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Portraits of Conflict (series) |
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Books on the Civil War and the Civil War in the West Links to all our history titles
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It’s one thing to understand that over twenty-thousand Confederate and Union soldiers died at the Battle of Murfreesboro. It’s quite another to study an ambrotype portrait of twenty-year-old private Frank B. Crosthwait, dressed in his Sunday best, looking somberly at the camera. In a tragically short time, he’ll be found on the battlefield, mortally wounded, still clutching the knotted pieces of handkerchief he used in a hopeless attempt to stop the bleeding from his injuries. 2007, 430 pages |
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Texans fought in every theater of the Civil War, from Gettysburg to Shiloh to Pea Ridge and Glorieta Pass. Still on the developing frontier, they struggled with multiple threats to their way of life—Indians to the West, dissidents within, Yankees from the North. This volume tells the tale of the common soldiers who helped preserve their state from Federal invasion. 1998, 344 pages |
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From the first Georgians to march north to fight under Robert E. Lee, through Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign, and the awful conditions of Andersonville, these 260 photographs bring to light the common soldiers and civilians whose lives were changed forever by the nation's great drama. 1996, 448 pages |
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With over 240 photographs, maps, and related documents, McCaslin details the physical and spiritual suffering of the ordinary recruit in his fight for his country, its land, and his family's way of life. 1994, 416 pages |
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Portraits of Conflict This largest volume yet in the University of Arkansas Press's award-winning series on the Civil War deepens our understanding of the nation's costliest human conflict. It tells the stories of the ordinary soldiers—their heroism and fear, the boredom and the misery—in the midst of war. 1993, 424 pages |
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". . . admirably combines text and more than two hundred images to bring into sharper focus the people and places of wartime Arkansas. The authors and publisher did a superb job with this handsome book." —Civil War Magazine 1988 Chicago Book Clinic Design Award 1987, 250 pages |
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"By drawing from available written records and painstakingly matching those passages with 350 age-old photographs, the co-authors have created a photojournalistic record of the war in Louisiana like none that has come before it." —Louisiana Life 1990, 370 pages |
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These 250 photographs tell the entire saga of North Carolinians in the Civil War—first at Big Bethel, at Gettysburg with Lee, in defense of their home state, and last at Durham with the surrender of Johnston's army to Sherman. 1997, 432 pages |
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