Reference Works
Rating Title
Author
***** The
War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union
and Confederate Armies.
***** The
Civil War Dictionary by Mark M. Boatner III.
***** Generals
in Gray by Ezra J. Warner.
***** Generals
in Blue by Ezra J. Warner.
**** Fallen
in Battle: American General Officer Fatalities from 1775 by Russell
K. Brown.
**** The
Atlanta Century by Norman Shavin.
*** The
Civil War Years by Robert E. Denney.
*** More
Generals in Gray by Bruce S. Allerdice.
*** In
Their Own Words: Civil War Commanders collected and edited by T.J.
Stiles.
Biography
****
Robert E. Lee: a Biography by Emory M. Thomas.
**** Sherman:
a Soldier's Passion for Order by John F. Marszalek.
**** George
B. McClellan: the Young Napoleon by Stephen Sears.
**** Burnside
by William Marvel.
**** Lee's
Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and his Place in Southern History
by William Garrett Piston.
*** Quantrill's
War: the Life and Times of William Clarke Quantrill by Duane Schultz.
*** Sheridan:
the Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan by Roy Morris, Jr.
*** With
Malice Towards None: the Life of Abraham Lincoln by Steven B. Oates.
*** Jefferson
Davis by Clement Eaton.
*** Ambrose
Bierce: Alone in Bad Company by Roy Morris, Jr.
** Nathan
Bedford Forrest: First with the Most by Rober Selph Henry.
** Memoirs
of Robert E. Lee: His Military and Personal History by A.L. Long.
** Winfield
Scott Hancock: a Soldiers Life by David M. Jordan.
** Jeb
Stuart by John W. Thomason, Jr.
Autobiography, memoirs, diaries,
and letters
*****
Military Memoirs of a Confederate: a Critical Narrative by Edward
Porter Alexander.
**** From
Manassas to Appomatox by General James Longstreet, C.S.A.
**** The
Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865
edited by Stephen Sears.
*** Recollections
of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley Sorrell.
*** Memoirs
of General Jubal Early by Lieutenant-General Jubal Anderson Early,
C.S.A.
** A
Politician Goes to War: Civil War Letters of John White Geary edited
by William Blair.
** Lincoln
in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military Telegraph
Corps During the Civil War
by David Homer Bates.
** Lee's
Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A. edited
by Douglas Southall Freeman.
Campaigns and battles
*****
Shiloh: Bloody April by Wiley Sword.
***** To the
Gates of Richmond: the Peninsular Campaign by Stephen Sears.
***** Landscape
Turned Red: Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
***** Return
to Bull Run: the Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas by John J.
Hennessey
**** The
Civil War in the Western Territories by Ray C. Colten.
**** Shiloh:
the Battle that Changed the Civil War by Larry J. Daniel.
**** Lee
Takes Command by Clifford Dowdey.
*** Civil
War Tennessee: Battles and Leaders by Thomas L. Connelly.
*** The
Peninsula Campaign of 1862: Yorktown to the Seven Days edited by William
Merton Coulter.
*** The
Three Battles of Winchester: a History and Guided Tour by Brandon H.
Beck and Charles S. Grunder.
*** Conquering
the Valley: Stonewall at Port Republic by Robert K. Krick.
*** Battle
on the Bay: the Civil War Struggle for Galveston by Edward T. Cotham,
Jr.
*** Gray
Ghosts and Rebel Raiders by Virgil Carrington Jones.
*** Silk
Flags and Cold Steel: the Civil War in North Carolina, the Piedmont
by William R. Trotter.
*** War
in Kentucky: from Shiloh to Perryville by James Lee McDonough.
*** Darkest
Days of the War: the Battles of Iuka and Corinth by Peter Cozzens.
*** Stones
River: Bloody Winter in Tennessee by James Lee McDonough.
*** Grant
Wins the War: the Decision at Vicksburg by James R. Arnold.
** The
Civil War in the American West by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
** The
Burnside Expedition in North Carolina by Richard A. Sauers.
** Stonewall
Jackson's Valley Campaign by William Allen.
Naval Operations:
****
The Civil War naval chronology (part II 1862) by Naval History
Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations,
Navy Department, Washington D.C.
*** The
Navies by Francis Trevelyan Miller.
*** By
Sea and River, the Naval History of the Civil War by Bern Anderson.
** Sea
Dogs of the Sixties by Jim Dan Hill.
General Military Works
*****
Lee's Lieutenants (3 volumes) by Douglas Southall Freeman.
***** The
Civil War: a Narrative (3 volumes) by Shelby Foote.
***** Battles
and Leaders of the Civil War (4 volumes) edited by Robert Underwood
Johnson and Clarence
Clough
Buel, of the editorial staff of The Century Magazine.
***** Battle
Cry of Freedom: the Civil War Era by James M. McPherson.
**** Terrible
Swift Sword by Bruce Catton.
**** Jefferson
Davis and his Generals by Steven E. Woodworth.
**** A
History of the South volume VII: The Confederate States of America 1861-1865
by E. Clement Coulter.
*** The
American Heritage New History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton.
*** The
United States Marine Corps in the Civil War: The Second Year by David
M. Sullivan.
*** Shenandoah
Valley Pioneers and their Descendants by T.K. Cartmell.
*** Why
the North Won the Civil War edited by David Donald.
*** Lincoln
and his Generals edited by T. Harry Williams.
** Warrior
Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War by Thomas B. Buell.
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