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  • J. Arthur Moore The best books about boys and youth who served during the American Civil War Book cover of Too Young to Die: Boy Soldiers of the Union Army 1861-1865 Book cover of Callow, Brave and True: A Gospel of Civil War Youth Book cover of Diary of a Civil War Hero Book cover of Ghost Cadet Book cover of The Little Bugler: The True Story of a Twelve-Year-Old Boy in the Civil War
  • George C. Rable The best books on the American Civil War that creatively and provocatively go beyond the usual battles and leaders Book cover of Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Southern Community, 1861-1865 Book cover of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War Book cover of A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy Book cover of The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War Book cover of The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War
  • Ronald S. Coddington The best books about life during the American Civil War by those who experienced it Book cover of Hard Tack and Coffee Book cover of History of the Twelfth Regiment: New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion Book cover of Out of the Briars: an Autobiography and Sketch of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers Book cover of Hospital Sketches Book cover of Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
  • Robert C. Plumb The best books that get at the heart of the American Civil War Book cover of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Book cover of Shiloh 1862 Book cover of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Book cover of Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War Book cover of The Red Badge of Courage
  • Ronald Paul Larson The best books on the Union Army’s Iron Brigade Book cover of Service With the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers: Four Years with the Iron Brigade Book cover of An Irishman in the Iron Brigade Book cover of As If It Were Glory Book cover of The Iron Brigade in the Civil War Book cover of The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War
  • Bruce L. Brager The best books on leadership in the American Civil War Book cover of Grant Book cover of Pickett's Charge Book cover of A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy Book cover of A Stillness at Appomattox Book cover of The Passing of the Armies
  • Robert E. Bonner The best American Civil War books that cross the globe Book cover of A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War Book cover of The Cause of All Nations Book cover of Beating Against the Barriers Book cover of Wolf of the Deep Book cover of Kidnapped at Sea
  • Kinley Bryan The best books about the American Civil War featuring great female leads Book cover of My Name Is Mary Sutter Book cover of Enemy Women Book cover of Wench Book cover of When the Jessamine Grows Book cover of Little Women
  • John J. Miller The best novels to immerse yourself in the American Civil War Book cover of Uncle Tom's Cabin Book cover of Civil War Stories Book cover of The Red Badge of Courage Book cover of Banners at Shenandoah: A Story of Sheridan's Fighting Cavalry Book cover of The Killer Angels
  • Gerald Gillis The best books to understand the American Civil War from different perspectives Book cover of Fort Sumter to Perryville Book cover of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam Book cover of The Killer Angels Book cover of Grant Takes Command Book cover of Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier's Life
  • Terry Roberts The best historical novels to bring the American Civil War alive Book cover of Shiloh Book cover of Andersonville Book cover of Time of Drums Book cover of The Killer Angels Book cover of Cold Mountain
  • James Traub The best books about the run-up to the American Civil War Book cover of Ordeal of the Union, Vol. 1: Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847-1852 Book cover of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Book cover of Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era Book cover of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War Book cover of "There Is a North": Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War
  • Lance Weller The best books on American Civil War history that reads like literature Book cover of Fort Sumter to Perryville Book cover of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion Book cover of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Book cover of Grant Takes Command Book cover of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
  • Steve Magnusen The best books on Civil War soldiers and home life experiences Book cover of Service With the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers: Four Years with the Iron Brigade Book cover of Fort Sumter to Perryville Book cover of Co. Aytch: Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment Or, a Side Show of the Big Show Book cover of The Killer Angels Book cover of The Iron Brigade: A Military History
  • Lesley J. Gordon The best military history books about the Civil War and the soldiers who fought Book cover of Hood's Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy's Most Celebrated Unit Book cover of Fredericksburg! Book cover of Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War Book cover of Desertion During the Civil War Book cover of On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front
  • Dwight Sturtevant Hughes The best books on the naval history of the American Civil War Book cover of Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States Book cover of A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War Book cover of The Civil War at Sea Book cover of The USS Carondelet: A Civil War Ironclad on Western Waters Book cover of The Burnside Expedition in North Carolina: A Succession of Honorable Victories
  • M. Carolyn Steele The best Civil War books that aren’t all about blood and guts, but interesting everyday people (with a dash of gore) Book cover of On Enemy Soil: Journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union Soldier Book cover of A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore Book cover of Rifles for Watie Book cover of Bull Run Book cover of A Soldier's Secret
  • Tim Wendel The best Civil War books that go beyond battles and generals Book cover of Neverhome Book cover of The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln Book cover of Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation Book cover of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War Book cover of A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
  • DeAnne Blanton The best books on women in the Civil War Book cover of Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi Book cover of Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend Book cover of All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies Book cover of Three Weeks At Gettysburg Book cover of Women of the Civil War (Women Who Dare)
  • David Powell The best books on the American Civil War in the western theater Book cover of Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865 Book cover of Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861–1867 Book cover of Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg Book cover of Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 Book cover of Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864
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