The American Civil War bibliography comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month.[1] There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 titles selected by leading scholars.[2] Many specialized topics such as Abraham Lincoln,[3] women,[4] and medicine[5] have their own lengthy bibliographies. The books on major campaigns typically contain their own specialized guides to the sources and literature. The most comprehensive guide to the historiography annotates over a thousand titles.[6]
For the history of North and South see Union (American Civil War) and Confederate States of America and the many articles linked there.
For a guide to the bibliography see:
- *Woodworth, Steven E.; ed. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Greenwood Press, 1996.
- Eicher, David J. The Civil War in Books An Analytical Bibliography. 1997.
- Murdock, Eugene C. Civil War in the North: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. Garland, 1987.
For a guide to web sources see:
- Carter, Alice E.; Jensen, Richard. The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites—Completely Revised and Updated. 2003.
Note: This article forms part of Bibliography of the American Civil War.
Overviews
[edit]- Current, Richard N., et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 Volume set; also 1 vol abridged version) (ISBN 0-13-275991-8)
- Heidler, David and Jeanne Heidler, eds, Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2002) 2740pp
- Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union (1970), vol 5. The Improvised War, 1861–1862; vo 6. War Becomes Revolution, 1862–1863; vol 7. The Organized War, 1863–1864; vol 8. The Organized War to Victory, 1864–1865; highly detailed coverage by a leading scholar.
- Resch, John P. et al., Americans at War: Society, Culture and the Homefront vol 2: 1816-1900 (2005)
Soldiers of both sides
[edit]- Carmichael, Peter S. The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies (UNC Press Books, 2018). online
- Frank, Joseph Allan, and George A. Reaves, eds. Seeing the Elephant: Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh (University of Illinois Press, 2003) online
- Hesseltine, William Best, ed. Civil War Prisons. (Kent State University Press, 1972).
- Linderman, Gerald. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War (Free Press, 1987)
- Livermore, Thomas Leonard. Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in America, 1861-65 (Houghton, Mifflin, 1900). online
- McPherson, James M. For cause and comrades: Why men fought in the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 1997) online
- Manning, Chandra. What This Cruel War Was Over. (Vintage, 2007) Uses letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to probe the world view of soldiers—black and white, Yankee and Rebel. interview with author]
- Mitchell, Reid. Civil War Soldiers: Their Expectations and Their Experiences (Penguin, 1997).
- Robertson, James I. Soldiers Blue and Gray (U of South Carolina Press, 1988).
- Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, ed. The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (University Press of Kentucky, 2006). online
- Shively, Kathryn J. Nature's Civil War: Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia (UNC Press Books, 2013). online
Union homefront
[edit]- Bak, Richard. A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War. Chelsea: Huron River, 2004.
- Berstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. London: Oxford University Press, 1990.
- Gallman, J. Matthew, The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994.
- Geary, James W. We Need Men: The Union Draft Riot in the Civil War. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1991.
- Green, Michael S. Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War. Fordham University Press, 2004.
- Hess, Earl J. Liberty, Virtue, and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union. New York: New York University Press, 1988.
- Mitchell, Charles W. "Maryland Voices of the Civil War," 2007.
- Onuf, Nicholas and Onuf, Peter. Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. University of Virginia Press, 2006.
- Paludan, Philip S. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. 1994.
- Paludan, Philip S. A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865 (1996), detailed scholarly history
- Richardson, Heather Cox. The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War. 1997.
- Schecter, Barnet. The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America. Walker Publishing Company, 2005.
- Smith, Michael Thomas. The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North. University of Virginia Press, 2011.
- Stampp, Kenneth M. Indiana Politics during the Civil War, 2nd edition. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1978.
- Thornton, Mark and Ekelund, Robert B., Jr. Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War. Scholarly Resources, 2004.
- Williams, David. A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom. New York: The New Press, 2005.
- Wilson, Mark R. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2006.
