Bibliography of the American Civil War

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. 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."

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. 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 major titles, with an emphasis on military topics. 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.

Causes of the war

 * Ashworth, John. Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
 * Ayers, Edward L. What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
 * Boritt, Gabor S., ed. Why the Civil War Came. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-19-511376-1.
 * Broadwater, Robert P. Did Lincoln and the Republican Party Create the Civil War?: An Argument. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008. ISBN 978-0786433612.
 * Calore, Paul. The Causes of the Civil War: The Political, Cultural, Economic, and Territorial Disputes between North and South. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2008.
 * Donald, David Herbert "An Excess of Democracy: The Civil War and the Social Process" in David Herbert Donald, Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era, 2d ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966, pp. 209–235.
 * Egnal, Marc. Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009.
 * Grant, Susan-Mary. North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
 * Helper, Hinton Rowan. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. New York: Burdock Brothers, 1857.
 * Holt, Michael F. The Political Crisis of the 1850s. New York: Wiley, 1978.
 * Levine, Bruce. Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War, New York: Hill and Wang, 1992; revised ed., New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.
 * Link, William A. Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
 * Olsen, Christopher J. Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830–1860, 2000.
 * Potter, David M. completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848 – 1861. New York: Harper Perennial, reprint 2011. First published New York, Harper Colophon, 1976. ISBN 978-0-06-131929-7.
 * Schoen, Brian. The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
 * Stampp, Kenneth M. America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

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.

Naval history

 * Anderson, Bern. By Sea and By River: The Naval History of the Civil War. New York: Da Capo Press, 1989.
 * Bennett, Michael J. Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
 * Block, W.T. Schooner Sail to Starboard: The U.S. Navy vs. Blockade Runners in the Western Gulf of Mexico. College Station, Texas: Institute of Nautical Archaeology, 2007.
 * Bradlee, Francis. Blockade Running During the Civil War. Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute Press, 1959.
 * Browning, Jr., Robert M. From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0817306793.
 * Browning, Jr., Robert M. Success Is All That Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's Inc., 2002.
 * Campbell, R. Thomas. Academy on the James: The Confederate Naval School. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1998.
 * Campbell, R. Thomas. Confederate Naval Forces on Western Waters: The Defense of the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2005. ISBN 0786422033.
 * —— Fire and Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1997. ISBN 1572490675.
 * —— Gray Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1996. ISBN 0942597990.
 * —— Southern Fire: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1997. ISBN 1572490462.
 * Carr, Dawson. Gray Phantoms of the Cape Fear: Running the Civil War Blockade. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: John F. Blair, 1998. ISBN 978-0895872135.
 * Carse, Robert. Blockade: The Civil War at Sea. New York: Rinehart & Co., 1950.
 * Chaffin, Tom. The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy. New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. ISBN 0809054604.
 * Chatelain, Neil P. Defending the Arteries of Rebellion: Confederate Naval Operations in the Mississippi River Valley, 1861–1865. Savas Beatie, 2020. ISBN 978-1611215106.
 * Coombe, Jack D. Gunfire Around the Gulf: The Last Major Naval Campaign of the Civil War. New York: Bantam Books, 1999.
 * Cochran, Hamilton. Blockade Runners of the Confederacy. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1957.
 * Conrad, James Lee. Rebel Reefers: The Organization and Midshipmen of the Confederate States Naval Academy. New York: Da Capo Press, 2003.
 * Coski, John M. Capital Navy: The Men, Ships, and Operations of the James River Squadron. Campbell, California: Savas Woodbury Publishers, 1996.
 * Coski, John M. The Confederate Navy. Richmond, Virginia: The Museum of the Confederacy, 2005.
 * Cracknell, William H. United States Navy Monitors of the Civil War Windsor, England: 1973.
 * deKay, James T. Monitor. 1997.
 * Donnelly, Ralph W. The Confederate States Marine Corps: The Rebel Leathernecks. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1989. ISBN 0942597133.
 * Dougherty, Kevin J. Ships of the Civil War, 1861–1865: An Illustrated Guide to the Fighting Vessels of the Union and the Confederacy. London: Amber Books, Ltd., 2013. ISBN 978-1909160675.
 * Dougherty, Kevin J. Strangling the Confederacy: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War. Savas Beatie, LLC, 2012. ISBN 978-1612000923.
 * Ericson, Peter. Running the Batteries. LULU Press, 2009.
 * Fowler, William M. Under Two Flags: The American Navy in the Civil War. Naval Institute Press, 1990.
 * Gosnell, H. Allen. Guns on the Western Waters: The Story of River Gunboats in the Civil War Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1949.
 * Graham, Eric J. Clyde Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured Rams of the American Civil War. Edinburgh: Birlinn Press, 2006.
 * Hall, Andrew W. Civil War Blockade Running on the Texas Coast. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1625850249.
 * Hearn, Chester G. Gray Raiders of the Sea: How Eight Confederate Warships Destroyed the Union's High Seas Commerce. Camden, Maine: International Marine Publishing, 1992.
 * Hoyt, Edwin P. The Voyage of the Hunley: The Chronicle of the Pathbreaking Confederate Submarine. Short Hills, New Jersey: Burford Books. ISBN 1580800947.
 * Joiner, Gary D. Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
 * Jones, Virgil Carington. The Civil War At Sea. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1962.
 * Joyner, Elizabeth Hoxie and Margie Riddle Bearss. The USS Cairo: History and Artifacts of a Civil War Gunboat. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2006.
 * Lardas, Mark. CSS Alabama vs. USS Kearsage: Cherbourg 1864. New York: Osprey, 2011. ISBN 978-1849084925.
 * Luraghi, Raimondo. A History of the Confederate Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996. ISBN 978-1557505279.
 * Merrill, James M. The Rebel Shore. 1957.
 * Musicant, Ivan. Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. ISBN 0060164824.
 * Page, Dave. Ships Versus Shore: Civil War Engagements Along Southern Shores and Rivers. Rutledge Hill Press, 1994.
 * Porter, David Dixon. The Naval History of the Civil War. Secaucus, New Jersey: Castle, 1984.
 * Ragan, Mark K. Union and Confederate Submarine Warfare in the Civil War. Campbell, California: Savas Publishing, 1999.
 * Roberts, William H. Now for the Contest: Coastal and Oceanic Naval Operations in the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
 * Scharf, J. Thomas. History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel. New York: Joseph McDonough Co., 1894.
 * Silverstone, Pal H. Warships of the Civil War Navies. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1989.
 * Smith, Jr., Myron J. The Timberclads in the Civil War: The Lexington, Conestoga and Tyler on the Western Waters. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-0786435784.
 * Smith, Jr., Myron J. Tinclads in the Civil War: Union Light–Draught Gunboat Operations on Western Waters, 1862–1865. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2009. ISBN 978-0786435791.
 * Sprunt, James. Tales of the Cape Fear Blockade. Wilmington, North Carolina: Cornelius Thomas, 1960.
 * Still, Jr., William. Confederate Shipbuilding. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
 * Still Jr., William, John M. Taylor, and Norman C. Delaney. Raiders & Blockaders: The American Civil War Afloat. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's Inc., 1998. ISBN 1574881647.
 * Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War – The First Year. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Company, 1997. ISBN 1572490403.
 * Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War – The Second Year. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Company, 1997. ISBN 1572490551.
 * Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War – The Third Year. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Company, 1998. ISBN 1572490810.
 * Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War – The Fourth Year. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Company, 2000. ISBN 1572492147.
 * Surdam, David G. Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War. University of South Carolina Press, 2001.
 * Symonds, Craig (2008). Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War. Oxford University Press.
 * Taafe, Stephen R. Commanding Lincoln's Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2009.
 * Tucker, Spencer C., editor The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia, two volumes. Santa Barbara, California: ABC–CLIO, 2011. ISBN 978-1598843385.
 * Tucker, Spencer C. A Short History of the Civil War at Sea. Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 2001.
 * Underwood, Rodman L. Waters of Discord: The Union Blockade of Texas During the Civil War. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2003.
 * U.S. Department of the Navy, Naval History Division, compiler. Civil War Naval Chronology 1861–1865. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1971.
 * Van Tillburg, Hans. A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life on Board the USS Saginaw. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. ISBN 978-0813035161.
 * Walker, Sally M. Secrets of A Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 2005.
 * Wise, Stephen R. Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
 * Wynne, Nick and Joe Crankshaw. Florida Civil War Blockades: Battling for the Coast. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1609493400.
 * Wynne, Nick and Joe Crankshaw. Florida Civil War Blockades: Battling for the Coast. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1609493400.

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.
 * 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

 * Brown, J. Willard. The Signal Corps in the War of the Rebellion. Boston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896.
 * Glatthaar, Joseph T. Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served Under Robert E. Lee. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0807834923.
 * Tennesseans in the Civil War: A Military History of Confederate and Union Units with Available Rosters of Personnel, two volumes. Nashville, Tennessee: Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964.

Strategy and command

 * Adams, Michael C.C. Our Masters the Rebels: A Speculation on Union Military Failure in the East, 1861–1865. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1978.
 * Bartholomes, Jr., J. Boone Buff. Facings and Gilt Buttons: Staff and Headquarters Operations in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861–1865. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
 * Bledsoe, Andrew S. Citizen-Officers: The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0807160701.
 * Burne, Alfred H. Lee, Grant and Sherman: A Study in Leadership in the 1864–1865 Campaign. Aldershot: Gale and Polden, 1938.
 * Davis, William C. Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee – The War They Fought, The Peace They Forged. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0306822452.
 * Fredricksbon, George M. Why the Confederacy Did Not Fight a Guerrilla War after the Fall of Richmond: A Comparative View. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Gettysburg College, 1996.
 * Hagerman, Edward. The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization and Field Command. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
 * Harsh, Joseph L. Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861–1862. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1998. ISBN 0873385802.
 * Hess, Earl J. Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861–1864. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
 * Jones, Archer. Civil War Command and Strategy: The Process of Victory and Defeat. New York: The Free Press, 1992.
 * Jones, Edward C. The Right Hand of Command: Use and Disuse of Personal Staff in the American Civil War. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2000.
 * McPherson, Robertson, Sears, Symonds, Waugh. Hearts Touched by Fire, The Modern Library, New York, 2011
 * Gallagher, Gary W.; and Joseph T. Glatthaar. Leaders of the Lost Cause: New Perspectives on the Confederate High Command, 2004.
 * Silkenat, David. Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1469649726.
 * Stoker, Donald. The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War (Oxford UP. 2010) excerpt
 * Tanner, Robert G. Retreat to Victory?: Confederate Strategy Reconsidered. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2001.
 * Vandiver, Frank E. Rebel Brass: The Confederate Command System. New York: 1956.
 * Winkler, H. Donald. Civil War Goats and Scapegoats. Cumberland House, 2008.
 * Wood, W.J. Civil War Generalship: The Art of Command. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1997. ISBN 0275950549.
 * Woodworth, Steven E., ed. Civil War Generals in Defeat. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. ISBN 0700609431.
 * Woodworth, Steven E., ed. Leadership and Command in the American Civil War. New York: Da Capo, 1996.
 * Woodworth, Steven E., ed. Civil War Generals in Defeat. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. ISBN 0700609431.
 * Woodworth, Steven E., ed. Leadership and Command in the American Civil War. New York: Da Capo, 1996.

Technology, weapons, logistics

 * Albaugh III, William A. Confederate Edged Weapons. New York: 1960.
 * Albaugh, William A., Hugh Benet, Jr., and Edward Simmons. Confederate Handguns.
 * Albert, Alphaeus H. Buttons of the Confederacy.
 * Army Jr., Thomas F. Engineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology, 2016).
 * Bilby, Joseph G. Civil War Firearms: Their Historical Background, Tactical Use and Modern Collecting and Shooting. Conshocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books, Inc.
 * Bilby, Joseph G. A Revolution in Arms: A History of the First Repeating Rifles. Westholme, 2006.
 * Black, III, Robert C. The Railroads of the Confederacy. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1952.
 * Bragg, C.L., Charles D. Ross, Gordon A. Baker, Stephanie A.T. Jacobe, and Theodore P. Savas, eds. Never for Want of Powder: The Confederate Powder Works in Augusta, Georgia. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2007.
 * Bruce, Robert V. Lincoln and the Tools of War 1956.
 * Burke, James C. The Wilmington & Weldon Railroad in the Civil War. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2013. ISBN 978-0786471546.
 * Clark, John E. Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management On Victory And Defeat. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
 * Coates, Earl J. and Dean S. Thomas. An Introduction To Civil War Small Arms. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 1990.
 * Coggins, Jack. Arms and Equipment of the Civil War. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1962.
 * Cornish, Joseph Jenkins. The Air Arm of the Confederacy: A history of origins and usages of war balloons by the Southern Armies during the American Civil War. Richmond, Virginia: Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee, 1963.
 * Davis, Carl L. Arming the Union: Small Arms in the Union Army. Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, Inc., 1974.
 * Edwards, William B. Civil War Guns. New York: 1962.
 * Griffith, Paddy. Battle Tactics of the Civil War. Yale University Press, 1989. ISBN 0300084617.
 * Field, Ron. Brassey's History of Uniforms: American Civil War, Confederate Army. McLean, Virginia: Brassey's Inc., 1997.
 * Hagerman, Edward. The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.
 * Hazlett, James C.; Olmstead, Edwin; and Parks, M. Hume. Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War. University of Illinois Press, 2004.
 * Hess, Earl J. Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation (2017) online review
 * Hess, Earl J. Field Armies and Fortification in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861–1864. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
 * Hess, Earl J. Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0807831540.
 * Hess, Earl J. In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications & Confederate Defeat. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0807832820.
 * Hess, Earl J. The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
 * Hodges, Jr., Robert R. American Civil War Railroad Tactics. United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2009.
 * Johnston II, Angus James. Virginia Railroads in the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
 * Keim, Lon W. Confederate General Service Accoutrement Plates.
 * Kerksis, Sydney C. Field Artillery Projectiles of the Civil War, 1861–1865.
 * Kerksis, Sydney C. Heavy Artillery Projectiles of the Civil War, 1861–1865.
 * Madaus, H. Michael and Robert D. Needham. Battleflags of the Confederate Army of the Tennessee.
 * Maier, Larry B. and Joseph W. Stahl. Identification Discs in the Civil War. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2008.
 * McKee, W. Reid and M.W. Mason, Jr. Civil War Projectiles, Small Arms and Field Artillery.
 * Morton, John W. The Artillery of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry "The Wizard of the Saddle". Nashville, Tennessee: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1909.
 * Murphy, John M. Confederate Carbines and Musketoons.
 * Naisawald, L. VanLoan. Canon Blasts: Civil War Artillery in the Eastern Armies. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane, 2004.
 * Perry, Milton F. Infernal Machines: The Story of Confederate Submarine and Mine Warfare. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965.
 * Philips, Stanley S. Bullets Used in the Civil War, 1861–1865.
 * Philips, Stanley S. Civil War Corps Badges and Other Related Awards, Badges, Medals of the Period.
 * Pitman, John. Breech Loading Carbines of the United States Civil War Period.
 * Plum, William R. The Military Telegraph During the Civil War in the United States, an Exposition of ancient and Modern Means of Communications, and of the Federal and Confederate Cipher Systems, Also a Running Account of the War between the States, two volumes. Chicago: Jensen, McClug & Company, Publishers, 1882.
 * Reilly, Robert M. United States Military Small Arms 1816–1865.
 * Riling, Ray, ed. Uniforms and Dress of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States.
 * Ripley, Warren. Artillery and Ammunition of the Civil War.
 * Ross, Charles D. Trial by Fire: Science, Technology and the Civil War. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing, 2000.
 * Rutherford, Kenneth R. America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War. Savas Beatie, 2020. ISBN 978-1611214536.
 * Smith, Robin. Brassey's History of Uniforms: American Civil War, Union Army. McLean, Virginia: Brassey's Inc., 1997.
 * Stamatelos, James. Notes on the Uniforms and Equipments of the United States Cavalry, 1861–1865.
 * Summers, Festus P. The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939.
 * Tucker, Spencer. Arming the Fleet. U.S. Ordnance in the Muzzle-Loading Era (1988)
 * Turner, George Edgar. Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War. New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1963.
 * Wilson, Harold S. Confederate Industry, Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
 * Winey, Michael J. Union Army Uniforms at Gettysburg. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas, 1998.
 * Wise, Arthur and Francis A. Lord. Uniforms of the Civil War.
 * Woodhead, Henry, ed. Echoes of Glory: Arms and Equipment of the Confederacy. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1991.
 * Woodhead, Henry, ed. Echoes of Glory: Arms and Equipment of the Union. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1991.

Reconstruction

 * See Reconstruction: Bibliography for complete guide

Medical

 * Adams, George Worthington. Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War. New York: Henry Schuman, 1952.
 * Bell, Andrew McIlwaine. Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
 * Cunningham, Horace Herndon. Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service. (reprint Peter Smith, 1970)
 * Downs, Jim. Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction. (Oxford University Press, 2012)
 * Duncan, Louis C. The Medical Department of the United States Army in the Civil War. Gaithersburg, Maryland: Olde Soldiers Books, 1987.
 * Flannery, Michael A. Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy. London: Pharmaceutical Press, 2004.
 * Freemon, Frank R. Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War. University of Illinois Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0252070105
 * Green, Carol C. Chimborazo: The Confederacy's Largest Hospital. University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
 * Grzyb, Frank L. Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital: Life and Death at Portsmouth Grove, 1862–1865. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2012. ISBN 978-0786468614.
 * Hilde, Libra R. Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South. University of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0813932125.
 * Humphreys, Margaret. Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
 * Humphreys, Margaret. Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press; 2013.
 * Lande, R. Gregory. Madness, Malingering, and Malfeasance: The Transformation of Psychiatry and the Law in the Civil War Era. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2003.
 * McGaugh, Scott. Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, The Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care. Arcade Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-1611458398.
 * Miller, Brian Craig. Empty Sleeves: Amputation in the Civil War South (University of Georgia Press, 2015). xviii, 257 pp.
 * Patterson, Gerard A. Debris of Battle: The Wounded of Gettysburg. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997. ISBN 081170498X.
 * Robertson, James I (ed). The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, seven volumes. Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Co, 1990–1992 reprint.
 * Rutkow, Ira M. Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine. New York: Random House, 2005.
 * Schmidt, James M. and Guy R. Hasegawa, eds. Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine. Edenborough Press, 2009.
 * Schroeder–Lein, Glenna R. The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2012.
 * Schroeder–Lein, Glenna R. Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
 * Schultz, Jane E. Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
 * Steiner, Paul E. Disease in the Civil War: Natural Biological Warfare in 1861–1865. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1968.
 * Welsh, Jack D. Medical Histories of Confederate Generals. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995.
 * Welsh, Jack D. Medical Histories of Union Generals. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997.

Constitutional and legal

 * Belz, Herman. Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era. Fordham University Press, 1998.
 * Carnahan, Burrus M. Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War. The University Press of Kentucky, 2007.
 * Carnahan, Burrus M. Lincoln on Trial: Southern Civilians and the Law of War. The University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
 * Edwards, Laura F. A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
 * Farber, Daniel. Lincoln's Constitution. The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
 * Hyman, Harold. "A More Perfect Union": The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Constitution. Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
 * McCurry, Stephanie. "Enemy Women and the Laws of War in the American Civil War", Law & History Review (August 2017). pp. 667–710.
 * McGinty, Brian. Lincoln and the Court. Harvard University Press, 2008.
 * Moreno, Paul D. and O'Neill, Johnathan, eds. Constitutionalism in the Approach and Aftermath of the Civil War. Fordham University Press, 2013.
 * Neely, Jr., Mark E. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties. Oxford University Press, 1991.
 * Neely, Jr., Mark E. Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
 * Paludan, Phillip S. "The American Civil War Considered as a Crisis in Law and Order," American Historical Review, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Oct., 1972), pp. 1013–1034 in JSTOR
 * Paludan, Phillip S. Covenant with Death: The Constitution, Law, and Equality in the Civil War Era. University of Illinois Press, 1975.
 * Randall, James G. Constitutional Problems under Lincoln. University of Illinois Press, 1951 [1926].
 * Witt, John Fabian. Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History. Free Press, 2012.

Slavery and emancipation

 * Belz, Herman. Emancipation and Equal Rights: Politics and Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era (1978)
 * Biddle, Daniel R., and Murray Dubin. "'God Is Settling the Account': African American Reaction to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation", Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (Jan. 2013) 137#1 57–78.
 * Blair, William A., and Younger, Karen Fisher, eds. Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
 * Blight, David W. A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom: Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.
 * Chambers Jr., Henry L. "Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Executive Power." Maryland Law Review 73 (2013): 100+ online
 * Durden, Robert Franklin. The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972.
 * Fehrenbacher, Don Edward. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
 * Foner, Eric. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.
 * Guelzo, Allen C. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in American. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
 * Harrold, Stanley. Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
 * Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford, and Frank J. Williams. The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (2006)
 * Huston, James L. Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
 * Lightner, David L. Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
 * Masur, Louis P. Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union. Harvard University Press, 2012.
 * Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union: War Becomes Revolution, 1862–1863. Scribner, 1959.
 * Mitchell, Charles W., ed. Maryland Voices of the Civil War. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
 * Mohr, Clarence L. On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
 * Morrison, Michael A. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
 * Oakes, James. The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007.
 * Oakes, James. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013.
 * Reynolds, David S. Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.
 * Russo, Peggy A. and Finkelman, Paul, eds. Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown. Ohio University Press, 2005.
 * Siddali, Silvana R. From Property to Person: Slavery and the Confiscation Acts, 1861–1862. LSU Press, 2005.
 * Trefousse, Hans L., edited by Harold M. Hyman. Lincoln's Decision for Emancipation. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975.
 * Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (2001)
 * Vorenberg, Michael, ed. The Emancipation Proclamation: A Brief History with Documents (2010), primary and secondary sources

International affairs

 * American Civil Wars: A Bibliography. A comprehensive bibliography of the United States Civil War's international entanglements and parallel civil strife in the Americas in the 1860s.
 * Adams, Ephraim D. Great Britain and the American Civil War (2 vols. 1925).
 * Bennett, John D. The London Confederates: The Officials, Clergy, Businessmen and Journalists Who Backed the American South During the Civil War. McFarland, 2012. ISBN 978-0786469017.
 * Blackett, R. J. M. Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War (2001).
 * Blumenthal, Henry. "Confederate Diplomacy: Popular Notions and International Realities," Journal of Southern History, Vol. 32, No. 2 (May 1966), pp. 151–171 in JSTOR
 * Boyko, John. Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. ISBN 978-0307361448.
 * Campbell, Duncan Andrew. English Public Opinion and the American Civil War (2003).
 * Carwardine, Richard, and Sexton, Jay, eds. The Global Lincoln. Oxford University Press, 2011.
 * Case, Lynn Marshall. The United States and France: Civil War Diplomacy. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970.
 * Daddysman, James W. The Matamoros Trade: Confederate Commerce, Diplomacy, and Intrigue. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1984.
 * Doyle, Don H. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 2014. Excerpt and text search
 * Ellison, Mary. Support for Secession: Lancashire and the American Civil War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972.
 * Ferris, Norman B. Desperate Diplomacy: William H. Seward's Foreign Policy, 1861. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976.
 * Foreman, Amanda. A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War. New York: Random House, 2011. ISBN 978-0375504945.
 * Fry, Joseph A. Lincoln, Seward, and US Foreign Relations in the Civil War. The University Press of Kentucky, 2019.
 * Hubbard, Charles M. The Burden of Confederate Diplomacy. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. ISBN 1572330929.
 * Hyman, Harold Melvin. Heard Round the World: The Impact Abroad of the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 1969.
 * Jenkins, Brian. Britain & the War for the Union. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974.
 * Jones, Howard. Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations. The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. erate online]
 * Jones, Howard. Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War. The University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
 * Jones, Howard. Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. ISBN 0803225822.
 * Mahin, Dean B. One War at a Time: The International Dimensions of the American Civil War. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2000. ISBN 978-1574883015. Originally published: Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1999.
 * Mahin, Dean B. The Blessed Place of Freedom: Europeans in Civil War America. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2002. ISBN 1574884840.
 * May, Robert E., ed. The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim. Rev. ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013, ISBN 978-0813049229. Originally published by Purdue University Press, 1995.
 * Mayers, Adam. Dixie and the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union. Dundurn Press, 2004. ISBN 155002468X.
 * Merli, Frank J. The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War. Indiana University Press, 2004.
 * Myers, Phillip E. Caution and Cooperation: The American Civil War in British–American Relations. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2008.
 * Owsley, Frank Lawrence. King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America, 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959.
 * Peraino, Kevin. Lincoln in the World: The Making of a Statesman and the Dawn of American Power. New York: Crown Publishers, 2013. Review by Don H. Doyle
 * Sainlaude, Stève. The Imperial Government and the American Civil War: The Diplomatic Action. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011.
 * Sainlaude, Stève. France and the Confederacy (1861–1865). Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011.
 * Sainlaude, Stève. France and the American Civil War: A Diplomatic History. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
 * Sebrell II, Thomas E. Persuading John Bull: Union and Confederate Propaganda in Britain, 1860–1865. Lexington Books, 2014.
 * Woldman, Albert A. Lincoln and the Russians. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1952.

Collected biographies

 * Bowman, John S. Who Was Who in the Civil War. (Random House, 1994).
 * Hubbell, John T. Biographical Dictionary of the Union: Northern Leaders of the Civil War. (Greenwood, 1995).
 * McNeese, Tim. Civil War Leaders (Infobase Publishing, 2009) Popular history.
 * Ritter, Charles F., and Jon L. Wakelyn, eds., Leaders of the American Civil War: A Biographical and Historiographical Dictionary (1998) short biographies and valuable historiographical summaries.
 * Sifakis, Stewart. Who was Who in the Union: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Biographical Reference to More Than 1,500 of the Principal Union Participants in the Civil War (Facts on File, 1988).
 * Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War: A comprehensive, illustrated biographical reference to more than 2,500 of the principal Union and Confederate participants in the War Between the States (2014), 780 pp
 * Sifakis, Stewart. Who was Who in the Confederacy: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Biographical Reference to More Than 1,000 of the Principal Confederacy Participants in the Civil War (Facts on File, 1988).
 * Spencer, James. Civil War Generals: Categorical Listings and a Biographical Directory (Greenwood, 1986).

Soldiers and sailors

 * (no author listed) Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1866, eight volumes. Cincinnati: The Ohio Valley Press, 1888.
 * (no author listed) The Soldier of Indiana in the War for the Union. Indianapolis, Indiana: Merrill, 1869.
 * Bennett, Michael J. Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
 * Booth, Andrew. Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, three volumes. New Orleans: no publisher listed, 1920.
 * Broadfoot Publishing Company. The Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861–1865, sixteen volumes. Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1995–1996.
 * Broadfoot Publishing Company. The Roster of Union Soldiers 1861–1865, thirty–three volumes. Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1996 to date.
 * Frank, Joseph Allan and George A. Reaves. Seeing the Elephant: Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh (1989)
 * Giesberg, Judith Ann. Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality (U of North Carolina Press, 2017).
 * Glatthaar, Joseph T. The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns. New York: New York University Press, 1985. ISBN 0814730019.
 * Glatthaar, Joseph T. and Aaron Charles Sheehan. The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (2006)
 * Glatthaar, Joseph T. General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse. New York: Free Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0684827872.
 * Hartman, David W. and David J. Coles, comps. Biographical Rosters of Florida's Confederate and Union Soldiers, 1861–1865, five volumes. Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing, 1995.
 * Hess, Earl J. The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0700608379.
 * Hilderman, Walter C., III. They Went into the Fight Cheering! Confederate Conscription in North Carolina. Boone: Parkway, 2005.
 * Johnson, Edward C., Gail R. Johnson, and Melissa Johnson William. All Were Not Heroes: A Study of "the List of U.S. Soldiers Executed by U.S. Military Authorities During the Late War". Chicago: privately published, 1997.
 * Loon, Ella. Desertion During the Civil War. Boston: Century Company, 1928.
 * Loury, Thomas P. Don't Shoot That Boy!: Abraham Lincoln and Military Justice. Mason City, Iowa: Savas Publishing, 199.
 * Loury, Thomas P. and Lewis Laska. Confederate Death Sentences: A Reference Guide. Charleston, South Carolilna: Booksarge, 2008.
 * McPherson, James M. For Cause and Country: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0195124996. (pbk.)
 * Mitchell, Reid. Civil War Soldiers: Their Expectations and Their Experiences. New York: Viking, 1988.
 * Mitchell, Reid. The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
 * Noe, Kenneth W. Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0807833773.
 * Nosworthy, Brent. The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War. Carroll & Graf, 2003.
 * Reid, Richard M. Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
 * Still Jr. William N. The Common Sailor: The Civil War's Uncommon Man – Yankee Blue Jackets and Confederate Tars. (1985)
 * Sutherland, Jonathan. Confederate Troops of the American Civil War. Wiltshire, UK: The Crowood Press, 2005. ISBN 1 86126 768 1.
 * Thompson, Jerry Don. Mexican–Texans in the Union Army. El Paso, Texas: Western Press, 1986.
 * Weitz, Mark A. More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army. University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
 * Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. ISBN 0807104760 (paper). First published Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.
 * Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. ISBN 0807104752 (paper). First published Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1943.

Prisoners

 * Arnold–Scriber, Theresa and Terry G. Scriber. Ship Island, Mississippi: Rosters and History of the Civil War Prison Jefferson, North Carolina: 2012. ISBN 978-0786468997.
 * Beitzell, Edwin W. Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates. Abell, Maryland: published by author, 1972.
 * Burnham, Philip. So Far from Dixie: Confederates in Yankee Prisons. New York: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003.
 * Butts, Michele Tucker. Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: The Face of Loyalty (2003).
 * Casstevens, Frances. George W. Alexander and Castle Thunder: A Confederate Prison and Its Commandant. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2004.
 * Cloyd, Benjamin G. Haunted by Atrocity: Civil War Prisons in American Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
 * Denney, Robert E. Civil War Prisons & Escapes: A Day–by–Day Chronicle. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1993.
 * Fetzer, Jr., Dale and Bruce E. Mowdey. Unlikely Allies: Fort Delaware's Prison Community in the Civil War. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2002. ISBN 0811718239.
 * Gray, Michael P. The Business of Captivity in the Chemung Valley: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison (2001)
 * Hesseltine, William B. Civil War Prisons: A Study in War Psychology. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1930. ISBN 0814207685.
 * Horigan, Michael. Elmira: Death Camp of the North. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2002. ISBN 978-0811732765.
 * Kelley, Daniel G. What I Saw and Suffered in Rebel Prisons. Buffalo, New York: Thomas, Howard and Johnson, 1868.
 * Lawrence, F. Lee and Robert Glover. Camp Ford, C.S.A.: The Story of Union Prisoners in Texas. Austin: Texas Civil War Centennial Advisory Committee, 1964.
 * Levy, George, To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862–1865. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, revised edition 1999. ISBN 978-1565543317. First published 1994.
 * Lisarelli, Daniel Francis. The Last Prison: The Untold Story of Camp Groce CSA. Unpublish.com/books/lisarelli.htm, 1999.
 * Marvel, William. Andersonville: The Last Depot. University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
 * McAdams, Benton. Rebels at Rock Island: The Story of a Civil War Prison. De Kalbe: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005.
 * Parker, Sandra V. Richmond's Civil War Prisons. Lynchburg, Virginia: H.E. Howard, 1990.
 * Sanders, Charles W., Jr. While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
 * Scharf, Jack E. Lee's Bold Plan for Point Lookout: The Rescue of Confederate Prisoners That Never Happened. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2008.
 * Speer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. 1997.
 * Speer, Lonnie. War of Vengeance: Acts of Retaliation Against Civil War POWs. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2002.
 * Triebe, Richard H. Fort Fisher to Elmira: The Fateful Journey of 518 Confederate Soldiers. CreateSpace, 2011.
 * Watson, Ronald G., editor. "Death Does Seem to Have All He Can Attend to": The Civil War Diary of an Anderson Survivor. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-0786478903.
 * Wheelan, Joseph. Libby Prison Breakout: The Daring Escape from the Notorious Civil War Prison. New York: Public Affairs, 2010. ISBN 978-1586487164.

Violence and death

 * Carmichael, Peter S. The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies (2018) excerpt
 * Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008) excerpt
 * Hacker, J. David. "A Census-Based Count of the Civil War Dead" Civil War History 57.4 (2011): 307–348.
 * Hacker, J. David. "Has the Demographic Impact of Civil War Deaths Been Exaggerated?." Civil War History 60.4 (2014): 453–458 excerpt
 * Marshall, Nicholas. "The Great Exaggeration: Death and the Civil War" Journal of the Civil War Era 4#1 (2014) pp. 3–27 online
 * Neff, John R. Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation (UP of Kansas, 2016) online.
 * Schantz, Mark S. Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death (Cornell UP, 2008).
 * 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#4:843–866 online
 * Sheehan-Dean, Aaron. The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War (Harvard UP, 2018). pp. 465. excerpt also online review
 * Steplyk, Jonathan M. Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat (UP of Kansas, 2018) online
 * Sutherland, Daniel E. Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front (U of Arkansas Press, 2009).
 * Swanson, David A., and Richard Verdugo. "The Civil War’s Demographic Impact on White Males in Mississippi." Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 62#3 (2017): 309+ oneline.

