User:Donner60/American Civil War Library References, General Topics

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The following list of American Civil War books contains some of the books in my library. I have moved User:Donner60/American Civil War bibliography to User:Donner60/American Civil War Library as a better identification. That page, a full list of my books about the American Civil War in alphabetical order by author's last name was becoming too long to save easily. So I created this page and User:Donner60/American Civil War Library Biographies, Memoirs, Overviews (also includes guerrillas) to split off some of the topics so all the pages will save more easily. I tried to keep only one entry for each book even though some could fit into several topics. I may have left one or a very few in two sections, especially if they are on different pages. The divisions into topic sections should make titles easier to find and help my research.

I also have an incomplete list of mostly out of copyright books and some magazine articles that I have downloaded at User:Donner60/American Civil War bibliography from Internet.

"While citations should aim to provide the information listed above, Wikipedia does not have a single house style, though citations within any given article should follow a consistent style. A number of citation styles exist including those described in the Wikipedia articles for Citation, APA style, ASA style, MLA style, The Chicago Manual of Style, Author–date referencing, Vancouver system and Bluebook." Wikipedia:Citing sources. July 17, 2016. I use the Chicago Manual of Style format. It is easier to understand and edit. It can have one or two more pieces of information. ISBNs are checked automatically by the Wikipedia template, and that is the only advantage in its use of which I am aware. In 2018, "magic links" have been deprecated and the advantage of automatically checked ISBNs can be attained by using the correct format for ISBNs and still use the Chicago Manual of Style format. Wikipedia:Book sources and Help:ISBN are pertinent Wikipedia pages. Having the titles in citation form helps to include references in articles more quickly and accurately.

I have sections below the sections on various topics that have in Wikipedia template style certain of the reference or general overview works that may be frequently cited for ready use. Most articles on the American Civil War use the Chicago Manual of Style format, mainly thanks to Hal Jespersen, User:Hlj, no longer an active user. His publication of his American Civil War bibliography on his user pages gave me the idea to put my books on a user sub-page for ready reference in a proper format. I also use his templates below for examples of articles from journals, magazines or books.

My old ACW References page now lists only citations and quotes and general facts for American Civil War articles in various categories. It is, even in 2020, at a beginning stage. Therefore, it is quite incomplete and is not near the general resource I had planned. I have not added to it for a long time but perhaps I will do so in the future for quick citations for new articles or articles needing citations for those facts. In addition to general facts, the page does have a long section with citations and quotations from reliable sources concerning the Battle of Palmito Ranch as the last battle of the American Civil War.

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Latest edit: August 23, 2020.

Reference books

• Blair, Jayne E. The Essential Civil War: A Handbook to the Battles, Armies, Navies and Commanders. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006. ISBN 978-0-7864-2472-6.
• Boatner, Mark Mayo, III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: McKay, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8129-1726-0. First published 1959 by McKay.
• Botkin, B. A. A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore. Seacaucus, NJ: The Blue and Grey Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0-89009-967-4. First published 1960.
• Bowman, John S., ed. The Civil War Almanac. New York: Facts on File, Bison Book Corp., 1982. ISBN 978-0-87196-640-7.
• Current, Richard N., ed., The Confederacy. New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1993. ISBN 978-0-02-864920-7. Macmillan Compendium. Sections from the four-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Confederacy.
• Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 978-0-684-84944-7.
• Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1.
• Faust, Patricia L., ed. Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. ISBN 978-0-06-273116-6. Articles cited > In Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War, edited by Patricia L. Faust. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. ISBN 978-0-06-273116-6.
• Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-04758-5. Articles cited> In Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-04758-5.
• MacMillan. The Confederacy: Selections from the Four-Volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Shuster Macmillan, 1993, introductory material, 1998. ISBN 978-0-02-864920-7. See Current, Richard N., ed.
• Simmons, Henry E. A Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War. New York: Bonanza Books, 1965. OCLC 444824.
• Wagner, Margaret E., Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkelman. The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, Inc., 2009 edition. ISBN 978-1-4391-4884-6. First Published 2002.
• Wright, Marcus J., General officers of the Confederate Army: officers of the executive departments of the Confederate States, members of the Confederate Congress by states. New York: The Neale Publishing Company 1911. OCLC 795106013. Reprinted Mattituck, NY: J.M. Carroll, 1983. OCLC 10362155. Reprinted Conway, AR: Oldbuck Press, 1993. OCLC 29443870.

Chronologies

• Denney, Robert E. The Civil War Years: A Day-by-Day Chronicle. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1992. ISBN 978-0-8069-8519-0.
• Long, E. B. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861–1865. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. OCLC 68283123.

Atlases; Maps

• Esposito, Vincent J. West Point Atlas of The Civil War. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962. OCLC 19943283. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 62-18682. The same with minor changes as Esposito, Vincent J. West Point Atlas of American Wars, volume 1. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1959.
• Kagan, Neil, and Stephen G. Hyslop. National Geographic Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle. Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4262-0347-3.
• McPherson, James M., ed. The Atlas of the Civil War. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7624-2356-9.
• Nelson, Christopher and Brian Pohanka. Mapping the Civil War: Featuring Rare Maps from the Library of Congress. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, Inc., 1992. Library of Congress Classics. ISBN 978-1-56373-001-6.
• White, Kristopher D. and Steven Stanley. Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Eastern Theater. Maps from the American Battlefield Trust, Volume 1. East Peoria, IL: Versa Press, Inc. 2019. ISBN 978-0-9988112-3-9.
• Woodworth, Steven E., and Kenneth J. Winkle, Oxford Atlas of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-19-522131-2.

Battlefield guides

With brief historical articles; Kennedy and Salmon are especially good for these.

