Provides basic information on indiviuduals, their families and the society and communities in which Americans lived -North and South- at the time of the Civil W

"Offers surprising findings about the strategic rationale for killing innocent civilians in civil wars"--

The acclaimed Lincoln scholar examines the president’s treatment of Southern civilians during the Civil War, shedding new light on his wartime conduct. By twe

The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north to south and 4

This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing from a variety o