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From The Cannon’s Mouth: The Civil War Letters Of General Alpheus S. Williams

by General Alpheus S. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

A candidate for the title of “unsung hero” among the Union generals of the Civil War, Alpheus Williams, “Old Pap” to his men, wrote as frequently as he could to his family in Detroit of his successes, achievements and battles during that terrible period of strife. In this engaging collection...

The Civil War Diary Of Cyrus F. Boyd, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, 1861-1863 [Illustrated Edition]

by Lieut. Cyrus F. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016

Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. “[One of] the Union side’s most revealing and realistic views of soldier life.…The diary is especially important for the light which...

Confederate Women and Yankee Men

A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

by Drew Gilpin Faust
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Gilpin Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged...

Stepdaughters of History

Southern Women and the American Civil War

by Catherine Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016

In Stepdaughters of History, noted scholar Catherine Clinton reflects on the roles of women as historical actors within the field of Civil War studies and examines the ways in which historians have redefined female wartime participation. Clinton contends that despite the recent attention, white and...

Something Abides: Discovering the Civil War in Today's Vermont

by Howard Coffin
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013

With the help of this book, Civil War sites can be located as in no other state, taking the reader through the beautiful Vermont landscape of hill farms and small towns that looks more like the Civil War era than that of any other state. Years after the Civil War, Oliver Wendell Holmes spoke for his...

Guerrilla Operations in the Civil War: Assessing Compound Warfare During Price’s Raid

by Major Dale E. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

One of the most significant areas of guerrilla warfare during the American Civil War occurred along the Missouri-Kansas border. Many of these guerrilla forces had been active during the Bleeding Kansas period and continued their activities into the Civil War supporting the Confederacy. The guerrillas...

Personal Memoirs Of P. H. Sheridan [Illustrated Edition]

by General Philip Henry Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. - 2 volumes in one “General Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) was the most important Union cavalry commander of the Civil War, and ranks as...

The 3rd & 9th Texas Cavalry: The War Between The States As I Saw It.

Civil War Texas Ranger & Cavalry, #7

by Allison W. Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014

"The 3rd & 9th Texas Cavalry: The War Between The States As I Saw It." by Allison W. Sparks is a first hand memoir of the American Civil experience of a private Confederate soldier. Sparks 1841-1912 who was nicknamed "Tuck" was raised in Cypress, Texas & is buried...

Opium Eating: An Autobiographical Sketch by an Habituate

by A Habituate
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013

"Civil War Era Medicine: Opium Eating: An Autobiographical Sketch by an Habituate" is by an anonymous Northern Civil War soldier who became hooked on opium as a result of his wartime service. During the American Civil War, a fair number of soldiers became addicted to opium either...

The Civil War as Global Conflict

Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War

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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014

In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis present this collection of essays to highlight the war not just as a North American conflict but as a global one affected by...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court Justice

by Susan-Mary Grant
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was one of the most influential jurists of his time. From the antebellum era and the Civil War through the First World War and into the New Deal years, Holmes' long life and career as a Supreme Court Justice spanned an eventful period of American history, as the country...

The Struggle for Tennessee

by James H Street
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018

While Lee's Army of Northern Virginia dueled the Army of the Potomac, other Union and Confederate armies were struggling for control of Tennessee. Using eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps, author James Street...

Access to History: America: Civil War and Westward Expansion 1803-1890 Fifth Edition

by Alan Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History...

Villainous Compounds

Chemical Weapons and the American Civil War

by Guy R. Hasegawa
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015