The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
10 best books like The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (William W. Freehling): The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans, The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could Not Stave Off Defeat, Lee's Lieutenants: A Study In Command, General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South, Grant Moves South, 1861-1863, To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union
| Author | David M. Potter |
| ISBN | 0061319295 |
“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History
“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek
Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David...
| Author | David Brion Davis |
| ISBN | 0195126718 |
David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture...
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
| Author | Charles Royster |
| ISBN | 0679738789 |
From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came...
The Confederate War: How Popular Will, Nationalism, and Military Strategy Could Not Stave Off Defeat
| Author | Gary W. Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0674160568 |
If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian disaffection; others point to flawed military strategy or ambivalence over slavery. But, argues distinguished historian Gary...
| Author | Douglas Southall Freeman |
Douglas Southall Freeman. Lee's Lieutenants. 3 Volume Set. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1970-1971]. Later editions. Three octavo volumes. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.Folding map at rear of volume 3.
All unquestioned masterpiecc of the historian's art, and a towering...
| Author | Joseph T. Glatthaar |
| ISBN | 0684827875 |
"You would be surprised to see what men we have in the ranks," Virginia cavalryman Thomas Rowland informed his mother in May 1861, just after joining the Army of Northern Virginia. His army -- General Robert E. Lee's army -- was a surprise to almost everyone: With daring early victories and an invasion...
| Author | Kenneth M. Stampp |
| ISBN | 0679723072 |
This is a very basic survey history of American slavery based on the assumption that a black man is simply as a white man with a different skin colour. In other words Stampp's presents slavery from the common-sense perspective.
Since its publication in 1956 it has been criticized from all sides....
| Author | Bruce Catton |
| ISBN | 0316132446 |
Pure gold. Of Catton's books, I would consider only A Stillness at Appomattox to be slightly better. Catton is my favorite historian along with Robert Caro. They both write with a modest and poetic tone with a fundamentally deep understanding of their subject matter based on years of research. If you...
| Author | Stephen W. Sears |
| ISBN | 0899197906 |
It really isn’t fair that I read this book – and am now rating it – after having read Allen Guelzo’s Gettysburg: The Last Invasion. Stephen Sears’ To the Gates of Richmond, about George McClellan’s failed Peninsula Campaign of 1862, is not a bad book. To the contrary, it is sturdy and dependable,...
| Author | Bell Irvin Wiley |
| ISBN | 0807104760 |
The Life of Billy Yank is a frank, intimate, and warm study of the Union soldier by one of the most prolific and revered of all Civil War historians. Here, through excerpts from wartime letters and diaries and from other carefully documented research, Bell Irvin Wiley presents an absorbing account of...
| Author | Horace Porter |
| ISBN | 0803287631 |
In 1863 Horace Porter, then a captain, met Ulysses S. Grant as Grant commenced the campaign that would break the Confederate siege at Chattanooga. After a brief stint in Washington, Porter rejoined Grant, who was now in command of all Union forces, and served with him as a staff aide until the end of...
| Author | Peter Cozzens |
| ISBN | 0252065948 |
When North and South met among the desolate mountains of northwestern Georgia in 1863, they began one of the bloodiest and most decisive campaigns of the Civil War. The climactic Battle of Chickamauga lasted just two days, yet it was nearly as costly as Gettysburg, with casualties among the highest...
| Author | Bruce Levine |
| ISBN | 0809053535 |
Revised Edition
With a New Preface and Afterword
In a revised edition, brought completely up to date with a new preface and afterword and an expanded bibliography, Bruce Levine's succinct and persuasive treatment of the basic issues that precipitated the Civil War is as compelling as...
"This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. Lee’s triumph over Union leader John Pope in the summer of 1862. . . . Lee’s strategic skills, and the capabilities of his principal subordinates James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson, brought...
| 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...
Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War
| Author | James M. McPherson |
| ISBN | 0195117964 |
James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the...
| Author | Donald Stoker |
| ISBN | 0195373057 |
Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising...
| Author | G.F.R. Henderson |
| ISBN | 0306803186 |
With a new introduction by Thomas L. Connelly
Thomas Jonathan Jackson was the most renowned and skillful commander of Confederate troops in the Civil War. Not even Lee or Stuart matched his purely military intelligence-his intransigence at Bull Run (which earned him the name "Stonewall"),...
