Bibliography of American Civil War battles and campaigns

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The American Civil War bibliography comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month. [1] There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is more than 50 years old and lists over 6,000 titles. [2]

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Note: This article forms part of Bibliography of the American Civil War

Battles: surveys, strategies, tactics

Battles and campaigns: Eastern Theater

Appomattox Campaign

Averell's Raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

Battle of Ball's Bluff

Battle of Big Bethel

Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns

Bermuda Hundred Campaign

Chancellorsville Campaign

Battle of New Market

Crook—Averell Raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

First Bull Run/Manassas Campaign

Fredericksburg Campaign

1862 Maryland Campaign

Overland Campaign

Peninsula Campaign

Petersburg Campaign

Second Manassas Campaign

1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign

1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Siege of Suffolk

Stoneman's 1865 Raid

Western Virginia Campaign

Wilmington Campaign

Gettysburg Campaign

Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign

  • BrookeRawle, William. The Right Flank at Gettysburg: An Account of the Operations of General Gregg's Cavalry Command. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: published by author, 1905.
  • Longacre, Edward. The Cavalry at Gettysburg: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign, 9 June - 14 July 1863. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. ISBN   978-0-8032-7941-4.
  • Mosby, John S. Stuart's Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1908.
  • Newhall, F.C. How Lee Lost the Use of His Cavalry before the Battle of Gettysburg. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1878.
  • O'Neill Jr. Robert F. The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg and Upperville, Small but Important Riots, June 1027, 1863. Lynchburg, Virginia: H.E. Howard Co., 1993.
  • Phipps, Michael. "Come On You Wolverines!": Custer at Gettysburg. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Farnsworth House Military Impressions, 1995.
  • Riggs, David F. East of Gettysburg: Stuart vs. Custer. Bellevue, Nebraska: Olde Army Press, 1970.
  • Robinson, Warren C. Jeb Stuart and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. ISBN   978-0-8032-1101-8.
  • Rummel III, George A. Cavalry on the Roads to Gettysburg: Kilpatrick at Hanover and Hunterstown. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane, 2000.
  • Trowbridge, Luther S. The Operations of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign. Detroit, Michigan: 1888.
  • Walker, Paul D. The Cavalry Battle that Saved the Union: Custer vs. Stuart at Gettysburg. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Co., 2002.
  • Wittenberg, Eric J. Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 1998.
  • Wittenberg, Eric J. Protecting the Flank: The Battles for Brinkerhoff's Ridge and East Cavalry Field, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Celina, Ohio: Ironclad Publishing, 2002.
  • Wittenberg, Eric J. and J. David Petruzzi. Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg. New York: Savas Beatie, 2006.

Battle of Brandy Station

  • Beattie, Dan. Brandy Station 1863: First Step Towards Gettysburg. United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2009.
  • Borcke, Heros Von and Justus Scheibert. The Great Cavalry Battle of Brandy Station. WinstonSalem, North Carolina: Palaemon Press, 1976.
  • Crouch, Richard E. Brandy Station: A Battle Like No Other.
  • Downey, Fairfax. Clash of Cavalry: The Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863. New York: David McKay 1959.
  • McKinney, Joseph W. Brandy Station, Virginia, June 9, 1863: The Largest Cavalry Battle of the Civil War. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2006.
  • Wittenberg, Eric J. The Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863: North America's Largest Cavalry Battle. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2010.
  • Wittenber, Eric J. and Daniel T. Davis. Out Flew the Sabres: The Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863. Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61121-256-3.

Second Battle of Winchester

  • Beck, Brandon H. and Charles S. Grunder. The Second Battle of Winchester, June 1215, 1863. Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1989.
  • Downey, Fairfax. Clash of Cavalry: The Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863. New York: 1959.
  • Maier, Larry B. Gateway to Gettysburg: The Second Battle of Winchester. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 2002. ISBN   1-57249-287-2.
  • Wittenberg, Eric J. and Scott L. Mingus Sr. The Second Battle of Winchester: The Confederate Victory that Opened the Door to Gettysburg. Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN   978-1-61121-288-4.