• Bearss, Edwin C. Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7922-7568-8.
• Bowery, Jr. Charles R. and Ethan S. Rafuse, eds. Guide to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign. The U. S. Army War College Guides to Civil War Battles. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014. ISBN 978-0-7006-1959-7.
• Campi, James, ed. and Mary Goundrey, Wendy Valentine. Civil War Sites: The Official Guide to the Civil War Discovery Trail, 2d ed. Guilford, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 208. ISBN 978-0-7627-4435-0. First edition published 2003.
• Gilbert, David T. Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2017. ISBN 978-0-8478-5912-2. (Many color photos included).
• Johnson, Clint. Touring the Carolinas' Civil War Sites. Second Edition. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 2011 ISBN 978-0-89587-403-0.
• Johnson, Clint. Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites. Second edition. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 2011. ISBN 978-0-89587-402-3.
• Kennedy, Frances H., ed. The Civil War Battlefield Guide. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. ISBN 978-0-395-74012-5.
• National Park Service. Battlefields of the Civil War. New York: Arno Press Inc., 1979. Reprint of Washington: National Park Service, 1961. Historical handbook series. ISBN 978-0-405-12296-5.
• Salmon, John S. The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8117-2868-3.
• Stackpole, Gen. Edward J. and Col. Wilbur S. Nye. The Battle of Gettysburg: A Guided Tour. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1960. OCLC 2433317.
• Weeks, Michael. The Complete Civil War Road Trip Guide. Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-88150-860-4. [Distributed by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York.]

Compilations of Articles

• Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence C. Buel, eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. ___. New York: Century Co., 1884-1888. OCLC 2048818. My edition: New York: Castle Books, 1956 (by arrangement with A.S. Barnes & Co., Inc.).
• Cozzens, Peter, ed. Battles & Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 5. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-252-02404-7. Supplement to the four volume work: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, 1887-1888. Articles cited > In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. 5, edited by Peter Cozzens. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-252-02404-7.
• Cozzens, Peter, ed. Battles & Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 6. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-252-02879-3. Supplement to the four volume work: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, 1887-1888. Articles cited > In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. 6, edited by Peter Cozzens. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-252-02879-3.
• Cozzens, Peter and Robert I. Girardi, eds. The New Annals of the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8117-0058-0.

Armies; Units

• Bilby, Joseph G. The Irish Brigade in the Civil War: The 69th New York and Other Irish Regiments of the Army of the Potomac. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1995, 1997. ISBN 978-0-938289-97-5.
• Boyle, Frank A. A Party of Mad Fellows: The Story of the Irish Regiments in the Army of the Potomac. Dayton, OH: Morningside House, Inc., 1996. ISBN 978-0-89029-329-4.
• Catton, Bruce. Glory Road. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1952. ISBN 978-0-385-04167-6.
• Catton, Bruce. Mr. Lincoln's Army. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1951. ISBN 978-0-385-04310-6.
• Catton, Bruce. A Stillness at Appomattox. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1953. ISBN 978-0-385-04451-6.
• Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. 2d Edition. Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc. Originally published: Midlothian, VT: Derwent Books, 1987. ISBN 978-0-942211-53-5.
• Chapman, Craig S. More Terrible Than Victory: North Carolina's Bloody Bethel Regiment, 1861–65. Dulles, VA: Brassey's, 1999. ISBN 978-1-57488-219-3.
• Connelly, Thomas L. Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee 1861–1862. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967. ISBN 978-0-8071-2737-7.
• Connelly, Thomas L. Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee 1862–1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971. ISBN 978-0-8071-2738-4.
• Current, Richard N. Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-1-55553-124-9.
• Daniel, Larry J. Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861–1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8071-3191-6.
• Davis, William C. The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0-8071-1077-5.
• Horn, Stanley F. The Army of Tennessee: A Military History. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. OCLC 2153322.
• Glatthaar, Joseph T. General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse. New York: Free Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-684-82787-2.
• Herdegen, Lance J. The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory: The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie LLC, 2012. ISBN 978-1-61121-106-1.
• Herdegen, Lance J. Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign. New York: Savas Beatie LLC, 2008. ISBN 978-1-932714-83-8.
• Hess, Earl J. Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-807-82687-4.
• Johnson, Mark W. That Body of Brave Men: The U.S. Regular Infantry and the Civil War in the West, 1861–1865. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-306-81246-0.
• Kreiser, Jr., Lawrence. Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Corps Army of the Potomac. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-253-35616-1.
• Longacre, Edward G. Army of Amateurs: General Benjamin F. Butler and the Army of the James, 1863–1865. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997. ISBN 978-0-8117-0135-8.
• Longacre, Edward G. Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8117-0898-2.
• Longacre, Edward G. Lincoln's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000. ISBN 978-0-8117-1049-7.
• McMurry, Richard M. Two Great Rebel Armies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8078-1819-0.
• Marcot, Roy M. U.S. Sharpshooters: Berdan's Civil War Elite. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8117-0271-3.
• Newell, Clayton R. and Charles R. Shrader. Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8032-1910-6.
• Nolan, Alan. The Iron Brigade: A Military History. Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1961. First Indiana University Press edition 1994. ISBN 978-0-253-20863-7.
• Power, J. Tracy. Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8078-2392-7.
• Pullen, John J. The Twentieth Maine. Stackpole edition. New foreword by Joan Waugh, Ph.D. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008. Originally published by Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957. ISBN 978-0-8117-3524-7.
• Ray, Fred L. Shock Troops of the Confederacy: The Sharpshooter Battalions of the Army of Northern Virginia. Asheville, NC: CFS Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9649585-9-3.
• Robertson, James I., Jr. The Stonewall Brigade. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963. ISBN 978-0-8071-0396-8.
• Rigdon. John C. Historical Sketch and Roster of the Tennessee 5th Infantry Regiment. Cartersville, GA: Eastern Digital Resources, 2020. ISBN 9798672776842.
• Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. Several volumes to be added.
• Smith, Mark A. and Wade Sokolosky. "No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar": Sherman's Carolinas Campaign: from Fayetteville to Averasboro. Ft. Mitchell, KY: Ironclad Publishing, 2005. ISBN 978-1-4767-9418-1.
• Starr, Steven. The Union Cavalry in the Civil War: From Fort Sumter to Gettysburg, 1861–1863. Volume 1. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Originally Published in 1979. ISBN 978-0-8071-0484-2.
• Starr, Steven. The Union Cavalry in the Civil War: The War in the East from Gettysburg to Appomattox, 1863–1865. Volume 2. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Originally published 1981. ISBN 978-0-8071-3292-0.
• Starr, Steven. The Union Cavalry in the Civil War: The War in the West, 1861–1865. Volume 3. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Originally Published 1985. ISBN 978-0-8071-3293-7.
• Taafe, Stephen R. Commanding the Army of the Potomac. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7006-1451-6.
• Van Horne, Thomas B. The Army of the Cumberland: Its Organizations, Campaigns, and Battles. New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8317-5621-5. First published Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1885.
• Walsh, George. Damage Them All You Can: Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7653-0755-2.
• Wert, Jeffry D. A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862–1863. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4165-9334-8.
• Wert, Jeffry D. The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7432-2506-9.
• Weinert, Jr., Richard P. The Confederate Regular Army. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing, 1991, ISBN 978-0-942597-27-1.
• Wilkinson, Warren. Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen: The Fifty-Seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Last Year of the Civil War. New York: Harper & Row, 1990. ISBN 978-0-06-016257-3.
• Wixson, Neal E., ed. Echoes from the Boys of Company 'H'. New York: IUniverse, Inc., 2009. First released 2008. ISBN 978-1-4401-2243-9.
• Woodworth, Steven E. Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861–1865. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. ISBN 978-0-375-41218-9.