Union politics
[edit]- Benton, Josiah Henry. Voting in the Field: A Forgotten Chapter of the Civil War. Boston, Massachusetts: privately published, 1915.
- Gray, Wood. The Hidden Civil War: The Story of the Copperheads. New York: Viking Press, 1942.
- Johnson, David Allen. Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2010.
- Klement, Frank L. The Copperheads of the Middle West. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1960
- Nelson, Larry E. Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric: Confederate Policy for the United States Presidential Contest of 1864. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1980.
- Silby, Joel H. A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860-1868. New York: Norton, 1977.
- Waugh, John C. Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency. New York: Crown Publishers, 1998.
- Weber, Jennifer L. Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Union civilian leaders
[edit]- Abbott, R. H. Ohio's Civil War Governors. Columbus, Ohio: no publisher listed, 1962.
- Ambler, Charles H. Francis H. Pierpont: Union War Governor of Virginia and Father of West Virginia. University of North Carolina Press, 1937.
- Cook, Robert J. Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
- Goodwin, Doris K., Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. 2005.
- Hoogenboom, Ari. Gustavius Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Niven, John. Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
- Parrish, William E. Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8262-1156-9.
- Plummer, Mark. Frontier Governor: Samuel J. Crawford of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas: 1971.
- Steele, Janet E. The Sun Shines for All: Journalism and Ideology in the Life of Charles A. Dana. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
- Thomas, Benjamin P. and Harold M. Hyman. Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1962.
- Vallandigham, James L. A Life of Clement L. Vallandigham. Baltimore, Maryland: no publisher listed, 1872.
- Waller, John L. Colossal Hamilton of Texas: A Biography of Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Militant Unionist and Reconstruction Governor. El Paso, Texas: Texas Western Press, 1968.
- Wardin, Robert B. An Account of the Private Life and Public Service of Salmon Portland Chase. Cincinnati, Ohio: Wilstach, Baldwin and Co., 1874.
- West, Jr., Richard S. Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Navy Department. New York: Bobbs–Merrill Company, 1943.
Abraham Lincoln
[edit]- Barr, John McKee. Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition From the Civil War to the Present. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8071-5383-3.
- Boritt, Gabor S. ed. Lincoln the War President (1994)
- Boritt, Gabor S. and Norman O. Forness, eds. The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory: Psychohistory, and History. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois State, 1988. ISBN 0-252-01527-4.
- Brookhiser, Richard. Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. Basic Books, 2014.
- Burton, Orville V. The Essential Lincoln: Speeches and Correspondence. New York: Hill & Wang, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8090-4307-1.
- Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power ISBN 1-4000-4456-1 (2003)
- DiLorenzo, Thomas J. The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War. Roseville, California: Forum, 2002. attack on Lincoln from Libertarian economist
- Donald, David. Lincoln (1999) ISBN 0-684-82535-X, Major scholarly biography
- Foner, Eric. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.
- Foner, Eric, ed. Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. ISBN 978-0-393-06756-9.
- Gienapp, William E. Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography 2002. ISBN 0-19-515099-6.
- Goodrich, Thomas. The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy. (Indiana UP, 2005). ISBN 0-253-32599-4.
- Goodwin, Doris. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-7075-4.
- Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, (1999). ISBN 0-8028-3872-3.
- Holzer, Harold. Lincoln President–Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860–1861. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7432-8947-4.
- Holzer, Harold, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams, eds. The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth & Memory. Fordham University Press, 2010.
- McPherson, James M. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. 1992.
- McPherson, James M. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. New York: Penguin Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4406-5245-5.
- Miers, Earl S., ed. Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology: 1809–1865, three volumes. Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960.
- Neely, Mark E. The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia. New York: McGraw–Hill, 1984.
- Neely, Mark E. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America. 1993.
