Category: History: US Civil War

The First Battle of Manassas claimed the lives of approximately 878 soldiers and wounded another 2,489. With a battlefield stretching nearly five miles, 15,000 Union and 14,000 Confederate soldiers clashed for four fateful days, many of them young and terrified and receiving their first taste of a long and bitter war. Their courage, military skill, and brute strength were tested, leading some brigades and many individuals to receive reputations that followed them into history. Now, for the first time, this extraordinary work brings the Battle of Bull Run to life by featuring over two hundred p...
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A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta

By: Venet, Prof. Wendy Hamand, Inc., Garamond Agency

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Yale University Press : May 2014

Seller ID: 147371

ISBN-13: 9780300192162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A compelling exploration of what real life was like for residents of Civil War-era Atlanta In 1845, Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. A Changing Wind is the first history to explore the experiences of Atlanta's civilians during the young city's rapid growth, the devastation of the Civil War, and the Reconstruction era when Atlanta emerged as a "New South" city. A Changing Wind vividly brings to life the stories of Atlanta's ...
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A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta

By: Venet, Prof. Wendy Hamand, Inc., Garamond Agency

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Yale University Press : May 2014

Seller ID: 148032

ISBN-13: 9780300192162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A compelling exploration of what real life was like for residents of Civil War-era Atlanta In 1845, Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. A Changing Wind is the first history to explore the experiences of Atlanta's civilians during the young city's rapid growth, the devastation of the Civil War, and the Reconstruction era when Atlanta emerged as a "New South" city. A Changing Wind vividly brings to life the stories of Atlanta's ...
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A Cold Mountain Companion

By: Ashdown, Paul

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Thomas Pubns : September 2004

Seller ID: 396151

ISBN-13: 9781577471073

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A History of the One Hundred and Sevente: From the Date of Its Organization, August, 1862, till that of Its Muster Out, June, 1865 (Civil War)

By: Mowris, James

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Applewood Books : November 2008

Seller ID: 141228

ISBN-13: 9781429016162

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War

By: Murray, Williamson,Hsieh, Wayne Wei-siang

Price: $14.98

Publisher: Princeton University Press : September 2016

Seller ID: 284576

ISBN-13: 9780691169408

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

How the Civil War changed the face of war The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties and vagaries of chance that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. A Savage War sheds critical new light on this defining chapter in military history. In a masterful narrative that propels readers from the...
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Advance and Retreat

By: Hood, J. B.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Book Sales : June 1995

Seller ID: 336180

ISBN-13: 9780890099353

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Confederate general tells about his life and experiences in the Civil War and describes the battles that he fought.
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Ambrose Bierce's Civil War

By: Bierce, Ambrose

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Gateway Books : December 1988

Seller ID: 396258

ISBN-13: 9780895267702

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Antietam: The Soldiers' Battle

By: Priest, John M.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 1994

Seller ID: 335034

ISBN-13: 9780195084665

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

On September 13, 1862, in a field near Frederick, Maryland, four Union soldiers hit the jack-pot. There they found, wrapped carelessly around three cigars, a copy of General Robert E. Lee's most recent orders detailing Southern objectives and letting Union officers know that Lee had split his Army into four vulnerable groups. General George B. McClellan realized his opportunity to destroy the Army of Northern Virginia one piece at a time. "If I cannot whip Bobbie Lee," exulted McClellan, "I will be willing to go home." But the notoriously prudent Union general allowed precious hours to pass, a...
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Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War

By: Varon, Elizabeth R.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : October 2013

Seller ID: 396190

ISBN-13: 9780199751716

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for NonfictionWinner, Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies, New York Military Affairs SymposiumWinner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round TableFinalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the ConfederacyBest Books of 2014, Civil War Monitor6 Civil War Books to Read Now, Diane Rehm Show, NPR Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind -- it was, many believe, a moment that transcended politics, a moment of healing, a moment of patriotism untainted by ideology...
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Atlas of the Civil War: A Complete Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle

By: Hyslop, Stephen G.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: National Geographic : October 2009

Seller ID: 316227

ISBN-13: 9781426203473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this one-of-a-kind atlas, scores of archival maps and dozens of newly created maps trace the battles, political turmoil, and great themes of America's most violent and pivotal clash of arms. From the Antebellum South to Fort Sumter, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the fitful peace of Reconstruction, National Geographic's Atlas of the Civil War displays eye-opening maps-and a gripping, self-contained story-on every spread. Eighty-five rare period maps, many seen here for the first time, offer the cartographic history of a land at war with itself: from 19th-century campaign maps sur...
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Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage

By: McWhiney, Dr. Grady,Jamieson, Perry D.

