Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
The Rebel Shore
The Story of Union Sea Power in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
First published in 1957, this book details the important part that the sea power played in winning the Civil War.
“IN the past few decades there has been a resurgence of interest in the Civil War reflected in an avalanche of Civil War novels, biographies, and monographs. The writers responsible...
by Joseph J. Millard
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
TRUE STORIES OF THE CIVIL WAR collects true tales of the Civil War, meticulously researched by Civil War authority Joseph J. Millard. These classic works, all originally published in TRUE Magazine, are great reading for any Civil War buff! "The Spy Who Saved the Union" -- The tale of the amateur spy...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study examines the logistical system that supported the Federal Army of the Southwest in the American Civil War during the Pea Ridge Campaign of January-March, 1862, under the command...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
*Includes pictures of each leader, and important people, places, and events in their lives. *Includes an original introduction for each leader.*Includes a bibliography for each leader.*Includes a Table of ContentsDespite the fact that the Civil War began over 150 years ago, it remains one of the most...
Civil War Senator
William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806--1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of...
Memoirs of Service Afloat During 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...
by Douglas W. Bostick
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Join Charleston historian Doug Bostick as he traces the political turmoil of 1860 and early 1861, when the firebrands of secession in Charleston were pushing the South to act together in a decisive way. The Union Is Dissolved chronicles the face-off between professor and student--Robert Anderson and...
by L-Cmdr Kristin E. Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The partisan war in the Revolutionary War South demonstrated the vital linkage between the civil and military authorities. In the policies created to persuade the people of the righteousness of the American cause and neutralize opposition, the civil leadership of South Carolina inadvertently set the...
Reminiscences of Peace and War: Memoirs of a Southern Woman during the Civil War (Illustrated Edition)
Civil War Memories Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 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 commanders,...
A Scientific Way of War
Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study...
Maryland, My Maryland
Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Historians have long treated the patriotic anthems of the American Civil War as colorful, if largely insignificant, side notes. Beneath the surface of these songs, however, is a complex story. “Maryland, My Maryland” was one of the most popular Confederate songs during the American Civil War,...
Crossing the Deadlines
Civil War Prisons Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The "deadlines" were boundaries prisoners had to stay within or risk being shot. Just as a prisoner would take the daring challenge in "crossing the deadline" to attempt escape, Crossing the Deadlines crosses those boundaries of old scholarship by taking on bold initiatives with...
by Joseph E. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
During the Civil War, one of the tales that was often told among Confederate soldiers was that Joseph E. Johnston was a crack shot who was a better bird hunter than just about everyone else in the South. However, as the story went, Johnston would never take the shot when asked to, complaining that...
101 Things You Didn't Know about the Civil War
The People, Battles, and Events That Defined the War Between the States
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Get the lowdown on America’s Bloodiest War—the Civil War—with this essential guide to 101 interesting and unexpected facts about this defining event in US history.
Do you know which state first seceded from the Union? What about the individual who could be considered the Mata Hari of...