Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
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...
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...
by Edward Porter Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 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 Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
In this second volume of Michael Weeks’ thoroughly researched guide to the battlefields of the Civil War, you will find complete tours of every major military campaign in the region from 1863 to 1865.
In this second volume of Michael Weeks' thoroughly researched guide to the battlefields...
Beneath a Northern Sky
A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Of all the places and events in this nation's history, Gettysburg may well be the name best known to Americans. Millions flock each year to the little town in south-central Pennsylvania where more than 135 years ago the largest, bloodiest, and most dramatic battle of the Civil War raged across the...
The Long Arm of Lee: The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia, Volume 1
: Bull Run to Fredricksburg [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
“Originally published in 1915, when Jennings Cropper Wise was commandant of the Virginia Military Institute, The Long Arm of Lee has never been...
From Second Bull Run to Gettysburg
The Civil War in the East, 1862-63
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Stackpole Books presents Gen. Edward J. Stackpole’s Civil War classics -- They Met at Gettysburg, Drama on the Rappahannock, Chancellorsville, and From Cedar Mountain to Antietam -- in a single abridged volume that covers the war’s pivotal and turbulent middle year in the Eastern Theater, from...
Shenandoah County in the Civil War
Four Dark Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Shenandoah County, in the years prior to the Civil War, was a prosperous place. Nestled within the Shenandoah Valley, it was a haven for agricultural commerce fueled by slave labor. Integral railways and transportation routes passed through Shenandoah County, feeding its impressive agricultural output...
American Civil War Fortifications (2)
Land and Field Fortifications
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The American Civil War saw a massive development in the use of field fortifications, the result of the practical application of antebellum West-Point teaching, and the deadly impact of rifled infantry weapons and artillery. Both the Federal and Confederate armies began to develop far more sophisticated...
The Long Arm of Lee: The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia, Volume 2
: Chancellorsville to Appomattox [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
“Originally published in 1915, when Jennings Cropper Wise was commandant of the Virginia Military Institute, The Long Arm of Lee has never been...
A Dangerous Stir
Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process...
Antietam
The Soldiers' Battle
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
On September 13, 1862, in a field near Frederick, Maryland, four Union soldiers hit the jack-pot. There they found, wrapped carelessly around three cigars, a copy of General Robert E. Lee's most recent orders detailing Southern objectives and letting Union officers know that Lee had split his Army...
by William B. Taliaferro
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
William Booth Taliaferro (December 28, 1822 February 27, 1898), was a United States Army officer, a lawyer, legislator, and Confederate general in the Civil War. Taliaferro's Brigade came under Stonewall Jackson's command at the end of 1861, and he remained with Jackson for some years, rising to division...
Voices of Emancipation
Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
Voices of Emancipation seeks to recover the lives and words of former slaves in vivid detail, mining the case files of the U.S. Pension Bureau, which administered a huge pension system for Union veterans and their survivors in the decades following the Civil War. The files contain an invaluable, first-hand...