History -- American Civil War from I Cannot Live Without Books

A History of the 4th Wisconsin Infantry and Cavalry in the Civil War by Michael J. Martin Michael J. Martin's A History of the 4th Wisconsin Infantry and Cavalry in the Civil War is a deeply researched and vividly written study of an unheralded Federal combat regiment. Few of the thousands of regiments raised to fight the American Civil War experienced… Read more about this item

Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison by Joseph Wheelan By late 1863, the Civil War had devolved from a grand adventure to a bloody contest of attrition. As cold weather spread over the Eastern battle zones, the armies of blue and gray settled into their winter quarters and assayed the grim prospects that lay ahead.… Read more about this item

Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance by Christopher Waldrep During the hottest days of the summer of 1863, while the nation's attention was focused on a small town in Pennsylvania known as Gettysburg, another momentous battle was being fought along the banks of the Mississippi. In the longest single campaign of the war, the siege of… Read more about this item

Gentleman and Soldier: The Extraordinary Life of General Wade Hampton by Edward G. Longacre Gentleman and Soldier is the first biography in more than 50 years of Wade Hampton III, a Confederate general whose remarkable life provides a unique sweeping insight into the entire history of the Civil War in the South. Hampton was a leading citizen of South Carolina before… Read more about this item

The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution by Richard Slotkin THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted and bloody fighting, the Civil War had reached a stalemate. To break the impasse, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy -- one that… Read more about this item

Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments that Redeemed America by Douglas R. Egerton Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage -- southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many… Read more about this item

Bloody Spring: Forty Days that Sealed the Confederacy's Fate by Joesph Wheelan In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the campaigns of four Union generals, and Lee's veterans were confident they could crush the Union offensive this spring, too. But… Read more about this item

When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War by LeeAnna Keith THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. In 1862, the ardent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison summarized the events that were tearing the United States apart: "There is a war because there was a Republican Party. There was a Republican Party because there was… Read more about this item