Civil War Period (1850-1877)
-
Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families
$22.99 Read moreA sociological approach to appreciating the heroism and legacy of the Gullah statesman
On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls (1839-1915) commandeered a Confederate warship, the Planter, from Charleston harbor
- Author: Billingsley, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1643364618
- Language: English
-
Gettysburg in Color: Volume 2: The Wheatfield to Falling Waters
$37.50 Read moreArtificial Intelligence meets Gettysburg. And it is a marvelous pairing.
Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil War, published author, and an editorial advisor for The Civil War Monitor maga… [more below]
- Author: Brennan, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216583
- Language: English
-
Storm Over Key West: The Civil War and the Call of Freedom
$29.95 Add to cartA few weeks after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, James Montgomery sailed into Key West Harbor looking for black men to draft into the Union army. Eager to oblige him, the military commande… [more below]
- Author: Pride, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1683340930
- Language: English
-
Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor
$29.95 Read moreSelected by Civil War Interactive as One of the Top Civil War Books of All Time
On April 12, 1862–one year to the day after Confederate guns opened on Fort Sumter and started the Civil War–a tall,- Author: Bonds, Russell S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1594160783
- Language: English
-
The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy
$28.95 Read moreThe story of the unique relationship between Lee and Jackson, two leaders who chiseled a strategic path forward against the odds and almost triumphed.
Why were Generals Lee and Jackson so successful i- Author: Keller, Christian B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1643131346
- Language: English
-
Great Speeches
$5.00 Add to cartFor someone who claimed he had been educated by littles — a little now and a little then — Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word. The simple yet memorable el… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Lincoln, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 20 1991
- ISBN10: 0486268721
- Language: English
-
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom
$17.95 Read moreFrom the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln–two men moved to radically different acts t… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525563458
- Language: English
-
All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War’s Pivotal Battle
$29.95 Read moreIt has long been a trope of Civil War history that Gettysburg was an accidental battlefield. General Lee, the old story goes, marched blindly into Pennsylvania while his chief cavalryman Jeb Stuart ro
- Author: Harman, Troy D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 081177063X
- Language: English
-
If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg. Volume 2: June 22-30, 1863
$34.95 Read moreAward-winning authors Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg are back with the second and final installment of “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania” The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of t… [more below]
- Author: Mingus, Scott L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216117
- Language: English
-
Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
$35.00 Read moreAn intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abol- Author: Egerton, Douglas R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465096646
- Language: English
-
Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater
$19.95 Read moreFrom the American Battlefield Trust, the collection of their popular battle maps of the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
“I just love those maps that you guys send to me.” It is a phrase tha- Series: Maps from the American Battlefield Trust #2
- Author: American Battlefield Trust
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1682619931
- Language: English
-
The Petersburg Campaign: Volume 2 – The Western Front Battles, September 1864 – April 1865
$22.95 Read moreWinner, 2014, The Douglas Southall Freeman Award
The wide-ranging and largely ignored operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fighting b… [more below]- Author: Bearss, Edwin C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1611215331
- Language: English
-
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
$20.00 Read moreDecember 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this
- Author: Matteson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 039388242X
- Language: English
-
Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings (Loa #358)
$40.00 Read moreLibrary of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of A- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 969
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1598537229
- Language: English
-
The Civil War: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartOne hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America’s social… [more below]
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0199740488
- Language: English
-
The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Volume II – Antietam
$26.95 Read moreAntietam is the eagerly awaited second volume of Ezra Carman’s magisterial The Maryland Campaign of September 1862.
Many authors have written about the climactic September 17 battle of the 1862 invasio… [more below]
- Author: Carman, Ezra A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1611216060
- Language: English
-
Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862
$16.95 Read more“Attack at daylight and whip them” –that was the Confederate plan on the morning of April 6, 1862. The unsuspecting Union Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant, had gathe… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Author: Mertz, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1611213134
- Language: English
-
Wilderness of Destruction
$39.00 Read moreModern historians have consistently treated Florida as a military backwater. Despite that assessment, Rebel guerrillas blocked repeated Union attempts to establish a stronghold in the Florida’s interi… [more below]
- Author: Waters, Zack C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0881468819
- Language: English
-
National Geographic: The Civil War: A Traveler’s Guide
$25.95 Read morePerfect for tour planning and on-the-ground use, this guide will prove indispensable on any expedition to explore Civil War history in America. Packed with color photographs, more than 600 historic ba… [more below]
- Author: National Geographic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1426214898
- Language: English
-
The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMore than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout Americ… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0197513662
- Language: English
