Kent State University Press: 593 books
Struggle for the Shenandoah
Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Few geographical regions played a more critical role in the American Civil War than the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. At no time did the Valley loom larger on the military landscape than in the late summer and fall of 1864, when the armies of Jubal A. Early and Philip H. Sheridan waged their bitter...
The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail
The Civil War of Captain Simon Perkins Jr., Union Quartermaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Captain Simon Perkins Jr. and his fellow quartermasters helped make the Union’s victory possible by providing the Federal army with clothing and camp equipment, livestock and forage, wagon and railroad transportation, offices, warehouses, and hospitals, despite bad weather, unserviceable railroads,...
Banners South
A Northern Community at War
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2002
The personal story of the men and women of Cortland, New York and their efforts to support the war effort
Most regimental histories focus narrowly on military affairs and the battlefield exploits to the exclusion of the broader social and political context, while community studies examine civilian...
The Pattern in the Web
The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1990
Charles Williams has achieved considerable reputation for his novels. He has been recognized as a brilliant theologian and a sensitive literary critic. But Williams himself wished most to be remembered as a poet, and trusted his future literary reputation to the two-volume series of poems on the...
Tales from the Irish Club: A Collection of Short Stories
A Collection of Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Tales from the Irish Club contains 11 wry accounts of an enclave of Irish Americans in Pittsburgh during and after World War II. In this first collection of short stories by Lester Goran are the often comic, sometimes tragic tales of Jack Lanahan, the transcendental artist who carves nothing but wooden...
My Greatest Quarrel with Fortune
Major General Lew Wallace in the West, 1861-1862
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Who was Lew Wallace's true foe - the Confederacy, General Halleck, General Grant, or himself?
Lew Wallace of Indiana was a self-taught extraordinary military talent. With boldness and celerity, he advanced in less than a year from the rank of colonel of the 11th Indiana to that of major general...
by Guy L. Denny, Gary Meszaros
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The prairie grassland biome covers the heartland of North America with an eastward extension called the Prairie Peninsula. Primarily composed of tallgrass prairie, this biome lies between the shortgrass prairies of the west and the eastern deciduous forest region and includes the states of Illinois,...
We Fight for Peace
Twenty-Three American Soldiers, Prisoners of War, and Turncoats in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
At midnight on January 24, 1954, the last step was taken in the armistice to end the war in Korea. That night, the neutral Indian guards who had overseen the prisoner of war repatriation process abandoned their posts, leaving their charges to make their own decisions. The vast majority of men allowed...
A Politician Turned General
The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A new case study of one of Lincoln’s political generals in the Civil War
A Politician Turned General offers a critical examination of the turbulent early political career and the controversial military service of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, an Illinois Whig, Republican politician, and Northern...
Spare Not the Brave
The Special Activities Group in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and dangerous missions in Korea. Rarely receiving more attention than a footnote, their story usually begins and...
Fire Within
A Civil War Narrative from Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Winner of the Council for Wisconsin Writers Leslie Cross Book-Length Nonfiction Award and the Wisconsin Library Association's Outstanding Achievement Recognition
“This remarkable book blends the experiences of several young Wisconsin men who fought in the Civil War with the course of events...
by Jack D. Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
During the Civil War, the majority of the 583 Union generals studied here were afflicted by disease, injured by accidents, or suffered wounds. Following the war, they often suffered lingering diseases and the effects of unhealed wounds. Medical Histories of Union Generals includes a glossary of medical...
by Henry O. Harden, Scott Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
The story of an Ohio regiment in the Civil WarOriginally published in 1902 by Henry O. Hardens newspaper publishing company, History of the 90th Ohio Volunteer Infantry tells its story through the soldiers personal letters, diary entries, and memoirs. Formed in response to Confederate maneuvers in Kentucky...
The Best School
West Point, 1833-1866
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
"Professor Morrison, a former army officer and member of the faculty at West Point, began this study…with the goal to describe and evaluate not only the curriculum and administration but also the social, military and bureaucratic aspects of the school. With impeccable research and a graceful...