Though civilians constituted the majority of the nation's population and were intimately
involved with almost every aspect of the war, we know little about the civilian experience of …

" War," wrote Gen. William T. Sherman," is cruelty, and you cannot refine it." Throughout
history, noncombatants have always been among the victims of war's violence. In thisøbook …

A revealing compilation of essays documenting the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath
on Americans—young and old, black and white, northern and southern. Civil War America …

The Old South had famously few public schools, but it teemed with readers. The archives are
stuffed with evidence of them. Historians cannot possibly read all the diaries, letters, half …

This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson
Davis's farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and …

One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still
captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout …

" A treasure for the eye and mind"(The New York Times) about the greatest war in American
history—and a magnificent companion volume to the celebrated PBS television series by …

The soldiers on both sides of the Civil War were united by a common history, and yet the
legacy of this past was ambiguous, upholding both rebellion and union. Union and …

Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on
countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it brought freedom to millions …

This “layered, nuanced, and focused study” of Civil War era writings reveals a popular sense
of patriotism and hope in the midst of loss (Journal of American History). The American Civil …