Most Read This Week In Civil War

A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same nation state or republic, or, less commonly, between two countries created from a formerly-united nation state.

In America, "Civil War" is often used to refer to the American Civil War. In Britain, it usually refers to the English Civil War from 1642–1651. Other civil wars in modern times include the Irish Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, and the Syrian Civil War.
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Civil War"

Burn Down Master's House
Yellow Wife
Junie
The Jackal's Mistress
When the Jessamine Grows
In This Moment (Timeless, #2)
Night Watch
Brotherless Night
Red Clay
Amity
Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West
Sunflower Sisters (Woolsey-Ferriday, #3)
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden (Bill O'Reilly's Confronting Series)
Surviving Savannah
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
All We Were Promised
How to Dodge a Cannonball
American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
Het schaarse licht
Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
A Million Little Choices
The Thread Collectors
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
Wild, Beautiful, and Free
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’s Special Operations
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined
Flags on the Bayou
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
Chenneville
Marmee
Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation
The Third Mrs. Galway: A Novel
Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation
On Juneteenth
The American Daughters
The Unexpected Diva
Ridgeline
The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
The Widow Spy
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story
The House of Lincoln
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
To Tame a Cowboy (Colorado Cowboys, #3)
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
What Passes as Love
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship—and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
The Swift and the Harrier
Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery
The General and Julia
1861: The Lost Peace
Dreams of Savannah
The Blood in Winter: England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642
The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (A Ferris and Ferris Book)
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography
Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival
Embers on the Wind
On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor
The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim's Journey on the Great Wagon Road
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
When Hope Sank (A Day to Remember, #3)
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
The Other Gwyn Girl
Guts for Glory: The Story of Civil War Soldier Rosetta Wakeman
A River Between Us
The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
A Hundred Crickets Singing
Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire
In the Upper Country
Discipline
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future
The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History
Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents
Yonder
Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
Hanged! Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln

Mark Twain
Each of you, for himself or herself, by himself or herself, and on his or her own responsibility, must speak. It is a solemn and weighty responsibility and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government or politician. Each must decide for himself or herself alone what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man, to decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor. It is tra ...more
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