Guerillas

 * Barton, O.S. Three Years with Quantrill: A True Story by His Scout John McCorkle. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
 * Beilein, Joseph M. and Matthew Christopher Hulbert, eds. The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. ISBN 978-0813165325.
 * Black, Col. Robert W. Yank and Rebel Rangers: Special Operations in the American Civil War. Yorkshire; Philadelphia: Pen and Sword Military, 2019. ISBN 978-1-52674-444-9.
 * Brant, Marley. The Outlaw Youngers: A Confederate Brotherhood. New York: Madison Books, 1992. ISBN 0819186279.
 * Breihan, Carl W. Quantrill and his Civil War Guerillas. Denver, Colorado: Sage Books, 1959.
 * Brownlee, Richard S. Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy: Guerilla Warfare in the West, 1861–1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1958.
 * Castel, Albert. William Clark Quantrill: His Life and Times. New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., Publishers, 1962.
 * Castel, Albert and Thomas Goodrich. Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short Savage Life of a Civil War Guerilla. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1998. ISBN 081171506X.
 * Connelley, William Elsey. Quantrill and the Border Wars. New York: Pageant Book Company, 1956.
 * Crouch, Richard E. Rough–Riding Scout: The Story of John W. Mobberley, Loudoun's Own Civil War Guerilla Hero. Arlington, Virginia: Edden Editions.
 * Dyer, Robert L. Jesse James and the Civil War in Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994.
 * Edwards, John N. Noted Guerillas, or the Warfare of the Border. Being a History of the Lives and Adventures of Quantell, Bill Anderson, George Todd, Dave Poole, Fletcher Taylor, Peyton Long, Oll Shepherd, Arch Clements, John Maupin, Tuck and Woot Hill, Wm. Gregg, Thomas Maupin, the James Brothers, the Younger Brothers, Arthur McCoy, and Numerous Other Well Known Guerillas of the West. St. Louis: Bryan, Brand & Company, 1877.
 * Erwin, James W. Guerilla Hunters in Civil War Missouri. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1609497453.
 * Fellman, Michael. Inside War: The Guerilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN 019505198X.
 * Goodrich, Thomas. Black Flag: Guerilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861–1865. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995. ISBN 0253325994.
 * Fisher, Noel C. War at Every Door: Partisan Politics & Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-8078-2367-5.
 * Hulbert, Matthew Christopher. The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0820350028.
 * Jones, Virgil Carrington. Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders. Atlanta: Mockingbird Books, 1973. ISBN 0891760164. First published New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1956.
 * Leslie, Edward E. The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders. New York: Random House, 1996. ISBN 0679424555.
 * Mackey, Robert R. The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
 * Mays, Thomas D. Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson's Civil War. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. ISBN 0809328607.
 * McKnight, Brian D. Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0807137697.
 * McLachlan, Sean. American Civil War Guerilla Tactics. UK: Osprey Publishing, 2009. ISBN 1846034949.
 * Mountcastle, Clay. Punitive War: Confederate Guerillas and Union Reprisals. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
 * Nichols, Bruce. Guerilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, 1862. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2004.
 * O'Brien, Sean Michael. Mountain Partisans: Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861–1865. Praeger, 1999.
 * Olson, Gordon L. The Notorious Isaac Earl and His Scouts: Union Soldiers, Prisoners, Spies. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2014. ISBN 978-0-8028-6801-5.
 * Peterson, Paul R. Quantrill of Missouri: The Making of a Guerilla Warrior. Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House, 2003.
 * Sensing, Thurman. Champ Ferguson: Confederate Guerilla. Vanderbilt University Press, 1942. ISBN 0826512534.
 * Settle, William A. Jesse James Was His Name; or, Fact and Fiction Concerning the Careers of the Notorious James Brothers of Missouri. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1966.
 * Schultz, Duane. Quantrill's War: The Life and Times of William Clarke Quantrill 1837–1865. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. ISBN 0312147104.
 * Sheridan, Richard B., ed. Quantrill and the Lawrence Massacre – a Reader. Lawrence, Kansas: no publisher listed, 1997.
 * Stiles, T.J. Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
 * Sutherland, Daniel E. "Sideshow No Longer: A Historiographical Review of the Guerrilla War." Civil War History 46.1 (2000): 5–23; American Civil War, 1861–65
 * Sutherland, Daniel E. Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009.
 * Sutherland, Daniel E. A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerillas in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
 * Wert, Jeffry D. Mosby's Rangers: From the High Tide of the Confederacy to the Last Days at Appomattox – The Story of the Most Famous Command of the Civil War and Its Legendary Leader, John S. Mosby. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990. ISBN 978-0-671-67360-4.
 * Williamson, James J. Mosby's Rangers. New York: Ralph B. Kenyon, 1896. Reprint by Time-Life Books, 1982. ISBN 978-0-8094-4227-0.

Ethnic groups

 * Bailey, Anne J. Invisible Southerners: Ethnicity in the Civil War. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006.
 * Kamphoefner, Walter D. et al. eds. Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home. 2006.
 * Kaufmann, Wilhelm. The Germans in the American Civil War, With a Biographical Directory. Carlisle, Pa.: John Kallmann Publishers, 1999.
 * Keller, Christian B. Chancellorsville and the German: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.
 * Kohl, Lawrence. The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns. 1994.
 * Lause, Mark A. Race and Radicalism in the Union Army. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
 * Lonn, Ella, Foreigners in the Confederacy. 1940.
 * McCarthy, Cal. Green, Blue & Grey: The Irish in the American Civil War. 2010.
 * Mahin, Dean B. The Blessed Place of Freedom: Europeans in Civil War America. Dulles, Virginia: Brassey's Inc., 2002.
 * Samito, Christian G. Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship During the Civil War Era. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2009.
 * Sarna, Jonathan D. and Adam Mendelshon, eds. Jews and the Civil War: A Reader. New York University Press, 2010.
 * Thompson, Jerry D. Mexican Texans in the Union Army. El Paso, Texas: Texas Western Press, 1986.
 * Tucker, Phillip Thomas. Irish Confederates: The Civil War's Forgotten Soldiers. 2007.
 * Ural, Susannah J., ed. Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Conflict. New York: New York University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0814785706.
 * Vida, Istvan Kornel. Hungarian Émigrés in the American Civil War: A History and Biographical Dictionary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2011. ISBN 978-0786465620.

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.

American Indians

 * Abel, Annie Heloise. The American Indian as a Participant in the Civil War. Cleveland, Ohio: Arthur 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.

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.
 * 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 and 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.

Ideology, rhetoric, religion

 * (no author listed) Report of the Committee on the Destruction of Churches in the Diocese of South Carolina During the Late War: Presented to the Protestant Episcopal Convention, May 1868. Charleston, South Carolina: J. Walker, Printer, 1868.
 * Bennett, William. A Narrative of the Great Revival which Prevailed in the Southern Armies. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, 1877.
 * Brinsfield, John W.; Davis, William C.; Maryniak, Benedict; and Robertson, James I., eds. Faith in the Fight: Civil War Chaplains. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2003.
 * Dorn, T. Felder. Challenges on the Emmaus Road: Episcopal Bishops Confront Slavery, Civil War and Emancipation. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1611211047.
 * Durkin, Joseph T. Confederate Chaplin: A War Journal of Rev. James B. Sheeran, C.SS.R. Fourteenth Louisiana, CSA. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Bruce Publishing Company, 1960.
 * Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
 * Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. ISBN 978-0195099812.
 * Frederickson, George M. The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
 * Gallman, J. Matthew. Defining Duty in the Civil War. The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
 * Gourley, Bruce T. Diverging Loyalties: Baptists in Middle Georgia During the Civil War. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2011.
 * Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.
 * Hutchison, Coleman. Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism and the Confederate States of America Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
 * Korn, Bertram. American Jewry and the American Civil War. New York: Athenaeum, 1970.
 * Lehman, James O. and Steven M. Nolt. Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University, 2007.
 * McPherson, James. What They Fought For, 1861–1865. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1994.
 * Miller, Randall M., Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson, eds. Religion and the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0195121287.
 * Neff, John R. Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
 * Nelson, Jacquelyn Sue. Indiana Quakers confront the Civil War. Indiana Historical Society, 1991.
 * Noll, Mark A. The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
 * Rolfs, David. No Peace for the Wicked: Northern Protestant Soldiers in the American Civil War. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1572336629.
 * Sarna, Jonathan D. When Grant Expelled the Jews. New York: Schocken Books, 2012.
 * Scott, Sean A. A Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0195395990.
 * Silver, James W. Confederate Morality and Church Propaganda. New York: W.W. Norton, 1967.
 * Stout, Harry S. Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War. 2006.
 * Wells, Cheryl A. Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861–1865. University of Georgia Press, 2005.
 * Wills, Garry. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America. New York: Literary Research, Inc., 1992. ISBN 0671867423
 * Wilson, Douglas L. Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln (1999).
 * Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press 1962; reprinted: Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1984. ISBN 0930350618.

Veterans

 * (no author listed) Report of Seventh Annual Reunion of the 64th N.Y. Regimental Association at Salamanca, New York, August 21 and 22, 1895. New York: Randolph Publishing, 1894.
 * (no author listed) Reunions of the Nineteenth Main Regiment Association. Augusta, Maine: Press of Sprague, Owen and Nash, 1878.
 * Carroon, Robert G. and Dana B. Shoaf. Union Blue: The History of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Books, 2001.
 * Dearing, Mary R. Veterans in Politics: The Story of the G.A.R. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1952.
 * Frazier, John W. Reunions of the Blue and Gray. Philadelphia Brigade and Pickett's Division, July 2, 3, 4, 1887 and Sept. 15, 16, 17, 1906. Philadelphia: Ware Brothers, 1906.
 * Gannon, Barbara 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.
 * Grzyb, Frank L. The Last Civil War Veterans: The Lives of the Final Survivors, State by State. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2016. ISBN 978-1-4766-6522-1
 * Heuvel, Sean M. Images of America: Remembering Virginia's Confederates. Arcadia Publishing, 2010. ISBN 978-0738566115.
 * Hunt, Robert. The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010.
 * O'Mara, Daniel A. Proceedings of the Associated Survivors of the Fifty-Ninth Reg't, N.Y. Vet. Vols. First Annual Re-Union and Dedication of Monument at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3d, 1889. New York: Wm. Finley, Printer, 1889.
 * Shaffer, Donald R. After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2004.
 * Work, J.B., ed. Re–Union of Col. Dan McCook's Third Brigade, Second Division, Fourteenth A.C., "Army of the Cumberland": Assault of Col. Dan McCook's Brigade on Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 27, 1864/August 27th and 29th, 1900. Chicago: Allied, 1901.

