Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
by Lowell H. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
The Civil War scene in Kentucky, site of few full-scale battles, was one of crossroad skirmishes and guerrilla terror, of quick incursions against specific targets and equally quick withdrawals. Yet Kentucky was crucial to the military strategy of the war. For either side, a Kentucky held secure against...
Let Us Have Peace
Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Historians have traditionally drawn distinctions between Ulysses S. Grant's military and political careers. In Let Us Have Peace, Brooks Simpson questions such distinctions and offers a new understanding of this often enigmatic leader. He argues that during the 1860s Grant was both soldier and politician,...
The Fate of Their Country
Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
How partisan politics lead to the Civil War
What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt distills a lifetime of scholarship to demonstrate that secession...
by KidCaps
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
The men had been marching for days, it seemed. It was late June in the year 1863, and they had been fighting for a long time. These Union soldiers were serious men and they recognized how important it was for them to keep fighting this war. Even so, there were times when it wasn’t easy. In their...
The Fellers Called Him Bill (Book Ii)
The Rebellion Intensifies
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The Fellers Called Him Bill is a story of the American Civil War by P.J. Kearns. It is a thoroughly engaging account of the Great Rebellion following one young mans incredible journey through it. The generously illustrated narrative is presented as a three volume set
Book 1 - Secession and...
Fighting for General Lee
Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A remarkable biography of a Confederate brigadier general’s experiences during—and after—the Civil War: “Well-written and deeply researched” (Eric J. Wittenberg, author of Out Flew the Sabers).
Rufus Barringer fought on horseback through most of the Civil War with General Lee’s Army...
Upon the Altar of the Nation
A Moral History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States
The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side. In this watershed book, Harry S. Stout...
The Enduring Relevance of Robert E. Lee
The Ideological Warfare Underpinning the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War presents a unique opportunity to consider the motivation behind General Robert E. Lee’s efforts to defend the Confederacy against his once beloved United States. What will be learned from this book is that General Lee was following in the footsteps...
For Slavery and Union
Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Benjamin Forsythe Buckner (1836--1901) faced a dire choice as the flames of Civil War threatened his native Kentucky. As an ambitious Bluegrass aristocrat, he was sympathetic to fellow slave owners, but was also convinced that the Peculiar Institution could not survive a war for southern independence....
I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over
First Person Accounts of Civil War Arkansas from the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
I Do Wish this Cruel War Was Over collects diaries, letters, and memoirs excerpted from their original publication in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly to offer a first-hand, ground-level view of the war’s horrors, its mundane hardships, its pitched battles and languid stretches, even its moments of...
by George A. Crawley
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
From the Foreword by Elisabeth Lee Rennie: "The twenty-seven letters in this collection of Civil War era letters connect members of one small community in Walton, New York, near the Pennsylvania border. More than historical correspondence from the battlefield to the home front, this primary collection...
North Carolina Civil War Obituaries, Regiments 1 through 46
A Collection of Tributes to the War Dead and Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
North Carolina sent more than 125,000 men and boys to fight the Civil War. It is estimated that about 40,000 lost their lives on the battlefield or by disease. Most were sent home for burial in family plots or community churchyards but thousands could not be identified or could not be transported...
Meade's Army
The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's aide-de-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. Lyman was a Harvard-trained natural scientist who was exceptionally disciplined in recording the events, the players, and his surroundings during his wartime duty. His private...
by George D.N. Coletti
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Buck Jernigan, his wife Betty Gail and their twins, Norman and Polly, live in the small hamlet of Stone Mountain, Georgia. The Civil War reshapes their environment from a thriving tourist and granite Mecca to a war-ravaged county. Although the Jernigans are pro-Union their family becomes entangled...