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Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red ... More

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From a leading historian comes a powerful, iconoclastic narrative history of the final month of the Civil War, when Richmond fell, Lee surrendered at ... More

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McPherson recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's ... More

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Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become ... More

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A complete history of the American Civil War, this book ties in with a forthcoming television series which has been bought by the BBC.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom now offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on some of the most enduring ... More

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Originally published: New York: Harper, c1941.

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Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, "Fighting for the Confederacy" is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on ... More

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This memoir constitutes one of the best first-person narratives of the Civil War experience. It is written with power, candour, objectivity and ... More

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Arthur Sinclair's account of the career and final death of the "Alabama" rank among the most compelling and enduring accounts of hte Confederacy's ... More

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The Civil War ironclad gunboats along the Mississippi wrote a stunning new page in naval history and helped seal the fate of the Southern rebellion. ... More

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For almost thirty years The Civil War Dictionary has been the most complete, authoritative, and handy reference book on what has been called the ... More

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For the final two years of the Civil War, Porter served as Ulysses S. Grant's staff officer and personal confidant. In this brilliant memoir, Porter ... More

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At the start of this period there was little action as each side reviewed its position and counted its heads and guns. The North had positive ... More

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Grimsley explores the Union army's policy of destructive attacks upon Southern property and civilian morale. From an initial policy of deliberate ... More

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"One of the great source documents in human history, but one of our greatest Americans. . . . Thrilling reading." Tillie Olsen

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One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its ... More

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Infinitely readable and absorbing, Bruce Catton's The Civil War is one of the best-selling, most widely read general histories of the war available ... More

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In the first naval history of the Civil War in more than 25 years, Musicant draws on primary sources, such as letters and diaries, to bring immediacy ... More

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"A Glorious Army" explains why Lee succeeded in the context of a narrative history of the 13 months when it seemed the Confederates might prevail.

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This volume is dominated by the almost continual confrontation of great armies. The Army of the Potomac under Burnside attempts once again to take ... More

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Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Here, the "New York Times" ... More

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Drawing on a wealth of new sources, Sears captures all of the drama of Chancellorsville, Lee's strategic masterpiece--from sending Stonewall Jackson ... More

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