Civil War
The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy
Thomas Goodrich
It was one of the most tragic events in American history. The famous president, beloved by many, reviled by some, murdered while viewing a play at Ford's Theater in Washington. The frantic search for the perpetrators. The nation in mourning. The solemn funeral train. The conspirators brought to justice. Coming just days after the surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox, the assissination of Abraham Lincoln has become etched in the national consciousness like few other events. The president who had steered the nation through its bloodiest crisis is cut down just as the bloodshed ends. It is a story that has been told many times, but rarely with the care and immediacy of The Darkest Dawn. Thomas Goodrich brings to his narrative the meticulousness of the historian and the flair of the fiction writer. The result is an engrossing account, rich with detail and as gripping as today's headlines.
cloth 362 pp. 2005 / ISBN 0-253-32599-4 / $21.95
Order No. 2621
Camp Morton, 1861-1865: Indianapolis Prison Camp
Hattie Lou Winslow & Joseph R. H. Moore
Soon after Fort Sumter was fired upon on 12 April 1861 and President Abraham Lincoln's subsequent call for 75,000 volunteers, Indiana governor Oliver P. Morton, in conjunction with his adjutant general, Lew Wallace, sought a space in Indianapolis suitable for receiving the state's volunteers to the Union cause. They selected a thirty-six-acre tract formerly owned by Indianapolis's first mayor, Samuel Henderson. The land, bounded today by 19th and 22nd Streets, Central Avenue, and Talbott Street, had also served as home to the Indiana State Fair.
By the end of April 1861 the new camp - named for the governor - had shelters of sorts for six thousand men. By that fall, with supplies difficult to obtain, the federal government took over the work of feeding the troops in Indiana during their training period. New men were constantly being taken into the training units. The camp soon became a popular destination for city residents and "in the afternoon the carriages of the best people of the town might be seen appearing and disappearing in the clouds of dust that hovered over the most respectable roads." On 21 April 1861 an estimated ten thousand people visited the camp.
In February 1862 a new and imperative need appeared - prisoners of war were being taken in large numbers and had to be housed somewhere. The federal government took over Camp Morton and turned it into a place to care for Confederate prisoners.
cloth 154 pp. 1940 reprinted1995 / ISBN 0-87195-114-2 / $14.95
Order No. 2599
A Lost American Dream
Antonius Holtmann
Civil War Letters
paper 103 pp. ISBN 1-880788-15-2 / $12.95
Order No. 2580
Affectionately Yours: The Civil War Home-Front Letters of the Ovid Butler Family
Barbara Butler Davis
Includes transcriptions of 65 holograph letters written from 1863 to 1865 by members of the Butler family of Indianapolis, strong supporters of abolition, to their son Scot. The letters, now in the collection of the Irvington Historical Society, relate a fascinating social history of the Indianapolis community during the Civil War.
cloth 211 pp. ISBN 0-87195-175-4 / $27.95
Order No. 2493
Harvestfields of Death: The Twentieth Indiana Volunteers of Gettysburg
Craig L. Dunn
From battling the Merrimac to participating in the Seven Days battles, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and beyond to the end of the war, the Twentieth Indiana was one of the most honored of Northern units.
cloth 343pp. 1999 / ISBN 1-57860-039-1 / $29.95
Order No. 2347
paper 343 pp. 1999 / ISBN 1-57860-038-3 / $24.95
Order No. 2348
Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship
J. F. C. Fuller
A compelling study not only of the two men, but also of the nature of leadership and command in wartime.
paper 323 pp. 1982 / ISBN 0-253-20288-4 / $13.95
Order No. 2058
On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade
Alan D. Gaff
This is the story of one of the Civil War's most famous combat organizations, Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers of the Iron Brigade.
paper 500 pp.1996 reprinted 1999 / ISBN 0-253-21294-4 / $17.95
Order No. 2337
The Men Stood Like Iron: How the Iron Brigade Won Its Name
Lance J. Herdengen
No volunteers tramped with more innocent resolve on the drill fields of 1861 than the farmers, immigrants, shopkeepers, and "piney" camp boys who volunteered for the Second, Sixth, and Seventh Wisconsin and the Nineteenth Indiana Infantry. The Men Stood Like Iron is the moving, often melancholy, story of how the backwoods "Calico boys" became soldiers of the celebrated "Iron Brigade."
paper 287 pp.1997 / ISBN 0-253-21852-X / $19.95
Order No. 2553
The Longest Raid of the Civil War
Lester V. Horwitz
The Longest Raid of the Civil War was a grueling ride on horseback for over one thousand miles through four states beginning in McMinnville, Tennessee to West Pointe, Ohio. Gen. Morgan began his raid with 2500 calvary and surrendered in Columbiana County with about 350 very tired men remaining.