- Paludan, Phillip Shaw. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1994. ISBN 0-7006-0671-8. Major scholarly study
- Perret, Geoffrey. Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief. New York: Random House, 2004; Popular history
- Peterson, Merrill D. Lincoln in American Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Randall, James G. Lincoln the President. four volumes, 1945–55. a major scholarly study.
- Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, four volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.
- Schwartz, Barry. Abraham Lincoln in the Post–Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth–Century America. University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Shaw, Archer H. The Lincoln Encyclopedia. New York: Macmillan, 1950.
- Steers, Jr., Edward. Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. ISBN 0-8131-2217-1.
- Tagg, Larry. The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: The Story of America's Most Reviled President. Savas Beatie, 2009.
- Thomas; Benjamin P. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (1952) Scholarly biography
- White, Jr. Ronald C. Lincoln: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4000-6499-1.; Scholarly biography
- Wilson, Rufus Rockwell. Lincoln in Caricature. New York: Horizon Press, 1953.
Economics
[edit]- Adams, Sean Patrick. "Wartime Political Economy." in A Companion to the US Civil War (2014): 1073-1086; historiography
- Anderson, J.L. "The Vacant Chair on the Farm: Soldier Husbands, Farm Wives, and the Iowa Home Front, 1861–1865," Annals of Iowa (2007) 66#3 pp 241–265
- Fite, Emerson David. Social and industrial conditions in the North during the Civil War (1910) online edition, old but still useful
- Flaherty, Jane. "'The Exhausted Condition of the Treasury' on the Eve of the Civil War," Civil War History, (2009) 55#2 pp. 244–277 in Project MUSE
- Gates, Paul W. Agriculture and the Civil War (1965)
- Hammond, Bray. Sovereignty and the Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War (1970).
- Huston, James L. (1983). "A Political Response to Industrialism: The Republican Embrace of Protectionist Labor Doctrines". The Journal of American History. 70 (1): 35–57. doi:10.2307/1890520. JSTOR 1890520.
- Hyman, Hyman. American Singularity: The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, the 1862 Homestead and Morrill Acts, and the 1944 GI Bill (U of Georgia Press, 2008)
- Lowenstein, Roger. Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War (2022)
- Mitchell, Wesley C. A history of the greenbacks: with special reference to the economic consequences of their issue: 1862–65 (1903)
- Myers, Margaret G. Financial History of the United States (1970) pp 148–97 online
- Niven, John. Salmon P. Chase: a biography (1995)
- Richardson, Heather Cox. The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (1997)
- Studenski, Paul, and Herman E. Kroos. Financial History of the United States: Fiscal, monetary, banking, and tariff, including financial administration and state and local finances (1963) pp 137–160.
Union soldiers
[edit]- Dunkelman, Mark H. Brothers One and All: Esprit De Corps in a Civil War Regiment (LSU Press, 2004) life in the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry. online
- Hargrove, Hondon B. Black Union Soldiers in the Civil War (McFarland, 2003). online
- Jordan, Brian Matthew. Marching Home: Union Veterans and their Unending Civil War (WW Norton & Company, 2015. online
- Jordan, Brian Matthew. A Thousand May Fall: Life, Death, and Survival in the Union Army (Liveright, 2020) online book review
- McConnell, Stuart. "Who Joined the Grand Army? Three Case Studies in the Construction of Union Veteranhood, 1866—1900" in Maris A. Vinovskis, ed. Toward a Social History of the American Civil War (Cambridge UP, 1990) pp.139-170
- Mitchell, Reid. "The Northern Soldier and His Community," in Maris A. Vinovskis, ed. Toward a Social History of the American Civil War (Cambridge UP, 1990) pp. 78-92
- Mitchell, Reid. The vacant chair: The Northern soldier leaves home (Oxford University Press, 1995).
Confederacy home front
[edit]- Clampitt, Bradley R. The Confederate Heartland: Military and Civilian Morale in the Western Confederacy. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
- Crofts, Daniel W. Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. ISBN 0-8078-1809-7.
