American Civil War

A richly detailed account of the hard-fought campaign that led to Antietam Creek and changed the course of the Civil War.In early September 1862 th...

This volume narrates the major battles and campaigns of the conflict, conveying the full military experience during the Civil War. The military enc...

Nine of the 192 Union military hospitals during the Civil War circulated newspapers edited and printed by convalescents. The horrors of wound in...

This volume explores the political and social dimensions of the Civil War in both the North and South. Millions of Americans lived outside the majo...

Different international relations theorists have studied political change, but all fall short of sufficiently integrating human reactions, feelings...

Eyewitness Civil War testimony from a major American writer This facsimile edition of Albion W. Tourgée's regimental history of the 105th Ohio Volu...

For more than fifty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. In...

Gettysburgs Forgotten Cavalry Actions examines in great detail three of the campaigns central cavalry episodes. The first is the heroic but doomed ...

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores...

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores ...

The Battle of Antietam, fought in Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War, with 23,000 casualtie...

In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade. A middle-class New En...

Who was Lew Wallace's true foe - the Confederacy, General Halleck, General Grant, or himself? Lew Wallace of Indiana was a self-taught extraordinar...

Kentucky and Tennessee share a unique and similar history, having joined the Union as the fifteenth and sixteenth states in 1792 and 1796, respecti...

This is the first scholarly analysis of The London American, the pro-Union propaganda journal published in London during the American Civil War, an...

During the Civil War, Charles Curtis served in the 5th United States Infantry on the New Mexico and Arizona frontier. He spent his years from 1862 ...

The 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT), composed largely of free black Ohio men, served in the Union army from April 1864 to September 1865 i...

The Gettysburg Campaign and its culminating battle have generatedmore than their share of analysis and published works. In My Gettysburg, Civil War...

The outcomes of campaigns in the Civil War often depended on top generals having the right corps commanders in the right place at the right time. M...

In this important new contribution to the historical literature, Amy Fluker offers a history of Civil War commemoration in Missouri, shifting focus...

An innovative study of underage soldiers and their previously unrecognized impact on Civil War era America. The smooth faces of boy soldiers sta...

An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. ...

The American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most famously at ...