Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
Uncivil Warriors
The Lawyers' Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected. Depending on whose side's arguments one accepted, the Constitution either demanded the Union's continuance or allowed for its...
Northern Men with Southern Loyalties
The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In the decade before the Civil War, Northern Democrats, although they ostensibly represented antislavery and free-state constituencies, made possible the passage of such proslavery legislation as the Compromise of 1850 and Fugitive Slave Law of the same year, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and the...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Winter 2014 Issue -- Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History: A Special Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 4, Number 4
December 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Gary Gallagher & Kathryn Shively Meier
Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History
Peter C. Luebke
"Equal to Any Minstrel Concert I Ever Attended at Home": Union Soldiers...
Civil War America
A Social and Cultural History with Primary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
As war raged on the battlefields of the Civil War, men and women all over the nation continued their daily routines. They celebrated holidays, ran households, wrote letters, read newspapers, joined unions, attended plays, and graduated from high school and college. Civil War America reveals how Americans,...
by James Longstreet
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
One of the most important, and controversial, Confederate generals during the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lees old warhorse. Longstreet was Lees principal subordinate for most of the war, ably managing a corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. Longstreet was instrumental...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Why does the Civil War still speak to us so powerfully? If we listen to the most thoughtful, forceful, and passionate voices of that day we find that many of the questions at the heart of that conflict are also central to the very idea of America—and that many of them remain unresolved in our own...
by James Longstreet
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
One of the most important, and controversial, Confederate generals during the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lees old warhorse. Longstreet was Lees principal subordinate for most of the war, ably managing a corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. Longstreet was instrumental...
Civil War Mississippi
A Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2000
In the Civil War Mississippi experienced a protracted and devastating invasion, and Confederate and Union armies fought fiercely at Corinth, Holly Springs, Iuka, Port Gibson, Vicksburg, and many other sites throughout the state.
With both tourists and Civil War buffs in mind, archivist Michael...
by Roger L. Ransom
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
"Provocative and compelling…[a] wild ride through Civil War history."—Library Journal
What if Lee had avoided defeat at Gettysburg? What if a military stalemate had developed, coupled with growing antiwar sentiment? What if Lincoln had been defeated in the 1864 election and Great...
American Abolitionism
Its Direct Political Impact from Colonial Times into Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
This ambitious book provides the only systematic examination of the American abolition movement’s direct impacts on antislavery politics from colonial times to the Civil War and after. As opposed to indirect methods such as propaganda, sermons, and speeches at protest meetings, Stanley Harrold focuses...
Mosquito Soldiers
Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. And of the various maladies that plagued both armies, few were more pervasive than malaria -- a mosquito-borne illness that afflicted over 1.1...
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by Major Robert Stiles
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities.
“Marse Robert” is one of the endearing nicknames by which General Robert E. Lee was called by his men. This book is the account of...
Civil War Collector's Encyclopedia
Arms, Uniforms and Equipment of the Union and Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
This comprehensive reference will be invaluable to anyone requiring accurate data on the Civil War period. Indispensable for identifying, describing, and understanding the use of more than 800 items, the text is arranged alphabetically by topic, with subjects ranging from artillery accouterments,...
by Admiral David Dixon Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The stern look on the cover of this book should not fool you. David Dixon Porter was one of the wittiest, most erudite men to have served in the American Civil War and once you've read his memoirs, you won't miss the twinkle in those eyes. What most Americans know about the Civil War centers around...