William C. Davis

Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War

by William C. Davis

Two great, untested armies were readying for the first—and what many believed would be the last—major conflict between North and South. On the eve of July 21, 1861, one Northerner wrote: “The sky is perfectly...

The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home

by William C. Davis

On September 18, 1861, ominous sounds of battle thundering in the distance, the Kentucky legislature voted to align itself with the Union. It was a decision which tore at the heart of the state, splitting apart...

Duel Between the First Ironclads

by William C. Davis

One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile."

Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly...

The Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History

by William C. Davis

The story of how American settlers led a rebellion in 1810 against Spanish rule and created the Republic of West Florida, which was shortly annexed by the United States just 78 days later.

Three Roads to the Alamo

by William C. Davis

Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of...

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf

by William C. Davis

At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the...

Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America

by William C. Davis

William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented...

Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father To an Army an

by William C. Davis

I sit down to write you (a Soldier's Friend!)...My kind Friend of Friends you have the power to help me a grate deal...I have great Confidence in our Good President hoe has dun a grate deal for us poor Soldiers......

Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy

by William C. Davis

For four crucial months in 1861, delegates from all over the South met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new nation. Davis (Jefferson Davis: The Man and the Hour, LJ 11/15/91) tells their story in this...