The absorbing documents collected in Slavery and Secession in Arkansas trace Arkansas’s tortuous road to secession and war. Drawn from contemporary pamphlets, broadsides, legislative debates, public a
Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight chronicles the experiences of a well-educated and articulate Confederate officer from Arkansas who witnessed the full evolution of the Civil War in the Trans-M
Tracing the origins and history of Missouri Confederate units that served during the Civil War is nearly as difficult as comprehending the diverse politics that produced them. Deeply torn by the issue
In its examination of a state too often neglected by Civil War historians, The Fate of Texas presents Texas as a decidedly Southern, yet in many ways unusual, state seriously committed to and deeply a
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started withA Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at D
Most Civil War historians now agree that the guerrilla conflict shaped the entire war in significant ways. Some of these bushwhackers”Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Clarke Quantrill, John Singleton M
A guerrilla fighter in the Ozark Mountains along the Missouri-Arkansas border during the Civil War describes how, in the aftermath of the conflict, he continued to defend the Radical Unionist cause th
This collection of essays represents the best recent history written on Civil War activity in Arkansas. It illuminates the complexity of such issues as guerrilla warfare, Union army policies, and the
Written and first published in 1866 soon after the author's discharge from the Union army, A. F. Sperry's History of the 33d Iowa Infantry is one of the classic regimental histories of the American Ci
With the goal of sketching "at least some of the bright lights and dark shadows of the war;" William Baxter authored his regional classic, Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, in 1864, before the actual end o
After a series of victories through Mississippi early in the spring of 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee had reached the critical point in its campaign to capture Vicksburg.