Product Description: 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to reject their parents’ faith in compromise and appeasement, to do the unthinkable in the name of an ideal...read more

Product Description: 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to reject their parents’ faith in compromise and appeasement, to do the unthinkable in the name of an ideal...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1897 this is Captain James Dinkins' personal recollections and experiences in the Confederate Army. Captain James Dinkins enlisted in the Confederate Army before his sixteenth birthday, and served as a private in Company C, Eighteenth Mississippi Regiment, Griffiths-Barksdale 's Miss- issippi Brigade, until April 9th, 1863, when he was appointed first Lieutenant of Cavalry in the Confederate States Army...read more

Product Description: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the campaign written by soldiers and generals *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “Jackson and his army, in one month, have routed Milroy—annihilated Banks—discomfited Frémont, and overthrown Shields! Was there ever such a series of victories won by an inferior force by dauntless courage and consummate generalship?” – An anonymous newspaper correspondent for the Richmond Whig, June 6, 1862 Confederate general Thomas Jonathan Jackson had been a virtual unknown upon his arrival at the front line of First Bull Run, but by the spring of 1862, thanks to his actions at that battle, “Stonewall” was already becoming known across the battlefields...read more

Product Description: This is a 'What If' book on how the South could have won the Civil War. By the time of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the South had one million adult slaves. These slaves wanted to fight for the South. They wanted to help build railroads, nurse the wounded, and build ironclads that would free the Mississippi River of Yankee gunboats...read more

Product Description: In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the conspirators...read more

Product Description: This edition of Co. Aytch was published in 1882. These are the recollections of Sam Watkins during his time as a member of the 1st Tennessee Regiment, Confederate, during the Civil War.

Product Description: The 21st North Carolina Troops (11th North Carolina Volunteers) was one of only two Tar Heel Confederate regiments that in 1865 could boast "From Manassas to Appomattox." The 21st was the only North Carolina regiment with Stonewall Jackson during his 1862 Valley Campaign and remained with the same division throughout the war...read more

Product Description: Winner, Willie Parker Peace Award--North Carolina Society of Historians This historical account covers the 25th Regiment North Carolina Infantry Troops during the Civil War. Farmers and farmers' sons left their mountain homesteads to enlist with the regiment at Asheville in July and August 1861 and to defend their homeland from a Yankee invasion...read more

'This volume provides an in-depth history of one Confederate infantry regiment, the 28th North Carolina which was comprised primarily of units from the central and southwestern part of the state. It discusses the various battles in which the 28th North Carolina was involved including Hanover Court House, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chapin's Farm, and Appomattox'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: The 2nd Cavalry Regiment was organized during the summer of 1862 with men from the central and southern sections of the state. It was assigned to the Trans-Mississippi Department and served within the boundaries of Louisiana throughout the war...read more

Product Description: This book follows the 2nd Maine Cavalry from their muster in the late winter of 1863 through their action against Confederate forces in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama. While giving the details of the many scouting expeditions, raids and battles in which the regiment participated, it also includes the more personal stories of several of the young soldiers involved...read more

Product Description: The Second North Carolina Cavalry fought its first major battle in its home state at New Bern on March 14, 1862, and narrowly escaped with its men and reputation intact. The regiment was nearly decimated in the Gettysburg Campaign, but was rebuilt and later fought with Robert E...read more

Product Description: This is the story of two youthful combatants caught up in one of the most famous and important campaigns in all history. After two years of war and thirty-five days of intense marching along a hundred miles of hot summer roads, Thomas Ware, a Confederate soldier from rural Georgia, and Franklin Horner, a Union soldier from the coal country of Pennsylvania, end up fighting on virtually the same battlefield at Gettysburg...read more

Product Description: A New York Times Best Seller!In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office—including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, died...read more

Product Description: Organized at Indianapolis in December 1861, the 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry's Civil War service spanned the Mississippi Valley and the Gulf South. From Louisville to New Orleans and on to Mobile, General James R. Slack and the 47th Indiana took the war to the inland waterways and southern bayous, fighting in many of the Civil War's most famous campaigns, including Vicksburg, Red River and Mobile...read more