This is a list of the U.S. Civil War books we own or have come across in our travels. We are continually adding to this page. If you’d like us to add a book, please e-mail us at warthroughgenerations AT gmail DOT com. Thanks! (**We are constantly adding to this page**)
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Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America by William E. Gienapp
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman
Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason by David Hirsch and Dan Van Haften
Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths by Stephen B. Oates
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
An Acquaintance With Darkness by Ann Rinaldi
“All Cut to Pieces and Gone to Hell”: The Civil War, Race Relations, and the Battle of Poison Spring edited by Mark K. Christ
Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War by David Detzer
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
All Other Nights by Dara Horn
All Out of Heart: A Journalist’s Memoir of the Civil War by Nicholas J. Canfield, edited by Jeanette Clinkunbroomer
All Things New by Lynn Austin
The Amalgamation Polka by Stephen Wright
Amelia’s War by Ann Rinaldi
The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan
The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton
The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel
American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles by Thomas Keneally
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
And One Rode West by Heather Graham
And One Wore Gray by Heather Graham
And the War Came: The Six Months That Tore America Apart by Jamie Malanowski
Angel Trumpet: A Civil War Mystery by Ann McMillan
Annie, Between the States by L.M. Elliott
Antietam Assassins: A Harrison Raines Adventure by Michael Kilian
Apple Hill: A Story of Slavery and Civil War by Alvin Yusin
Appomattox by James Reasoner
April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik
Army Life: From a Soldier’s Journal by A.O. Marshall, edited by Robert G. Schultz
At the Right Hand of Long Street: Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley Sorrel
Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri Bushwhacker edited by Kirby Ross
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
Battle Flag by Bernard Cornwell
Battle on the Bay: The Civil War Struggle for Galveston by Edward T. Cotham, Jr.
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems by Herman Melville, edited by Paul M. Dowling
Beauty From Ashes by Eugenia Price
Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of the War by Margaret Junkin Preston
Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy by Seymour Reit
Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
Belle by Beverly Jenkins
The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War by Roy Morris Jr.
Beyond all Measure by Dorothy Love
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr
The Bloody Ground by Bernard Cornwell
Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall
Bohemian Girl by Terese Svoboda
Bondage and Freedom: A Civil War Romance by Nikki Stoddard Schofield
The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War by Jim Murphy
The Breastplate: A Civil War Adventure by Shirley McCracken
Broken Promises: A Novel of the Civil War by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Buffalo Gordon on the Plains by J.P. Sinclair Lewis
Bull Run to Gettysburg: American Civil War Rules and Campaigns by David Bickley
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Call Each River Jordan by Owen Parry
Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee by J. Steven Wilkins
Campaigning With Grant by Horace Porter
The Campaigns for Vicksburg 1862-63 by Kevin L. Dougherty
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin
Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman by Darlis A. Miller
Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray by William Charles Henry Wood
Captured! A Boy Trapped in the Civil War by Mary Blair Immel
Castle Thunder: Civil War Mystery by Ann McMillan
Cause: Reconstruction America 1863-1877 by Tonya Bolden
A Cavalryman With Custer by James Harvey Kidd
Cease Firing by Mary Johnston
Chancellorsville by James Reasoner
Chancellorsville 1863: Jackson’s Lightning Strike by Carl Smith
Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave by Ernest B. Furgurson
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Herbert Donald
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
Chickahominy Fever: A Civil War Mystery by Ann McMillan
Chickamauga by James Reasoner
The Children’s Civil War by James Marten
Civil Blood: A Civil War Mystery by Ann McMillan
Civil War America: 1850-1870 by Paul Johnson
The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Vol. set) by Shelby Foote
The Civil War: A Narrative — Fort Sumpter to Perryville (Vol. 1) by Shelby Foote
The Civil War: A Narrative — Fredericksburg to Meridian (Vol. 2) by Shelby Foote
The Civil War: A Narrative — Red River to Appomattox (Vol. 3) by Shelby Foote
The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century by Brian Holden Reid
Civil War Arkansas: Beyond Battles and Leaders edited by Anne J. Bailey and Daniel E. Sutherland
The Civil War: A Visual History: Rare Images and Tales of the War Between the States
The Civil War for Kids: A History With 21 Activities by Janis Herbert
Civil War Ghosts by Daniel Cohen
Civil War Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
The Civil War in 50 Objects by Harold Holzer and the New-York Historical Society
Civil War: People and Perspectives edited by Lisa Tendrich Frank
Civil War Poetry: An Anthology edited by Paul Negri
Civil War Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman
The Civil War Reenactors’ Encyclopedia by William C. Davis
Civil War Sargeant by William Keim
Civil War Soldiers by Reid Mitchell
Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce
Civil War Sub: The Mystery of the Hunley by Kate Boehm Jerome, illustrated by Frank Sofo
Civil War Wives: The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant by Carol Berkin
Civil War Women: The Civil War Seen Through Women’s Eyes in Stories edited by Frank McSherry Jr.
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War by Sam R. Watkins
The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys by Ann Rinaldi
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg’s Forgotten History by Margaret S. Creighton
Come Juneteenth by Ann Rinaldi
The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, & Nashville by Wiley Sword
A Confederate Girl’s Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson
Confederate Nation: 1861-1865 by Emory M. Thomas
The Confederate Reader: How the South Saw the War edited by Richard B. Harwell
The Confederate War Bonnet: A Novel of the Civil War in Indian Territory by Jack Shakely
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
Copperhead by Bernard Cornwell
The Crossing (The Last Cavaliers: One) by Gilbert Morris
A Cry for Justice: Daniel Rudd and His Life in Black Catholicism, Journalism and Activism, 1854-1933 by Gary B. Agee
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Damage Them All You Can: Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia by George Walsh
Dark Thicket by Elmer Kelton
Davenport’s Version: A Narrative Poem by John Gery
Dead March: A Civil War Mystery by Ann McMillan
Dearest Enemy by Nan Ryan
Death in the Trenches: Grant at Petersburg by William C. Davis
The Death of a Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories and a Novella by Pat Carr
The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans by Charles Royster
Diary of a Christian Soldier: Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War by David C. Rankin
The Die Is Cast: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861 edited by Mark K. Christ
Divided Loyalties: Kentucky’s Struggle for Armed Neutrality in the Civil War by James W. Finck
Don’t Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America’s Greatest Conflict but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis
Drawn With the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War by James M. McPherson
Dupre’s Song: A Story From the American Civil War by Eddie Blanchard
Duty and Honor: A Novel of the Civil War by Michael J. Deeb
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Echoes From the Letters of a Civil War Surgeon edited by Benjamin A. Fordyce, Lydia P. Hecht
Edge of Honor by Gilbert Morris
1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History by Charles Bracelen Flood
1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden
The Emancipator’s Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln by Barbara Hambly
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
Envy’s Civil War by Miriam Brenaman
The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 by Kenneth M. Stampp
Escape From Andersonville: A Novel of the Civil War by Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan
The Ever-After Bird by Ann Rinaldi
Everyday Life During the Civil War: A Guide for Writers, Students and Historians by Michael J. Varhola
An Eye for Glory: The Civil War Chronicles of a Citizen Soldier by Karl Bacon
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Faded Coat of Blue by Owen Parry
Failure in the Saddle: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joe Wheeler, and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign by David A. Powell
Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by George Washington Cable
The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State edited by Charles D. Grear
Father Abraham’s Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War by Frank B. Woodford
Fields of Fury: The American Civil War by James M. McPherson
Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War by Edwin C. Bearss
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
The Fifth Skull: A Historical Novel of the Civil War and the American West by Terrell T. Garren
Fire by Night by Lynn Austin
Fire on the Waters: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea by David Poyer
The First Battles: A Sourcebook on the Civil War edited by Carter Smith
First Bull Run: First Victory for the South by Pascal le Pautremat
Fixin’ Things: A Novel of the Women of Gettysburg by Peggy Ullman Bell
Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863 by Scott L. Mingus, Sr.
