American Civil War

The 124th New York State Volunteers was one of the great fighting regiments of the Civil War. In this thorough history, the author has used lett...

The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured the imagination ...

At a time before the camera lens could capture the frenzy and terror of battle action, illustrators known as Special Artistsamong them such famous ...

The conclusion of America's Civil War set off an ongoing struggle as a fractured society suffered the psychological consequences of four years o...

This second, updated edition of the acclaimed A Field Guide to Gettysburg will lead visitors to every important site across the battlefield and als...

A major new collection of modern commentary? from scholars, historians, and Civil War buffs?on the significant events of the Civil War, culled from...

Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award and McLemore PrizeIn the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy-perhaps in...

Amidst the vast literature of the Civil War, one of the most significant and enlightening documents remains largely unknown. A day-by-day, uninterr...

As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home sta...

Most surviving correspondence of the Civil War period was written by members of a literate, elite class; few collections exist in which the woman's...

To win glory and power, to be renowned throughout posteritysuch was the ambition that fueled John A. Dahlgren's controversial rise to eminence duri...

This book presents the little-studied story of the history and documents of the pardons, passes, paroles and promises of loyalty used by both No...

In January 1863, a long-anticipated military order arrived on the desk of Massachusetts Governor John Andrew. President Lincoln's secretary of w...

On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, Union artillery lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson fell while bravely spurring his men to action...

Since the Antebellum days there has been a tendency to view the South as martially superior to the North. In the years leading up to the Civil War,...

In 1861, Francis Moore appeared to be a perfectly ordinary, twenty-three year old man: a carriage maker in the bustling Mississippi River town of Q...

Winner of the Richard B. Harwell Award, Tennessee History Book Award and the Doughlas Southall Freeman AwardA critical moment in the Civil War, the...

     Many soldiers who served in the American Civil War found solace in their faith during the most trying times of the war. But few soldiers took ...

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy, said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the...

Published here for the first time, the Civil War combat memoir of Lieutenant Colonel James Taylor Holmes of the 52nd Ohio Volunteers presents a ...

Gettysburg is a snapshot of three of the most important days in US history. Filled with informative timelines and fact sheets, details on the comma...