This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
by George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History James M McPherson
A behind-the-scenes look at the friendships and rivalries of a Civil War staff is given through the biographies of 52 of Stuart's cavalrymen.
Ulysses S. Grant vs. Robert E. Lee (History's Greatest Rivals)
by Ellis Roxburgh
The Civil War devastated the South, and the end of slavery turned Southern society upside down. How did the South regain social, economic, and political stability in the wake of emancipation and wartime destruction, and how did the South come together with its former enemies in the North? Why did the South not slip back into chaos? This book holds the keys to the answers to these tantalizing questions. Author Joseph Ranney explodes the myth of a unified South and exposes just how complex and...
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-61 (Classic Reprint)
by Abner Doubleday
Selections From the Letters, Speeches, and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln; c.1
by Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln
A Bird's-Eye View of Our Civil War (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a "clear and fully matured" threat of assassination as he traveled by train from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration. Over a period of thirteen days the legendary detective Allan Pinkerton worked feverishly to detect and thwart the plot, assisted by a captivating young widow named Kate Warne, America's first female private eye.
Vicksburg 1863 (Osprey Military Campaign S., #26) (Campaign)
by Alan Hankinson
The 1863 Vicksburg campaign was to prove decisive to the outcome of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Known as the 'Gibraltar of the West', Vicksburg was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. In a masterly campaign Grant used riverboats and steamers to land his army south of the city. He then defeated the armies of Generals 'Joe' Johnston and John C. Pemberton. Pemberton allowed his force to become bottled up in Vicksburg and after an epic 47-day siege he was forced to surr...
Army Life in a Black Regiment (Civil War) (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
In 1862 military necessity enabled Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to pry from a hesitant President Lincoln the authority to enlist black troops in the Union army. The pioneer regiment of ex-slaves was to secure the beachhead tenously held at Beaufort, off the South Carolina coast. Within a year, Lincoln was to hail the enlistment of black soldiers, which he had earlier resisted as "revolutionary," as the "heaviest blow yet dealt the rebellion." The abolition of slavery, unthinkable in 1861, w...
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, at the Semi-annual Meeting, Held in Boston, April 26, 1865
by Levi 1782-1868 Lincoln and Stephen 1835-1905 Salisbury
The Promises of the Declaration of Independence
by Charles 1811-1874 Sumner