Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
by Steven E. Woodworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Leadership and Command is a unique collection of five carefully-crafted essays by leading scholars, each dealing with an important and understudied slice of history from the epic events of 1861-1865.
Georgia historian Richard McMurry inaugurates this compendium by directing the bright spotlight...
Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland
Confederate High Tide in the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The Battle of Shiloh was one of the most important battles of the Civil War, and it offers a particularly rich opportunity to study the ways in which different leaders reacted to unexpected challenges. Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland provides a fascinating and fast-paced narrative history...
Defeating Lee
A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
“Kreiser breathes new life into this most important of Union Army units. . . . A remarkably well-written and superbly researched account.” —David E. Long, author of The Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln’s Re-election and the End of Slavery
Fair Oaks, the Seven Days, Antietam, Fredericksburg,...
Reconstruction
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with...
Learning from the Wounded
The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years before the war, training for physicians in the United States was mostly unregulated, and medical schools'...
Marrow of Tragedy
The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Civil War was the greatest health disaster the United States has ever experienced, killing more than a million Americans and leaving many others invalided or grieving. Poorly prepared to care for wounded and sick soldiers as the war began, Union and Confederate governments scrambled to provide...
Women at the Front
Hospital Workers in Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full...
Commanding Voices of Blue & Gray
General William T. Sherman, General George Custer, General James Longstreet, & Major J.S. Mosby, Among Others, in Their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The agony and anguish of the War Between the States affected all aspects of American life. Many quarters suffered, but one in particular seemed to prosper in the postwar aftermath: the publishing industry. Though the success of Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant (as published by Mark Twain) is a...
by Jacob Dolson Cox
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
2 works of Jacob Dolson Cox American lawyer, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and Republican politician from Ohio (1828-1900)
This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Jacob Dolson Cox. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected....
by Frederick Trevor Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A balance account of the Civil War, first published in 1911. According to the Forward: "During the early years of the Civil War someone tauntingly asked Mr. Charles Francis Adams, the United States Minister to England, what he thought of the brilliant victories which the confederate armies were then...
September Suspense
Lincoln's Union in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In 1862, the United States had been ripped apart by a civil war entering its 18th month. Until now, few have understood how close this breach was to becoming a permanent fixture on the map of history. It was the nation’s, and Mr. Lincoln’s, most trying month, as Gen. Robert E. Lee invaded Union soil,...
Jubal Early
Robert E. Lee's Bad Old Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
In Jubal Early: Robert E. Lee’s Bad Old Man, a new critical biography of Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, Civil War historian B.F. Cooling III takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating, idiosyncratic characters in the pantheon of Confederate heroes and villains. Dubbed...
by Thomas Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1997
"Of more than one thousand battles fought during the war," William C. Davis notes, "a few have risen to lasting fascination and prominence, some even regarded as 'turning points.' The battles included in this book are those that caused the greatest casualties, produced the greatest...
Gettysburg Heroes
Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during the war and after. The battle of Gettysburg is the thread that ties these Civil War lives together....