Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
The Last Battle of the Civil War
United States versus Lee, 1861-1883
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Seventeen years after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, one final, dramatic confrontation occurred between the Lee family and the United States government. In The Last Battle of the Civil War, Anthony J. Gaughan recounts the fascinating saga of United States v. Lee, known to history as the...
by W. Craig Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen...
by Luca Stefano Cristini
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 23, 2015
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-2011 150 YEARS and 150 PHOTOS, is a terrific collection of finest re-coloured and restored shots of the men and soldiers of the Great American War. The American Civil War that start the April 12, 1861, it was, with the Crimean Conflict (1854), the first war to be photographed...
Georgia Civil War Manuscript Collections
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This book provides historians and genealogists with a one-stop guide to every Civil War–related manuscript collection stored in Georgia’s many repositories. With this guide in hand, researchers will no longer spend countless hours pouring through online catalogs, emailing archivists, and wondering...
Civil War Wests
Testing the Limits of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States.
Award-winning historians such as Steven Hahn, Martha Sandweiss, William Deverell, Virginia Scharff, and Stephen Kantrowitz offer original essays on lives,...
Terry's Texas Rangers: The 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment In The Civil War
Civil War Texas Rangers & Cavalry, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
"Terry's Texas Rangers: The 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment In The Civil War" by Leonidas B. Giles is a short history of this Texas cavalry regiment during the Civil War. Giles was a member of Company D of this famous cavalry unit so it is told from his frontline prospective in that company.
Terry's...
Liberty and Union
The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
“This book is about the relationship between the Civil War generation and the founding generation,” Timothy S. Huebner states at the outset of this ambitious and elegant overview of the Civil War era. The book integrates political, military, and social developments into an epic narrative interwoven...
The Complete History of the Civil War (Including Memoirs & Biographies of the Lead Commanders)
Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman, Biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis & Robert E. Lee, The Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Presidential Orders & Actions
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Complete History of the Civil War" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This meticulously edited collection contains a Pulitzer Prize awarded History of Civil War, as well as the memoirs of the two most...
North Carolina Civil War Monuments
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
Monuments honoring leaders and victorious armies have been raised throughout history. Following the American Civil War, however, this tradition expanded, and by the early twentieth century, the Confederate dead and surviving veterans, although defeated in battle, ranked among the world’s most commemorated...
Fateful Lightning
A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion in property. The war also sparked some of the...
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by Prof. J. G. Randall, Prof. David Donald
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
This is a revised edition by David Herbert Donald of his former professor J. G. Randall’s book The Civil War and Reconstruction, which was originally published in 1937 and had long been regarded as “the standard work in its field”, serving as a useful basic Civil War reference tool for general...
Border Wars
The Civil War in Tennessee and Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
North and South fight for control of a vital region
Kentucky and Tennessee share a unique and similar history, having joined the Union as the fifteenth and sixteenth states in 1792 and 1796, respectively. During the antebellum period, Kentuckians and Tennesseans enjoyed a common culture, pursued...
Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill
The "War Memories" of John Henry Otto, Captain, Company D, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
John Henry Otto was born September 12, 1822, in Westphalia, Germany, and enlisted in the Prussian army sometime around 1845. According to his own account, he served in the war between Prussia and Denmark in 1848 and as a sergeant fought to suppress revolution in southern Germany. He was discharged in...
Ross' Texas Brigade: The Texas Rangers & Cavalry In The Civil War
Civil War Texas Rangers & Cavalry, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
"Ross' Texas Brigade: The Texas Rangers & Cavalry In The Civil War" by Victor M. Rose is a history of the famous Texas Brigade of cavalry, made up of the 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 27th cavalry regiments, commanded by General Laurence Sullivan Ross. The Ross Brigade was named after Ross, its...