Civil War History

The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy.

Battle Cry of Freedom
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
Grant
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg
The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox
The Civil War: A Narrative
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Chancellorsville
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Mary Edwards Walker: America's Only Female Medal of Honor Recipient
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

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Carpetbag in hand, Lee descended to the muddy ground out side the Virginia Central Railroad depot at the corner of Sixteenth and Broad. The depot was a plain wooden shed, much in need of paint. A banner on the door of the tavern across the street advertised fried oysters at half price in honor of George Washington's birthday. The banner made Lee pause in mild bemusement: strange how the Confederacy still revered the founding fathers of the United States. Or perhaps it was not so strange. Surely ...more
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