Civil War Book News

by Thomas W. Cutrer From the publisher: In his standard reference work on the Civil War, Generals in Blue, Ezra Warner declared George B. Mc...

by Christian G. Samito From the publisher: In Becoming American under Fire , Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African Amer...

by Brandon H. Beck From the publisher: In February 1864, General William Sooy Smith led a force of over seven thousand cavalry on a raid int...

by Margaret E. Wagner, Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkelman From the publisher: The authoritative, illustrated single-volume reference work...

Charles A. Misulia From the publisher: In this work , Charles A. Misulia, a lifelong student of the Civil War and expert on the Battle of Co...

From the publisher: This is a collection of correspondence and diary entries of the Civil War, written by soldiers, sweethearts, wives, bro...

by Michael D. Coker From the publisher: November 1861. The South was winning the Civil War. Fort Sumter had fallen to the Confederates. The ...

by Douglas W. Bostick From the publisher: Sent to the United States as a war correspondent for the Illustrated London News , Frank Vizetelly...

by Evault Boswell From the publisher: Branded by historians as the "Hangman of Texas" because of his participation in the event kn...

Richard B. Irwin From the publisher: The Nineteenth Army Corps of the Union Army was comprised of the Federal troops allocated to the Depart...

by Benjamin Franklin Cooling III and Walton H. Owen II From the publisher: At the start of the Civil War, federal troops constructed a ring ...

by Randy Bishop From the publisher: The battles depicted in this comprehensive book had in impact on the outcome of the Civil War. Through ...

by Finis L. Bates In this 1907 book , lawyer Finis L. Bates reveals that his client John St. Helen disclosed to Bates his true identity - cl...

by Frank Garey and John Pajot From the publisher: In this novel, two young Confederate soldiers become friends as they march and fight thei...

by William L. Shea From the publisher: On Sunday, December 7, 1862, two armies collided at an obscure Arkansas hamlet named Prairie Grove in...

From the publisher: This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-s...

by Stanley Weintraub From the publisher: General Sherman's Christmas opens on Thanksgiving Day 1864. Sherman was relentlessly pushing h...

by Silvana R. Siddali From the publisher: Civil War Missouri stood at the crossroads of America. As the most Southern-leaning state in the M...

by Earl M. Maltz From the publisher: During America's turbulent antebellum era, the Supreme Court decided important cases--most famously...

by Jacqueline Jones From the publisher: In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prize-winnin...

by Madison Smartt Bell From the publisher: From the author of All Souls’ Rising which The Washington Post called “A serious historical nove...

by A.O. Marshall From the publisher: In 1884, when Albert O. Marshall published Army Life , a memoir of his service as a private in the Thir...

by William Haines Lytle From the publisher: A pro-states' rights Democrat with strong family ties to Kentucky, William Lytle volunteered...

by James F. Rhodes From the publisher: This landmark study of the most traumatic era in American history won a Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for i...

by Martin W. Husk From the publisher: This regimental history follows the 111th New York Volunteer Infantry's service from muster throu...

by Randal Allred From the publisher: Near the end of his life, Confederate soldier Berry Benson wrote a passage that many Civil War reenacto...

by Paul Taylor From the publisher: This is the first biography of Sherman's chief engineer and the man whose post-Civil War engineering ...

by Ethan Rafuse From the publisher: In this reexamination of the last two years of Robert E. Lee's storied military career, Ethan S. Raf...

by William Garrigues Bentley From the publisher: William Garrigues Bentley chose to leave the safety of home and family at age 19 and fight ...

by E. Lawrence Abel From the publisher: During the American Civil War, songs united and inspired people on both sides. The North had a well-...

by Timothy B Smith From the publisher: A Chickamauga Memorial tells the full and fascinating story of how the country’s first federally pre...

by John Henry Cramer From the publisher: Originally published in 1948 but long unavailable, this intriguing book chronicles the strange even...