General topics, strategy, command and analysis

• Beringer, Richard E., Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. Still, Jr. Why the South Lost the Civil War. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-8203-0815-9.
• Castel, Albert E., with Brooks D. Simpson. Victors in Blue: How Union Generals Fought the Confederates, Battled Each other and Won the Civil War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7006-1793-7.
• Connelly, Thomas L., and Archer Jones. The Politics of Command: Factions and Ideas In Confederate Strategy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Louisiana Paperback Edition published 1998. ISBN 978-0-8071-2349-2. First published Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973.
• Crocker, III, H. W., Robert E. Lee on Leadership: Executive Lessons in Character, Courage and Vision. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-7615-2554-7}.
• Davis, William C. The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-7006-1254-3.
• Davis, William C. Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee – The War They Fought, The Peace They Forged. Boston: Da Capo Press, A Member of Perseus Books Group, 2014. ISBN 978-0-306-82245-2.
• Fuller, J. F. C. Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1957. Midland Book Edition, 1982. Originally published 1932. ISBN 978-0-253-20288-8.
• Gallagher, Gary W. The Confederate War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-674-16056-9.
• Gallagher, Gary W. Lee & His Army in Confederate History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8078-5769-4.
• Gallagher, Gary W. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8071-2958-6.
• Gallagher, Gary W., ed. The Union War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-674-04562-0.
• Gallagher, Gary W., and Joseph T. Glatthaar, eds. Leaders of the Lost Cause: New Perspectives on the Confederate High Command. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8117-0087-0.
• Gallagher, Gary W. and Alan T. Nolan, eds. The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-253-33822-8.
• Goss, Thomas J. The War Within the Union High Command: Politics and Generalship during the Civil War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7006-1263-5.
• Hagerman, Edward. The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988. First Midland edition 1992. ISBN 978-0-253-20715-9.
• Hattaway, Herman, and Archer Jones. How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0-252-00918-1.
• Hearn, Chester G. The Civil War State by State. Devon: RedBlue Press, 2011. Maps by Mike Marino. ISBN 978-1-908247-04-9.
• Leigh, Philip. The Confederacy at Flood Tide. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing LLC, 2016. ISBN 978-1-59416-248-0.
• McPherson, James M. This Might Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-539242-5.
• Prushankin, Jeffery S. A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8071-3088-9.
• Rafuse, Ethan S. McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-253-34532-5.
• Rafuse, Ethan S. Robert E. Lee and The Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008; Paperback edition, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7425-5126-8.
• Sandburg, Carl. Storm Over the Land: A Profile of the Civil War taken mainly from Abraham Lincoln: The war years. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky, reprint, no date. ISBN 978-1-56852-042-1. First published New York: Brace, 1939.
• Sears, Stephen W. Controversies & Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999. ISBN 978-0-395-86760-0.
• Smith, Andrew F. Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-312-60181-2.
• Stoker, Donald. The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-537-305-9.
• Thornton, Mark and Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resource Books, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8420-2960-5.
• Williams, T. Harry. Lincoln and His Generals. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. ISBN 978-0-9654382-6-1.
• Woodworth, Steven E. Davis and Lee at War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995. ISBN 978-0-7006-0718-1.
• Woodworth, Steven E. No Band of Brothers: Problems in the Rebel High Command. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-8262-1255-9.
  • Some books in other categories perhaps could be included here also.

