BOOKS CIVIL WAR


 

Achorn, Edward, Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020

 

Avlon, John, Lincoln and the Fight for Peace, Simon & Schuster, 2022

 

Axelrod, Alan Ph.D., Complete Idiot's Guide to Civil War (The Complete Idiot's Guide), Alpha, 1998

 

Ayers, Edward L., In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864 (Valley of the Shadow Project), W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 2004

 

Ayers, Edward L., The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America, W. W. Norton & Company, 2018

 

Blight, David W., American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2013

 

Blight, David W., Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, Belknap Press; New Ed edition, 2002

 

Bordewich, Fergus M., Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America, Anchor; Reprint edition, 2021

 

Brands, H. W., The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom, Doubleday, 2020

 

Browning, Judkin, Timothy Silver, An Environmental History of the Civil War (Civil War America), University of North Carolina Press, 2020

 

Byrd, James P., A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War, Oxford University Press, 2021

 

Catton, Bruce, The Civil War (American Heritage Books), Mariner Books; Reprint edition, 2004

Chernow, Ron, Grant, Penguin Books, 2018

 

Clark, John E. Jr., Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War). LSU Press, 2004

 

Coddington, Edwin B., The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command, Touchstone, 1997

 

Coddington, Ronald S., The Faces of the Civil War, MJF Books, 2004

 

Cotham, Edward T. Jr., Battle on the Bay: The Civil War Struggle for Galveston (Texas Classics), University of Texas Press 1998

 

Cozzens, Peter, This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga (Civil War Trilogy), University of Illinois Press, 2016

 

Crocker, H. W. III, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, Regnery, 2008

 

Dew, Charles B., Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (A Nation Divided), University of Virginia Press, 2017

 

DK, The Civil War: A Visual History, DK; Revised edition, 2015

 

Donald, David Herbert, Lincoln, Simon & Schuster; 1st Touchstone Ed edition, 1996

 

Doyle, Don H., The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War, Basic Books, 2017

 

Dunkerly, Robert M., Donald C. Pfanz, No Turning Back: A Guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4 - June 13, 1864 (Emerging Civil War Series), Savas Beatie, 2014

 

Egan, Timothy, The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero, Mariner; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Ellsworth, Scott, Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America, Dutton, 2025

 

Faust, Drew Gilpin, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library), Vintage; Reprint edition, 2009

 

Feldman, Noah, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021

 

Fellman, Michael, Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War, Oxford University Press, 1990

 

Fields-Black, Edda L., COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War , Oxford University Press, 2024

 

Foner, Eric, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

 

Foote, Lorien, The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy (Civil War America), The University of North Carolina Press, 2019

 

Foote, Shelby, Civil War Volumes 1-3 Box Set, Vintage; 1st Vintage Books Ed, 1986

 

Frazier, Dr. Donald S. Ph.D., Cottonclads!: The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the Texas Coast (Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series), State House Press at The Texas Center–Schreiner University, 1998

 

Freeman, Joanne B., The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, Picador; Reprint edition, 2019

 

French, David, Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation, St. Martin's Press, 2020

 

Gallman, J. Matthew, Gary W. Gallagher, Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War (UnCivil Wars Ser.), University of Georgia Press; Illustrated edition, 2015

 

Gienapp, William E., The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection, W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

 

Glymph, Thavolia, The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era), Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2022

 

Goodheart, Adam, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2012

 

Goodrich, Thomas, Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861–1865, Indiana University Press, 1999

 

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Simon & Schuster, 2006

 

Gorra, Michael, The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War, Liveright, 2020

 

Gottfried, Bradley M., The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, including the Battle of South Mountain, September 2 - 20, 1862 (Savas Beatie Military Atlas), Savas Beatie, 2012

 

Grant, Ulysses S., The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Modern Library; Reprint edition, 1999[d1] 

 

Greene, A. Wilson, A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill (Civil War America), The University of North Carolina Press, 2025

 

Grinspan, Jon, Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

 

Guelzo, Allen C., Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, 2012

 

Guelzo, Allen, Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (Vintage Civil War Library), Vintage, 2014

 

Guelzo, Allen C., Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition, 2006

 

Guelzo, Allen C., Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment, Knopf, 2024

 

Guelzo, Allen C., Voices from Gettysburg: Letters, Papers, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War, Citadel, 2024

 

Gwynne, S. C., Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War, Scribner, 2019

 

Hartwig, D. Scott, To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

 

Herdegen, Lance J., Bill Backus, Opening Manassas: The Iron Brigade, Stonewall Jackson, and the Battle on Brawner’s Farm, August 28, 1862, Savas Beatie, 2025

 

Hess, Earl J., Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield, LSU Press, 2022

 

Hess, Earl J., The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth (Modern War Studies), University Press of Kansas, 2016

 

Hyslop, Stephen G., Atlas of the Civil War: A Complete Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle, National Geographic, 2009

 

Janney, Caroline E., Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era), The University of North Carolina Press; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Jarrow, Gail, Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease (Medical Fiascoes), Calkins Creek; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Kalyvas, Stathis N., The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics), Cambridge University Press, 2006

 

Katcher, Philip, Stephen Walsh, Sharpshooters of the American Civil War 1861–65 (Warrior, 60), Osprey Publishing, 2002

 

Kilmeade, Brian, The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul, Sentinel, 2021

 

Knight, James R., Doug Bostick, The Battle of Franklin: When the Devil had Full Possession of the Earth, The History Press, 2009

 

