Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
by Glenn W. LaFantasie
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during the war. As a turning point in the war, Gettysburg had a different effect on each person.Victory at Gettysburg...
A Savage Conflict
The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large...
Why Confederates Fought
Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even those who...
New Hampshire and the Civil War
Voices from the Granite State
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Granite State has a remarkable record of service during the Civil War. It supplied a total of 10,657 recruits for the infantry, cavalry and field artillery divisions in 1861, with the majority of these first recruits enlisting for three years of service. Historian Bruce Heald lets the soldiers and...
by Daniel M. Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
When President Lincoln issued his 1861 call to arms, the 63rd, 69th and 88th New York Volunteers were among the first to step forward. Comprised primarily of first and second generation Irish immigrants, these three regiments were later joined by the 28th Massachusetts and the 116th Pennsylvania....
Beleaguered Winchester
A Virginia Community at War, 1861--1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
During the Civil War, the strategically located town of Winchester, Virginia, suffered from the constant turmoil of military campaigning perhaps more than any other town. Occupied dozens of times by alternating Union and Confederate forces, Winchester suffered through three major battles, including...
Yankee Warhorse
A Biography of Major General Peter Osterhaus
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theater until the final surrender of the war. Osterhaus made a name for himself within the army as an energetic and resourceful commander who led his men from the front. He was...
by walter shreffler
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Part One of the book contains brief biographies of 49 Shrefflers who served in the Civil War, including their post war lives and pertinent genealogical information. Part Two offers an overview and statistical analysis of the men as a group. The work is annotated and indexed with selected sources noted. 200 pages
by Walter Gable
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Though hundreds of miles away from the death and destruction of the battlefield, Seneca County, New York, contributed more than its share for the preservation of the Union. Many brave men left home to fight, suffering hardships and casualties. John Hoster was captured in 1864 and held at the infamous...
From Your Loving Son
Civil War Correspondence and Diaries of Private George F. Moore and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
War was no stranger to the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts. A small farming community at the outbreak of the Civil War, Sudbury stood ready to support the cause of the Union. Uriah and Mary Moore, a local farmer and his wife, parents of ten children, sent four sons off to fight for the Union. George...
"I Hope to Do My Country Service"
The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters sharing...
Brothers One and All
Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
During the Civil War, the regiment was the fundamental component of armies both North and South, its reliability and effectiveness crucial to military success. Soldiers' devotion to their regiment -- their esprit de corps -- encouraged unit cohesion and motivated the individual soldier to march into...
by Robert Scott Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Prior to the Civil War, Atlanta was at the intersection of four rail lines, rendering the Georgia crossroads the fastest-growing city in the Deep South. As the Confederate States formed, Atlanta was a city deeply divided about secession. By the spring of 1863, war had arrived at the doorstep of Atlanta....
Divided Loyalties
Kentucky’s Struggle for Armed Neutrality in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
On May 16, 1861, the Kentucky state legislature passed an ordinance declaring its neutrality, which the state’s governor, Beriah Magoffin, confirmed four days later. Kentucky’s declaration and ultimate support for the Union stood at odds with the state’s social and cultural heritage....