Intelligence; Spies

• Fies, William B. Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8032-2005-8.
• Fishel, Edwin C. The Secret War for the Union: the Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996. ISBN 978-0-395-90136-6.
• Horan, James D. The Pinkertons: The Detective Dynasty That Made History. New York: Bonanza Books, a division of Crown Publishers, 1967. OCLC 435586. Pages 51-148 cover the Civil War period.
• Markle, Donald E. Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War, revised and expanded edition. New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., 2004. ISBN 978-0-7818-1037-1.
• Mingus, Sr., Scott L. Soldiers, Spies & Steam: A History of the Northern Central Railway During the Civil War. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. ISBN 978-1-5234-2823-6
• Ryan, Thomas J. Spies, Scouts, and Secrets in the Gettysburg Campaign. El Dorado, CA: Savas Beatie LLC, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61121-178-8.
• Stern, Philip Van Doren. Secret Missions of the Civil War. New York: Bonanza Books, 1959. OCLC 680269.
• Waller, Douglas. Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation. New York: Simon & Shuster, 2019. ISBN 978-1-5011-2684-0.

Railroads

See User:Donner60/General and Miscellaneous History Library#Railroads for more general railroad histories which may have some text about the railroad in the American Civil War

• Abdill, George B. Civil War Railroads: Pictorial Story of the Iron Horse, 1861 thru 1865. New York: Bonanza Books, 1966. OCLC 29645362. First published Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing Co., 1961.
• Alexander, Edwin P. Civil War Railroads & Models. New York: The Fairfax Press, 1989. Originally published New York: C. N. Potter, 1977. ISBN 978-0-517-66557-2.
• Black, III, Robert C. The Railroads of the Confederacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952. OCLC 445590.
• Bonds, Russell S. Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2008. ISBN 978-1-59416-078-3.
• Burke, James C. The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad in the Civil War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7864-7154-6.
• Clark, Jr., John E. Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0-8071-3015-5.
• DeFeo, Todd. Western and Atlantic Railroad. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2019. ISBN 978-1-4671-0339-8. Some text.
• Green, Jr., Walter R. The Nashville and Decatur in the Civil War: History of an Embattled Railroad. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2022. ISBN 978-1-4766-8852-7.
• Harncourt, Paul. Biography of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, revised edition. Denver, CO: Outskirts Press, Inc., 2005. ISBN 978-1-59800-172-3. Notable Civil War chapters.
• Hess, Earl J. Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8071-6750-2.
• Johnston, II, Angus James. Virginia Railroads in the Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1961. OCLC 977752.
• Leavy, Michael. Railroads of the Civil War. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2010. ISBN 978-1-59416-119-3.
• Lee, Dan. The L&N Railroad in the Civil War: A Vital North-South Line and the Struggle to Control It. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company Inc., Publishers, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7864-6157-8.
• Lee, Dan. The Mobile & Ohio Railroad in the Civil War: The Struggle for Control of the Nation's Longest Railway. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2022. ISBN 978-1-4766-8972-2.
• Mingus, Sr., Scott L. Soldiers, Spies & Steam: A History of the Northern Central Railway During the Civil War. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. ISBN 978-1-5234-2823-6.
• Mingus, Sr., Scott L. and Robert L. Williams. This Trying Hour: The Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad in the Civil War. Middletown, Delaware: publisher not identified (self-published?), 2017. ISBN 978-1-5449-6059-3.
• Mingus, Sr., Scott L. and Cooper H. Wingert. Targeted Tracks: The Cumberland Valley Railroad in the Civil War, 1861-1865. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie LLC, 2019. ISBN 978-1-61121-461-1.
• Mingus, Sr., Scott L. and Robert L. Williams. The Western Maryland Railroad and Its Civil War Legacy. York, PA: Scott Mingus Enterprises, 2022. ISBN 9798820245893.
• Noe, Kenneth W. Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Section Crisis in the Civil War Era. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0-8173-5064-2. Originally published Urbana, IL: The University of Illinois Press, 2003.
• Pickenpaugh, Roger. Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West, 1863. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8032-3720-9.
• Stone, Jr., H. David. Vital Rails: The Charleston and Savannah Railroad and the Civil War in Coastal South Carolina. Columbia, SC: the University of South Carolina Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-57003-716-0.
• Summers, Festus P. The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War. Gettysburg, PA: Stan Clark Military Books, 1939, new material 1992. ISBN 978-1-879664-13-5.
• Taylor, George Rogers and Irene D. Neu. The American Railroad Network, 1861-1890. Urbana, IL and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Originally published: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956. ISBN 978-0-252-07114-0.
• Trelease, Donald. North Carolina Railroad 1849~1879. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-8078-1941-8. 4 chapters on the American Civil War.
• Thomas, William G. The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War and the Making of Modern America. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-300-14107-8.
• Toomey, Daniel Carroll. The War Came by Train: the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad during the Civil War. Baltimore: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum, 2013. ISBN 978-1-886248-01-4.
• Turner, George Edgar. Victory Road the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-8032-9423-3. First published by Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953.
• Weber, Thomas. The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861–1865. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999, Originally published: New York: King's Crown Press, 1952. ISBN 978-0-253-33549-4.
• Williams, Robert L. (author); forward by Scott L. Mingus, Sr. The Baltimore & Potomac Railroad: A Pictorial History. revised edition. York, PA: Scott Mingus Enterprises, 2023. ISBN 9-798391-752370.