Battle of Hanover

  • (no author listed) Encounter at Hanover: Prelude to Gettysburg. Hanover, Pennsylvania: 1963.
  • Anthony, William. History of the Battle of Hanover, (York County, Pennsylvania) Tuesday, June 30, 1863. Hanover, Pennsylvania: published by the author, 1945.
  • The Historical Publication Committee of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce. Prelude to Gettysburg: Encounter at Hanover. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1962.

Battle of Gettysburg First Day

  • Beck, Brandon H. and Charles S. Grunder. The Second Battle of Winchester, June 1215, 1863. Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1989.
  • Biddle, Chapman. The First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippencott, 1880.
  • Gallagher, Gary W., ed. The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1992. ISBN   0-87338-457-1.
  • Hassler Jr., Warren W. Crisis at the Crosswords: The First Day at Gettysburg. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1970.
  • Herdegen, Lance J., and William J. K. Beaudot. In the Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Press, 1990.
  • Mackowski, Chris, Kristopher D. White, and Daniel T. Davis. Fight Like the Devil: The First Day at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. El Dorado Hills, California: Savas Beatie, 2015. ISBN   978-1-61121-227-3.
  • Martin, David G. Gettysburg July 1, revised edition. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books, 1996. ISBN   0-938289-81-0.
  • Newton, Steven H. McPherson's Ridge: The First Battle for the High Ground, July 1, 1863. Cambridge, Massachusetts: DaCapo Press, 2002.
  • Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg The First Day. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University Press of North Carolina, 2001. ISBN   0-8078-2624-3.
  • Shue, Richard S. Morning at Willoughby Run: The Opening Battle at Gettysburg July 1, 1863. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 1998. ISBN   0-939631-74-1.

Battle of Gettysburg Second Day

  • Bigelow, John. The Peach Orchard, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Minneapolis, Minnesota: KimballStorer Co., 1910.
  • Gallagher, Gary W., ed. The Second Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1993.
  • Hessler, James A. and Britt C. Isenberg. Gettysburg’s Peach Orchard: Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the "Commanding Ground" Along the Emmitsburg Road. Savas Beatie, 2019. ISBN   978-1-61121-455-0.
  • Imhof, John D. Gettysburg: Day Two – A Study In Maps. Baltimore, Maryland: Butternut & Blue, 1999. ISBN   0-935523-70-7.
  • LaFantasie, Glenn. W. Twilight at Little Round Top: July 2, 1863 The Tide Turns at Gettysburg. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005. ISBN   0-471-46231-4.
  • Mackowski, Chris, Kristopher D. White, and Daniel T. Davis. Don't Give an Inch: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863 From Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge. El Dorado Hills, California: Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN   978-1-61121-229-7.
  • Mingus Sr., Scott L. and David L. Shultz. The Second Day at Gettysburg: The Attack and Defense of the Union Center on Cemetery Ridge, July 2, 1863. Savas Beatie, LLC, 2013. ISBN   978-1-611210-74-3.
  • Norton, Oliver W. The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top: Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. New York: Neale, 1913.
  • Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg: The Second Day. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. ISBN   0-8078-1749-X.
  • Priest, John Michael. "Stand To It And Give Them Hell": Gettysburg as the Soldiers Experienced It From Cemetery Ridge to Little Round Top, July 2, 1863. El Dorado Hills, California: Savas Beatie, 2014. ISBN   978-1-61121-324-9.
  • Shultz, David and David Wieck. The Battle Between the Farm Lanes: Hancock Saves the Union Center, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Columbus, Ohio: Ironclad Publishing, Inc., 2006.
  • Tucker, Philip Thomas. Barksdale's Charge: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. Casemate Publishers, 2013. ISBN   978-1-61200-179-1.
  • Tucker, Philip Thomas. Storming Little Round Top: The 15th Alabama and Their Fight for the High Ground, July 2, 1863. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books, 2001. ISBN   1-58097-060-5.

