General Books


Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862 Best Price: $16.54 1862 is one of the most interesting years in American history and a critical year in the Civil...	Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864 Best Price: $15.57 Gordon Rhea has written a series of four books, providing a chronicle of the bloody fighting in...	The Civil War Paintings of Mort Kunstler, Volume 4: Gettysburg to Appomattox (Civil War Paintings) Best Price: $11.87 For nearly thirty years, Mort K?nstler has focused his considerable artistic talent on...	Gettysburg--The Second Day Best Price: $16.62 The Greatest 3 hours of fighting during the Civil War Harry Pfanz's outstanding Gettysburg-The...	Poems of Abraham Lincoln (Little Books of Wisdom) Best Price: $4.13 Our 16th president was a great lover of poetry. A little-known fact is that he wrote a small...



The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. 2 Best Price: $13.45 This book is a good subject for the Civil War buff that delves into the personal accounts of a...	Union Monitor 1861-65 (New Vanguard) Best Price: $10.46 This book provides useful information on a subject that has been given little attention by...	The Everything Civil War Book: Everything You Need to Know About the War That Divided the Nation (Everything Series) Best Price: $1.99 I'm a little surprised by the effusive reviews. It's OK -- what's a little unique is that it's...	That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest Best Price: $7.00 New Yankee Doodle Yankee Doodle had a mind To whip the Southern traitors, Because they...	John Brown (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $8.01 Please note that the substance of the following review has been used in the review of Stephen...



Chickamauga and Other Civil War Stories Best Price: $8.81 I finished CHICKAMAUGA several days ago. Since then, I've been unable to whip-up enough mental...	Unfurl Those Colors: McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign Best Price: $26.32 Marion V. Armstrong, Jr. Unfurl Those Colors!: McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in...	Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864 (Civil War America) Best Price: $12.95 A book on Civil War fortifications should be dry as the Sahara and as easy to get thru as a...	Abraham Lincoln: A Biography Best Price: $17.21 Long considered a classic, Benjamin P. Thomas's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography takes an incisive...	The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December 1862-July 1863 (Modern Library) Best Price: $8.75 "The Beleaguered City" is an extended excerpt on the Vicksburg Campaign from Shelby...

The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide Best Price: $17.85 If you are familiar with either or both of the two editions of the excellent "Civil War...	The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876 Best Price: $15.25 I found this book to be extremely information about life in the 1860s as I am into Civil War...	The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House Best Price: $10.00 My students, who detest reading with a passion, invariably enjoy reading this book. Full of...	Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power Best Price: $5.95 Abraham Lincoln was born dirt poor on a farm near Hodgenville, Ky in 1809. He died with a bullet...	On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (Defining Moments in American Photography) Best Price: $11.85 Soon after Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book was published, in 1866, it became the...

Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes Best Price: $7.95 A young woman treads the hallways of the Union hospital with a mission to serve the young men...	Abraham Lincoln: Man Behind the Myths, The Best Price: $4.99 In this small but valuable volume, Oates explores the reality beyond the two sources of Lincoln...	Grant's Lieutenants: From Chattanooga to Appomattox (Modern War Studies) Best Price: $25.16 Good collection of essays on Grant's subordinates. Interesting interpretation of O.C. Ord's...	A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3) Best Price: $5.74 It is understandable why this book earned a Pulitzer for the author. Written in the early...	The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Best Price: $174.96 As I am writing this review, I am only 15 but I am a massive Civil War fan. I read the book when...

Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876 Best Price: $23.95 The Custer National Battlefield still holds a special aura in the history of the American...	Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History Best Price: $50.34 Superb in all respects. The definitive reference book on the American Civil War. An absolute...	Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad Best Price: $4.30 Author Ann Hagedorn, who moved "on location" to complete her research and add...	Guide to the Atlanta Campaign: Rocky Face Ridge to Kennesaw Mountain (U.S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles) Best Price: $11.54 The authors cover only the Atlanta campaign up to Kennesaw. The battles and sites around Atlanta...	Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War Best Price: $19.99 Outstanding book, get a better feel of what the Generals were thinking during the Civil War.

The Civil War Paintings of Mort Kunstler, Vol. 3: The Gettysburg Campaign Best Price: $10.00 For nearly thirty years Mort Kunstler has used his art to tell stories of the Civil War,...	Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.66 Representative selections from the great body of speeches and writings of the great abolitionist...	The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War Best Price: $6.90 Familiarity with the Civil War will make this a much better read. It can be dry at times, but...	Command and Communication Frictions in the Gettysburg Campaign Best Price: $5.43 Living near Gettysburg, the direct descendent of men who fought at Gettysburg, and working as a...	Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings (Library of Black America series, The) Best Price: $20.84 Douglass is great--a true American hero--and it's very nice to have a good, affordable...

Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth (Great Campaigns of the Civil War) Best Price: $6.95 Stephen D. Engle's Struggle for the Heartland takes the latest scholarship on "the...	Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage Best Price: $13.15 I would like to give this 2.5 stars, but 3 is too much. As a tactical discussion this is...	The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties Best Price: $13.95 I gobbled up this book, but then, it falls right into my current research topic. Others who...	All Things for Good: The Steadfast Fidelity of Stonewall Jackson (Leaders in Action Series) Best Price: $10.23 First let me say that the "Leaders in Action" series is tremendous (check the rest of...	D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time Best Price: $16.35 In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins,...

Pickett's Charge in History and Memory Best Price: $7.75 "Pickett's Charge In History And Memory" begins with the question as to why this...	Lincoln: The Presidential Archives Best Price: $22.41 Lincoln: The Presidential Archives, Chuck Wills, Dorling Kindersley Publications, 160 pp, b/w...	Partners In Command Best Price: $14.33 Joseph Glatthaars's book is a useful addition to the body of work on Civil War leadership. His...	Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West (Modern War Studies) Best Price: $10.00 For a Confederate examination, Steven Woodworth's book is essential reading in understanding the...	Pickett's Charge Best Price: $4.95 This is a concise account of the decisive third and final day of fighting at Gettysburg,...

Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign Best Price: $19.61 A quick look at this title will bring to mind either Early's 1864 invasion of Maryland or...	Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown Best Price: $12.53 If you judge a book by its publisher, which is not always a bad thing to do, you will not expect...	Lincoln's Greatest Speech : The Second Inaugural Best Price: $13.00 This entire book is a thorough analysis of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech given towards the...	Dixie Victorious: An Alternate History of the Civil War Best Price: $11.46 readable but again like confederate states of america fairly dry and a little too academic. ...	Emancipation and Reconstruction (American History Series (Arlington Heights, Ill.).) Best Price: $12.95 Emancipation and Reconstruction "1862-1879" Perman, Michael. (Illinois: Harlan...

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 Best Price: $16.22 "The Lincoln/Douglas Debates" is a collection of speeches and debates that two...	Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South Best Price: $4.00 Interesting material but the treatment was much more academic and far less anecdotal than I...	The American Civil War: 365 Days Best Price: $4.95 The book itself and particularly the illustrations, are incredible, but I found the factoids in...	An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War Best Price: $22.99 Charles P. Roland in 263 pages of text gives the best overview of the American Civil War I have...	The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga (Civil War Trilogy) Best Price: $14.90 This is a great book. The book moves fast, lots of details. Its nice to read about the western...

Honor and Violence in the Old South Best Price: $8.98 Bertram Wyatt-Brown condensed and abridged his previous tome, Southern Honor: Ethics and...	Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg Best Price: $18.50 I can see that I am not in agreement with the few reviews that have been posted here before...

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