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GENERAL STUDIES:Mark Mayo Boatner. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage,1989.
Albert Castel.
Articles of War: Winners, Losers, and Some Who were Both in the Civil War.
Mechanicsville: Stackpole Books, 2001. Bruce Catton. The Coming Fury. New York: Doubleday, 1961. . The Terrible Swift Sword. New York: Doubleday, 1963. . Never Call Retreat. New York: Doubleday, 1965. Arthur C. Cole. The Irrepressible Conflict, 1850-1865. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1935. David Donald. Why The North Won The Civil War. New York: Collier,1960. . Liberty and Union: The Crisis of Popular Government, 1830-1890. Shelby Foote. The Civil War: A Narrative. New York: Random Houe, 1958, 1963, 1974. James M. McPherson. Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Knopf, 1982. . Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford, 1988. Allan Nevins. The Ordeal of The Union. 6 Vols. New York: Scribners, 1947. Thomas J. Pressly. Americans Interpret Their Civil War. G. Randall and David Donald. The Civil War and Reconstruction. Page Smith. Trial By Fire: A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Russell F. Weigley. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2000. THE MEXICAN WAR: K. Jack Bauer. The Mexican War, 1846-1848. New York: Macmillan, 1974. Joseph G. Dawson. Doniphan’s Epic March: The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. William Dusinberre. Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk. New York: Oxford, 2003. John S.D. Eisenhower. So Far From God: A History of the Mexican War. New York: Random House, 1989. Paul Foos. A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Robert W. Johannsen. To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in American Imagination. New York: Oxford, 1985. Frederick Merk. Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History. New York: Vintage, 1963. Allan Nevins. Ordeal of Union: Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-1852. New York: Scribner’s, 1947. Jeff Shaara. Gone for Soldiers. New York: Ballantine Books, 2000. Albert K. Weinberg. Manifest Destiny: A Study of Nationalist Expansion in American History. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1935.
SECTIONALISM,
SOUTHERN CULTURE, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL WAR: William L. Barney. The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860. Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior In The Old South. New York: Oxford, 1982. . Honor and Violence In The Old South. New York: Oxford, 1986. William and Bruce Catton. Two Roads To Sumter. Steven A. Channing. Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina. New York: Simon and Schuster 197 0. Mary Boykin Chesnut. A Diary From Dixie. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1980. Avery Craven. The Coming of The Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. . An Historian And The Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. Richard Current. Lincoln and The First Shot. New York: Lippincott, 1963. Bernard DeVoto. The Year of Decision 1846. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. John S.D. Eisenhower. So Far From God: A History of the Mexican War. New York: Random House, 1989. Don E. Fehrenbacher. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics. New York: Oxford, 1978.
____. Slavey, Law,
and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective. New York:
Oxford, 1981. George Fitzhugh. Cannibal's All. New York: Putnam's, 1960. . Sociology For The South. New York: Putnam's,1960. Eric Foner. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before The Civil War. New York: Oxford, 1970. George Fredrickson. The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and The Crisis of the Union. New York: Harper and Row, 1965. William W. Freehling. Prelude To Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836. New York: Harper and Row, 1965. . The Road To Disunion: The Secessionist at Bay, 1776-1854. New York: Oxford, 1990. ____. The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. New York: Oxford, 2001. Thomas Goodrich. Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1991. ____. War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861.Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1998. Hinton Rowan Helper. The Impending Crisis. New York: Putnam's, 1960. Robert W. Johannsen. To The Halls of Montezuma: The Mexican War in the American Imagination. New York: Oxford, 1985. George Harmon Knoles, ed. The Crisis of the Union, 1860-1861.
James McPherson.
