His principal books are Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989) and Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834–1869 (1992). His new book, A Secession Crisis Enigma: William ...
The Regular Army on the Eve of the Civil War
Told against the backdrop of slavery and states rights, the Democratic and Republican Parties, the fire-eaters of the South and the abolitionists of the North, The Parting portrays how profoundly historical events divided West Points ...
Beginning with a study of the frontier mind, Davenport traces the cultural development of the city in the rise of schools, colleges, churches, and medical science; he gives special attention...
These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South.
The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve
Reproduction of the original.
Named one of the top twenty books every Irish American should read by Irish Central The Civil War has just entered its third bloody year, and the North is about to impose its first military draft, a decision that will spark the most ...
"An excellent prelude to the well-known wartime diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut and Emma Holmes, the diary of Keziah Brevard documents one plantation mistress's personal reflections on the events that...
Alexander T. Stewart had been born in Ireland in the early years of the nineteenth century and arrived in Gotham barely out of his teens. As he crossed the Atlantic, Stewart carried with him a parcel of linens, Irish-made lace, ...