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson
Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory by John Cimprich
Fort Pillow: A Novel of the Civil War by Harry Turtledove
Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections From His Writings by Frederick Douglass
Freedom’s Cap: The United States Capital and the Coming of the Civil War by Guy Gugliotta
Freedom Stone by Jeffrey Kluger
Freeman by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature by Randall Fuller
From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War Community by Dennis W. Brandt
From the Ashes of Ruin by Miriam Freeman Rawl
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Gabriel’s Horses by Alison Hart
Gabriel’s Journey by Alison Hart
Gabriel’s Triumph by Alison Hart
The Galvanized Yankees by Dee Brown
Galveston by P.G. Nagle
Ganymede by Cherie Priest
Gardner’s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War by Alexander Gardner
General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A. by Samuel J. Martin
Getting Used to Being Shot At: The Spence Family Civil War Letters edited by Mark K. Christ
Gettysburg by James Reasoner
Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen
The Gettysburg Campaign in Numbers and Losses: Synopses, Orders of Battles, Strengths, Casualties, and Maps, June 9-July 14, 1863 by J. David Petruzzi and Steven Stanley
Gettysburg’s Forgotten Cavalry Actions: Farnsworth’s Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863 by Eric J. Wittenberg
Gettysburg: Stories of Memory, Grief, and Greatness by Elsie Singmaster
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion by Allen C. Guelzo
Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi
Glory in the Dust: A Civil War Novel by Earl Cripe
Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood
Grant Comes East by Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen
Grierson’s Raid: A Daring Cavalry Strike Through the Heart of the Confederacy by Tom Lalicki
Guide to Missouri Confederate Units, 1861-1865 by James E. McGhee
The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War’s Eve by Joseph A. Altsheler
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad by David A. Adler
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
Hear the Wind Blow by Mary Downing Hahn
Heaven and Hell by John Jakes
His Steadfast Love by Golden Keyes Parsons
A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas: Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and Times of Peace by William Monks
The Horse Soldiers by Harold Sinclair
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
How I Found the Strong: A Civil War Story by Margaret McMullan
How to Lose the Civil War: Military Mistakes of the War Between the States by Bill Fawcett
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I Do Wish This Cruel War Was Over: First-Person Accounts of Civil War Arkansas by Mark K. Christ and Patrick G. Williams
If the South Had Won the Civil War by MacKinlay Kantor, illustrated by Dan Nance
If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War by Kay Moore, illustrated by Anni Matsick
Illinois Rebels: A Civil War Unit History of G Company, Fifteenth Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Infantry by Ed Gleeson
An Illustrated History of the Civil War: Images of an American Tragedy by William J. Miller and Brian C. Pohanka
Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter
In My Father’s House by Ann Rinaldi
Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War by Michael Fellman
In the Lion’s Den: A Novel of the Civil War by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
The Iron Brigade in the Civil War: Bull Run to Appomattox, 1861-1865 by Lance J. Herdegen
Iron Scouts of the Confederacy by Lee McGiffin
Iron Thunder by Avi
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 (Dear America) by Joyce Hansen
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Jarrettsville by Cornelia Nixon
John Brown’s Body: An Alphonso Clay Mystery of the Civil War by Jack Martin
Journal of a Civil War Nurse by Georgiann Baldino
Jubilee by Margaret Walker
The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr
Juliet’s Moon by Ann Rinaldi
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The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
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Land of Falling Stars by Keta Diablo
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears
The Last Battle of Winchester: Phil Sheridan, Jubal Early, and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, August 7-September 19,1864 by Scott C. Patchan
The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale by Trinka Hakes Noble, illustrated by Robert Papp
The Last Confederate Battle by John Cline
The Last Full Measure by Ann Rinaldi
The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
Last Reveille by David Morrell
The Last Silk Dress by Ann Rinaldi
Leigh Ann’s Civil War by Ann Rinaldi
