Top 10 Best "1861-1865" Books

Nothing but Victory

Steven E. Woodworth

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The Confederate Nation 1861-1865 (The new American nation series)

Emory M. Thomas

1861-1865

The Confederate Nation 1861-1865 (The new American nation series)

We have for years needed a serious, scholarly, readable work on the Confederate nation that rounds up modem scholarship and offers a fresh and detached view of the whole subject. This work fills that order admirably ... [Thomas] sensibly and deftly integrates the course of Southern military fortunes with the concerns that shaped them and were shaped by them. In doing so he also manages to convey a sense of how the war itself deteriorated from something spirited and gallant to something base and mean and modern on both sides.

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Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy

Richard S. Brownlee

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Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865

William K. Klingaman

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Executing Daniel Bright

Barton A. Myers

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Hard Marching Every Day

Emil Rosenblatt
Ruth Rosenblatt

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What They Fought For 1861-1865

James M. McPherson

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The Civil War in Missouri, Day by Day, 1861 to 1865

Rocky Medley
Carolyn M. Bartels

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Freedom

Joseph P. Reidy
Leslie S. Rowland
Ira Berlin

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Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)

Mark W. Geiger

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Showdown in Virginia

In the spring of 1861, Virginians confronted destiny - their own and their nation's. Pivotal decisions awaited about secession, the consequences of which would unfold for a hundred years and more. But few Virginians wanted to decide at all. Instead, they talked, almost interminably. The remarkable record of "The Virginia State Convention", edited in a fine modern version in 1965, runs to almost 3,000 pages, some 1.3 million words. Through the diligent efforts of William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson, this daunting record has now been made accessible to teachers, students, and general readers. With important contextual contributions - an introduction and commentary, chronology, headnotes, and suggestions for further reading - the essential core of the speeches, and what they signified, is now within reach. This is a collection of speeches by men for whom everything was at risk. Some saw independence and even war as glory; others predicted ruin and devastation. They all offered commentary of lasting interest to anyone concerned about the fate of democracy in crisis.

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Showdown in Virginia

William W. Freehling

1861-1865

The New York Times The Complete Civil War 1861-1865

Harold Holzer
Craig Symonds

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