Civil War Books


Storm in the Mountains: Thomas' Confederate Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineers Best Price: $18.95 If you are interested in the Civil War, Mountaineers, Native Americans or Genealogy, this is a...	American Negro Slave Revolts Best Price: $13.00 The author provides a "narrative of the numerous plots and rebellions that persistently...	John Brown: The Cost of Freedom Best Price: $11.00 John Brown - The Cost of Freedom: Selections From His Life & Letters is a biography of...	The Debate On the American Civil War Era (Issues in Historiography) Best Price: $24.04 This study is the first to critically survey the changing and highly controversial historical...	The Outbreak of the Civil War (At Issue in History) Best Price: $19.50 A volume in the Greenhaven At Issue in History series and edited by Jean Alicia Elster, The...



Greensboro's Confederate Soldiers (Images of America: North Carolina) Best Price: $15.05 In 1860, leading citizens of Greensboro emotionally beseeched all residents to remain citizens...	Remembering Virginia's Confederates (Postcards of America) (Postcards of America (Looseleaf)) Best Price: $4.08 The commonwealth of Virginia holds a prominent and distinguished place in American Civil War...	Tennessee's Confederates (Images of America Series) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) Best Price: $14.19 Like other slave-holding border states, Tennessee initially elected not to join the newly formed...	Civil War 2010 Wall Calendar Best Price: $29.99 Realistic renderings of historic events during the Civil War are presented in moving detail.	Storm in the Mountains: Thomas' Confederate Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineers Best Price: $18.95 If you are interested in the Civil War, Mountaineers, Native Americans or Genealogy, this is a...



American Negro Slave Revolts Best Price: $13.00 The author provides a "narrative of the numerous plots and rebellions that persistently...	John Brown: The Cost of Freedom Best Price: $11.00 John Brown - The Cost of Freedom: Selections From His Life & Letters is a biography of...	The Debate On the American Civil War Era (Issues in Historiography) Best Price: $24.04 This study is the first to critically survey the changing and highly controversial historical...	The Outbreak of the Civil War (At Issue in History) Best Price: $19.50 A volume in the Greenhaven At Issue in History series and edited by Jean Alicia Elster, The...	Greensboro's Confederate Soldiers (Images of America: North Carolina) Best Price: $15.05 In 1860, leading citizens of Greensboro emotionally beseeched all residents to remain citizens...

Remembering Virginia's Confederates (Postcards of America) (Postcards of America (Looseleaf)) Best Price: $4.08 The commonwealth of Virginia holds a prominent and distinguished place in American Civil War...	Tennessee's Confederates (Images of America Series) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) Best Price: $14.19 Like other slave-holding border states, Tennessee initially elected not to join the newly formed...	Civil War 2010 Wall Calendar Best Price: $29.99 Realistic renderings of historic events during the Civil War are presented in moving detail.	Annales I-VI, XI-XVI (Oxford Classical Texts) (Latin Edition) Best Price: $28.93	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.22 "I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any...

Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President Best Price: $5.00 I found "Dear Mr. Lincoln" to be facinating because it contains correspondence...	Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence (Volume 2) Best Price: $19.77 This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can...	Lincoln's Rail-Splitter: GOVERNOR RICHARD J. OGLESBY Best Price: $26.99 Richard James Oglesby is best known for introducing the rail-splitter image into Abraham...	Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: VOLUME 6 Best Price: $131.00 Modelled on the famous four-volume 1888 compilation edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and...	The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln Best Price: $15.87 Historians have a tendency to evaluate the leading figures of history according to what they did...

Lincoln before Washington: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ILLINOIS YEARS Best Price: $19.95 I'll admit, I'm a little biased toward the work of Douglas Wilson. I think he's done...	Behind the Scenes: Formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Lincoln; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Best Price: $19.96 In 1868, three years after the War Between the States ended and Abraham Lincoln was murdered,...	Civil War Schemes and Plots Best Price: $2.95 I have always been a fan of Webb Garrison's masterful Civil War treasuries. His...	Civil War Battlefields and Landmarks: A Photographic Tour Best Price: $11.99 With over 100 full color photographs and 11 black and white historical images, Civil War...	They Called Him Stonewall Best Price: $13.00 Anything by Burke Davis is excellent. Why? He is factual and a good writer but most of all, he...

