Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy
10 best books like Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy (Elizabeth R. Varon): Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant, They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War, Homeland, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age, Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834, Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, Proud Shoes, An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government, Mary Chesnut: A Diary From Dixie
Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant
| Author | Carol Berkin |
| ISBN | 1400044464 |
Here are the life stories of three women who connect us to our national past and provide windows onto a social and political landscape that is strangely familiar yet shockingly foreign.
Berkin focuses on three “accidental heroes” who left behind sufficient records to allow their voices...
They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War
| Author | DeAnne Blanton |
| ISBN | 1400033152 |
“Albert Cashier” served three years in the Union Army and passed successfully as a man until 1911 when the aging veteran was revealed to be a woman named Jennie Hodgers. Frances Clayton kept fighting even after her husband was gunned down in front of her at the Battle of Murfreesboro. And more than...
| Author | Barbara Hambly |
| ISBN | 0553805525 |
Those who loved Cold Mountain or Geraldine Brooks’s March will embrace and long remember this spellbinding novel of two remarkable women torn apart by conflict, sustained by literature and art, united by friendship and hope.
As brother turns against brother in the bloodbath of the...
| Author | Daniel T. Rodgers |
| ISBN | 0674002016 |
On a narrative canvas that sweeps across Europe and the United States, Daniel T. Rodgers retells the story of the classic era of efforts to repair the damage of unbridled capitalism. He reveals the forgotten international roots of such innovations as city planning, rural cooperatives, modernist...
| Author | Robert Roper |
| ISBN | 0802715532 |
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
viii, 421 pp. 8vo. The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family brought to life, in Robert Roper's brilliant evocation of the Family Whitman. Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound...
| Author | Richard Holmes |
| ISBN | 0375708383 |
Richard Holmes's Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, the long-awaited second volume, chronicles the last thirty years of his career (1804-1834), a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage foundered, his opium...
Amid the aristocratic ranks of the Confederate cavalry, Nathan Bedford Forrest was untutored, all but unlettered, and regarded as no more than a guerrilla. His tactic was the headlong charge, mounted with such swiftness and ferocity that General Sherman called him a "devil" who should "be hunted...
| Author | Pauli Murray |
| ISBN | 0807072095 |
First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives...
| Author | William C. Davis |
| ISBN | 0156007487 |
In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled...
Mary Chesnut: A Diary From Dixie
| Author | Mary Boykin Chesnut |
| ISBN | 0517182661 |
This original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chestnut, Jr., who was also an aide to President Jefferson Davis, provides an eyewitness narrative of all the years of the war. Period photographs illustrate this you-are-there account of the daily lives and tribulations of all who suffered...
Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut
| Author | James P. Duffy |
| ISBN | 0785820965 |
This book tells of the Civil War campaigns of David Farragut. Thoroughly researched and compellingly written, this book examines Farragut's command of the most daring and important assignment of the Civil War: the mission to recapture the vital Southern port of New Orleans.
"Damn the torpedoes......
| 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...
| Author | David R. Goldfield |
| ISBN | 1596917024 |
In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown...
| Author | Tanya Anderson |
| ISBN | 0966925874 |
With thousands of men off fighting in the Civil War, the government hired women and girls—some as young as ten—to make millions of rounds of ammunition. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were killed, blown up and burned...
Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War
| Author | H. Donald Winkler |
| ISBN | 1402242743 |
The clever, devious, daring women who helped turn the tides of the Civil War
During America's most divisive war, both the Union and Confederacy took advantage of brave and courageous women willing to adventurously support their causes. These female spies of the Civil War participated in...
Wild Rose: The True Story of a Civil War Spy
| Author | Ann Blackman |
| ISBN | 0812970454 |
For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or South rivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spy for the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendary beauty and lover, Rose Greenhow risked everything for the cause she valued more than life itself. In this superb...
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
| Author | Jennifer L. Weber |
| ISBN | 0195306686 |
The Northern home-front during the Civil War was far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge, spurred secret plots against the Union, and triggered widespread violence. At the heart of all this turmoil stood the anti-war Democrats, nicknamed "Copperheads."
Now,...
| Author | Gary W. Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0674045629 |
Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War--by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gary Gallagher shows in this brilliant...
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
| Author | Drew Gilpin Faust |
| ISBN | 0807855731 |
When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged...
American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
| Author | Thomas Keneally |
| ISBN | 0385722257 |
Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple that wins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas Keneally,...
Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr
| Author | Mary K. Greer |
| ISBN | 0892816074 |
A badly written book about an interesting subject. At least half of this books is the author speculating pointlessly about the inner lives of her subjects, based mostly on her astrological profiles and shallow understanding of the historical period. Just because you use footnotes doesn't make you...
Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey
| Author | Peter Carlson |
| ISBN | 1610391543 |
Junius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vicksburg on a hay barge. Shuffled from one Rebel prison to another, they escaped and trekked across the snow-covered Appalachians with the help of slaves...
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the 'Lost Cause"
| Author | James W. Loewen |
| ISBN | 1604732199 |
Most Americans hold basic misconceptions about the Confederacy, the Civil War, and the actions of subsequent neo-Confederates. For example, two thirds of Americans--including most history teachers--think the Confederate States seceded for -states' rights.- This error persists because most...
City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War
| Author | John Strausbaugh |
| ISBN | 1455584185 |
WINNER OF THE FLETCHER PRATT AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2016
In a single definitive narrative, CITY OF SEDITION tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War.
No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union...
"We are Lincoln Men": Abraham Lincoln and His Friends
| Author | David Herbert Donald |
| ISBN | 0743254686 |
We Are Lincoln Men" examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in his presidency. Though Lincoln had hundreds of acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no intimate friends. Behind his mask of affability and endless stream of humorous anecdotes,...