Kreitner, Richard, Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union, Back Bay Books, 2024

 

Leigh, Philip, Trading with the Enemy: The Covert Economy During the American Civil War, Westholme Publishing, 2022

 

Leveen, Lois, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, William Morrow Paperbacks, 2012

 

Levine, Bruce, Half Slave and Half Free, Revised Edition: The Roots of Civil War, Hill and Wang; Revised edition, 2005

 

Lineberry, Cate, Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero, Picador, 2018

 

Lowenstein, Roger, Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, Penguin Press, 2022

 

Luvaas, Jay, Harold W. Nelson, Guide to the Battles of Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg, University Press of Kansas, 1996

 

Mackowski, Chris PhD, Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-7, 1864 (Emerging Civil War Series), Savas Beatie, 2016

 

Masters, Daniel A, Hell by the Acre: A Narrative History of the Stones River Campaign, November 1862-January 1863, Savas Beatie, 2024

 

McDonough, James L., William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life, W. W. Norton & Company, 2017

 

McPherson, James M., Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States), Oxford University Press; Trade Paperback Edition, 2003

 

McPherson, James M., For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, Oxford University Press; Reprint edition, 1998

 

McPherson, James M., The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters, Oxford University Press; Reprint edition, 2017

 

McPherson, James M., This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, Oxford University Press, 2009

 

Mertz, Gregory, Timothy B. Smith, Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series), Savas Beatie, 2019

 

Miller, Donald L., Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy, Simon & Schuster, 2020

 

Moore, David G., William S. Rosecrans and the Union Victor: A Civil War Biography, McFarland, 2014

 

Murray, Williamson, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War, Princeton University Press, 2016

 

Nelson, Megan Kate, Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (UnCivil Wars Ser.), University of Georgia Press; Illustrated edition, 2012

 

Nelson, Megan Kate, The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West, Scribner, 2021

 

Nichols, Bruce, Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, Volume I, 1862, McFarland & Company, 2012

 

Nicoletti, Cynthia, Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis (Studies in Legal History), Cambridge University Press, 2017

 

Noe, Kenneth W., The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War), LSU Press, 2020

 

Noll, Mark A., The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era), The University of North Carolina Press; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Oakes, James, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

 

Oakes, James, The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution, W. W. Norton & Company, 2022

 

Oakes, James, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics, W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

 

O'Donnell, Patrick K., The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America’s Special Operations, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024

 

Pegler, Martin, Johnny Shumate, Sharpshooting Rifles of the American Civil War: Colt, Sharps, Spencer, and Whitworth (Weapon, 56), Osprey Publishing, 2017

 

Perry, Mark, Grant and Twain: The Story of an American Friendship, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005

 

Potter, David M., The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, Harper Perennial; New edition, 2011

 

Powell, David A., Eric J. Wittenberg, Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War, June 23–July 4, 1863, Savas Beatie, 2024

 

Rhodes, Elisha Hunt, Robert Hunt Rhodes, All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes (Vintage Civil War Library), Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992

 

Richardson, Heather Cox, To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party, Basic Books, 2014

 

Sarna, Jonathan D., Adam D. Mendelsohn, Jews and the Civil War: A Reader, NYU Press, 2011

 

Shaara, Michael, The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy), Ballantine Books, 1996

 

Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War, Harvard University Press, 2018

 

Smith, Jean Edward, Grant, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2002

 

Smith, Timothy B., Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation (Modern War Studies), University Press of Kansas, 2016

 

Smith, Timothy B., Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson (Modern War Studies), University Press of Kansas, 2021

 

Smith, Timothy B., Shiloh: Conquer or Perish (Modern War Studies), University Press of Kansas, 2016

 

Stampp, Kenneth M., The Causes of the Civil War: Revised Edition (Touchstone), Touchstone; 3 Revised edition, 1992

 

Stewart, Matthew, An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America, W. W. Norton & Company, 2025

 

Storey, Margaret M., Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War), LSU Press; Illustrated edition, 2004

 

Stout, Harry S., Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, Penguin Publishing Group, 2007

 

Tameez, Zaakir, Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation, Henry Holt and Co., 2025

 

Trudeau, Noah Andre, The Last Citadel: Petersburg: June 1864–April 1865, Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1991

 

Varon, Elizabeth R., Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War, Oxford University Press; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Varon, Elizabeth R., Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Varon, Elizabeth R., Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era), The University of North Carolina Press, 2010

 

Varon, Elizabeth R., Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy Illustrated Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005

 

Vermilya, Daniel, That Field of Blood: The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862 (Emerging Civil War Series), Savas Beatie, 2018

 

Waller, Douglas, Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation, Simon & Schuster, 2019


White, William Lee, Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale: The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863 (Emerging Civil War Series), Savas Beatie, 2013

 

Widmer, Ted, Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington, Simon & Schuster; Illustrated Edition, 2020

 

Williams, George Washington 1849-1891, A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Red and Black Publishers, 2023

 

Wilson, Charles Reagan, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920, University of Georgia Press; 2nd edition, 2009

 

Wilson, Edmund, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War, W. W. Norton & Company; 8/18/94 edition, 1994

 

Wineapple, Brenda, Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 (American History), Harper Perennial; Reprint edition, 2014

 

Winik, Jay, April 1865: The Month That Saved America, Harper Perennial 2006

 

Witt, John Fabian, Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History, Free Press; 6.2.2013 edition, 2013

 

Woodard, Colin, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, Viking, 2020

 

Woodworth, Steven E., This Great Struggle: America's Civil War, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Reprint edition, 2012


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