American Civil War

During the summer of 1864 a Union column, commanded by Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson Smith, set out from Tennessee with a goal that had proven impossibl...

At the start of the Civil War, volunteers from six counties in southeastern Alabama formed the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment. As part of Robert...

John T. Farnham, a sharpshooter in the Union Army, wrote a substantial diary entry nearly every day during his three-year enlistment, sent over 50 ...

How veterans of two wars constructed contrasting meanings for one sacred landscape On September 19 and 20, 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland a...

The son of a North Carolina governor, Theophilus Hunter Holmes graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1829 and served on the front...

This book is an operational and tactical study of cavalry operations in Northern Virginia from September 1862 to July 1863. It examines in detai...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri during 1863, the middle year of the war. This work explore...

Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims ma...

This reference book provides information on 24,000 Confederate soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing at the Battle of Gettysburg. Casual...

In many ways, John H. Black typified the thousands of volunteers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. Born in 1834 and raised on his fami...

In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David...

Inescapably, the Civil War was an international problem and those who ignore the foreign element miss the wider significance of the conflict. . . ....

Four score and seven years ago . . .Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in Americas history? And yet a...

Ulysses S. Grant once remarked that the Battle of Shiloh has been perhaps less understood, or, to state the case more accurately, more persistently...

This is the first full-length biography of the Civil War general who saved the Union army from catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, an...

Formed in 1851 by Irish immigrants, the Fighting Sixty-Ninth has served with distinction since the Civil War. This is a complete, illustrated hi...

During the summer and fall of 1864, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley was one of the most contested regions of the South. Federal armies invaded the ...

Responding to President Lincoln's initial call for troops, the 18th New York Infantry emerged as one of the Excelsior State's first regiments an...

This book contains the transcribed journals and reports of a war correspondent for the Boston Journal covering the campaign that captured New Or...

As mid-19th century America erupted in violence with the invasion of Mexico and the outbreak of the Civil War, Irish immigrants enthusiastically jo...