the MOST BLOODY CONFLICT OF u.s. HISTORY WITH THE REVERBERATIONS STILL BEING FELT TODAY.
Anyone who tries to recast the U.S. Civil War as anything other than a battle to end the scourge of slavery is guilty of a historical revisionism that elides responsibility for the original sin at the heart of the founding of this country. The Civil War was a never “just” a conflict between states rights. It was a battle for human rights; a conflict that pitted the individual’s freedom to harm other people against others’ freedom not to be harmed. That philosophical conflict resonates well into the twenty first century, whether it in debates about reparations, school curricula, or even masking.
With eye witness accounts, memoirs from civilians, soldiers, and generals, you can experience the perspectives and reflections for yourself. Included in this series are timeless fiction masterpieces by Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce. Tenebray Press is also proud to present a collection of women writers. For the testimonies of emancipated slaves and heroes such as Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, visit our African American Heritage Collection.
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Women of the Civil War.
The role of women during the U.S. Civil War has often been secondary to the stories of their male counterparts. These three works offer a corrective to that injustice. In this collection you will find Hospital Sketches, by Louisa May Alcott of Little Women fame; the stirring account, Nurse & Spy in the Union Army by S. Emma E. Edmonds; and Woman’s Work in the Civil War, a contemporaneous attempt by L.P. Brockett to try to record the contributions of women at the time.
Civil War Stories: Soldiers, Sailors, Civilians.
In this volume of Tenebray Press Classics you'll find the lesser told stories of soldiers and civilians, with eye witness accounts of life and death that provide the human perspective on a historical event that too often dwarfed the impact on individuals. This volume also includes accounts of the watershed battle of Hampton Roads, when the first two ironclad ships, the Monitor and the Merrimac clashed, ushering in the modern era of naval conflict.
Stephen Crane & Ambrose Bierce.
A bloody time in the history of the United States as reflected in the fiction of two of the periods greatest, most memorable writers. While ghosts of the conflicts of the Civil War still divide US society, even today, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane capture some of the universal experiences of those affected by civil conflict. Their work offers some glimmer of hope that as persistent as our differences are, there are also universal concepts of love, loyalty, bravery, that transcend time and political tribe.
The Generals’ Memoirs.
For the first time the war memoirs of four Union generals Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, John A. Logan, as well as the controversial Robert E. Lee, can be found in one volume. Includes personal correspondence as well as detailed maps of battles. General, and later President Grant, has become a subject of greater interest to scholars for his efforts to support Black Americans freed from slavery during the reconstruction period and his role in defeating the first iterations of the Klu Klux Klan.