Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books

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Busy in the Cause

Iowa, the Free-State Struggle in the West, and the Prelude to the Civil War

by Lowell J. Soike
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of...
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Thomas Ewing Jr.

Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General

by Ronald D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008

An Ohio family with roots in the South, the Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than fifty years. Patriarch Thomas Ewing, a former Whig senator and cabinet member who made his fortune as a real estate lawyer, raised four major players in the nation’s history—including William...
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by Thomas George Ziek Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of the Southern railroad system on interior lines during the Civil War and determine whether or not the South enjoyed the advantage of interior lines. The use of railroads during this conflict placed an enormous physical strain upon the limited industrial...
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by John G. Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North Carolina during the Civil War. Although the number of men involved in many of these engagements was comparatively small, the campaigns and battles themselves were crucial in the grand strategy of the conflict and involved some of the...
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Civil War Places

Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians

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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019

Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us understand our own history? What kinds of places are worth remembering and why? In this collection of essays,...
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by Edward Watson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014

The Civil War remains a vivid image in the mind of many Americans. There has always been a growing interest in the subject, specifically when it comes to the participation of African Americans in the conflict. Hundreds of thousands of African American soldiers served the Union Army during the civil...
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Confederate Outlaw

Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia

by Brian D. McKnight
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011

In the fall of 1865, the United States Army executed Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson for his role in murdering fifty-three loyal citizens of Kentucky and Tennessee during the Civil War. Long remembered as the most unforgiving and inglorious warrior of the Confederacy, Ferguson has often been...
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A Politician Turned General

The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut

by Jeffrey Lash
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013

A new case study of one of Lincoln’s political generals in the Civil War A Politician Turned General offers a critical examination of the turbulent early political career and the controversial military service of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, an Illinois Whig, Republican politician, and Northern...
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Black Jack

John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era

by James Pickett Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

John A. Logan, called "Black Jack" by the men he led in Civil War battles from the Henry-Donelson campaign to Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, was one of the Union Army’s most colorful generals. James Pickett Jones places Logan in his southern Illinois surroundings as...
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by John R. Vile
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017

The carefully selected and edited readings in this book are chronologically arranged so that students can trace the progression of events and understand the thoughts of those living during the critical Civil War and Reconstruction periods. • Provides readers with annotated primary sources...
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Stepping Lively in Place

The Not-Married, Free Women of Civil-War-Era Natchez, Mississippi

by Joyce L. Broussard
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how free, single women navigated life in a busy slave-based river-port town before and during the Civil War, and how these women transitioned during Reconstruction,...
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Defining Duty in the Civil War

Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front

by J. Matthew Gallman
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015

The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. Concerned Northerners turned to the print media for guidance on how to be good citizens in a war that hit close to home but was fought hundreds of miles away. They read novels,...
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by Philip Katcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013

The War between the States' is the term used for the American Civil War throughout much of the South even today. Many on both sides – not just the South – felt that they were serving their states as much, if not more, than their central governments. Many of the states agreed; the state governments...
Cover of Reminiscences Of The Civil War by Theodore M. Nagle, formerly sergeant Company “C,” 21st Regiment, N.Y.S. Vol. Inf.
by Sergeant Theodore M. Nagle
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Sergeant Nagle, a native of Erie New York, recounts his reminiscences of the Civil War in the Eastern theatre 1861-1863. Nagle spent his soldiering career in the 21st New York State Infantry, 1st Buffalo, joining the Union ranks in the first year of the war. Assigned initially to the Washington...
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