User:Donner60/American Civil War Library Biographies, Memoirs, Overviews

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The following list of American Civil War books contains some of the books in my library. First, I moved User:Donner60/American Civil War bibliography to User:Donner60/American Civil War Library as a better identification. That page, a full list of my books about the American Civil War in alphabetical order by author's last name was becoming too long to save easily. So I created User:Donner60/American Civil War Library References, General Topics and this page to split off some of the topics so all the pages will save more easily. I tried to keep only one entry for each book even though some could fit into several topics. I may have left one or a very few in two sections, especially if they are on different pages. The divisions into topic sections should make titles easier to find and help my research.

I also have an incomplete list of mostly out of copyright books and some magazine articles that I have downloaded at User:Donner60/American Civil War bibliography from Internet.

I have sections below the sections on various topics that have in Wikipedia template style certain of the reference or general overview works that may be frequently cited for ready use. Most articles on the American Civil War use the Chicago Manual of Style format, mainly thanks to Hal Jespersen, User:Hlj, no longer an active user. His publication of his American Civil War bibliography on his user pages gave me the idea to put my books on a user sub-page for ready reference in a proper format. I also use his templates below for examples of articles from journals, magazines or books.

"While citations should aim to provide the information listed above, Wikipedia does not have a single house style, though citations within any given article should follow a consistent style. A number of citation styles exist including those described in the Wikipedia articles for Citation, APA style, ASA style, MLA style, The Chicago Manual of Style, Author–date referencing, Vancouver system and Bluebook." Wikipedia:Citing sources. July 17, 2016. I use the Chicago Manual of Style format. It is easier to understand and edit. It can have one or two more pieces of information. ISBNs are checked automatically by the Wikipedia template, and that is the only advantage in its use of which I am aware. In 2018, "magic links" have been deprecated and the advantage of automatically checked ISBNs can be attained by using the correct format for ISBNs and still use the Chicago Manual of Style format. Wikipedia:Book sources and Help:ISBN are pertinent Wikipedia pages. Having the titles in citation form helps to include references in articles more quickly and accurately.

My old ACW References page now lists only citations and quotes and general facts for American Civil War articles in various categories. It is, even in 2020, at a beginning stage. Therefore, it is quite incomplete and is not near the general resource I had planned. I have not added to it for a long time but perhaps I will do so in the future for quick citations for new articles or articles needing citations for those facts. In addition to general facts, the page does have a long section with citations and quotations from reliable sources concerning the Battle of Palmito Ranch as the last battle of the American Civil War.


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Latest addition/edit: March 20, 2023.

Histories of the entire war; General overviews

 * Catton, Bruce, James M. McPherson, and Noah Andre Trudeau. The American Heritage New History of the Civil War. New York: Viking, 1996. ISBN 978-0-670-86804-9.
 * Catton, Bruce. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War. 1982 ed. New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1960. ISBN 978-0-517-38556-2.
 * Catton, Bruce. The Civil War. New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1960. ISBN 978-0-8281-0305-3.
 * Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. Vol. 1, The Coming Fury. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. ISBN 978-0-641-68525-5.
 * Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. Vol. 2, Terrible Swift Sword. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963. ISBN 978-0-385-02614-7.
 * Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. Vol. 3, Never Call Retreat. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. ISBN 978-0-671-46990-0.
 * Catton, Bruce. Reflections on the Civil War. Edited by John Leekley. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. ISBN 978-0-385-06347-0.
 * Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 978-0-684-84944-7.
 * Foote, Shelby. The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862–July 1863. New York: The Modern Library, 1995. ISBN 0-679-60170-8. First published New York: Random House, 1963 as a section of Volume 2 of The Civil War: A Narrative. Bought because certain pages of that section missing from copy of book listed below.
 * Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. 3 vols. New York: Random House, 1974. ISBN 978-0-394-74913-6.
 * Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 1, Fort Sumter to Perryville. New York: Random House, 1958. ISBN 978-0-394-41948-0.
 * Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 2, Fredericksburg to Meridian. New York: Random House, 1958. ISBN 978-0-394-41951-0.
 * Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 3, Red River to Appomattox. New York: Random House, 1974. ISBN 978-0-394-74622-7.
 * Freeman, Douglas S. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1946. ISBN 978-0-684-85979-8.
 * Freeman, Douglas S. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. Manassas to Malvern Hill. Vol. 1 of 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1942. ISBN 978-0-684-10175-0.
 * Freeman, Douglas S. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville. Vol. 2 of 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1943. ISBN 978-0-684-10176-7.
 * Freeman, Douglas S. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. Gettysburg to Appomattox. Vol. 3 of 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1944. ISBN 978-0-684-10177-4.
 * Gallagher, Gary W., Stephen D. Engle, Robert K. Krick and Joseph T. Glatthaar, foreword by James M. McPherson. The American Civil War: This Might Scourge of War. Westminster, MD: Osprey Publishing Limited, 2003. ISBN 978-1-84176-736-9.
 * Gallagher, Gary W. and Joan Waugh. The American War: A History of the Civil War Era. Second edition. State College, PA: Flip Learning, 2019. ISBN 978-1-7327075-5-9.
 * Griess, Thomas E. The American Civil War. The West Point Military History Series. Garden City Park, NY: Square One Publishers, 2002. ISBN 978-0-7570-0156-7.
 * Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-984328-2.
 * Hansen, Harry. The Civil War: A History. New York: Bonanza Books, 1961..
 * Holzer, Harold and Symonds, Craig L., eds. The New York Times Complete Civil War, 1861–1865. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 2010. ISBN 978-1-57912-845-6.
 * Kagan, Neil, and Stephen G. Hyslop. Eyewitness to the Civil War: The Complete History From Secession to Reconstruction. Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2006. ISBN 978-07922-5280-1.
 * Keegan, John, The American Civil War: A Military History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. ISBN 978-0-307-26343-8.
 * Leigh, Philip. The Confederacy at Flood Tide. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing LLC, 2016. ISBN 978-1-59416-248-0.
 * McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-19-503863-7.
 * McPherson, James M. Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. ISBN 978-0-394-52469-6.
 * Murray, Williamson and Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh. A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-691-16940-8.
 * Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union. Vol. 1, The Improvised War 1861 – 1862. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. ISBN 978-0-684-10426-3.
 * Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union. Vol. 2, War Becomes Revolution 1862 – 1863. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. ISBN 978-1-56852-297-5.
 * Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union. Vol. 3, The Organized War 1863 – 1864. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. ISBN 978-0-684-10428-7.
 * Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union. Vol. 4, The Organized War to Victory 1864 – 1865. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. ISBN 978-1-56852-299-9.
 * Pollard, Edward A. The Lost Cause; A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates. New York: E. B. Treat & Co., 1867. Reprint by New York: Bonanza Books, 1974. ISBN 978-0-517-16010-7.
 * Rogers, Clifford J., Ty Seidule and Samuel J. Watson, eds. The West Point History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4767-8262-1.
 * Weigley, Russell F. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-253-33738-2.

Guerrillas; Irregulars; Forrest

 * Moved section, including a few biographies to User:Donner60/American Civil War Library since most of books are about operations even though a few are specifically about Forrest, Mosby, Quantrill, Isaac Earl.

Biographical sketches, essays, chapters

 * Adams, George Worthington. Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8071-2105-4. First published New York: H. Schuman, 1952.
 * Allardice, Bruce S. Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4.
 * Allardice, Bruce S. More Generals in Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-8071-3148-0.
 * Cunningham, H. H. Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8071-1856-6. First published 1958.
 * Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1.
 * Hunt, Roger D. Colonels in Blue: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2017. ISBN 978-0-7864-9855-0.
 * Hunt, Roger D. Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2014. ISBN 978-0-7864-7318-2. (Copyright shown is 2014 although book was purchased in November 2013.)
 * Hunt, Roger D. Colonels in Blue: Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2011. ISBN 978-0-7864-6155-4.
 * Hunt, Roger D. Colonels in Blue: Missouri and the Western States and Territories. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2014. ISBN 978-1-4766-7589-3.
 * Hunt, Roger D. Colonels in Blue: Union Army Colonels of the Civil War: The Mid–Atlantic States: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2003. ISBN 978-0-7643-1771-2.
 * Hunt, Roger D. Colonels in Blue: Union Army Colonels of the Civil War: New England. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7643-1290-8.
 * Hunt, Roger D. Colonels in Blue: Union Army Colonels of the Civil War: New York. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8117-0253-9.
 * Hunt, Roger D. Colonels in Blue: U.S. Colored Troops, U.S. Armed Forces, Staff Officers and Special Units. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2022. ISBN 978-1-4766-8619-6.
 * Hunt, Roger D. and Jack R. Brown, Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue. Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., 1990. ISBN 978-1-56013-002-4.
 * Krick, Robert E. L. Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-8078-2788-8.
 * Sears, Stephen W. Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. ISBN 978-0-618-42825-0.
 * Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8160-1055-4.
 * Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Confederacy. New York: Facts On File, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8160-2204-5. Excerpted from Who Was Who in the Civil War.
 * Utley, Robert M. Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848–1865. New York: Macmillan, 1981. ISBN 978-0-8032-9550-6. First published: Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1967. (Pages 210-349 are on the Civil War period.)
 * Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964. ISBN 978-0-8071-0822-2.
 * Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. ISBN 978-0-8071-0823-9.
 * Woodworth, Steven E., ed. Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg.Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7006-3525-2. (Sherman, W. L. Wallace, Lewis Wallace, C.F. Smith, Foote, Rosecrans, McClernand, McPherson, Porter, Dodge, Osterhaus)

Biography
See also Guerrillas in User:Donner60/American Civil War Library

Confederate

 * Bridges, Hal. Lee's Maverick General: Daniel Harvey Hill. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-8032-6096-2. First published New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.
 * Castel, Albert E. General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8071-1854-2.
 * Connelly, Thomas L. The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Originally published 1977. ISBN 978-0-8071-0474-3.
 * Daughtry, Mary Bandy. Gray Cavalier: The Life and Wars of General W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee. New York: Da Capo Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-306-81173-9.
 * Davis, Burke. They Called Him Stonewall: A Life of Lt. General T. J. Jackson, C.S.A. New York: Fairfax Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-517-66204-5. First published New York: Rinehart, 1954.
 * Davis, William C. Breckinridge: Statesmen, Soldier, Symbol. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8131-9255-0. Originally published Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. ISBN 978-0-8071-1805-4.
 * Eckert, Ralph Lowell. John Brown Gordon: Soldier, Southerner, American. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8071-1888-7.
 * Elliott, Sam Davis. Soldier of Tennessee: General Alexander P. Stewart and the Civil War in the West. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-8071-2340-9.
 * Freeman, Douglas S. R. E. Lee, A Biography. 4 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934–35. ISBN 978-0-684-15485-5.
 * Gwynne, S. C. Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson. New York: Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2014. ISBN 978-1-4516-7328-9.
 * Hallock, Judith Lee. Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat. Vol. 2. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-8173-0543-7.
 * Hattaway, Herman. General Stephen D. Lee. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1976. ISBN 978-0-87805-376-6.
 * Henry, Robert Selph. "First with the Most" Forrest. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1987. . First Published 1944 by Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis..
 * Hess, Earl J. Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man in the Confederacy. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4696-2875-2.
 * Hood, Stephen M. John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61121-140-5.
 * Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr. General William J. Hardee: Old Reliable. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-8071-1802-3. First published 1965.
 * Knudsen, Harold M. James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie LLC, 2022. ISBN 978-1-61121-475-8.
 * Longacre, Edward G. Gentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton III. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8032-1354-8.
 * Longacre, Edward G. Pickett: Leader of the Charge: A Biography of General George E. Pickett, C.S.A.. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1995. ISBN 978-1-57249-006-2.
 * Longacre, Edward G. A Soldier to the Last: Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Blue and Gray. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1-57466-591-8.
 * Losson, Christopher. Tennessee's Forgotten Warriors: Frank Cheatham and His Confederate Division. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-87049-615-8.
 * McMurry, Richard M. John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-8032-8191-2.
 * McWhiney, Grady. Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat. Vol. 1. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969 (additional material, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991). ISBN 978-0-8173-0545-1.
 * Mackowski, Chris and Kristopher D. White. The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson: The Mortal Wounding of the Confederacy's Greatest Icon. El Dorado Hills, CA:‎ Savas Beatie, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61121-150-4.
 * Mingus, Scott L., Sr. Confederate General William "Extra Billy" Smith: From Virginia's Statehouse to Gettysburg Scapegoat. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61121-129-0.
 * Myers, Robert Manson. The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War. Selected letters of the family of the Rev. Dr. Charles Colcock Jones from the years 1860–1868, with the addition of several previously unpublished letters. A New Abridged Edition. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. ISBN 978-0-300-03130-0. First published 1972.
 * Osborne, Charles C. Jubal: The Life and Time of General Jubal A. Early, CSA. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992. ISBN 978-0-945575-35-1.
 * Parrish, T. Michael. Richard Taylor: Soldier Prince of Dixie. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-8078-2032-2.
 * Pfanz, Donald C. Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8078-2389-7.
 * Piston, William G. Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-8203-0907-1.
 * Ramage, James A. Gray Ghost: The Life of Colonel John Singleton Mosby. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999. ISBN 978-0-8131-2135-2.
 * Ramage, James A. Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. ISBN 978-0-8131-0839-1.
 * Rhea, Gordon C. Carrying the Flag: The Story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Hero. New York: Basic Books, 2005. ISBN 978-0-465-06957-6.
 * Robertson, James I., Jr. General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior. New York: Vintage Publishing, 1992. ISBN 978-0-679-73888-6.
 * Robertson, James I., Jr. Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend. New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1997. ISBN 978-0-02-864685-5.
 * Roland, Charles P. Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001. Originally published: Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. ISBN 978-0-8131-9000-6.
 * Symonds, Craig L. Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992. ISBN 978-0-393-31130-3.
 * Symonds, Craig L. Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. ISBN 978-0-7006-0820-1.
 * Thomas, Emory M. Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-8061-3193-1.
 * Thomas, Emory M. Robert E. Lee: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. ISBN 978-0-393-03730-2.
 * Trout, Robert J. They Followed the Plume: The Story of J.E.B. Stuart and His Staff. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8117-1760-1.
 * Tucker, Spencer C. Brigadier General John D. Imboden: Confederate Commander in the Shenandoah. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003. ISBN 978-0-8131-2266-3.
 * Wert, Jeffry D. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7432-7819-5.
 * Wert, Jeffry D. General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. ISBN 978-0-671-70921-1.
 * Williams, T. Harry. P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1955. ISBN 978-0-8071-1974-7.
 * Wynstra, Robert. The Rashness of That Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson. New York: Savas Beatie, LLC, 2010. ISBN 978-1-932714-88-3.

Union

 * Ambrose, Stephen E.. Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-8071-2071-2. Originally published 1962.
 * Ambrose, Stephen E.. Upton and the Army. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. (pbk.) Originally published 1964. ISBN 978-0-8071-1850-4.
 * Bobrick, Benson. Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7432-9025-8.
 * Bonekemper, Edward H., III. A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military Genius. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2004. ISBN 978-0-89526-062-8.
 * Brands, H. W. The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace. New York: Anchor Books, a Division of Random House, 2012. ISBN 978-0-307-47515-2.
 * Burlingame, Michael. Abraham Lincoln: A Life. Volume 2. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4214-1058-6.
 * Catton, Bruce. Grant Moves South. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1960. ISBN 978-0-316-13207-7.
 * Catton, Bruce. Grant Takes Command. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1968. ISBN 978-0-316-13210-7.
 * Chernow, Ron. Grant. New York: Penguin Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-59420-487-6.
 * Conner, Robert C. General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind "Juneteenth". Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61200-186-9.
 * Cozzens, Peter. General John Pope: A Life for the Nation. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-252-02363-7.
 * Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. ISBN 978-0-684-80846-8.
 * Duffy, James P. Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7858-2096-3. First published Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997.
 * Egan, Timothy. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., 2016. ISBN 978-0-544-27288-0.
 * Eisenhower, John S. D. Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott. New York: Free Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-684-84451-0.
 * Flood, Charles Bracelen. 1864 Lincoln at the Gates of History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009. ISBN 978-1-41655228-4.
 * Flood, Charles Bracelen. Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. ISBN 978-0-374-16600-7.
 * Flood, Charles Bracelen. Lee: The Last Years. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981. ISBN 978-0-395-31292-6.
 * Gienapp, William E. Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-515100-8.
 * Hearn, Chester G. Admiral David Dixon Porter: The Civil War Years. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997. ISBN 978-1-55759-353-5.
 * Huntington, Tom. Searching for George Gordon Meade: The Forgotten Victory of Gettysburg. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8117-0813-5.
 * Johnson, Timothy D. Winfield Scott: The Quest for Military Glory. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998. ISBN 978-0-7006-0914-7.
 * Jordan, David M. Happiness Is Not My Companion: The Life of General G. K. Warren. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-253-33904-1.
 * Jordan, David M. Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life. Bloomfield: Indiana University Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-253-36580-4.
 * Kiper, Richard L. Major General John Alexander McClernand, Politician in Uniform. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-87338-636-4.
 * Leonard, Elizabeth D. Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8078-3500-5.
 * Lewis, Lloyd. Captain Sam Grant. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1950. ISBN 978-0-316-52348-6.
 * Liddell Hart, B. H. Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American. New York: Da Capo Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-306-80507-3. First published New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1929.
 * Longacre, Edward G. General John Buford: A Military Biography. Conshohocken, PA: Combined Publishing, 1995. ISBN 978-0-938289-46-3.
 * Longacre, Edward G. Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General Edward McMurtries Gregg. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-64012-429-5.
 * McFeely, William S. Grant: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1981. ISBN 978-0-393-01372-6.
 * McGaugh, Scott. Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, The Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61145-839-8.
 * McPherson, James M. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln As Commander in Chief. New York: Penguin Books, 2008. ISBN 978-0-14-311614-1.
 * Malanowski, Jamie. Commander Will Cushing: Daredevil Hero of the Civil War. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014. ISBN 978-0-393-24089-4.
 * Marvel, William. Burnside. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-8078-1983-8.
 * Marvel, William. Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4696-6185-8.
 * Morgans, James Patrick. Grenville Mellen Dodge in the Civil War: Union Spymaster, Railroad Builder and Organizer of the Fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2016. ISBN 978-0-7864-7069-3.
 * Morris, Roy, Jr. Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan. New York: Crown Publishing, 1992. ISBN 978-0-517-58070-7.
 * O'Connell, Robert L. Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman. New York: Random House, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4000-6972-9.
 * O'Harrow, Jr., Robert. The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4516-7192-6.
 * Rafuse, Ethan S. George Gordon Meade and the War in the East. Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2003. ISBN 978-1-893114-36-4.
 * Schmiel, Eugene D. Citizen-General: Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War Era. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8214-2083-6.
 * Sears, Stephen W. George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon. New York: Da Capo Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-306-80913-2.
 * Shenk, Joshua Wolf. Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled his Greatness. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 2006. Originally published 2005. ISBN 978-0-618-77344-2.
 * Stephens, Gail. Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2010. ISBN 978-0-87195-287-5.
 * Trulock, Alice Rains. In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,, 1992. ISBN 978-0-8078-2020-9.
 * Tsouras, Peter G. Major General George H. Sharpe and the Creation of American Military Intelligence in the Civil War. Hanover, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2018. ISBN 978-1-61200-647-5.
 * Urwin, Gregory, J. W. Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Originally published Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0-8032-9556-8.
 * White, Jr., Ronald C. A. Lincoln: A Biography. New York: Random House: 2010. Originally published 2009. ISBN 978-0-8129-7570-3.

Memoirs

 * Alexander, Edward P. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8078-1848-0.
 * Allan, Col. William. Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and the Army of Northern Virginia, 1862. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-306-80656-8. First Work, History of the Campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, First Published Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1880. Second Work, The Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, First Published Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1882.
 * Billings, John D. Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life. Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers, 1980. ISBN 978-0-87928-038-3. First published Philadelphia, Thompson Pub. Co., 1887.
 * Chamberlain, Joshua L. "Bayonet! Forward": My Civil War Reminiscences. Gettysburg, PA: Stan Clark Military Books, 1994. 2d ed. ISBN 978-1-879664-21-0. [A collection of descriptive accounts, published remarks, official reports and addresses by Gen. Chamberlain]
 * Chamberlain, Joshua L. The Passing of Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac. New York: Bantam Books, 1993. ISBN 978-0-553-29992-2. First published New York and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915.
 * Chamberlain, Joshua L. Through Blood & Fire at Gettysburg: General Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine. My experiences with the 20th Maine Regiment on Little Round Top. Gettysburg, PA: Stan Clark Military Books, 1994. 2d ed. ISBN 978-1-879664-17-3. First published 1913 in Hearst's Magazine.
 * Commager, Henry Steele. The Blue and the Gray: The Story of the Civil War As Told by Participants. 2 vols. Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1950..
 * Douglas, Henry Kyd. I Rode with Stonewall: The War Experiences of the Youngest Member of Jackson's Staff. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1940. ISBN 978-0-8078-0337-0.
 * Fletcher, William A. Rebel Private: Front and Rear–Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier. Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4536-0474-8.
 * Gordon, John B. Reminiscences of the Civil War. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. Reprinted 1981 by Time-Life Books. ISBN 978-0-8094-4206-5.
 * Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. New York: Library of America, 1990. ISBN 978-0-940450-58-5. First Published: 2 vols., New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885–86.
 * Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, Inc. and the Central Rappahannock Heritage Center. The Circle Unbroken: The Civil War Letters of the Knox Family of Fredericksburg. Marceline, MO: Walsworth Print Group, 2013. ISBN 978-1-57864-861-0.
 * Horn, Stanley F. Tennessee's War: 1861-1865: Described by Participants. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1965..
 * Jackson, Mary Anna. Life and Letters of Stonewall Jackson by His Wife. Harrisonburg, VA: Sprinkle Publications, 1995. . Originally published: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892.
 * Lyman, Theodore. With Grant & Meade From the Wilderness to Appomattox. Introduction by Brooks D. Simpson. Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Bison Book Edition. ISBN 978-0-8032-7935-3.
 * Manigault, Edward. Siege Train: The Journal of a Confederate Artilleryman in the Defense of Charleston. Edited by Warren Ripley. Columbia, S.C.: Published for the Charleston Library Society by the University of South Carolina Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-87249-491-6.
 * Mosby, John S. The Memoirs of Colonel Johns S. Mosby. New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Edited by Charles Wells Russell. ISBN 978-0-553-29650-1. First published by Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1917.
 * Osborn, Maj. Thomas Ward. The Fiery Trail: A Union Officer's Account of Sherman's Last Campaigns. Edited by Richard Harwell and Philip N. Racine. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-87049-500-7.
 * Pittenger, Lt. William. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure, Philadelphia: J. W. Daughaday, 1863, Time-Life Books reprint, 1982. ISBN 978-0-8094-4220-1.
 * Porter, Horace. Campaigning With Grant. New York: The Century Co., 1897. Time-Life Books reprint 1981. ISBN 978-0-8094-4202-7. (deluxe)
 * Rhodes, Robert Hunt. All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes. New York: Orion Books, 1991. ISBN 978-0-517-58427-9. First published Lincoln, RI: Andrew Mowbray Inc., 1985.
 * Sears, Stephen W., ed. The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: The Library of America, 2012. ISBN 978-1-59853-088-9.
 * Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, ed. The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: The Library of America, 2014. ISBN 978-1-59853-294-4.
 * Simpson, Brooks D., Stephen W. Sears and Aaron Sheehan-Dean, eds. The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: The Library of America, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59853-088-9.
 * Simpson, Brooks D. The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It. New York: The Library of America, 2013. ISBN 978-1-59853-197-8.
 * Sherman, William T. Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman. 2nd ed. New York: Library of America, 1990. ISBN 978-0-940450-65-3. First published New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1889.
 * Watkins, Sam. Co. Aytch Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1987. . First Published Nashville: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, 1882..
 * Woodword, C. Vann, ed. Mary Chesnut's Civil War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981. ISBN 978-0-300-02979-6.
 * Worsham, John H. One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry: His Experience and What He Saw During the War 1861–1865. New York: The Neale Publishing Co., 1912. Reprinted by Time-Life Books, 1982. ISBN 978-0-8094-4218-8.