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  • A Very Violent Rebel

    The Civil War Diary of Ellen Renshaw House

    Edited by Daniel E. Sutherland ...
    Ellen Renshaw House was only nineteen years old in 1863 when she began a detailed journal of her experiences in Knoxville, Tennessee, amid the turmoil of the Civil War. Her diary, now published for the first time, is a remarkable document of the divided loyalties that were so pronounced in that part of the state and of the daily effects the war had on civilians.A member of a middle-class family ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front

    Edited by Daniel E. Sutherland ...
    Until recently, this localized violence was largely ignored, scholars focusing instead on large-scale operations of the war—the decisions and actions of generals and presidents. But as Daniel Sutherland reminds us, the impact of battles and elections cannot be properly understood without an examination of the struggle for survival on the home front, of lives lived in the atmosphere created by war. ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • A Savage Conflict

    The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War

    Series series Civil War America
    While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War. Daniel Sutherland argues that irregular warfare took a large toll on the Confederate war effort by weakening support for state and national governments and ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Guerrilla Hunters

    Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors in these conflicts, from the Confederate-authorized Partisan Rangers, a military force directed to spy ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • American Civil War Guerrillas

    Changing the Rules of Warfare

    Series series Reflections on the Civil War Era
    Focusing on a little-known yet critical aspect of the American Civil War, this must-read history illustrates how guerrilla warfare shaped the course of the war and, to a surprisingly large extent, determined its outcome.The Civil War is generally regarded as a contest of pitched battles waged by large armies on battlefields such as Gettysburg. However, as American Civil War Guerrillas: Changing ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Battlefield and Beyond

    Essays on the American Civil War

    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era.Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne M. Hudson, and Daniel E. Sutherland delve into the master-slave relationship, the role of blacks in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Seasons of War

    The story of Culpeper County, Virginia, is a unique one in Civil War history. Nestled in one of the South’s most strategically important locations, it was occupied by the Northern army, recaptured by the Confederacy, and finally ceded to the North. Told largely through diaries, papers, and correspondence of residents, common infantrymen, and such eminent personalities as Robert E. Lee, Walt ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • General Jo Shelby

    Undefeated Rebel

    This vivid work, first published by UNC Press in 1954, reveals General Joseph Orville Shelby as one of the best Confederate cavalry leaders — and certainly the most colorful.Born in Lexington, Kentucky, but drawn by the promise of the growing West, Shelby became one of the richest men in Missouri. Siding with the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized his Iron Brigade of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand

    The Renowned Missouri Bushwhacker

    Series series The Civil War in the West
    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 Mosby—have become quite infamous. Illiterate Sam Hildebrand, one of Missouri’s most notorious guerrillas—often compared to “Rob Roy,” and the subject of dime novels—was one of the few to survive the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Weirding the War

    Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges

    Series Book 8 - UnCivil Wars
    “It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Lens of War

    Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War

    Series Book 5 - UnCivil Wars
    Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the Civil War have explored military, cultural, political, African American, women’s, and environmental ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Whistler

    A Life for Art's Sake

    The first biography in more than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler (18341903) is also the first to make extensive use of the artist’s private correspondence to tell the story of his life and work. This engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric, and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD