Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
A Soldier's General
The Civil War Letters of Major General Lafayette McLaws
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
During his service in the Confederate army, Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) served under and alongside such famous officers as Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, and John B. Hood. He played a significant role in some of the most crucial battles of the Civil War, including...
Yours in Filial Regard
The Civil War Letters of a Texas Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In March of 1861 Texas seceded from the Union, and the Love brothers of Limestone County—Cyrus, Samuel, James, and John—enlisted to fight for the Confederate cause. For the next four years, the brothers travelled the war-torn South as cavalry in Terry's Texas Rangers, seeing action in some of the...
The Badax Tigers
From Shiloh to the Surrender with the 18th Wisconsin Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2007
When the Badax County Tigers left the small town of Viroqua, Wisconsin, in the autumn of 1861, they had little notion of what military service would demand of them.
The Badax Tigers were as common a company in as common a regiment as may be found in the annals of the Civil War. They marched,...
Sing Not War
The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences...
Reconstructing Appalachia
The Civil War's Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Families, communities, and the nation itself were irretrievably altered by the Civil War and the subsequent societal transformations of the nineteenth century. The repercussions of the war incited a broad range of unique problems in Appalachia, including political dynamics, racial prejudices, and...
by John Acton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Civil War in America is a brief but classic overview of the civil war's place in history.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily life of the entire nation. In an expansive reimagining of post–Civil War America, the essays in this...
The Loyal West
Civil War and Reunion in Middle America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War-era America. Here grew a Unionism steeped in the mythology of the Loyal West--a myth rooted in regional and racial animosities and the belief that westerners had won...
The Wanderer
The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
On Nov. 28, 1858, a ship called the Wanderer slipped silently into a coastal channel and unloaded its cargo of over 400 African slaves onto Jekyll Island, Georgia, thirty eight years after the African slave trade had been made illegal. It was the last ship ever to bring a cargo of African slaves to...
The Gettysburg Address
A Graphic Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
A fully illustrated graphic adaptation that offers a new look at the Gettysburg Address, the bloody battle that prompted it, and the Civil War
Most of us can recall "Four score and seven years ago," but much of what we know about this historic speech, and what it has to say about...
by G. Norton Galloway
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
George Norton Galloway 1841-1904) was a Union soldier with the 95th Pennsylvania who fought during the Overland Campaign. As Commanding General of the United States Army from 1864 to 1865, Ulysses S. Grant confronted Robert E. Lee in a series of very high casualty battles known as the Overland Campaign...
by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country’s most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the “Westerner” who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican...
by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country’s most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the “Westerner” who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican...
by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country’s most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the “Westerner” who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican...