Bibliography of the American Civil War

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The bibliography of the American Civil War 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] Authors James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier stated in 2012, "No event in American history has been so thoroughly studied, not merely by historians, but by tens of thousands of other Americans who have made the war their hobby. Perhaps a hundred thousand books have been published about the Civil War." [2]

Contents

There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is more than 50 years old and lists over 6,000 of the most valuable titles as evaluated by three leading scholars. [3] Many specialized topics such as Abraham Lincoln, [4] women, [5] and medicine [6] have their own lengthy bibliographies. The books on major campaigns typically contain their own specialized guides to the sources and literature. The most comprehensive guide to the historiography annotates over a thousand major titles, with an emphasis on military topics. [7] The most recent guide to literary and non-military topics is A History of American Civil War Literature (2016) edited by Coleman Hutchison. It emphasizes cultural studies, memory, diaries, southern literary writings, and famous novelists. [8]

Causes of the war

Secession

  • Adams, Charles. When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
  • Bledose, Alfred T. Is Davis a Traitor; or Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War in 1861?. Baltimore, Maryland: Innes and the author, 1866.
  • Dew, Charles B. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001.
  • Mississippi Secession Convention. Journal of the State Convention and Ordinances and Resolution Adopted in January 1861, with an Appendix. Jackson, Mississippi: E. Barksdale, 1861.
  • Potter, David M. Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. (1962) [1942].
  • Sitterson, Joseph Carlyle. The Secession Movement in North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939.
  • Stampp, Kenneth M. And the War Came: The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860–1861. 1950.
  • Wakelyn, Jon L., editor. Southern Pamphlets on Secession, November 1860 – April 1861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

American Civil War battles and campaigns

Ironclads

  • Bearss, Edwin C. Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1966.
  • Besse, Summer B. The C.S. Ironclad Virginia: With Data and References for a Scale Model. Newport News, Virginia, 1937.
  • Elliott, Robert G. Ironclad of the Roanoke: Gilbert Elliott's Albemarle. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Co., 1994.
  • Field, Ron. Confederate Ironclad vs. Union Ironclad: Hampton Roads 1862. United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2008.
  • Holzer, Harold and Mulligan, Tim, ed. The Battle of Hampton Roads: New Perspectives on the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia. Fordham University Press, 2006.
  • MacBride, Robert. Civil War Ironclads: The Dawn of Naval Armor. Philadelphia: 1962.
  • Melton, Maurice. The Confederate Ironclads. South Brunswick, New Jersey: Thomas Yoseloff Ltd., 1968. OCLC   559832629
  • Mindell, David A. War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the U.S.S. Monitor. 2000.
  • Mokion, Arthur. Ironclad: The Monitor & the Merrimack. Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1991. ISBN   0891414053.
  • Nelson, James L. Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack. William Marrow, 2004.
  • Quarstein, John. C.S.S. Virginia: Mistress of Hampton Roads. Lynchburg, Virginia: H.E. Howard, Inc., 2000.
  • Quarstein, John V. The Monitor Boys: The Crew of the Union's First Ironclad. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2011. ISBN   978-1596294554
  • Quarstein, John V. The CSS Virginia: Sink Before Surrender. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2012. ISBN   978-1609495800.
  • Quarstein, John V. A History of Ironclads. Charleston, South Carolina: History Press, 2006.
  • Roberts, William H. Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
  • Smith, Jr., Myron J. The CSS Arkansas: A Confederate Ironclad on Western Waters. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011. ISBN   978-0786447268.
  • Smith, Jr., Myron J. The USS Carondelet: A Civil War Ironclad in Western Waters. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2010.
  • Still, Jr., William N. Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads. Columbia,
University of South Carolina Press, 1985, 1988. ISBN   978-0872496163. Originally published Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971.

