Books Read to date
on the civil war and 
related topics.
* indicates books/CDs used for 
reference 

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War of the Rebellion, OR's on CD, by Guild Press*
The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War*
Navy OR, on CD, by Guild Press*
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln- Roy P. Basler, Editor  9 Volumes
The Southern Historical Society Papers, CD, by Guild Press*
Confederate Military History, on CD, by Guild Press*
Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 15 Volumes*
Iowa History-Treasures from the Archives (Vol. 2)
Containing the full or abridged text of thousands of rare or out of print popular
historical documents  CD-Rom
Civil War and Iowa-Greyhounds and Hawkeyes (Vol. 3)
containing the full or abridged text of thousands of rare or out of print popular historical documents. CD-Rom
Southern Bivouac-6 Vols.*
Military Annals of Tennessee-Confederate 2 Volumes-Edited by John Berrien Lindsley*
Generals in Blue-Lives of the Union Commanders-Ezra J. Warner*
Generals in  Gray-Lives of the Confederate Commanders- Ezra J. Warner*
The Class of 1846-From West Point to Appomattox- John C. Waugh
The Civil War Battlefield Guide-Edited by Frances H. Kennedy-1990
Maps of the Civil war-The Roads They Took-David Phillips 
Diary of Gideon Welles-3 Vols.-Edited by Howard K. Beale
Recollections of the Civil War-Charles Dana, intro by Charles E. Rankin
The Supply For Tomorrow Must Not Fail, The Civil War of Captain Simon Perkins, Jr.
a Union Quartermaster
-Lenette S. Taylor

The Wartime Papers of R.E.Lee, edited by Clifford Dowdey and Louis Manarin*
The Civil War Day by Day, An Almanac 1861-1865, E.B.Long with Barbara Long
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War*-4 Vols. Articles from Century Magazine
Edited by Robert Underwood Johnson & Clarence Clough Buel
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War-Vol. 5-Cozzens (autographed)
The Annals of The Civil War-Written by Leading Participants North and South-with
New introduction by Gary W. Gallagher
Battle Cry of Freedom-James M.McPherson
Ordeal of the Union in 2 Volumes-Allan Nevins
Emergence of Lincoln in 2 Volumes-Allan Nevins  
War for the Union, Allan Nevins-4 Volumes
Soldiers-Blue and Gray-James I. Robertson, Jr.
Desertion During the Civil War-Ella Lonn
States Rights in the Confederacy-Frank Lawrence Owsley
Blue & Grey in Black & White-Newspapers in the Civil War-Brayton Harris
The Sable Arm-Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865-Dudley Taylor Cornish
A Regiment of Slaves, The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866
Edward G. Longacre
Social And Industrial Conditions in the North During the Civil War
Emerson David Fite,  1976 reprint from 1910
Gotham At War, New York City, 1860-1865-Edward K. Spann
Prelude To Civil War-The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836
William W. Freehling
Union in Peril-The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War- Howard Jones
The American Civil War and the British Press-Alfred Grant
One War at a Time-The International Dimensions of the American Civil War-
Dean B. Mahin
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Complete Unexpurgated Text) Edited by Harold Holzer
Lincoln At Cooper Union-Harold Holzer
Lincoln at Gettysburg-The Words That Remade America-Garry Wills
Lincoln and His Generals-T. Harry Williams
Civil War in the Making 1815-1860-Avery O Craven
The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
The Cause of the South-Selections from DeBow's Review, 1846-1867
Edited by Paul F. Paskoff and Daniel J.Wilson
North of Slavery (The Negro in the Free States 1790-1860)-Leon F. Litwack
The Slave Power-The Free North and Southern Comination 1780-1860-
Leonard L. Richards
Southern Pamphlets on Secession, November 1860-April 1861 Edited by Jon L. Wakelyn
The Civil War in Appalachia-Collected Essays-edited by Kenneth Noe and Shannon Wilson
War at Every Door-Partisan Politics & Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee-1860-1869
Noel C. Fisher
Mountain Rebels-East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870
W. Todd Groce
The Orphan Brigade-The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home-
William C. Davis
A Very Violent Rebel-The Civil War Diary of Ellen Renshaw House
Edited by Daniel Sutherland  (A 'Voices of the Civil War' series)
Surviving the Confederacy-Rebellion, Ruin, and Recovery-Roger and Sara Pryor During the Civil War.- John C. Waugh
Too Afraid to Cry-Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign-
Kathleen A. Ernst-Foreword by Ted Alexander
Henry Hughes and Proslavery Thought in the Old South- Douglas Ambrose
Secessionists and Other Scoundrels-Selections from Parson Brownlow's Book
edited by Stephen V. Ash
When the Yankees Came-Conflict & Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865-
Stephen V. Ash  
My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune-A Memoir of the Civil War Era-
Jean-Charles Houzeau-Edited by David C. Rankin, Translated by Gerard F. Denault
Sectional Crisis and Southern Constitutionalism-comprising
The South and Three Sectional Crises; Constitutions and Constitutionalism in the Slave Holding South
by Don E. Fehrenbacher
Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society-
White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinderlands
-J. William Harris
Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America. William C. Davis
The Gray and the Black- The Confederate Debate on Emancipation  Robert F. Durden
Rebel Watchdog-The Confederate States Army Provost Guard-Kenneth Radley
Civil War Prisons-Edited by William B. Hesseltine
Life and Death in Civil War Prisons-J. Michael Martinez
(Cpl. John Wesley Minnich-CSA,  Sgt. Warren Lee Goss-USA)
Confederate Strategy, From Shiloh to Vicksburg-Archer Jones
The Life of Johnny Reb-Bell Irvin Wiley


