New Civil War

The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York - the revolutionary hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigration to America.

Stories from - and about - a nation divided. At The Washington Post, the Civil War has held an enduring fascination for both readers and writers. Raging from 1861-1865, the Battle Between the States has left a lasting imprint on the United States' collective psyche for 150 years. This 150th Anniversary Collection aggregates historical data with contemporary reflections, as journalists and historians put the bloody war into context.

When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the key to crippling their former colony. Capturing the city of New Orleans and stopping trade up the river sounded like a simple task - New Orleans was far away from Washington, out of sight and out of mind for the politicians. What the British didn't count on was the power of General Andrew Jackson.

Everyone has heard of the bloody conflict that cost the lives of over one million people. When people think of the Civil War, they think of Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the North-South divide between the American states, but there is so much more to uncover about the American Civil War.

In the fall of 1865, the United States Army executed Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson for his role in murdering fifty-three loyal citizens of Kentucky and Tennessee during the Civil War. Long remembered as the most unforgiving and inglorious warrior of the Confederacy, Ferguson has often been dismissed by historians as a cold-blooded killer. Here, biographer Brian D. McKnight demonstrates how such a simple judgment ignores the complexity of this legendary character.

For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often malnourished combatants; the effective absence of decisive battles among some two to three hundred known to us by name.

This is a remarkable piece of history. It is a true copy of the Confederate States Constitution. It represents one of the most horrid times in America's history. Read it and learn from it. Only by knowing history can the darkness of the confederacy be viewed in the correct light and never repeated.

"1865: A New Dawn" As the Civil War rages, love endures... but will it be enough to survive the devastating toll of war? In the year 1861, Bridget O’Reilly’s life in the peaceful town of Watertown, New York, is turned upside down. With the war threatening to tear the country apart, her beloved Edward makes the fateful decision to enlist, leaving Bridget behind with nothing but hope and promises of his return. As the war stretches on and tragedy strikes, Bridget’s world is shattered by the loss of her brother Seamus. Yet, through it all, she clings to the love she shares with Edward, ...

Award-winning journalist Mike Hixenbaugh delivers the immersive and eye-opening story of Southlake, Texas, a district that seemed to offer everything parents would want for their children—small classes, dedicated teachers, financial resources, a track record of academic success, and school spirit in abundance.

In the days before the Civil War, there lived in New Orleans the gens de couleur libre - copper-skinned half-castes, liberated by their "owners," but confined by their color to a life of political non-existence and social subordination. Here is a compelling and richly textured tale of a people forever caught in the shadows between black and white.

Civil War Battles is an informative introduction to the subject. For four straight years, the people of the United States fought against one another in a brutal civil war that resulted in the deaths of approximately 620,000 men in uniform. Between 1861 and 1865, more Americans died during this bloody conflict than in all other American wars combined. With fighting across the South and in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Kentucky, some battles proved to be key in the overall outcome of the war.

For this series modern history starts about 3 thousand years ago. Many people came to America and mapped the world well before the time of Christopher Columbus and his infusion of Syphilis in Europe. UFOs were seen and their images are now found in old paintings. Five Civil Wars erupt in the United States and the last one is started by tiny Statettes. The blood thirsty annihilators of the Adena and Azatlan are beaten back but win in the end with 300 "American Indian Reservation Countries" inside our borders. On and on we go finding fault after fault with what has been taught. Hopefully, ...

“May God forgive me for the order”, Confederate Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge remarked as he ordered young cadets from Virginia military institute into the battle lines at New Market, just days after calling them from their academic studies to assist in a crucial defense. Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley had seen years of fighting. In the spring of 1864, Union Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel prepared to lead a new invasion force into the Valley, operating on the far right flank of Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign. Breckinridge scrambled to organize the confederate defense.

Millions of years ago an alien race sent seed pods out into space to replace any intelligent life in the Galaxy with their own. In 1861, Earth’s only defense is Mark Aaron, an android who came from the year 2372 to preserve history from a temporal terrorist. Mark, and his android wife Jane, must travel to the Galactic Core to save a peaceful alien civilization from annihilation by solving the mystery of its past. Then, they travel to London to intercept the seed pod and prevent a similar invasion on Earth. What should have been a simple retrieval becomes a desperate search which ends in ...

The wit and wisdom of William D. Sutton can now be shared with all. “As the muscles in the human frame, Is strengthened by our avocation, The human intellect it’s the same, By constant use and occupation” –William D. Sutton For a man of humble means from Grayson County, Kentucky, Sutton became a fairly well-off man, served in the Confederate army, where he was captured by his own brother, who was serving in the Union army. He languished as a prisoner of war and eventually lost his fortune. Sutton’s surviving works include never before published material from his own journals that ...

In 1860, New Orleans was just as unique a city as it is today. It was racially and linguistically diverse, with many French, German, and Spanish speakers, and a population of white, black, and mixed-race inhabitants. Louisiana's population was 47% slave and also had one of the largest numbers of free blacks in the country.

Author William S. Kiser reshapes the history of the Southwest, underlining the role of the military not just in obtaining territory but in retaining it.

Confederate Citadel: Richmond and Its People at War offers a detailed portrait of life's daily hardships in the rebel capital during the Civil War. Here, barricaded against a siege, staunch Unionists became a dangerous fifth column, refugees flooded the streets, and women organized a bread riot in the city. Drawing on personal correspondence, private diaries, and newspapers, author Mary A. DeCredico spotlights the human elements of Richmond's economic rise and fall, uncovering its significance as the South's industrial powerhouse throughout the Civil War.

A nearly perfect historical fiction book set in the quaint, deeply textured landscapes of New England during the emotional throes of the latter half of the 19th Century. "Angels We Never See" delicately balances the reality of human suffering and the enduring power of familial strength. The Story:Our narrative commences following the harsh aftermath of the American Civil War. Meet Stella Killingsworth, our strong yet heartbroken heroine, who finds herself inconsolable after the loss of her beloved brother, Thomas. With her brother's death casting a relentless shadow over her world, Stella ...

A collection of 10 new essays from some of our finest Civil War historians working today, Gateway to the Confederacy offers a reexamination of the campaigns fought to gain possession of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Each essay addresses how Americans have misconstrued the legacy of these struggles and why scholars feel it necessary to reconsider one of the most critical turning points of the American Civil War.