In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War
5 best books like In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War (Alice Rains Trulock): Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend, All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command, The Passing of Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
| Author | David McCullough |
| ISBN | 0671447548 |
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Now with...
Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
| Author | James I. Robertson Jr. |
| ISBN | 0028650646 |
One of the most successful Civil War books in history, Robertson's insightful examination of the life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson has touched the hearts and minds of readers on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. As Robertson notes in his preface to Stonewall Jackson, this study "is not a biography...
| Author | Robert Hunt Rhodes |
| ISBN | 0679738282 |
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted...
The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command
| Author | Edwin B. Coddington |
| ISBN | 0684845695 |
The Battle of Gettyburg remains one of the most controversial military actions in America's history, and one of the most studied.
Professor Coddington's is an analysis not only of the battle proper, but of the actions of both Union and Confederate armies for the six months prior to the battle...
The Passing of Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac
| Author | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain |
| ISBN | 0553299921 |
Fantastic account of the final two weeks (!) of the Civil War, written by an improbable scholar-turned-war-hero, a Bowdoin College professor who just might have single-handedly saved the Union. Well, there is plenty of credit to go around, but his bravery – and modesty – were unquestioned. I am...
