A fully revised and updated guide to America s bloodiest and most divisive conflict 165 years on.Comprehensive and packed with contemporary paintings, photographs, maps, and important artefacts, The American Civil War explores the history, causes,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Distributed via Draft2Digital, ISBN-13: 9798233431036)
The Heroes History Forgot: Southern Officers Who Kept Their Oath to the ConstitutionWhen Virginia seceded in April 1861, Colonel Robert E. Lee faced an agonizing choice: accept command of the Union army or follow his state into rebellion. He chose Vi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Distributed via Draft2Digital, ISBN-13: 9798235706156)
Born into slavery and denied even the certainty of his own birthday, Frederick Douglass rose to become one of the most powerful voices of the 19th century. Through courage, literacy, escape, oratory, journalism, political action, and moral defiance,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Distributed via Draft2Digital, ISBN-13: 9798235175433)
Civil Unrest: A Comprehensive History of the American Civil WarFrom the smoldering tensions of a divided nation to the final surrender at Appomattox Court House, Civil Unrest takes readers on an unflinching journey through the most defining conflict...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691282909)
The often-forgotten global story of how the Confederacy lost its bid for sovereign nationhoodIn 1861, proslavery secessionists severed ties with the United States, launched the Confederacy, and readied their new government to join the international c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691287492)
The often-forgotten global story of how the Confederacy lost its bid for sovereign nationhoodIn 1861, proslavery secessionists severed ties with the United States, launched the Confederacy, and readied their new government to join the international c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197667279)
A new perspective on the life of the US politician best known for the infamous assault that paved the bloody road to the Civil War. In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197667286)
A new perspective on the life of the US politician best known for the infamous assault that paved the bloody road to the Civil War. In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Distributed via Draft2Digital, ISBN-13: 9798235141896)
Abraham Lincoln writes here in the closing weeks of the American Civil War, with victory near, the Union preserved, and peace still uncertain.In this imagined private account, Lincoln reflects on the burdens of command, the political bargains behind...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Distributed via Draft2Digital, ISBN-13: 9798233047565)
These unpublished letters home from major battlegrounds of the Civil War provide important primary texts for historians and Civil War buffs. These letters offer a critical view into the day-to-day life of a U.S. artillery soldier who fought at Shiloh...Loe edasi...
Clarence R. Geier, David G. Orr, Matthew B. Reeves
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813075198)
Exploring Civil War camp sites and the lives of the soldiers who lived in themThe American Civil War soldier, confined much of the time to his camp, suffered from boredom and sickness. Encampment was not only tedious but detrimental to his health; fa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621903130)
"e;At last, the preservation of Civil War battlefields has received a comprehensive and critical historical treatment. Altogether Fitting and Proper combines a detailed accounting of federal, state, and private activity with an instructive critiq...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895272213)
Known as one of the most aggressive Confederate officers in the Western Theater, Brigadier General Alfred Jefferson Vaughan Jr. is legendary for having had eight horses shot out from under him in battle-more than any other infantry commander, Unio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895272336)
The Maryland Campaign represented Gen. Robert E. Lees first invasion of the North. Opposing Lee was Gen. George B. McClellan, who had just retreated from Lees onslaught during the Seven Days Battles. While Lee and McClellan fought a preliminary bat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895272145)
Toward the end of the American Civil War, the Confederacy faced manpower shortages, and the Confederate Army, following practices the Union had already adopted, began to recruit soldiers from their prison ranks. They targeted foreign-born soldiers wh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895272343)
The Battle of Shiloh took place April 6-7, 1862, between the Union Army of the Tennessee under General Ulysses S. Grant and the Confederate Army of Mississippi under General Albert Sidney Johnston. Johnston launched a surprise attack on Grant but was...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895272251)
Though located in the heart of Unionist New England, Harvard produced 357 alumni who fought for the South during the Civil War-men not just from the South but from the North as well. This encyclopedic work gathers their stories together for the first...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895272237)
Born near Guntersville, Alabama, Catherine (Cassie) Fennell was nineteen when the Civil War began. Starting with her time at a female academy in Washington, DC, the diaries continue through the wars end and discuss civilian experiences in Alabama an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895272367)
The Battle of Franklin pitted beleaguered Confederate general John Bell Hood against Union general John Schofield and his Army of the Ohio. The Army of Tennessee had nearly twenty thousand men when it began assaulting the Unions fortified positions...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895272299)
Among the many extant volumes of Civil War correspondence penned by military men, few can boast of the writing quality of Dear Courier: The Civil War Correspondence of Editor Melvin Dwinell. This Yankee-turned-Rebel was both fighter and journalist: s...Loe edasi...