Confederate raiders

  • Baldwin, John, and Ron Powers. Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship. New York: Crown Publishers, 2007. ISBN   978-0307236555.
  • Chaffin, Tom. Sea of Gray: The Around–the–World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah. New York: Hill & Wang, 2006. ISBN   978-0809095117.
  • De Kay, James T. The Rebel Raiders: The Astonishing History of the Confederacy's Secret Navy. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.
  • Morgan, Murray. Confederate Raider in the North Pacific: The Saga of the C.S.S. Shenandoah, 1864–65. Washington State University Press, 1948.
  • Robinson III, Charles M. Shark of the Confederacy: The Story of the CSS Alabama. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1995. ISBN   1557507287.
  • Schooler, Lynn. The Last Shot: The Incredible Story of the C.S.S. Shenandoah and the True Conclusion of the American Civil War. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN   0060523336.
  • Whittle, William C. The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah: A Memorable Cruise. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005.

Unit histories

Union military units

Confederate military units

Strategy and command

Technology, weapons, logistics

Reconstruction

Medical

Primary sources

  • Barnes, Joseph H. et al., eds. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865, 6 vols. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1870–88.
  • Child, William. Letters from a Civil War Surgeon: The Letters of Dr. William Child of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers. Solon, Maine: Polar Bear and Company, 2001.
  • Holland, Mary Gardner, ed. Our Army Nurses: Stories from Women in the Civil War (1895) excerpts
  • Josyph, Peter ed. The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1993.
  • Quinn, E. Moore. "'I have been trying very hard to be powerful "nice"': the correspondence of Sister M. De Sales (Brennan) during the American Civil War," Irish Studies Review (2010) 18#2 pp 213–233, for letters from a Catholic nun who was in charge of a Confederate hospital
  • Gemrig's illustrated catalogue of surgical instruments, ca 1868
  • Robertson Hospital Register, Statistical data on 1,329 patients. VCU Libraries Digital Collections.
  • Sanger Historical Files (1859–1865), Excerpts, Includes letters, reports, and hospital records of the Medical College of Virginia during the American Civil War. VCU Libraries Digital Collections.
  • Welsh, Jack D. Two Confederate Hospitals and Their Patients, Atlanta to Opelika (Mercer University Press, 2005) 183 pp. and CDROM; statistical data on 18,000 patients

Slavery and emancipation

International affairs

Collected biographies

Military leaders

Soldiers and sailors

Prisoners

Violence and death

Homefront

States, regions, and local

Guerillas

Ethnic groups

African Americans

  • Barrow, Charles Kelly, J.H. Segars, and R.B. Rosenburg, editors. Forgotten Confederates: An Anthology about Black Southerners. Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Southern Heritage Press, 1995.
  • Bergeron, Arthur W. and Richard M. Rollins. Black Southerners in Gray: Essays on Afro-Americans in Confederate Armies. Rank and File Publications, 1994.
  • Berlin, Ira, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds. Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  • Blatt, Martin H., Thomas J. Brown, and Donald Yacovone, editors. Hope and Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
  • Brown, William Wlls. The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity, edited by John D. Smith. Athen: Ohio University Press, 2003.
  • Burchard, Peter. One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment. New York: St. Martin's, 1965.
  • Cimprich, John. Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
  • Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861–1865. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987.
  • Downs, Jim. Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • Durden, Robert Franklin. The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
  • Gannon, Barbarra A. The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic. Chapel Hill,
University of North Carolina Press, 2011. ISBN   978-0807834527.
  • Gladstone, William A. United States Colored Troops, 1863–1867. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 1990.
  • Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. ISBN   0807125601.
  • Glatthaar, Joseph T. The Civil War's Black Soldiers. Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1996.
  • Hollandsworth, Jr., James G. The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
  • Humphreys, Margaret. Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
  • Levine, Bruce. Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN   978-0195147629.
  • Longacre, Edward G. A Regiment of Slaves: The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863–1866. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2003.
  • Magness, Philip W. and Sebastion N. Page. Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2011.
  • McPherson, James. The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. 1965. New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.
  • Quarles, Benjamin. The Negro in the Civil War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1953.
  • Reed, Richard M. Freedom for themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
  • Robinson, Armstead L. Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2005.
  • Rollins, Richard, editor. Black Southerners in Gray: Essays on Afro-Americans in Confederate Armies. Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Southern Heritage Press, 1994.
  • Segars, J.H. and Charles Kelly Barrow, compilers. Black Southerners in Confederate Armies: A Collection of Historical Accounts. Atlanta: Southern Lion Books, 2001.
  • Trudeau, Noah Andre. Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War 1862–1865. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2002. ISBN   978-0785814764. Originally published: New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1998.
  • Ward, Andrew. River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre in the American Civil War. New York: Viking, 2005.
  • Williams, George Washington. A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865 . New York: 1888.
  • Wilson, Keith, editor. Honor in Command: Lt. Freeman S. Bowley's Civil War Service in the 30th United States Colored Infantry. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006.

Primary sources

  • Adair, Lyle, and Glenn Robins. They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2011.

American Indians

  • Abel, Annie Heloise. The American Indian as a Participant in the Civil War. Cleveland, Ohio: Authr Clarke, 1919.
  • Abel, Annie Heloise. The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist: An Omitted Chapter of the Southern Confederacy. Cleveland, Ohio: A. H. Clark Company, 1919.
  • Berg, Scott W. 38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End. New York: Pantheon, 2012.
  • Confer, Clarissa W. The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
  • Crow, Vernon H. Storm in the Mountains: Thomas' Confederate Indians and Mountaineers. Cherokee, North Carolina: Museum of the Cherokee Indians, 1982.
  • Crowe, Clint. Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War, 1861–1865. Savas Beatie, 2019. ISBN   978-1611213362.
  • Cunningham, Frank. General Stand Watie's: Confederate Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.
  • Danziger, Jr., Edmund J. Indians and Bureaucrats: Administrating the Reservation Policy During the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974.
  • Franks, Kenny A. Stand Watie and the Agony of the Cherokee Nation. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis State University Press, 1979.
  • Hauptman, Laurence M. Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War. New York: The Free Press, 1995. ISBN   002914180X.
  • Hauptman, Lawrence M. The Iroquois in the Civil War: From Battlefield to Reservation. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
  • Kelman, Ari. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the memory of Sand Creek. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013.
  • Madsen, Brigham D. The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre. Provo: University of Utah Press, 1985.
  • McBride, Lela Jean. Opothleyaholo and the Loyal Muskogee: Their Flight to Kansas in the Civil War. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2000. ISBN   0786406380.
  • Minges, Patrick. Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855–1867. Routledge, 2003.
  • Nichols, David A. Lincoln and the Indians: Civil War Policy and Politics. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1978.
  • Oehler, C.M. The Great Sioux Uprising. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.

Primary sources

  • Baird, W. David, editor. A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G.W. Greyson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
  • Edwards, Whit. "The Prairie Was on Fire": Eyewitness Accounts of the Civil War in the Indian Territory. Oklahoma Historical Society, 2001.
  • Hauptman, Laurence M., ed. A Seneca Indian in the Union Army: The Letters of Sergeant Isaac Newton Parker. Columbia, Maryland: White Mane Publishing Co., 1995.
  • Moulton, Gary E., ed. The Papers of John Ross, two volumes. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

Women

National

  • Berkin, Carol. Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis and Julia Dent Grant . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. ISBN   978-1400044665.
  • Clinton, Catherine and Silber, Nina, eds. Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Frank, Lisa Tendric, ed. Women in the American Civil War. ABC-CLIO, 2008.
  • Giesberg, Judith, and Randall M. Miller, eds. Women and the American Civil War: North-South Counterpoints (2018) online review
  • Harper, Judith E. Women during the Civil War: An Encyclopedia. Routledge, 2004.
  • Holstein, Anna Morris. Three Years In Field Hospitals Of The Army Of The Potomac, J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1867
  • McDevitt, Theresa. Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography. Praeger, 2003.
  • Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Bonnet Brigades: American Women and the Civil War. 1966.
  • Mitchell, Reid. The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Murphy, Kim. I Had Rather Die: Rape in the Civil War. Virginia: Coachlight Press, LLC, 2014.
  • Schultz, Jane E. Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
  • Young, Elizabeth. Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