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Best Price: $17.04 This is a classic autobiography of an actual infantry soldier, his experiences and sage...	Men of Color, To Arms!: Vermont African-Americans in the Civil War Best Price: $29.68 The Green Mountain State sent slightly more than 10 percent of its population to fight in the...	Whither thou Goest Best Price: $28.48 Whither Thou Goest is the first nonfiction book to focus on this little-known period in American...	James Williams: An American Patriot in the Carolina Backcountry Best Price: $13.95 Because I grew up a few miles from the James Williams plantation, I have known about the Laurens...	Commander of All Lincoln's Armies : A Life of General Henry W. Halleck Best Price: $17.50 Marszalek has written an interesting biography about General Halleck and his failed leadership...

Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War Best Price: $44.77 I was surprised that no one else had made a comment before to this work and somehow worried I...	Lees Lieutenants (3 Volumes In One Abridged) : A Study in Command Best Price: $13.50 .....your time, and money, will be well used. Stephen Sears has done a one volume abridgment of...	Fighting for Time: The Image of War, 1861-1865, Vol. 4 (Images of War - 1861-1865 , Vol 4) Best Price: $24.99 When this volume 4 was published the year was 1983. Three other volumes had been published to...	Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South Best Price: $11.36 This was the first book (aside from narratives by Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass &...	The Political Crisis of the 1850s Best Price: $15.93 Volumes of information lend credence to a state's right to secede from the Union. Even the...

Abraham Lincoln: A Biography Best Price: $45.06 Front flap notes: "This book, a publishing event of the first magnitude, will become the...	The Blue and the Gray: Volume 2: From the Battle of Gettysburg to Appomattox, Revised and Abridged (The Classic History of the Civil War , Vol 2) Best Price: $4.98 There are over 400 articles and over two-dozen illustrations reproduced in this notable...	Dark Union: The Secret Web of Profiteers, Politicians, and Booth Conspirators That Led to Lincoln's Death Best Price: $20.00 Guttridge and Neff have done a meticulous job of exposing the power elite operating in...	Abraham Lincoln: Great Speeches (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.01 Besides being almost universally considered the greatest American president among many other...	Spies of the Confederacy (Civil War) Best Price: $8.99 An intriguing and well-documented account of Confederate espionage activities during the Civil...

The Battle of Gettysburg: A Soldier's First-Hand Account (Civil War) Best Price: $3.79 In what may be the longest, and most poignant, letter to a relative from a soldier in the Civil...	Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross Best Price: $5.79 Gutman's analysis of T/C is marked by the same measure of excellence as T/C itself;...	Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War (New Black Studies Series) Best Price: $13.02 Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War is an extraordinary...	Sojourner Truth's America Best Price: $18.25 This fascinating biography tells the story of nineteenth-century America through the life of one...	Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865: A Riveting Account of a Bloody Chapter in Civil War History Best Price: $12.98 As the title states, this is indeed a riveting acccount of this era and place. Although a slim...

A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 Best Price: $11.97 Dangit I thought I knew a lot about the Civil War; I've certainly read enough and taught...	Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles Best Price: $14.89 The first campaign in the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia,...	The Union Army, 1861--1865, Volume 2: Organization and Operations, The Western Theater (Union Army, 1861-1865 Vol. II) "The breadth and meticulous rendering of this volume's contents, heretofore available...	David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World David Walker's Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the World David Walker is truly a hero....	American Civil War (Praeger Illustrated Military History) Best Price: $350.00 Praeger is pleased to announce a partnership with Osprey Publishing to make these unique books...

Second Manassas 1862: Robert E. Lee's Greatest Victory (Praeger Illustrated Military History) Best Price: $29.95 There never was such a campaign, not even by Napoleon.' So wrote William Dorsey Pender, a...	Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company Best Price: $21.84 One of the many juicy nuggets of cynicism and biting wit from the glorious mind of Ambrose...	Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign Best Price: $7.93 The defense of Little Round Top by the 20th Maine Regiment on the far left of the Union lines on...	Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy Best Price: $16.95 One keeps expecting the Civil War, that great motherload for historians, finally to have been...	The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery Best Price: $11.95 Fehrenbacher begins his account of the federal government's relation to slavery with a plain...

