George B. McClellan was a second lieutenant in the formation of combat engineers that accompanied Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott's army of invasion during the Mexican War (1846 -- 1848). His diary and corre
The first volume in a new series, this biography of Ben McCulloch (1811-62) tells of his extraordinary career as a frontiersman, entrepreneur, and soldier. His highest military ambitions were thwarted
Parnassus on the Mississippi is a history of the short-lived yet remarkable productive epoch when, in the words of C. Vann Woodward, “the center of the avant-garde of American literary criticism shift
Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and t
"[A] well-written, comprehensively researched biography."--Publishers Weekly "Will both edify the scholar while captivating and entertaining the general reader. . . . Cutrer's research is impeccable,
Empire of Sand is the story of the Southern attempt, in 1862, to open a path to California, thus securing a port on the Pacific Ocean. The port would enable them to gain access to the gold fields of C
Robert Franklin Bunting was a Princeton-educated chaplain who served in the Confederate 8th Texas Cavalry, popularly known as Terry's Texas Rangers, which saw combat at Shiloh, Murfreesboro, and Chick
Residents of antebellum northwest Louisiana held strong to pro-Union sentiments, and the Pierson family of Bienville Parish, Louisiana, was no exception, opposing secession in 1861. Yet once the war b
A collection of letters written by three brothers, offering a detailed look at the life of a Rebel soldier. The brothers comment on battles and campaigns, commanding officers, the effect of politica
