American Civil War Memoirs

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    • How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation
    • By: William C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Historian William C. Davis draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries—the voices of the volunteers—to tell the hidden story of how a new and untested president became “Father” throughout both the army and the North as a whole....

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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 442 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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    • The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
    • By: S. C. Gwynne
    • Narrated by: Cotter Smith
    • Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,753 ratings
    • In April of 1862 he was merely another Confederate general with only a single battle credential in an army fighting in what seemed to be a losing cause....

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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 66 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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    • 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 79 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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    • Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision that Changed American History
    • By: Jonathan Horn
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy of George Washington and the hopes of a divided land....

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    • The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 (Emerging Civil War Series)
    • By: William Lee White
    • Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
    • Series: Emerging Civil War
    • Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • John Bell Hood had done his job too well. In the fall of 1864, the commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee had harassed Federal forces in North Georgia so badly that the Union commander, William T. Sherman, decided to abandon his position....

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    • The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed America
    • By: James Robertson
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 413 ratings
    • James Robertson explores 70 fascinating figures who shaped America during Reconstruction and beyond....

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    • The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War
    • By: Harold M. Knudsen
    • Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Confederate Gen. James Longstreet made overlooked but profound modern contributions to the art of war. Retired Lt. Col. Harold M. Knudsen explains what Longstreet did and how he did it in James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War.

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    • By: Edward Porter Alexander
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 25 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • One of the most important and objective firsthand accounts of the Civil War. Unlike some other Confederate memoirists, General Edward Porter Alexander objectively evaluated and criticized prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. Lee....

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    • A Study in Command
    • By: Kent Masterson Brown
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G. Meade guided his forces to victory in the Civil War's most pivotal battle. Commentators often dismiss Meade....

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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 195 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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    • 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 151 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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    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 48 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,125 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant....

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    • The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest
    • By: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 957 ratings
    • An intimate biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest, arguably the most interesting figure to emerge from the Civil War - widely admired as a military genius....

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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 1,476 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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    • 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 484 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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