American Civil War

The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as "the Confederacy". Led by Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy fought for its independence from the United States. ...more

When the Jessamine Grows
Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
How to Dodge a Cannonball
A Hundred Crickets Singing
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
1861: The Lost Peace
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South
A River Between Us
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship—and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War – An Award-Winning American Military History Book
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction (Bloomsbury)
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Gone With the Wind
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
The Red Badge of Courage
The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Grant
Cold Mountain
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Vintage Departures)
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
Gettysburg
The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox
The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Civil War by Shelby FooteCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best American Civil War Books
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Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinLincoln by David Herbert DonaldManhunt by James L. SwansonLincoln by Gore VidalAbraham Lincoln by Seth Grahame-Smith
Best Books About Abraham Lincoln
112 books — 124 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellAshes in the Wind by Kathleen E. WoodiwissAnd One Wore Gray by Heather    GrahamOne Wore Blue by Heather    GrahamThorns of Eden by Diana Ballew
Civil War Era Romance
105 books — 129 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraCold Mountain by Charles FrazierThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellMarch by Geraldine Brooks
Civil War Novels
152 books — 76 voters
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Civil War, Vol. 1 by Shelby FooteTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Killer Angels by Michael Shaara1861 by Adam Goodheart
Civil War Bookshelf
195 books — 33 voters


Mya Robarts
I hear my father's voice. "Political differences divided what used to be America into The Nationalist States and The Patriot States: Then Nats declared war on the Patriots. Why?" Olmo answers in an overly enthusiastic tone. "Because they couldn't agree on the division of derritoryes!" "Territories," corrects Dad. "That, too," says Olmo cheerfully. ...more
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Sheridan  Brown
Mr. Pugh turned bright red. His cheeks puffed up like the galls of shad from the nearby river. His green- monster eyes rolled around his face, and he pounded both fists down on the table, and through grinding teeth and snorting gasps hollered, “INDEED NOT, MISS KNAPP! Slaves are not allowed to read and write. We have you here with good and steady pay to instruct our children and nothing else. Going near that boy, or any other slave, with chalk or book learnin’ is strictly forbidden! Do you under ...more
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