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Reference Shelf

The Civil War Dictionary
By Mark Boatner III

The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War
Official Records Compilation

Generals in Blue
By Ezra Warner

Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War
By Patricia Faust (Ed)

Echoes of Glory: Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War
By Time Life Books

Generals in Gray
By Ezra Warner

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

The Civil War Battlefield Guide
By Francis H. Kennedy (Ed)
General Histories

Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America
By William C. Davis

The Civil War: A Narrative
By Shelby Foote

Battle Cry of Freedom
By James McPherson

Centennial History of the Civil War
By Bruce Catton (3 Vol.'s)

War for the Union
By Allan Nevins (4 Vol.'s)
Military Studies

A Savage War
By Williamson Murray

Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War
By Gerald Linderman

War on the Waters
By James McPherson

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
By James McPherson

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
4 Vol.'s by Century Magazine

Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat, and Small-Unit Effectiveness
by Earl J. Hess

Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative
By Edward Porter Alexander

The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War
By Donald Stoker

Battle Tactics of the Civil War
By Paddy Griffith

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
By Ulysses S. Grant

The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
By Earl J. Hess
Personalities

Robert E. Lee: A Life
By Allen C. Guelzo

Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour
By William C. Davis

Lincoln
By David Herbert Donald

William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
By James Lee McDonough
Reflections on the War

The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis
By Gary Gallagher

Causes Lost, Won, and Forgotten
By Gary Gallagher
Fiction

Darkness at Chancellorsville
By Ralph Peters

The Battle Hymn Cycle
By Ralph Peters (5 Vol.'s)
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