American Civil War

This book offers a rare insight into the history of the Civil War in the western theatre through the eyes of a regimental surgeon. The newly gra...

During the Civil War, Confederate military courts sentenced to death more soldiers from North Carolina than from any other state. This study off...

Named for Massachusetts governor John Albion Andrew--who prevented these two companies from joining the nationalized Berdan's sharp-shooters so ...

From inception to the final roll call, this regimental history traces the 11th Regiment of Alabama Volunteers from its 1861 creation to the Conf...

Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it pro...

The Missouri History Museum archives are bursting with collections that provide firsthand accounts of both historic and everyday moments, but when ...

Few 19th-century Americans were as adventurous as Henry Baxter. Best known for his Civil War exploits--from leading the 7th Michigan Volunteer I...

In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Spriggs boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House, Mrs. Spriggs hos...

This is the first scholarly history of the only regular army cavalry regiment raised during the Civil War. Unlike volunteer regiments raised by ind...

A rich panorama of fascinating Civil War history, this is the story of gunboats and smugglers, privateers and street-brawlersthe chronicle of might...

No body of water was more vital to the Confederacy's efforts in the Civil War than the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Though the Confede...

This is the first biography of Union General William S. Rosecrans in more than fifty years. It tells the story of his military successes and the...

Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal...

In the expansive canon of Civil War memoirs, relatively few accounts from women exist. Among the most engaging and informative of these rare female...

This history of the 11th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War-- civilian soldiers and their families--follows the regiment from their 1861 m...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

A unique and fascinating collection of letters from a soldier, planter, and journalist The Union states of what is now the Midwest have received fa...

For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of Americas greatest struggle. Civil War His...

North Carolina sent more than 125,000 men and boys to fight the Civil War. It is estimated that about 40,000 lost their lives on the battlefield...

The hard-fighting 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry was recruited from sparsely settled southwest Michigan shortly after the Civil War broke out....

For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of Americas greatest struggle. The Kent Stat...