The Civil War
in Tennessee

 


Tennessee is rich in sites, buildings, landscapes, and documented sources that tell the stories of the American Civil War. Tennessee's geographic location, along with strategic river and rail routes, productive farmlands, and industrial sites, made the state a crucial prize fought for by both armies. Every county in Tennessee was affected by the destruction of the land, loss of life, bitter divisions within families and communities, and political and social turmoil of the war years and the following decades.

Intertwined with these military and political struggles are the stories of the homefront, occupation, and Reconstruction. Whether you are a researcher, educator, tourist, or citizen interested in learning more about Tennessee's Civil War and Reconstruction heritage, you will find here valuable resources on important sites and organizations, as well as sources for additional research.


NEW PAGES:

NEW BOOKS:

  • How it Was: Four Years Among the Rebels by Mrs. Irby Morgan
  • History of Halifax County (Boston: The Cornhill Company, 1918), by W. C. Allen
  • Sketches of Pitt County, 1704-1910 (Raleigh: Edwards, 1911), by Henry T. King
  • Days of Bondage: Autobiography of Friday Jones, Being a Brief Narrative of His Trials and Tribulations in Slavery (Washington, D. C.: Commercial Pub. Co., 1883), by Friday Jones
  • Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave. Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: Published by H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Francis Child
  • Recollections of Slavery Times (Worcester, MA: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895), by Allen Parker 96 pgs.
  • Memoirs of W. W. Holden, by W. W. Holden. Post war Governor of North Carolina appointed during reconstruction. Later impeached.
  • Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio, by Henry E. Shepherd (NC 54th Infantry Regiment) 22pgs.
  • History of the Presbyterian Church in New Bern, N.C., With a Resume of Early Ecclesiastical Affairs in Eastern North Carolina, and a Sketch of the Early Days of New Bern, N.C. (Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson, 1886), by L. C. Vass
  • The Colonial and State Political History of Hertford County, N. C. (1906), by Benjamin Brodie Winborne
  • Early History of Tarboro, North Carolina; also Collated Colonial Public Claims of Edgecombe County, and Easter Sunday in Savannah, Ga. (Richmond: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1908), by Gaston Lichtenstein
  • Early Social Life in Edgecombe; also Early History of Edgecombe, and a Tarborean's Experience Abroad (Richmond: W.E. Jones, Printer, 1904), by Gaston Lichtenstein
  • First Steps in North Carolina History (Raleigh, NC: A. Williams and Co., 1889), by Cornelia Phillips Spencer
  • History of Wayne County (1914), by Frank Arthur Daniels
  • In Ancient Albemarle (Raleigh: Commercial Printing Company, 1914), by Catherine Albertson
  • North Carolina History Stories (Richmond: B.F. Johnson Publishing Co., 1901), by W. C. Allen
  • Plantation Sketches (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1906), by Margaret Devereux
  • School History of North Carolina, From 1584 to the Present Time (revised and enlarged edition, c1882), by John W. Moore
  • Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers (New York: Robert Carter, 1846), by William Henry Foote
  • The Spirit Of The Roanoke: A Pageant of Halifax County History (Roanoke Rapids, NC: Herald Publishing Co., 1921)
Featured Books & CD-ROMS
Evans, Clement A.
Confederate Military History - Tennessee Volume
Paperback
$45.00
CD-ROM
$15.00
Rigdon, John C.
The Civil War in Tennessee
CD-ROM
$35.00
 

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