The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War Best Price: $6.00 This book chronicles the life of Walt Whitman during and after the Civil War. It quotes...	Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates Best Price: $7.99 I didn't expect much out of this when I first picked it up. How much can you write about a...	D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time Best Price: $14.16 If you are interested in the The Birth of a Nation, how it came to be made, its place in movie...	From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature Best Price: $14.50 American literature before the Civil War was just starting to come into its own. It was growing...	Slavery, Resistance, Freedom (Ettysburg Civil War Institute Books) Best Price: $3.92 Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of...

Iron Brigade General: John Gibbon, A Rebel in Blue (Contributions in Military Studies) Best Price: $91.95 This long overdue, full-length biography of John Gibbon tells about one of the the Civil...	Abraham Lincoln: Sources and Style of Leadership (Contributions in American History) Best Price: $12.00 Written by both historians and political scientists, this new essay collection explores the...	African American Slave Narratives: An Anthology, Volume I Best Price: $131.95 African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the atrocities of the antebellum...	African American Slave Narratives: An Anthology, Volume III Best Price: $136.95 African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the atrocities of the antebellum...	Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power Best Price: $22.39 This work addresses many persistent misconceptions of what the monitors were for, and why they...

Voices of Civil War America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Voices of an Era) Best Price: $79.00 Focusing on routines as basic as going to school and cooking and cleaning, Voices of Civil War...	Grant Takes Command Best Price: $5.82 BRUCE CATTON - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE GRANT TAKES COMMAND - 1863-65 In the summer of...	The Killer Angels (Random House Large Print) Best Price: $105.00 The Shaaras have compiled more history into one volume than seems possible. And it has been...	Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine Best Price: $89.93 Ther might be a tendency when reading alot of books on the Civil War to concentrate on military...	Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction Best Price: $6.00 Forever Free is a revised examination of the critical 12 years of Emancipation and...

Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics Best Price: $49.24 " With a new foreword by Gary W. Gallagher Selected as one of the best one hundred books...	Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series) In an 1882 speech, former Confederate president Jefferson Davis made an exuberant claim:...	The Last Battle of the Civil War: Palmetto Ranch (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series, No. 4) Best Price: $23.24 The Journal of South Texas, published by the South Texas Historical Association published a...	The Woman in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) Best Price: $19.99 This book is TOTALLY AWESOME! It shows us just how brave Velazques was when fighting in the...	The Military Operations of General Beauregard: Including a Brief Personal Sketch and a Narrative of His Services in the War With Mexico, 1846-8 If you have any interest in General Beauregard, the campaigns he was instrumental in, or what it...

A Brave Black Regiment Best Price: $12.99 If you are a fan of history, and the civil war, you will love this book. It is the story of the...	These Honored Dead: How The Story Of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory Best Price: $6.00 Having a great-great grandfather who fought in the Battle of Gettysburg, I have more than a...	Rebel Reefers: The Organization And Midshipmen Of The Confederate States Naval Academy Best Price: $6.45 The Confederacy's only national naval academy was anchored in Virginia's James River...	One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment/Movie Tie in to the Movie "Glory" Best Price: $25.00 Matthew Broderick portrayed Robert Gould Shaw, in the movie "Glory," as shy,...	The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War Best Price: $23.95 It can clearly be said that Michael Holt's book "The Rise and Fall of the American...

The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 Best Price: $43.88 I found this book extremely interesting. It gave a very detailed analysis of the causes of the...	Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Literary Possession Best Price: $118.00 Eilenberg's book opens the complex and fascinating topic of intellectual property, in...	America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink Best Price: $8.39 Kenneth Stampp, one of the country's most distinguished historians, focuses on the pivotal...	The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties Best Price: $13.93 I gobbled up this book, but then, it falls right into my current research topic. Others who...	"Far, Far From Home": The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers Best Price: $22.00 I must admit to being slightly prejudiced about this book. I stumbled on it during an ancestor...

Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s Best Price: $31.20 A new American political party, the Know Nothing party, appeared during the 1850s. Tyler...	Ken Burn's Civil War: Historians Respond This book is composed of historians' critiques on the PBS series, "The Civil...	Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New Introductory Essay Best Price: $12.88 The Civil War era is surely one of the most complex, controversial, and tumultuous periods in...

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