Civil War Letters

Product List
    • 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 78 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....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    • Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
    • By: David Williams, Howard Zinn - editor
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people - foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others....

    Regular price: $25.79 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.79 or 1 credit

    • By: John Rogers
    • Narrated by: Chris Marrone
    • Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This is a fictional series of letters starting in 1861 between brothers from South Mississippi. The oldest brother, Author, is fighting for the South, while James, the youngest, has run away from home and joined the Union army....

    Regular price: $6.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $6.95 or 1 credit

    • By: Nancy B. Brewer
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Letters from Lizzie (The fourth book in the Carolina Rain series) Come home to North Carolina and revisit old friends as the pages of history ...

    Regular price: $3.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $3.99 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • 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 86 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....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Civil War Letters of Union Soldier Charles Freeman Biddlecom
    • By: Katherine M. Aldridge - editor and transcriber
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Katie Aldridge discovered a box containing the Civil War letters of Charles Freeman Biddlecom. Painstakingly transcribing and lightly editing more than 100 letters written by the soldier to his wife during his service, Ms. Aldridge resurrected the voice of the Civil War combat soldier....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    • A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
    • By: Elizabeth Brown Pryor
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Robert E. Lee is remembered by history as a tragic figure, stoic and brave but distant and enigmatic....

    Regular price: $30.09 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $30.09 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
    • By: Andrew Carroll
    • Narrated by: Joan Allen, Tom Brokaw
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project with the goal of remembering Americans who have served this nation and preserving their letters for posterity...

    Regular price: $14.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $14.99 or 1 credit

    • Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War
    • By: Allen C. Guelzo
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 07-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Powerful, haunting, and unforgettable, this remarkable gathering of original documents, including never-before-published letters and papers, creates a day-by-day eyewitness account of the monumental collision at Gettysburg, in the words of the commanders, soldiers, politicians, and civilians.

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $19.46 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.46 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $31.11 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $31.11 or 1 credit

    • On the Trail of the World's Lost Treasures - from the Letters of Lincoln, Churchill, and Einstein to the Secret Recordings On-Board JFK's Air Force One
    • By: Nathan Raab, Luke Barr
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Nathan Raab, America’s preeminent rare documents dealer, delivers a “diverting account of treasure hunting in the fast lane” (The Wall Street Journal) that recounts his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts....

    Regular price: $18.74 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.74 or 1 credit

    • The Intimate Letters of General George E. Pickett, CSA
    • By: George E. Pickett
    • Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • These are the passionate and poignant letters from General George E. Pickett, C.S.A. written to his wife, Sally....

    Regular price: $16.66 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $16.66 or 1 credit

    • The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, their Arabic Letters, and an American President
    • By: Jeffrey Einboden
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the president. By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    • The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans
    • By: Karen Lystra
    • Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved.

    Regular price: $17.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.49 or 1 credit

    • A Civil War Nurse’s Love Story
    • By: Mary F. Belmont
    • Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Reconstructed from actual letters and diaries, this is the story of four young people living in Philadelphia whose lives become intertwined when the American Civil War begins in 1861....

    Regular price: $6.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $6.95 or 1 credit

    • A Novel
    • By: Nora Hague
    • Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney, Jeff Woodman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Cultural and familial fireworks flare when the headstrong teenage daughter of a wealthy New Yorker falls passionately in love with a young man from New Orleans....

    Regular price: $24.05 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.05 or 1 credit

    • The Private Man and the Warrior
    • By: Abraham Lincoln
    • Narrated by: George Vail
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • This collection of Lincoln's letters gives us a glimpse into the inner self of a great American...

    Regular price: $10.13 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $10.13 or 1 credit

    • Civil War Letters of the Bryant-Stephens Families of North Florida
    • By: various
    • Narrated by: Christopher Walker
    • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • As fresh and poignant today as when they were written, these touching letters capture the heart of everyday life during the Civil War....

    Regular price: $22.64 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $22.64 or 1 credit

    • The Private Man and the Warrior & Major Works by a Great American Writer
    • By: Abraham Lincoln
    • Narrated by: George Vail
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Lincoln comes alive through the reading of his speeches, essays, and other writings, including "The Gettysburg Address" and "The Second Inaugural Address"....

    Regular price: $9.09 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $9.09 or 1 credit