Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
by John S. Mosby and Beverly Robertson
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...
The Fate of Liberty
Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1992
If Abraham Lincoln was known as the Great Emancipator, he was also the only president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. Indeed, Lincoln's record on the Constitution and individual rights has fueled a century of debate, from charges that Democrats were singled out for harrassment to Gore Vidal's...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Fall 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 4, Number 3, September 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor's Note, William Blair
Articles
Felicity Turner
Rights and the Ambiguities of Law: Infanticide in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South
Paul Quigley
Civil War Conscription and the International Boundaries...
Kentucky Rebel Town
The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
On April 22, 1861, within weeks of the surrender at Fort Sumter, fresh recruits marched to the Cynthiana, Kentucky, depot -- one of the state's first volunteer companies to join the Confederate army. The soldiers boarded a waiting train as many sympathetic city and county officials cheered. A Confederate...
Don Carlos Buell
Most Promising of All
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2006
Major General Don Carlos Buell stood among the senior Northern commanders early in the Civil War, led the Army of the Ohio in the critical Kentucky theater in 1861-62, and helped shape the direction of the conflict during its first years. Only a handful of Northern generals loomed as large on the...
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by Spencer C. Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Intended for general-interest readers and high school and college students, American Civil War: A State-by-State Encyclopedia serves as a unique ready reference that documents the important contributions of each individual state to the American Civil War and underscores the similarities and differences...
Thank God My Regiment an African One
The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
"Incredible!... Anyone interested in the hardship, frustration, and courage of soldiers at war will be enthralled by this book." -- James G. Hollandsworth, author of The Louisiana Native Guards
Until now, Union army colonel Nathan W. Daniels has been a forgotten man with a forgotten regiment. The...
by Sean M. Heuvel, Lisa L. Heuvel
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
America’s second oldest higher education institution experienced the full violence of the Civil War, with a wartime destiny of destruction compounded by its strategic location in Virginia’s Tidewater region between Union and Confederate lines. This book describes the fate of the College and also...
The Diary of a Civil War Marine
Private Josiah Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Diary of a Civil War Marine: Private Josiah Gregg is a rare firsthand account of a United States Marine during the Civil War, written within hours of the events described. Gregg enlisted as a private at the beginning of the war, and served as a shipboard Marine on the Vanderbilt as it hunted Confederate...
Teacher of Civil War Generals
Major General Charles Ferguson Smith, Soldier and West Point Commandant
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier’s soldier. He served at the U.S. Military Academy from 1829 to 1842 as Instructor of Tactics, Adjutant to the Superintendent and Commandant of Cadets. During his 42-year career he was a teacher, mentor and role model...
Andersonvilles of the North
The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Soon after the close of military operations in the American Civil War, another war began over how it would be remembered by future generations. The prisoner-of-war issue has figured prominently in Northern and Southern writing about the conflict. Northerners used tales of Andersonville to demonize the...
Best Little Stories: Voices of the Civil War
Nearly 100 True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Civil War You Never Knew...
Behind the conflict that divided a nation and forever changed its citizens are the riveting tales of the men and women who made an impact in the Civil War, both on and off the battlefield. Drawn from the writings of soldiers, slaves, politicians, and military...
Meade’s Headquarters, 1863-1865
Letters Of Colonel Theodore Lyman From The Wilderness To Appomattox [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
Originally published in 1922, this book is a collection of letters written by Maj. Gen. George Meade’s aide-de-camp, Theodore Lyman,...
General Grant and the Rewriting of History
How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
“[A] marvelously bold new book . . . Grant was The Man Who Saved the Union. Varney’s invaluable book helps us understand why we remember him that way” (Emerging Civil War).
In 1885, a former president of the United States published one of the most influential books ever written about...