From  The Virginia Regimental Histories Series 
9th Virginia Cavalry-Robert K.Krick
Miscellaneous Disbanded Virginia Light Artillery-Robert H. Moore,II
A Lieutenant of Cavalry in Lee's Army-9th Virginia Cavalry-G.W.Beale

War In Kentucky-From Shiloh to Perryville-James Lee McDonough 
Perryville-Battle for Kentucky-Kenneth A. Hafendorfer (autographed)
Perryville-This Grand Havoc of Battle-Kenneth W. Noe 
When the Ripe Pears Fell, The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky- D.Warren Lambert 
Army Of the Heartland-The Army of Tennessee 1861-62   Thomas Lawrence Connelly
Autumn of Glory-The Army of Tennessee 1862-1865   Thomas Lawrence Connelly
Nothing But Victory-The Army of Tennessee-Steven Woodworth
Liddell's Record-St. John Richardson Liddell edited by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.
Stonewall of the West-Patrick Cleburne & The Civil War   Craig L.Symonds
Soldier of Tennessee,  General Alexander P. Stewart and the Civil War in the West
Sam Davis Elliott
The Shipwreck of Their Hopes-The Battles for Chattanooga-Cozzens
Mountains Touched With Fire, Chattanooga Besieged, 1863-Wiley Sword (Autographed)
The Battle of Resaca-Philip L. Secrist
Marching Thru Georgia-The Story of Soldiers & Civilians during Sherman's Campaign-
Lee Kenneth

War Years with Jeb Stuart-Lieutenant Colonel W.W.Blackford, C.S.A.
Bedford Forrest and His Critter Company-Andrew Nelson Lytle
The Artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry- John Watson Morton, Capt.-
                                                                             Chief of Artillery, Forrest's Cavalry
Bedford Forrest-The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman- Capt Eric William Sheppard
That Devil Forrest-John Allan Wyeth, with a new forword by Albert Castel
An Unerring Fire-The Massacre at Fort Pillow-Richard L. Fuchs

Battle at Bull Run-William C. Davis
Confederate Goliath-Battle of Fort Fisher-Rod Gragg
Fredericksburg & Chancellorsville-The Dare Mark Campaign Daniel E. Sutherland
Chancellorsville-Stephen W. Sears
Bloody Promenade-Reflections on a Civil War Battle{The Wilderness, May, 1864}
Stephen Cushman    
Stones River-Bloody Winter in Tennessee-James Lee McDonough
Lee's Terrible Swift Sword-From Antietam to Chancellorsville-An Eyewitness History-
Richard Wheeler


