Best of
Civil-War

1963

The Civil War: A Narrative


Shelby Foote - 1963
    Collected together in a handsome boxed set, this is the perfect gift for any Civil War buff.Fort Sumter to Perryville"Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters." -Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News"Anyone who wants to relive the Civil War, as thousands of Americans apparently do, will go through this volume with pleasure.... Years from now, Foote's monumental narrative most likely will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind." -New York Herald Tribune Book ReviewFredericksburg to Meridian"This, then, is narrative history-a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time." -The Washington Post Book World"Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist's skill in directing the reader's attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be bettered." -AtlanticRed River to Appomattox"An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist." -Walker Percy"I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant's and Lee's armies

Gettysburg: The Final Fury


Bruce Catton - 1963
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and respected authority on the Civil War clarifies the causes of the battle of Gettysburg and brings alive the most famous battle ever fought on American soil .B & W illustrations

Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years and the War Years Volume 1


Carl Sandberg - 1963
    

The Stonewall Brigade


James I. Robertson Jr. - 1963
    Rich in anecdotes and interwoven with lively narrative, this will be of interest to students of strategy and those interested in pure Civil War drama.

American Heritage New Illustrated History of the United States Series


Robert G. Athearn - 1963
    Kennedy. Volumes include The New World, Colonial America, The Revolution, A New Nation, Young America, The Frontier, War with Mexico, The Civil War, Winning the West, Age of Steel, The Gilded Age, A World Power, World War I and the 20s, The Roosevelt Era, World War II, and America Today. Lavishly illustrated in color with photographs, paintings, maps, drawings. Indexed. Approximately 90-100 pages per volume.

Runaway to Heaven: The Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe


Johanna Johnston - 1963
    

Gettysburg, The Long Encampment


Jack McLaughlin - 1963
    

The Battle of Gettysburg


Bruce Catton - 1963
    

An End to Bugling


Edmund G. Love - 1963
    Confederate Maj Gen Jeb Stuart and his cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia are conducting an operation at Gettysburg, PA in July 0f 1863. Passing through a mysterious cloud they find themselves in Gettysburg, PA in 1963 during the centennial of the Battle of Gettysburg. The soldiers have to deal with modern devices and a new culture (the 20th Century) and a populace unlike anything they've encountered before. All told, an enjoyable read

Two Roads to Sumter


Bruce Catton - 1963
    By showing how these two major figures--both Kentucky-born--developed divergent attitudes, the Cattons simultaneously reveal why the North and South became increasingly isolated from each other during the 1850s, and why war became inevitable. Also captured: the epic sweep of the era, with its great new railroads, land-hungry westward expansion, and developing industrial and agricultural empires.

The Far Side of Home


Maggie Davis - 1963
    The Far Side of Home portrays those rural middle-class Southerners who had no slaves and wanted none, who stood to gain little whatever the outcome of the war. They were, nonetheless, the solid, tough backbone of the Confederacy. They fought for their homeland and brought an almost forgotten splendor to the story of Dixie. This is the story of one of them.....