Civil War Period (1850-1877) 9

June 26 to July 1, 1862, from Mechanicsville to Malvern Hill details the Seven Days Battles on the Peninsular as McClellan Changed his base to the James River. This essay draws heavily on the offic……続きを見る

The campaigns of Burnside, Goldsborough and Foster at coastal North Carolina. Contemporaneous Reporting. Illustrated.続きを見る

When the crowd came to Gettysburg in November 1863 to commemorate the battle fought there 4 months earlier, they came to hear a series of speeches about the Civil War and the events of that battle. ……続きを見る

Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. ……続きを見る

This volume contains the complete text of two books about the important contributions of two ethnic groups whose exemplary military service during the United States Civil War are not as well known ……続きを見る

Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 - July 21, 1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction. Author's Note-. "This short book is derived from long ones; from pamphlets, speeches, essays, and ……続きを見る

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during t……続きを見る

An Eastern Correspondent spends the summer on duty with Hancock's 1867 Indian Expedition, following Hancock and Custer as they attempt to make peace with the warring Indians on the plains. Good exam……続きを見る

In the Spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union, a hard-fought and bitter controversy that profoundly changed the course of American history. Ind……続きを見る

With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 18181……続きを見る

An Ohio family with roots in the South, the Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than fifty years. Patriarch Thomas Ewing, a former Whig senator and cabinet member who made his fortu……続きを見る

In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of mo……続きを見る

In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorpo……続きを見る

Revered by some, notorious to others, Nathan Bedford Forrest has long been considered one of the greatest soldiers of the American Civil War. Historian Robert Browning introduces readers to the fact……続きを見る

One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's class……続きを見る

A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mul……続きを見る

Smithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the S……続きを見る

Penned in 1859, this work was written in response to slavery in America. It is written to highlight the fact that governments act under the authority of God's ultimate government, and that they oug……続きを見る

“In all the vast collection of books on the American Civil War there is no book like this one,” says Bruce Catton. Never before has such a stunning body of facts dealing with the war been gathered t……続きを見る

Winner, 2010, Dr. James I. Robertson Literary Prize for Confederate History Award Winner, 2011, The Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award, Given by the Robert E. Lee Civil War Round Table of Central N……続きを見る

In the early morning of April 12, 1861, Captain George S. James ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter, beginning a war that would last four horrific years and claim a staggering number of lives. Si……続きを見る

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Featuring a foreword by Battle Cry of Freedom author James McPherson A vibrant portrait of Civil War-era Washington, D.C. that is “packed and running over with the ane……続きを見る

A contemporaneous account of the raids, pursuit and capture of the confederate raider John Morgan. Illustrated.続きを見る

This book contains the complete collection of all 37 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Ohio at the time of the Great Depression in the Unite……続きを見る

In the mid-1800s, Spain experienced economic growth, political stabilization, and military revival, and the country began to sense that it again could be a great global power. In addition to its des……続きを見る

*Includes the entire text of Cleburne's 1864 letter proposing to free the Confederacy's slaves.*Includes pictures of Cleburne and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes maps of t……続きを見る

Jeb Stuart’s bold and unauthorized ride around the enemy in June 1862 is still studied and celebrated as one of history’s most daring intelligence raids. By late May 1862, Gen. George B. McClellan h……続きを見る

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was the best known Union general of the Civil War and a former president of the United States. Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military a……続きを見る

A look at the Armories at Norwich CT. at their peak production during the height of the American Civil War.続きを見る

This book, which takes a bold new look at the Second Manassas Campaign, is full of surprises, including a mistaken mountain, a warning that never was, and Pope's real plan for entrapping Stonewall J……続きを見る