San Antonio College Library

Experience the Civil War in twenty 4- to 8- minute segments featuring never before seen photographs, artifacts and hundreds of rare paintings and engravings. Learn about the lives of the soldiers through their handwritten letters home and find out what life was like from the perspective of the average foot soldier.

Ken Burns' Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The Civil War is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president, and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one.

"This study is principally an investigation of the associations that may have existed between congressional voting behavior and personal or constituent characteristics of the individual members of the Confederate Congress"--Page ix.

Traces the development of Southern nationalism from its foundations in the Old South through the establishment of the Confederacy and the first years of the Civil War.

Describes the internal conflicts, hardships, and violence that afflicted the Confederacy during the Civil War.

The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war, looking at the railroads of the American South and how they played the part of tragic hero in the Civil War. Includes maps of all the Confederate railroads and contemporary photographs and facsimiles of such documents as railroad tickets, timetables, and soldiers' passes.

For thirty years world-renowned author and scholar Raimondo Luraghi has sought answers to the question: How did an overwhelmingly agricultural country with little industry and nearly no merchant marine succeed in building a navy that managed to confront the formidable Union navy for four years? Pushing aside the long-held belief that the answers went up in flames when the Confederate Navy archives were torched during the evacuation of Richmond, Luraghi...

A well-researched, objective, but sympathetic history of the Civil War years in the South, told in a graphic, fast-moving narrative that will attract casual readers as well as scholars and Civil War buffs.