Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
Lincoln's Resolute Unionist
Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri's Civil War Governor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
As provisional governor of Missouri during the Civil War, Hamilton Gamble (1798--1864) worked closely with the Lincoln administration to keep the state from seceding from the Union. Without Gamble and other loyal Unionist governors, the war in the West might have been lost. Dennis Boman's full-scale...
"...the real war will never get in the books"
Selections from Writers During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1993
"These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet,...
by Brian Holden Reid
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The American Civil War (1861-65) was the bloodiest war of the nineteenth century and its impact continues to be felt today. It, and its origins have been studied more intensively than any other period in American history, yet it remains profoundly controversial. Brian Holden Reid's formidable volume...
by Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave, John Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Born Heinrich Hilgard in Bavaria, Henry Villard (1835-1900) emigrated to the United States at age 18 after a disagreement with his father, penniless, not speaking a word of English and without his parents’ knowledge.
Within five years, he had mastered the English language and was covering...
Hearts Touched by Fire
The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at The Century Magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired...
For Cause and Comrades
Why Men Fought in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 1997
General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You...
Custer
The Making of a Young General
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his leadership in the American Indian Wars and unfortunate fall at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer: The Making...
Lincoln's Gamble
The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
“A masterful psychological portrait” (George Stephanopoulos) of the most critical six months in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, when he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War.
On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention...
The Lost President
A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Though few people have heard of A.D. Smith (1811–65), this nineteenth-century knight-errant left his mark on some of the key events of his times in several states, personifying the nineteenth-century impulse to move across the American landscape. Smith’s Quixotic trail began in upstate New York,...
The War Outside My Window
The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born in 1847 to an affluent slave-holding family in Macon, Georgia. After a horrific leg injury left him an invalid, the educated, inquisitive, perceptive, and exceptionally witty 12-year-old began keeping a diary in 1860--just as secession and the Civil War began tearing the...
The War That Forged a Nation
Why the Civil War Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured...
by Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
As a career civil servant in the United States government during much of his adult life, Jefferson Davis was a natural choice to be elected President of the seceding Southern states in early 1861. Whether the Civil War would have ended any differently with someone else in charge of the Confederacy will...
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
The Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1988
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that...
by P.G.T. Beauregard
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today he is commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, but he rarely used his...