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For creating American Civil War surveys and overviews from my books and a few other sources

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.

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, 3rd edition (March 1, 2011). ISBN 978-1-61564-078-2.
 * Barney, William L. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-978201-7.
 * Beringer, Richard E., Archer Jones, and Herman Hattaway, Why the South Lost the Civil War Univ of Georgia Pr; First Edition (January 1, 1986) ISBN 978-0-8203-0815-9; 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. ISBN 978-0-7864-2472-6
 * Boatner, Mark Mayo, III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: McKay, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8129-1726-0. First published 1959 by McKay.
 * Bordewich, Fergus M. Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America. New York: Knopf, 2020.
 * Botkin, B. A. A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore. Seacaucus, NJ: The Blue and Grey Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0-89009-967-4. First published 1960.
 * Bouton, Edward. Events of the Civil War. Miami, FL: Hardpress Publishing, 2012.
 * Bowman, John S., ed. The Civil War Almanac. New York: Facts on File, Bison Book Corp., 1982. ISBN 978-0-87196-640-7.
 * 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 & Company, 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-04758-5. Articles cited> In Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-04758-5.
 * 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.
 * MacMillan. The Confederacy: Selections from the Four-Volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Shuster Macmillan, 1993, introductory material, 1998. ISBN 978-0-02-864920-7. See Current, Richard N., ed.
 * 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.
 * Simmons, Henry E. A Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War. New York: Bonanza Books, 1965..
 * 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. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, Inc., 2009 edition. ISBN 978-1-4391-4884-6. First Published 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, Marcus J., General officers of the Confederate Army: officers of the executive departments of the Confederate States, members of the Confederate Congress by states. New York: The Neale Publishing Company 1911. . Reprinted Mattituck, NY: J.M. Carroll, 1983. . Reprinted Conway, AR: Oldbuck Press, 1993..
 * 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.

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1990; original published: Des Moines : Dyer Publishing Co., 1908), 1796 pages. Compiled and arranged from official records of the Federal and Confederate armies, reports of the Adjutant Generals of the several states, the Army registers and other reliable documents and sources.

From library of congress

Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. New York: Facts on File, 1992 (10 vols.). REF E 546 .S58 1992 Arranged by state. Entry for each military unit: nicknames or misdesignations; commanding officers; information on organization and composition; campaigns and battles; suggested further reading, if any.

United States, War Department. Official Army Register. Washington, D.C.: Adjutant General's Office, 1861. W3 .11 Listing of officers by unit.

United States, War Department. Official Army Register of Volunteer Force of U.S. Army for Years 1861-1865. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1865 (8 parts). GOV DOCS W 3.12:1-8 Published in 8 parts: 1) New England, 2) New York, New Jersey, 3) mid-Atlantic, 4) West Virginia and Confederate states, 5) Ohio, Michigan, 6) Indiana, Illinois, 7) Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, California, Kansas, Oregon, Nevada, 8) territories. Listing of military units, with officers by rank or position; and individual deaths, promotions, transfers, desertions, missing personnel, discharges; battles; enlisted men who received medals of honor. Alphabetical index in back of each.

United States, War Department. Roll of Honor, Quartermaster's Department. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1865 (27 parts).

Current, Richard N., ed. in chief. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993 (4 vols.) REF E 487 .E55 1993

Dornbusch, C. E., comp. Military Bibliography of the Civil War. New York: New York Public Library, 1971. (4 vols.) REF Z 1242 .D61.

Vol. I: lists the regimental publications and personal narratives for the Union Army and the dates mustered in and mustered out. Vol. II: regimental publications and personal narratives for units of both armies from the Confederate, border and western states. Vol III: general references, campaigns and battles. Vol. IV: regimental publications and personal narratives, brief Union and Confederate biographies. Indexes.

https://www.nps.gov › parkhistory › online_books › civilwarbibliography.pdf Military History of the War--Introduction In contradictory and complex ways, the military history of the Civil War has been both shaped and bypassed by the newer approaches to studying the Civil War. Students of strategy, operations, and tactics have often plowed very traditional ground have sometimes been more receptive to new approaches than social historians have been to studying military topics. Even before the Civil War ended, the military history of the conflict was being written, and the outpouring of books, articles, and ephemera has never stopped. For the war in general, the place to begin is Steven E. Woodworth, The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996) To select the most important and most readable works from such a vast literature is a daunting task. Of enormous help in sorting through a mass of material is David Eicher's careful evaluation of 1100 volumes in The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997). A recent collection of historiographical essays—including several dealing with military subjects—assesses the current state of the field: James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper, Jr., ed. Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998). For military studies in particular, including both primary and secondary works, there is the invaluable (albeit badly in need of updating) C. E. Dornbusch, Military Bibliography of the Civil War (4 vols.; New York and Dayton, Oh.: New York Public Library and Morningside: 1961-1987). Another older but very useful and annotated compilation is Allan Nevins, James I. Robertson, Jr., and Bell I. Wiley, Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography (2 vols.; Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967-69). Anyone interested in the perspective of participants should consult Garold L. Cole's excellent compendia Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles, 1955-1986 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1986); Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles, 1986-1996 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000). Of the single-volume syntheses, James McPherson's classic Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988) stands out for its blend of military and political history written in graceful prose. A major examination of strategy and operations within a broader political context is Russell F. Weigley, A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000). David J. Eicher's The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001) is an encyclopedic survey that covers virtually all major and minor engagements. Many Civil War buffs and students of the era were first attracted to the subject by reading Bruce Catton's beautiful and evocative Centennial History of the Civil War (3 vols.; Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1961-65) or novelist Shelby Foote's lyrical three-volume study, The Civil War: A Narrative (New York: Random House, 1958-1974). A more scholarly but still readable survey of the Civil War era, 1847-1865 is Allan Nevins' eight-volume masterwork The Ordeal of the Union (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947-1971). Military

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 * Beringer, Richard E., Archer Jones, and Herman Hattaway. The Elements of Confederate Defeat: Nationalism, War Aims, and Religion (1988)
 * Carter, Alice E. and Richard Jensen. The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites (2nd ed. 2003) excerpt and text search
 * Catton, Bruce. Centennial History of the Civil War (3 vols. 1961–65); Catton has many very well written books on the war
 * Current, Richard N., et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 Volume set; also 1 vol abridged version)
 * Donald, David et al. The Civil War and Reconstruction (2001); 700 pages
 * Faust, Patricia L., ed. Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War (1986) (ISBN 0-06-181261-7) 2000 short entries
 * Fellman, Michael et al. This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2nd ed. 2007), 544 pages
 * Heidler, David Stephen, ed. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2002), 1600 entries in 2700 pages in 5 vol or 1-vol editions
 * McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988), 900 pages; excerpt and text search
 * Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union, an 8-volume set (1947–1971). the most detailed political, economic and military narrative; by Pulitzer Prize winner
 * vol 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 
 * Rhodes, James Ford. History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (1918), old, accurate survey; won Pulitzer prize
 * Shannon, Fred. The Organization and Administration of the Union Army 1861–1865 (2 vol 1928) vol 1 excerpt and text search; vol 2 excerpt and text search
 * Symonds, Craig L. and William J. Clipson. A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War (1993) schematic maps that are easy to understand

From the comprehensive bibliography

Navy Ammen, Daniel. 1883. The Navy in the Civil War, vol. 2: The Atlantic Coast. New York: Scribner’s. Anderson, Bern. 1977. By Sea and by River: The Naval History of the Civil War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Boynton, Charles B. 1867. The History of the Navy during the Rebellion. New York: D. Appleton. Bradlee, Francis B.C. 1925. Blockade Running during the Civil War; And the Effect of Land and Water Transportation on the Confederacy. Salem, MA: Essex Institute. Browning, Robert M., Jr. 1993. From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. Browning, Robert M., Jr. 1997. “The Confederate States Navy Department.” In The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861–1865, ed. William N. Still (21–39). Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. Browning, Robert M., Jr. 2002. Success Is All That Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. Washington, DC: Brassey Bulloch, James Dunwody. 1884. The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe, or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped. 2 vols. New York: Putnam’s. Calore, Paul. 2002. Naval Campaigns of the Civil War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. Campbell, R. Thomas. 1997. Fire and Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press. Campbell, R. Thomas. 2000. Sea Hawk of the Confederacy: Lt. Charles W. Read and the Confederate Navy. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press. Campbell, R. Thomas. 2002. Iron Courage: Confederate Ironclads in the War between the States. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press. Campbell, R. Thomas, ed. 2002. Southern Service on Land and Sea: The Wartime Journal of Robert Watson CSA/CSN. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Campbell, R. Thomas. 2005. Confederate Naval Forces on Western Waters: The Defense of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. Campbell, R. Thomas. 2005. Storm over Carolina: The Confederate Navy’s Struggle for Eastern North Carolina. Nashville: Cumberland House. Canney, Donald L. 1990. The Old Steam Navy, vol. 1: Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815–1885. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. Canney, Donald L. 1993. The Old Steam Navy, vol. 2: The Ironclads, 1842–1885. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. Canney, Donald L. 1998. Lincoln's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861–65. London: Conway Maritime Press. Chaffin, Tom. 2008. The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy. New York: Hill & Wang. Christ, Mark K. and Frederic E. Davis. 2007. “‘Them Dam’d Gunboats’: A Union Sailor’s Letters from the Arkansas Post Expedition.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 66: 452–467. Coombe, Jack D. 1996. Thunder along the Mississippi: The River Battles That Split the Confederacy. New York: Sarpedon. Coombe, Jack D. 1999. Gunfire around the Gulf: The Last Major Naval Campaigns of the Civil War. New York: Bantam. Coombe, Jack D. 2002. Gunsmoke over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War. New York: Bantam.

Railroads Angevine, Robert. 2004. Railroads and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Bacon, Benjamin W. 2001. Sinews of War: How Technology, Industry and Transportation Won the Civil War. Novato, CA: Presidio. Clarke, John E. 2001. Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

American Battlefield Trust

General Civil War

A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War by Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson

Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Eastern Theater by The American Battlefield Trust

National Park Service Civil War Series

The American War: A History of the Civil War Era by Gary W. Gallagher and Joan Waugh

This Great Struggle: America's Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth

Battles and Campaigns:

Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War by Edwin C. Bearss

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears

Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg—The Campaigns that Changed the Civil War by Edwin C. Bearss and J. Parker Hills

Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas by John Hennessy

Shiloh: Bloody April by Wiley Sword

Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns by Steven E. Woodworth

The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea

The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta by Gary Ecelbarger

The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command by Edwin B. Coddington

Biographies:

Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy by Earl J. Hess

George Henry Thomas: As True as Steel by Brian Steel Wills

Grant by Ron Chernow

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald

Robert E. Lee: A Biography by Emory M. Thomas

Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend by James I. Robertson, Jr.

Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War by Craig L. Symonds

Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier’s Life by David M. Jordan

Famous Military Units:

The Irish Brigade in the Civil War: The 69th New York and Other Irish Regiments of the Army of the Potomac by Joseph G. Bilby

The Iron Brigade: A Military History by Alan T. Nolan

Mosby's Rangers by Jeffrey D. Wert

Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign by Thomas A. Desjardin

The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home by William C. Davis

The Stonewall Brigade by James I. Robertson, Jr.

Medical Care:

Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine by Ira Rutkow

Civil War Medicine by C. Keith Wilbur

Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War by Frank R. Freemon

Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America by Jane E. Schultz

Memory Studies:

Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861-2015 by Timothy B. Smith

Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture by Karen L. Cox

The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis by Gary W. Gallagher

Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War by Dr. Brain Matthew Jordan

Pickett's Charge in History and Memory by Dr. Carol Reardon

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage

The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory by Adam H. Domby

The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan

Military Memoirs, Diaries, or Letter Collections:

A Diary of Battle: The Personal Journal of Charles S. Wainwright, 1861-1865 edited by Allan Nevins

All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw edited by Russell Duncan

Company Aytch: A Classic Memoir of the Civil War by Sam Watkins

Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander edited by Gary W. Gallagher

From the Cannon's Mouth: The Civil War Letters of General Alpheus S. Williams edited by Milo M. Quaife

I Rode With Stonewall: The War Experiences of the Youngest Member of Jackson's Staff by Henry Kyd Douglas

With Grant & Meade: From the Wilderness to Appomattox by Theodore Lyman

Miscellaneous:

Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small Unit Effectiveness by Earl J. Hess

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz

Fighting the Second Civil War: A History of Battlefield Preservation and the Emergence of the Civil War Trust by Bob Zeller

Gettysburg: A Journey in Time by William A. Frassanito

The Life of Johnny Reb and Billy Yank by Bell I. Wiley

The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia by Robert K. Krick

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front by Jacqueline Glass Campbell

Monument Studies:

Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America by Thomas J. Brown

Gettysburg: Stories of Men and Monuments: As Told By Battlefield Guides by Frederick W. Hawthorne

Written In Stone: Public Monuments In Changing Societies by Sanford Levinson

Multi-Volume Series:

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

Bruce Catton's Civil War

Jefferson Davis: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by James M. McPherson

Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman

Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command by Douglas Southall Freeman

The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote

Novels:

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Widow of the South by Robert Hicks

Politics:

Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War by Charles B. Dew

A Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson

The Confederate Nation 1861-1865 by Emory M. Thomas

The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics by George C. Rable

The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861 by David M. Potter

Preservation:

A Chickamauga Memorial: The Establishment of America’s First Civil War National Military Park by Timothy B. Smith

Fighting the Second Civil War by Bob Zeller

The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation: The Decade of the 1890's and the Establishment of America's First Five Military Parks by Timothy B. Smith

Slavery and Reconstruction:

A Just and Lasting Peace: A Documentary History of Reconstruction by John David Smith

A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by David W. Blight

Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor

Lincoln's Emancipation: The End of Slavery in America by Allen C. Guelzo

Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner

The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner

What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War by Chandra Manning

Women's Studies:

Amazing Women of the Civil War by Webb Garrison

Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone 1861-1868 edited by John Q. Anderson

Clara Barton: Professional Angel by Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War by Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber

Mary Chesnut's Civil War edited by C. Vann Woodward

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman edited by Charles East

The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation by Thavolia Glymph

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War by De Anne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook

If you are looking for more in-depth research works on the Civil War, be sure to start by checking out the following titles.

The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion The Southern Historical Society Papers Military Order of the Loyal Legions of the United States War Papers Confederate Veteran Bates' History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers The Bachelder Papers Archive.org for regimental histories

https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/9314/10416 The American Civil War: A collection of free online primary sources About The Author: Susan Birkenseer is reference and instruction librarian at Saint Mary’s College of California

Heitman, Francis Bernard. Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903. Long, Everette B. Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861-1865.

Beringer, Richard, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. Still, Jr. 1986. Why the South Lost the Civil War. Athens: GA: University of Georgia Press. Castel, Albert E. and Brooks D. Simpson. 2011. Victors in Blue: How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each Other, and Won the Civil War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. Coffin, Charles Carleton. 1866. Four Years of Fighting. Boston: Ticknor & Fields.

United States. War Department. War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1880-1901. 128 vols. United States. Naval War Records Office. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. 30 vols.

United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65. 8 vols.

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Companions

Boatner, Mark Mayo. Civil War Dictionary. R, 973.70321, B662, 88-59823. (1st ed., 1959, C, 973.703, B662)

Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. Richard N. Current, ed. 4 vols. R,973.713,qE56, 93-45563

Gibson, Charles Dana. Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels, Steam and Sail, Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868: An Annotated Compilation Containing 4,033 Operational Entries … R,973.758,qG448,97-8272

Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War. Patricia L. Faust, ed. R,973.7,H673,86-40647

Welcher, Frank Johnson. The Union Army, 1861-1865: Organization and Operations. 2 vols. C,973.741,W441,89-36921

Musselman Library Gettysburg College

The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War -- E468 .H47 2000 Provides coverage of various people, places, and events associated with the American Civil War. Volume five also contains a large number of transcribed primary source documents. Battle Chronicles of the Civil War (6 vols.) -- E470 .B29 1989 Civil War Battlefield Guide -- E641 .C58 1998 An encylopedia and guide covering in chronological order over 380 of the wars battles, skirmishes and engagments. A number of maps are included as well as the relative strengths and casualties for the two sides involved. Gettysburg: A Battlefield Atlas -- E475.53 S95 1992 The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research -- E 456 .A53 1996 This handbook is a guide to both secondary and primary sources covering events leading to the war, international relations, leaders, strategy and tactics, conduct of the war, the home front, and Reconstruction. Women During the Civil War -- E628 .H37 2004 The Civil War Dictionary -- E468 .B7 1988 Encyclopedia of the Confederacy -- E487 .E55 1993 A four-volume set that treats the Confederate States of America as a nation giving an overview of the South's social, cultural, political, and military environment. Compendium of the Confederacy: an Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets, and Serials -- E487 .W75 1989 A short title compilation of books, pamphlets, and serials relating to the Confederacy, compiled from periodicals, journals and booksellers' catalogues. In Tall Cotton: the 200 Most Important Confederate Books for the Reader, Researcher, and Collector -- E487 .H362 (Special Collections) An annotated list of titles written for scholars and researchers to understand the Confederacy referring to poetry, diaries, personal narratives, biographies, reminiscences, collections of letters, and fiction. The National Tribune: A Guide to Selected Materials of Civil War Interest -- E468 .E468 1968 War of the Rebellion, a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies -- E464 .U6 1985 This 128-volume set is housed in Special Collections. This large collection reproduces thousands of Union and Confederate telegrams, dispatches, orders, and battle reports. Also included are documents relating to post-war trials, including the Lincoln assassination conspiracy trial, acts passed by the Confederate Congress, and documents pertaining to conscription and blockade running. Who was Who in the Civil War -- E467 .S56 1988 Encyclopedia of Civil War Biographies -- REF E467 .E53 2000 Encylopedia of Civil War Usage -- E468.9 .G373 2001 Lists and explains common phrases, sayings and slang frequently employed by the Civil War soldier. Compendium of the Confederate Armies (10 vols.) -- E546 .S58 1992 Each volume (organized by state) covers artillery, cavalry, and infantry. Entries include organization details, commanding officers, battles and campaigns, etc.   A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (3 vols, Union focused) -- Oversize E491 .D99 1959 (Special Collections) Vol. 1: Number and organization of the armies of the United States. Vol. 2: Chronological record of the campaigns, battles, engagements, actions, combats, sieges, skirmishes, etc., in the United States, 1860 to 1865. Vol. 3: Regimental histories. 1400 Days : the Civil War Day by Day --E468.3 .B57 1990 Military Bibliography of the Civil War (4 vols.) -- E468 .D67 1971 Bibliography of regimental publications, personal narratives, biographies, etc.   Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor -- CD3047 .G76 1987 (Special Collections)

THE CIVIL WAR FREDERIC C PAXSON PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Author of ^^The Independence of the South American Republics^ ^^The Last American Frontier'' NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY LONDON THORNTON BUTTERWORTH. LTD. 1911 OCLC Number|1050952

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The best account of the Civil War yet written is by James Ford Rhodes, in his History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877 (7 vols., 1906), and it is not likely that his work will be improved upon in impartiality, scholarship, or literary skill for many years. In A. B. Hart's co-operative American Nation (27 vols., 1904-1908), there are three small volumes which together give an excellent resume of the war, and admirable lists of books relating to special phases and single campaigns: F. E. Chadwick, Causes of the Civil War, J. K. Hosmer, The Appeal to Arms, J. K. Hosmer, Outcome of the Civil War. T. A. Dodge's A Bird's-Eye View of our Civil War (1883, and later editions), has long been the best and clearest purely military view of the struggle; it is, however, very brief, and may be supplemented by J. Formby's American Civil War (1910, with a volume of maps), or the handbook prepared for the British Staff College, Wood and Edmonds, History of the Civil War in the United States (1905). No contemporary account gives more picturesque detail than Horace Greeley's American Conflict (2 vols., 1866), which is still readable. Shortly after the restoration of peace, two Confederate leaders presented their views of the struggle: Jefferson Davis, Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (2 vols., 1881), and A. H. Stephens, Constitutional View of the Late War between the States (2 vols., 1870). During the eighties, the Century Company collected the reminiscences of participants, and published them first serially, and then in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (4 vols., 1888). These accounts possess all the charm of first hand narratives, but careful historians always check them up with the original correspondence that has been printed in the great United States Government series. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and Navies in the War of the Rebellion (more than 150 volumes, and still growing). The biographical side of the Civil War is abimdantly supplied with memoirs, autobiography, and biography, among 251

which the greatest book is Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (2 vols., 1886). This classic is followed closely in interest by Memoirs of William T. Sherman, by Himself (2 vols., 1875), and Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan (2 vols., 1888). G. B. McClellan's Own Story (1887) gives remarkable selfrevelation upon the character of the writer, but acquits him of everything but egotism. An equally useful Confederate biography is Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations (1874). Of formal biographies, the greatest is Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, a History (10 vols., 1890), which is a monumental classic that has provided the foundation for the growing posthumous reputation of Lincoln. It is not critical. It has been supplemented on the personal side by Ida M. Tarbell's Life of Abraham Lincoln (4 vols., 1907), which gives a clearer view of Lincoln's human qualities than any other work. Among the lesser biographies, there should be noted, F. Bancroft, William H. Seward (2 vols., 1900), C. F. Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1900), A. B. Hart, Salmon P. Chase (1899), E. P. Oberholtzer, Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War (2 vols., 1907), A. L. Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee (1887), G. F. R. Henderson, Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (2 vols., 1900, a professional soldier's view), W. E. Dodd, Jefferson Davis (1907, by a critical southern historian). The growing interest in sides of the Civil War period, other than the military, has recently produced two books of great value. J. C. Schwab's Confederate States of America (1901) gives an intimate view of the financial and industrial condition of the South from 1861 to 1865. E. D, Fite's Social and Industrial Conditions in the North During the Civil War (1910), shows the progress made by the Union in spite of war, and is a good corrective to the point of view of the military historians. For additional references, the reader should consult the bibliographies in Chadwick and Hosmer, above mentioned,, and J. N. Lamed, Literature of American History (a general bibliography printed in 1902, in which the leading scholar in the history of the war. General J. D. Cox, has appraised the books bearing on the Civil War).