The Unsung Heroes & Heroines of the Civil War: A 20-Volume Tribute
Neglected Lives, Civilian Courage, and the Many Voices of Civil War MemoryBy Henry H. Meacham, Frank M. Myers, Theron Wilber Haight, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, S. B. Barron, William H. Osborne, Alfred S. Roe, W. W. Goldsborough, Carlton McCarthy, Samuel Scoville, Richard L. Maury, David Lathrop, James Harrison Wilson, Dudley Landon Vaill, Francis J. Parker, George C. Sumner, William Young Warren Ripley, Basil Wilson Duke, Jewett Palmer, William E. Barton
Length163h 43m
About this audiobook
The Unsung Heroes & Heroines of the Civil War: A 20-Volume Tribute assembles a capacious memorial literature of the American Civil War, shifting attention from celebrated commanders toward the courage, endurance, and moral complexity of lesser-known participants. Across reminiscence, biography, local history, military narrative, and commemorative essay, the collection illuminates battlefront service, civilian sacrifice, nursing, espionage, captivity, and the sustaining labor of communities. Its most compelling pieces recover lives that conventional campaign histories leave at the margins, making anonymity itself a central historical subject. The contributors—among them veterans, military chroniclers, clergy, lawyers, educators, and regional historians—bring distinct professional and sectional perspectives to the work of remembrance. Their writings belong to the broad postwar culture of Civil War commemoration, in which personal testimony, regimental memory, and local archives shaped public understandings of conflict and reconciliation. Taken together, these voices reveal how heroism was constructed not only through battlefield distinction but also through duty, care, resilience, and witness. This volume set is especially valuable for readers seeking a many-sided encounter with Civil War experience. Its breadth invites comparison among styles, regions, and definitions of service, while its recovered narratives enrich both scholarly inquiry and general historical reading. Readers will find an instructive dialogue between memory and history, individual lives and national catastrophe.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length163 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Unsung Heroes & Heroines of the Civil War: A 20-Volume Tribute
26CHAPTER III
2The Empty Sleeve or, The Life and Hardships of Henry H. Meacham, in the Union Army
27CHAPTER IV
3PREFACE.
28CHAPTER V
4The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers
29CHAPTER VI
5INTRODUCTION.
30CHAPTER VII
Show all chaptersShow less
6CHAPTER VIII.
31CHAPTER VIII
7CHAPTER XIII.
32CHAPTER IX
8CHAPTER XVII.
33CHAPTER X
9CHAPTER XXII.
34CHAPTER XI
10CHAPTER XXVI.
35CHAPTER XII
11CHAPTER XXIX.
36CHAPTER XIII
12Three Wisconsin Cushings
37CHAPTER XIV
13Three Wisconsin Cushings
38CHAPTER XV
14RECORDS AND APPRECIATIONS
39CHAPTER XVI
15THREE WISCONSIN CUSHINGS
40CHAPTER XVII
16A Military Genius: Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland
41CHAPTER XVIII
17PREFACE.
42CHAPTER XIX
18A SEARCH FOR THE DOCUMENTS.
43Footnote
19MISS CARROLL'S MILITARY MAPS. (pt. 1)
44The History of the Twenty-ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry: In the Late War of the Rebellion
20MISS CARROLL'S MILITARY MAPS. (pt. 2)
45PREFACE.
21MISS CARROLL'S MILITARY MAPS. (pt. 3)
46CHAPTER VI.
22The Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade
47CHAPTER XI.
23INTRODUCTION
48CHAPTER XIII.
24CHAPTER I
49CHAPTER XV.
25CHAPTER II
50CHAPTER XVII.