Gray Raiders of the Sea-How Eight Confederate Warships Destroyed the  Union's
High Seas Commerce- Chester G. Hearn
Lifeline of the Confederacy-Blockade Running During the Civil War-Stephen R. Wise
The Civil War at Sea,--Virgil Carrington Jones   1st. of 3 Volumes done
Union and Confederate Submarine Warfare in the Civil War, Mark K. Ragan
Lincoln's Admiral-The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut--James P.Duffy


Shiloh: Bloody April-Wiley Sword
Shiloh: Bloody April (newly corrected Edition)   Wiley Sword
Shiloh:The Battle That Changed The Civil War-Larry J. Daniel
Guide to the Battle of Shiloh, edited by Jay Luvaas, Stephen Bowman, 
                                            & Leonard Fullenkamp
"Seeing the Elephant" Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh
Joseph Allen Frank and George A. Reaves

The Vicksburg Campaign  in 3 Vol.- Bearss
Ninety-Eight Days-A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign-Warren E. Grabau
Vicksburg-The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi-Michael B. Ballard
Champion Hill-Decisive Battle for Vicksburg-Timothy B.Smith
The Second Texas Infantry-From Shiloh to Vicksburg-Joseph E. Chance
Grant Wins the War, Decision at Vicksburg- James R. Arnold
Vicksburg, 47 Days of Siege-A.A.Hoehling
Pemberton, The General Who Lost Vicksburg-Michael B. Ballard
My Cave Life in Vicksburg, With Letters of Trial and Travel by a Lady 
(Mary Ann Webster)
Brokenburn-The Journal of Kate Stone 1861-1868
Edited by John Q. Anderson.With a new Introduction by Drew Gilpin Faust
Vicksburg  A People at War 1860-1865-Peter F. Walker
Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi-Lawrence Lee Hewitt
Sherman's Forgotten Campaign-The Meridan Expedition-Margie Bearss
Grierson's Raid-D.Alexander Brown
The Lightning Mule Brigade-Abel Streight's 1863 Raid into Alabama-Robert L. Willett
Vicksburg is the Key-The Struggle for the Mississippi River, Shea & Winschel
(autographed by Winschel)
Triumph and Defeat-Terrence J. Winschel (autographed)
Ellet's Brigade-The Strangest Outfit Of All-Chester G.Hearn
Louisiana in the Confederacy-Jefferson Davis Bragg

History of the Campaign of Mobile, Including the COÖPERATIVE OPERATIONS of General Wilson's Cavalry in Alabama-CC Andrews (reprint of 1866 issue)
Yankee Blitzkrieg-Wilson's Raid Through Alabama and Georgia
James Pickett Jones
Confederate Mobile-Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.
Confederate Mobile-Caldwell Delaney ( A pictorial history)
The Story Of Mobile-Caldwell Delaney [a short history of the Mobile area] (paperback, 1953)
Mobile Bay and the Mobile Campaign-The Last Great Battles of the Civil War-
                                                             Chester G. Hearn
West Wind, Flood Tide, The Battle of Mobile Bay-Jack Friend
Last Stand at Mobile-John C. Waugh           autographed
Mobile,1865 Last Stand of the Confederacy-Sean Michael O'Brien

Apostles of Disunion, (Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War)   Charles D. Dew. A excellent online site, owned by Mr. Erpperson, and a companion site to this book is The Secession Commisioners.
Why The North Won The Civil War, Edited by David Herbert Donald
What They Fought For  1861-1865,.-James M. McPherson
Soldiers Blue and Gray-James I. Robertson, Jr.
The Art of War-Sun Tzu  (Barnes & Noble Book Discussion Group)
Arguing About Slavery-John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress- William Lee Miller- (battle over the "gag rule")
The South vs. The South - William W. Freehling
Lee Considered- Alan T. Nolan
The Lost Cause-The Confederate Exodus to Mexico-Andrew Rolle


