Compact History of the Civil War
Grand Central Publishing, July 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Civil War
Iowa and the Civil War, Volume I: Free Child of the Missouri Compromise, 1850-1862
Camp Pope Bookshop, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. 416 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. From the author's 3-volume series on the role of Iowa in the American Civil War. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with minor edge wear.
Iowa in the Civil War, Volume 2: From Iuka to the Red River 1862 - 1864
Camp Pope Publishing, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. 460 pages. From the author's 3-volume series on the role of Iowa in the American Civil War. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a fine dust jacket. Small water stains to the last few pages.
What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War
Presidio Press, January 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Instant coffee was invented during the Civil War for use by Union troops, who hated it; holding races between lice was a popular pastime for both Johnny Reb and Billy Yank; 13% of the Confederate Army deserted during the conflict.....
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Knopf, January 2008. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An.....
The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War
Barnes & Noble, October 2003. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
The Battlefields of the Civil War
Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
The Fighting Men of the Civil War
Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History
HarperCollins. Smithsonian, 2009. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantril and His Confederate Raiders
Da Capo Press, 1998. Trade Paperback. 534 pages. Reprint edition. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Brilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memories, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865) and the events that transformed a......
Guerrillas in Civil War Missouri (Civil War Series)
The History Press, 2012. Trade Paperback. 126 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Missouri ranks third in the number of Civil War battles fought on its soil. Although some sizable actions were fought in the state, most of the battles were the result of the intense guerrilla activity.....
Reminiscences of the Women of Missouri During the Sixties
Morningside House, Inc., 1988. Hardcover. 311 pages. Short writings about the American Civil War by Missouri women who were there. A very good copy; no dust jacket. Spotting to page block.
The History of the Navy During the Rebellion (Vol. I only)
D. Appleton and Company, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. 572 pages. 15 full-page illustrations, 4 of which are in color. Many with tissue guards. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in decorated green cloth covers with lettering and decorations in gilt on front cover and spine. Spine with mild.....
Richmond in Time of War (Houghton Mifflin Research Series Number 5)
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 166 pages. Chapter headings for each year of the war with supporting documents as a bibliography. First edition (first printing). Very good in color illustrated wappers (paperback).
Speech of Hon. Charles D. Drake delivered before the National Union Association, at Cinncinati, October 1, 1864
n.p. [?National Union Association], 1864. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 16 pages. A pro-Union speech during the latter stages of Civil War. Charles D. Drake (1811-1892) was a 'Radical Republican' who from 1861 advocated for the immediate and uncompensated emancipation of slaves. After the War he was U.S. Senator from Missouri.....
Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla
Stackpole Books, November 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with light edge wear. The first-ever biography of the perpetrator of the Centralia and Baxter Springs Massacres, as well as innumerable atrocities during the Civil War in the West.
Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War
Hill and Wang, January 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861. Drawing on.....
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes's.....
The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
Oxford University Press, 2015. Hardcover. Later printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought.....
Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict
NYU Press, 2010. Trade Paperback. 240 pages. First paperback edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood.....
The Civil War in the American West
Knopf, October 1991. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Brave Men in Desperate Times: The Lives Of Civil War Soldiers
Twodot, Imprint of Globe Pequot, 2007. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 272 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War: Contemporary Accounts and Illustrations from the Greatest Magazine of the Time
The Fairfax Press, n.d., ca. 1987. Hardcover. 836 pages. 11 x 15 inches. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Mathew Brady's Civil War
Chartwell Books, Inc., 2011. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 256 pages. Oblong format, 10 x 14 inches. First edition thus. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Photography was still in its infancy when the Civil War broke out in 1861, yet one young man, Mathew B. Brady, had.....
Civil War Album: A Complete Photographic History: Fort Sumter to Appomattox
Tess Sales, 2000. Hardcover. Later printing. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.