- Current, Richard N., et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 Volume set; also 1 vol abridged version)
- Beals, Carleton. War Within a War: The Confederacy Against Itself. New York: Chilton Books, 1965.
- Boritt, Gabor S., et al., Why the Confederacy Lost, 1992.
- Campbell, Jacqueline Glass. When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Pres, 2003.
- Cisco, Walter Brian. War Crimes Against Southern Civilians. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 2007.
- Clark, James C. Last Train South: The Flight of the Confederate Government from Richmond. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1984.
- Coulter, E. Merton. The Confederate States of America, 1861–1865. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 1950.
- Davis, William C. and Robertson, James I., Jr., eds. Virginia at War, 1861. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
- Davis, William C. Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America. New York: Free Press, 2003. ISBN 0-684-86585-8.
- Dyer, Thomas G. Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
- Eaton, Clement. A History of the Southern Confederacy, 1954.
- Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
- Freehling, William W. The South vs. the South: How Anti–Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Gordon, Lesley J. and Inscoe, John C., eds. Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
- Brimley, Mark. The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1866. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- Jones, J. B. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital. 1935.
- Mackey, Robert R. The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
- Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutions on the Southern Homefront. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
- McCardell, John. The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860. New York: Norton, 1979.
- McGuire, Hunter and George L. Christian. The Confederate Cause and Conduct in the War Between the States. Richmond, Virginia: 1907.
- Morgan, Chad. Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. University Press of Florida, 2005.
- Neely, Mark E., Jr., Confederate Bastille: Jefferson Davis and Civil Liberties, 1993.
- Rembert, W. Patrick. Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet, 2014
- Rable, George C., The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics, 1994.
- Resch, John P. et al. eds. Americans at War: Society, Culture and the Homefront vol 2: 1816-1900 (2005)
- Robinson, Jr., William M. Justice in Gray: A History of the Judicial System of the Confederate States. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1941.
- Roland, Charles P. The Confederacy, 1962.
- Rubin, Anne Sarah. A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
- Stith, Matthew M. Extreme Civil War: Guerrilla Warfare, Environment, and Race on the Trans-Mississippi Frontier. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016.
- Tatum, Georgia Lee. Disloyalty in the Confederacy. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1934.
- Thomas, Emory M. The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience, 1992.
- Thomas, Emory M. Confederate Nation: 1861-1865. 1979.
- Waghelstein, John D. and Chisholm, Donald. "The Road Not Taken: Conflict Termination and Guerrillaism in the American Civil War." Journal of Strategic Studies (2006) 29(5): 871-904. ISSN 0140-2390 Fulltext: in Ebsco
- Wallenstein, Peter and Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, eds. Virginia's Civil War. University Press of Virginia, 2005.
- Williams, David. Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War. New York: The New Press, 2008.
Confederate government and politics
[edit]- Knight, H. Jackson. Confederate Invention: The Story of the Confederate States Patent Office and Its Inventors. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
- Neely, Jr., Mark E. Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
- Spaw, Patsy M. The Texas Senate: Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861–1889, two volumes. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.
- Warner, Ezra J. and Buck Yearns. Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1975.
Confederate secret service
[edit]- Headley, John W. Confederate Operations in Canada and New York. New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1906.
- Tidwell, William A. April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995.
- Tidwell, William A., James O. Hall, and David W. Gaddy. Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press, 1989.
Confederate civilian leaders
[edit]- Baylor, George W. John Robert Baylor: Confederate Governor of Arizona, ed. by Odie B. Faulk. Tucson, Arizona: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1966.
- Boney, Francis N. John Letcher of Virginia: The Story of Virginia's War Governor. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1966.
- Butler, Pierce. Judah P. Benjamin. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1906.