Drawn With Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War. New York: Oxford,
1996. Grady McWhiney. Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South. Birmingham, AL: Alabama, 1988. Frederick Merk. Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History. New York: Vintage, 1963. Chaplain W. Morrison. Democratic Politics and Sectionalism: The Wilmont Provisio Controversy. Stephen B. Oates. Our Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and The Civil War Era. David M. Potter. The South and The Sectional Crisis. . The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. New York: Harper and Row, 1978. James A. Rawley. Race and Politics: "Bleeding Kansas" and The Coming of the Civil War. New York: Lippincott, 1968. Leonard L. Richards. "Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America. New York: Oxford,1970. Jeffery Stuart Rossbach. The Secret Six: A Study of the Conspiracy Behind John Brown's Raid. Richard Sewell. A House Divided: Sectionalism and The Civil War, 1848-1865. New York: Norton, 1976. Kenneth M. Stampp. And War Came: The North and The Secession Crisis, 1860-1861. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1950, 1970.
____. The Imperiled
Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War. New York: Oxford, 1980. . America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink. New York: Oxford, 1990. Albert K. Weinberg. Manifest Destiny: A Study in Nationalist Expansion in American History. Chicago, IL: Quadrangle,1935. C. Van Woodward. The Burden of Southern History. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU, 1960. Ralph A. Wooster. The Secession Conventions of The South. POLITICS: NORTH AND SOUTH: Iver Bernstein. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford, 1990. William C. Davis. The Union that Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Tooms and Alexander H. Stephens. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.
Charles Dew. Apostles
of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001. David Donald. Lincoln Reconsidered. New York: Vintage, 1947. Daniel Farber. Lincoln’s Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Don E. Fehrenbacher. Lincoln in Text and Context. Stanford, CA: Stanford, 1987. Burton J. Hendrick. Lincoln's War Cabinet. Frank L. Klement. The Copperheads in The Middle West. . Dark Laterns: Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.
Dean B. Mahin. One War at a Time: The International Dimensions of the
American Civil War. Washington: Brasseys, 1999. Phillip Shaw Paludan. "A People's Contest": The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865. New York: Harper and Row, 1988. Christopher Phillips. Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990. ____. Missouri’s Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. David M. Potter. Lincoln and His Part In The Secession Crisis. Charles P. Roland. The Confederacy. Chicago, IL: Chicago, 1960. Emory Thomas. The Confederate Nation. New York: Harper and Row,1981. Frank Vandiver. Their Tattered Flags. T. Harry Williams. Lincoln and The Radicals. SLAVERY, ABOLITIONISM, AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: Terry Alford. Prince Among Slaves. New York: Oxford, 1977. Herbert Aptheker. Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion. . American Negro Slave Revolts. New York: New York: Columbia, 1943. Malcolm Bell, Jr. Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family. Ira Berlin. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Ante-bellum South. New York: Pantheon, 1974. John W. Blassingame. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford, 1972. David W. Blight. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American History. Cambridge: Harvard/Belknap, 2001. Carol Blesser, ed. Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slave Holder. New York: Oxford, 1988. . The Hammonds of Redcliffe. New York: Oxford,1980. B. A. Botkin, ed. Lay My Burden Down. Athens: Georgia, 1945. Fawn M. Brodie. Thaddeus Stevens: The Scourge of The South. New York: Norton, 1959. John Elliot Cairnes. The Slave Power. New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Thomas Cox. Blacks In Topeka, 1865-1915: A Social History. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1982. Carl Degler. The Other South: Southern Dissenters in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Harper and Row, 1974. Frederick Douglass. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. New York: Collier, 1962. Clement Eaton. The Freedom of Thought Struggle in the Old South. New York: Harper & Row, 1940. Stanley Elkins. Slavery. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1959. Louis Filler. The Crusade Against Slavery. Harper & Row, 1960. Louis Filler, ed. Wendell Phillips On Civil Rights and Freedom. New York: Hill & Wang, 1965. Robert William Fogel. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New York: Norton, 1989. Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman. Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. New York: Little, Brown, 1974. . Time On The Cross: Evidence and Methods. New York: Little, Brown, 1974. Eric Foner. Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1983. John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. From Slavery To Freedom. 6th Edition. New York: Knopf, 1988. John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger. Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation. New York: Oxford, 1999.
