American Civil War

The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic, di...

On the eve of the Civil War, the Regular Army of the United States was small, dispersed, untrained for large-scale operations, and woefully unprepa...

Longacre's superb book addresses a significant gap in our understanding of the United States' victory in the American Civil War. Barbara A. Gannon,...

In The Texas Lowcountry: Slavery and Freedom on the Gulf Coast, 18221895, author John R. Lundberg examines slavery and Reconstruction in a region o...

The squatter--defined by Noah Webster as one that settles on new land without a title--had long been a fixture of America's frontier past. In the a...

From December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, the Army of the Cumberland and Army of Tennessee fought a bloody battle along Stones River. Led by Majo...

Compounding the devastating tragedy of the Civil War was the failure of the warring parties to consistently maintain a system for the effective ...

In this fifth and final volume of his renowned series detailing the campaign for Vicksburg, Tim Smith sheds much-needed light to this often-misunde...

Most histories of wounded Civil War veterans construe them as feminized men whose manhood has suffered due to their inability to provide for and ra...

Continuing in the vein of his Lincoln Prize-winning book Lincoln and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds presents a masterful ...

This first volume of three discusses the tactical decisions made on day one and the ensuing combat, while also including a brief summary of the gra...

The Galveston Campaigns were a series of naval and overland battles that pitted Confederate General John B. Magruder and his often-improvised Confe...