Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
A Buff Looks at the American Civil War
A Look at the United States’ Greatest Conflict from the Point of View of a Civil War Buff
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
There have been thousands of books put out about the Civil War, but none by a Civil War Buff, so I wrote one. This book was a produce of five years' work and puts the war in a way that casual fans of the war will be surprised at what took place. This book is in three parts: Civil War Timeline: the...
A Short History of the Civil War
Ordeal by Fire
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Novelist, historian, and critic Bernard De Voto calls this book the "best one-volume history of the Civil War I've ever read." David Madden, Director of the United States Civil War Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, considers it "the most powerful of all short histories of the Civil...
The Civil War 100
The Stories Behind the Most Influential Battles, People and Events in the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
The Civil War was the defining event in American history.
The Civil War 100 uses a truly novel approach to analyze the respective importance of the events, leaders and battles of America's most important war.
"Across this easily accessible reference, readers meet not
only such icons as...
A Savage War
A Military History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
How the Civil War changed the face of war
The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects...
by Thomas Weber
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“Time has been very good to Thomas Weber’s Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865. First published by Columbia University Press in 1952, it has been out of print since the 1970s, but never out of demand. It has emerged as the premier account of the impact of the railroads on the American...
Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories From the Civil War (Illustrated Edition)
Civil War Memories Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known...
Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory
Civil War Battlefields and Historic Sites Recaptured
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
At the now-peaceful spot of Tennessee's Fort Pillow State Historic Area, a horrific incident in the nation's bloodiest war occurred on April 12, 1864. Just as a high bluff in the park offers visitors a panoramic view of the Mississippi River, John Cimprich's absorbing book affords readers a new vantage...
Secession Winter
When the Union Fell Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays...
by Daneen Wardrop
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863–1870, examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, ranging from the well-known Louisa May Alcott to lesser-known figures such as Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From...
Great Issues in American History, Vol. II
From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Volume II gathers documents from the period of the Revolution through the Jacksonian era, up to the Civil War and the Emancipation. To fit both Colonial and Early National courses, documents covering 1765-1776 appear at the beginning of this volume and at the end of Volume I.
The Civil War Soldier
A Historical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In 1943, Bell Wiley's groundbreaking book Johnny Reb launched a new area of study: the history of the common soldier in the U.S. Civil War. This anthology brings together landmark scholarship on the subject, from a 19th century account of life as a soldier to contemporary work on women who, disguised...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities’ civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 1818–1895), an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. His list of accomplishments would...
by Bill Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
This fascinating illustrated guide is “a must for any Civil War buff visiting or living in New York City” (New York Journal of Books).
Few Americans associate New York City with the Civil War, but the most populated metropolitan area in the nation, then and now, is filled with scores of monuments,...
by Ephraim Douglass Adams, Civil War Classics
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing pivotal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.Readers of Amanda Forman’s seminal work, A World on Fire will...