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Free Download Jeffery Rogers, "A Southern Writer and the Civil War: The Confederate Imagination of William Gilmore Simms"
English | ISBN: 1498502032 | 2017 | 222 pages | EPUB | 1369 KB

Free Download Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZG33465 | 2023 | 14 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 423 MB
Author: Elizabeth R. Varon
Narrator: Fred Sanders
An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruction and became an outcast in the South. It was the most remarkable political about-face in American history. During the Civil War, General James Longstreet fought tenaciously for the Confederacy. He was alongside Lee at Gettysburg (and counseled him not to order the ill-fated attacks on entrenched Union forces there). He won a major Confederate victory at Chickamauga and was seriously wounded during a later battle. After the war Longstreet moved to New Orleans, where he dramatically changed course. He supported Black voting and joined the newly elected, integrated postwar government in Louisiana.

Free Download Richard Hook, "The Confederate Army 1861-65, Vol. 2: Florida, Alabama & Georgia"
English | 2005 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 1841768502 | PDF | 5,9 mb
The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865)is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of officers and men wearing the gray and butternut associated with the CS regulations and quartermaster issues. This sequence of books examines a much wider field: the original uniforms of the state and volunteer companies which were brought together to form the Confederate field armies, and the continuing efforts to clothe troops as wear-and-tear gradually reduced the originally wide range of uniforms. A mass of information from contemporary documents is illustrated with rare photographs and meticulous color reconstructions.

Free Download Ron Field, Richard Hook, "The Confederate Army 1861-65, Vol. 1: South Carolina & Mississippi"
English | 2005 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 1841768499 | PDF | 32,0 mb
The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865) is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of soldiers wearing the gray and butternut associated with the CS regulations and quartermaster issues. This sequence of books examines a much wider field: the original uniforms of the state militia and volunteer companies which were brought together to form the Confederate armies, and the continuing efforts by individual states to clothe their troops as wear-and-tear reduced the originally wide range of uniforms. A mass of information from state papers and other contemporary documents is illustrated with rare photographs and meticulous color reconstructions.

Free Download Tony Bryan, "Confederate Submarines and Torpedo Vessels 1861-65"
English | 2004 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 1841767204 | PDF | 12,8 mb
The primary Union strategy during the American Civil War was a massive naval blockade of the entire Southern coastline of the Confederacy, and it was in the effort to counter this blockade that the Confederates developed their first submarines and torpedo boats. This book traces the development of these new technologies, including the CSS ‘Little David’ and ‘Hunley’ – respectively the first torpedo boat and submarine to sink an enemy warship. The wreck of the ‘Hunley’ was raised in 2000, and this is the first book ever to integrate details of its recovery with an account of Confederate submarines in action.

Free Download Peter Dennis, "Confederate Cavalryman vs Union Cavalryman: Eastern Theater 1861-65"
English | 2015 | pages: 81 | ISBN: 1472807316 | PDF | 13,4 mb
This gripping study offers key insights into the tactics, leadership, combat performance, and subsequent reputations of Union and Confederate mounted units fighting in three pivotal cavalry actions of the Civil War – Second Bull Run/Manassas (1862), Buckland Mills (1863), and Tom’s Brook (1864). During the intense, sprawling conflict that was the Civil War, both Union and Confederate forces fielded substantial numbers of cavalry, which carried out the crucial tasks of reconnaissance, raiding, and conveying messages. The perception was that cavalry’s effectiveness on the battlefield would be drastically reduced in this age of improved mass infantry firepower. This book demonstrates how cavalry’s lethal combination of mobility and dismounted firepower meant it was still very much a force to be reckoned with in battle. It also charts the swing in the qualitative difference of the cavalry forces fielded by the two sides as the war progressed, as the enormous initial superiority enjoyed by Confederate cavalry was gradually eroded, through the Union’s outstanding improvements in training and tactics, and the bold and enterprising leadership of men such as Philip Sheridan.

Free Download Tony Bryan, "Confederate Blockade Runner 1861-65"
English | 2004 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 1841766364 | PDF | 18,0 mb
The lifeblood of the Confederacy, the blockade runners of the Civil War usually began life as regular fast steam-powered merchant ships. They were adapted for the high-speed dashes through the Union blockade which closed off all the major Southern ports, and for much of the war they brought much-needed food, clothing and weaponry to the Confederacy.

Free Download Scott L. Mingus Sr., "Confederate General William "Extra Billy" Smith: From Virginia’s Statehouse to Gettysburg Scapegoat"
English | ISBN: 1611211298 | 2013 | 432 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
WINNER, 2013 JAMES I. ROBERTSON JR. LITERARY AWARD FOR CONFEDERATE HISTORY