." — Publishers Weekly
"An altogether exciting and unique, almost priceless documentary." — Library Journal
"A tale of adventure, of suspense from beginning to end, of fierce hate and great...
New York's North Country and the Civil War
Soldiers, Civilians and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Although Northern New York did not host any Civil War battles, it did not come out unscathed in the War Between the States. Brave soldiers fought in many major clashes, such as those of Jefferson County's Thirty-fifth New York Volunteer Regiment. Civilians struggled for the cause in their own way, with...
The Better Angel
Walt Whitman in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2000
For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experiences with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world. In The Better Angel, acclaimed biographer Roy Morris,...
by Debra Goodrich Bisel
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
In the 1850s, the eyes of the world were on Kansas. The Civil War in Kansas will be an overview of the years 1854-1865, since the war began in Kansas nearly seven years before it spread to the rest of the nation. From the repeal of the Missouri Compromise to its entry in the Union, Kansas played a small...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
In the long and storied history of the Marine Corps, its contributions to the Union effort during the Civil War have often been relegated to a mere footnote. An aged officer corps on the defensive against both attacks in Congress and the whims of senior naval authorities, chronic manpower shortages,...
by Edward L. Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
“An extremely good writer, [Ayers] is well worth reading . . . on the South and Southern history.”—Stephen Sears, Boston Globe
The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportions—a system of slavery flourishing in a land...
The Cause of All Nations
An International History of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model...
by Robert K. Krick
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
This work fills a tremendous gap in our available knowledge in a fundamental area of Civil War studies, that of basic quotidian information on the weather in the theater of operations in the vicinity of Washington, DC, and Richmond, Virginia. Krick adds to the daily records kept by amateur meteorologists...
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by Major Steven E. Jackowski
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.
General of the Army William Tecumseh Sherman was an extraordinary, controversial and complex individual. His ascension into the pantheon of American...
A Civil War Captain and His Lady
A True Story of Love, Courtship, and Combat
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
“Barr’s engaging and revealing collection of letters from Lincoln country directly links the battlefield with the home front” (Randall M. Miller, editor of Lincoln & Leadership).
More than 150 years ago, twenty-seven-year-old Irish immigrant Josiah Moore met nineteen-year-old Jennie...