More from Henry H. Meacham, Frank M. Myers, Theron Wilber Haight, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, S. B. Barron, William H. Osborne, Alfred S. Roe, W. W. Goldsborough, Carlton McCarthy, Samuel Scoville, Richard L. Maury, David Lathrop, James Harrison Wilson, Dudley Landon Vaill, Francis J. Parker, George C. Sumner, William Young Warren Ripley, Basil Wilson Duke, Jewett Palmer, William E. Barton
Forgotten Heroes of the Civil War - 20 Book CollectionHenry H. Meacham, Frank M. Myers, Theron Wilber Haight, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, S. B. Barron, William H. Osborne, Alfred S. Roe, W. W. Goldsborough, Carlton McCarthy, Samuel Scoville, Richard L. Maury, David Lathrop, James Harrison Wilson, Dudley Landon Vaill, Francis J. Parker, George C. Sumner, William Young Warren Ripley, Basil Wilson Duke, Jewett Palmer, William E. Barton163h 44m$1.99
The Empty Sleeve or, The Life and Hardships of Henry H. Meacham, in the Union ArmyHenry H. Meacham50m$2 · $0.00
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m4.6 (6.6K)$29 · $0.00
Ghosts of HiroshimaCharles Pellegrino8h 59m4.5 (877)$23
Black AF HistoryMichael Harriot15h 43m4.7 (14.6K)$33 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m4.7 (8.9K)$46 · $0.00
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m4.6 (178K)$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m4.7 (2.5K)$40 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m4.7 (351)$20 · $0.00
RevolutionariesSanjeev Sanyal11h 23m4.6 (2.6K)$29 · $0.00
We Crossed a Bridge and It TrembledWendy Pearlman6h4.6 (5.2K)$24 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m4.6 (2.6K)$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m4.6 (16.7K)$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m4.6 (16.1K)$29 · $0.00
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m4.6 (6.5K)$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m4.6 (927)$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m4.6 (1.4K)$33 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m4.6 (3.2K)$33 · $0.00
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m4.6 (678)$29 · $0.00
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m4.6 (809)$28 · $0.00
Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal: Blood Trail To Hell: A Western Adventure NovelCasey Nash3h 42m4.6 (3.2K)$18 · $0.00
Fall and RiseMitchell Zuckoff17h 23m4.6 (9.8K)$40 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
These Precious DaysAnn Patchett11h 14m4.5 (45.2K)$29 · $0.00
Pride & Prejudice (Annotated)Jane Austen15h 10m4.7 (13.3K)$2 · $0.00
The Jeeves and Wooster Stories: The Complete Collection (33 Books)P. G. Wodehouse21h 57m4.7 (2.8K)$15 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m4.7 (8.9K)$46 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
The Complete Histories / History Plays of William Shakespeare (Annotated)William Shakespeare29h 42m4.6 (2.3K)$1.99 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m4.7 (359)$29 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Twelfth Night (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography (Annotated)William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee16h 38m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
Henry V (The Play, Historical Background and Analysis of the Character in the Play)William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt8h 40m4.6 (1.3K)$1 · $0.00
H. P. LOVECRAFT Ultimate Collection: Novellas, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays (Annotated)H. P. Lovecraft12h 28m4.6 (2.3K)$2 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 54m4.5 (10.6K)$2 · $0.00
TORAH - Bilingual Edition: English/Hebrew (Annotated)Max Margolis, JPS28h 26m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
Betty Crocker picture cooky bookBetty Crocker, Inc. General Mills2h 13m4.5 (6.5K)$1 · $0.00
The Complete Tales of Beatrix PotterBeatrix Potter3h 36m4.5 (75K)$3 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
The North American IndianEdward S. Curtis, Frederick Webb Hodge6h4.5 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Uncensored 13 Chapter Version + The Revised 20 Chapter Version (Annotated)Oscar Wilde16h 12m4.5 (2.8K)$1.99 · $0.00
You may also like
De Bello Gallico and other CommentariesJulius Caesar17h 39m4.1 (1.1K)$2.30
On the Border with Crook General George Crook, the American Indian Wars and Life on the American FrontierJohn Gregory Bourke21h 45m4.3 (1K)$2.30
Memories of the Confederate War for IndependenceHeros von Borcke16h 32m4.4 (274)$2 · $0.00
Kearny's MarchWinston Groom12h 6m4.2 (621)$23
Hornblower and the Hotspur (Annotated)C. S. Forester14h 7m4.4 (17.3K)$2 · $0.00
No Mission Is ImpossibleMichael Bar-Zohar, Dr. Lisa M. Webb MBA, MPH, Nissim Mishal10h 3m4.2 (788)$20
Three Years Among the Comanches (Annotated)Nelson Lee5h 56m4.0 (1.5K)$2 · $0.00
Navy SealsDick Couch, William Doyle9h 31m4.1 (1.1K)$29 · $0.00
Hornblower and the AtroposC. S. Forester12h 21m4.3 (11.6K)$2 · $0.00
Ashley's WarGayle Tzemach Lemmon10h 1m4.2 (7.4K)$29 · $0.00
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria & Ian Hamilton's March (Annotated)Winston Churchill17h 52m$2 · $0.00
Napoleon’s EgyptJuan Cole11h 17m3.7 (464)$21
Brig of WarWalter Jon Williams15h 46m4.0 (205)$25
The Matabele CampaignRobert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell11h 25m$2 · $0.00
The MacedonianWalter Jon Williams10h 28m4.0 (49)$20
The Journals of George WashingtonGeorge Washington5h 37m4.1 (204)$2 · $0.00
French enterprise in AfricaHourst10h 19m$2 · $0.00
Historical Record of the Thirty-fourth, or the Cumberland Regiment of FootRichard Cannon3h 45m$2 · $0.00
Confederate Wizards of the SaddleBennett Henderson Young18h 57m4.4 (163)$2.30
On Canada's FrontierJulian Ralph7h 35m3.7 (15)$1.99 · $0.00