The raid was the northernmost penetration of the Confederacy into the Union North. In all, Morgan's Men raided 6,576 homes and shops north of the Mason-Dixon line (4375 in Ohio, 2201 in Indiana).
paper 476 pp. 2001 / ISBN 0-9670267-3-3 / $29.95
Order No. 2474
cloth 476 pp. 2001 / ISBN 0-9670267-2-5 / $34.95
Order No. 2612
Dear Sarah: Letters Home from a Soldier of the Iron Brigade
Coralou Peel Lassen (compiler)
Letters from Corporal John Pardington paint a vivid portrait of the life of a Union soldier.
cloth 182 pp, 1999 / ISBN 0-253-33560-4 / $24.95
Order No. 2293
Indiana Quakers Confront the Civil War
Jacquelyn S. Nelson
More than one thousand Quakers served in the military during the Civil War, while others supported the war effort at home. Conscientious objection, anti-slavery, and nonviolence are chronicled.
cloth 298 pp. 1991/ISBN 0-87195-064-2/$19.95
Order No. 2242
Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade
Alan T. Nolan and Sharon Eggleston Vipond
Essays by some of the best-known historians of the brigade spotlight significant moments in the history of the Civil War's most celebrated unit.
cloth 238 pp. 1998 / ISBN 0-253-33457-8 / $27.95
Order No. 2323
The Iron Brigade: A Military History
Alan T. Nolan
This is the story of the most famous unit in the Union Army, the Iron Brigade. The Civil War Times Illustrated called this publication "One of the 100 best books ever written on the Civil War."
paper 457 pp. 1994 / ISBN 0-253-20863-7 / $19.95
Order No. 2297
Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance
Peter S. Onuf
Shows how interpretation and application of Ordinance provisions governing the creation of new states and their boundaries and excluding slavery worked to subvert the document's constitutional authority.
cloth 197 pp. 1987 / ISBN 0-253-35482-X / $27.50
Order No. 2119
Indiana in the Civil War Era, 1850-1880
Emma Lou Thornbrough
The history of Indiana series was begun in 1965 in honor of the sesquicentennial of Indiana's statehood.
cloth 758 pp. reprint 1991 (1965) / ISBN 0-253-37020-5 / $32.50
Order No. 2304
paper 758 pp. reprint 1991 (1965) / ISBN 0-87195-050-2 / $19.95
Order No. 2305
A Fierce, Wild Joy
Stephen E. Towne, Editor
The ninety letters in this collection document the Civil War career of Col. Edward Jesup Wood, an officer of the 48th Indiana. Evocative and rich in detail, A Fierce, Wild Joy offers a view of the war from an officer's perspective and provides important insights into the day-to-day administration of a Civil War regiment.
cloth 295 pp. 2007 / ISBN 1-57233-599-8 / $38.00
Order No. 2677
Democratic Opposition to the Lincoln Administration in Indiana
G. R. Tredway
The scope of this study also extends to secret societies and conspiratorial activities beyond Indiana's borders.
cloth 433 pp. 1973 / ISBN 1-885323-25-5 / $10.25
Order No. 4017
Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War, Volume One
Kenneth P. Williams
A history of the Union Army's generalship, based on acquaintance with terrain of operations, expert knowledge of military theory and organization, and a study of records of war.
paper 443 pp. 1949 / ISBN 0-253-20359-7 / $6.95
Order No. 2088
Issues of The Indiana Historian
paper / ISSN 1071-3301 / $1.00 (1-19 copies); $.30 (20 or more copies)
Indiana's 28th Regiment: Black Soldiers for the Union
Indiana's 28th Regiment: Black Soldiers for the Union
This was the only black regiment organized in Indiana. Regimental Chaplain Garland H. White's letters to the Christian Recorder provided eyewitness accounts of the service of the 28th.
16 pp. 1994/Order No. 7023
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