Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Soldiering for Freedom
How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and middle-aged among them, along with other black men in the free and border slave states, joined the Union...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
After 150 years the Civil War is still our greatest national drama, at once heroic, tragic, and epic-our Iliad, but also our Bible, a story of sin and judgment, suffering and despair, death and resurrection in a "new birth of freedom." Drawn from letters, diaries, speeches, articles, poems,...
Knights of the Golden Circle
Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sought to establish a slave-holding empire in the "Golden Circle" region of Mexico, the Caribbean,...
The Fort Pillow Massacre
North, South, and the Status of African Americans in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
On April 12, 1864, a small Union force occupying Fort Pillow, Tennessee, a fortress located on the Mississippi River just north of Memphis, was overwhelmed by a larger Confederate force under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest. While the battle was insignificant from a strategic standpoint, the...
The Battle of Fort Sumter
The First Shots of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
On April 12, 1861, the long-simmering tensions between the American North and South exploded as Southern troops in the seceding state of South Carolina fired on the Federal forces at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. The battle of Fort Sumter marked the outbreak of Civil War in the United States....
Pickett’s Charge, July 3 and Beyond, Omnibus E-book
Includes Pickett’s Charge—The Last Attack at Gettysburg by Earl J. Hess and Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory by Carol Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Pickett's Charge, the assault on the Union lines on Cemetery Ridge ordered by Robert E. Lee on 3 July 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, holds a central place in the nation's collective memory of the Civil War. Available for the first time as an Omnibus E-book Edition, this two-volume...
Petersburg to Appomattox
The End of the War in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The last days of fighting in the Civil War's eastern theater have been wrapped in mythology since the moment of Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House. War veterans and generations of historians alike have focused on the seemingly inevitable defeat of the Confederacy after Lee's flight...
Memoirs of the Civil War
Between the Northern and Southern Sections of the United States of America 1861 to 1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
“William Wilson Chamberlaine’s Memoirs of the Civil War, though relatively little known because of its rarity in the original edition, contains much valuable information and engaging narrative passages. A Virginian whose Confederate career included service in an infantry regiment early in the...
Roots of Secession
Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War.
An...
Irrepressible Conflict: the Cause of the American Civil War
And the Sad, Tragic, Story of It Resulting in Deaths of so Many
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The Civil War resulted from the insistence of Southern firebrands that the 1820 restrictions on where slavery could be practiced in the Western territories of the USA be removed. And the dogged determination of some Northerners to restrict the brutal treatment of blacks and finally put slavery on...
Californio Lancers
The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 1863–1866
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
More than 16,000 Californians served as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War. One California unit, the 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry, consisted largely of Californio Hispanic volunteers from the “Cow Counties” of Southern California and the Central Coast. Out-of-work vaqueros who...
by Alexander Kelly McClure
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South is a massive collection of articles written by those involved in the Civil War.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Union general John Pope was among the most controversial and
misunderstood figures to hold major command during the Civil War.
Before being called east in June 1862 to lead the Army of Virginia against General Robert E. Lee, he compiled an enviable record in Missouri and as commander of the Army of...
by H. W. Crocker, III
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War is a joyful, myth-busting, rebel yell that shatters today’s Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War.