North

  • Anderson, J. L. "The Vacant Chair on the Farm: Soldier Husbands, Farm Wives, and the Iowa Home Front, 1861–1865," Annals of Iowa (2007) 66: 241–265
  • Attie, Jeanie. "Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War." Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
  • Bahde, Thomas. "'I never wood git tired of wrighting to you.'" Journal of Illinois History, 2009. 12:129–155
  • Fleischner, Jennifer. Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave. New York: Broadway Books, 2003.
  • Gallman, Matthew J. Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  • Gallman, Matthew J, America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Giesberg, Judith. Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
  • Hall, Richard. Patriots in Disguise. New York: Paragon House, 1993.
  • Marten, James. Children for the Union: The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front. Ivan R. Dee, 2004.
  • Scott, Sean A. "'Earth Has No Sorrow That Heaven Cannot Cure': Northern Civilian Perspectives on Death and Eternity during the Civil War," Journal of Social History, 2008. 41:843–866
  • Silber, Nina. Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. Harvard University Press, 2005.
  • Smith, Michael T. "The Beast Unleashed: Benjamin F. Butler and Conceptions of Masculinity in the Civil War North." New England Quarterly 2006 79(2): 248–276. ISSN   0028-4866
  • Venet, Wendy Hamand. A Strong-Minded Woman: The Life of Mary Livermore. University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.

Black South

  • Frankel, Noralee. Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi. 1999.
  • Schwalm, Leslie A. (1997). "'Sweet Dreams of Freedom': Freedwomen's Reconstruction of Life nd Labor in Lowcountry South Carolina," Journal of Women's History 9: 9–38
  • Wiley, Bell I. Confederate Women. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1975.

White South

  • no author listed. Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861–'65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock, Arkansas: The United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas. State Committee on Memorial to Women of the Confederacy, November 1907.
  • Anderson, Lucy London. North Carolina Women of the Confederacy. Fayettesville, North Carolina: published by author, 1926.
  • Andrews, Eliza Frances. The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl: 1864–1865 . New York: Appleton, 1908.
  • Andrews, Matthew Page, compiler. Women of the Southern War Times. Baltimore, Maryland: Norman Remington, 1927.
  • Berry II, Stephen W. All that Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South. Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Brock, Darla. "'Our Hands Are At Your Service': The Story of Confederate Women in Memphis." West Tennessee Historical Society Papers (1991) 45: 19–34
  • Drago, Edmund L. Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina. Fordham University Press, 2008. ISBN   978-0823229376.
  • Faust, Drew. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
  • Frank, Lisa T. The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers During Sherman's March. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. ISBN   978-0807159965.
  • Gardner, Sarah E. Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861–1937. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
  • Genovese, Eugene D. A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
  • Hilde, Libra R. Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN   978-0813932125.
  • Jabour, Anya. Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
  • Ott, Victoria E. Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. ISBN   978-0809328284.
  • Rable. George. Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
  • Revels, Tracy J. Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women during the Civil War. University of South Carolina Press, 2004.
  • Roberts, Giselle. The Confederate Belle. University of Missouri Press, 2003.
  • Strasser, William A. (1999). "'A Terrible Calamity Has Befallen Us': Unionist Women in Civil War East Tennessee". Journal of East Tennessee History. 71: 66–88
  • Whites, LeeAnn. The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860–1890 Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
  • Whites, LeeAnn and Alecia P. Long, editors. Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. ISBN   978-0807134405.
  • Wiley, Bell Irvin. Confederate Women, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1975.

