Civil War Reading List.

Fiction:

Banks, Sara Harrell – Abraham’s Battle: A Novel of Gettysburg

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell – No Man’s Land

Beatty, Patricia – Charley Skedaddle

Beatty, Patricia – Turn Homeward Hannalee

Blackwood, Gary - Second Sight

Clapp, Patricia – The Tamarack Tree

Collier, James and Lincoln – With Every Drop of Blood

Cornwell, Bernard - The Starbuck Chronicles

Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage

Doctorow, E.L. – The March

Faulkner, William - Absalom, Absalom!

Faulkner, William - The UnVanquished

Fleischman, Paul – Bull Run

Foote, Shelby - Shiloh

Frazier, Charles – Cold Mountain

Gillem, Harriette – Forty Acres and a Mule

Hesse, Karen – A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861

Hesse, Karen – When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864

Hunt, Irene – Across Five Aprils

Immel, Mary Blair – Captured! A Boy Trapped in the Civil War

Jackson, N.R. & Lunn, Janet – The Root Cellar

Jakes, John - The Titans

Jakes, John - Love and War

Johnston, Mary - The Long Roll

Keith, Harold – Rifles for Watie

Lyons, Mary E. & Branch, Muriel – Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies

McCann, William - Ambrose Bierce's Civil War

McPherson, James M. – Fields of Fury: The American Civil War

Mitchell, Margaret – Gone With the Wind

Mrazek, Robert J. – Stonewall’s Gold: A Novel of the Civil War

Murphy, Jim – The Boy’s War

Osborne, Mary Pope – A Time to Dance: Virginia’s Civil War Diary

Osborne, Mary Pope – Civil War on Sunday

Osborne, Mary Pope – My America: My Brother’s Keeper; Virginia’s Civil War Diary, Book One

Paulsen, Gary – Soldier’s Heart

Pinkney, Andrea Davis – Silent Thunder

Polacco, Patricia – Pink and Say

Reed, Ishmael – Flight to Canada

Reeder, Carolyn – Shades of Gray

Reit, Seymour – Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds; Civil War Spy

Rinaldi, Anne – Amelia’s War

Rinaldi, Anne – An Acquaintance with Darkness

Rinaldi, Anne – In My Father’s House

Rinaldi, Anne - The Last Silk Dress

Ripley, Alexandra - Charleston

Safire, William - Freedom

Shaara, Jeffrey – Gods and Generals

Shaara, Jeffrey – The Last Full Measure

Shaara, Michael – The Killer Angels

Smith, Pamela Hill – Voice From the Border

Street, James – By Valour and Arms

Styple, William B. – The Little Bugler

Turtledove, Harry - Fort Pillow

Verne, Jules – North Against South

Vidal, Gore - Lincoln

Willis, Connie - Lincoln's Dreams

Wisler, G. Clifton – Mr. Lincoln’s Drummer

Wisler, G. Clifton – Red Cap

Non-Fiction

Baker, Jean H. - Mary Todd Lincoln, A Biography

Bearss, Edwin C. - The Vicksburg Campaign

Beller, Susan Provost and McElderry, Margaret - Never Were Men So Brave: The Irish Brigade During the Civil War

Bennet, Barbara - Stonewall Jackson: Lee's Greatest Lieutenant

Bishop, Jim - The Day Lincoln Was Shot

Boatner, Mark M. III - The Civil War dictionary

Bolotin, Norman - The Civil War A to Z: A Young Reader's Guide to Over 100 People, Places and Points of Interest

Brill, Marlene Targ - Diary of a Drummer Boy

Catton, Bruce - America Goes to War, The Civil War and Its Meaning in American Culture

Catton, Bruce - The Army of the Potomac

Catton, Bruce - The Centennial History of the Civil War

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence - Bayonet Forward! My Civil War Reminiscences

Chang, Ina - A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War

Chesnut, Mary Boykin - Mary Chesnut's Civil War

Davis, Burke - The Civil War: Strange and Fascinating Facts

Davis, Burke - To Appomattox, Nine April Days, 1865

Davis, William - The Civil War Cookbook

Dolan, Edward F. - American Civil War: A House Divided

Foote, Shelby - The Civil War, A Narrative

Freeman, Douglas Southall - Lee's Lieutenants, A Study in Command

Garrison, Webb - Civil War Curiosities: Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences

Hearn, Chester G. - Admiral David Dixon Porter, The Civil War Years

Herbert, Janis - The Civil War for Kids: A History With 21 Activities

Hill, Lois - Poems and Songs of the Civil War

Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel - Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

Jouineau, Andrew - Officers and Soldiers of the American Civil War

Kantor, MacKinlay - Andersonville

Kantor, MacKinlay - Gettysburg

Kennedy, Frances H. - The Civil War Battlefield Guide

Long, E. B. - The Civil War Day by Day, An Almanac 1861-1865

McPherson, James - Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

McPherson, James - Battle Cry of Freedom, The Civil War Era

McPherson, James - Drawn With the Sword, Reflections on the American Civil War

Moore, Kay - If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War

Oates, Stephen B. - A Woman of Valor, Clara Barton and the Civil War

Priest, John Michael - Antietam, The Soldier's Battle

Sherman, William Tecumseh - Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman

Stuart, James Elwell Brown - The Letters of General James E. B. Stuart

Swank, Wallbrook D. - Ballads of the North and South in the Civil War

Time Life Books - The Civil War

U. S. War Department - The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

Whitelaw, Nancy - Clara Barton: Civil War Nurse

Whitman, Walt - Walt Whitman's Civil War

Williams, Edward F. III - Great American Civil War Trivia

Woolsey, Jane Stuart - Hospital Days, Reminiscences of a Civil War Nurse

Zeinart, Karen - Those Courageous Women of the Civil War


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