Scot French. The
Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
2004. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Within The Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: North Carolina,1988. Don E. Fehrenbacher (Completed and Edited by Ward A. McAfee). Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery. New York: Oxford, 2001. Eugene D. Genovese. The Political Economy of Slavery. New York: Vintage, 1965. . Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World The Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon, 1972. . The World The Slaveholders Made. New York: Vintage, 1969. . Red and Black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American History. New York: Vintage,1968. . From Rebellion To Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in Making of the Modern World. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1979. James Hugo Johnston. Race Relations in Virginia & Miscengation in the South, 1776-1860. Winthrop D. Jordan. White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward The Negro. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1968. . The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States. NewYork: Oxford, 1974. Peter Kolchin. Free and Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Serfdom. Cambridge: Harvard, 1987. Leon Litwack. Been In The Storm So Long. New York: Vintage, 1979. ____. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Vintage, 1998. James M. McPherson. The Struggle For Equality: Abolitionists and The Negro In The Civil War and Reconstruction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. Henry Mayer. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. James Mellon, ed. Bullwhip Days, The Slaves Remember: An Oral History. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. John Chester Miller. The Wolf By The Hears: Thomas Jefferson Slavery. New York: New American Library, 1977. William Lee Miller. Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress. New York: Vintage, 1995. Solomon Northup. Twelve Years A Slave. James Oakes. The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. New York: Vintage, 1982. . Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South. New York: Knopf, 1990. Stephen B. Oates. The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Nell Irvin Painter. The Exodusters. Lawrence: Kansas, 1976. Lewis Perry and Michael Fellman, eds. Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1979. Christopher Phillips. Freedom’s Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860. Champagne: University of Illinois, 1997. Ulrich B. Phillips. American Negro Slavery. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1979. . Life and Labor In The Old South. New York: Little, Brown, 1929. Benjamin Quarles. The Negro In The Civil War. New York: De Capo,1953. Howard N. Rabinowitz. Race Relations in The Urban South, 1965-1890. New York: Oxford, 1978. Roger L. Ransom. Conflict and Compromise: The Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation, and The Civil War. New York: Cambridge, 1989. James A. Rawley. Race and Politics: "Bleeding Kansas" and The Coming of The Civil War. James L. Roark. Masters Without Slaves: Southern Planters in theCivil War and Reconstruction. New York: Norton, 1987. Theodore Rosengarten. Tombee: Portrait of a Catton Planter. New York: Morrow, 1986.
William Kauffman
Scarborough. Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the
Mid-Nineteenth-Century South. Baton Rouge: LSU, 2003. Richard H. Sewell. Ballots for Freedom: Anti-Slavery Politics, 1837-1860. Norton, 1976. Kennth M. Stampp. The Peculiar Institution. New York: Vintage, 1951. Robert S. Starobin, ed. Denmark Vesey.
John Stauffer. The
Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race.
Cambridge: Harvard, 2002. Albert J Von Frank. The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Richard Wade. Slavery In The Cities, 1820-1860. New York: Oxford,1964. Bell I. Wiley. Southern Negroes. Joel Williamson. The Crucible of Race. . After Slavery. New York: Norton, 1975. . New People. . A Rage For Order: Black-White Relations In The American South Since Emancipation. New York: Oxford, 1986. Gavin Wright. Old South, New South: The Revolution in the Southern Economy Since The Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 1986. MILITARY ANALYSIS AND OPERATIONS: Leslie Anders. The Eighteenth Missouri. Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. Still. Why The South Lost The Civil War. Athens, GA: Georgia, 1986. D. Alexander Brown. Grierson's Raid. . Galvanized Yankees.