Logistics; Weapons; Fortifications; Technology

• Adler, Dennis. Guns of the Civil War. New York: Crestline, 2014. ISBN 978-0-7858-3229-4
• Bilby, Joseph G. Civil War Firearms: Their Historical Background, Tactical Use and Modern Collecting and Shooting. Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, Inc., 1996. ISBN 978-0-938289-79-1.
• Coggins, Jack. Arms & Equipment of the Civil War. New York: The Fairfax Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0-517-40235-1. Reprint. First published New York: Doubleday, 1962.
• Cooling, III, Benjamin Franklin and Walton H. Owen II. Mr. Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2010. ISBN 978-0-8108-6067-4 First editon 1988 by The Friends of For Ward, Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc.
• Conner, Jr., Albert Z. with Chris Mackowski. Seizing Destiny: The Army of the Potomac's "Valley Forge" and the Civil War Winter that Saved the Union. El Dorado, CA: Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61121-156-6.
• Hacker, Barton C., ed. Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War. Washington, DC, 2016. ISBN 978-1-935623-91-5.
• Hazlett, James C., Edwin Olmstead, and M. Hume Parks. Field Artillery Weapons of the American Civil War, rev. ed., Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0-252-07210-9.
• Henig, Gerald S. and Eric Niderost. Civil War Firsts: The Legacies of America's Bloodiest Conflict. Mechanisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8117-0354-3.
• Hess, Earl J. Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023. ISBN 978-0-8071-7800-3.
• Hess, Earl J. Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8071-6750-2.
• Hess, Earl J. Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War: The Eastern Campaigns, 1861–1864. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8078-2931-8.
• Hess, Earl J. Grant and Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8078-3154-0.
• Hess, Earl J. In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications & Confederate Defeat. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8078-3282-0.
• Miller, ed. David. Uniforms, Weapons, and Equipment of the Civil War. London: Salamander Books Ltd., 2001. ISBN 978-1-84065-257-4.
• Olmstead, Edwin, Wayne E. Stark and Spencer C. Tucker. The Big Guns: Civil War Siege, Seacoast and Naval Cannon. Bloomfield, ONT, Alexandria Bay, NY: Museum Restoration Service, 1997. ISBN 978-0-88855-012-5.
• Pickenpaugh, Roger. Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West, 1863. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8032-3720-9.
• Ripley, Warren. Artillery and Ammunition of the Civil War. New York: Promontory Press, 1970. ISBN 978-0-88394-003-7.
• Ross, Charles. Trial By Fire: Science, Technology and the Civil War. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 2000. ISBN 978-1-57249-185-4.
• Smith, Graham. Civil War Weapons. New York: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2011. ISBN 978-0-7858-2854-9.
• Wert, Jeffry D. Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation. New York: Da Capo Press, Hatchett Book Group, 2018. ISBN 978-0-306-82512-5.

Naval

• Anderson, Bern. By Sea and by River: the naval history of the Civil War New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1962. Reprinted unabridged 1989 Da Capo paperback. ISBN 978-0-306-80367-3.
• Browning, Jr., Robert M. From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War. Tuscaloosa, AL, London: University of Alabama Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8173-0679-3.
• Browning, Jr., Robert M. Success Is All That Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, Inc., 2002. ISBN 978-1-57488-705-1.
• Carr, Dawson. Gray Phantoms of the Cape Fear: Running the Civil War Blockade. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, 1998. ISBN 978-0-89587-213-5.
• Chaffin, Tom. The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy. New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8090-9512-4.
• Chaffin, Tom. Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8090-8504-0.
• Chatelain, Neil P. Defending the Arteries of Rebellion: Confederate Naval Operations in the Mississippi River Valley, 1861-1865. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2020. ISBN 978-1-61121-510-6.
• Coker, Michael D. The Battle of Port Royal. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59629-665-7.
• Coski, John M. Capital Navy: The Men, Ships, and Operations of the James River Squadron. New York: Savas Beatie LLC, 2005. ISBN 978-1-932714-15-9. Originally published by Campbell, CA: Savas Woodbury Publishers, 1996.
• Davis, William C. Duel Between the First Ironclads. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. First Published New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1975. ISBN 978-0-8071-0868-0.
• deKay, James Tertius. The Rebel Raiders: The Astonishing History of the Confederacy's Secret Navy. New York: Ballentine Books (Presidio Press), 2003. ISBN 978-0-345-43183-7. First hardcover edition 2002.
• Dougherty, Kevin J. Ships of the Civil War, 1861-1865: An Illustrated Guide to the Fighting Vessels of the Union and the Confederacy. London: Amber Books, Ltd., 2013. ISBN 978-1-909-160-67-5.
• Dougherty, Kevin. Strangling the Confederacy: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War. Philadelphia: Casemate Publishers, 2009. ISBN 978-1-935149-24-8.
• Hahn, Gil. Campaign for the Confederate Coast: Blockading, Blockade Runners and Related Endeavors During the American Civil War. Wilmington, DE: West 88th Street Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-7349537-0-1.
• Joiner, Gary D. Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007. {ISBN|978-0-7425-5098-8}}.
• Laramie, Michael G. Gunboats, Muskets and Torpedoes: Coastal South Carolina 1861-1865. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2022. ISBN 978-1-59416-395-1.
• Luraghi, Raimondo. A History of the Confederate Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996. ISBN 978-1-55750-527-9.
• McPherson, James M. War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861–1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8078-3588-3.
• Quarstein, John V. The Battle of the Ironclads. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing an imprint of Tempus Publishing Inc., 1999. ISBN 978-0-7385-0113-0
• Simson, Jay W. Naval Strategies of the Civil War: Confederate Innovations and Federal Opportunism. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing, Inc., 2001. ISBN 978-1-58182-195-6.
• Still, Jr., William N. Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1985, 1988. ISBN 978-0-87249-616-3. Originally published Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971.
• Summersell, Charles Grayson. CSS Alabama: Builder, Captain, and Plans. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0-8173-0209-2.
• Symonds, Craig L. The Civil War at Sea. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. First published in hardcover by Praeger, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-993168-2.
• Symonds, Craig L. Lincoln and His Admirals. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Oxford University Press paperback. ISBN 978-0-19-975157-0. First published New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Taafe, Stephen R. Commanding Lincoln's Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59114-855-5.
• Trotter, William R. Ironclads and Columbiads: The Civil War in North Carolina, The Coast. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1989. ISBN 978-0-89587-088-9.
• Tucker, Spencer C. Blue & Gray Navies: The Civil War Afloat. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-59114-882-1.
• Wise, Stephen R. Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-87249-799-3. Originally published in hard cover, 1988.

