HIS 269 --Civil War and Reconstruction

Book List

(Note:  All books available in CVCC Library)

The Secession Crisis

Channing, Steven.  Crisis of Fear:  Secession in South Carolina.

Potter, David.  The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861.

Army/Unit Histories

Catton, Bruce.  The Army of the Potomac Trilogy:  Glory Road; Mr. Lincoln's Army; A Stillness at Appomattox.

Connelly, Thomas.  Army of the Heartland:  The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862; Autumn of Glory:  The Army of Tennessess, 1862-1865.

Freeman, Douglas Southall.  Lee's Lieutenants:  A Study in Command (3 vols.)

McMurry, Richard M.  Two Great Rebel Armies:  An Essay in Confederate Military HIstory.

Robertson, James I. Jr.  The Stonewall Brigade

Battles and Campaigns

Davis, William C.  Battle at Bull Run:  A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War.

Dowdey, Clifford.  The Seven Days:  The Emergence of Lee.

Sears, Stephen.  Landscape Turned Red:  The Battle of Antietam.

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

Cozzens, Peter.  This Terrible Sound:  The Battle of Chickamauga.

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

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Biographies

Catton, Bruce.  Grant Takes Command.

Cooper, William J.  Jefferson Davis, American.

Donald, David Herbert.  Lincoln.

Freeman, Douglas Southall.  R.E. Lee.

Sears, Stephen.  George McClellan:  The Young Napoleon.

Oates, Stephen.  To Purge This Land with Blood:  A Biography of John Brown.

McFeely, William S.  Grant:  A Biography.

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

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

Civil/Military Relations

Grimsley, Mark.  The Hard Hand of War:  Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865.

Williams, T. Harry.  Lincoln and his Generals.

Gender

Rable, George.  Civil Wars:  Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism.

Wiley, Bell I.  Confederate Women.

Logistics and Transportation

Dew, Charles B.  Ironmaker of the Confederacy:  Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Ironworks.

Turner, George E.  Victory Rode the Rails.

Memoirs and Diaries

Chesnut, Mary.  Mary Chesnut's Civil War.  (ed. by C. Vann Woodward)

Sherman, William Tecumseh.  Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman, Written by Himself.

Life of the Soldiers

Wiley, Bell I.  The Life of Johnny Reb.

Wiley, Bell I.  The Life of Billy Yank.

McPherson, James.  For Cause and Comrades:  Why Men Fought in the Civil War.

Mitchell, Reid.  Civil War Soldiers.

Woodworth, Steven.  While God Is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers.

Reconstruction

Foner, Eric.  Reconstruction:  America's Unfinished Revolution.

Foner, Eric.  Nothing but Freedom:  Emancipation and Its Legacy.

LItwack, Leon.  Been in the Storm So Long:  The Aftermath of Slavery.

Rose, Willie Lee.  Rehearsal for Reconstruction:  The Port Royal Experiment.