Jacqueline Glass
Campbell. When Sherman Marched North From the Sea: Resistance on the
Confederate Home Front. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2003. Samuel Carter III. The Final Fortress: The Vicksburg Campaign. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. Albert Castel. Decision In The West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Lawrence: Kansas, 1992. ___. General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1996. Bruce Catton. This Hallowed Ground. Garden City: Doubleday, 1955. . Mr. Lincoln's Army. Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. . Never Call Retreat. Garden City: Doubleday, 1952. . Stillness at Appomattox. Garden City: Doubleday,1953. . Glory Road. Garden City: Doubleday, 1953. Edwin Coddington. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study In Command. New York: Scribner's, 1968. Thomas L. Connelly and Archer Jones. The Politics of Command: Factions and Ideas in Confederate Strategy. Thomas L. Connelly. The Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1967. . Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1971. B. Franklin Cooling. Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland. Knoxville, TN: Tennessee, 1987. . Jubal Early's Raid On Washington 1864. Baltimore: Nautical and Aviation, 1989. Pete Cozzens. No Better Place To Die: The Battle of Stones River. Campaign: Illinois, 1990. . This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. Campaign: Illinois, 1992. Marcus Cunliffe. Soldiers and Civilians: The Martial Spirit in America, 1775-1865. New York: Little, Brown, 1968. William C. Davis. Duel Between The First Ironclads. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1975. . Battle At Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1977. . The Orphan Brigade. Garden City: Doubleday,1980.
David Detzer.
Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War. New
York: Harcourt, 2001. David Donald, ed. Why The North Won The Civil War. New York: Collier, 1960. Bryon Farwell. Ball's Bluff: A Small Battle and It's Consequences. McLean, VA: EPM, 1990. Michael Fellman. Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict In Missouri during The American Civil War. New York: Oxford, 1989. William M. Fowler. Under Two Flags: The U.S. Navy in the Civil War. New York: Norton, 1990. Douglas Southall Freeman. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study In Command.
Richard L. Fuchs. An
Unerring Fire: The Massacre at Fort Pillow. Mechanicsville: Stackpole Books,
2002. Enrest B. Furgurson. Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave. New York: Knopf, 1992.
____. Not War But
Murder: Cold Harbor 1864. New York: Vintage, 2000. Joseph Glatthaar. The March To The Sea And Beyond. New York: NYU, 1985.
____. Partners in
Command: The Relationships Between Leaders in the Civil War. New York: Free
Press, 1994. Paddy Griffith. Battle Tactics of the Civil War. New Haven: Yale,1991. Edward Hagerman. The American Civil War and The Origins of Modern War. Bloomington: Indiana, 1988. Richard Harwell and Philip N. Racine. The Fiery Trail: A Union Officer's Account of Sherman's Last Campaign. Knoxville: Tennessee, 1986. Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones. Why The North Won. Champaign: Illinois, 1983. Lawrence Hewitt. Port Hudson: Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1987. Alvah F. Hunter. A Year on a Monitor and The Destruction of Fort Sumter. Columbia: South Carolina, 1957. James Picket Jones. Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson's Raid Through Alabama and Georgia. Birmingham: Alabama, 1976. Terry L. Jones. Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry In The Army of Northern Virginia. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1987.
Lee Kennett. Marching
Through Georgia: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians During Sherman's
Campaign. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. Robert K. Kirk. Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1990.
Edward G. Longacre.
Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern
Virginia. Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2002. Jay Luvaas and Harold Nelson, eds. The U.S. Army War College Guide To The Battle of Antietam. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. . The U.S. Army War College Guide To The Battle of Gettysburg. Carlisle: . The U.S. Army War College Guide To The Battles of Chancellorsville & Fredricksburg. Baltimore: South Mountain Press, 1985. Jay Luvaas. The Military Legacy of the Civil War: The European Inheritance. Lawrence: Kansas, 1988. James Lee McDonough. Shiloh: Hell Before Midnight. Knoxville: Tennessee, 1977. . Stones River: Bloody Winter In Tennessee. Knoxville: Tennessee, 1980. . Chattanooga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy. Knoxville, 1984. . This Terrible War: Sherman and The Fall of Atlanta. Knoxville: Tennessee, 1987. James Lee McDonough and Thomas L. Connelly. Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin. Knoxville: Tennessee, 1983 Richard McMurry. Two Great Rebell Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1989. Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamison. Attack and Die: Civil War Tactics and Southern Heritage. Birmingham: Alabama, 1982. William D. Matter. If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1988. Earl S. Miers. The Webb of Victory: Grant at Vicksburg. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1955. . The General Who Marched to Hell: Sherman and the Southern Campaign. Harrisburg: Dorset, 1951. Jay Monaghan. Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865. Lincoln: Bison, 1955. James V. Murfin. The Gleam of Bayonets: The Antietam and Lee's Maryland Campaign, September 1862. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1965. Harry Pfanz. Gettysburg: The Second Day. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1987. William Garrett Piston and Richard W. Hatcher III. Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Horace Porter. Campaigning With Grant. New York: Dorest, 1986. John J. Pullen. The Twentieth Maine. Harrisburg: Moringside, 1980.
Gordon C. Rhea. The
Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1994.
____. The Battles for
Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern. Baton Rouge: LSU,
1997.
____. To the North
Anna River: Grant and Lee May 13-25, 1864. Baton Rouge: LSU, 2000.
____. Cold Harbor:
Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864. Baton Rouge: LSU, 2002. James I. Robertson. The Stonewall Brigade. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1984. Charles Royster. The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Duane Schutz. The
Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War. New York: W. W.
Norton, 1998.
____. The Glorious
Fourth: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, July 4th, 1863. New York: W. W. Norton,
2002. Robert Garth Scott. Into The Wilderness With The Army of The Potomac. Indianapolis: Indiana, 1985. Stephen Sears. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam. New York: Tichnor & Fields, 1983. William L. Shea and Earl J. Hess. Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
William L. Shea and
Terrence J. Winschel. Vicksburg is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi.
Lincoln: Nebraska, 2003. Richard Sommers. Richmond Redeemed: The Siege of Petersburg. Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. Stephen Z. Starr. The Union Cavalry In The Civil War. 3 Vols. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1975, 1985. . Jennison's Jayhawkers. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1973. George R. Stewart. Pickett's Charge. New York: Hougton Miflin,1959. W. A. Swanberg. First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter. New York: Scribners, 1957.
Wiley Sword. The
Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 1992.
Noah Andre Trudeau.
Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage. New York: HarperCollins, 2002. Frank Vandiver. Jubal's Raid: General Early's Civil War Attack on Washington. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. Frank J. Welcher. The Union Army, 1861-1865: Organization and Operations, The Eastern Theater. Jeffery D. Wert. Mosby's Rangers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. Jeffery West. From Winchester To Cedar Creet: The Shenandoah Campaign. Warren Wilkerson. Mother May You Never See The Sights I Have Seen. New York: Harper and Row, 1990. Kenneth P. Williams. Lincoln Finds A General: A Military Study of The Civil War. 4 Vols. Indianopolis: Indiana, 1949. Stephen R. Wise. Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running during The Civil War. Columbia: South Carolina, 1988. Steven E. Woodworth. Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command In The West. Lawrence: Kansas, 1990. CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS:
Ambrose Bierce. Civil War Stories. Mineola, NY: Dover,
1998. John D. Billings. Hard Tack and Coffee.
DeAnne Blanton and
Lauren M. Cook. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil
War. Baton Rouge: LSU, 2002.
Thomas B. Buell. The
Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War. New York: Three Rivers
Press, 1997.
Albert Castel. Tom
Taylor's Civil War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Dudley Taylor Cornish. The Sable Arm: Black Troops In The Union Army. New York: Norton, 1956. Joseph T. Glatthaar. Forged In Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. New York: Free Press,1990. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Army Life In A Black Regiment. New York: Norton, 1984. Gerald F. Linderman. Embattle Couraged: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. New York: Free Press, 1987. Tony Horwitz. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. New York: Vintage, 1998.
