American Civil War

The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as "the Confederacy". Led by Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy fought for its independence from the United States. ...more

When the Jessamine Grows
How to Dodge a Cannonball
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
A Hundred Crickets Singing
American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
A River Between Us
Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction
1861: The Lost Peace
Dreams of Savannah
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction (Bloomsbury)
Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Gone With the Wind
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
The Red Badge of Courage
The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Grant
Cold Mountain
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Vintage Departures)
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
Gettysburg
The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox
Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Boykin ChesnutSarah Morgan by Sarah Morgan DawsonAll for the Union by Robert Hunt RhodesBushwhackers and Broken Hearts by P.J. SullivanBlue-Eyed Child of Fortune by Robert Gould Shaw
Civil War Letters and Diaries
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Presidents Reading Project
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Best American Civil War Books
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Michael Shaara
Jackson is gone - not entirely gone; Jackson was there today watching, and Ewell sees his eyes - but you cannot blame him for not being Jackson. You must make do with the tools God has given for the job.
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

Shelby Foote
Whatever shortcomings they might develop under pressure (Grant’s, for instance, was said to be whiskey; hearing which, the President was supposed to have asked what brand he drank, intending to send a barrel each to all his other generals)
Shelby Foote, The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

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