Civil War Library

The electronic browser books listed below are available as individual titles on IBM formatted 3.5 inch diskettes or the library collections are available on self starting CD. They are read offline using your Internet browser. Many of our e-books are not available anywhere in regular book form, being out of print. Some are out of print because they were written in an era of different sensitivities and are now "politically incorrect."


Fiction


Browser Books

Each Browser Book on diskette is priced at $3 postpaid.

Title/Author Description
Hospital Sketches
by
Louisa May Alcott
A volunteer nurse treats Union wounded and dying at a Washington hospital.
The Guns of Bull Run
by
Joseph A. Altsheler
A young person's novel about the beginning of the war. The battles of Sumter and Manassas accurately and vividly described.
The Star of Gettysburg
by
Joseph A. Altsheler
The same characters developed in Altsheler's previous novel now witness and participate in the war's climax.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
by
Ambrose Bierce
Bierce was a Union veteran who rose to prominence as a writer of stories of the mysterious and supernatural.  This story of the Civil War is about a Southern civilian who was lured by a Yankee spy into attempting sabotage  He was trapped, captured, and condemned to be hanged on Owl Creek Bridge.
Red Badge of Courage
by
Stephen Crane
A classic novel about the thoughts and emotions of an inexperienced young Union soldier going into combat in the Civil War.
Uncle Remus
by
Joel Chandler Harris
Classic tales of Br'er Rabbit as told by the former slave, Uncle Remus, who also explains why he took up a rifle during the war to defend his owner's son from the Yankees.
With Lee in Virginia
by
G.A. Henty
A Victorian novel about the Civil War: runaway slaves, plantation life, codes of honor, kind and cruel slave owners, and the war itself. Designed to appeal chiefly to teen-agers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"So you're the little lady who started the war," Lincoln said when he met the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Indeed, the influence of fictional characters created by a woman who had no first-hand experience with slavery, or even the South, is amazing.

Diskette books are very convenient traveling companions for laptop computers. Those needing large print can use their browsers to enlarge the text size even larger than large-print books.

To order send your check for
$3 for each Browser Book on diskette ordered,
$10 for each library collection on CD ordered,
and the listed price for each paper book ordered to

ART GALORE! BOOK GALLERY
5722 Gloucester Drive
Tyler, Texas 75707

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