Combat; Medical; Soldiers

• Adams, George Worthington. Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8071-2105-4. First published New York: H. Schuman, 1952.
• Coco, Gregory A. A Strange and Blighted Land: Gettysburg: The Aftermath of a Battle. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie LLC: 2017. ISBN 978-1-61121-405-5
• Cunningham, H. H. Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-8071-1856-6. First published 1958.
• Freemon, Frank R. Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-252-07010-5. First published Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998.
• Hess, Earl J. Civil War Infantry Tactics: Training, Combat and Small-Unit Effectiveness. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8071-5937-8.
• Hess, Earl J. The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-7006-0837-9.
• Lee, Gen. Robert E., et al. The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War. New York: The Fairfax Press, 1977. OCLC 458869500.
• Linderman, Gerald F. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. New York: The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan, Inc., 1987. ISBN 978-0-02-919760-8.
• Lowry, M.D., Thomas P. The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1994. ISBN 978-0-8117-1515-7.
• McGaugh, Scott. Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, The Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61145-839-8.
• McPherson, James M. For Cause and Country: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-19-512499-6.
• Mitchell, Reid. Civil War Soldiers: Their Expectations and Their Experiences. New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1988. ISBN 978-0-670-81742-9.
• Noe, Kenneth W. Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8078-33-77-3.
• Patterson, Gerard A. Debris of Battle: The Wounded of Gettysburg. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997. ISBN 978-0-8117-0498-4.
• Plaster, Major John L. Sharpshooting in the Civil War. Boulder, CO: Paladin Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-58160-703-1.
• Robertson, James I., Jr. Soldiers Blue and Gray. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-87249-572-2.
• Robertson, James I., Jr. and Neil Kagan, ed. The Untold Civil War: Exploring the Human Side of War. Washington, D.C.: National Georgraphic Society, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4262-0812-6.
• Trudeau, Noah Andre. Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War 1862–1865. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2002. ISBN 978-0-7858-1476-4. Originally published: New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1998.
• Tucker, Phillip Thomas. Irish Confederates: The Civil War's Forgotten Soldiers. Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-893114-53-1.
• Wert, Jeffry D. A Brotherhood of Valor: The Common Soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, C.S.A., and the Iron Brigade, U.S.A. New York: Touchstone, 1999. ISBN 978-0-684-86244-6.
• Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0-8071-0476-7. First published Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.
• Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0-8071-0475-0. First published Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1943.

Miscellaneous

• Collins, J. J. (historian). Famine to Freedom: The Irish in the American Civil War. [United States]: J.J. Collins?, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4635-1351-1.
• Davis, Burke. The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts. New York: The Fairfax Press, 1982. ISBN 978-0-517-37151-0. First published New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960 as Our Incredible Civil War.
• Grzyb, Frank L. The Last Civil War Veterans: The Lives of the Final Survivors, State by State. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2016. ISBN 978-1-4766-6522-1.
• Halleran, Michael A. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Freemasonry in the American Civil War. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8173-1695-2.
• Jones, Gordon L. Confederate Odyssey: The George W. Wray, Jr. Civil War Collection at the Atlanta History Center. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8203-4685-4.
• Leigh, Philip. Lee's Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-1-59416-226-8.
• Neff, Stephen C. Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-674-03602-4.
• Robertson, James I., Jr., ed. Stonewall Jackson's Book of Maxims. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 2002. ISBN 978-1-58182-296-0.
• Varney, Frank P. General Grant and the Rewriting of History: How the Destruction of General William S. Rosecrans Influenced Our Understanding of the Civil War. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie LLC, 2013. ISBN 978-1-61121-118-4.
• Zeller, Bob. Fighting the Second Civil War: A History of Battlefield Preservation and the Emergence of the Civil War Trust. Washington, DC: Civil War Trust, 2017. ISBN 978-0-9988112-0-8.

Government; Politics; International Relations

• Boritt, Gabor S., ed. Why the Civil War Came. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-19-511376-1.
• Davis, Jefferson. The Rise of the Confederate Government. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2010. Original edition: 1881. ISBN 978-1-4351-2066-2.
• Davis, Jefferson. The Fall of the Confederate Government. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2010. Original edition: 1881. ISBN 978-1-4351-2067-9.
• Davis, William C. A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy. New York: The Free Press, a division of Macmillan, Inc., 1994. ISBN 978-0-02-907735-1.
• Davis, William C. An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2001. ISBN 978-0-15-100564-2.
• Doyle, Don H. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 2015. ISBN 978-0-465-09697-8.
• Engle, Stephen D. Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln & the Union's War Governors. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4696-2933-9.
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 978-0-684-82490-1.
• Holt, Michael F. The Fate of Their Country: Politics, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8090-4439-9. Originally published: New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.
• Jones, Howard Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4696-2908-7.
• Jones, Howard. Union in Peril: The Crisis Over British Intervention in the Civil War. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1997. ISBN 978-0-8032-7597-3. Originally published: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
• Mahin, Dean B. One War at a Time: The International Dimensions of the American Civil War. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2000. ISBN 978-1-57488-301-5. Originally published: Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1999.
• May, Robert E., ed. The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim. Revised edition. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8130-4922-9. Originally published by Purdue University Press, 1995.
• Rable, George C. The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics. Chapel Hill: University Of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8078-2144-2.
• Thomas, Emory M. The Confederate Nation, 1861–1865. New York: Harper & Row, 1979. ISBN 978-0-06-014252-0.
• Wittenberg, Eric J., Edmund A. Sargus Jr. and Penny Barrick. Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2020. ISBN 978-1-61121-506-9.
• Yearns, Wilfred Buck. The Confederate Congress. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010. Originally published 1960. ISBN 978-0-8203-3476-9.
• Yearns, ed., W. Buck. The Confederate Governors. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010. Originally published 1985. ISBN 978-0-8203-3557-5.

