Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Go If You Think It Your Duty
A Minnesota Couple's Civil War Letters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
During the American Civil War, James Madison Bowler and Elizabeth Caleff Bowler courted, married, became parents, and bought a farm. They attended dances, talked politics, and confided their deepest fears. Because of the war, however, they experienced all of these events separately, sharing them through...
by Ella Lonn
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Desertion during the Civil War, originally published in 1928, remains the only book-length treatment of its subject. Ella Lonn examines the causes and consequences of desertion from both the Northern and Southern armies. Drawing on official war records, she notes that one in seven enlisted Union soldiers...
by J. B. Jones, Leander Stillwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book contains two Civil diaries, representing the two sides of this horrific war.
In “A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate States Capital,” J. B. Jones shows the growth of disillusionment of a soldier far removed from the conflict but intimately familiar with the...
"In her hour of sore distress and peril"
The Civil War Diaries of John P. Reynolds, Eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
John Perkins Reynolds, a member of the “Salem Zouaves” (Company I, Eighth Massachusetts Infantry), left behind a unique record of one company’s service during the early months of the Civil War. His diary documents his company’s hourly activities each day, forming a rare chronicle of a Union...
Civil War General and Indian Fighter James M. Williams
Leader of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and the 8th U.S. Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The military career of General James Monroe Williams spanned both the Civil War and the Indian Wars in the West, yet no biography has been published to date on his important accomplishments, until now. From his birth on the northern frontier, westward movement in the Great Migration, rush into the violence...
Arkansas Civil War Heritage
A Legacy of Honor
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The American Civil War shaped the course of the country's history and its national identity. This is no less true for the state of Arkansas. Throughout the Natural State, people have paid homage and remembrance to those who fought and what was fought for in memorial celebrations and rituals. The memory...
Civil War Canon
Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas J. Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent...
In Joy and in Sorrow
Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1992
In Joy and in Sorrow brings together some of the finest historians of the South in a sweeping exploration of the meaning of the family in this troubled region. In their vast canvas of the Victorian South, the authors explore the private lives of Senators, wealthy planters, and the belles of high society,...
by James Harvey Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Envision 10,000 mounted men of one of the best cavalries the world has ever produced strung out along 13 miles, marching around Robert E. Lee's right flank, taunting J.E.B. Stuart to come out and fight. In one of the most thrilling and detailed accounts of one of the most important battles of the...
by Thomas Churchill, Stephen McManus, Donald Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
• Offers latest information on sources and techniques, including online resources
• Contains contact information for hundreds of sources
• Provides examples of specific documents included in genealogical research
It has been more than 40 years since the last comprehensive guide to tracing and...
Two Civil Wars
The Curious Shared Journal of a Baton Rouge Schoolgirl and a Union Sailor on the USS Essex
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Two Civil Wars is both an edition of an unusual Civil War--era double journal and a narrative about the two writers who composed its contents. The initial journal entries were written by thirteen-year-old Celeste Repp while a student at St. Mary's Academy, a prominent but short-lived girls school...
Yankee Dutchmen under Fire
Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Life and death, pride and prejudice, and combat in an ethnic Civil War regiment
Thousands of volumes of Civil War letters are available, but little more than a dozen contain collections written by native Germans fighting in this great American conflict. Yankee Dutchmen under Fire presents a...
Civil War Citizens
Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood outside the pale of civil-society: African Americans. But other groups--namely Jews, Germans, the Irish, and Native Americans--also...
Demon of the Lost Cause
Sherman and Civil War History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
At the end of the Civil War, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman was surprisingly more popular in the newly defeated South than he was in the North. Yet, only thirty years later, his name was synonymous with evil and destruction in the South, particularly as the creator and enactor of...