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EBook Central Civil War Titles
EBook Central Civil War Titles
Ebook Central Titles Include
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Ebook CentralEbooks available to read on your computer or download to your device.
Ebook Central has over 600 books relating to the United States Civil War. Titles include:
- Civil War Citizens : Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Conflict, 2010
- Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad, 1996
- Divided Family in Civil War America, 2005
- Finding Freedom : The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave, 2012
- Lincoln and the Decision for War : The Northern Response to Secession, 2008
- Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872, 2000
- Voices in the Storm : Confederate Rhetoric, 1861-1865, 1999
- In Hospital and Camp : The Civil War through the Eyes of Its Doctors and Nurses
- Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic
- Mary Chesnut's Diary
- Miller Cornfield at Antietam : The Civil War’s Bloodiest Combat
- New Bern and the Civil War
- The Overland Campaign, 4 May-15 June 1864 [Illustrated Edition]
- Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, 1864-65
- Stealing Secrets : How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles and Altered the Course of the Civil War
- Surgeon in Blue : Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
- That Field of Blood : The Battle of Antietam, September 17 1862
- The Tullahoma Campaign: Operational Insights
- Vicksburg : The Bloody Siege That Turned the Tide of the Civil War
- Wilder's Brigade In The Tullahoma And Chattanooga Campaigns Of The American Civil War
- Wilson’s Raid : The Final Blow to the Confederacy
- Women in the Civil War : Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others
- The Women's Fight : The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
- Yank and Rebel Rangers : Special Operations in the American Civil War
Hathi Trust Digital Library
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Hathi Trust Digital Library"a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. "
Examples of some of the Civil War books available online through Hathi Trust:
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Annual report of the Adjutant General of the State of Michigan for the year ...1860/61 through 1865/66 available. Click on Full view under Viewability.
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A manual of military surgery; or, Hints on the emergencies of field, camp and hospital practice, by S.D. Gross.Published in 1862. Click on Full view under Viewability.
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A private chapter of the war. (1861-5) By Geo. W. Bailey"...a limited inside view of a portion of the Confederacy..." "...experiences, not of a spy, not of a scout, but of a harmless escaped prisoner of war..."
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The Lincoln Financial Foundation Books and Pamphlets Collection
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