Pictures

• Angle, Paul M. A Pictorial History of The Civil War Years. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1967. OCLC 311022.
• Buchanan, Lamont. A Pictorial History of the Confederacy. New York" Bonanza Books, 1951. OCLC 526198.
• Campi Jr., James. Civil War Battlefields Then and Now. London: Pavilion Books, 2016, reprinted 2018. ISBN 978-1-910904-80-0.
• Davis, William C., National Historical Society and Bell I. Wiley. The Image of War, 1861 – 1865. 6 volumes. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1981-1984. ISBN 978-0-385-15466-6.
• Davis, William C. and Bell I. Wiley. The Image of War, 1861 – 1865, Volume I: Shadows of the storm.. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981. ISBN 978-0-385-15466-6.
• Davis, William C. and Bell I. Wiley. The Image of War, 1861 – 1865, Volume II: The Guns of '62. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982. ISBN 978-0-385-15467-3.
• Davis, William C. and Bell I. Wiley. The Image of War, 1861 – 1865, Volume III: The Embattled Confederacy. New York: Doubleday, 1982. ISBN 978-0-385-15468-0.
• Davis, William C. and Bell I. Wiley. The Image of War, 1861 – 1865, Volume IV: Fighting for Time. New York: Doubleday, 1983. ISBN 978-0-385-18280-5.
• Davis, William C. and Bell I. Wiley. The Image of War, 1861 – 1865, Volume V: The South Besieged. New York: Doubleday, 1983. ISBN 978-0-385-18281-2.
• Davis, William C. and Bell I. Wiley. The Image of War, 1861 – 1865, Volume VI: The End of an Era. New York: Doubleday, 1984. ISBN 978-0-385-18282-9.
• Davis, William C. Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8071-2079-8.
• Davis, William C., William A. Frassanito and The National Historical Society. Touched by Fire: A Photographic Portrait of the Civil War. 2 volumes. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1985–1986.
• Davis, William C. and William A. Frassanito. Touched by Fire: A Photographic Portrait of the Civil War. Volume One. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1985. ISBN 978-0-316-17661-3. (v. 1).
• Davis, William C. and William A. Frassanito. Touched by Fire: A Photographic Portrait of the Civil War. Volume Two. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1986. ISBN 978-0-316-17664-4. (v. 2).
• DeMarco, Laura. Lost Civil War: The disappearing legacy of America's greatest conflict. London: Pavilion Books, 2021. ISBN 978-1-911663-44-7.
• Frassanito, William A. Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns 1864–1865. New York: Scribner, 1983. ISBN 978-0-684-17873-8.
• Gragg, Rod. The Illustrated Confederate Reader. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. ISBN 978-0-06-015798-2.
• Guernsey, Alfred H. and Henry M. Alden. Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1866. First published as Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion in the United States. Reprinted New York: The Fairfax Press, 1977. OCLC 301613173.
• Johnson, Rossiter. Campfires and Battlefields: The Pictorial History of the Civil War. New York: The Civil War Press, 1967. OCLC 25212059.
• Lossing, LL.D., Benson J. and Mathew B. Brady. Mathew Brady's Illustrated History of the Civil War, 1861–1865, And the Causes That Led Up to the Great Conflict. New York: The Fairfax Press, 1962. First published as A History of the Civil War. Reprint of the ed. published New York: War Memorial Association, 1912. OCLC 3250703.
• Pratt, Fletcher. The Civil War in Pictures. Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1955. OCLC 2116989.
• Ward, Geoffrey C., Ken Burns, and Ric Burns. The Civil War, an Illustrated History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. ISBN 978-0-394-56285-8.

Documents

• Dowdey, Clifford, and Louis H. Manarin, eds. The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee. New York: Da Capo Press, 1961. ISBN 978-0-306-80282-9.
• Gienapp, William E., ed. The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-97555-0.

Pre-War History

• Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union: Fruits of Manifest Destiny: 1847–1852. Vol. I. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. ISBN 978-0-684-10423-2.
• Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union: A House Dividing: 1852–1857. Vol. II. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. OCLC 884917641.
• Nevins, Allan. The Emergence of Lincoln: Douglas, Buchanan and Party Chaos 1857–1859. Vol. I. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. OCLC 917600110.
• Nevins, Allan. The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to Civil War 1859–1861. Vol. II. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. ISBN 978-0-684-10416-4.
• Potter, David M. completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848 – 1861. New York: Harper Perennial, reprint 2011. First published New York: Harper Colophon, 1976. ISBN 978-0-06-131929-7.
• Woodworth, Steven E. Manifest Destinies: America's Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-26524-1.

Prisoner of War Camps

• Keller, David L. The Story of Camp Douglas. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-62619-911-8. autographed.
• Levy, George. To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862–65. Revised edition. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1999. ISBN 978-1-56554-331-7.
• Pickenpaugh, Roger. Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8173-1652-5.
• Speer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997. ISBN 978-0-8117-0334-5.

