Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
The American Civil War (4)
The war in the West 1863–1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Union military forces suffered momentary defeat followed by sustained success in the Western Theater during the second half of the American Civil War. Following the Union's defeat at Chickamauga, Ulysses S. Grant took command at Chattanooga and orchestrated a striking victory which paved the way for...
Shades of Blue and Gray
An Introductory Military History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
An introductory military history of the American Civil War, Shades of Blue and Gray places the 1861-1865 conflict within the broad context of evolving warfare. Emphasizing technology and its significant impact, Hattaway includes valuable material on land and sea mines, minesweepers, hand grenades,...
by William S. Connery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Join William C. Connery as he recounts the notable events and battles that occurred in Northern Virginia in 1861 after the firing on Fort Sumter. Beginning in May 1861, both the Confederate and Union armies assembled in Northern Virginia as politicians were deciding how and where the Civil War would...
by E.B. Long
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
“In all the vast collection of books on the American Civil War there is no book like this one,” says Bruce Catton. Never before has such a stunning body of facts dealing with the war been gathered together in one place and presented in a coherent, useful, day-by-day narrative. And never before...
Price's Lost Campaign
The 1864 Invasion of Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In the fall of 1864, during the last brutal months of the Civil War, the Confederates made one final, desperate attempt to rampage through the Shenandoah Valley, Tennessee, and Missouri. Price’s Raid was the common name for the Missouri campaign led by General Sterling Price. Involving...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1993
After the Civil War, someone asked General Pickett why the Battle of Gettysburg had been lost: Was it Lee's error in taking the offensive, the tardiness of Ewell and Early, or Longstreet's hesitation in attacking? Pickett scratched his head and replied, "I've always thought the Yankees had something...
Punitive War
Confederate Guerrillas and Union Reprisals
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Through widespread and relentless surprise attacks and ambushes, Confederate guerrillas drove Union soldiers and their leaders to desperation. Confederate cavalrymen engaged in hit-and-run tactics; autonomous partisan rangers preyed on Federal railroads, telegraph lines, and supply wagons; and civilian...
Struggle for a vast future
The American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Tearing apart a nation founded on ideals of liberty and union, the American Civil War saw some of the most bitter and bloody fighting that humankind has ever witnessed. The war changed America forever, shaping its future and determining its place in history. In this book 13 eminent historians discuss...
Lincoln and McClellan at War
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and his highest-ranking general, George B. McClellan, agreed that the United States must preserve the Union. Their differing strategies for accomplishing that goal, however, created constant conflict. In Lincoln and McClellan at War, Chester...
by John Milton Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
When the American Civil War came, John Hubbard joined the Confederate cavalry. Early in the war he made this observation: "...one day I met a soldier speeding a magnificent black horse along a country road as if for exercise, and the pleasure of being astride of so fine an animal. On closer inspection,...
A Corporal's Story
Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
When George Kimball (1840–1916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in 1861, he’d been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned to newspaper...
Abolitionists Remember
Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter the nation's growing inclination to forget why the war was fought, what slavery was really like, and why the abolitionist cause was so important.
In...
Apostles of Disunion
Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book...
The Bloody Shirt
Terror After the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
A gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era
Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, more than three thousand...