Civil category: 10105 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...
Illinois’s War
The Civil War in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
On the eve of the Civil War and after, Illinois was one of the most significant states in the Union. Its history is, in many respects, the history of the Union writ large: its political leaders figured centrally in the war’s origins, progress, and legacies; and its diverse residents made sacrifices...
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 William L. Barney
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
A gold mine for the historian as well as the Civil War buff, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the major personalities and pivotal events of the war that redefined the American nation. Drawing upon recent research that has moved beyond battles and...
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...
Saving the Soul of Georgia
Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia’s chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or convicted of capital crimes in a racially hostile legal system, represented movement activists arrested for their civil rights work, and fought to undermine...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Summer 2013 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 3, Number 2
June 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor's Note
William Blair
Articles
Stephen Cushman
When Lincoln Met Emerson
Christopher Phillips
Lincoln's Grasp of War: Hard War and the Politics of Neutrality and Slavery in...
Atlanta
A Portrait of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 1999
When the public envisions Atlanta during the Civil War, two primary images�of two unparalleled individuals�dominate: William Tecumseh Sherman and Scarlett O�Hara; however, there is more to the city�s Civil War heritage than a frowning general and a wily gentlewoman. Within the pages of Atlanta:...
Introduction to Civil Engineering Systems
A Systems Perspective to the Development of Civil Engineering Facilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
This book presents an integrated systems approach to the evaluation, analysis, design, and maintenance of civil engineering systems. Addressing recent concerns about the world's aging civil infrastructure and its environmental impact, the author makes the case for why any civil infrastructure should...
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...
These Rugged Days
Alabama in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
An accessibly written and dramatic account of Alabama’s role in the Civil War.
The Civil War has left indelible marks on Alabama’s land, culture, economy, and people. Despite its lasting influence, this wrenching story has been too long neglected by historians preoccupied by events elsewhere....