American Civil War

The Civil War experience of the 10th Minnesota Volunteer Regiment resembles that of few other regiments. On the day the 10th Minnesota first mus...

The CSS Shenandoah fired the last shot of the Civil War and was the only Confederate warship to circumnavigate the globe. But what was Captain J...

Born in Germany in 1828, future Union general August Valentine Kautz came to America as an infant. He was privileged to obtain schooling and, af...

In 2011, Michael Falco set out to document the American Civil War's 150th anniversary by photographing reenactments of more than 20 major battlesfr...

While researching Searching for George Gordon Meade, author Tom Huntington visited a severed leg, a buried arm, and a horse''s head. He also hiked ...

These special units were some of the best fighters in the entire Civil War, as much for their unconventional approach as their bravery. This book d...

Civil War histories typically center on the deeds of generals and sweeping depictions of battle. This unique study of one Southern county's war ...

One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captivates the American imagination, and its rever...

Monuments honoring leaders and victorious armies have been raised throughout history. Following the American Civil War, however, this tradition ...

America's second oldest higher education institution experienced the full violence of the Civil War, with a wartime destiny of destruction compound...

This book reveals the life of R. Clay Crawford, his dreams, his schemes, his successes and his failures, as he launched himself into many of the...

This is the history of a legendary battalion. The product of more than a decade's toil, Going Back the Way They Came is a thoroughly researched, co...

In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante violence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville,...

On a late November morning in 1864, Col. Kit Carson and his U.S. troops, under orders from the commander of the New Mexico Military Department, att...

A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks demonstrates how portions of interconnected trust-based kinship, business, and ideational transatlantic netw...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri between September 1864 and June 1865. It explores different...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri from January through August 1864. It explores the various ...

Most Civil War regiments came from rural areas of the country but the 14th Brooklyn was taken from the city of Brooklyn, New York. Having been a...

This book is about previously unidentified people who became Abolitionists involved in the antislavery movement from about 1840 to 1860. Althoug...

This book follows the men of the 5th Corps and the Army of the Potomac through the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, with the army condemne...