Battle of Gettysburg Third Day

  • Hess, Earl J. Pickett's Charge – The Last Attack at Gettysburg. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN   0-8078-2648-0.
  • Hessler, Jams A. and Wayne E. Motts. Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg: A Guide to the Most Famous Attack in American History. Savas Beatie, 2015. ISBN   978-1611212006.
  • Priest, John Michael. Into the Fight: Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Books, 1998.
  • Shultz, David L. Double Canister at Ten Yards: The Federal Artillery and the Repulse of Pickett’s Charge, July 3, 1863. Savas Beatie, 2017. ISBN   978-1-61121-272-3.
  • Stewart, George R. Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. Boston, Massachusetts: 1959.
  • Wert, Jeffry D. Gettysburg: Day Three. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN   0-684-85914-9.

Retreat from Gettysburg

  • Brown, Kent Masterson. Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
  • Ryan, Thomas J. and Richard R. Shuas. Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg: July 4 to July 14, 1863. Savas Beatie, 2019. ISBN   978-1-61121-459-8.
  • Schildt, John W. Roads from Gettysburg. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1998. ISBN   1-57249-071-3.
  • Wittenberg, Eric J. and J. David Petruzzi, and Michael F. Nugent. One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4th 14th, 1863. Savas Beatie, 2008. ISBN   978-1-932714-43-2.

Parts of the Gettysburg Battlefield

  • Adelman, Garry E. Little Round Top: A Detailed Tour Guide. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 2001.
  • Adelman, Garry E. and Timothy H. Smith. Devil's Den: A History and Guide. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 1997.
  • Adelman, Garry E. and Timothy H. Smith. The Myth of Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 2003.
  • Archer, John M. Culp's Hill at Gettysburg: The Mountain Trembled. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 2002.
  • Christ, Elwood W. "Over a Wide, Hot, ... Crimson Plain": The Struggle for the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg. Baltimore, Maryland: Butternut and Blue, 1993.
  • Jorgenson, Jay. Gettysburg's Bloody Wheatfield. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Books, 2002.
  • Jorgenson, Jay. The Wheatfield at Gettysburg: A Walking Tour. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 2002.
  • Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg: Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. ISBN   0-8078-2118-7.

Casualties and dead from Gettysburg

  • Busey, John W. The Last Full Measure: Burials in the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Hightstown, New Jersey: Lonstreet House, 1988.
  • Busey, John W. These Honored Dead: The Union Casualties at Gettysburg. Hightstown, New Jersey: Longstreet House, 1996.
  • Busey, Travis W. and John W. Busey. Union Casualties at Gettysburg: A Comprehensive Record. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2011.
  • Coco, Gregory A. Gettysburg's Confederate Dead. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 2003.
  • Coco, Gregory A. A Vast Sea of Misery: A History and Guide to the Union and Confederate Field Hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1 November 20, 1863. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 1988.
  • Dreese, Michael A. The Hospital on Seminary Ridge and the Battle of Gettysburg. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2002.
  • Krick, Robert K. The Gettysburg Death Roster: The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg, 3rd Edition, Revised. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1993.
  • Redd, Rea Andrew Altars to Amputations: From Gettysburg Churches to Battlefield Hospitals: A History and Walking Tour. Savas Beatie, 2020. ISBN   978-1-61121-508-3.

