Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Incident at the Otterville Station
A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
While elated Northerners were celebrating victory at Gettysburg and toasting Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Missourian Charles W. Walker was rousing his thirteen slaves in the dark of night. In defiance of a standing Union order prohibiting the transfer of slaves among states, he intended...
Appealing for Liberty
Freedom Suits in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country. Appealing for Liberty is the most comprehensive study to give voice to these African Americans, drawing from more...
by Joseph E. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Joseph E. Johnston (1807-1891) was one of the highest ranking Confederate generals, and also one of the most criticized. In his memoirs, Narrative of Military Operations during the Civil War, Johnston defends his decisions, and gives a vivid recount of the war.
by D. M. Kalten
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The year of 1861 was full of incidents that few people today are aware of. The authentic 1861 artwork on the book cover brings forward what the public knew then, but does not know now. The cause of the American Civil War was not only over slavery as in the mix were state rights, tariffs, taxes and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
"We must have peace, not only in Atlanta, but in all America," declared General Sherman to the civic leaders who protested against the evacuation and burning of their city. "We don't want your Negroes, or your horses, or your lands, or anything you have, but we do want and will have...
by David Homer Bates
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Given the amount of time that Abraham Lincoln spent in the telegraph office of the War Department next door to the White House, it is unfortunate that there are no photos of him there. But we have this fascinating account of his time there. During times of crisis, tension, and victory, Lincoln spent...
Piedmont Soldiers and their Families
North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2000
As centuries turn and decades pass, many wars and major historical events fade into the national memory as bold-face words in our history textbooks. However, the Civil War is unique, in that it still remains a heavily discussed, published, and debated topic in today�s society. No other war has struck...
"The Bloody Fifth" Volume 1
Secession to the Suffolk Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
“A thoroughly researched account of a legendary Confederate infantry regiment that will be of deep interest to the legion of Civil War buffs.” —Richard M. McMurry, author of Two Great Rebel Armies
The Fifth Texas Infantry—“The Bloody Fifth”—was one of only three Texas regiments...
Fenians, Freedmen, and Southern Whites
Race and Nationality in the Era of Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
After the American Civil War, several movements for ethnic separatism and political self-determination significantly shaped the course of Reconstruction. The Union Leagues mobilized African Americans to fight for their political rights and economic security while the Ku Klux Klan used intimidation...
President Lincoln's Recruiter
General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Historians have often marginalized the effect of African American troops on the outcome of the Civil War. While many histories briefly mention the service of the blacks, few reveal their impact. Lorenzo Thomas was one of the most exceptional people to serve in that war, but no biography of his life...
Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana
Confederate General and New South Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana offers the first biography of one of Louisiana's most intriguing nineteenth-century politicians and a founder of Tulane University. Gibson (1832--1892) grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Terrebonne Parish and was educated at Yale University before studying...
My Brother's Keeper
African Canadians and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
The story of African Canadians who fled slavery in the United States but returned to enlist in the Union forces during the American Civil War.
On New Year’s Eve in 1862, blacks from across British North America joined in spirit with their American fellows in silent vigils to await the enactment...
Thunder on the River
The Civil War in Northeast Florida
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2010
When the Civil War finally came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city was taken four separate times by Federal forces but abandoned after each of the first three occupations. During the fourth occupation, it...
Louisiana Native Guards
The Black Military Experience During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995
Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. Intended as a response to demands from members of New Orleans' substantial free black population that they be permitted to participate in the defense of their state, the...