Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Receding Tide
Vicksburg and Gettysburg: The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
It’s a poignant irony in American history that on Independence Day, 1863, not one but two pivotal Civil War battles ended in Union victory, marked the high tide of Confederate military fortune, and ultimately doomed the South’s effort at secession. But on July 4, 1863, after six months of siege,...
Manassas
A Battlefield Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War’s critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguished scholar of the Civil War, provides a clearly organized, thorough, and uniquely insightful account of both campaigns, along with expert analysis and...
Lee's Lieutenants Third Volume Abridged
A Study in Command
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command is the most colorful and popular of Douglas Southall Freeman's works. A sweeping narrative that presents a multiple biography against the flame-shot background of the American Civil War, it is the story of the great figures of the Army of Northern Virginia who...
by Winston Groom
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
A main selection in History Book-of-the-Month Club and alternate selection in Military Book-of-the-Month Club.
In the spring of 1862, many Americans still believed that the Civil War, "would be over by Christmas." The previous summer in Virginia, Bull Run, with nearly 5,000 casualties,...
The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee
The Forgotten Case against an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
History has been kind to Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson believed General Lee was a “model to men who would be morally great.” Douglas Southall Freeman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume biography of Lee, described his subject as “one of a small company of great men in whom there is...
The Negro's Civil War
How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In this classic study, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson deftly narrates the experience of blacks--former slaves and soldiers, preachers, visionaries, doctors, intellectuals, and common people--during the Civil War. Drawing on contemporary journalism, speeches, books, and letters, he...
Bluff, Bluster, Lies and Spies
The Lincoln Foreign Policy, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
An in-depth illustration of shifting Civil War alliances and strategies and of Great Britain’s behind-the-scenes role in America’s War Between the States.
In the early years of the Civil War, Southern arms won spectacular victories on the battlefield. But cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Between the epic battles of 1862 and the grueling and violent military campaigns that would follow, the year 1863 was oddly quiet for the Confederate state of Virginia. Only one major battle was fought on its soil, at Chancellorsville, and the conflict was one of the Army of Northern Virginia's greatest...
Don't Know Much About the Civil War
Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
“Highly informative and entertaining…propels the reader light years beyond dull textbooks and Gone with the Wind.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
It has been 150 years since the opening salvo of America’s War Between the States. New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis tells us everything...
The Dogs of War
1861
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more than half a million people. But as eminent Civil War historian Emory Thomas points out in this stimulating...
The Battlefield and Beyond
Essays on the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.
Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne...
Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades
The Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived It
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
Acclaimed Civil War historian Susannah Ural brings a unique and fresh insight into the war, delving into the historical archives, in particular the untapped resources of the Gilder Lehrmann Institute. Her consummate narrative draws together these different personal recollections to create a textured,...
by Cunningham O. Edward
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
The bloody and decisive two-day battle of Shiloh (April 6-7 1862) changed the entire course of the American Civil War. The stunning Northern victory thrust Union commander Ulysses S. Grant into the national spotlight claimed the life of Confederate commander Albert S. Johnston and forever buried the...
by Bruce Catton
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
"A magnificent stylist . . . a first-rate historian. Familiarity with subject matter resulting from many years of study and narrative talents exceeding those of any other Civil War historian enable him to move along swiftly and smoothly and produce a story that is informative, dramatic, and absorbingly...