US Civil War

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843

Abraham Lincoln

The volume gathers Lincoln’s early political writings, correspondence, and speeches from 1832‑1843, a period…

"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment Or, A Side Show of the Big Show

Samuel R. Watkins

Co. Aytch," is a first‑person memoir by Samuel R. Watkins, a former private in the First Tennessee Regiment’s…

Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War

Nathaniel W. Stephenson

The work is a scholarly biography of Abraham Lincoln that blends meticulous documentary research with a…

The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity

William Wells Brown

William Wells Brown’s work is a nineteenth‑century historical essay that sets out to document the…

Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War

James Harvey Kidd

James Harvey Kidd’s work is a personal memoir rather than a comprehensive regimental history, offering the…

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858

Abraham Lincoln

The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy

Charles Carleton Coffin

The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln

Helen Nicolay

Si Klegg, Book 3 Si and Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, the Spy, Who Relates His Adventures

John McElroy

A Diary from Dixie As written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an Aide to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863

Jacob D. Cox

John Marr and Other Poems

Herman Melville

Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After

Henry Bascom Smith

The Day of the Confederacy: A Chronicle of the Embattled South

Nathaniel W. Stephenson

Si Klegg, Book 2 Thru the Stone River Campaign and in Winter Quarters at Murfreesboro

John McElroy

Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States

Raphael Semmes

Lincoln Letters

Abraham Lincoln

The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln

Thomas Dixon, Jr.

Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War

Duke, Basil Wilson; Hines, Thomas Henry; Moran, Frank E.; Pittenger, William; Richards, A. E. (Adolphus Edwards); Shelton, W. H. (William Henry); Willcox, Orlando B.; Wood, John Taylor

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2: November 1863-June 1865

Jacob D. Cox

Hospital Sketches

Louisa May Alcott

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

Stephen Crane

Forty-Six Years in the Army

John McAllister Schofield

Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson, and Twenty Great Battles

John McElroy