Primary sources

  • Baird, Nancy Disher, ed. Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary. University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
  • Berlin, Jean V., ed. A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860–1863. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
  • Dawson, Sarah Morgan. A Confederate Girl's Diary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960.
  • Fain, John N. Sanctified Trial: The Diary of Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain, a Confederate Woman in East Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.
  • Heller III, J. Roderick, and Carolynn Ayres Heller, eds. The Confederacy in on Her Way up the Spout: Letters to South Carolina, 1861–1864. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
  • McGuire, Judith Breckinbrough. Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War: Annotated Edition. Edited by James I. Robertson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. ISBN   978-0813144382.
  • Robertson, Mary D., ed. Lucy Breckinridge of Grove Hall: The Journal of a Virginia Girl, 1862–1864. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
  • Rohr, Nancy M., ed. Incidents of War: The Civil War Journal of Mary Jane Chadick. Boaz, Alabama: SilverThreads Publishing, 2005.
  • Woodward, C. Vann, Ed., Mary Chesnut's Civil War, Yale University Press, 1981, ISBN   0300029799

Ideology, rhetoric, religion

Veterans

Historiography

Surveys and reference books

  1. John G. Nicolay (1881), The Outbreak of Rebellion, reprint, New York: Da Capo, 1995.
  2. Manning Force (1881), From Fort Henry to Corinth.
  3. Alexander S. Webb (1881), The Peninsular: McClellan's Campaign of 1862.
  4. John Codman Ropes (1881), The Army under Pope.
  5. James Russell Soley (1883), The Blockade and the Cruisers.
  6. Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1885), The Antietam and Fredericksburg, reprint, New York: Da Capo, 1996.
  7. Abner Doubleday (1882), Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, reprints, New York: Da Capo, 1994, and Saint Petersburg, FL: Red and Black, 2009.
  8. Henry M. Cist (1882), The Army of the Cumberland.
  9. Francis Vinton Greene (1882), The Mississippi.
  10. Daniel Ammen (1883), The Atlantic Coast.
  11. Jacob Dolson Cox (1882), Atlanta, reprint, retitled as Sherman's Battle for Atlanta, New York: Da Capo, 1994.
  12. Jacob Dolson Cox, (1882), The March to the Sea, Franklin and Nashville, reprint, retitled as Sherman's March to the Sea, Hood's Tennessee Campaign and the Carolina Campaigns of 1865, New York: Da Capo, 1994.
  13. George Edward Pond (1882), The Shenandoah Valley in 1864.
  14. Andrew A. Humphreys (1883), The Virginia Campaign of '64 and '65: The Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James, reprint, New York: Da Capo, 1995.
  15. Alfred Thayer Mahan (1883), The Gulf and Inland Waters.
  1. Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. Vol. 1, The Coming Fury. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. ISBN   0641685254.
  2. Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. Vol. 2, Terrible Swift Sword. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963. ISBN   0385026145.
  3. Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. Vol. 3, Never Call Retreat. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. ISBN   0671469908.
  1. Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative . Vol. 1, Fort Sumter to Perryville. New York: Random House, 1958. ISBN   0394495179.
  2. Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative . Vol. 2, Fredericksburg to Meridian. New York: Random House, 1958. ISBN   0394495179.
  3. Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative . Vol. 3, Red River to Appomattox. New York: Random House, 1974. ISBN   0394749138.
  1. From Sumter to Shiloh.
  2. North to Antietam.
  3. Retreat from Gettysburg.
  4. The Way to Appomattox.
  1. Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847–1852
  2. A House Dividing, 1852–1857
  3. Douglas, Buchanan, and Party Chaos, 1857–1859
  4. Prologue to Civil War, 1859–1861
  5. The Improvised War, 1861–1862
  6. War Becomes Revolution, 1862–1863
  7. The Organized War, 1863–1864
  8. The Organized War to Victory, 1864–1865

For the most recent surveys see:

