Best Civil War Generals - April 2024

Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History

Walk in the footsteps of history with this stunning volume that brings more than thirty Civil War battlefields to life.   From the “First Battle of Bull Run” to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House four years later, this book celebrates the history and scenic beauty of these hallowed grounds in a large-format, beautifully produced volume.   Explore more than thirty Civil War battlefields— from Antietam to Chancellorsville, Gettysburg to Shiloh—including the first five national battlefield parks preserved by veterans in the 1890s. Each battlefield features extensive photos of t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0847859126
• ASIN: 0847859126
• ISBN: 0847859126
• Brand: RIZZOLI
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

Generals South, Generals North: The Commanders of the Civil War Reconsidered

Generals South, Generals North highlights twenty-fourcommanders—twelve each from the Confederacy and the Union. Best-selling author and military historian Alan Axelrod presents a biography of each, narrates the major engagements in which each fought (emphasizing tactical leadership and outcome produced), and explores each man’s ever-controversial reputation. His consequent rankings are based on both historical and modern-day sources.

• ASIN: 0762761490
• ASIN: 0762761490
• ISBN: 0762761490
• Manufacturer: Lyons Press

The Civil War Trilogy: Gods and Generals / The Killer Angels / The Last Full Measure

• ASIN: 0345433726
• ASIN: 0345433726
• ISBN: 0345433726
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters

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 so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations." In fact, five generations have passed, and Americans are still trying to measure the influence of the immense fratricidal conflict that nearly tore the nation apart. In The War that Forged a Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0190658533
• ASIN: 0190658533
• ISBN: 0190658533
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville (Vintage Civil War Library)

• ASIN: B004C43GGU
• ASIN: B004C43GGU
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War

This is an invaluable book and is truly a must-have for any Civil War researcher. This is a 2003 re-printing by Barns & Noble Publishing Inc. of the 1983 Arno Press Inc. and Crown Publishers Inc printing. Unlike other versions it has the plates numbered in Arabic and not Roman Numerals which is much easier to search.

• ASIN: 0760750440
• ASIN: 0760750440
• ISBN: 0760750440
• Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble

Best Little Stories from the Civil War: More than 100 true stories

"This fascinating book will make the Civil War come alive with thoughts and feelings of real people." The Midwest Book Review The Civil WAR You Never Knew... Behind the bloody battles, strategic marches, and decorated generals lie more than 100 intensely personal, true stories you haven't heard before. In Best Little Stories from the Civil War, soldiers describe their first experiences in battle, women observe the advances and retreats of armies, spies recount their methods, and leaders reveal the reasoning behind many of their public actions. Fascinating characters come to life, including: ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1402239106
• UPC: 760789228711
• ASIN: 1402239106
• ISBN: 1402239106
• Brand: Cumberland House Publishing
• Manufacturer: Cumberland House

Presidents of War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deat... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307409600
• ASIN: 0307409600
• ISBN: 9780307409607
• Manufacturer: Crown

Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy)

The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Killer Angels   In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military instructor and devout Christian who becomes the greatest commander of the Civil War; Winfield Scott Hancock, a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army; Joshua Chamberlain, who gives up his ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345422473
• ASIN: 0345422473
• ISBN: 0345422473
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Civil War: A Visual History

Produced with the Smithsonian Institution and released in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the start of the war, The Civil War is the definitive visual history to one of the most defining moments in our country's history. Comprehensive timelines, revealing first-person accounts by soldiers and civilians, key political and military leaders, as well as examinations of broader topics, such as transportation, the economy, and the treatment of wounded soldiers, make The Civil War a must-have for anyone interested in the history of the Civil War.

