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Printed Sources
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Bibliographies, Historiography, and Analysis
Castel, Albert E. Winning and Losing in the Civil War : Essays and Stories. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1996. E464 .C26 1996
Dornbusch, Charles Emil. Regimental Publications & Personal Narratives of the Civil War. 4 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1971. Ref. Z1242 .D612
Hess, Earl J. Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War : The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2005. E470.2 .H47 2005
Krick, Robert K. The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy : The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2002. E470.2 .K75 2002
McPherson, James M. Drawn with the Sword : Reflections on the American Civil War. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. E468 .M228 1996
McPherson, James M. and William J. Cooper, Jr. Writing the Civil War : The Quest to Understand. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1998. E468.5 .W75 1998
Reardon, Carol. Pickett's Charge in History and Memory. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997. E475.53 .R33 1997
Weeks, Jim. Gettysburg : Memory, Market, and an American Shrine. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2003. E475.56 .W44 2003
Woodworth, Steven E. ed. The American Civil War : a Handbook of Literature and Research. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996. E456 .A47 1996
Public Documents
U. S. Naval War Records Office. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. 30 vols. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894-1922. E591 .U58
U. S. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 128 vols. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. E464 .U6 See User's Guide in Reference
Maps
Esposito, Vincent J. The West Point Atlas of the Civil War. New York: Praeger, 1962. Ref G1201 .S1U5 1959
U. S. War Department. Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891-1895. Reprint, New York: Fairfax Press, 1983. Ref G1201 .S5U6 1983
Periodicals
Civil War History [indexed in American History and Life E461 .C5
Civil War Times Illustrated [indexed in American History and Life.] Swem does not have a complete run.
Southern Historical Society Papers. [See James I. Robertson, An Index-Guide to the Southern Historical Society Papers, 1876-1959. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1980.] E483.7 .S76. Also on microfilm.
Reference Sources
Beers, Henry Putney. The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America. Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986. Ref CD3047 .B4 1986
Boatner, Mark Mayo III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay Co., 1959. Revised 1988. Ref. E468 .B7
Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. E491 .D99 1958
Eicher, John H. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001. E467 .E35 2001
Faust, Patricia L., ed. Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War. New York: Harper and Row, 1986. Ref E468 .H57 1986
Kennedy, Frances H., ed. The Civil War Battlefield Guide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. E641 .C58 1998
Krick, Robert K. Lee's Colonels: A Biographical Register of the Field Officers of the Army of Northern Virginia. Dayton, Ohio: Press of Morningside Bookshop, 1979. E467 .K75
Long, E. B. The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1972. Ref E468.3 .L6
Munden, Kenneth W. and Henry Putney Beers. The Union: A Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War. Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986. Ref CD3047 .M8 1986
V. M. I. Register of Former Cadets. Lexington, Virginia: Virginia Military Institute. U430 .V73A23 Published periodically.
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue; Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964. Ref E467 .W29
_____. Generals in Gray; Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. Ref E467 .W3
Comprehensive Histories of the Civil War
Catton, Bruce. Glory Road: The Bloody Route from Fredericksburg to Gettysburg. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1952. E470.2 .C36
_____. Mr. Lincoln's Army. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962. E470.2 .C39
_____. A Stillness at Appomattox. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954. E470.2 .C39
Donald, David Herbert, Jean H. Baker and Michael F. Holt. The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Norton, 2001.
Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. 3 vols. New York: Random House, 1958-1974. E468 .F7
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. E470 .M36 1988
Social History
Attie, Jeanie.Patriotic Toil: Northern Women and the American Civil War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. E628 .A87 1998
Barney, William L. Flawed Victory: A New Perspective on the Civil War. New York, Praeger,1975. E468 .B32
Berlin, Ira et al., editors.Free at Last : a Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. New York : The New Press, 1992. Law Library E185.2 .F8 1992
Clinton, Catherine and Nina Silber, editors. Divided Houses : Gender and the Civil War. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992. HQ1075 .U6 D58 1992
Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. D628 .F35 1996
Gallman, J. Matthew. The North Fights the Civil War: the Home Front. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1994 E468 .G35 1994
Paludan, Phillip S. A People's Contest : the Union and Civil War, 1861-1865. New York : Harper & Row, c1988. E468.9 .P35 1988
Thomas, Emory M. The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865. New York : Harper & Row, c1979. E487 .T483 1979b
Simpson, Brooks D. Let Us Have Peace : Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1991. E672 .S6 1991
Sutherland, Daniel E. The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876. New York : Harper & Row, c1989.
Wilson, Harold S. Confederate Industry : Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2002. HD9725 .W546 2002
Major Campaigns, Battles, and Biographies
Ballard, Michael B. Vicksburg : The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004. E475.27 .B358 2004
Bearss, Edwin C. The Campaign for Vicksburg. Dayton: Morningside Press, 1985-86. 3 vols.