Historiography

 * Bailey, Anne J., and Daniel E. Sutherland. "The history and historians of Civil War Arkansas." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 58.3 (1999): 232–63. in JSTOR, historiography.
 * Aimone, Alan C. and Barbara A. A User's Guide to the Official Records of the American Civil War. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1993. ISBN 0942597389.
 * Aaron, Daniel. The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
 * Binnington, Ian. Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0813935003.
 * Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
 * Boritt, Gabor S., ed. The Historian's Lincoln. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
 * Bresnahan, Jim, ed. Revisioning the Civil War: Historians on Counter-Factual Scenarios. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006. ISBN 978-0786423927.
 * Brown, Thomas J., ed. Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1421402512.
 * Catton, Bruce. Reflections on the Civil War. Edited by John Leekley. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. ISBN 978-0385063470.
 * Cook, Robert J. Troubled Commemoration: The Civil War Centennial, 1961–1965. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0807132272.
 * Coske, John M. The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005.
 * Connelly, Thomas L., The Marble Man. Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
 * Cox, Karen L. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
 * ; covers Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Sherman, Ambrose Bierce, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
 * Donald, David ed. Why the North Won the Civil War. 1977. ISBN 0020316607.
 * Foner, Eric et al. "Talking Civil War History: A Conversation with Eric Foner and James McPherson," Australasian Journal of American Studies (2011) 30#2 pp. 1–32 in JSTOR
 * Foner, Eric. "The Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions." In Beyond the Civil War Synthesis: Political Essays of the Civil War Era, edited by Robert P. Swieringa. 1975.
 * Fuller, Randell. From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0195342307.
 * Gallagher, Gary W. The Civil War at Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press and the Great American Conflict. Wilmington: Broadfoot, 1989.
 * Gallagher, Gary W. Lee & His Army in Confederate History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0807857694.
 * Gallagher, Gary W. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. ISBN 0807129585.
 * Gallagher, Gary W. and Alan T. Nolan, editors. The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
 * Goldfield, David. Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
 * Hartwig, D. Scott. The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862: A Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Meckler, 1990.
 * Hattaway, Herman. Reflections of a Civil War Historian: Essays on Leadership, Society, and the Art of War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004.
 * Janney, Caroline E. Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
 * Lawson, Melinda. Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
 * Mackowski, Chris and Kristopher D. White. The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Savas Beatie, LLC, 2013. ISBN 978-1611211603.
 * Marshall, Anne E. Creating Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0807834367.
 * Martinez, J. Michael, William D. Richardson, and Ron Me Ninch-Su, editors. Confederate Symbols in the Contemporary South. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.
 * McMurry, Richard M. The Fourth Battle of Winchester: Towards a New Civil War Paradigm. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2002.
 * Neely, Jr., Mark E. The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007.
 * Onuf, Nicholas and Peter Onuf. Nations, Muskets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006.
 * Osterweis, Rollin G. The Myth of the Lost Cause, 1865–1900. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon, 1973.
 * Panabaker, James. Shelby Foote and the Art of History: Two Gates to the City. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
 * Pressly, Thomas. Americans Interpret Their Civil War. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1966.
 * Prince, L. Michael. Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!: South Carolina and the Confederate Flag. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004.
 * Ritter, Charles F., and Jon L. Wakelyn, eds., Leaders of the American Civil War: A Biographical and Historiographical Dictionary (1998) short biographies and valuable historiographical summaries.
 * Ross, Charles. Civil War Acoustic Shadow. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Books, 2001.
 * Rubin, Anne Sarah. Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory (U of North Carolina Press, 2014). ISBN 978-1469617770.
 * Smith, John David. "Whither Kentucky Civil War and Reconstruction Scholarship?." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 112.2 (2014): 223–247. online
 * Tulloch, Hugh. The Debate on the American Civil War Era. 1999.
 * Varney, Frank P. General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War. Savas Beatie, LLC, 2013. ISBN 978-1611211184.
 * Warren, Craig. Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldiers and American Fiction. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1606350157.
 * Watchell, Cynthia. War No More: The Antiwar Impulse on American Literature, 1861–1914. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0807135624.
 * , the standard summary of the historiography.
 * , the standard summary of the historiography.

Surveys and reference books

 * American Annual Cyclopaedia for 1861 (N.Y.: Appleton's, 1864), an extensive collection of reports on each state, Congress, and military activities, and many other topics; annual issues from 1861 to 1901
 * Appletons' annual cyclopedia and register of important events: Embracing political, military, and ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry, Volume 3 1863 (1864), thorough coverage of the events of 1863
 * Axelrod, Alan. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Civil War. Indianapolis, Indiana: Alpha Books, 2004.
 * Barney, William L. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0199782017.
 * Beringer, Richard E., Archer Jones, and Herman Hattaway, Why the South Lost the Civil War 1986; also, The Elements of Confederate Defeat: Nationalism, War Aims, and Religion (1988), abridged version.
 * Blair, Jayne E. The Essential Civil War: A Handbook to the Battles, Armies, Navies, and Commanders. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2006.
 * Bordewich, Fergus M. Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America. New York: Knopf, 2020.
 * Bouton, Edward. Events of the Civil War. Miami, FL: Hardpress Publishing, 2012.
 * Campaigns of the Civil War, New York: Scribner, in 15 volumes:
 * 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.
 * Catton, Bruce. The Picture History of the Civil War. New York: American Heritage, 1960. ISBN 0828103054.
 * Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. 3 volumes. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961–1965..
 * 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.
 * Catton, Bruce. This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War 1956.
 * Cooper, Charles R. Chronological and Alphabetical Record of the Engagements of the Great Civil War. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Caston Press, 1904.
 * Cooper, Jr., William J. and John M. McCardell, Jr. In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
 * Copley, Richard L. The Civil War: A History in 3-D. Copleys Graphics LLC, 2009.
 * Cozzens, Peter, ed. Battles & Leaders of the Civil War, volume 5. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. ISBN 0252024044.
 * Cozzens, Peter, ed. Battles & Leaders of the Civil War, volume 6. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. ISBN 0252028791.
 * Davis, William C. The Battlefields of the Civil War. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. ISBN 0806128828.
 * Davis, William C. The Imperiled Union, 1861–1865, three volumes, 1983.
 * Denney, Robert E. The Civil War Years: A Day-by-Day Chronicle. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1992. ISBN 978-0-8069-8519-0.
 * Doyle, Don H. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 2015. ISBN 978-0465029679.
 * Draper, John William. History of the American Civil War, three volumes. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1870.
 * Eaton, Clement. History of the Southern Confederacy. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1954.
 * Volume I – Secession and Civil History of the Confederate States
 * Volume II – Maryland and West Virginia
 * Volume III – Virginia by Jedediah Hotchkiss
 * Volume IV – North Carolina by D. H. Hill, Jr.
 * Volume V – South Carolina by Ellison Capers
 * Volume VI – Georgia
 * Volume VII – Alabama and Mississippi
 * Volume VIII – Tennessee
 * Volume IX – Kentucky and Missouri
 * Volume X – Louisiana and Arkansas
 * Volume XI – Texas and Florida
 * Volume XII – Military and Post War History
 * Denney, Robert E. The Civil War Years: A Day-by-Day Chronicle. New York: Gramercy Books, 1992. ISBN 0517189453.
 * Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 978-0684849447.
 * Faust, Patricia L. (ed.) Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War 1986. ISBN 0061812617.
 * Fishel, Edwin C. The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
 * Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. 3 vols. New York: Random House, 1974. ISBN 0394749138.
 * 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.
 * Ford, Lacy K., ed. A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Blackwell, 2005.
 * Gallagher, Gary. The Confederate War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998.
 * Gallagher, Gary W. The Union War. New York: Harvard University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0674045620.
 * Gallagher, Gary W., Stephen Engle, Robert Krick, and Joseph Glatthaar. The American Civil War: This Mighty Scourge of War. United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
 * Gibboney, Douglas Lee: Tragic Glory: A Concise, Illustrated History of the Civil War. Fredericksburg, Virginia: Sergeant Kirkland's, 1997. ISBN 1887901175.
 * Goldfield, David. America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation. Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
 * Goodheart, Adam. 1861: The Civil War Awakening. New York: Vintage Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1400032198.
 * Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0199843282.
 * Hannings, Bud. Every Day of the Civil War: A Chronological Encyclopedia. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2010.
 * Hattaway, Herman, and Archer Jones. How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1983. ISBN 0252009185.
 * Hattaway, Herman. Shades of Blue and Gray: An Introductory Military History of the Civil War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
 * Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Seidler, editors. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social and Military History. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002.
 * Holzer, Harold, and Sara Vaughn Gabbard. 1865: America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln's Final Year (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015). viii, 199 pp.
 * Hughes, Mark. The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages. Savas Beatie, LLC, 2009. ISBN 1932714626.
 * Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers. Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War. Chicago: Open Court, 1996.
 * Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence C. Buel, eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. 4 volumes. New York: Century Co., 1884–1888. . Later edition: New York: Castle Books, 1956.
 * 1) From Sumter to Shiloh.
 * 2) North to Antietam.
 * 3) Retreat from Gettysburg.
 * 4) The Way to Appomattox.
 * Jones, Robert H. Disrupted Decades: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973.
 * Kagan, Neil, and Stephen G. Hyslop. National Geographic Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle. Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2008. ISBN 978-1426203473.
 * Keegan, John. The Civil War: A Military History, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
 * Kennedy, Frances H. (editor) The Civil War Battlefield Guide, 2nd ed.. New York: The Conservation Fund, 1998. ISBN 0395740126.
 * Long, E. B. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac 1861–1865. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971.
 * Lowry, Don. Dark and Cruel War: The Decisive Months of the Civil War, September–December 1864. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1993.
 * Lowry, Thomas P. A Thousand Stories You Didn't Know About the Civil War. No place of publication: published by the author, 2014.
 * Marten, James and A. Kristen Foster. More Than a Contest Between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2008.
 * Masur, Louis P. The Civil War: A Concise History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
 * McPherson James M. The Atlas of the Civil War. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers, 2005. ISBN 978-0762423569.
 * McPherson James M. Fields of Fury: The American Civil War. New York: Bryon Press Visual Publications, Inc., 2002.
 * McPherson James M. Ordeal by Fire: the Civil War and Reconstruction. (1992), uses modernization interpretation; the text is different from his Battle Cry book
 * Mitchell, Joseph B. Military Leaders in the Civil War. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972.
 * Mosocco, Ronald A. The Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War per the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Williamsburg, Va: James River Publications, 1994.
 * Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union, an 8-volume set (1947–1971).
 * 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
 * Miller, Francis T., ed. The Photographic History of the Civil War, ten volumes. New York: Review of Reviews, 1912.
 * Olson, Christopher J. The American Civil War: A Hands-On History. New York: Hill & Wang, 2006.
 * Pollard, Edwin. The First Year of the War. Richmond, Virginia: West and Johnston, 1862.
 * Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 (1920 and numerous editions) five volumes.
 * Rhodes, James Ford. A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (Pulitzer Prize winner).
 * Shotwell, Walter. The Civil War in America. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1923.
 * Stoddard, Brooke C., and Daniel P. Murphy. The Everything Civil War Book. New York: Everything Books, 2009.
 * Swinton, William. The Twelve Decisive Battles of the Civil War. New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, 1867.
 * Symonds, Craig L. A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War. Annapolis, Maryland: The Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1983. ISBN 0933852401.
 * Thomas, Emory M. The American War and Peace, 1860–1877. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice–Hall, Inc., 1973.
 * Trudeau, Noah Andre. Out of the Storm: The End of the Storm, April–June 1865. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. ISBN 0316853283.
 * Varon, Elizabeth. Disunion: The Coming of the American Civil War 1789–1859. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
 * Wagner, Margaret E. Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkelman, eds. The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference. 2002.
 * Weigley, Russell F. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
 * Wink, Jay. April 1865: The Month That Saved America. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 978-0060899684. First published 2001.
 * Woodworth, Steven E., and Kenneth J. Winkle. Oxford Atlas of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0195221311.
 * Wooster, Robert. The Civil War Bookshelf: 50 Must-Read Books About the War Between the States. New York: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., 2001. ISBN 0806526920.
 * Wright, John D., editor. Oxford Dictionary of Civil War Quotations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
 * Wright, Mike. What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War. Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1997.
 * Wright, Mike. What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War. Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1997.

For the most recent surveys see:
 * Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0199843282.
 * Fellman, Michael et al. This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2nd. ed. 2007).
 * Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 978-0684849447.
 * Donald, David et al. The Civil War and Reconstruction. 2001.
 * McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0195038637.
 * Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, ed. A Companion to the U.S. Civil War. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. ISBN 978-1444351316. 2 vol. 1232 pp; 64 topical chapters by experts; emphasis on historiography.