References retrieved from internet

• Confederate States of America. Southern History of the War. Official Reports of Battles, as Published by Order of the Confederate Congress in Richmond. New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1863. OCLC 2638662.
• Cullum, George W. George W. Cullum's Register of Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy. Vol. 1, 1868. OCLC 01017674. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
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Alternate Wikipedia citation style for some frequently used references

• Allardice, Bruce S. (2008), Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register, Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4
• Allardice, Bruce S. (1995), Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 978-0-8071-3148-0
• Boatner, III, Mark Mayo (1988) [1959], The Civil War Dictionary, New York: McKay, ISBN 978-0-8129-1726-0
• Current, Richard N., ed. (1993), The Confederacy, New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-02-864920-7
  

Sections from the four-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Confederacy"

• Denney, Robert E. (1992), The Civil War Years: A Day-by-Day Chronicle, New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., ISBN 978-0-8069-8519-0
• Eicher, David J. (2001), The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War, New York: Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0-684-84944-7
• Eicher, John H.; Eicher, David J. (2001), Civil War High Commands, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1
• Esposito, Vincent J. (1962) [1959], West Point Atlas of The Civil War, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, OCLC 1154522863
• Faust, Patricia L., ed. (1986), Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War, New York: Harper & Row, ISBN 978-0-06-273116-6 cite article as: Wert, Jeffry D. (1986), "Henry Harrison Walker", in Faust, Patricia L. (ed.), Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War, New York: Harper & Row, ISBN 978-0-06-273116-6
• Gienapp, William E., ed. (2001), The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., ISBN 978-0-393-97555-0 cite article as: Gienapp, William E., ed. (2001), The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Collection, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., ISBN 978-0-393-97555-0
• Heidler, David S.; Heidler, Jeanne T., eds. (2000), Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-04758-5 cite article as: Heidler, David S.; Heidler, Jeanne T., eds. (2000), Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-04758-5
• Hunt, Roger D.; Brown, Jack R. (2001), Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue, Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., ISBN 978-1-56013-002-4
• Johnson, Robert Underwood; Buel, Clarence C., eds. (1956) [1884-1888], Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. ___, New York: Castle Books, OCLC 2048818 cite article as: Johnson, Robert Underwood.; Buel, Clarence C., eds. (1956) [1884-1888], Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. ___, New York: Castle Books, OCLC 2048818
• Kagan, Neil; Hyslop, Stephen G. (2006), Eyewitness to the Civil War: The Complete History From Secession to Reconstruction, Washington D.C.: National Geographic, ISBN 978-07922-5280-1
• Kagan, Neil; Hyslop, Stephen G. (2008), National Geographic Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle, Washington D.C.: National Geographic, ISBN 978-1-4262-0347-3
• Kennedy, Frances H., ed. (1998), The Civil War Battlefield Guide, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., ISBN 978-0-395-74012-5
• Long, E.B. (1971), The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861–1865, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, OCLC 68283123
• McPherson, James M. (1988), Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Oxford History of the United States, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-503863-7
• McPherson, James M. (1982), Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction., New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 978-0-394-52469-6
• Nelson, Christopher; Pohanka, Brian (1992), Mapping the Civil War: Featuring Rare Maps from the Library of Congress, Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, Inc., ISBN 978-1-56373-001-6
• Salmon, John S. (2001), The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, ISBN 978-0-8117-2868-3{{citation}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
• Sifakis, Stewart (1988), Who Was Who in the Civil War, New York: Facts On File, ISBN 978-0-8160-1055-4
• Wagner, Margaret E.; Gallagher, Gary W.; Finkelman, Paul (2009) [2002], The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference, New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, Inc., ISBN 978-1-4391-4884-6
• Warner, Ezra J. (1964), Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 978-0-8071-0822-2
• Warner, Ezra J. (1959), Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 978-0-8071-0823-9
• Weigley, Russell F. (2000), A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865, Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-33738-2
• Woodworth, Steven E.; Winkle, Kenneth J. (2004), Oxford Atlas of the Civil War, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-522131-2

Alternate Wikipedia citation templates; some fields in edited templates often also would be omitted

• Edited, brief, author: Example brief

Sample journals and magazine article citations

• Polk, Capt. W. N. “Battle of Chickamauga.” Southern Historical Society Papers 10, no. 1/2 (January/February 1882): 1-24.
• Ethan S. Rafuse. "Still a Mystery? General Grant and the Historians, 1981-2006." The Journal of Military History 71, no. 3 (July 1, 2007): 849–74.
• Himmer, Robert. "New Light on Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum's Conduct on the First Day at Gettysburg." Gettysburg Magazine 43 (July 2010): 49–60.

Example templates for articles in books (that I own)

• XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. "XXX." In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. XXX, edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence C. Buel. New York: Century Co., 1884-1888. OCLC 2048818.
• XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. "XXX." In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. 5, edited by Peter Cozzens. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-252-02404-7. Supplement to the four volume work: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, 1887-1888.
• XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. "XXX." In Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, vol. 6, edited by Peter Cozzens. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-252-02879-3. Supplement to the four volume work: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, 1887-1888.
• XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. "XXX." In The Confederacy edited by Richard N. Current. New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1993. ISBN 0-02-864920-6.
• XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. "XXX." In Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, vol. 1, edited by Richard N. Current. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1993. ISBN 978-0-02-864920-7.
• XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. "XXX." In Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, vol. 2, edited by Richard N. Current. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1993. ISBN 978-0-13-276023-2.
• XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. "XXX." In Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, vol. 3, edited by Richard N. Current. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1993. ISBN 978-0-13-276031-7.
• XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. "XXX." In Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, vol. 4, edited by Richard N. Current. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1993. ISBN 978-0-13-276049-2.
• XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. "XXX." In Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-04758-5.
• XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. "XXX." In Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War, edited by Patricia L. Faust. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. ISBN 978-0-06-273116-6.