"Running the Blockade" by Thomas E. Taylor is a gripping historical novel that immerses readers in the tumultuous era of the American Civil War. The story follows the daring exploits of a Confederate blockade runner, navigating treacherous waters and evading Union forces. Taylor's vivid descriptions and well-researched details bring to life the challenges faced by those who risked everything to transport vital supplies to the South. The characters are richly developed, showcasing their cou...

The Unseen Frontline gathers thirty Civil War narratives that shift attention from battlefield strategy to the improvised labor of survival: nursing, refuge, relief work, captivity, displacement, and the moral pressures of divided communities. Diaries, memoirs, eyewitness chronicles, reformist testimony, and literary reflections create a formally varied archive of wartime experience. Accounts of hospitals, occupied towns, Confederate homes, Union relief networks, and African American servi...

The Unarmed Witness: 30 Accounts of Civil War Behind the Lines gathers a compelling polyphony of civilian, medical, journalistic, and literary testimony from the American Civil War. Diaries, memoirs, letters, reportage, and retrospective narratives illuminate the war's domestic theatres: hospitals, occupied towns, refugee routes, households, prisons, and makeshift relief networks. Moving between Union and Confederate settings, the volume foregrounds the often-overlooked labor of care, endu...

The first-person experiences and adventures of blockade runner during the American civil war. - Summary by Delmar H. Dolbier

A tribute to the extraordinary sacrifices and devotion of heroic women during the Civil War—from battlefield nurses to helpers of freedmen and refugees.To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.While men fought the battles, it was the women who fought the war. Thrus...

Motivated by their patriotism, the Richmond Ladies were willing to make the necessary sacrifices for the Southern cause. Many sent their husbands and sons to fight for the glory of the South. However, as the war progressed, their sacrifices became harder and harder to bear. They faced shortages of food, struggled to find adequate housing, and, in some cases, endured the ultimate price of losing husbands, sons, and close relatives. As Richmond was evacuated, they braced themselves for milit...

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. "Reminiscences of Peace and War" is a book based on author's journals which is intended to contribute to public discourse about the Civ...

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...

Through Her Eyes: 20 Women's Narratives of the Civil War recasts the conflict through intimate, observant, and often unsettling accounts of those who endured it beyond the battlefield. Ranging across memoir, diary-like recollection, personal testimony, and retrospective narrative, the volume juxtaposes domestic disruption, military service, nursing, enslavement and emancipation, occupation, bereavement, and survival. Its standout value lies in the cumulative force of these firsthand perspe...

In "The Citizen Soldier: Memoirs of a Volunteer," John Beatty presents a compelling narrative that encapsulates the experiences and struggles of a soldier during the tumultuous days of the American Civil War. Written with a poignant and reflective literary style, this memoir offers not just a chronological account of battles and hardships but also delves into the psychological toll of war, capturing the essence of camaraderie and sacrifice among volunteers. Beatty's prose is imbued with vi...

Women in War gathers twenty Civil War memoirs and biographical narratives that relocate the conflict from battlefield myth to the hospitals, homes, refugee routes, occupied cities, and clandestine networks where women endured and interpreted war. Its documents range from diaries and reminiscences to nursing accounts, espionage narratives, domestic chronicles, and postwar biographical sketches. Encompassing Union and Confederate loyalties, Black and white experience, civilian witness and ac...

A personal account of the Civil War. "Being a narrative of personal adventures in the infantry, ordnance, cavalry, courier, and hospital services, with an exhibition of the power, purposes, earnestness, military despotism, and demoralization of the South". First published in 1862.