Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
A Unionist in East Tennessee
Captain William K. Byrd and the Mysterious Raid of 1861
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The Civil War that tore America in two also pit one Tennessean against another—with deadly consequences . . .
During the Civil War, Tennessee was perhaps the most conflicted state in the Confederacy. Allegiance to either side could mean life or death, as Union militia captain and longtime...
Oxford in the Civil War
Battle for a Vanquished Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
Though no legendary battles took place at Oxford, the community was deeply affected by the War Between the States and deeply involved in its proceedings. Oxford in the Civil War tells the story of the steadfast men and women who fought to defend their homeland. Join author Stephen Enzweiler as he recounts...
by Brian Matthew Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
An acclaimed, groundbreaking, and “powerful exploration” (Washington Post) of the fate of Union veterans, who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace.
For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning...
by Stephen V. Ash
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
A nearly forgotten Civil War episode is restored to history in this masterful account.
In March 1863, nine hundred black Union soldiers, led by white officers, invaded Florida and seized the town of Jacksonville. They were among the first African American troops in the Northern army, and their...
Inside War
The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 1990
During the Civil War, the state of Missouri witnessed the most widespread, prolonged, and destructive guerrilla fighting in American history. With its horrific combination of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and swift and bloody raids on farms and settlements, the conflict approached total war, engulfing...
They Fought Like Demons
Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional picture does not tell...
Tragedy in the Shenandoah Valley
The Story of the Summers-Koontz Execution
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Try to meet me in Heaven where I hope to go.These poignant words were written in the summer of 1865 by twenty-year-old Confederate Sergeant Isaac Newton Koontz, in a letter he penned for his fianc�e just hours before his death at the hands of Union firing squad in the heart of Virginia�s Shenandoah...
by Michael K. Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The citizens of Washington County, Virginia gave up their sons and daughters to the Confederate cause of the Civil War. Contributing six Confederate generals as well as Union officers, the region is emblematic of communities throughout the nation that sacrificed during the war. Though the sounds of cannon...
Rhode Island and the Civil War
Voices From the Ocean State
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The Ocean State has a remarkable record of service during the Civil War. It supplied over twenty-three thousand men for the infantry, cavalry and artillery units between 1861 and 1865. From Bull Run to Appomattox and many battles along the way, including Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, Rhode...
The Civil War Months
A Month-By-Month Compendium of the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Civil War obliterated Americas past, along with many of the founders visions of what America should be. Replacing those visions was the America that we have today. Any true understanding of America, both past and present, must include a specific understanding of this conflict.
This work,...
A Single Grand Victory
The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
More than 800 men lost their lives and 2,700 were wounded. Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson earned his legendary nickname "Stonewall" here as fellow Confederate General Barnard Bee, later fatally wounded in the battle, shouted, "Yonder stands Jackson like a stone wall!" Both...
Last Days of the Civil War
The Enormous Silence
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning history A Stillness at Appomattox, an electrifying account of the end of the Civil War—Grant and Lee’s final maneuvers as four years of internecine conflict inched to a close.
“The end of the war was like the beginning, with the...
by Henry J. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Henry Jackson Hunt (September 14, 1819 February 11, 1889) was Chief of Artillery in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Considered by his contemporaries the greatest artillery tactician and strategist of the war, he was a master of the science of gunnery and rewrote the manual on the organization...
by William B. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
William Buel Franklin (February 27, 1823 March 8, 1903) was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He rose to the rank of a corps commander in the Army of the Potomac, fighting in several notable early battles in the Eastern Theater. Franklin was promoted...