Select Civil War Bibliography

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:

Edward L. Ayers. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.

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. Jefferson Davis, American. New York: Knopf, 2000.

 William C. Davis. Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1975.

 David Herbert Donald. Charles Sumner and The Coming of the Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1960.

____. "We are Lincoln's Men": Abraham Lincoln and His Friends. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.

 William Dusinberre. Slavemaster President: The Double Career of James Polk. New York: Oxford, 2003.

Russell Duncan. Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Athens: Georgia, 1999.

Charles East, ed. Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

 H. J. Eckenrode and Bryan Conrad. James Longstreet: Lee's War Horse. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1986.

 Eli N. Evans. Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate. New York: Free Press, 1986.

 Michael Fellman. Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman. New York: Random House, 1995.

 ___. The Making of Robert E. Lee. New York: Random House, 2000.

 Douglas Southall Freeman. Lee. 4 vols. New York: Scribner's,1961.

 J. F. C. Fuller. Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship. Indianopolis: Indiana, 1982.

        . The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant. New York: DeCapo, 1929.

 B. H. Liddell-Hart. Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American. New York: Greenwood Press, 1978.

 William Woods Hassler. A.P. Hill: Lee's Forgotten Genreal. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1962.

 G. F R. Henderson. Stonewall Jackson and The American Civil War. New York: DeCapo, 1988.

 Henry Hitchcock. Marching With Sherman. Lincoln: Bison Books,1985.

 J.B. Hood. Advance and Retreat.

 Paul Andrew Hutton. Phil Sheridan and His Army. Lincoln: Bison, 1989.

Allen Johnson. Stephen A. Douglas. New York: Chelsea House, 1983.

 Joseph E. Johnston. Narrative of Military Operaions during the Civil War. New York: DeCapo, 1959.

 James Pickett Jones. Black Jack: John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.

 David M. Jordan. Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life. Indiapolis: Indiana, 1988.

 Thomas Keneally. American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. Garden City: Doubleday/Anchor, 2002.

Lee Kennett. Sherman: A Soldier's Life. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Lloyd Lewis. Sherman: Fighting Prophet. Harcourt Brace and World,1932.

Andrew Lytle. Bedford Forest.

William S. McFeely. Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard and The Freedmen's Bureau. New York: Norton, 1968.

      . Grant: A Biography. New York: Norton, 1981.

Richard M. McMurry. John Bell Hood and The War for Southern Independence. Lexington: Kentucky, 1982.

John F. Marszalek. Sherman: A Soldier's Passion For Order. New York: Free Press, 1993.

William Marvell. Burnside. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1991.

Paul Nagal. The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family. New York: Oxford, 1990.

Alan T. Nolan. Lee Reconsidered: General R. E. Lee and Civil War History. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1991.

John Niven. John C. Calhoun and The Price of Union. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1982.

Stephen B. Oates. With Malice Towards None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

       . Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind The Myths. NewYork: 1984.

      . To Purge This Land With Blood. Boston: Massachusetts, 1970.

Christopher Phillips. Damn Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon. Columbia: Missouri, 1990.

William S. Piston. Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History. Athens: Georgia, 1987.

Elizabeth Brown Pryor. Clara Barton: Professional Angel.

 Robert V. Remini. Andrew Jackson and The Course of American Empire. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.

        . Andrew Jackson and The Course of American Freedom. New York: Harper and Row, 1981. 

                  . Andrew Jackson and The Course of American Democracy. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.

      . Henry Clay. New York: Norton, 1992.

 ___. The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America’s First Military Victory. New York: Viking, 1999.

 ___. Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars. New York: Viking 2001.

 James Robertson. General A. P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior. New York: Random House, 1987.

 Stephen Sears. George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon. New York: Ticknor & Field, 1986.

       . The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan, Select Correspondence, 1861-1865. New York: Ticknor and Field,1989.

 William T. Sherman. Memoirs of William T. Sherman. New York: DeCapo, 1984.

 Brooks D. Simpson. Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Emory Thomas. Bold Cavalier: The Life of JEB Stuart. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.

Hans Louis Trefousse. Ben Butler: The South Called Him BEAST. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1966.

Alice Rains Trulock. In The Hands of Providence: Joshua Chamberlain and The American Civil War. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1992.

Frank E. Vandiver. Mighty Stonewall. College Station: Texas A&M, 1957.

Glyndon G. Van Deusen. The Life of Henry Clay. New York: Little, Brown, 1937.

T. Harry Williams. P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon In Gray. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1958.

C. Vann Woodward, ed. Mary Chesnut's Civil War. New Haven: Yale,1981.    

___. The Private Mary Chestnut. New York: Oxford, 1984.

 John Allan Wyeth. That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1989.