• ASIN: 075667185X
• UPC: 690472071853
• ASIN: 075667185X
• ISBN: 075667185X
• Brand: DK Publishing Dorling Kindersley
• Manufacturer: DK

The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox (Vintage Civil War Library)

• ASIN: B004C43GI8
• ASIN: B004C43GI8
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Grant

The #1 New York Times bestseller.New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.   Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159420487X
• ASIN: 159420487X
• ISBN: 9781594204876
• Manufacturer: Penguin Press

The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian (Vintage Civil War Library)

• ASIN: B004C43G6A
• ASIN: B004C43G6A
• Manufacturer: Vintage

These Truths: A History of the United States

• ASIN: 0393635244
• ASIN: 0393635244
• ISBN: 0393635244
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Civil War

Collects Civil War (2006) #1-7. Whose side are you on? A conflict is brewing that threatens to pit friend against friend, brother against brother and all it will take is a single misstep to cost thousands their lives and ignite the fuse! As the war claims its first victims, no one is safe as teams, friendships and families begin to fall apart and the Marvel Universe super heroes go to war against each other.

• ASIN: B00EAROYT2
• ASIN: B00EAROYT2
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Marvel

Civil War Trivia and Fact Book : Unusual and Often Overlooked Facts about America's Civil War

Provides answers to questions on the personalities, statistics, places, weapons, and events of the Civil

• UPC: 549041
• Rating: 5.0

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War

"From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's first convention, the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, [this book examines] the often little

• UPC: 55343194

Generals South, Generals North : The Commanders of the Civil War Reconsidered

Generals South, Generals North highlights twenty-four commanders twelve each from the Confederacy and the Union. Best-selling author and military historian Alan Axelrod presents a biography of each, narrates the major engagements in which each fought

• UPC: 48930125
• Rating: 4.0

The Field of Blood : Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil WarIn The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S.

• UPC: 473607995
• Rating: 4.667

The Civil War

Period prints, photographs, and documents accompany this penetrating examination of the political, military, and social aspects of the War Between the States, tracing the conflict from the earliest divisions between North and South to the

• UPC: 2673331
• Rating: 4.0

The Civil War : A Visual History

Produced with the Smithsonian Institution and released in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the start of the war, "The Civil War" is the definitive visual history to one of the most defining moments in

• UPC: 14496081
• Rating: 4.8

Living Hell : The Dark Side of the Civil War

Living Hell - The Dark Side Of The Civil

• UPC: 53719353
• Rating: 4.0

The South vs. The South : How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War

9780195156294

• UPC: 25245581
• Rating: 3.0

The War Before the War : Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

A New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018 The devastating story of how fugitive slaves drove the nation to Civil War For decades after its founding, America was really two nations--one slave, one free.

• UPC: 772490495
• Rating: 5.0

Civil War Volumes 1-3 Box Set

Follows the course of the war from 1862 to 1864, discusses the strategies of both sides in major battles, and assesses the performance of the Union

• UPC: 455195
• Rating: 4.6

The Ten Best - And Worst - Generals of the Civil War by Robert C. Jones (English

• UPC: 111127789717
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 21 USD

Battle Hymn: The Best & Worst Civil War Generals by Walsh Richard

• UPC: 132947102825
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 19 USD

Civil War Times Lee's Best General Aug 2006 529EL

• UPC: 390318416839
• Category: Magazines
• Price: 10 USD

Lincoln's Generals' Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War--for Better a

• UPC: 273849084522
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 21 USD

One of Lee's Best Men: The Civil War Letters of General William Dorsey Pender by

• UPC: 381665039641
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 25 USD

Lincoln's Generals' Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War-for Better an

• UPC: 391644704130
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 32 USD

One of Lee's Best Men : The Civil War Letters of General William Dorsey Pende...

• UPC: 263857792923
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 23 USD

Lincoln's Generals' Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War - For Better

• UPC: 283520865326
• Category: Audiobooks
• Price: 6 USD

Lincoln's Generals' Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War--For Better

• UPC: 283426395444
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 25 USD

One of Lee's Best Men : The Civil War Letters of General William Dorsey Pender

• UPC: 312613233675
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 16 USD