Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
by Stephen R. Bockmiller
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Wedged strategically between the Mason-Dixon Line and the Potomac River, Hagerstown was destined to play a significant role in the Civil War. A diverse community, most residents gravitated toward the blue while some sided with the gray. Slavery was not a major presence in western Maryland, yet some local...
The Last Civil War Veterans
The Lives of the Final Survivors, State by State
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
“It really matters very little who died last,” wrote Civil War historian William Marvel, “but for some reason we seem fascinated with knowing.” Drawing on a wide range of sources including correspondence with descendants, this book covers the last living Civil War veterans in each state, providing...
When the Wolf Came
The Civil War and the Indian Territory
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Oklahoma Book Award for nonfiction
Winner of the 2014 Pate Award from the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table.
When the peoples of the Indian Territory found themselves in the midst of the American Civil War, squeezed between Union Kansas and Confederate Texas and Arkansas,...
Torn by War
The Civil War Journal of Mary Adelia Byers
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Civil War divided the nation, communities, and families. The town of Batesville, Arkansas, found itself occupied three times by the Union army. This compelling book gives a unique perspective on the war’s western edge through the diary of Mary Adelia Byers (1847–1918), who began recording...
Inventing Custer
The Making of an American Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Custer’s Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighhorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment, worthy of a few newspaper headlines. In defeat, however tactically inconsequential in the larger conflict,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
While eyewitness accounts of the Civil War by enlisted men are uncommon, even scarcer are personal narratives from the Civil War in the West. These journals and letters were written by Lewis Roe, an Illinois farm boy who served in the 7th U.S. Infantry and the 50th Illinois Volunteer Infantry between...
Theater of a Separate War
The Civil War West of the Mississippi River, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the trans-Mississippi...
Raising the White Flag
How Surrender Defined the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
The American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most famously at Appomattox Courthouse. But in the intervening four years, both Union and Confederate forces surrendered en masse on scores of other occasions. Indeed,...
by Thomas Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In the early days of the American Civil War, the want of adequate combat medicine was a constant complaint by officers in the field. Englishman Thomas Ellis already had experience serving the British Army in South Africa when he was appointed Post Surgeon and later Medical Director. Ellis' account...
by Annie Heloise Abel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Annie Heloise Abel was a history professor. After her marriage she was also known as Annie Heloise Abel-Henderson. Abel's papers may be found in the repository of Washington State University Libraries, in Pullman, WA. The collection includes notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, manuscripts...
A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War
The Diaries of David Hunter Strother
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Civil War diaries of David Hunter Strother, known better to his contemporaries as "Porte Crayon," chronicle his three years of service in the Union army with the same cogency and eye for detail that made him one of the most popular writers and illustrators in America in his time. A Virginian...
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by Lieutenant-General John Schofield
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
“John McAllister Schofield began his very successful military career after graduating seventh from the United States Military Academy...
As If It Were Glory
Robert Beecham's Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black Regiments
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
In this powerful and moving memoir, Robert Beecham tells of his Civil War experiences, both as an enlisted man in the fabled Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac and as an officer commanding a newly raised African-American unit. Written in 1902, Beecham recounts his war experiences with a keen...
by David Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War is the story of David Johnston's experiences in the Civil War.