Price: $8.98

Publisher: University Alabama Press : July 1984

Seller ID: 395544

ISBN-13: 9780817302290

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"In the first twenty-seven months of combat 175,000 Southern soldiers died. This number was more than the entire Confederate military force in the summer of 1861, and it far exceeded the strength of any army that Lee ever commanded. More than 80,000 Southerners fell in just five battles. At Gettysburg three out of every ten Confederates present were hit; one brigade lost 65 percent of its men and 70 percent of its field officers in a single charge. A North Carolina regiment started the action with some 800 men; only 216 survived unhurt. Another unit lost two-thirds of its men as well as its co...
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

By: McPherson, James M.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : February 1988

Seller ID: 396224

ISBN-13: 9780195038637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodesthat preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Ha...
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Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation

By: Boyko, John

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Knopf Canada : May 2013

Seller ID: 445419

ISBN-13: 9780307361448

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself. In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will be shocked by Canada's deep connection to the war--Canadians fought in every major battle, supplied arms to the South, and many key Confederate meetings took place on Canadian soil. Boyko gives Americans a new understanding of the North American context o...
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Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre

By: Goodrich, Thomas

Price: $7.98

Publisher: The Kent State University Press : November 1992

Seller ID: 395538

ISBN-13: 9780873384766

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had managed to escape the Civil War which raged in the East. At Quantrill's command, the horrors of that war were brought directly into their homes. The attack began at dawn. When it was over, more than 150 townsmen were dead and most of the settlement burned to the ground. In Bloody Dawn, Thomas Goodrich considers why this remote settlement was signaled out to receive such brutal treatment. He also descr...
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Blue & Gray in Black & White: Newspapers in the Civil War

By: Harris, Brayton

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Potomac Books Inc : August 1999

Seller ID: 396211

ISBN-13: 9781574881653

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A journalist reports on the stories, political philosophies, relations with the military, and censorship of the popular press during the US Civil War. Includes illustrations of printers among the Union soldiery, battles from Federal and Confederate perspectives, Winslow Homer's Sharpshooter, and H
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Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat Volume II (Braxton Bragg & Confederate Defeat)

By: Hallock Ph.D., Dr. Judith Lee

Price: $10.98

Publisher: University Alabama Press : November 1991

Seller ID: 336182

ISBN-13: 9780817305437

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Bruce Catton's Civil War (Mr. Lincoln's Army/Glory Road/A Stillness at Appomattox)

By: Catton, Bruce

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Fairfax Press : December 1984

Seller ID: 396185

ISBN-13: 9780517447710

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield

By: O'Connor, Thomas H.

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Northeastern University Press : March 1999

Seller ID: 396175

ISBN-13: 9781555533830

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

An examination of the role that Boston and its inhabitants played in the Civil War which focuses on business men, Irish Catholic immigrants, African Americans, and women in the antebellum period.
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Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences

By: Garrison, Webb

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press : October 1994

Seller ID: 408752

ISBN-13: 9781558533158

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

True stories of unusual happenings during the civil war. In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where "the sound of battle would never again reach him and his family." Almost four years later, McLean's Appomattox Court House home was used for Lee's surrender to Grant. There wasn't damage from cannon balls, but souvenir-hunting Union officers left McLean's parlor bare of furniture.After the Confederacy was defeated, Jefferson Davis was stripped of his citizenship. He died as a man without a country. His citiz...
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Civil War Dictionary

By: Boatner, Mark

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group : June 1980

Seller ID: 396208

ISBN-13: 9780679500131

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Civil War plants & herbs (Patricia B. Mitchell foodways publications)

By: Mitchell, Patricia

Price: $4.98

Publisher: P.B. Mitchell : January 1996

Seller ID: 395891

ISBN-13: 9780925117823

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Civil War Sites: The Official Guide to Battlefields, Monuments, and More

By: Trust, Civil War Preservation

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Globe Pequot : March 2003

Seller ID: 429315

ISBN-13: 9780762725151

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Within this easy-to-use guide, completely revised and updated in clear, concise prose, are more than 500 sites in 28 states--solemn battlefields, gracious mansions, state parks, cemeteries, memorials, museums, and more. Specific directions, hours, and contact information help to plan the trip; evocative description and detailed maps help orient you when you're there. As a new addition, boxed sidebars authored by Congressmen and historians passionately articulate many events of the Civil War.

