Civil War Period (1850 1877) category: 3786 books
Best Little Stories from the Civil War
More than 100 true stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
"This fascinating book will make the Civil War come alive with thoughts and feelings of real people."
The Midwest Book Review
The Civil WAR You Never Knew...
Behind the bloody battles, strategic marches, and decorated generals lie more than 100 intensely personal, true stories you...
Curiosities of the Civil War
Strange Stories, Infamous Characters and Bizarre Events
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2011
Civil War buffs, be warned: Webb Garrison’s Curiosities of the Civil War may catch you off guard.
Packed with obscurities and bizarre anecdotes, it spills over with specifics you’ve likely never heard. Debated, reenacted, and analyzed, the Civil War has been the subject of countless...
Civil War Logistics
A Study of Military Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
During the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transportation systems. Moving men, supplies, and equipment required coordination on a massive scale, and Earl J. Hess’s Civil War Logistics offers the first comprehensive analysis of this vital...
The Everything Civil War Book
Everything you need to know about the conflict that divided a nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
North against South. Grant versus Lee. Brother against brother. The Civil War split the nation into two warring parties and shaped American history and culture dramatically. This book provides a complete survey of the warÆs major events, including:
Profiles of the Civil WarÆs great leaders
The...
Conflicting Memories on the 'River of Death'
The Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish-American War, 1863-1933
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
How veterans of two wars constructed contrasting meanings for one sacred landscape
On September 19 and 20, 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland and the Confederate Army of Tennessee fought a horrific battle along Chickamauga Creek in northern Georgia. Although the outcome of this chaotic...
In the Wake of War
Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military occupation, inaugurating a tradition that persisted through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and that continues to the present. In the Wake of War traces how volunteer and even professional soldiers found themselves tasked...
The View from the Ground
Experiences of Civil War Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2006
Civil War scholars have long used soldiers' diaries and correspondence to flesh out their studies of the conflict's great officers, regiments, and battles. However, historians have only recently begun to treat the common Civil War soldier's daily life as a worthwhile topic of discussion in its own...
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in 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 commanders,...
Gone for a Sojer Boy
The Revealing Letters and Diaries of Union Soldiers in the Civil War as They Endure the Siege of Charleston S.C., the Virginia Campaigns of Petersburg and Richmond, and Captivity in Andersonville Prison
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Gone for a Sojer Boy is a companion book to Echoes from the Boys of Company H and is based upon hundreds of letters from a few Civil War soldiers of Company H, 100th Regiment, New York State Volunteers. They provide rare insight into the life and thoughts of common solders. This volume explores the...
by John W. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from...
Occupied Women
Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In the spring of 1861, tens of thousands of young men formed military companies and offered to fight for their country. Near the end of the Civil War, nearly half of the adult male population of the North and a staggering 90 percent of eligible white males in the South had joined the military. With...
TIME Gettysburg
Turning Point of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
History was made on the first three days of July 1863 at Gettysburg, Pa., where Confederate General Robert E. Lee waged a final desperate gamble to win the Civil War-and lost. Now TIME celebrates the 150th anniversary of this pivotal battle in a freshly reported, incisively written and beautifully...
by Terry L. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The Civil War was the most traumatic event in American history, pitting Americans against one another, rending the national fabric, leaving death and devastation in its wake, and instilling an anger that has not entirely dissipated even to this day, 150 years later.
This updated and expanded...
by Lt Col Cheryl A. Heimerman USAF
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The role of women in the Civil War has often been overlooked in history. Women’s roles prior to the Civil War were primarily confined to the home and family. Single women or those who were financially challenged could find work outside the home but opportunities were limited. At the outset of the...