American Civil War

In hopes of impeding a young United States, the British supplied the Confederacy with arms and equipment. This book - along with Volume I - will be...

Historians of the American Civil War have debated a wide range of questions raised by the war and its outcome. None have been more vigorously argue...

The first modern war fought with old-fashioned techniques Romanticism is as rife in Civil War history as any other and may produce more than its sh...

A unique collection revealing the experience of Jewish soldiers and civilians during the Civil War At least 8,000 Jewish soldiers fought for the Un...

To ask What If about great moments of history is to simultaneously unleash imagined possibilities and embrace the rigorous confines of fact.Every a...

According to historian Richard McMurry, the 1864 campaign through the woods and across the hills, valleys, and streams of North Georgia was one of ...

According to historian Richard McMurry, the 1864 campaign through the woods and across the hills, valleys, and streams of North Georgia was one of ...

A deadly and expensive war within a war was waged behind the lines (and often out of the major headlines) in western Kentucky. In 1862, the region ...

Few students of the Civil War know that legendary historian Edwin C. Bearss produced a classic study on the little-known but significant Tupelo Cam...

The second installment of Al Ovies The Boy Generals trilogy, George Custer, Wesley Merritt and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, from the Get...

Personalities. Characters. History. John C. Waugh, the author of the popular and award-winning The Class of 1846, presents forty of the most memora...

Surprisingly little has been written about the important Battle of Seven Pines/Fair Oaks. The bloody two-day affair (May 31-June 1, 1862), fought o...

It was front-page news throughout the country - the largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held. [It] will be talked about and wr...

They have done all that can be expected of them; we are outnumbered and outflanked, so described Lt. Col. Benjamin Ford of the desperate situation ...

This groundbreaking study chronicles the final battles in Virginia including Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House in April 1865. Author Ch...

After taking Forts Henry and Donelson, the Union army prepared to try and take the vital rail hub of Corinth, Mississippi. To facilitate this, Majo...

The 14-month campaign to regain the control of Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi stands as the prime example of how the Civil W...

William Extra Billy Smith, the oldest and one of the most controversial Confederate generals on the field at Gettysburg, was also one of the most c...

The final days of the Confederacy saw a kaleidoscope of action in the Eastern Theater, with most Civil War historians focusing on the imminent demi...

Scholars hail Confederate General John Bell Hood's personal papers as the most important discovery in Civil War scholarship in the last half centur...

The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,...