Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
The 1863 US Infantry Tactics
Infantry of the Line, Light Infantry, and Riflemen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
• The authorized book for the instruction, exercise, and maneuver of U.S. Infantry during the Civil War
• Includes articles of war, an extensive dictionary of Civil War military terms, and sheet music for military bugle calls
• A must-have book for historians, researchers, reenactors, and writers
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Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters
956 Confederate and Union Naval and Military Personnel, Contractors, Politicians, Officials, Steamboat Pilots and Others
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War raged along the great rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. While various Civil War biographies exist, none have been devoted exclusively to participants in the Western river war as waged down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Red River, and up the Ohio, the...
Unredeemed Land
An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent upon it? An innovative reconsideration of the Civil War's profound impact on southern history, Unredeemed Land traces the environmental constraints that...
Civil War Sites
The Official Guide to the Civil War Discovery Trail
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
This easy-to-use guide, completely revised and updated in clear, concise prose, features more than hundreds of sites in 31 states--solemn battlefields, gracious mansions, state parks, cemeteries, memorials, museums, and more. Specific directions, hours, and contact information help to plan the trip;...
Aberration of Mind
Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving...
The Bohannon Brothers
Ireland and America, 1857-1865
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The Bohannon Brothers - Ireland and America, 1857-1865 A timeless historical novel set in Ireland and the United States during the American Civil War era; this unique story plays out through the lives of immigrant Irish characters from Connemara, in County Galway, Ireland. Ireland, Connemara, 1857-60:...
by Edward F. Winslow
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Born in Maine, Edward F. Winslow is a direct descendant of a man who came to America on the first voyage of the Mayflower. Winslow moves to Iowa and is working as a railway contractor when the Civil War starts. Winslow volunteers, mustering in as the Captain of Company F, 4th Iowa Cavalry in October...
The War for the Common Soldier
How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S. Carmichael's sweeping new study of men at war. Based on close examination of the letters and records left behind by individual soldiers from both the...
Tobias's Story
The Life and Civil War Career of Tobias B. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
The focus of the book is a biographical telling of the Civil War career of Colonel Tobias B. Kaufman. Colonel Kaufman has rightly been called one of the most illustrious of the Civil War heroes of Central Pennsylvania by the well-known Pennsylvania Civil War soldier and author, J. Howard Wert. Kaufman...
by Kidd, James H., Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Chiefly known for his exploits in the Indian Wars, most significantly for his horrific defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876, George Armstrong Custer found initial success on the battlefields of the Civil War, leading his Michigan Cavalry Brigade in more than sixty battles and skirmishes. The men were...
by John Esten Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
John Esten Cooke (November 3, 1830 September 27, 1886) was an American novelist and poet best remembered today for his writing about the American Civil War, which he partially participated in. In March and April 1862, Cooke served as an unpaid volunteer aide for Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart in the Confederate...
by Richard B. Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
The Battle of Antietam is considered one of the turning points of the Civil War. After a series of stunning victories, Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia invaded Maryland in September 1862, hoping to score both victories in battle and propaganda victories that might help the Confederacy earn international...
U. S. Grant: The Civil War Years
Grant Moves South and Grant Takes Command
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Bruce Catton’s acclaimed two-book biography of complex and controversial Union commander Ulysses S. Grant.
In these two comprehensive and engaging volumes, preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton follows the wartime movements of Ulysses S. Grant, detailing...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Civil War Classics)
A Memoir of a Former Slave
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.Among the first of slave narratives to be published, Harriet A....