Maps, photographs, environment

 * Adelman, Gary E. and John J. Richter, editors. Ninety-Nine Historic Images of Civil War Washington. Washington, D.C.: The Center for Civil War Photography and the Civil War Preservation Trust, 2006.
 * Brady, Lisa M. "The Wilderness of War: Nature and Strategy in the American Civil War," Environmental History 10, no. 3 (July 2005): 421–447
 * Brady, Lisa M. War upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes during the American Civil War (Environmental History and the American South) (2012) excerpt and text search
 * Browning, Judkin and Timothy Silver. An Environmental History of the Civil War (2020) online review
 * Davis, William C., Bell I. Wiley and The National Historical Society. The Image of War, 1861–1865, 6 volumes. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1981–1984. ISBN 978-0385154666.
 * 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.
 * Davis, William C., William A. Frassanito and The National Historical Society. Touched by Fire: A Photographic Portrait of the Civil War. 2 volumes. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1985–1986.
 * 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.
 * Drake, Brian Allen, ed. The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War (University of Georgia Press; 2015) 250 pages; Scholarly essays examining climate, disease & landscape issues.
 * Esposito, Vincent J. West Point Atlas of American Wars. Frederick A. Praeger, 1959.
 * Gallman, James Matthew, Gary W. Gallagher. Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War. University of Georgia Press; 2015.
 * Gottfried, Bradley M. The Maps of First Bull Run: An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball's Bluff, June–October 1861. New York: Savas Beatie, 2009. ISBN 978-1932714609.
 * Gottfried, Bradley M. The Maps of Gettysburg: An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign, June 3–13, 1863. New York: Savas Beatie, 2007. ISBN 978-1932714302.
 * Guernsey, Alfred H. and Henry M. Alden, editors. Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion, two volumes. Chicago, Illinois: McDonnell Brothers, 1868.
 * Imhof, John D. Gettysburg: Day Two – A Study In Maps. Baltimore, Maryland: Butternut & Blue, 1999. ISBN 0935523707.
 * Krick, Robert K. Civil War Weather in Virginia. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2007.
 * O'Shea, Richard. American Heritage Battle Maps of the Civil War. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Council Oak Books, 1992. ISBN 0933031718.
 * Swanson, Mark. Atlas of the Civil War: Month By Month. U. of Georgia Press, 2004. 141 pp.
 * Symonds, Craig L. A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War. Annapolis, Maryland: The Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1983. ISBN 0933852401.
 * Ward, Geoffrey C. The Civil War (1990), based on PBS series by Ken Burns; visual emphasis
 * Woodhead, Henry, ed. Echoes of Glory: Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War. Alexandria, Virginia: Time–Life Books, 1991. ISBN 0809488582.

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.
 * Sauers, Richard A. The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 – August 1, 1863: A Comprehensive, Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982.
 * Seagrave, Ronald R. Civil War Books – Confederate and Union: A Bibliography and Price Guide. Fredericksburg, Virginia: Sergeant Kirkland's Museum and Historical Society, 1995.
 * Smith, David R. The Monitor and the Merimac: A Bibliography. Los Angeles: 1968.
 * Smith, Jr., Myron J. American Civil War Navies: A Bibliography. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1972.
 * United States War Department. Bibliography of State Participation in the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: 1913.
 * Westcote, Walter. Books on the American Civil War Era: A Critical Bibliography. El Dorado Hills, California: Savas Beatie Publishing. 2017.
 * Woodworth, Steven E., ed. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996.
 * Wright, John H. Compendium of the Confederacy: An Annotated Bibliography, two volumes. Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1989.

Newspapers in the Civil War

 * The Most Fearful Ordeal: Original Coverage of the Civil War by Writers and Reporters of the New York Times. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.
 * Andrews, J. Cutler. The North Reports the Civil War. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1955.
 * Andrews, J. Cutler. The South Reports the Civil War. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1970.
 * Cortissoz, Royal. The Life of Whitelaw Reid, two volumes. New York: Scribners, 1921.
 * Harris, Brayton. War News Blue and Gray in Black and White: Newspapers in the Civil War.
 * Holzer, Harold. Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
 * Holzer, Harold, and Craig L. Symonds, editors. The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861–1865. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2010.
 * Marszalek, John F. Sherman's Other War: The General and the Civil War Press. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999.
 * Munson, E.B., ed. Confederate Correspondent: The Civil War Reports of Jacob Nathaniel Raymer, Fourth North Carolina. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Publishers, 2009.
 * Perry, James M. A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents – Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
 * Reynolds, Donald F. Editors Make War: Southern Newspapers in the Secession Crisis. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1966.
 * Smart, James G., ed. A Radical View: The "Agate" Dispatches of Whitelaw Reid, 1861–1865, two volumes. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis State University Press, 1976
 * Starr, Louis M. Bohemian Brigade: Civil War Newsmen in Action. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1952.
 * Stepp, John W. and I. William Hill, eds. and comps. Mirror of the War: The Washington Star Reports the Civil War. New York: Castle Books for The Evening Star Newspapers Company, 1961.
 * Styple, William B. Writing & Fighting the Confederate War: The Letters of Peter Wellington Alexander, Confederate War Correspondent. Kearny, New Jersey: Belle Grove Publishing, 2002.

Art and music

 * Cornelius, Steven H. Music of the Civil War Era. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004.
 * Davis, James A. Music Along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters, Virginia. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
 * Holzer, Harold and Mark E. Neely, Jr. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in Art. New York: Orion Books, 1993.
 * Jacobson, Doranne. The Civil War in Art: A Visual Odyssey. New York: SMITHMARK Publishers, 1996.
 * Kelley, Bruce and Mark A. Snell. Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004.
 * Neely, Jr., Mark E., Harold Holzer, and Gabor S. Boritt. The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
 * Sharp, Kevin, with contributions by Adam M. Thomas. Bold Cautious True: Walt WHitman and American Art of the Civil War Era. Memphis, Tennessee: The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2009.

Popular culture, novels, films

 * Brown, Thomas J. The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration: A Brief History with Documents. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004.
 * Browne, Ray B. The Civil War and Reconstruction. American Popular Culture Through History, 2003.
 * Cassidy, John M. Civil War Cinema: A Pictorial History of Hollywood and the War between the States. Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1986.
 * Cullen, Jim. The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
 * Ehle, John Time of Drums. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. (historical fiction)
 * Fahs, Alice, and Joan Waugh, eds. The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
 * Gallagher, Gary W. Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0807832066.
 * Holzer, Harold. Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: The Civil War in Art. New York: Orion Books, 1993.
 * Hulbert, Matthew Christopher and John C. Inscoe, eds. Writing History With Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0807170465.
 * Jones, Madison. Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light. Nashville, Tennessee: J. S. Sanders & Company, 1997. ISBN 187994135X.
 * Kinnard, Roy. The Blue and Gray on the Silver Screen: More than 80 Years of Civil War Movies. Secaucus, New York: Carol Publishing, 1996.
 * McWhirter, Christian. Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
 * Nagle, P. G. Glorieta Pass [a novel]. New York: Forge, 1999. ISBN 0312865481.
 * Sears, Stephen W. American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art. New York, American Heritage Pub. Co., 1974.
 * Sears, Stephen W., ed. Civil War: A Treasury of Art and Literature. Fairfield, Connecticut: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1992.
 * Sherbourne, James. The Way to Fort Pillow. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. (historical fiction)
 * Spehr, Paul C., compiler. The Civil War in Motion Pictures: A Bibliography of Films Produced in the United States since 1897. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1961.
 * Terman, Max R. Hiram's Honor: Reliving Private Terman's Civil War. Hillsboro, Kansas: Tesa Books, 2009.
 * Terman, Max R. Hiram's Hope: The Return of Isaiah, Hillsboro, Kansas: M. R. Terman, 2014.
 * Warren, Craig A. Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009.
 * Wills, Brian Steel. Gone with the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Tour guides

 * (Anonymous) The Civil War Preservation Trust's Civil War Sites: The Official Guide to Battlefields, Monuments, and More. Old Saybrook, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 2003.
 * (no author listed) A Guide to the Fortifications and Battlefields Around Petersburg. Petersburg, Virginia: Daily Index Job Print, 1866.
 * (no author listed) "Southern Battlefields": A List of Battlefields on and near the Lines of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway and Western & Atlantic Railroad. Nashville, Tennessee: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, no date listed.
 * Bishop, Randy. Mississippi's Civil War Battlefields: A Guide to Their History and Preservation. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2010.
 * Bowery, Jr. Charles R. and Ethan S. Rafuse, eds. Guide to the Richmond–Petersburg Campaign. The U. S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014. ISBN 978-0700619597.
 * Cahill, Lora Schmidt, and David L. Mowery. Morgan's Raid Across Ohio: The Civil War Guidebook of the John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail. Edited by Edd Sharp and Michele Collins. Ohio Historical Society, 2013.
 * Calkins, Chris M. From Petersburg to Appomattox: A Tour Guide to the Route's of Lee's Withdrawal and Grant's Pursuit, April 2 – 9, 1865. Farmville, Virginia: Farmville Herald, 1983.
 * Civil War Preservation Trust. Civil War Sites: The Official Guide to Battlefields, Monuments, and More. Guilford, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 2003.
 * Dunkerly, Robert M., Donald C. Pfanz, and David R. Ruth. No Turning Back: A Guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4 – June 13, 1864. Savas Beatie, 2014. ISBN 978-1611211931.
 * Johnson, Clint. Touring the Carolinas' Civil War Sites. Second Edition. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 2011 ISBN 978-0895874030.
 * Johnson, Clint. Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 1999. ISBN 978-0895871848.
 * Krumenaker, Lawrence. Walking the Line: Rediscovering and Touring the Civil War Defenses on Modern Atlanta's Landscape. Hermograph Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1930876071.
 * Lee, Richard McGowan. General Lee's City: An Illustrated Guide to the Historic Sites of Confederate Richmond. EPM Publications, 1987.
 * Miles, Jim. Paths to victory: a history and tour guide of the Stone's River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville Campaigns. Rutledge Hill Press, 1991.
 * Miles, Jim. To the Sea: A History and Tour Guide of Sherman's March. Turner Publishing Company, 1999.
 * Morgan, Bill. The Civil War Lover's Guide to New York City. Savas Beatie, LLC, 2013. ISBN 978-1611211221.
 * Salmon, John S. The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2001.
 * Shively, Julie. The Ideals Guide to American Civil War Places. Nashville, Tennessee: Ideals Publications, 1999.
 * Spruill III, Matt, and Matt Spruill IV. Echoes of Thunder: A Guide to the Seven Days' Battles. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
 * Taylor, Paul. Discovering the Civil War in Florida: A Reader and Guide. Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press, Inc., 2001. ISBN 1561642347.
 * Walk, Gregory. Friend and Foe Alike: A Tour Guide to Missouri's Civil War. St. Louis, Missouri: Missouri's Civil War Heritage Foundation, Inc., 2010, 2012. ISBN 0979948266
 * Winter, William C. The Civil War in St. Louis: A Guided Tour. St. Louis, Missouri: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1994.
 * Wright, Muriel H. and Leroy H Fischer. Civil War Sites in Oklahoma. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1967.
 * Yates, Bowling C. Historical Guide for Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park and Marietta, Georgia. No publisher listed, 1976.

Monuments, battlefields, and battlefield preservation

 * Baruch, Mildred C. and Ellen J. Beckman. Civil War Union Monuments. Washington, D.C.: Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1978.
 * Boge, Georgie and Margie Holder Boge. Paving Over the Past: A History and Guide to Civil War Battlefield Preservation. Montclair, New Jersey: G–2 Military History Specialists, 1993.
 * Butler, Douglas J. North Carolina Civil War Monuments: An Illustrated History. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2013. ISBN 978-0786468560.
 * Dillahunty, Albert. Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1955.
 * Emerson, B.A.C. Historic Southern Monuments: Representative Memorials of the Heroic Dead of the Southern Confederacy. New York and Washington, D.C.: Neale, 1911.
 * Keefer, Bradley S. Conflicting Memories on the "River of Death": The Chickamauga Battlefield and the Spanish–American War, 1863–1933. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1606351260.
 * Linton, Roger C. Chickamauga: A Battlefield History in Images. University of Georgia Press, 2004. ISBN 0820323985.
 * Neff, John R. Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation. Lawrence; University Press of Kansas, 2005.
 * Smith, Timothy B. This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
 * Widener, Jr., Ralph W. Confederate Monuments: Enduring Symbols of the South and the War Between the States. Washington, D.C.: Andromeda, 1982.
 * Zenzer, Joan M. Battling for Manassas: The Fifty-Year Preservation Struggle at Manassas National Battlefield Park. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1998.

Government publications

 * U.S. War Dept., The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (including the full Atlas), U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901. 70 volumes of letters and reports written by both armies in 128 parts. ** Note: in 1902 a Volume of Additions and Corrections to the Official Records was published: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Additions and Corrections to General Index Volume, Serial No 130
 * Report of the Committee on the Conduct of the War on the Attack on Petersburg on the 30th Day of July, 1864. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1865.
 * Illinois Adjutant General. Roster of Officers and Enlisted Men, nine volumes. Springfield, Illinois: 1900.
 * Indiana Adjutant General. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana 1861–65, eight volumes. Indianapolis, Indiana: Holloway, 1865–66.
 * Iowa Adjutant General. Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion, six volumes. Des Moines, Iowa: English, 1910.
 * journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861–1865, seven volumes. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904–1905.
 * Kansas Adjutant General. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kansas 1861–65. Topeka, Kansas: Hudson, 1896.

Memoirs

 * Anderson, Ephraim McD. Memoirs, Historical and Personal, Including the Campaigns of the First Missouri Confederate Brigade, ed. by Edwin C. Bearss. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1972.
 * Armes, Augustus. Ups and Downs of an Army Officer. Washington, D.C.: no publisher listed, 1900.
 * Aschmann, Rudolf. Memoirs of a Swiss Officer in the American Civil War, Heinz K. Meier, ed. Bern, Switzerland: Herbert Lang, 1972.
 * Baird, W. David, editor. A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G.W. Greyson. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
 * Ballard, Alfred. Gone for a Soldier: The Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Ballard, edited by David Herbert Donald. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.
 * Bancroft, Frederic and William A. Dunning, eds. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, five volumes. New York: The McClure Company, 1908.
 * Barney, Chester. Recollections of Field Service with the Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers; or, What I Saw in the Army; Embracing Accounts of Marches, Battles, Sieges, and Skirmished in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Texas, and along the Northern Border of Mexico. Davenport, Iowa: Davenport Gazette, 1865.
 * Bassett, Edward. From Bull Run to Bristow Station, edited by M.H. Bassett. St. Paul, Minnesota: North Central Publishing, 1962.
 * Bates, David Homer. Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph Corps during the Civil War. New York: Century Co., 1907.
 * Beale, G.W. A Lieutenant of Cavalry in Lee's Army. Boston: Gorham Press, 1918.
 * Benson, Susan Williams, ed. Berry Benson's Civil War Book: Memoirs of a Confederate Scout and Sharpshooter. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
 * Benton, Charles E. As Seen from the Ranks: A Boy in the Civil War. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902.
 * Billings, John D. Hardtack and Coffee, or the Unwritten Story of Army Life. Boston, Massachusetts: G. M. Smith, 1887.
 * Bloodgood, John D. Personal Reminiscences of the War. New York: Hunt and Eaton, 1893.
 * Booth, George W. Personal Reminiscences of a Maryland Soldier in the War Between the States. Baltimore, Maryland: Fleet, McGinley and Co., 1898.
 * Borton, Benjamin. Awhile with the Blue; Or, Memories of War Days, the True Story of a Private. Passaic, New Jersey: William Taylor, 1898.
 * Bowen, Ronald. From Ball's Bluff to Gettysburg . . . And Beyond, edited by Gregory A. Coco. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 1994.
 * Brainerd, Wesley. Bridge Building in Wartime: Colonel Wesley Brainerd's Memoir of the 50th New York Volunteer Engineers, edited by Ed Malles. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
 * Brown, Augustus C. The Diary of a Line Officer. New York: no publisher listed, 1906.
 * Brown, Kent Masterson, ed. One of Morgan's Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011. ISBN 978-0813129891.
 * Buell, Augustus. "The Cannoneer": Recollections of Service in the Army of the Potomac. Washington, D.C.: National Tribune, 1890.
 * Casler, John O. Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade. Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Co., 1906.
 * Clark, Willene B., ed. Valleys of the Shadow: The Memoir of Confederate Captain Reuben G. Clark, Company I, 59th Tennessee Mounted Infantry. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.
 * Cochrane, John. The War for the Union: Memoir of Gen. John Cochrane. New York: no publisher listed, 1875.
 * Cockrell, Monroe F., ed. Gunner with Stonewall: Reminiscences of William Thomas Poague. Jackson, Tennessee: McCowat–Mercer, 1957.
 * Cole, Jacob H. Under Five Commanders: Or, a Boy's Experiences with the Army of the Potomac. Paterson, New Jersey: New Print, 1906.
 * Cox, Jacob D. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, two volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.
 * Cozzens, Peter, and Robert I. Girardi, eds. The Military Memoirs of General John Pope. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
 * Crotty, D.B. Four Years Campaigning in the Army of the Potomac. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Dygert Brothers, 1874.
 * Dana, Charles A. A Recollection of the Civil War with the Leaders at Washington and in the Field in the Sixties. New York: D. Appleton, 1899.
 * Davis, Varina H. Jefferson Davis, Ex–President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir by His Wife, two volumes. New York, 1890.
 * Dawes, Rufus R. Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers. Marietta, Ohio: E. R. Alderman & Sons, 1890.
 * Douglas, Henry Kyd. I Rode with Stonewall. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940.
 * Du Forest, John W. A Volunteer's Adventures: A Union Captain's Record of the Civil War, James W. Croushore, ed. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1946.
 * Durkin, Joseph T., ed. Confederate Chaplain: A War Journal of Rev. James B. Sheeran, C.Ss.R., Fourteenth Louisiana, C.S.A. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Bruce Publishing Company, 1960.
 * Early, Jubal A. Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War between the States. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1912.
 * Early, Jubal A. A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence, in the Confederate States of America, Containing an Account of His Commands in the Years 1864 and 1865. Lynchburg, Virginia: C. W. Button, 1867.
 * Eckert, Edward K. and Nicholas J. Amato. Ten Years in the Saddle: The Memoir of William Woods Averell, 1851–1862. San Rafael, California: Presidio Press, 1978.
 * Favill, Josiah M. The Diary of a Young Officer Serving with the Armies of the United States during the War of the Rebellion. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley and Sons, 1909.
 * French, S.G. Two Wars: An Autobiography. Nashville, Tennessee: Confederate Veteran, 1901.
 * Fuller, Charles. Personal Recollections of the War of 1861. Sherburne, New York: News Job Printing House, 1906.
 * Galwey, Thomas F. The Valiant Hours: Narrative of "Captain Brevet," An Irish-American in the Army of the Potomac, edited by W.S. Nye. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole, 1961.
 * Gerrish, Henry. Letter to Lyman: The Personal Letter of a Civil War Soldier to His Grandson, Walter Lyman Medding, Recounting His Wartime Experiences, edited by Walter S. Medding. Springfield, Virginia: Genealogical Books in Print, 1978.
 * Gibbon, John. Personal Recollections of the Civil War. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.
 * Gill, John. Reminiscences of Four Years as a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army. Baltimore, Maryland: Sun Printing Office, 1904.
 * Gordon, John B. Reminiscences of the Civil War. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903.
 * Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs, two volumes. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885.
 * Grant, Ulysses S. Memoirs and Selected Letters, edited by Mary Drake McFeely and William S. McFeely. The Library of America, 1990. ISBN 0940450585.
 * Graybill, John H. Diary of a Confederate Soldier, edited by Ruth Woods Dayton. Philippi, West Virginia: privately published, 1961.
 * Hagood, Johnson C. Memoirs of the War of Secession. Columbia: State Company, 1910.
 * Haley, John. The Rebel Yell and the Yankee Hurrah: The Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer, edited by Ruth L. Silliker. Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1985.
 * Haynes, Dennis E. "A Thrilling Narrative": The Memoir of a Southern Unionist. Washington, D.C.: McGill and Witherow, 1866.
 * Hazen, William Babcock. A Narrative of Military Service. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885.
 * Heth, Henry. The Memoirs of Henry Heth. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1974.
 * Hitchcock, Frederick L. War from the Inside; Or, Personal Experiences, Impressions, and Reminiscences of One of the "Boys" in the War of the Rebellion. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1904.
 * Hood, John B. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. New Orleans: Hood Orphan Memorial Fund, 1880.
 * Hotchkiss, Jedediah. Make Me a Map of the Valley: The Civil War Journal of Stonewall Jackson's Topographer, edited by Archie P. McDonald. Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1973.
 * Howard, McHenry. Recollections of a Maryland Staff Officer Under Johnston, Jackson and Lee. Baltimore, Maryland: Williams and Wilkins, 1914.
 * Howard, Oliver Otis. Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major General United States Army, two volumes. New York: The Baker & Taylor Co., 1914.
 * Hyde, Thomas W. Following the Greek Cross, or Memoirs of the Sixth Army Corps. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1895.
 * Jackson, Mary Anna. Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson. Louisville, Kentucky: The Prentice Press, 1895.
 * Johnston, Joseph E. Narrative of Military Operations. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1874.
 * Jones, J. B. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, two volumes. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippencott, 1866.
 * Jones, Terry L., editor. The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.
 * Kellersberger, Getulius. Memoirs of an Engineer in the Confederate Army in Texas, translated by Helen S. Sundstrom. Austin, Texas: privately published, 1957.
 * Koonce, Donald B., editor. Doctor to the Front: The Recollections of Confederate Surgeon Thomas Fanning Wood, 1861–1865. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
 * Lockwood, James D. Life and Adventures of a Drummer-Boy; Or, Seven Years a Soldier. Albany, New York: J. Skinner, 1893.
 * Long, A. L. Memoirs of General Robert E. Lee: His Military and Personal History Embracing a Large Amount of Information Hitherto Unpublished.. New York: J. M. Stoddart, 1886.
 * Longstreet, James B. From Manassas to Appomattox. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1896.
 * Lyman, Theodore. Meade's Headquarters, 1863–1865, edited by George G. Agassiz. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922.
 * Marshall, Charles. An Aide–de–camp of Lee, edited by Sir Frederick Maurice. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, 1927.
 * Martin, John C. Lest We Forget Published by the Democrat Publishing Company of Madison, Wisconsin, under the sponsorship of the Wisconsin State Legislature, 1927.
 * Maury, Dabney H. Recollections of a Virginian. New York: 1894.
 * McCarter, William. My Life in the Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of Private William McCarter, 116th Pennsylvania Infantry. Edited by Kevin O'Brien. Campbell, California: Savas, 1996.
 * McClellan, George B. McClellan's Own Story. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1887.
 * McKim, Randolph Harrison. A Soldier's Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate with an Oration on the Motives and Arms of the Soldiers of the South. New York: Longman's 1911.
 * Miller, Edward Gee. Captain Edward Gee Miller of the 20th Wisconsin: His War, 1862–1865, ed. by W. J. Lemke. Fayetteville, Arkansas: Washington County Historical Society, 1960.
 * Neese, George M. Four Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery. New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1911.
 * Noe, Kenneth W., ed. A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry (USA). Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
 * Opie, John N. A Rebel Cavalryman with Lee, Stuart and Jackson. Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899.
 * Paine, Halbert Eleazer. A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country: The Civil War Reminiscences of a Union General, edited by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
 * Palmer, Edwin. The Second Brigade or, Camp Life. Montpelier, Vermont: E. P. Walton Co., 1864.
 * Peck, R. H. Reminiscences of a Confederate Soldier. Fincastle, Virginia: published by author, 1913.
 * Poague, William T. Gunner with Stonewall. Jackson, Tennessee: McCowart–Mercer Press, 1957.
 * Porter, Horace. Campaigning with Grant. New York: Century Company, 1906.
 * Rhodes, Elisha Hunt. All For the Union, edited by Robert H. Rhodes. Lincoln, Rhode Island: Andrew Mowbray, 1985.
 * Schmitt, Martin F., ed. General George Crook: His Autobiography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960.
 * Schofield, John M. Forty–six Years in the Army. New York: Century, 1897.
 * Selfridge, Jr., Thomas O. Memoirs of Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr., Rear–Admiral, USN. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924.
 * Semmes, Raphael. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States. Baltimore, Maryland: Kelly, Piet and Company, 1869.
 * Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, ed. The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: The Library of America, 2014. ISBN 978-1598532944.
 * Sherman, William Tecumseh, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. 2 vols. 1875.
 * Simon, John Y., ed., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Southern Illinois University Press, 1967–present. As of 2006, volumes 1 to 28 covering through September 1878 have been published.
 * Small Harold A., ed. The Road to Richmond: The Civil War Memoirs of Major Abner R. Small of the Sixteenth Main Volunteers. New York: Fordham University Press, 2000.
 * Smith, William F. Autobiography of Major General William F. Smith, 1861–1864, edited by Herbert M. Schiller. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1990.
 * Smith, William F. From Chattanooga to Petersburg under General Grant and Butler: A Contribution to the History of the War, and a Personal Vindication. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893.
 * Sorrel, G. Moxley. Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer. New York: Neale, 1905.
 * Spear, Abbott et al., eds. The Civil War Recollections of General Ellis Spear. Orono: University of Maine Press, 1997.
 * Stanley, David S. Personal Memoirs of Major General D. S. Stanley, U.S.A. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1917.
 * Taylor, Richard: Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1879.
 * Tilney, Robert. My Life in the Army: Three Years and a Half with the Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, 1862–1865. Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach, 1912.
 * Tyler, Mason Whiting. Recollections of the Civil War, With Many Original Diary Entries and Letters Written From the Seat of War, and With Annotated References. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912.
 * Von Borcke, Heros. Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence. New York: Peter Smith, 1938.
 * Wallace, Lew. Lew Wallace: An Autobiography, two volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906.
 * Watkins, Samuel R. Company Aytch, or a Sideshow of the Big Show. Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, 1882.
 * Wilkenson, Frank. Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893.
 * Williams, R.L. With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West, 1852–1868. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1907.
 * Wills, Charles W. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier. Washington, D.C.: Globe Printing Company, 1906.
 * Wilson, James. Under the Old Flag, two volumes. New York: 1912.
 * Wilson, LeGrand J. The Confederate Soldier. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis State University Press, 1973.
 * Woodward, C. Vann, ed. Mary Chesnut's Civil War. Yale University Press, 1981. ISBN 0300029799.
 * Worsham, John H. One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1912.
 * Wright, Charles A. A Corporal's Story: Experiences in the Ranks of Company C, 81st Ohio Vol. Infantry, during the War for the Maintenance of the Union, 1861–1864. Philadelphia: James Beale, 1887.
 * 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

 * Alford, Kenneth D. Civil War Museum Treasures: Outstanding Artifacts and the Stories Behind Them. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008. ISBN 978-0786431861.
 * Ammen, William. Personnel of the Civil War, two volumes. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1961.
 * Armistead, Gene C. Horses and Mules in the Civil War: A Complete History with a Roster of More Than 700 War Horses. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2013. ISBN 978-0786473632.
 * Armstrong, Richard L. "God Alone Knows Which Was Right": The Blue and Gray Terrill Family of Virginia in the Civil War. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010. ISBN 978-0786446223.
 * Barnard, George N. Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign. New York: Dover, 1977.
 * Bernstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
 * Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
 * Boyd, Steven R. Patriotic Envelops of the Civil War: The Iconography of Union and Confederate Covers. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0807136850.
 * Bunch, Jack. Roster of the Courts–Martial in the Confederate States Army. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Books, 2001.
 * Burkhardt, George S. Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath: No Quarter in the Civil War. Carbondale,
 * Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.


 * Burns, Stanley B. Shooting Soldiers: Civil War Medial Photography by R. B. Bontecou. published by author, 2011.
 * Carter, Alice. E. and Richard Jensen. The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites. Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 2003.
 * Church, William. The Life of John Ericsson. New York: 1890.
 * Coco, Gregory. The Civil War Infantryman: In Camp, on the March, and in Battle. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Thomas Publications, 1998.
 * Connelly, T. Lawrence. Will Success Spoil Jeff Davis?: The Last Book about the Civil War. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963.
 * Criswell, Grover C. Confederate and Southern State Bonds.
 * Crofts, Daniel W. Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
 * Crown, Jr., Francis J. Confederate Postal History.
 * Current, Richard Nelson. Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
 * Davis, William C. A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0803235229.
 * Davis, William C. and Bell I. Wiley, eds. Photographic History of the Civil War, two volumes. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 1994.
 * Dew, Charles B. Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works. New Haven, Connecticut: 1966.
 * Evans, Charles M. War of the Aeronauts: A History of Ballooning in the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2002. ISBN 0811713954.
 * Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
 * Faust, Patricia L., ed. The Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
 * Feis, William B. Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
 * Fishel, Edwin C. The Secret War for the Union. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.
 * Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion: The Secessionists at Bay. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
 * Garrison, Webb. Mutiny in the Civil War. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 1572492155.
 * Garrison, Webb and Cheryl Garrison. Webb Garrison's Civil War Dictionary: An Illustrated Guide to the Everyday Language of Soldiers and Civilians. Cumberland House Publishing, 2009.
 * Gibboney, Douglas Lee. Scandals of the Civil War. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1572493643.
 * Griffin, John Chandler. A Pictorial History of the Confederacy. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2009. ISBN 978-0786440559.
 * Hall, Kenneth E. Stonewall Jackson and Religious Faith in Military Command. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2005. ISBN 978-0786420858.
 * Hardin, David. After the War: The Lives and Images of Major Civil War Figures After the Shooting Stopped. Ivan R. Dee, 2010.
 * Harris, Sherry. Civil War Records: A Useful Tool: A Step by Step Guide to the Availability and Acquisition of Civil War Records, two volumes. Yorba Linda, California: Shumway Family History Services, 1990–1993.
 * Kelly, C. Brian. Best Little Stories From The Civil War. Charlottesville, Virginia: Montpelier Publishing, 1995.
 * Klement, Frank L. Dark Lanterns: Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, and Treason Trials in the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.
 * Knight, H. Jackson. Confederate Invention: The Story of the Confederate States Patent Office and Its Inventors. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0807137628.
 * Kurtz, Lucy Fitzhugh and Benny Ritter. A Roster of Confederate Soldiers Buried in Stonewall Cemetery, Winchester Virginia. Winchester, Virginia: Farmers and Merchants National Bank, 1984.
 * Leigh, Philip. Lee's Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-1594162268.
 * Lewis, Felice Flanery. Trailing Clouds of Glory: Zachary Taylor's Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0817316785.
 * Lossing, Benson J. Pictorial Field Books of the Civil War: Journeys through the Battlefields in the Wake of Conflict, three volumes. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
 * McClintock, Russell. Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession. Chapel Hill,
 * University of North Carolina Press, 2008.


 * McManus, Stephen, Donald Thompson, and Thomas Churchill. The Civil War Research Guide: A Guide for Researching Your Civil War Ancestor. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2003. ISBN 0811726436.
 * McMurry, Richard M. Virginia Military Institute Alumni in the Civil War. Lynchburg, Virginia: H.E. Howard, 1999.
 * Morris, Jr., Roy. The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
 * Murdock, Eugene C. Patriotism Limited, 1862–1865: The Civil War Draft and Bounty System. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1967.
 * Murdock, Eugene C. One Million Men: The Civil War Draft in the North. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1971.
 * National Archives and Records Administration. A Guide to Civil War Maps in the National Archives. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986.
 * Nickels, Cameron C. Civil War Humor. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. ISBN 978-1604737479.
 * Philips, Stanley S. Excavated Artifacts from Battlefields and Camp Sites of the Civil War.
 * Pritchard, Shannon. Collecting the Confederacy: Artifacts and Antiques from the War Between the States. Savas Beatie, LLC, 2007. ISBN 978-1932714104.
 * Quigley, Robert D. Civil War Spoken Here. Collingswood, New Jersey: CW Historicals, 1994.
 * Ray, Delia. A Nation Torn
 * Rickard, James H. Services With Colored Troops in Burnside's Corps. Providence: Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society, 1894.
 * Ringle, Dennes J. Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
 * Schantz, Mark S. Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death. Cornell University Press, 2008.
 * Schmidt, James M. Lincoln's Labels: America's Best Known Brands and the Civil War. Edinborough Press, 2009.
 * Simmons, Jr., Donald C. Confederate Settlements in British Honduras. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2001. ISBN 978-0786410163.
 * Smith, Andrew F. Starving the South – How the North Won the Civil War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0312601812.
 * Stokes, Karen. The Immortal 600: Surviving Civil War Charleston and Savannah. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1609499891.
 * Thienel, Philip M. Mr. Lincoln's Bridge Builders: The Right Hand of American Genius. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane, 2000.
 * Varhola, Michael J. Everyday Life During the Civil War. Cincinnati, Oh: Writer's Digest Books, 1999.
 * Wardlaw, Trevor P. Sires and Sons: The Story of Hubbard's Regiment. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. ISBN 978-1511963732
 * Waugh, John C. The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers. New York: Warner, 1994.
 * Wilson, Mindwell Crampton, ed. Indiana Battle Flags. Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Battle Flag Commission, 1929.
 * Woodworth, Steven E., and Kenneth J. Winkle. Atlas of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
 * Zucchero, Michael. Loyal Hearts: Histories of Civil War Canines. Schroder Publications, 2009.