 MYTH, MEMORY, AND THE LOST CAUSE:

Thomas L. Connelly. The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image In American Society. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1977.

William C. Davis. The Lost Cause: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996.

Thomas A. Desjardin. Those Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory. New York: Da Capo, 2003.

Gaines M. Foster. Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South. New York: Oxford, 1987.

Gary W. Gallagher. Lee and His Army in Confederate History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Tony Horowitz. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. New York: Pantheon, 1998.

Alan T. Nolan. Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Wiley Sword. Southern Invincibility: A History of the Confederate Heart. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.  

 THE ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN AND RECONSTRUCTION:

James Alex Baggett. The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: LSU, 2002.

 Michael Les Benedict. The Impeachment and Trial Andrew Johnson. New York: Norton, 1973.

 Jim Bishop. The Day Lincoln Was Shot.

 Claude Bowers. The Tragic Era. New York: Literary Guild, 1929.

 Richard N. Current. Those Terrible Carpetbaggers: A Reinterpretation. New York: Oxford, 1988.

 LaWanda Cox and John H. Cox. Politics, Principles, and Prejudice 1865-1866: Dilemma of Reconstruction America. New York: Atheneum, 1963.

 William A. Dunning. Reconstruction: Political and Economic,1865-77. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

 W. McKee Evans. Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear. New York: Norton, 1966.

 Eric Foner. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.

      . A Short History of Reconstruction. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

 Gaines M. Foster. Ghosts of The Confederacy: Defeat, The Lost Cause, and The Emergence of the New South. New York: Oxford,1987.

 John Hope Franklin. Reconstruction After The Civil War. Chicago:University of Chicago, 1961.

 James W. Garner. Reconstruction In Mississippi.

 William Hanchett. The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies. Champaign: Illinois, 1983.

 Burton J. Hendrick. Statesmen of The Lost Cause: Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet. New York: Literary Guild, 1939.

 Stanely P. Hirshon. Farwell To The Bloody Shirt: Northern  Republicans and the Southern Negro. Chicago: Quadrangle,1962.

 Peggy Lamson. The Glorious Failure: Black Congressman Robert  Brown Elliot and The Reconstruction in South Carolina. New York: Norton, 1973.

 Margaret Leech. Reville In Washington. New York: Time, 1941.

Elizabeth D. Leonard. Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.

 William S. McFeely. Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen. New York: Norton, 1981.

 Eric L. McKitrick. Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1960.

 Mark Neely and Gerald McMurtry. The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln. Carbondale: Southern Illinois, 1986.

 Whitelaw Reid. After the War: A Tour of the Southern States, 1865-1866. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

 Willie Lee Rose. Rehearsal For Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964.

 Gene Smith. High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. New York: Doubleday, 1978.

 Kenneth Stampp. The Era of Reconstruction. New York: Vintage, 1965.

 Daniel E. Sutherland. The Confederate Carpetbaggers. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1988.

 William A. Tidwell. Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln. Jackson: Mississippi, 1985.

 Hans L. Trefousse. Andrew Johnson: A Biography. New York: Norton,1989.

 Justin G. Turner and Linda Levitt Turner. Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters. New York: Fromm, 1987.

 Johnathan M. Wiener. Social Origins of The New South: Alabama, 1860-1885. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1978.

 Veron Lane Wharton. The Negro In Mississippi, 1865-1890.

 C. Vann Woodward. Reunion & Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the Era of Reconstrucion. New York: Little, Brown, 1951.

 NOVELS AND MOVIES:

  Kevin Baker. Paradise Alley. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

 Winston Churchill. The Crisis. New York: Macmillan, 1901.

 Stephen Crane. Red Badge of Courage.

____. "The Little Regiment" and Other Civil War Stories. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1997.

Thomas Fleming. When This Cruel War is Over. New York: Forge, 2001.

Shelby Foote. Shiloh. New York: Random House, 1951, 1980, 1991.

 Allan Guganus. The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.

 MacKinlay Kantor. Andersonsville.

 Margaret Mitchell. Gone With The Wind.

 Darden Asbury Pyron. Recasting: Gone With The Wind In American Culture. Miami: Florida International Press, 1983.

 William Safire. Freedom. New York: Doubleday, 1983.

 Jeff Shaara. Gods and Generals. New York: Ballantine, 1996.

 ____. Last Full Measure. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998.

 ____. Gone for Soldiers. New York: Ballantine Books, 2000.

 Michael Shaara. Killer Angels. New York: McKay, 1974.

 Richard Slotkin. The Crater. New York: Atheneum, 1980.

 Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among The Lowly. New York: Penguin, 1981.

Peter G. Tsouras. Gettysburg: An Alternative History. London: Greenhill Books, 1997.

 Tom Wicker. Unto This Hour.

Updated as of 12 March 04