Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Thunder at the Gates
The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the creation of black regiments. At first, the South and most of...
Troubled Refuge
Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.
Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the...
John Brown, Abolitionist
The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist...
by Bradley R. Clampitt
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
During the Civil War, Vicksburg, Mississippi, assumed almost mythic importance in the minds of Americans: northerners and southerners, soldier and civilian. The city occupied a strategic and commanding position atop rocky cliffs above the Mississippi River, from which it controlled the great waterway....
The Presidents' War
Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided Them (New York Times Best Seller)
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
For the first time, readers will experience America’s gravest crisis through the eyes of the five former presidents who lived it. Author and historian Chris DeRose chronicles history’s most epic Presidential Royal Rumble, which culminated in a multi-front effort against Lincoln’s reelection...
Copperheads : The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
If Civil War battlefields saw vast carnage the Northern home-front was itself far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge spurred secret plots against the Union and triggered widespread violence such as the New York City draft riots. And at the heart of all this turmoil stood...
by Eric H. Walther
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.
Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather...
The Heart of Confederate Appalachia
Western North Carolina in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relatively minor strategically, incursions by both Confederate and Union troops disrupted life and threatened the social stability of many communities. Even...
Creating a Confederate Kentucky
The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925, belying the fact that Kentucky never left the Union. After the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties and embraced the Democratic...
Tried by War
Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author reveals how Lincoln won the Civil War and invented the role of commander in chief as we know it
As we celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, this study by preeminent, bestselling Civil War historian James M. McPherson provides a rare, fresh take on...
Rashness of That Hour
Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
WINNER, 2010, DR. JAMES I. ROBERTSON LITERARY PRIZE FOR CONFEDERATE HISTORY AWARD
WINNER, 2011, THE BACHELDER-CODDINGTON LITERARY AWARD, GIVEN BY THE ROBERT E. LEE CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE OF CENTRAL NEW JERSEY
No commander in the Army of Northern Virginia suffered more damage to his reputation...
Desperate Engagement
How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
The Battle of Monocacy, which took place on the blisteringly hot day of July 9, 1864, is one of the Civil War's most significant yet little-known battles. What played out that day in the corn and wheat fields four miles south of Frederick, Maryland., was a full-field engagement between some 12,000...
Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862
The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Many readers of Civil War history have been led to believe the battle of South Mountain (September 14, 1862) was but a trifling skirmish, a preliminary engagement of little strategic or tactical consequence overshadowed by Antietams horrific carnage just three days later. In fact, the fight was a...
The Day Dixie Died
The Battle of Atlanta
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
One of the most dramatic and important battles ever to be waged on American soil, the Battle of Atlanta changed the course of the Civil War and helped decide a presidential election.
In the North, a growing peace movement and increasing criticism of President Abraham Lincoln's conduct of the...