History of the Civil War: 15 Essential Books
Union and Confederate Memoirs, Diaries, Battles, Emancipation, and the Contested Memory of a NationBy Louisa May Alcott, Ulysses S. Grant, James Ford Rhodes, Jefferson Davis, Frank H. Alfriend, John Torrey Morse, John Alexander Logan, Thomas Elbert Vineyard, Ephraim Douglass Adams, John Esten Cooke, William Tecumseh Sherman, John D. Billings, Charles W. Reed, James Madison Page, Heros von Borcke, Mary Boykin Chesnut
Length343h 18m
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History of the Civil War: 15 Essential Books gathers a capacious documentary and literary record of the United States' defining nineteenth-century conflict. Military narrative, campaign history, political analysis, memoir, diary, and fiction sit in productive tension, tracing battlefields and command decisions alongside domestic life, emancipation-era upheaval, sectional ideology, and the war's durable emotional costs. Accounts of Union and Confederate strategy are complemented by intimate observations of civilian society, while vivid recollections of ordinary service and extraordinary campaigns make the volume more than a conventional chronology. Its contributors include soldiers, generals, statesmen, historians, journalists, and literary witnesses whose experiences span both sides of the conflict and its aftermath. Their writings belong to the formative culture of Civil War remembrance: a period in which personal testimony, Lost Cause apologetics, Union veteran memory, professional historical inquiry, and realist social observation competed to define what the war had meant. Read together, these voices reveal not a settled national story but a contested archive shaped by allegiance, trauma, region, race, and retrospective judgment. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking a broad, critically engaging introduction to Civil War literature and historiography. It invites comparison between official authority and private experience, battlefield narrative and household record, interpretation and memory. Students, general readers, and specialists alike will find in these essential books an unusually rich dialogue about conflict, citizenship, and national reconstruction.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length343 hrs 18 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Mysteries of Masons Revealed - 8 Book Collection
2History of the Civil War: 15 Essential Books
3CHAPTER I
4CHAPTER II
5CHAPTER III
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6CHAPTER IV
7CHAPTER V
8CHAPTER VI
9CHAPTER VII
10CHAPTER VIII
11CHAPTER IX
12CHAPTER X
13CHAPTER XI
14CHAPTER XII
15CHAPTER XIII
16CHAPTER XIV
17History of the Confederate States of America & The Life of Jefferson Davis
18The Work of Jefferson Davis:
19A Short History of the Confederate States of America
20INTRODUCTION
21PART I BEFORE SECESSION
22CHAPTER I CAUSES OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES
23CHAPTER II NEGRO SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE-TRADE
24CHAPTER III THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY
25CHAPTER IV THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
26CHAPTER V THE COMPROMISE MEASURES
27CHAPTER VI POLITICS IN MISSISSIPPI
28CHAPTER VII THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA TROUBLES
29CHAPTER VIII THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT
30CHAPTER IX THE JOHN BROWN RAID
31CHAPTER X A RETROSPECT
32CHAPTER XI PRELIMINARY PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE
33CHAPTER XII THE CLOSE OF 1860
34CHAPTER XIII SECESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA
35CHAPTER XIV GENERAL PRINCIPLES
36CHAPTER XV THE RIGHT OF SECESSION
37PART II SECESSION AND CONFEDERATION
38CHAPTER I EARLY DAYS OF SECESSION
39CHAPTER II FORT SUMTER
40CHAPTER III PROGRESS OF SECESSION
41CHAPTER IV THE CONFEDERATE CABINET AND CONGRESS
42CHAPTER V SOME NORTHERN PROTESTS
43CHAPTER VI THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION
44CHAPTER VII NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
45CHAPTER VIII BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER
46PART III THE WAR
47CHAPTER I SOUTH CAROLINA, MARYLAND, AND VIRGINIA
48CHAPTER II CONFEDERATE PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE
49CHAPTER III ORGANIZATION OF OUR RESOURCES
50CHAPTER IV FEDERAL OPPRESSIONS IN MARYLAND
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