Unit histories in the Gettysburg Campaign

  • Baumgartner, Richard. Buckeye Blood: Ohio at Gettysburg. Huntington, West Virginia: Blue Acorn Press, 2003.
  • Benedict, George G. The Battle of Gettysburg and the Part Taken Therein by Vermont Troops. Burlington, Vermont: Free Press, 1867.
  • Desjardin, Thomas A. Stand Fast Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 1995.
  • Dreese, Michael A. The 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers at Gettysburg: Like Ripe Apples in a Storm. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2002. ISBN   0-7864-0804-9.
  • Gragg, Rod. Covered With Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
  • Gregg, David M. The Second Cavalry Division of the Army of the Potomac in the Gettysburg Campaign. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: published by author, 1907.
  • Hamblen, Charles P. Connecticut Yankees at Gettysburg. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1993.
  • Harris, Samuel. The Michigan Brigade of Cavalry at the Battle of Gettysburg. Cass City, Michigan: Co. A 5th Michigan Cavalry, 1894.
  • Herdegen, Lance J. Those Damned Black Hats!: The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign. Savas Beatie, 2010.
  • McLean Jr., James L. Cutler's Brigade at Gettysburg, Revised Second Edition. Baltimore, Maryland: Butternut and Blue, 1994.
  • McNeily, J. S. Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade at Gettysburg: Most Magnificent Charge of the War. Gaithersburg, Mississippi: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., 1987.
  • Michigan Monument Commission. Michigan at Gettysburg: July 1, 2, 3, 1863. Detroit, Michigan: Winn & Hammon, 1889.
  • Mingus Sr., Scott and Brent Nosworthy. Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign, June–July 1863. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. ISBN   978-0-8071-3479-5.
  • Murray, R. L. A Perfect Storm of Lead, George Sears Greene's New York Brigade in Defense of Culp's Hill. Wolcott, New York: Benedum Books, 2000. ISBN   0-9646261-2-8.
  • New York Monuments Commission. New York at Gettysburg, three volumes. Albany, New York: J. B. Lyon Co., 1902.
  • Nicholson, John P., ed. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, two volumes. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: W. S. Ray, 1904.
  • Osborne, Steward R. Holding the Left at Gettysburg: The 20th New York State Militia on July 1, 1863. Hightstown, New Jersey: Longstreet House, 1990.
  • Peladeau, Marius B., comp. Burnished Rows of Steel: Vermont's Role in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 13, 1863. Newport, Vermont: Vermont Civil War Enterprises, 2002.
  • Penny, Morris M. and J. Gary Laine. Struggle for the Round Tops: Law's Alabama Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1999.
  • Root, Edwin R. and Jeffry D. Stocker. "Isn't This Glorious!": The 15th, 19th and 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiments at Gettysburg's Copse of Trees. Moon Trail Books, 2005.
  • Speese, Andrew Jackson. Story of Companies H, A and C Third Pennsylvania Cavalry at Gettysburg July 3, 1863. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: published by the author, 1907.
  • Toombs, Samuel. New Jersey Troops in the Gettysburg Campaign, from June 5 to July 31, 1863. Orange, New Jersey: The Evening Hall Publishing House, 1888.

Atlases

  • Editors of Stackpole Books. Gettysburg: The Story of the Battle with Maps. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2013. ISBN   978-0-8117-1218-7.
  • Gottfried, Bradley M. The Maps of Gettysburg: An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3–13, 1863. New York: Savas Beatie, 2007. ISBN   978-1-932714-30-2.
  • Laino, Philip. Gettysburg Campaign Atlas, 2nd ed. Dayton, Ohio: Gatehouse Press 2009. ISBN   978-1-934900-45-1.
  • Symonds, Craig L. Gettysburg: A Battlefield Atlas. Baltimore, Maryland: The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1992. ISBN   1-877853-16-X.

Battles and campaigns: Western Theater

Atlanta Campaign

Battle of Shiloh

Battle of Stones River

Carolinas Campaign

Chickamauga and Chattanooga campaigns

Fall of New Orleans

Forts Henry and Donelson

Franklin–Nashville Campaign

Iuka and Corinth Operations

Meridian and Yazoo River Expeditions

Mobile Campaign

Perryville campaign

Sherman's March to the Sea

Vicksburg Campaign

Wilson's Raid

Battles and campaigns: Trans-Mississippi

Battle of Carthage

Battle of Palmito Ranch

Battle of Pea Ridge

Battle of Wilson's Creek

Camden Expedition

New Mexico Campaign

Prairie Grove Campaign

Price's Missouri Raid

Red River Campaign

Battles and campaigns: Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach

Battles and Campaigns: Pacific Coast Theater

See also

Notes

  1. In 2001, Jonathan Sarna estimated that over 50,000 books had already appeared, with 1,500 more appearing annually. American Jewish History 89.3 (2001) 335337.
  2. See Allan Nevins, Bell Irvin Wiley, and James I. Robertson, Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography (2 vol, 1970)