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General Works, Dictionaries, EncyclopediasRoland, Charles Pierce. An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002. McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961.
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Mosocco, Ronald A. The Chronological Tracking of the American Civil War per the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. Williamsburg, Va: James River Publications, 1994. Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. 3 vols. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. Long, Everette Beach, comp. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861-1865. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. Boatner, Mark Mayo. Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Civil War Library, 1991. Harris, Sherry. Civil War Records: A Useful Tool: A Step by Step Guide to the Availability and Acquisition of Civil War Records. 2 vols. Yorba Linda, Ca: Shumway Family History Services, 1990-1993. Davis, William C. and Wiley, Bell Irvin, editors. The Civil War Times Illustrated Photographic History of the Civil War. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1994. Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Common Soldier of the Civil War. New York: Scribner, 1975. Roland, Charles Pierce. The Confederacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. Garrison, Webb. The Encyclopedia of Civil War Usage: An Illustrated Compendium of the Everyday Language of Soldiers and Civilians. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2001. Roller, David C. and Robert W. Twyman, editors. Encyclopedia of Southern History. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Seidler, editors. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social and Military History. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002. Current, Richard N., editor. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. 4 vols. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Varhola, Michael J. Everyday Life During the Civil War. Cincinnati, Oh: Writer's Digest Books, 1999. Copeland, David A., general editor. The Greenwood Library of American Civil War Reporting. 8 vols. Richter, William L. Historical Dictionary of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2004. Hunter, Alexander. Johnny Reb and Billy Yank. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1905. Wright, John D. The Language of the Civil War. Westport, Ct: Oryx Press, 2001. Wagner, Margaret E., Gary W. Gallagher and Paul Finkelman, editors. The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Davis, William C. Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America. New York: Free Press, 2002. Irvine, Dallas. Military Operations of the Civil War: A Guide-Index to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865. 2 vols. Washington: GPO, 1968-1980. Hewett, Janet B., editor. Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 100 vols. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1994-1998. United States War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: GPO, 1880-1901. Reprint. 70 vols. in 128. Gettysburg, Pa: National Historical Society, 1971-1972. An online version of the OR is available through Cornell University's Making of America at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html. There is an excellent essay about the Official Records on the National Archives' web site at http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1995/fall/honorable-reports-1.html Aimone, Alan Conrad and Barbara A. Aimone. A User's Guide to the Official Records of the American Civil War. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Pub. Co., 1993. Atlases and MapsWoodworth, Steven E., and Kenneth J. Winkle. Atlas of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Symonds, Craig L. A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War. Annapolis, Md: Nautical & Aviation Pub. Co. of America, 1983. National Archives and Records Administration. A Guide to Civil War Maps in the National Archives. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986. Shively, Julie. The Ideals Guide to American Civil War Places. Nashville, Tn: Ideals Publications, 1999. Symonds, Craig L. The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 2001. Davis, George P., Leslie J. Perry, and Joseph W. Kirkley. Compiled by Calvin D. Cowles. The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War. New York: Fairfax Press, 1983. Esposito, Vincent J., chief editor. The West Point Atlas of American Wars. 2 vols. New York: Praeger, 1959. Battles and Battle SitesWells, John Wesley. An Alphabetical List of the Battles of the War of the Rebellion. Compiled from the Official Records of the Office of the Adjutant-General and the Surgeon-General, U.S.A. and a Roster of all the Regimental Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons in the Late War and Hospital Service. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C., 1883. Reprint. San Francisco: Norman Pub., 1990. Steele, Matthew Forney. American Campaigns. 2 vols. Washington: United States Infantry Association, 1922. Kennedy, Frances H., editor. The Civil War Battlefield Guide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Civil War Preservation Trust. Civil War Sites: The Official Guide to Battlefields, Monuments, and More. Guilford, Ct: Globe Pequot Press, 2003. Braselton, Susan Collier, editor. The Civil War Trust's Official Guide to the Civil War Discovery Trail. New York: MacMillan, 1998. Biographical SourcesNeeley, Jr., Mark E. The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982. Wakelyn, Jon L. Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1977. Hubbell, John T., and James W. Geary, editors. Biographical Dictionary of the Union: Northern Leaders of the Civil War. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1995. Spencer, James, compiler. Civil War Generals: Categorical Listings and a Biographical Directory. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Basler, Roy Prentice, and Christian O. Basler, editors. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. 9 vols. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953-55. An online version of this work can be found at http://www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln/ McPherson, James M., editor. Encyclopedia of Civil War Biographies. 3 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2000. Ostendorf, Lloyd. Lincoln's Photographs: A Complete Album. Dayton, Oh: Rockywood Press, 1998. Richardson, James D., compiler and editor. The Messages and Papers of Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy: Including Diplomatic Correspondence, 1861-1865. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001. Markle, Donald E. Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2004. Hurst, Gwen J. U. S. Medals and Rolls of Honor, Civil War. Bowie, Md: Heritage Books, 1999. Clemmer, Gregg S. Valor in Gray: The Recipients of the Confederate Medal of Honor. Staunton, Va: Hearthside Pub. Co., 1996. Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts on File, 1988. African American Participation and SlaveryValuska, David L. The African American in the Union Navy: 1861-1865. New York: Garland Pub., 1993. Blassingame, John W., and Mae G. Henderson, editors. Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals. 5 vols. