Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
Journal of the Civil War Era
Spring 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 2, Number 1
March 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Forum
The Future of Civil War Era Studies
Stephen Berry, Michael T. Bernath, Seth Rockman, Barton A. Myers, Anne Marshall, Lisa M. Brady, Judith Giesberg, & Jim Downs
Articles
Jacqueline...
Our Country
Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
“A welcome contribution to the growing literature on religion during the Civil War era.” —Civil War News
Northern evangelicals’ love of the Union arguably contributed to its preservation and the slaves’ emancipation—but in subsuming the ex-slaves to their vision for a Christian...
Gender and the Jubilee
Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women. By analyzing the actions of women in the urban environment of St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo...
Pursuit:
The Chase, Capture, Persecution & Surprising Release of Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
"A Spellbinding Tale Of The Last Days Of The Confederacy." --David J. Eicher, author of The Longest Night
In the only book to tell the definitive story of Confederate President Jefferson Davis's chase, capture, imprisonment, and release, journalist and Civil War writer Clint Johnson...
The American Civil War (3)
The war in the East 1863–1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Great battles and famous commanders dominated the military history of the Civil War in the Eastern Theater during the period 1863-1865. This book includes revealing details of the clash at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the costliest battle ever waged in the Western Hemisphere, but, contrary to common...
CIVIL WAR – Complete History of the War, Documents, Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders
Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This meticulously edited collection contains a Pulitzer Prize awarded History of Civil War, as well as the memoirs of the two most important military commanders of the Union, Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman, complete with biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. Finally,...
Brigadier General St. John R. Liddell’s Division At Chickamauga:
A Study Of A Division’s Performance In Battle [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
This thesis is a historical analysis of Brigadier General St. John R. Liddell and his division during the Battle of Chickamauga. Liddell’s Division...
John Brown Gordon
Soldier, Southerner, American
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
John Brown Gordon’s career of prominent public service spanned four of America’s most turbulent decades. Born in Upson County, Georgia, in 1832, Gordon practiced law in Atlanta and, in the years immediately preceding the Civil War, developed coal mines in northwest Georgia. In 1861, he responded...
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons
Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons confronts the enduring claim that Civil War military prisons represented an apocalyptic and a historical rupture in America's otherwise linear and progressive carceral history. Instead, it places the war years in the broader context of imprisonment...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
*Includes pictures of each general and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes an introduction for each general*Includes a Table of Contents*Includes bibliographies for each generalDespite the fact that the Civil War began over 150 years ago, it remains one of the most widely discussed...
A Massacre in Memphis
The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history
In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the...
New York Times Book of the Civil War 1861-1865
650 Eyewitness Accounts and Articles
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
The Civil War as you've never experienced it before, through original, first-hand reportage of The New York Times, the country's newspaper of record.
The New York Times, established in 1851, was one of the few newspapers with correspondents on the front lines throughout the Civil War. The Complete...
by George Grant, Michael Swift
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The Civil War—like all civil wars—was divisive, costly, and savage. More Americans died in this war than in World War I and World War II combined. Brother was pitted against brother and neighbor against neighbor. There are no civilians in a civil war and both sides’ scorched earth policies meant...
Capital Dames
The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this...