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Cover of Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier

Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier

John Algernon Owens

The work is a first‑person memoir that traces the early life of Willard Glazier against the bleak backdrop of…

Cover of Three years in the Sixth Corps: A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of the rebellion, April, 1865

Three years in the Sixth Corps: A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of the rebellion, April, 1865

George T. Stevens

George T. Stevens’s work is a first‑hand regimental history of the Union’s Sixth Corps, written by a veteran…

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

T. C. De Leon

Four Years in Rebel Capitals offers a self‑conscious, almost apologetic, survey of Confederate life from the…

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor’s work is a sprawling, first‑person chronicle that blends memoir, campaign history, and…

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Morford, Henry; Armstrong, William H.; Frick, Jacob G.

Red‑Tape and Pigeon‑Hole Generals is a first‑hand collection of sketches drawn by Union soldiers during the…

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

George Alfred Townsend

George Alfred Townsend’s work is a hybrid of travelogue, personal memoir and war reportage, assembled from…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Leander Stillwell

Cover of The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

Edward Alexander Moore

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner

J. Wilkinson

Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

Carlton McCarthy

Cover of Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete

William T. Sherman

Cover of Andersonville diary: Escape, and List of the Dead, with Name, Co., Regiment, Date of Death and No. of Grave in Cemetery

Andersonville diary: Escape, and List of the Dead, with Name, Co., Regiment, Date of Death and No. of Grave in Cemetery

John L. Ransom

Cover of Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete

Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete

Philip Henry Sheridan

From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America

From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America

James Longstreet

Cover of Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French Mexican War; War between the States, a Diary; Reconstruction Period, His Experience; Incidents, Reminiscences, etc.

Two Wars: An Autobiography of General Samuel G. French Mexican War; War between the States, a Diary; Reconstruction Period, His Experience; Incidents, Reminiscences, etc.

Samuel Gibbs French

Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61

Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61

Abner Doubleday

An Artilleryman's Diary

An Artilleryman's Diary

Jenkins Lloyd Jones

Army Life in a Black Regiment

Army Life in a Black Regiment

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Cover of A Minor War History Compiled from a Soldier Boy's Letters to "the Girl I Left Behind Me": 1861-1864

A Minor War History Compiled from a Soldier Boy's Letters to "the Girl I Left Behind Me": 1861-1864

Martin A. Haynes

Cover of My Diary: North and South (vol. 1 of 2)

My Diary: North and South (vol. 1 of 2)

Sir William Howard Russell

Cover of Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields

S. Emma E. Edmonds

Cover of A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital

J. B. Jones

Cover of My Diary: North and South (vol. 2 of 2)

My Diary: North and South (vol. 2 of 2)

Sir William Howard Russell

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