American Civil War

Integrates the political, social, military, and economic forces of the Civil War Absorbing and accessible, This Terrible War : The Civil War and I...

The battle of Chickamauga brought an early fall to the Georgia countryside in 1863, where men fell like autumn leaves in some of the heaviest fight...

How the Civil War changed the face of warThe Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of milita...

Packed with stunning photography, Eyewitness American Civil War explores the war that turned the nation against itself.Become an eyewitness to one ...

The George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg is a place of reverence. Nurses held the hands of dying soldiers and prayed and spoke last words with them a...

A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When ...

On the eve of the Civil War, the London Times informed its readers that Castle Pinckney has been kept garrisoned, not to protect Charleston from na...

Decades after the Civil Wars end, Confederate veteran John Alexander Stikeleather reflected on his experiences as a soldier in the 4th North Caroli...

So much has been written about Gettysburg, goes the well-worn cliché, that there is nothing new left to write. Now in paperback, The Second Day at ...

James McPhersons classic book For Cause & Comrades explained why men fought in the Civil Warand spurred countless other historians to ask and a...

In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategyone that abandoned hope for a co...

Few Civil War generals attracted as much debate and controversy as Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard. He combined brilliance and charisma with arrog...

Few visitors to the Gettysburg battlefield take note of the peculiar grassy rise in the fields southeast of the town between Seminary and Cemetery ...

Irvin McDowell was a prominent figure during the early months of the Civil War. The West Point graduate was a dutiful, dependable, and diligent mil...

Some, like Abraham Lincoln, Stonewall Jackson and John Reynolds, have become legendary. Others, like Earl Van Dorn, have become infamous. Some, lik...

July, 1862. General Robert E. Lee, now in command of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, had driven back the massive Federal Army of the Pot...

Antietam. For generations of Americans this word - the name of a bucolic stream in western Maryland - held the same sense of horror and carnage tha...

General Ulysses S. Grant is best remembered today as a war-winning general, and he certainly deserves credit for his efforts on behalf of the Union...

All of middle Tennessee held its breath when the new year dawned in 1863. On the previous day, December 31 the last day of 1862 just outside Mur...

Even before the guns fell silent at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee was preparing for the arduous task of getting his defeated army back safely into Virg...

The American Civil War is often called the first modern war. Sandwiched between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I, it spawned a host of firsts an...

General John Bell Hoods tenure commanding the Confederate Army of Tennessee stood in marked contrast to that of his predecessor Joseph E. Johnston....

The campaign for Atlanta was pivotal to the outcome of the American Civil War. Roughly 190,000 men waged war across northern Georgia in a struggle ...

How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dr...

The fighting on the first day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, was heavy, confusing, and decisive. Much of it consisted of short and often separate sim...

By the time Albert Castels Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 appeared in 1992, Savas Woodbury Publishers had already made importan...

With Rebel Falls, Tim Wendel takes us to late summer of 1864. The Civil War rages on. Sherman is marching on Atlanta, while the armies of Grant and...

Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation...

Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation...

Historians born during and after the Civil Rights movement have struggled to take the proslav­ery and pro-secession arguments of the eighteenth- an...

Award-winning authors Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg are back with the second and final installment of If We Are Striking for Pennsylva...

This book describes and illustrates the uniforms and personal equipment of the troops fielded by the Eastern and New England states that fought for...

This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is dee...