James McPherson. What
They Fought For, 1861-1865. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
____. For Cause and
Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York: Oxford, 1997. Reid Mitchell. Civil War Soldiers: Their Expectations and Their Experiences. New York: Viking, 1988. . The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home. New York: Oxford, 1993. Philip Shaw Paludan. Victims: A True Story of The Civil War. Knoxville: Tennessee, 1981.
Gerard A. Petterson.
Rebels from West Point. Mechanicsville, PA: Stackpole Books, 1987, 2002. Mark Perry. Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War. New York: Viking, 1997. John Ransom. John Ransom's Andersonville Diary. New York: Berkley, 1989.
Gordon C. Rhea.
Carrying the Flag: The Story of Private Charles Whilden, The Confederacy's Most
Unlikely Hero. New York: Basic Books, 2004. James I. Robertson. Soldiers Blue and Gray. Columbia: South Carolina, 1989. Leander Stillwell. The Story of a Common Soldier. Sam R. Watkins. "Co. Aytch." New York: Collier, 1962. Bell I. Wiley. The Life of Johnny Reb. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1943. . The Life of Billy Yank. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1952. BLEEDING KANSAS AND THE BORDER WAR:
Albert Castel. Civil
War in Kansas: Reaping the Whirlwind. Lawrence, KS: University Press of
Kansas, 1958.
____. General
Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1968, 1996.
____. William Clarke
Quantrill: His Life and Times. Norman: Oklahoma, 1997.
Albert Castel and Thomas
Goodrich. Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Live of a Civil War
Guerrilla. Mechanicsville, PA: Stackpole Books, 1998. Winston Churchill. The Crisis. New York: Macmillan, 1901.
Nicole Etcheson.
Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty and the Civil War. Lawrence, KS:
University Press of Kansas, 2004. Michael Fellman. Inside War: The Guerrilla War in Missouri During the Civil War. New York: Oxford, 1989. Thomas Goodrich. Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1991.
____. War to the
Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861. Mechanicsville, PA: Stackpole Books,
1998.
____. Black Flag:
Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865. Bloomington: University of
Indiana Press, 1995. Jay Monaghan. Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 1955.
Merrill D. Peterson.
John Brown: The Legend Revisited. Charlottesville: University of Virginia
Press, 2002. Christopher Phillips. Damned Yankee: The Life and Times of General Nathaniel Lyon. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1996.
____. Missouri's
Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the
Border West. Columbia: Missouri, 2000.
William Garrett Piston
and Richard W. Hatcher III. Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil
War and the Men Who Fought It. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2000. James A. Rawley. Race and Politics: "Bleeding Kansas" and The Coming of The Civil War. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968.
Gunja Senguta. For
God and Mammon: Evangels and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial
Kansas 1854-1860. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Stephen Z. Starr. Jennison's Jayhawkers: A Civil War Cavalry Regiment and Its Commander. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1973.
Duane Schultz. Quantrill's War: The Life and Times of
William Clarke Quantrill. New York: St. Martin's, 1996. BIOGRAPHY: K. Jack Bauer. Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1985. Andrew Burnstein. The Passions of Andrew Jackson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Peter Birchard. One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment. New York: St. Martin's, 1965. Bruce Catton. U.S. Grant and The American Miitary Tradition. New York: Grossett, 1954. . Grant Takes Command. Little, Brown, 1968. . Grant Moves South. Little, Brown, 1960. Freeman Cleaves. Meade of Gettysburg. Harrisburg: Morningside,1980. . Rock of Chickamauga: The Life of General George H. Thomas. Norman: Oklahoma, 1948. Thomas L. Connelly. The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image In American Society. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1977.
William J. Cooper, Jr.
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