Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour
10 best books like Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour (William C. Davis): They Called Him Stonewall, To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown, Charles Sumner and The Coming of the Civil War, Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander, Southern Honor: Ethics And Behavior In The Old South, Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor, Gettysburg--Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill, Personal Memoirs, Vol. 2, Robert E. Lee: A Biography
| Author | Burke Davis |
| ISBN | 0517662043 |
My family came over to North America, Canada and the USA, at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th centuries. Consequently, I lack a nativist attitude. In order to get at that sensibility I've found books about the Civil War to be most useful, the Revolution being too remote, the War between...
To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown
| Author | Stephen B. Oates |
| ISBN | 0870234587 |
One hundred thirty-five years after his epochal Harpers Ferry raid to free the slaves, John Brown is still one of the most controversial figures in American history. In 1970, Stephen B. Oates wrote what has come to be recognized as the definitive biography of Brown, a balanced assessment that captures...
| Author | David Herbert Donald |
| ISBN | 0394419006 |
The Pulitzer-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns! In this brilliant biography—a Pulitzer Prize—winning national bestseller—David Herbert Donald, Harvard professor emeritus, traces Sumner's life as the nation careens toward civil war. In a period when senators often...
Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander
| Author | Edward Porter Alexander |
| ISBN | 0807847224 |
Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on the Civil War. Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East, from First Manassas through Appomattox, and his duties brought him into...
| Author | Bertram Wyatt-Brown |
| ISBN | 0195033108 |
I absolutely love this book though I have not gotten very far. I saw it one day last year in Barnes and Noble on the employee picks shelf. I was shocked when I went back to buy it, and the salesperson, a college age young woman, exclaimed, "Oh, that was my pick!! I loved that book. I was using it for research on...
| Author | Harold Holzer |
| ISBN | 0743299647 |
Winner of the Lincoln Prize
Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered...
| Author | Willard Sterne Randall |
| ISBN | 0688109683 |
In the first major biography of Benedict Arnold in 35 years, prize-winning journalist and historian Willard Sterne Randall unravels the web of personal drama and political intrigue that led to the most famous betrayal in American history. Citing documents long believed lost, Randall explores the...
| Author | Harry W. Pfanz |
| ISBN | 0807821187 |
In this companion to his celebrated earlier book, Gettysburg--The Second Day, Harry Pfanz provides the first definitive account of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill--two of the most critical engagements fought...
| Author | Ulysses S. Grant |
| ISBN | 1598188984 |
After three deadly years of fighting, President Abraham Lincoln had seen a little progress in the West against the Confederacy, but in the main theater of operations, Virginia, the lines were almost exactly where they had been when the American Civil War started. The war was at a stalemate with northern...
| Author | Emory M. Thomas |
| ISBN | 0393316319 |
The life of Robert E. Lee is a story not of defeat but of triumph—triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the towering figure who commanded the Confederate army...
| Author | Robert G. Tanner |
| ISBN | 0811720640 |
The Valley Campaign conducted by Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson has long fascinated those interested in the American Civil War as well as general students of military history, all of whom still question exactly what Jackson did in the Shenandoah in 1862 and how he did it. Since Robert G. Tanner...
General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier
| Author | Jeffry D. Wert |
| ISBN | 0671892878 |
General James Longstreet fought in nearly every campaign of the Civil War, from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at the surrender at Appomattox. Yet, he was largely held to blame for the Confederacy's defeat at Gettysburg....
| Author | Peter Cozzens |
| ISBN | 0807832006 |
One of the most intriguing and storied episodes of the Civil War, the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign has heretofore been related only from the Confederate point of view. Moving seamlessly between tactical details and analysis of strategic significance, Peter Cozzens presents a balanced, comprehensive...
The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war powers went to the heart of Lincoln's presidency. James Simon, author of the acclaimed "What Kind of Nation" -- an account of the battle between President...
| Author | Arthur James Lyon Fremantle |
| ISBN | 0803268750 |
The American Civil War was at a turning point in 1863 when Lt. Col. Arthur J. L. Fremantle of the British Coldstream Guards toured the Confederacy. Mildly predisposed toward the Union side because of his dislike of slavery, he was soon awakened to the gallantry of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and his...
Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
| Author | Stephen W. Sears |
| ISBN | 0618428259 |
From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac
The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in...
| Author | George R. Stewart |
| ISBN | 0395597722 |
A Classic Study Of Pickett's Charge
Both as symbol and as history, Pickett's charge, the climactic Southern attack on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, exerts a powerful hold on the American imagination. Although other more recent works may show more ability to assess and choose among...
| Author | Alice Rains Trulock |
| ISBN | 0807849804 |
Deserve[s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review
"[Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brilliant career. One can easily say that the definitive work on Joshua Chamberlain has now been done.--James Robertson, Richmond Times-Dispatch
"An...
| Author | James Lee McDonough |
| ISBN | 0393241572 |
A major new biography of one of America’s most storied military figures.
General Sherman’s 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a...
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...
