Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Vir...

[A] well-written, comprehensively researched biography.--Publishers Weekly'Will both edify the sc...

George B. McClellan was a second lieutenant in the formation of combat engineers that accompanied...

Most surviving correspondence of the Civil War period was written by members of a literate, elite...

Parnassus on the Mississippi is a history of the short-lived yet remarkable productive epoch when...

Ranging from the early battles of the Trans-Mississippi to the epic battles of the Army of Northe...

Robert Franklin Bunting was a Princeton-educated chaplain who served in the Confederate 8th Texas...

Empire of Sand is the story of the Southern attempt, in 1862, to open a path to California, thus ...

Residents of antebellum northwest Louisiana held strong pro-Union sentiments, and the Pierson fam...

'In 1860, Orlando S. Palmer left his home in north Alabama to study law in Tennessee and the foll...

Trouble, Trials, and Vexations: The Journal and Correspondence of Rachel Perry Moores, Texas Plan...