Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
The Mortal Wounding of Stonewall Jackson
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The stunning Confederate victory at Chancellorsville came at an enormous cost: an estimated 13,000 Confederate casualties. The most prominent, of course, was Stonewall Jackson, who was wounded by friendly fire and died several days later, on 10 May 1863. This Civil War Short presents Robert K. Krick's...
Union Infantryman vs Confederate Infantryman
Eastern Theater 1861–65
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The enthusiastic but largely inexperienced soldiers serving on both sides in the Civil War had to adapt quickly to the appalling realities of warfare in the industrial age. Author Ron Field, an authority on the Civil War, investigates three clashes that illustrate the changing realities of combat....
by James W. Erwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Missouri ranks third in the number of Civil War battles fought on its soil. Although some sizable actions were fought in the state, most of the battles were the result of the intense guerrilla activity. These battles are only the actions reported by Federal troops against the guerrillas. The attacks...
The Golden State in the Civil War
Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
This book breaks new ground, not only in its coverage of California, but also in its treatment of the role of cultural links in enhancing national loyalty, in its attention to many groups of people of color, including Chinese and Latinos, and what happened to them during the Civil War. In addition,...
The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook
Facts, Photos, and Artwork for Readers of All Ages, June 9 - July 14, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook is an informative full-color guide for American Civil War and Gettysburg enthusiasts of all ages. Authors J. David Petruzzi and Steven Stanley use clear and concise writing broken down into short and easy to understand chapters complete with original maps,...
Rethinking America
From Empire to Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
For five decades John M. Murrin has been the consummate historian's historian. This volume brings together his seminal essays on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. Collectively, they rethink fundamental questions regarding American identity, the...
Hymns of the Republic
The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
From the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War.
The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of that era’s most compelling narratives,...
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
September 1864–May 1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2003
During the last nine months of the Civil War, virtually all of the news reports and President Jefferson Davis's correspondence confirmed the imminent demise of the Confederate States, the nation Davis had striven to uphold since 1861. But despite defeat after defeat on the battlefield, a recalcitrant...
Union Jacks
Yankee Sailors in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the...
by LCDR Edwin D. Lindgren USN
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This study investigates the impact of Confederate naval mine warfare against the operations of the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. Mine warfare was a cost effective method for the Confederacy to defend its long coastline and inland waterways. A wide variety of fixed, moored, and drifting mines were...
Haskell of Gettysburg
His Life and Civil War Papers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1989
All students of the Civil War are indebted to Frank Haskell for his classic description of the battle of Gettysburg. A lieutenant on the staff of John Gibbon, Haskell stood at the focus of the Confederate assault on July 3, 1863. He wrote of the battle in a letter to his brother. When it came...
by Sergeant Ralph J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
A short but colorful memoir by a sergeant in the 2nd Texas regiment, which served with distinction in the Western Theatre of the Civil War. Sergeant Smith volunteered in the first months of the outbreak of the Civil War, but his first real taste of the conflict came as part of the Army of the Mississippi...
Army Life
A Private's Reminiscences of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Army Life : A Private's Reminiscences of the Civil War is an amazing account of one Union soldier's experiences during the Civil War. Private Gerrish fought in some of the Civil War's most famous Battles as part of the 20th Maine Regiment, and was a hero of the Pine Tree State.
On Shattered Ground
A Civil War Mosaic, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A WIDE-RANGING COLLECTION OF CIVIL WAR DOCUMENTS
This comprehensive anthology of original documents traces the American Civil War from its beginnings with the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln to the surrender and assassination with which it ended. With historical sources ranging from public documents,...