United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Day by Day Through the Civil W
$37.00 Add to cartUntil now, a daily account (1,630 days) of Georgia’s social, political, economic, and military events during the Civil War did not exist. During the 160 years since the conflict’s termination, many fi… [more below]
- Author: Shaffer, Michael K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 088146824X
- Language: English
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Iron Maidens and the Devil’s Daughters: US Navy Gunboats versus Confederate Gunners and Cavalry on the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, 1861-65
$24.95 Add to cartGunboats versus cavalry? Preposterous Not so fast. This unique form of Civil War combat is covered extensively for the first time in Iron Maidens and the Devil’s Daughters by Mark Zimmerman, author o
- Author: Zimmerman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0985869259
- Language: English
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Sophie’s War: The Journal of Anna Sophie Franziska Guenther
$19.95 Add to cartDear Reader, I am afraid for us. So begins Sophie’s journal on Christmas Eve, 1861. And no wonder. She lives in Comfort, Texas, during the Civil War, and her father makes no secret of being a Unionist… [more below]
- Author: Shefelman, Janice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1571688803
- Language: English
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The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863
$99.98 Add to cartIn The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863, noted Civil War scholar Timothy B. Smith offers the first comprehensive account of the siege that … [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0700632255
- Language: English
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The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863
$116.65 Add to cartIt was the third week of May 1863, and after seven months and six attempts, Ulysses S. Grant was finally at the doorstep of Vicksburg. What followed was a series of attacks and maneuvers against the l… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0700629068
- Language: English
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The Battle of Brandy Station: North America’s Largest Cavalry Battle
$33.99 Add to cartJust before dawn on June 9, 1863, Union soldiers materialized from a thick fog near the banks of Virginia’s Rappahannock River to ambush sleeping Confederates. The ensuing struggle, which lasted throu… [more below]
- Author: Wittenberg, Eric J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: March 22 2010
- ISBN10: 1540220605
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Antietam: Experiencing the Battlefield Through Its History, Places, and People
$26.00 Add to cartThe Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, in its aftermath, President Abraham Lincoln issued his… [more below]
- Author: Reardon, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1469630206
- Language: English
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Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns
$21.95 Add to cartWhen Vicksburg fell to Union forces under General Grant in July 1863, the balance turned against the Confederacy in the trans-Appalachian theater. The Federal success along the river opened the way fo… [more below]
- Series: Great Campaigns of the Civil War
- Author: Woodworth, Steven E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803298137
- Language: English
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Mosby’s Rangers
$23.99 Add to cartA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
- Author: Wert, Jeffry D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0671747452
- Language: English
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Reconstruction: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartThe 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 b… [more below]
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190865695
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.99 Add to cart“This may be the most important story ever written by a slave woman, capturing as it does the gross indignities as well as the subtler social arrangements of the time.”-Kirkus Review
“Of female slave
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1513221140
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cartThis powerful and unflinching memoir by young mother and fugitive slave, Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813 -1897), remains among the few remaining slave narratives written by a woman.
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1722503025
- Language: English
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1,417 Days in Rebellion: A History of the 19th Georgia Regiment
$16.95 Add to cartThe Civil War is the greatest tragedy ever experienced by our nation. The repercussions of the war are still alive today, almost 160 years after the final shots were fired in April 1865. Many books ha
- Author: Payton, Allan C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
$24.99 Add to cartHistory isn’t always written by the winners…
Twenty-first-century controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance of our nineteenth-century Civil War. As Lincoln knew, t- Series: Civil War Collection
- Author: Bonekemper, Edward H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 168451360X
- Language: English
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Small But Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville
$36.95 Add to cartNamed a Top Ten Book of 2023 by Civil War Books and Authors
June 1863. The American Civil War was two years old, and the U.S. Army in Virginia was in chaos. Reeling after the recent defeat at Chancel- Author: O’Neill, Robert F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640125477
- Language: English
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America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States
$36.40 Add to cart“The best one-volume history of the United States ever written” (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidencies
In America, Empire of Liberty, prizewinning historian David Reyn… [more below]- Author: Reynolds, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 154167569X
- Language: English
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Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail
$36.95 Add to cartDuring the Civil War his movements from battlefield to battlefield were followed in the North and in the South nearly as closely as those of generals, though he was not in the military. After the war,… [more below]
- Author: Hooper, Candice Shy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124489
- Language: English
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First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
$19.95 Read moreA vividly told tale of a forgotten American hero–an impassioned newsman who fought for the right to speak out against slavery.
The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in ou- Author: Ellingwood, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364617
- Language: English
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Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg
$18.95 Add to cartThis stirring narrative reconstructs in amazing detail the story of a remarkable band of soldiers at this seminal Civil War battle.
- Author: Leehan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: July 19 2004
- ISBN10: 0873515110
- Language: English
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Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
$42.99 Read moreLoyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new inte… [more below]
- Author: Varon, Elizabeth R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 13 2019
- ISBN10: 019086060X
- Language: English
