Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri
The Long Civil War on the Border
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Long before the first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter, violence had already erupted along the Missouri-Kansas border—a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and revenge. This multifaceted study brings together fifteen scholars to expand our understanding of this vitally...
Two against Lincoln
Reverdy Johnson and Horatio Seymour, Champions of the Loyal Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Reverdy Johnson (1796–1876), Maryland senator, and Horatio Seymour, Democratic governor of New York, were two influential opponents of Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans during the Civil War. But unlike the Copperheads, they staunchly supported the war to suppress the rebellion. The story of these...
Freedom's Witness
The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper The Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from the perspective of a civilian observer in Washington, D.C., and later, as one of the Union army’s first...
![Cover of Dragoon Or Cavalryman, Major General John Buford In The American Civil War [Illustrated Edition]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2014/august/300x300/9781782895015-fa7T_300x.jpg)
by Major Mark R. Stricker
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes more than 25 maps and illustrations
This study investigates the American Civil War role and contributions of Major General John Buford. Buford, a 1848 graduate of the United States Military Academy, began his Army career on America’s frontier with the First United States Dragoons. With...
The Civil War on the Mississippi
Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Flowing from its source in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River borders or passes through ten different states and serves as one of the most important transportation systems in the United States. During the Civil War, both sides believed that whoever controlled the river...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this book about the U.S. Army campaigns of the Civil War examines the Mississippi and Tennessee campaigns of 1864. As 1863 gave way to 1864, the American Civil War concluded its pivotal year. In the East, the Confederates'...
Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War
The Trials of John Merryman
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman...
Blind No More
African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre–Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value...
Mosby's War Reminiscences - Stuart's Cavalry Campaigns
Civil War Memories Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2019
Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders,...
by Edward Porter Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and officer in the U.S. Army, but the native Georgian resigned his commission in May 1861 and joined the...
by Michael B. Graham
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
West Virginia is the only state formed by seceding from a Confederate state. And its connections to the Civil War run deep. One day at a time, award-winning historian Michael Graham presents intriguing, event-driven anecdotes and history related to the state. On July 11, 1861, a Union force attacked...
Battle on the Bay
The Civil War Struggle for Galveston
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Civil War history of Galveston is one of the last untold stories from America's bloodiest war, despite the fact that Galveston was a focal point of hostilities throughout the conflict. As other Southern ports fell to the Union, Galveston emerged as one of the Confederacy's only lifelines to the...
The Last Battle of the Civil War
Palmetto Ranch
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
More than two months after Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, the New York Times reported a most surprising piece of news. On May 12-13, the last battle of the Civil War had been fought at the southernmost tip of Texas—resulting in a Confederate victory. Although...
by Edward Porter Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and officer in the U.S. Army, but the native Georgian resigned his commission in May 1861 and joined the...