Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.Six Weeks in Uniform is an account of the author's experiences during the Civil War.

One of the most important memoirs of the American Civil War, this is also one of the few to describe what life was really like for the common soldier. The author, a Union veteran of the Army of the Potomac, tells of how the men enlisted or were conscripted; how they lived in camp and on the march; what they ate and foraged; how they were equipped and provided for; how they lived, amused themselves, were disciplined and punished, cared for and healed, and ultimately how they died. Written ...

An eye-witness account of the Civil War, from the Confederate perspective. This brigade was part of the Eighth South Carolina Regiment. According to the Preface: "I consider Kershaw's Brigade ... one of the best eye-witness accounts of its kind, complete, trustworthy, and intensely interesting. Beginning with the secession of South Carolina onDecember 20, 1860, Dickert describes in detail the formation, organization, and myriad military activities of his brigade until its surrender at Durh...

In 1861 a ringing call came to the manhood of the South. The world knows how the men of the South answered that call. Dropping everything, they came from mountains, valleys and plains – from Maryland to Texas, they eagerly crowded to the front, and stood to arms. What for? What moved them? What was in their minds?

A VOICE FROM THE RANKS. – INTRODUCTORY.

In "The Rhode Island Artillery at the First Battle of Bull Run," J. Albert Monroe meticulously explores the pivotal role played by the Rhode Island Artillery during one of the earliest engagements of the American Civil War. Monroe employs a detailed narrative style that marries historical rigor with rich descriptive passages, shedding light on the strategic significance and the harrowing experiences of the artillery units. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources'Äîincluding letters, diaries...

This remarkable memoir is one of the most celebrated documents to emerge from the tumult of America’s Revolutionary War. The ordinary and yet exceptional experiences of a young soldier in Washington’s army are given a new life in this fourth edition, sensitively edited for a modern readership.Classic primary source on the Revolutionary WarEdited by a leading US authority on the periodNow with extra maps and a more extensive bibliographyIncludes a...

First published more than 100 years ago, Hard Tack And Coffee is John Billings’ absorbing first-person account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier during the Civil War.Billings attended a reunion of Civil War veterans in 1881 that brought together a group of survivors whose memories and stories of the war compelled him to write this account.It is set in November, 1860.Lincoln has been elected as President of the United States.The Democrats split into...

This volume does not claim to be a tactical, or strategic history of the campaigns of which it treats; it aims rather to be a narrative of the every-day life and experience of the private soldier in camp and field-how he lived, how he marched, how he fought and how he suffered. No sooner had some of the volunteers reached the front, and been subjected to the hardships and exposures of army life, than they fell sick, were sent to the hospital and were discharged without passing through any ...

A fantastic account of the famous 'Boston Tea Party' when, in 1773, colonists in Boston protested the East India Company's stranglehold on the tea import market by throwing three shiploads of tea into the sea, and the events that followed.

Civil War Four Pack presents four key primary texts for Civil War buffs and historians:Andersonville - A Story of Rebel Military Prisons - Fifteen months a guest of the so-called Southern Confederacy - A private soldier’s experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear and Florence by John McElroy.Co. Aytch - A Side Show of the Big Show by Samuel R. Watkins.Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higgin...

John Perkins Reynolds, a member of the "Salem Zouaves" (Company I, Eighth Massachusetts Infantry), left behind a unique record of one company's service during the early months of the Civil War. His diary documents his company's hourly activities each day, forming a rare chronicle of a Union "three-month" unit. Reynolds was a talented and perceptive writer, and he meticulously recorded details about many events.The early mobilization of Union volunteers, Northern and border state su...