American Civil War Memoirs

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    • A Military History
    • By: John Keegan
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 359 ratings
    • For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides....

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    • The Classic Memoir of the Civil War by a Confederate Soldier
    • By: Sam R. Watkins
    • Narrated by: Pat Bottino
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 448 ratings
    • Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with his irrepressible sense of humor and his sharp eye for the lighter side of battle....

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    • Why Men Fought in the Civil War
    • By: James M. McPherson
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • James McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war....

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    • The First Full-Length Narrative of General William T. Sherman's Devastating March Through Georgia and the Carolinas
    • By: Burke Davis
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • A New York Times best-selling author's account of the devastating military campaign that broke the Confederacy's back in the last months of the Civil War....

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    • How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
    • By: John Matteson
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 21 hrs
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America....

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    • The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
    • By: Robert Hunt Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Here is the astonishing and eloquent diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, the Union soldier featured in Ken Burns' highly acclaimed PBS television documentary The Civil War....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 856 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • The Life of General George H. Thomas
    • By: Benson Bobrick
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • In this revelatory, dynamic biography, Benson Bobrick, profiles George H. Thomas, arguing that he was the greatest and most successful general of the Civil War....

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    • A Biography
    • By: William E. Gienapp
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, William Gienapp provides an up-to-date and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War, Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early life....

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    • Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
    • By: Daniel Sharfstein
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task....

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • By: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

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    • In the Service of My Country: A Life
    • By: James Lee McDonough
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 28 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,524 ratings
    • General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal....

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    • By: John Brown Gordon
    • Narrated by: Tim Getman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Reminiscences of the Civil War is John Brown Gordon’s firsthand account of the war as seen through the eyes of the prominent officer. Gordon was trusted and admired by many, including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis....

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    • A Biography
    • By: Jack Hurst
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 492 ratings
    • He was a fierce and controversial Civil War officer, an unschooled but brilliant cavalryman, an epic figure in America's most celebrated war....

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    • John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
    • By: Michael Kauffman
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • In American Brutus, popular historian Michael W. Kauffman delivers a history that reads more like a best-selling novel....

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    • By: Larry McMurtry
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry crafts works synonymous with the grandeur and beauty of the American West....

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    • The Man and His Hour
    • By: William C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 30 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • This book paints a vivid picture of Jefferson Davis as a multifaceted, often charismatic man who mirrored the turbulent times in which he lived and who stood solidly for the South that he loved....

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