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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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