Never Call Retreat (Vol 3): Appomattox; the Vicksburg Campaign; the Battle of Atlanta and the March to the Sea; the assassination of Lincoln.

A biography of the senator from South Carolina who fought for the South's interests and to keep the institution of slavery.

Recounts the life of the general who commanded the Southern Army during the Civil War.

A biography of war hero and President Ulysses S. Grant.

A biography of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.

A study of the role of Afro-Virginians in the Civil War.

Discusses the strategy, tactics, actual fighting, aftermath, and key figures involved in one of the Civil War's pivotal battles at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Traces the life of Jefferson Davis, who graduated from West Point and served in the Army and the House of Representatives before becoming President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate...