Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
by Ian Finseth
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The Civil War Dead and American Modernity offers a fundamental rethinking of the cultural importance of the American Civil War dead. Tracing their representational afterlife across a massive array of historical, visual, and literary documents from 1861 to 1914, Ian Finseth maintains that the war dead...
by Major William H. Burks USAF
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The United States’ Civil War ended in 1865. However, the post-conflict period immediately following, known as Reconstruction, lasted another twelve years. This era provides a great case study to examine the impacts of politics on military stability operations. This paper studies the Freedmen’s...
The Southern Exodus to Mexico
Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
After the Civil War, a handful of former Confederate leaders joined forces with the Mexican emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg to colonize Mexico with former American slaveholders. Their plan was to develop commercial agriculture in the Mexican state of Coahuila under the guidance of former slaveholders...
by Abner Doubleday
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. In the 1870s, he was listed in the New York business directory as lawyer. Doubleday spent much of his time writing. He published two important works on the Civil...
The Civil War: A Narrative
Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America’s great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully...
The Civil War: A Narrative
Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Focused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War.
Includes maps throughout.
"This, then,...
Rebel Yell
The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic national hero.
Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate...
by Ethan S. Rafuse
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
“An important book that rescues George B. McClellan’s military reputation.” —Chronicles
Bold, brash, and full of ambition, George Brinton McClellan seemed destined for greatness when he assumed command of all the Union armies before he was 35. It was not to be. Ultimately deemed a failure...
by G.F.R. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Stonewall Jackson needs no formal introduction, being one of the most famous generals of the Civil War, revered throughout the South for his extremely successful military skill. At the same time, Jacksons pious Christianity and seeming eccentricities have continued to fascinate historians, scholars and...
Dee Brown on the Civil War
Grierson's Raid, The Bold Cavaliers, and The Galvanized Yankees
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Three true tales of Civil War combat, as recounted by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
The acclaimed historian of the American West turns his attention to the country’s bloody civil conflict, chronicling the exploits of extraordinary soldiers who...
by Eric Foner
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe
Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery....
by Edward L. Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**Winner of the Lincoln Prize
A landmark Civil War history told from a fresh, deeply researched ground-level perspective.**
At the crux of America’s history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world,...
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
A Sensory History of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of reconstruction. In The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege,...
Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields
Discovering America's Hallowed Ground
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Jeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga,...