A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 by Karen Hesse
A Light to My Path by Lynn Austin
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations From His Best Friends and Worst Enemies edited by Harold Holzer
The Lincoln Conspiracy by Timothy L. O’Brien
Lincoln’s Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation by William C. Davis
Lincoln on War: Our Greatest Commander-in-Chief Speaks to America edited by Harold Holzer
The Listeners by Gloria Whelan, illustrated by Mike Benny
The Little Regiment and Other Civil War Stories by Stephen Crane
A Little Short of Boats: The Civil War Battles of Ball’s Bluff and Edwards Ferry, October 21-22, 1861 by James A. Morgan III
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America by William C. Davis
Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman
Lorena by Frank G. Slaughter
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War by Louisa May Alcott
Love and War by John Jakes
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Manassas by James Reasoner
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H.W. Brands
The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, Including the Battle of South Mountain, September 2-20, 1862 by Bradley M. Gottfried
March by Geraldine Brooks
The March by E.L. Doctorow
Mark Twain’s Civil War by Mark Twain
Mary Chesnut’s Civil War by Mary Chesnut, edited by C. Vann Woodward
Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic by Julia A. Stern
A Meteor Shining Brightly: Essays on Major General Patrick R. Cleburne by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
Mr. Lincoln’s Drummer by G. Clifton Wisler
Mr. Lincoln’s Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington by Benjamin Franklin Cooling
Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War by Thomas B. Allen and Roger MacBride Allen
Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War by Tom Wheeler
Mrs. Lincoln: A Life by Catherine Clinton
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between the First Lady and a Former Slave by Jennifer Fleischner
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
Murder at Manasses (A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery) by Michael Kilian
My America: My Brother’s Keeper: Virginia’s Civil War Diary by Mary Pope Osborne
My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
My Vicksburg by Ann Rinaldi
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Nevada! by Dana Fuller Ross
Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen
A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor by Robert G. Pielke
The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook, June 9-July 14, 1863: Faces, Photos and Artwork for Readers of All Ages by J. David Petruzzi and Steven Stanley
North and South by John Jakes
The Notorious Mrs. Winston by Mary Mackey
Numbering All the Bones by Ann Rinaldi
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army by S. Emma E. Edmonds
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Obliged to Help: Adolphine Fletcher Terry and the Progressive South by Stephanie Bayless
Of Blood and Brothers: A Novel of the Civil War by E. Michael Helms
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel by Allan Gurganus
Once More Into the Breach: A Personal Account: Reliving the History of the Civil War by Mark Brian Swart
One Continuous Fight: The Retreat From Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 by Eric J. Wittenberg, J. David Petruzzi, and Michael F. Nugent
The One Who Waits for Me by Lori Copeland
One Wore Blue by Heather Graham
Ordeal of the Union: Vol. 1 — Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-1852, A House Dividing 1852-1857 by Allan Nevins
Ordeal of the Union: Vol.2 — The Emergence of Lincoln: Douglas, Buchanan and Party Chaos 1857-1859, Prologue to the Civil War 1859-1961 by Allan Nevins
Ordeal of the Union: Vol. 3 — The Improvised War 1861-1862, War Becomes Revolution 1862-1863 by Allan Nevins
Ordeal of the Union: Vol. 4 — The Organized War 1863-1864, The Organized War to Victory 1864-1865 by Allan Nevins
The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America by Howard Zinn
Our Simple Gifts: Civil War Christmas Tales by Owen Parry
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The Parting: A Story of West Point on the Eve of the Civil War by Richard Barlow Adams
The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Pathway to Hell: A Tragedy of the American Civil War by Dennis W. Brandt
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson
Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, or Incidents of the War in Arkansas by William Baxter
Pemberley Ranch by Jack Caldwell
The Petersburg Campaign: The Eastern Front Battles, June-August 1864 (Volume I) by Edwin C. Bearss and Bryce A. Suderow
The Petersburg Campaign: The Western Front Battles, September 1864-April 1865 (Volume 2) by Edwin C. Bears with Bryce Suderow
