English Civil War

Days after Abraham Lincoln’s shocking assassination on Good Friday 1865, Reverend R. B. Claxton delivered a sermon that captured a nation’s grief and hope. Modernized by Jake Clifty, this short eBook brings his words to life for today’s readers. Claxton compares Lincoln’s death to biblical trials, reflects on America’s past sorrows, and finds promise in the pain—a call to resilience and renewal that still resonates. Perfect for fans of history, faith, or inspiring stories of leadership lost and lessons gained.

With the arrival of the civil war, Peter Heyward decided to change things on his plantation. He turned his slaves into his own personal army so that they could fight for the union army when they arrived. to do that they had to train but keep what they were up to a secret. The first army to arrive was the confederate army but they were ready for them. It allowed the union army to reach them a lot more quickly without the need of bombarding the plantation with the canons. The army left with the union soldiers as a unit and Peter relaxed. He knew a young slave girl and was quite prepared to ...

Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue, deftly sorting out the players, the politics, and the key events—Emancipation and Reconstruction, Shiloh and Gettysburg, Generals Grant and Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe—and much more.

Albert Richardson and Junius Browne, two correspondents for the New York Tribune, were captured at the Battle of Vicksburg and spent 20 months in horrific Confederate prisons before escaping and making their way to Union territory. Their amazing, long-forgotten odyssey is one of the great escape stories in American history, packed with drama, courage, horrors and heroics, plus many moments of antic comedy.

n 1861 Bethel Erwin joins the Confederate army as Private Tandy Scott to escape the dreary life of a woman in the hills. She signs up for the 2nd Tennessee Infantry along with her younger brother and cousin. Bethel's medical skills earn her a promotion to assistant surgeon when she later deserts the CSA to join the Union army.After the bloody battle of Shiloh, Bethel and her brother, George, come to the aid of a young widow in Corinth and their lives are changed forever.

Major General George H. Thomas was a very private person. One of the few Civil War commanders not to write his memoirs, he also ordered his wife to burn his correspondence and private papers upon his death. This hasn’t stopped historians from reconstructing his life. Thomas was one of the Union’s finest generals and showed great intelligence and courage throughout his military service. With this book, author Jack M. Zackin sheds light on Thomas’s story, creating a historically detailed work, structured as a personal memoir, to honor the life and times of this great man. Growing up in ...

Commemorating the approaching 150th anniversary of this grim encounter between valiant Americans, Ralph Peters brings to bear the lessons of his own military career, his lifelong study of this war and the men who fought it, and his skills as a best-selling, prize-winning novelist to portray horrific battles and sublime heroism as no other author has done.

***Newly Updated in 2025*** Over the course of three days in July 1863, a small town in south-central Pennsylvania became a household name: Gettysburg. Thousands of books have been written about the battle that made Gettysburg famous. This edition of 101 Travel Bits focuses not on the battle, but on the town as it was before, during, and after it became America’s most famous battlefield—a town you can still visit today. Let this edition of 101 Travel Bits™ be your guide to the world of Gettysburg. 101 Travel Bits are not your typical guidebooks. Each collection of 101 Travel Bits ...

“The bridge.” Sheriff Dean Coleman paused, then said, “The bridge? What about it?” “The bridge that the Texas Pacific rides on, over Bitter Gorge. That’s a drop of one hundred feet or more, down into the Pecos River.” Dean leaned in. “You don’t figure they’re blowing it up?” “I don’t know. It makes sense. Blow up the bridge, take the gold.” After finding a train schedule in the pocket of a dead outlaw, Sheriff Dean uncovers the most sinister plot yet of the deadly militia Los Bandidos Rojos. There’s a train car full of gold due to pass through Dean’s town. ...

Amidst the rubble of war, a boy searches for hope. When thirteen-year-old Zaid is forced to flee his home during the Siege of Aleppo in 2012, he’s thrust into a nightmare no child should ever face. Bombs rain from the sky. Streets once filled with laughter are now cloaked in fear. Families are torn apart. But in the midst of chaos, Zaid must find the courage to survive—and lead others to safety. The Heart of Aleppo is an emotionally powerful, fast-paced young adult novel based on real events from the Syrian Civil War. Through Zaid’s journey, readers are taken on a heart-wrenching ...

The Great Abolitionist is the first major biography of Charles Sumner to be published in over fifty years. Acclaimed historian Stephen Puleo relates the story of one of the most influential non-presidents in American history with evocative and accessible prose, transporting listeners back to an era when our leaders exhibited true courage and authenticity in the face of unprecedented challenges.

It is January 1966 in a world in which the Cuban Missiles Crisis went disastrously wrong and the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. Now, on New Year’s Day 1966 the United States finds itself suddenly under attack and plunged into a Second Civil War. The enemy this time is not from without, it is from within its own tortured soul and wrecked heartlands in the Midwest. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died in an orgy of violence, great cities burn and the nightmare legions of the Kingdom of the End of Days suddenly erupt from the ruins of Wisconsin over-running the weakened ‘...

This is the story of a young woman who leaves home under duress and joins the Union Army in Baltimore, Maryland during the American Civil War. Pretending to be a male soldier, she fights at the Battle of Gettysburg, is later discovered to be a woman, and is discharged. She is then requested by military leadership to become a spy in the Confederate Capital of Richmond. Her life path is changed forever by the challenges she faces during the war.

Distance is set in the same timeline as Deep Winter, Shatter, and Remnant, the first three books in the series, but is set in the Midwest, and follows the story timeline of the first three books, and provides a very different perspective as the storyline unfolds.

This is a fictional series of letters starting in 1861 between brothers from South Mississippi. The oldest brother, Author, is fighting for the South, while James, the youngest, has run away from home and joined the Union army. The letters between the two brothers, and the girl they are both sweet on, Beth, as well as to their Ma and Pa, are full of horrors of war, the unbelievable cruelties put upon the slaves, and some redeeming qualities of humans mixed in.

With the first shots fired across Charleston Harbor, Amy Ross knew her life would never be the same. When the War Between the States lands right on her family's doorstep that April 12th morning, they are forced to live with unprecedented hardships to survive. From the bombardment of their Charleston home and running the Union blockade, to stragglers from both sides taking what they no longer had to give, runaway slaves, murder, and the destruction of their plantation home by the Union Army, Amy and her family struggle to make it through every day alive. When everything she holds precious is...

Enemies. On the run. Enemies until..."What if I never see you again?" Union Captain John Howe escaped a living hell when he tunneled his way out of a Confederate prison, but his ordeal was far from over. Now he was saddled with his own prisoner, the sad, stubborn Amanda Douglas, on a journey that would change them forever. Even her previous spartan existence had not prepared Amanda for the dangerous trek she was now making--entirely against her will. Could a privileged Yankee son and a poor, proud Rebel girl keep their love safe from the rest of the world?

The political upheaval of the mid-17th century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this thoroughly enjoyable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins.

Spies played significant roles on both sides of the American Civil War, and many were women. These fascinating women contributed to the war effort when women could not vote or own property. Yet, Union or Confederate, all of these women had conviction. This audiobook explores the experiences of women whose courage and conviction played a key role in the outcome of the Civil War battle strategies and tactics. Their stories of courage, betrayal, and even love still resonate with women of today. North or South, all the women within lived fascinating lives that deserve to be told.

Historian Thomas D. Perry, Founder of the J. E. B. Stuart Birthplace, edits the first of a projected three volume series of the papers of Civil War General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart.