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According to historian James M. McPherson,
there are some 50,000 volumes on the Civil War, and more
books about Abraham Lincoln alone than there are about
any other historical figure, except for Jesus of Nazareth
and William Shakespeare.
Below is a listing of select volumes recommended to
those interested in pursuing further this richest and
most rewarding of all American stories.
Angle, Paul M., and Miers, Earl Schenck. Tragic
Years: 1860-1865, 2 vols. (New York, 1960).
Ayers, Edward L. and Rubin, Anne S. Valley of the
Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
(Orlando, 2000).
Berlin, Ira, ed. Freedom: A Documentary History
of Emancipation 1861-1867, 2 vols. (Cambridge,
1982).
Bowman, John S., ed. The Civil War Almanac
(New York, 1983).
Catton, Bruce, Glory Road (Garden City, 1952).
___________.Grant Moves South (Boston, 1960).
___________.Grant Takes Command (Boston, 1968).
___________.Mr. Lincoln's Army (Garden City,
1951).
___________.A Stillness at Appomattox (Garden
City, 1953).
___________.This Hallowed Ground (Garden City,
1951).
Commager, Henry Steele, ed. The Blue and the Gray:
Tbe Story of the Civil War as Told by Participants
(Indianapolis, 1950).
Davis, William C., ed. The Image of War 1861-1865,
6 vols. (Garden City, 1984).
Faust, Patricia L., ed. Historical Times Illustrated
Encyclopedia of the Civil War (New York, 1987).
Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance
in Law and Politics (New York,
1978).
Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative,
3 vols. (New York, 1958, 1963, 1974).
Frassanito, William A. Antietaim: The Photographic
Legacy of America’s Bloodiest Day (New York,
1976).
___________.Gettysburg: A Journey in Time (New
York, 1975).
___________.Grant and Lee. The Virginia Campaigns
1864-1865 (New York, 1983).
Leech, Margaret. Reveille in Washington (New
York, 1941).
Lewis, Lloyd. Captain Sam Grant (Boston, 1950).
___________.Myths After Lincoln (New York,
1929).
___________.Sherman: Fighting Prophet (New
York, 1932).
Linderman, Gerald F. Embattled Courage (New
York, 1987).
Long, E. B., ed. The Civil War Day by Day (New
York, 1971).
McFeely, William S. Grant: A Biography (New
York, 1981).
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil
War Era (New York 1988).
___________.Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction
(New York, 1982).
Miller, Francis T., ed. The Photographic History
of the Civil War (Secaucus, 1987).
Neeley, Mark E., Jr. The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia
(New York, 1982).
Nevins, Allan. The Emergence of Lincoln, 2
vols. (New York, 1950).
___________.The Ordeal of the Union, 2 vols.
(New York, 1947).
___________.The War for the Union, 4 vols.
(New York, 1971).
Oates, Stephen B. With Malice Toward None:- The
Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York, 1977).
Potter, David M., and Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Impending
Crisis 1848-1861 (New York, 1976).
Pullen, John J. The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer
Regiment in the Civil War (Philadelphia, 1957).
Rhodes, Robert Hunt, ed. All for the Union: A History
of the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry in the War
of the Great Rebellion as Told by the Diaries and Letters
of Elisha Hunt Rhodes Who Enlisted as a Private in '61
and Rose to the Command of His Regiment (Lincoln,
R.I., 1985).
Sears, Stephen W. George B. McClellan: The Young
Napoleon (New York, 1988).
___________.Landscape Turned Red (New Haven,
1983).
Thomas, Benjamin P. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
(New York, 1952).
Time-Life Books, eds. The Civil War, 28 vols.
(Alexandria, Va., 1987).
Ward Geoffrey C. with Burns, Ric and Burns, Ken. An
Illustrated History of the Civil War (reprint:
New York, 2000).
Warren, Robert Penn. Jefferson Davis Gets the Citizenship
Back (Lexington, 1980).
___________.The Legacy of the Civil War (New
York, 1961).
Watkins, Sam R. "Co. Aytch": A Side Show
of the Big Show (New York, 1962).
Weisberger, Bernard A. Reporters for the Union
(Boston, 1953).
Werner, Emmy E. Reluctant Witnesses: Children’s
Voices from the Civil War (Boulder, 1998).
Wheeler, Richard. The Siege of Vicksburg (New
York, 1978).
___________.Voices of the Civil War (New York,
1976).
___________.Witness to Gettysburg (New York,
1987).
Whitman, Walt. Specimen Days (Boston, 1971).
Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common
Soldier of the Union (Baton Rouge, 1984).
___________.The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier
of the Confederacy (Baton Rouge, 1984).
Woodward, C. Vann, ed. Mary Chesnut's Civil War
(New Haven, 1981).
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