American Civil War books

Argues that eighteenth-century White Baptists in South Carolina used the Bible to fashion a Christian model of slavery...  Read More >>

Volume 2 of the Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milner 1806-1896.  Read More >>

Before the Civil War, George Proctor Kane had been a businessman, thespian, political appointee, philanthropist...  Read More >>

A fully illustrated narrative of the Maryland campaign.  Read More >>

Although neither of them lived to see the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun did as much any two political...  Read More >>

Although neither of them lived to see the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun did as much any two political...  Read More >>

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Irvin McDowell was a prominent figure during the early months of the Civil War. The West Point graduate was a dutiful,...  Read More >>

The fourth installment in Dr Donald Frazier’s Louisiana Quadrille series. Picking up the story of the Civil War...  Read More >>

The story of the youngest enlisted soldier to die during the American Civil War.  Read More >>

"A vividly told tale of a forgotten American hero--an impassioned newsman who fought for the right to speak out...  Read More >>

Looks at how Grant's own memoirs have heavily shaped how the American Civil War is remembered today, and asks whether...  Read More >>

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Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil...  Read More >>

The Civil War Soldier and the Press examines how the press powerfully shaped the nation’s understanding and memory...  Read More >>

The 16th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was one of a few Massachusetts regiments whose history was not recorded....  Read More >>

A detective story set against the backdrop of the volatile antebellum era, this gripping biography lays bare, in...  Read More >>

Drawing on firsthand accounts, this history of the 117th New York Volunteer Infantry narrates the monotony and privation...  Read More >>

In June of 1863, Col. William P. Sanders led a cavalry raid of 1,300 men from the Union Army of the Ohio through...  Read More >>

In December 1864, twenty-four year-old Eliza Frances (“Fanny”) Andrews began a journal that she would maintain through...  Read More >>

The first-ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative...  Read More >>

An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy, I Am Fighting for the Union is...  Read More >>

An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy, I Am Fighting for the Union is...  Read More >>

This tells the story of a man who found himself in war- and that, in turn, secured him a place in history.  Read More >>

During the American Revolution few British regiments saw as much action as the 33rd Foot. With an excellent reputation...  Read More >>