The newsletter doesn’t usually focus on one conflict, or include this many deals, but when Amazon drops a dozen Civil War classics to $0.99 on the same day, I see no reason to hold back. Let me know if you like the idea of an occasional themed edition or if you’d prefer each day’s newsletter to only feature a diverse mix of conflicts and eras.
Deals verified at send time. Prices can change without notice. Always confirm before buying.
The Passing of the Armies: An Account Of The Final Campaign Of The Army Of The Potomac
By Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
American Civil War / Union / Memoir
Chamberlain commanded the Union forces at the formal Confederate surrender at Appomattox, where he ordered his men to salute their defeated foes as they laid down their arms. John B. Gordon, commanding the Confederate column, returned the salute. This is Chamberlain's personal account of the final weeks of the war and the surrender itself.
$0.99
Reminiscences of the Civil War
By John B. Gordon
American Civil War / CSA / Memoir
Gordon commanded Confederate forces at several major engagements, including Spotsylvania and the Appomattox Campaign, and led the Confederate column at the formal surrender ceremony where he returned Chamberlain's salute. His memoir covers four years of hard fighting in the Eastern Theater from the perspective of a gifted combat commander who became one of the most respected figures on either side of the war.
$0.99
Company Aytch
By Sam Watkins
American Civil War / CSA / Memoir
Sam Watkins enlisted as a private in the 1st Tennessee Infantry in 1861 and fought in nearly every major engagement in the Western Theater. Unlike most Civil War memoirs that came from officers, Watkins wrote from the ranks, with the voice of a man who owed nothing to posterity.
$0.99
If you found your way here through a shared link, welcome. You can get these hand-picked military history ebook deals — all under $5 — delivered to your inbox each weekday morning before they disappear. Subscribe now.
Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life
By John D. Billings
American Civil War / Union
A detailed account of daily life as a Union soldier. Billings, who served as an artilleryman with the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery, writes about food, shelter, marching, camp routines, and the small indignities and pleasures of soldier life with the eye of a journalist.
$0.99
Life in the Confederate Army
By William Watson
American Civil War / CSA / Memoir
A unique memoir. Watson was a Scottish merchant living in Louisiana when the war broke out and found himself drawn to joining the Confederate cause. His outsider perspective on Southern society, the Confederate military, and the nature of the conflict gives this memoir a different texture from most Southern accounts written by men who had grown up in the culture they were defending.
$0.99
Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac
By Frank Wilkeson
American Civil War / Union / Memoir
Wilkeson enlisted in the Union Army as a teenager, lying about his age, and was assigned to an artillery battery. What he witnessed during the Overland Campaign of 1864 — Grant's grinding push toward Richmond — produced one of the most honest accounts of Civil War combat ever written. Where most memoirs romanticize or sentimentalize, Wilkeson wrote about death with the cold clarity of someone who had seen too much of it too young.
$0.99
Rebel Private: Front and Rear
By William A. Fletcher
American Civil War / CSA / Memoir
Fletcher’s memoir was published in 1907, but a fire destroyed nearly every copy before distribution. Thankfully, a surviving copy made its way to the Library of Congress, where it was eventually rediscovered. Margaret Mitchell later cited it as her single most valuable research source for Gone With the Wind. Fletcher served with the Texas Brigade at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, was wounded multiple times, and escaped from a moving Union prison train. One of the most cited and least read memoirs of the war.
$0.99
The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
By William T. Sherman
American Civil War / Union / Memoir
The man who invented total war tells his own story, from his early failures before the war through the March to the Sea and beyond. Blunt, self-assured, and occasionally ruthless in his assessments of colleagues and enemies alike, Sherman's memoirs are one of the essential primary sources of the Civil War.
$0.99
War Books Daily now has an Instagram account. Give us a Follow
War Years with Jeb Stuart
By W.W. Blackford
American Civil War / CSA / Memoir
Blackford served as an engineer officer on J.E.B. Stuart's staff and rode with him through nearly every major cavalry operation of the Eastern Theater. His memoir covers Stuart's famous rides around the Union Army, the raids into Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the costly fight at Yellow Tavern where Stuart was mortally wounded. One of the most readable firsthand accounts of Confederate cavalry operations.
$0.99
Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence
By Heros von Borcke
American Civil War / CSA / Memoir
Like W.W. Blackford, von Borcke served on Jeb Stuart's staff. But where Blackford was a Virginian writing about his own cause, von Borcke was a Prussian cavalry officer who crossed the Atlantic specifically to fight for the Confederacy, providing an outsider perspective on the war and Southern society that is unlike anything written by an American on either side.
$0.99
Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade
By John O. Casler
American Civil War / CSA / Memoir
Casler served as an enlisted man in the 33rd Virginia Infantry, part of the legendary Stonewall Brigade that fought under Jackson through the Valley Campaign, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. His memoir is refreshingly candid about the realities of Confederate enlisted life, including desertion, foraging, and the gap between official accounts and what actually happened on the ground.
$0.99