The Gettysburg Campaign, A Study in Command-Edwin B. Coddington
The Cavalry at Gettysburg, Edward G. Longacre
Gettysburg-The First Day- Harry W. Pfanz 
Gettysburg-The Second Day-Harry Pfanz
Gettysburg-Day Three-Jeffry D. Wert
Gettysburg-A Testing of Courage-Noah Andre Trudeau
Gettysburg-Day Two-A Study in Maps, John D. Imhof*
Gettysburg Magazine, Vol. 1-35*
Series 1,Vol. 27, Part 1, 2, 3. OR-Gettysburg - Special edition by Morningside Books*
Bachelder Papers, ( Gettysburg) 3 vols. + Maps*
Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions-Eric Wittenberg (autographed)
The Colors of Courage-Gettysburg's Forgotten History-Immigrants, Women, and African
Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle
-Margaret S. Crieghton

Novels, Etc.
Shiloh, Shelby Foote
Confederates in The Attic-Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War-Tony Horwitz


Diaries/Letters/Bios.
Lincoln-David Herbert Donald
Grant Memoirs and Selected Letters
Sherman-A Soldier's Passion for Order-John F. Marszalek
Fighting Joe Hooker-Walter H. Hebert-(CWi Book Discussion Group)
Letters to Amanda, Letters of Marion Hill Fitzpatrick, Army of Northern Virginia
edited by Jeffrey C. Lowe and Sam Hodges
John Ransom's Andersonville Diary-Life inside the civil war's most infamous prison-by John Ransom, with an introduction by Bruce Catton.
Weep Not For Me, Dear Mother-Elizabeth Whitley Roberson. Story and letters of 
Eli Pinson Landers-The Flint Hill Grays, Co.H of the 16th Regiment of Georgia Volunteers 
The Civil War Diary of Cyrus F. Boyd-Fifteenth Iowa Infantry 1861-1863
-Edited by Mildred Throne
All For The Union-The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
 Edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
A Volunteer's Adventures-A Union Captain's Record of the Civil War-
John William De Forest
  Edited, with Notes, by James H. Croushore
The Diary of James T. Ayers-Civil War Recruiter
Edited with a new Preface, by John Hope Franklin. With a new Introduction by
John David Smith
Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
edited by Russell Duncan,
Hard Marching Everyday 1861-1865, Letters of Pvt. Wilbur Fisk, edited by Emil & Ruth Rosenblatt
Co Aytch-A Confederate Memoir of the Civl War- Sam R. Watkins
The Civil War Diary of a Common Soldier-William Wiley of the 77th Illinois Infantry
Edited by Terrence J. Winschel  (autographed)
Memoirs of a Soldier-Benjamin Taylor Smith (17 yrs old.of Kankakee, Il., enlisting at Watseka, Il. in Co.C, 51st Il.) edited by M.P.Mullen
Reluctant Rebel-The Secret Diary of Robert Patrick, 1861-1865
Edited by F.Jay Taylor
A Woman Doctor's Civil War-Ester Hill Hawks' Diary-edited by Gerald Schwartz
A Woman's WarTime Journal-An account of Sherman's devastation of a southern plantation, Dolly Sumner Lunt Burge-intro and notes by Julian Street

Others
A Stillness at Appomattox-Bruce Catton
The Blue and The Gray-Thomas B. Allen, Photos by Sam Abell,
  Prepared by the Book Division National Geographic Society, Washington,DC
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine*   November 1886, to April 1887
   "        "                 "              "               "         *   May 1888, to October 1888  (new)
Civil War Days-Everyday Life During the War Between the States-John Bowen
Pictures of  how the soldiers lived and fought, politicians, civilians, journalists, families and others.
They Fought Like Demons-Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
Deanne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook
Refugee Life in the Confederacy-Mary Elizabeth Massey
When the Devil Came Down to Dixie-Ben Butler in New Orleans Chester G.Hearn
Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup-edited by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon
HardTack and Coffee-John D. Billings
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