1861-1865, civil war

Presents a pictorial history of the Civil War profiling notable events, personalities, weapons, and battles. Features quotes, captioned photographs and illustrations, maps, and artifacts from the Smithsonian Institution.

A graphic novel adaptation of Stephen Crane's tale of a youth whose dreams of glory on the battlefield clash with the realities of war.

Provides biographical information about six individuals who were key players in the Civil War, including Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, George McClellan, Clara Barton, and Matthew Brady; and discusses how they interacted with one another and influenced events.

Explores the daily lives of soldiers, generals, politicians, and ordinary citizens during the Civil War and examines the politics, personalities, and policies that influenced the war and its outcome.

Buck Summerhill, a young soldier from West Virginia, faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg knowing that his two cousins, Curtis and Mason, may be fighting against him in the Army of Northern Virginia.

A fictional account of four days in July, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg discussing tactics, plans, and preparations for battle from both the Northern and Southern points of view.

Orphaned when their father dies fighting for the Union and mother expires from exhaustion, and also estranged from their Confederate neighbors, fifteen-year-old Hannah and her siblings struggle to find a way to survive during the Civil War in Tennessee.

Rob and Jamie, brothers who are opposites and who are both involved in a Civil War reenactment, find themselves transported back in time to the actual Antietam campaign in 1862.

Thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation in 1864, turns to Clara Barton, the eventual founder of the American Red Cross, for help in finding her brother Neddy who ran away to join the Northern war effort and is rumored to be at Andersonville Prison.

Shares the story of Robert Smalls, a slave who became a hero after hijacking a Confederate steamer during the Civil War and turning it over to the Union, and who later served as a U.S. congressman from South Carolina.