American Civil War

The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as "the Confederacy". Led by Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy fought for its independence from the United States. ...more

When the Jessamine Grows
How to Dodge a Cannonball
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
A Hundred Crickets Singing
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
A River Between Us
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
1861: The Lost Peace
Dreams of Savannah
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction (Bloomsbury)
Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Gone With the Wind
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
The Red Badge of Courage
The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Grant
Cold Mountain
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Vintage Departures)
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
Gettysburg
The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox
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S.C. Gwynne
Jackson went happily into the field anyway, calmly picking and eating the ripe fruit even though, as Douglas observed, “the bullets seemed to be as plentiful as blackberries.” At one point he turned to his increasingly anxious aide and, with a large, juicy berry between his thumb and finger, asked Douglas casually “in what part of the body I preferred being shot.” Douglas, nervously handing the general berries while minié balls whistled overhead and buried themselves in the trees around them, re ...more
S.C. Gwynne, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

Sheridan  Brown
Mr. Pugh turned bright red. His cheeks puffed up like the galls of shad from the nearby river. His green- monster eyes rolled around his face, and he pounded both fists down on the table, and through grinding teeth and snorting gasps hollered, “INDEED NOT, MISS KNAPP! Slaves are not allowed to read and write. We have you here with good and steady pay to instruct our children and nothing else. Going near that boy, or any other slave, with chalk or book learnin’ is strictly forbidden! Do you under ...more
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