Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
by Joseph Barry, Civil War Classics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal 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. The story of John Brown’s Raid is one of tremendous import to...
Women in Civil War Texas
Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Women in Civil War Texas is the first book dedicated to the unique experiences of Texas women during the Civil War. It fills the literary void in Texas women’s history during this time, connects Texas women’s lives to southern women’s history, and shares the diversity of experiences of women in...
Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance
Other Sides of Civil War Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Most histories of Civil War Texas—some starring the fabled Hood’s Brigade, Terry’s Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure—depict the Lone Star State as having joined the Confederacy as a matter of course and as having later emerged from the war relatively unscathed. Yet as the contributors...
by George Meade & Dan Sickles
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 November 6, 1872) was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer. During the Civil War he served as a Union general, rising from command of a brigade to command of the Army of the Potomac just days before the Battle of Gettysburg. Naturally, he is best...
by Timothy L. Wesley
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In The Politics of Faith during the Civil War, Timothy L. Wesley examines the engagement of both northern and southern preachers in politics during the American Civil War, revealing an era of denominational, governmental, and public scrutiny of religious leaders. Controversial ministers risked ostracism...
New York Times: Disunion
Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A major collection of modern commentary from scholars, historians, and Civil War buffs on the significant events of the Civil War, culled from The New York Times' popular Disunion on-line journal.
Since its debut, The New York Times' acclaimed web journal entitled 'Disunion' has published hundreds...
The Civil War in Missouri
A Military History
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Combined with the state’s distance from both sides’ capitals, this misguided impression paints Missouri as an insignificant player in the nation’s struggle...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1996
In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim a staggering number of lives. Since that fateful day, the debate over the causes of the American Civil War has never ceased. What events...
No Party Now
Politics in the Civil War North
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
During the Civil War, Northerners fought each other in elections with almost as much zeal as they fought Southern rebels on the battlefield. Yet politicians and voters alike claimed that partisanship was dangerous in a time of national crisis. In No Party Now, Adam I. P. Smith challenges the prevailing...
by General Forsyth U. S. A.
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
General Forsyth U. S. A. 1837-1915 was a United States military officer who served in the cavalry during the American Civil War and the Plains Indian Wars of 1870 to 1890.
Forsyth was born in Pennsylvania, and enlisted as a private in a 3 month regiment, Barker's Company, Chicago Volunteer...
Reconstructing the Campus
Higher Education and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
The Civil War transformed American life. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its aftermath. The first book to examine the Civil War’s immediate and long-term impact on higher...
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation
The Economics of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and demand, modern market theory, and the economics of...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
*Includes pictures of the battle's important generals.*Includes several maps of the battle.*Includes accounts of the fighting written by generals and soldiers.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.“Every corpse I saw was as black as coal. It was not possible to...
Two Captains from Carolina
Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791- ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to...