Civil War Period 1850 1877 category: 3786 books
Black Soldiers in Blue
African American Troops in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause.
An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT)...
Civil War Letters
From Home, Camp and Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This fascinating anthology commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with heartfelt letters by Union and Confederate sympathizers and soldiers of all ranks. Authentic illustrations accompany insightful missives by Lincoln, several generals (including Grant, Lee, Butler, Jackson, and Sherman), Walt Whitman, Jefferson Davis, and many of their contemporaries.
Blood and Irony
Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences. Combining varied historical and literary sources, Sarah Gardner argues that women served as guardians of the collective memory of the...
The Grand Old Man of Maine
Selected Letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Best known as the hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg and the commanding officer of the troops who accepted the Confederates' surrender at Appomattox, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828-1914) has become one of the most famous and most studied figures of Civil War history. After the war, he went...
by Mark A. Noll
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all...
by Clement A. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Confederate Military History is a 12-volume series of books written and/or edited by former Confederate general Clement A. Evans that deals with specific topics related to the military personalities, places, battles, and campaigns in various Southern United States, including those of the Confederacy....
No Soap, No Pay, Diarrhea, Dysentery & Desertion
A Composite Diary of the Last 16 Months of the Confederacy from 1864 to 1865
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
No Soap, No Pay, Diarrhea, Dysentery & Desertion is a groundbreaking study of life during the final sixteen months of the Confederacy.
Civil War studies normally focus on military battles, campaigns, generals, and politicians, with the common Confederate soldier and Southern civilians receiving...
The Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry
Civil War Letters and Reminiscences
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2002
They fought in the Shenandoah campaign that blazed Stonewall Jackson's reputation. They fought in the Seven Days' Battles and at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, in the Wilderness campaign, and at Spotsylvania. At the surrender they were beside General Robert E. Lee in Appomattox....
Big Bethel
The First Battle
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
The battle at Virginia�s Big Bethel Church, known as the Civil War�s first land battle, was a baptism of fire for a nation newly torn apart by civil war. Northern and Southern soldiers alike could not imagine how fiery passions and technological advances would collide into America�s bloodiest war,...
The Civil War in the West
Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 450 miles east to west from the Appalachians to the Mississippi. If the South lost the West, there would be little hope of preserving the Confederacy....
Mountains Touched with Fire
Chattanooga Besieged, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1997
An Award-Winning Historian Dramatically Re-Creates a Turning Point of the Civil War
It was one of the most startling events of the civil war, the "hour of destiny" for the Union. Faced with the prospect of catastrophic defeat, the North's greatest generals--Ulysses Grant, William...
Confederate Emancipation
Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the most courageous of our slaves" be trained as soldiers and that "every slave...
The Reconstruction of Mark Twain
How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in the border state of Missouri in a slave-holding family, was among them. Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer...
A Jewish Colonel in the Civil War
Marcus M. Spiegel of the Ohio Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Marcus Spiegel, a German Jewish immigrant, served with the 67th and 120th Ohio Volunteer regiments during the Civil War. He saw action in Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, where he was fatally wounded in May 1864. These letters to Caroline, his wife, reveal the traumatizing experience of a soldier and the constant concern of a husband and father.