Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Lincoln and the Irish
The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
An unprecedented narrative of the relationship that swung the Civil War.
When Pickett charged at Gettysburg, it was the all-Irish Pennsylvania 69th who held fast while the surrounding regiments broke and ran. And it was Abraham Lincoln who, a year earlier at Malvern Hill, picked up a corner...
The Free State of Jones and The Echo of the Black Horn
Two Sides of the Life and Activities of Captain Newt Knight
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Subject of the upcoming film Free State of Jones, this book provides recollections of the man who took on the Confederacy during the Civil War and established the liberated Mississippi county.
Soldier, Father, Rebel. Outlaw. A man of deep convictions, Captain Newt Knight disagreed with the...
The New York City Draft Riots
Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1991
For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hunted policemen and soldiers. Before long, the rioters turned their murderous wrath against the black...
The Making of a Confederate
Walter Lenoir's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2007
Despite the advances of the civil rights movement, many white southerners cling to the faded glory of a romanticized Confederate past. In The Making of a Confederate, William L. Barney focuses on the life of one man, Walter Lenoir of North Carolina, to examine the origins of southern white identity...
by Fitzhugh Lee
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Fitzhugh Lee (November 19, 1835 April 28, 1905) was a cavalry officer for the Confederacy, the Governor of Virginia, and later a general in the Spanish-American War, fighting for the country that he had fought against over 30 years earlier. While all of this would be enough to earn him distinction,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Library of America's ambitious four-volume series continues with this volume that traces events from January 1862 to January 1863, an unforgettable portrait of the crucial year that turned a secessionist rebellion into a war of emancipation. Including eleven never-before- published pieces, here...
by Isaac Newton Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Abraham Lincoln (18091865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the countrys most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the Westerner who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before...
by George Washington Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865 (originally published in 1888) by pioneer African American historian George Washington Williams remains a classic text in African American literature and Civil War history. In this powerful narrative, Williams, who served in the...
by Captain Henry E. Handerson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Henry E. Handerson, a tutor from the Western Reserve of Ohio, fifteen miles east of Cleveland, enlisted in the Confederate army on June 17, 1861…Handerson was not an ordinary soldier. His memoir is the account of a Northerner—who after only two years of residency in antebellum Louisiana decided...
Bryan Prince's Underground Railroad 2-Book Bundle
My Brother's Keeper / One More River to Cross
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Award-winning author Bryan Prince portrays the experiences of slaves and former slaves in these compelling histories of the Underground Railroad and American Civil War. This special two-book collection includes:
My Brother’s Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
The stirring...
by James K. Polk
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
“There are three key reasons why James K. Polk deserves recognition as a significant and influential American president,” Polk biographer, Walter Borneman, wrote. “First, Polk accomplished the objectives of his presidential term as he defined them; second, he was the most decisive chief executive...
Gettysburg
The Turning Point in the Struggle between North and South
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In June 1863, General Robert E. Lee and the 75,000-strong Army of Northern Virginia launched a second invasion of the North, crossing into Maryland and Pennsylvania to try to win a decisive victory over Federal forces. On July 1, Lees army encountered Major General Meades 90,000 strong Army of the Potamac...
by Eugene Fitch Ware
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2019
Eugene F. Ware, a soldier of Iowa, a lawyer and public man of Kansas, and an author of both that state and Missouri.
His parents moved to Burlington, Iowas, in his childhood and he was educated in the public schools of that place. As a Lt. and Captain he served as aide de-camp to Generals Grenville...
by Edwin S. Grosvenor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Some of America's foremost historians - including Bruce Catton, David McCullough, James McPherson and Stephen Sears tell extraordinary stories of courage, disaster, and triumph in this collection of the best articles from sixty years of American Heritage. The Civil War posed a critical test of the...