Maps, photographs, environment

  1. Volume I: Shadows of the storm.. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1981. ISBN   978-0385154666.
  2. Volume II: The Guns of '62. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1982. ISBN   978-0385154673.
  3. Volume III: The Embattled Confederacy. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1982. ISBN   978-0385154680.
  4. Volume IV: Fighting for Time. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1983. ISBN   978-0385182805.
  5. Volume V: The South Besieged. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1983. ISBN   978-0385182812.
  6. Volume VI: The End of an Era. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1984. ISBN   978-0385182829.
  1. Davis, William C. and William A. Frassanito. Touched by Fire: A Photographic Portrait of the Civil War. Volume One. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1985. ISBN   978-0316176613.
  2. Davis, William C. and William A. Frassanito. Touched by Fire: A Photographic Portrait of the Civil War. Volume Two. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1986. ISBN   978-0316176644.

Bibliographies

  • Barbuto, Domenica M. and Martha Kreisel. Guide to Civil War Books: An Annotated Selection of Modern Works on the War Between the States. Chicago, Illinois: American Library Association, 1996.
  • Broadfoot, Thomas. Civil War Books: A Priced Checklist, 5th ed., Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 2000.
  • Cole, Harold L. Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles, 1955–1986. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
  • Dornbusch, Charles E. Military Bibliography of the Civil War, three volumes. New York: New York Public Library, 1971–87; fourth volume, Dayton, Ohio: Press of Morningside, 1994.
  • Dozier, Graham T., comp. Virginia's Civil War: A Guide to Manuscript Collections at the Virginia Historical Society. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1998.
  • Eicher, David J. The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
  • Freeman, Frank R. Microbes and Minie Balls: An Annotated Bibliography of Civil War Medicine. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Fairleigh–Dickinson University Press, 1995.
  • Harwell, Richard. The Confederate Hundred: A Bibliographic Selection of Confederate Books. Urbana, Illinois: Beta Phi Mu, 1964.
  • Kelsey, Marie Ellen, compiler. Ulysses S. Grant: A Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2005.
  • Meredith, Lee W. Guide to Civil War Periodicals, two volumes. Twentynine Palms, California: Historical Indexes, 1991 and 1996.
  • Murdock, Eugene C. The Civil War in the North: A Selective Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987.
  • Nagle, Robert. Further Readings on Civil War Fiction . An online annotated bibliography of fiction and literary essays about the Civil War, from the 19th century to the present. First published as an appendix in the ebook Soldier Boys: Tales of the Civil War by author Jack Matthews, 2016.
  • Ryan, Daniel J. The Civil War Literature of Ohio. Cleveland, Ohio: Burrows Brothers Company, 1911.
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Newspapers in the Civil War

Art and music

Tour guides

Monuments, battlefields, and battlefield preservation

Government publications

Primary sources

Memoirs

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  • Neese, George M. Four Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery. New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1911.
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  • Wright, James A. No More Gallant a Deed: A Civil War Memoir of the First Minnesota Volunteers, ed. by Steven J. Keillor. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001.

Other

Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.
University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

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) 335–337.
  2. James Lincoln Collier; Christopher Collier (2012). Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War: 1831–1861. Blackstone Publishing. p. 9. ISBN   978-1620645116.
  3. Allan Nevins, Bell Irvin Wiley, and James I. Robertson, Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography (2 vol, 1970)
  4. Burkhimer, Michael. 100 Essential Lincoln Books (2003)
  5. McDevitt, Theresa. Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography (2003)
  6. Freemon, Frank R. Microbes and Minie Balls (1993)
  7. Woodworth, Steven; et al., eds. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research (1996)
  8. See online edition at Google.com

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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. 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.

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. There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 titles.

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. There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 titles selected by leading scholars. Many specialized topics such as Abraham Lincoln, women, and medicine have their own lengthy bibliographies. The books on major campaigns typically contain their own specialized guides to the sources and literature. The most comprehensive guide to the historiography annotates over a thousand titles.

In general the bibliography of the American Civil War comprises over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month. There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 titles selected by leading scholars. The largest guides to the historiography annotates over a thousand titles.