Bigelow, John Jr. The Campaign of Chancellorsville. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1910. Rare Bk. E475.3 .B59
Bradley, Mark L. This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000. E477.7 .B73 2000
Burton, Brian K. Extraordinary Circumstances : The Seven Days. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2001. E473.68 .B87 2001
Calkins, Chris M. . The Appomattox Campaign. Conshohocken, Pa.: Combined Books, 1997. Also available as electronic book from NetLibrary.
Cooling, B. Franklin. Forts Henry and Donelson--The Key to the Confederate Heartland. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1987. E472.96 .C66 1987
Castel, Albert. Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1992. E476 .C28 1992
Catton, Bruce. Grant Takes Command. Boston: Little Brown, 1969. E672 .C295
_____. Grant Moves South. Boston: Little Brown, 1960. E672 .C293 1960a
Coddington, Edwin B. The Gettysburg Campaign: A Study in Command. New York: Scribner's, 1968. E475.53 .C72
Cozzens, Peter. The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. E475.97 .C779 1994
_____. This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. E475.81 .C78 1992
Davis, William C. Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. E472.18 .D39 1981
Davis, William C. Jefferson Davis : The Man and His Hour. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1991. E467.1 .D26 D32 1991
Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1995. E457 .D66 1995
Freeman, Douglas Southall. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. 3 vols. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1942-44. E470.2 .F7
_____. R. E. Lee:, A Biography. 4 vols. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1934-35. E 467.1 L4F83
Gary W. Gallagher. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1998. E467.1 .L4G3 1998
Gary W. Gallagher, ed. Antietam : Essays on the 1862 Maryland Campaign. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1989. E474.61 .A58 1989
_____. Chancellorsville : The Battle and its Aftermath. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1996. E475.35 .C47 1996
_____. The Third Day at Gettysburg & Beyond. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1994. E475.53 .T56 1994
_____. The Wilderness Campaign. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1997. E476.52 .W55 1997
Grabau, Warren E. Ninety-Eight Days: A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2000. E475.27 .G79
Greene, A. Wilson. Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion: The Final Battles of the Vicksburg Campaign.Mason City, Iowa: Savas Publishing Co., 2000.
Hall, Jeffrey C. The Stand of the U.S. Army at Gettysburg. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2003. E475.53 .H215 2003
Harsh, Joseph L. Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1999. E474.61 .H37 1999
Hassler, Warren W. Commanders of the Army of the Potomac. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1962. E470.2 .H32
Hennessy, John J. Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. F473.77 .H46 1993
Hess, Earl J. Banners to the Breeze : The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River. Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, 2000. E474.7 .H47 2000
Hess, Earl J. Pickett's Charge : The Last Attack at Gettysburg. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2001. E475.53 .H47 2001
Johnson, Ludwell H. Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton in the Civil War. Kent State University Press, 1958. E476.33 .J6
Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. 4 vols. New York, The Century co. [c1884-88]. E470 .B33 1884
Marszalek, John F. Sherman : A Soldier's Passion for Order. New York : Free Press, c1993. E467.1 .S55 M34 1993
Marvel, William. Lee's Last Retreat : The Flight to Appomattox. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2002. E477.67 .M37 2002
McMurry, Richard M. Atlanta 1864 : Last Chance for the Confederacy. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2000. E476.7 .M268 2000
Noe, Kenneth W. Perryville : This Grand Havoc of Battle. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2001. E474.39 .N64 2001
O'Reilly, Francis A. The Fredericksburg Campaign : Winter War on the Rappahannock. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2003. E474.85 .O74 2003
Piston, William G. and Richard W. Hatcher III. Wilson's Creek : the Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2000. E472.23 .P57 2000
Rable, George C. Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, 2002. E474.85 .R24 2002
Rafuse, Ethan S. McClellan's War : The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2005. E467.1 .M2 R34 2005
Rhea, Gordon C. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1997. E476.52 .R46 1997
Rhea, Gordon C. Cold Harbor : Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2002. E476.52 .R475 2002
Shea, William L. and Earl J. Hess. Pea Ridge : Civil War Campaign in the West. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1992. E473.17 .S54 1992
Simpson, Brooks D. Ulysses S. Grant : Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000. E672 .S614 2000
Whan, Vorin E., Jr. Fiasco at Fredericksburg. Gaithersburg, Md.: Butternut Press, 1986.
Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg: The Second Day. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. E 475.53 .P48 1987
_____. Gettysburg: Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. E457.53 .P43 1993
Rhea, Gordon C. The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. E476.52 .R47 1994
_____. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1997. E476.52 .R46 1997
Robertson, James I. Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend. London : Prentice Hall International, c1997. E467.1 .J15R63 1997
Sears, Stephen. To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. E473.6 .S43 1992
_____. Landscape Turned Red : The Battle of Antietam. New Haven : Ticknor & Fields, 1983. E474.65 .S43 1983
Sommers, Richard J. Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1981. E476.93 .S65
Sword, Wiley. Shiloh: Bloody April. New York, Morrow, 1974. E473.54 .S96
Tanner, Robert G. Stonewall in the Valley. Mechanicsville, PA : Stackpole Books, c1996. E473.74 .T36 1996
Trudeau, Noah Andre. The Last Citadel : Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865. Boston : Little, Brown, c1991. E476.93 .T78 1991
Wert, Jeffry D. From Winchester to Cedar Creek : The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864. Carlisle, Pa. : South Mountain Press, 1987. E477.33 .W46
The Navies
Davis, William C. Duel Between the First Ironclads. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. E473.2 .D36 1981
Jones, Virgil Carrington. The Civil War at Sea. New York, Holt, Rinehart, Winston [1960-62]. 3 vols. E591 .J6 V.1
Lewis, Charles Lee. David Glasgow Farragut. 2 vols. Annapolis, United States Naval Institute [1941-43]. E467.1 .F23 L48
Luraghi, Raimondo. A History of the Confederate Navy. Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, 1996. E596 .L8713 1996
Milligan, John D. Gunboats Down the Mississippi. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1965.
Robinson, Charles M., III. Shark of the Confederacy: The Story of the CSS Alabama.Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
Silverstone, Paul H. Warships of the Civil War Navies. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c1989. VA61 .S573 1989
Still, William N. Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971. E596 .S84
West, Richard Sedgewick. The Second Admiral; A Life of David Dixon Porter,1813-1891. New York, Coward-McCann, inc., 1937. E467.1 .P78 W4
Photographs
Davis, William C., ed. The Image of War. 6 vols. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1981- 1984. E459 .D265 1983 and others.
Frassanito, William A. Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day. New York: Scribners, 1978. E474.65 .F7
_____. Early Photography at Gettysburg. Gettysburg, Pa.: Thomas Publications, 1995. E475.53 .F792 1995
_____. Gettysburg: A Journey in Time. New York: Scribners, 1975. E475.53 .F793
_____. Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns. New York: Scribners, 1983. E470.2 .F67 1983
Miller, Francis Trevelyan. The Photographic History of the Civil War. 10 vols. New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1911. E468.7 .M64
Battlefields, Preservation,and Archeology
Kennedy, Frances H., ed. The Civil War Battlefield Guide. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998. E641 .C58 1998
Bearss, Edwin C. Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1966. VA65 .C28 B4
Geier, Clarence R. and Susan E. Winters, eds. Look to the Earth : Historical Archaeology and the American Civil War. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1994. E646.5 .L66 1994
Salmon, John S. The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide. Mechanicsburg, PA : Stackpole Books, 2001. VADOC HRD 8/B 32
Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown
Dubbs, Carol Kettenburg. Defend This Old Town : Williamsburg During the Civil War. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2002. E473.63 .D83 2002
Hastings, Earl C. A Pitiless Rain : The Battle of Williamsburg, 1862. Shippensburg, PA : White Mane Pub. Co., c1997. E473.63 .H37 1997
Hudson, Carson O. Civil War Williamsburg. Williamsburg, Va. : Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; in association with Stackpole Books: Mechanicsburg, PA, c1997. F234 .W7 H83 1997
Riggs, David F. Embattled Shrine : Jamestown in the Civil War. Shippensburg, PA : White Mane Pub. Co., c1997. F234 .J3 R54 1997
Wheat, Thomas Adrian. A Guide to Civil War Yorktown. Knoxville, TN : Bohemian Brigade Bookshop and Publishers, c1997. F234 .Y6 W44 1997
Common Soldier
Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. New York : Free Press, c1990. E540 .N3 G53 1990
Linderman, Gerald F. Embattled Courage : the Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1987. E468.9 .L56 1987
McPherson, James M. For Cause and Comrades : Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. E492.3 .M38 1997
Mitchell, Reid. Civil War Soldiers. New York: Viking, 1988. E492.3 .M58 1988
Trudeau, Noah Andre. Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865. Boston, [Mass.] : Little, Brown, c1998. E540 .N3 T78 1998
Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Common Soldier in the Civil War. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1943-1952. E607 .W48 1943
______. The Life of Johnny Reb: The common Soldier of the Confederacy. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. E607 .W5
Genealogy
Colket, Meredith B., Jr. and Frank E. Bridgers. Guide to Genealogical Records in the National Archives. Washington: National Archives, 1964. The National Archives has compiled service records for Union and Confederate soldiers. However, there is additional information on some Confederate soldiers in the state archives of each Confederate state, e.g., The Library of Virginia.
Eakle, Arlene and Johni Cerny. The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing Co., 1984. Ref CS 49 S65 1984