Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
The Timberclads in the Civil War
The Lexington, Conestoga and Tyler on the Western Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
In the most detailed history ever of Union warships on the western waters of the Civil War, the author recounts the exploits of the timberclad ships Lexington, Tyler, and Conestoga. Converted to warships from commercial steamboats at the beginning of the conflict, the three formed the core of the...
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
A Biography of the Song That Marches On
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
It was sung at Ronald Reagan's funeral, and adopted with new lyrics by labor radicals. John Updike quoted it in the title of one of his novels, and George W. Bush had it performed at the memorial service in the National Cathedral for victims of September 11, 2001. Perhaps no other song has held such...
by Paul J. Springer
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
This illuminating reference work contains excerpts from roughly 100 individual pieces of propaganda generated during the American Civil War in the North and the South, as well as contextual analysis to assist readers in understanding its utility, importance, and effect. It includes written arguments,...
by Elizabeth B. Custer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
"Following the Guidon" by Elizabeth B. Custer" is a warmly human, first-hand account of the hardships, disappointments, fun and flattery, joys, and heartaches of General Custer's devoted wife, who accompanied her military husband to the (then) desolate plains of Kansas & Nebraska...
by Larry Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
During the Civil War, Springfield was a frontier community of about 1,500 people, but it was the largest and most important place in southwest Missouri. The Northern and Southern armies vied throughout the early part of the war to occupy its strategic position. The Federal defeat at Wilson's Creek in...
by Ray Lennard
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Lenawee County was a hotbed for antislavery activities in the 1830s that translated into strong Union support in April 1861. Adrian, Tecumseh and Hudson sent hundreds of soldiers to fight and die in the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation propelled nearly fifty of the county's African American...
Maryland Women in the Civil War
Unionists, Rebels, Slaves & Spies
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
On July 9, 1864, young Mamie Tyler crouched in a cellar as Union sharpshooters above traded volleys with Confederate forces. After six excruciating hours, she emerged to nurse the wounded from the Battle of Monocacy. This was life in a border state and the terrifying reality for the women of Maryland....
All the Fighting They Want
The Atlanta Campaign from Peachtree Creek to the City's Surrender, July 18–September 2, 1864
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Civil War’s Atlanta campaign rages on following A Long and Bloody Task: “More than informative . . . challenges simplistic caricatures of Hood and Sherman” (The Civil War Monitor).
John Bell Hood brought a hang-dog look and a hard-fighting spirit to the Army of Tennessee. Once one...
by Lieutenant-Colonel Peter J. Thede
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the leadership competencies of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, the most consistently successful corps-level commander of the Civil War. Over the course of his 44 years in uniform, General Hancock participated in the Mexican War, Civil War,...
Bloody Autumn
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
An “essential addition to serious students’ libraries” detailing the historic military offensive that helped sway the outcome of the American Civil War (Civil War News).
In the late summer of 1864, Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant set one absolutely unconditional goal: to sweep Virginia’s...
The Pike's Peakers and the Rocky Mountain Rangers
A History of Colorado in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Having been born and raised on the Missouri River at Atchison, Kansas, and having the ghosts of the Civil War about me constantly, I have been passionately interested in the Civil War as long as I can remember. The Victorian and antebellum homes with servant quarters still behind them, the wooded...
by Derek B. Hankerson, Judith Y. Shearer
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
G.A. Henry defended a slave in court, but years later he fought for the Confederacy. The question is why?
Continuing the creative nonfiction narrative she began in her first book, All Bones Be White, Judith Shearer--whose family owned slaves--teams up with Derek Boyd Hankerson--some of whose...
by Joseph Connole
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The U.S. government’s Indian Policy evolved during the 19th century, culminating in the expulsion of the American Indians from their ancestral homelands. Much has been written about Andrew Jackson and the removal of the Five Nations from the American Southeast to present-day Oklahoma. Yet little...
Grenville Mellen Dodge in the Civil War
Union Spymaster, Railroad Builder and Organizer of the Fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
In 1861, Colonel Grenville Dodge organized the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and led them off to war. They had few uniforms or weapons and were more of a mob than a military unit, but Dodge shaped them into a fighting force that won honors on the battlefield and gained respect as one of the...