Petticoat Spies: Six Women Spies of the Civil War by Peggy Caravantes
The Phoenix Gambit: An Alternative History of the Confederacy by Douglas McDonough
Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg by Eric J. Wittenberg and J. David Petruzzi
Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Missouri in the Civil War edited by William Garrett Piston and Thomas P. Sweeney
Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War edited by Richard B. McCaslin
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed by Mark Twain
The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries edited by C. Vann Woodward, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld
Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles for Brinkerhoff’s Ridge and East Cavalry Field, July 2-3, 1863 by Eric J. Wittenberg
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight
The Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson by Robert J. Wynstra
“…the real war will never get in the books”: Selections From Writers During the Civil War edited by Louis P. Masur
Rebecca Harding Davis’s Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings From the Borderlands by Rebecca Harding Davis, edited by Sharon M. Harris and Robin L. Cadwallader
Rebel by Bernard Cornwell
Rebel Fever: A Civil War Novel by David Healey
Rebel Train by David Healey
The Rebel Wife by Taylor M. Polites
Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg — The Campaigns That Changed the Civil War by Edwin C. Bearrs and J. Hills
Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley Sorrel
Reconstructing Jackson by Holly Bush
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Redemption Falls by Joseph O’Connor
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann
The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Revenge and Redemption: A Novel of Love and Conflict in the Civil War by Brad E. Hainsworth
Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
The Road From Chapel Hill by Joanna Catherine Scott
“A Rough Introduction to This Sunny Land”: The Civil War Diary of Private Henry A. Strong, Co. K, Twelfth Kansas Infantry edited by Tom Wing
Rugged and Sublime: The Civil War in Arkansas edited by Mark K. Christ
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Sabine Pass: The Confederate’s Thermopylae by Edward T. Cotham, Jr.
The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman’s Experiences in the Civil War by Walt Whitman, edited by John Harmon McElroy
Salisbury: Civil War Death Camp in North Carolina by Richard Masterson
Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman edited by Charles East
Sarah’s Ground by Ann Rinaldi
Savannah by James Reasoner
Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War by Jacqueline Jones
Scarecrow in Gray by Barry Yelton
The Second Day at Gettysburg: The Attack and Defense of the Union Center on Cemetery Ridge, July 2, 1863 by David L. Shultz and David F. Wieck
The Secret of War: A Dramatic History of Civil War Crime in Western North Carolina by Terrell T. Garren
The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen
A Separate Country by Robert Hicks
Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia by Jessica James
Shadow of a Quarter Moon by Eileen Clymer Schwab
Shadows in Blue & Gray: Original Civil War Poems by Jeanne Losey
Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce edited by Brian M. Thomsen
Shanks: The Life and Wars of General Nathan G. Evans, CSA by Jason H. Silverman, Samuel N. Thomas Jr., Beverly D. Evans IV
Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War by David Madden
Shiloh by James Reasoner
The Shiloh Sisters: A Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery by Michael Kilian
A Short History of the Civil War by James Stokesbury
The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union by John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood
Sisters Against Slavery: A Story About Sarah and Angelina Grimke by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson, illustrated by Karen Ritz
Slant of Light by Steve Wiegenstein
A Soldier’s Embrace by Julie Romero
Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen
A Soldier’s Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero by Marissa Moss
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
Songs and Ballads of the Southern People, 1861-1865 (Civil War) by Frank Moore
Song Yet Sung by James McBride
Sons of Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in the Civil War by W. Eric Emerson
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy by Elizabeth R. Varon
Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea by Noah Andre Trudeau
The Spy in Crinoline: Antonia Ford’s Civil War by Karla Vernon
The Spy Lover by Kiana Davenport
The Spymistress by Jennifer Chiaverini
Stand Firm and Fire Low: The Civil War Writings of Colonel Edward E. Cross edited by Walter Holden, William E. Ross, and Elizabeth Slomba
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
