Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Triumph Amidst Bloodshed
Civil War Soldiers' Spiritual Victories
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
TRIUMPH AMIDST BLOODSHED: Civil War Soldiers’ Spiritual Victories gives eye witness accounts about hundreds of Union soldiers during those fateful days. An organization, called the United States Christian Commission, sprang forth from the Y.M.C.A. to care for soldiers throughout the duration of...
Take Sides with the Truth
The Postwar Letters of John Singleton Mosby to Samuel F. Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
During the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby led the Forty-third Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, better known as Mosby's Rangers, in bold and daring operations behind Union lines. Throughout the course of the war, more than 2000 men were members of Mosby's command, some for only a short time. Mosby had...
A Family and Nation under Fire
The Civil War Letters and Journals of William and Joseph Medill
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
This collection of previously unpublished diaries and correspondence between Maj. William Medill and older brother Joseph, one of the influential owners of the Chicago Tribune, illuminates the Republican politics of the Civil War era. The brothers correct newspaper coverage of the war, disagree with...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
In his standard reference work on the Civil War, Generals in Blue, Ezra Warner declared George B. McClellan (1826--1885) "one of the most controversial figures in American military history." In this revealing book, Thomas W. Cutrer provides the definitive edition of McClellan's detailed diary and...
Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg
A Guide to the Most Famous Attack in American History
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
150 years after the event, the grand near-suicidal attack against the Union position on Cemetery Ridge still emotionally resonates with Gettysburg enthusiasts like no other aspect of the battle. On the afternoon of July 3, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered more than 12,000 Southern infantry to...
by Major Don A. Mills Sr. USMC
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Since the very beginning of American history, African Americans have served alongside their white counterparts in virtually every major armed conflict on the high seas. This was especially true during the Civil War. The Union Navy continued to experience a shortage of available manpower to sufficiently...
by Aaron Astor
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau played host to some of the most dramatic military maneuvering of the Civil War. Straddling the entire state of Tennessee, the formidable tableland proved to be a maze of topographical pitfalls and a morass of divided loyalties. As Federal forces sought to capitalize on...
The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known
The North's Union Leagues in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The martial enthusiasm that engulfed the North when the American Civil War commenced in April 1861 vanished by the following summer. Repeated military defeats, economic worries, and staggering casualties prompted many civilians to question the war's viability. Frustration exploded into anger when...
Lone Star Blue and Gray
Essays on Texas and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
From the bitter disputes over secession to the ways in which the conflict would be remembered, Texas and Texans were caught up in the momentous struggles of the American Civil War. Tens of thousands of Texans joined military units, and scarcely a household in the state was unaffected as mothers and wives...
The Story of Cole Younger: An Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw
Civil War Memories Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2019
Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders,...
America's Corporal
James Tanner in War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the lower third of both his legs and afterward had to reinvent himself. After a brush with fame as the stenographer taking down testimony a few feet away...
Michigan's Civil War Citizen-General
Alpheus S. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
Detroit's Alpheus Starkey Williams never tired in service to his city or his country. A veteran of the Mexican-American War, he was a preeminent military figure in Michigan before the Civil War. He was key to the Lost Order, the Battle of Gettysburg, the March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign....
Stonewall Jackson's Little Sorrel
An Unlikely Hero of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
During the Civil War and throughout the rest of the nineteenth century there was no star that shone brighter than that of a small red horse who was known as Stonewall Jackson’s Little Sorrel. Robert E. Lee’s Traveller eventually became more familiar but he was mostly famous for his looks. Not...
A Confederate Girl's Diary (Illustrated Edition)
Civil War Memories Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2019
Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders,...