- Current, Richard N., et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 Volume set; also 1 vol abridged version) (ISBN 0-13-275991-8)
- Dowd, Clement. Life of Zebulon B. Vance. Charlotte, North Carolina: Observer Printing and Publishing Co., 1897.
- Elliott, Sam Davis. Isham G. Harris of Tennessee: Confederate Governor and United States Senator. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
- Evans, Eli N. Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate. New York: The Free Press, 1988. ISBN 0-02-908880-1.
- King, Alvy L. Louis T. Wigfall: Southern Fire–eater. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1970.
- Meade, Robert Douthat. Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1943.
- Mobley, Joe A. War Governor of the South: North Carolina's Zeb Vance in the Confederacy. University Press of Florida, 2005.
- Philips, Christopher. Missouri's Confederate: Cleburne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2000.
- Poteat, R. Mattew. Henry Toole Clark: Civil War Governor of North Carolina. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2009. ISBN 978-0-7864-3728-3.
- Saunders, Jr., Robert. John Archibald Campbell, Southern Moderate, 1811–1889. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
- Simpson, Craig M. A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
- Tucker, Glenn. Zeb Vance: Champion of Personal Freedom. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs–Merrill Company, 1965.
- Underwood, Rodman L. Stephen Russell Mallory: A Biography of the Confederate Navy Secretary and United States Senator. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2006.
- Wakelyn, Jon L. Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy Greenwood Press ISBN 0-8371-6124-X
- Yearns, W. Buck, ed. The Confederate Governors. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
Jefferson Davis
[edit]- Allen, Felicity. Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8262-1219-0.
- Canfield, Cass. The Iron Will of Jefferson Davis. New York: Fairfax Press, 1978. ISBN 0-517-36244-9.
- Cooper, William J. Jefferson Davis, American. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. ISBN 0-394-56916-4.
- Davis, William C. Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. ISBN 0-06-016706-8.
- Hattaway, Herman and Richard E. Beringer. Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2002. ISBN 0-7006-1170-3
- Strode, Hudson. Jefferson Davis, three volumes. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955–1964.
- Volume one: American Patriot 1808–1861. 1955.
- Volume two: Confederate President. 1959.
- Volume three: Tragic Hero: The Last Twenty–Five Years 1864–1889. 1964.
Confederate soldiers
[edit]- Bardolph, Richard. "Inconstant rebels: desertion of North Carolina troops in the Civil War." North Carolina Historical Review 41.2 (1964): 163-189. online
- Daniel, Larry J. Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army (UNC Press Books, 2003) online
- Donald, David. "The Confederate as a Fighting Man." Journal of Southern History 25.2 (1959): 178-193. online
- Faust, Drew Gilpin. "Christian Soldiers: The Meaning of Revivalism in the Confederate Army." Journal of Southern History 53.1 (1987): 63-90. online
- Levin, Kevin M. Searching for Black Confederates: The civil War’s most persistent Myth (UNC Press Books, 2019). Debunks a false myth. online
- Logue, Larry M. "Who joined the Confederate army? Soldiers, civilians, and communities in Mississippi." Journal of Social History (1993): 611-623. online
- Marrs, Aaron W. "Desertion and loyalty in the South Carolina infantry, 1861-1865." Civil War History 50.1 (2004): 47-65. excerpt
- Power, J. Tracy. Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox (UNC Press Books, 2002). online
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ In 2001, Jonathan Sarna estimated that over 50,000 books had already appeared, with 1,500 more appearing annually. American Jewish History 89.3 (2001) 335–337.
- ^ See Allan Nevins, Bell Irvin Wiley, and James I. Robertson, Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography (2 vol, 1970)
- ^ Burkhimer, Michael. 100 Essential Lincoln Books (2003)
- ^ McDevitt, Theresa. Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography (2003)
- ^ Freemon, Frank R. Microbes and Minie Balls: An Annotated Bibliography of Civil War Medicine (1993)
- ^ Woodworth, Steven; et al., eds. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research (1996)