Stonewall’s Gold: A Novel of the Civil War by Robert J. Mrazek
Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne & the Civil War by Craig L. Symonds
The Story of the Confederacy by Robert Selph Henry
Strangling the Confederacy: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War by Kevin Dougherty
Sunrise by Jacquelyn Cook
The Surrender (The Last Cavaliers: Three) by Gilbert Morris
Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
The Sword (The Last Cavaliers: Two) by Gilbert Morris
The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation’s Crisis by Joseph A. Altsheler
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Theodore O’Hara: Poet-Solider of the Old South by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and Thomas Clayton Ware
They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War by DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook
Things Grew Beautifully Worse: The Wartime Experiences of Captain John O’Brien, 30th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A. edited by Brian K. Robertson
This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War by Bruce Catton
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
A Time to Dance: Virginia’s Civil War Diary by Mary Pope Osborne
The Tinen Killings: A Novel of Civil War Veterans by J.D. Solomon
To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1876 edited by Kathleen Diffley
Tories: Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War by Thomas B. Allen
The Twentieth Maine: A Classic Story of John Chamberlain and His Volunteer Regiment by John J. Pullen
Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein
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Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters, 1839-1865 by Ulysses S. Grant, edited by Mary D. McFeely and William S. McFeely
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Unfinished Work by Frank Meredith
Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain, September 14, 1862 by Brian Matthew Jordan
The Unionist: A Novel of the Civil War by W. Steven Harrell
The Union Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini
An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley by Ann Rinaldi
Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad by Henry Cole
Upon Fields of Honor: An Anthology of Short Fiction of the Civil War edited by James T. Navary
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Vicksburg by James Reasoner
Vicksburg’s Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy of Race and Remembrance by Christopher Waldrep
The View From the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers edited by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Virginia at War, 1862 edited by William C. Davis, James I. Roberston Jr.
Virginia at War, 1863 edited by William C. Davis, James I. Robertson Jr.
A Voice From the Border by Pamela Smith Hill
A Voice in the Wind by Donald Risho
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Walking to Gatlinburg by Howard Frank Mosher
Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America’s Poet During the Lost Years of 1860-1862 by Ted Genoways
Walt Whitman’s Civil War by Walter Lowenfelds
War Poetry of the South (Civil War) edited by William Gilmore Simms
Wash by Margaret Wrinkle
We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church by Deborah Brunt
What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War by Chandra Manning
When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D. Sarna
When I Was a Slave: Memoirs From the Slave Narrative Collection edited by Norman R. Yetman
When This Cruel War Is Over: A Novel of the Civil War by Thomas Fleming
When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 by Barry Denenberg
Where the Mockingbird Sang: A Novel of the Civil War by David Wilson Atwood
Where They Bury You by Steven W. Kohlhagen
White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
The Widow’s War by Mary Mackey
Wild Rose: The True Story of a Civil War Spy by Ann Blackman
William Henry Is a Fine Name by Cathy Gohlke
With Every Drop of Blood: A Novel of the Civil War by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates
With My Face to the Enemy: Perspectives on the Civil War edited by Robert Cowley
A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
Worthy of the Cause for Which They Fight: The Civil War Diary of Brigadier General Haris Reynolds 1861-1865 edited by Robert Patrick Bender
The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D. by John Vance Lauderdale, edited by Peter Josyph
Writing & Fighting the Confederate War: The Letters of Peter Wellington Alexa edited by William B. Styple
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Yankee Gold by Elizabeth Wall Rogers
The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr
Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War by Douglas R. Egerton
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