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Books on the Civil War
timon_phocas
3/1/2006 1:34:14 PM
I went to the University of Northern Colorado library and put in an inter-library loan request for Luvaas's book on foreign military observers of the Civil War. The librarian said that he would purchase a copy for the university as well. It seems he has a project to purchase more Civil War books. Any that you might recommend?
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RE:Books on the Civil War
3/2/2006 12:22:38 PM
Bruce Catton's trilogy, MR. LINCOLN'S WAR, GRANT MOVES SOUTH, and A STILLNESS AT APPOMATOX are what hooked my interest as a kid. Shelby Foote's SHILOH was excellent. Michael Shaara's novel, THE KILLER ANGELS, clarified much of the battleswirl that I experienced reading about Gettysburg. Gore Vidal's LINCOLN was a captivating montage of the "Christ-like" suffering of ol' Abe, to include his crazed personal relationship with his wife.
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AlbanyRifles
RE:Books on the Civil War
3/3/2006 2:39:13 PM
In no particlular order. These are the ones off the top of my head that I own and highly recommend Lee's Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman Personal Memoirs of US Grant “Landscape Turned Red” by Steven Sears The definitive work on Antietam Battle Cry of Freedom by James McDonough The finest single volume history of the war. To The Gates of Richmond by Steven Sears. Great telling of the Peninsula Campaign “No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River”, “This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga” and “The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga” all by Peter Cozzens Tells the story of the armies fo the Cumberland and Tennessee and their epic battles in 1863 throughout Tennessee The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864; The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7-12, 1864, To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864 and Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea Brilliant telling gof the Ovewrland Campaign in Spring 1864 From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864 Jeffrey Wert Gallagher, Gary W., ed. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. New York: Penguin Books, 1999. Sears, Stephen W. Chancellorsville. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1996. Wiley, Bell. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. ———. The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Sommers, Richard J. Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, 1981. Sword, Wiley. Shiloh: Bloody April. New York: William Morrow, 1974. Thomas Connelly, Army of the Heartland. History of the Confederate Army of Tennessee from 1861 to late 1862. Thomas Connally, Autumn of Glory. History of the Army of Tennessee from 1862 to 1865. Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign: Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion by A. Wilson Greene And a good site to search
http://www.cwbr.com/
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RE:Books on the Civil War
3/4/2006 3:19:15 AM
Wow! That'll keep me busy. Good reply.
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AlbanyRifles
RE:Books on the Civil War
3/4/2006 11:08:34 PM
Thanks If nothing else, grad school taught me to rad a lot quickly and to evaluate books on their value and merit. Took me awhile to be able to read and enjoy a novel again!!! I would say the single best book I listed was te last one....after that, all of Rhea's books.
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