The More Than One Hundred Best Books On The Civil War List (1981)

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Civil War Times Illustrated - August 1981

General Reference Works:

Billings, John D., Hardtack and Coffee

Boatner, M., The Civil War Dictionary

Dornbusch, Charles, Regimental Publications and Personal Narratives of the Civil War, (a bibliography)

Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion

Jones, Virgil Carrington, The Civil War at Sea

Krick, Robert, Lee's Colonels

Long, E.B., The Civil War Day By Day

Moore, Frank, Rebellion Record

National Historical Society, The Image of War, a new photographic history

National Historical Society (reprint), The War of the Rebellion: The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

Southern Historical Society, Southern Historical Society Papers

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray

Wiley, Bell I., The Life of Billy Yank

Wiley, Bell I., The Life of Johnny Reb

Biography and Personalities:

Castel, Albert, General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West

Bruce Catton, Grant Moves South

Bruce Catton, Grant Takes Command

Bruce Catton, U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition

Chambers, Lenoir, Stonewall Jackson

Connelly, Thomas L., The Marble Man (R.E. Lee's image in history)

Davis, Burke, Jeb Stuart: The Last Cavalier

Davis, William C., Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol

Donald, David, Lincoln Reconsidered

Freeman, Douglas Southall, Lee's Lieutenants

Freeman, Douglas Southall, R.E. Lee, a three-volume biography

Hassler, Warren, George B. McClellan: Shield of the Union

Henderson, G.F.R., Stonewall Jackson

Henry, Robert Selph, "First with the Most" Forrest

Hesseltine, W.B., Lincoln and the War Governors

Jones, Virgil Carrington, Ranger Mosby

Lewis, Lloyd, Captain Sam Grant

Lewis, Lloyd, Sherman: Fighting Prophet

Liddell-Hart, B.H., Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

McDonald, Archie P., Make Me a Map of the Valley (the life of Jedidiah Hotchkiss)

Oates, Stephen, With Malice Toward None

Randall, James G., Lincoln the President

Roland, Charles, Albert Sidney Johnston

Sandburg, Carl, Lincoln: The War Years

Thomason, John W., Jr., Jeb Stuart

Vandiver, Frank, Mighty Stonewall

Williams, K.P., Lincoln Finds a General

Williams, T. Harry, Lincoln and his Generals

Williams, T. Harry, P.G.T. Beauregard, Napoleon In Gray

Wyeth, John A., Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest

Wyeth, N.A., That Devil Forrest

History of the Armies and Men:

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

Connelly, Thomas L., Army of the Heartland

Connelly, T.L., Autumn of Glory

Cornish, Dudley T., The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army

Duke, Basil, A History of Morgan's Cavalry

Horn, Stanley, The Army of Tennessee

Nolen, Alan, The Iron Brigade

Pullen, John, The Twentieth Maine

Robertson, James 1. Jr. The Stonewall Brigade

Van Horne, Thomas B. History of the Army of the Cumberland

Wise, Jennings C., The Long Arm of Lee

Autobiographies, Memoirs, and Personal Works:

Alexander, Edward P., Military Memoirs of a Confederate

Basier, Roy, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

Brooks. Noah, Washington in Lincoln's Time

Carter, RG. Four Brothers in Blue

Chamberlain, Joshua L.. The Passing of the Armies

Chesnut, Mary B., Diary From Dixie

Cooke, John Esten, Wearing of the Gray

Crook, George, General George Crook: His Autobiography

Douglas, Henry Kyd, I Rode With Stonewall

Duke, Basil, Reminiscences

Early, Jubal, Autobiographical Sketch

Gibbon, John, Personal Recollections of the Civil War

Gordon, John B. Reminiscences of the Civil War

Grant, U.S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Johnston, Joseph E. Narrative of Military Operations

Jones, John B., A Rebel War Clerk's Diary

Longstreet, James, From Manassass to Appomattox

McClellan, George B. McClellan's Own Story

McClellan, Henry B.. Rode With JEB Stuart

McDonald, Cornella, A Diary With Reminiscences of the War and Refugee Life

Porter, Horace, Campaigning With Grant

Quaife, M.M., From the Cannon's Mouth: The Civil War Letters of General Alpheus S. Williams

Russell, W.H... My Diary North and South

Sheridan, Philip Henry, Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan

Sherman, William T. Personal Memoirs of William T. Sherman

Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction

Wainwright, Charles S., A Diary of Battle

Welles, Gideon, The Diary of Gideon Welles

General Histories of the War:

Catton, Bruce, The Centennial History of the Civil War: Terrible Swift Sword, Never Call Retreat, The Coming Fury

Catton, Bruce. This Hallowed Ground

Donald, David and Hirst Milhollen, Milton Kaplen, Hulen Stuart, Divided We Fought

Foote, Shelby, The Civil War, A Narrative

Nevins, Allan, The War for the Union

Randall, James G. and David Donald, The Civil War and Reconstruction

Yoseloff, Thomas, reprint of Century Magazine trilogy: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War

Histories of the Confederacy:

Davis, Jefferson, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

Eaton, Clement, History of the Southern Confederacy

Kean, R.G.H.. Inside the Confederate Government

Thomas, Emory, The Confederate Nation

Thomas, Emory, The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

Vandiver, Frank. Their Tattered Flags

Literature and Fiction:

Benet, Stephen Vincent, John Brown's Body

Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage

Dowdey, Clifford, Bugles Blow No More

Fowler, Robert H., Jim Mundy

Freeman, Douglas Southall, The South to Posterity

Kantor, MacKinlay, Andersonville

Shaara, Michael, The Killer Angels

Slotkin, Richard, The Crater

Wilson, Edmund, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the Civil War

Battles and Campaigns:

Bigelow, John, The Campaign of Chancellorsville

Coddington, Edwin B., The Gettysburg Campaign

Crawford, Samuel, Genesis of the Civil War

Davis, Burke, To Appomattox

Davis, William C., Battle at Bull Run

Dowdey, Clifford. Seven Days: The Emergence of Lee

Frassanito. William A., Gettysburg, A Journey in Time

Hoke, Jacob, The Great invasion

Johnson, Ludwell, Red River Campaign

Jones, Archer, Confederate Strategy From Shiloh to Vicksburg

James Vernon Murfin, The Gleam of Bayonets

Nye, Wilbur, Here Come the Rebels

Tanner, Robert G., Stonewall in the Valley

Tucker, Glenn, Chickamauga

Esoteric Studies:

Andrews, J. Cutler, The South Reports the Civil War

Black, Robert C., Railroads of the Confederacy

Bulloch, James D., The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe

Hesseltine, William, Civil War Prisons: A Study in War Psychology

Leech, Margaret, Reveille in Washington

Lonn, Ella, Foreigners in the Union Army and Navy

Massey, Mary E. Bonnet Brigades

Moore, Albert, Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy

Myers, Robert, Children of Pride

Owsley, Frank, King Cotton Diplomacy

Potter, D., The impending Crisis

Quaries, Benjamin, The Negro's Civil War

Scharf, J. Thomas History of the Confederate States Navy