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"

Yellow Wife
The Foursome
Burn Down Master's House
Junie
Night Watch
The Jackal's Mistress
When the Jessamine Grows
In This Moment (Timeless, #2)
The Newer World (Days Without End, #3)
Sunflower Sisters (Woolsey-Ferriday, #3)
Brotherless Night
An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln
Surviving Savannah
Red Clay
Journey to Joy: 1872 (The Bregdan Chronicles, #18)
What the Trees Remember
The Bookshop of 99 Doors
Amity
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Chenneville
American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
The Thread Collectors
Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
The American Queen
How to Dodge a Cannonball
Flags on the Bayou
To Tame a Cowboy (Colorado Cowboys, #3)
A Million Little Choices
All We Were Promised
Queen of All Mayhem: The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West
The Unexpected Diva
A Hundred Crickets Singing
Ridgeline
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Wild, Beautiful, and Free
Marmee
What Passes as Love
On Juneteenth
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
The Dangerous Ones
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
The House of Lincoln
The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim's Journey on the Great Wagon Road
Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
The Other Gwyn Girl
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
Embers on the Wind
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
The Swift and the Harrier
African Town
On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor
Dreams of Savannah
Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln
Three Roads to Gettysburg: Meade, Lee, Lincoln, and the Battle That Changed the War, the Speech That Changed the Nation
A Campaign of Giants—The Battle for Petersburg, Vol. 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
1861: The Lost Peace
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War
Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart – Again
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
Freedom on the Sea: The True Story of the Civil War Hero Robert Smalls and His Daring Escape to Freedom
Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland
The Widow Spy
Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse
The American Daughters
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
In the Upper Country
The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story
Passages of Hope (Doors to the Past)
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
Discipline
Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
Black Cloud Rising
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox
The Third Mrs. Galway: A Novel
Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival
Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series, # 5)
A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation's Military Bases
A Fine Looking Soldier: Secret Soldier Vol. 1

Margaret Mitchell
“ They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it. ”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Louisa May Alcott
“ No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I should watch and work to keep his little daughters safe and good for him. Yet you told him to go, Mother, and didn’t cry when he went, and never complain now, or seem as if you needed any help, said Jo, wondering. I gave my best to the country I love, and kept my tears till he was gone. Why should I complain, when we both have merely done our duty and will surely be the happier for it in ...more ”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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