Henry Carter Hull

Looks at the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian-born woman who disguised herself as a man to join the army during the Civil War, working as a nurse and then a spy for the Union.

Richly illustrated with photographs, paintings, and maps, this book examines the causes, events and effects of the American Civil War.

A history of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, arguing that the war was brought about by the introduction of evangelical religion to the public arena, but had the positive effect of making the country one nation while at the same time eliminating slavery.

Draws on diaries, letters, speeches, military reports, newspaper articles, and public papers to recount the first year of the Civil War.

Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, an African-American soldier, during the Civil War and their capture by Southern troops.

Ambrose Bierce didn't just write about the Civil War, he lived through it-on the battlefields and over the graves-and in doing so gave birth to a literary chronicle of men at war previously unseen in the American literary canon. The fact that some of these stories verged on the supernatural, others on factual reporting, and others on the fine line between humor and morbidity in no way detracts from their resonance to both the history of the war between...

During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.

Traces the course of the Civil War, year by year, using profiles of important people, eyewitness accounts, and period art.