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Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth

By: Koning, Hans

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Monthly Review Press : January 1992

Seller ID: 229677

ISBN-13: 9780853458258

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The book is an idea that has finally found its time.
--Publisher's Weekly
I think your book on Christopher Columbus is important. I'm more grateful for that book than any other book I have read in a couple of years.
--Kurt Vonnegut

Companions in Conspiracy: John Brown and Gerrit Smith

By: Hern, Chester

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Thomas Pubns : October 1996

Seller ID: 396153

ISBN-13: 9780939631964

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlin, William Oates, and the American Civil War

By: Perry, Mark

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Viking Adult : December 1997

Seller ID: 396250

ISBN-13: 9780670862252

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Conceived In Liberty: William Oates, Joshua Chamberlain, and the American Civil War

By: Perry, Mark

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Penguin Books : January 1999

Seller ID: 478821

ISBN-13: 9780140247978

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

At the center of this absorbing dual biography lies the legendary conflict at Little Round Top -- "the single most important struggle" of the Civil War. Little Round Top decided the Battle of Gettysburg, opened the door to Northern victory, and brought together the disparate lives of two important Americans: Joshua Chamberlain, an academic from Maine who proved to be a brilliant military strategist, and William Oates, an Alabama maverick who fought heroically throughout the war. Both were self-educated men whose military success propelled them to the governorship of their respective states.By ...
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Condensed History of the 143d Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Load N Go Press : December 2011

Seller ID: 141230

ISBN-13: 9780962635748

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Condensed History of the 143 d Regiment:: New York Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-186
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

By: Horwitz, Tony

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Vintage : February 1999

Seller ID: 377460

ISBN-13: 9780679758334

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

National Bestseller For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War -- reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more -- this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social commentary and always good-humored. When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing fron...
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Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg

By: Gragg, Rod,Southern Comm, Services

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks : July 2001

Seller ID: 393834

ISBN-13: 9780060934774

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Gettysburg was unarguably the greatest battle of the Civil War. Now, in a unique, close-up look at this pivotal moment in American history, awardwinning historian Rod Gragg follows the lives of a regiment of farmboys from North Carolina through three days of gore and glory in the fight that would help decide the fate of the nation. Told here fully for the first time is a remarkable and intensely moving story of the courage and sacrifice that typified Americans on both sides of our bloodiest conflict.
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (Pivotal Moments in American History)

By: McPherson, James M.

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : March 2002

Seller ID: 369226

ISBN-13: 9780195173307

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom, America's most eminent Civil War historian, James M. McPherson, paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events that led up to it, and its aftermath. As McPherson shows, by September 1862 the survival of the United States was in doubt. The Union had suffered a string of defeats, and Robert E. Lee's army was in ...
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Custer and the Little Bighorn The Man, The Mystery, The Myth

By: Donovan, Jim

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Voyageur Press : January 2001

Seller ID: 471952

ISBN-13: 9780896585317

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pages unmarked, DJ intact, light shelf wear.
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Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War

By: Klein, Maury

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Knopf : September 1997

Seller ID: 333541

ISBN-13: 9780679447474

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War

By: McPherson, James M.

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : April 1996

Seller ID: 358466

ISBN-13: 9780195096798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." Now, in Drawn With the Sword, McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on some of the most enduring questions of the Civil War, written in the masterful prose that has become his trademark. Filled with fresh interpretations, puncturing old myths and challenging new ...
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DUTY FAITHFULLY PERFORMED

By: Taylor, John

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Potomac Books : August 2000

Seller ID: 393940

ISBN-13: 9781574882971

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A gracefully written counter-revisionist profile of one of the most complex and controversial men in American history.
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Early Photography at Gettysburg

By: Frassanito, William A.

Price: $49.98

Publisher: Thomas Publications : January 1995

Seller ID: 396278

ISBN-13: 9781577470328

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War

By: Linderman, Gerald

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Free Press : April 1989

Seller ID: 396174

ISBN-13: 9780029197615

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Linderman traces each soldier's path from the exhilaration of enlistment to the disillusionment of battle to postwar alienation. He provides a rare glimpse of the personal battle that raged within soldiers then and now.
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Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History

Price: $19.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : September 2002

Seller ID: 396230

ISBN-13: 9780393047585

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The definitive reference work on the Civil War, this thorough and wide-ranging volume, rich with over 500 illustrations, 75 maps, and 250 primary source documents, offers more than 1,600 entries that chart the war's strategic aims, analyze diplomatic and political maneuvering, describe key military actions, sketch important participants, assess developments in military science, and discuss the social and financial impact of the conflict. Written by today's leading Civil War scholars, the essays are authoritative and easily accessible to anyone with a passion for American history.
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Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories

By: Coddington, Ronald S.

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press : September 2004

Seller ID: 396156

ISBN-13: 9780801878763

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Before going off to fight in the Civil War, many soldiers on both sides of the conflict posed for a carte de visite, or visiting card, to give to their families, friends, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 by a French photographer, the carte de visite was a small photographic print roughly the size of a modern trading card. The format arrived in America on the eve of the Civil War, which fueled intense demand for the convenient and affordable keepsakes. Considerable numbers of these portrait cards of Civil War soldiers survive today, but the experiences--and often the names--of the individuals p...
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