HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Books

New York: Literary Guild of America. (1939). HC. good+, gray cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket). A volume on the Southern effort in the Civil War. . 452pp ... more information

Amherst, MA: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 1979. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0870233971 In this collection of interrelated essays, Stephen B. Oates focuses on the American Civil War era and several of its leading figures. . 150pp ... more information

New York: The Dial Press. 1957. HC. good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). A Novel of Confederate Blockade Runners. . 369pp ... more information

New York: Bonanza Books. (1985). HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 051746781X The stories collected here reflect the fascination and horror of the Civil War, yet the themes they address are universal. Contributors include: Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Herman Melville, O. Henry, Stephen Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Stephen Vincent Benet, and many more. . 523pp ... more information

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (1998) 1st ed. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket, review press release laid in. ISBN 0393046621 March 5, 1864, was the day the Civil War changed, to become what the Richmond Examiner called "a war of extermination, of indiscriminate slaughter and plunder." It changed because of a few sheets of paper found on a muddy trail outside of Richmond. Here is the first full-length analysis of the link between this Confederate campaign of terror and the events that led up to... more information

New York: The Macmillan Company. (1964) 1st ptg. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). "For readers fed up to their campaign hats with the peculiar contemporary madness engendered by the solemn celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Civil War (the War Between the States, that is), here is a zany, outrageously funny tale of a Dixie centennial that threatened to secede from history." . 215pp ... more information

New York: The Fairfax Press. (1986). HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0517603586 This book permits the reader to follow the final thirty- six hours in the life of the Confederate South, to share, with those who experienced those frightful yet fascinating events, what it was like to wait amid crackling flames and exploding magazines for the victors to march in. . 270pp ... more information

Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Pr.. (1988). HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) BCE. ISBN 0872495728 Drawing upon hundreds of obscure and hard-to-find sources, the author has produced a fresh, sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking chronicle of what it was like to be a participant in the most intense war the world had ever seen up to that time--a war that was the watershed of American history beause it truly united the United States. . 278pp ... more information

New York: Bonanza Books. orig pub 1961. HC. very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). Essential for an understanding of what the Civil War was really like, this book is a key to the way American soldiers behaved, thought, and acted a century ago. . 400pp ... more information

Raleigh, NC: Ivy House Publishing Group. (2004). HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 1571974083 Follow the incredible journey of an ordinary man, Charles Garrigues, who lived during extraordinary times. This story takes readers on an incredible trip that begins in a Civil War prison camp in Illinois and meanders across much of the Reconstruction South. . 217pp ... more information

Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art. (1961). PB. very good, wraps (softcover). Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A fabulous collection of art depicting the Civil War. . 268pp ... more information

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. (1951). HC. good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). Woodward reveals the utter and cruel absurdity of the war, and shows how it could have been avioded without loss to any American citizen. . 311pp ... more information

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. (1996) 1st ptg. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). ISBN 1557503680 The last armed Confederate cruiser sent to see, the C.S.S. Shenandoah, inflicted significant damage to Union commerce. First published in 1960. . 200pp ... more information

Secaucus, NJ: The Blue and Grey Press. orig pub 1958. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0890098778 Here the participants describe in their own words the bitterness of the conflict, battlefield scenes of heroism and horror, the very pulse of the war. . 362pp ... more information

Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers. 1976. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0879280700 Originally published in 1910, Fite's book is a scholarly and objective survey of the effects of the Civil War on economic and social life in the North. Prof. Fite describes what the people behind the lines were doing-their occupations, their personal interests and pleasures, their various involvements. He analyzes industrial and agricultural growth and the effects of the war on all aspects... more information

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. (1952). HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). Vivid account of the famous TRENT case and its repercussions on Anglo- American relations. . 296pp ... more information

Kexington, KY: Univ. Press of Kentucky. (2007). HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) BCE. ISBN 081312428X The state of Virginia stood at the center stage of America's Civil War. This is an invaluable book on the Old Dominion's dramatic entrance into the Confederacy. . 243pp ... more information

Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1975. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0822303310 Edited primarily with regard to the impact the war had on Walt Whitman, brother of the letters author. . 173pp ... more information

New York: Simon and Schuster. 1957 1st ptg. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). 214pp ... more information

New York: Horace Liveright. (1930) 4th ptg. HC. good, grey cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) - clean and tight. First published in 1928. . 512pp ... more information