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980-1984. Dumond, Dwight, Lowell. A Bibliography of Antislavery in America. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1981. Ripley, C. Peter, editor. The Black Abolitionist Papers. 5 vols. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1985-1992. Moebs, Thomas Truxton. Black Soldiers - Black Sailors - Black Ink: Research Guide on African-Americans in U.S. Military History, 1526-1900. Chesapeake Bay, Va.: Moebs Pub. Co., 1994. Berlin, Ira, editor. Free At Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. New York: The New Press, 1992. Blockson, Charles L. Hippocrene Guide to The Underground Railroad. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1994. Klein, Martin A. Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2002. Brown, William Wells. The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2003. Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865. New York: W. W. Norton, 1966. Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl J. Schneider. Slavery in America: From Colonial Times to the Civil War, an Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 2000. WomenWiley, Bell Irvin. Confederate Women. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975. McDevitt, Theresa. Women and the American Civil War: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Ct: Praeger, 2003. A companion web site for updated Internet materials can be found at http://www.lib.iup.edu/instruction/guides/women.html Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Women in the Civil War. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Eggleston, Larry G. Women in the Civil War: Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003. Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer, compiler. Women of the Civil War South: Personal Accounts from Diaries, Letters, and Postwar Reminiscences. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004. Unit Histories and RostersSifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. 11 vols. New York: Facts on File, 1992-1995. Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: T. Yoseloff, 1959. Dornbusch, Charles E., compiler. Military Bibliography of the Civil War. 4 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1971- 2003. Hewett, Janet B., editor. The Roster of Confederate Soldiers. 16 vols. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Pub. Co., 1995-1996. Hewett, Janet B., editor. The Roster of Union Soldiers. 35 vols. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Pub. Co., 1997. Controvich, James T. United States Army Unit and Organizational Histories: A Bibliography. 2 vols. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2003. Equipment and WeaponsLangellier, John P. Army Blue: The Uniform of Uncle Sam's Regulars, 1848-1873. Atglen, Pa: Schiffer Pub., 1998. Time-Life Books, editors. Echoes of Glory: Arms and Equipment of the Confederacy. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Book, 1991. Time-Life Books, editors. Echoes of Glory: Arms and Equipment of the Union. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1991. Hazlett, James C., Edwin Olmstead, and M. Hume Parks. Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War. 2nd ed. Newark, De: University of Delaware Press, 1988. Whisker, James B. U.S. and Confederate Arms and Armories During the American Civil War. 4 vols. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 2002-2003. Medicine and FoodDavis, William C. The Civil War Cookbook. Philadelphia: Courage Books, 2003. Bollet, Alfred Jay. Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs. Tucson, Az: Galen Press, 2002. Flannery, Michael A. Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply, and Provision, and Therapeutics for the Union and Confederacy. New York: Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2004. Adams, George Worthington. Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War. New York: H. Schuman, 1952. Cunningham, Horace Herndon. Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Freemon, Frank R. Microbes and Minie Balls: An Annotated Bibliography of Civil War Medicine. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1993. Davis, William C. A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003. NaviesSmith, Myron J. American Civil War Navies: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1972. Gibson, Charles Dana. Assault and Logistics: Union Army Coastal and River Operations, 1861-1866. Camden, Me: Ensign Press, 1995. Hamphill, James E. Beneath the Waters: Guide to Civil War Shipwrecks. Shippensburg, Pa: Burd Street Press, 1998. United States Naval History Division. Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865. Washington: Department of the Navy, 1971. Silverstone, Paul H. Civil War Navies, 1855-1883. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 2001. Moebs, Thomas Truxtun. Confederate States Navy Research Guide: Confederate Naval Imprints Described and Annotated Chronology of Naval Operation and Administration, Marine Corps and Naval Officer Biographies, Description and Service of Vessels, Subject Bibliography. Williamsburg, VA: Moebs Publishing Co., 1991. Gibson, Charles Dana and E. Kay Gibson, compilers. Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels, Steam and Sail, Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868. Camden, Me: Ensign Press, 1995. Secretary of the Navy. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. 30 vols. Harrisburg, Pa: National Historical Society, 1987. PrisonsSpeer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, Pa: Stackpole Books, 1997. Veterans' OrganizationSmith, Jr., Albert E., compiler. The Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies: A Guide to Resources in the General Collections of the Library of Congress. Washington: The Library of Congress, 1996. This guide is also available online at http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/ . Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. 66 vols. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1991- 1997. Official Programme of the Annual Reunion of United Confederate Veterans. Richmond, VA: The Association, 1896- 1940. Confederate Veteran. 40 vols. Nashville, TN: S. A. Cunningham, 1893- 1932. War StatisticsEditors of Combined Books, compilers. The Civil War Book of Lists: Over 300, From the Sublime . . . to the Ridiculous. Conshohocken, Pa: Combined Books, 1993. Cartmell, Donald. Civil War 101. New York: Gramercy Books, 2003. Livermore, Thomas L. Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in America, 1861-65. Bloomington, In: Indiana University Press, 1957. ReconstructionTrefousse, Hans Louis. Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. Dickerson, Donna L., compiler. The Reconstruction Era: Primary Documents on Events From 1865 to 1877. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 2003. Lincoln, David A. Reconstruction in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 2000. BibliographiesWoodworth, Steven E., editor. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1996. Nevins, Allan, James I. Robertson, Jr., and Bell I. Wiley, editors. Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography. 2 vols. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press, 1969. Cole, Garold L. Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles, 1955-1986. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles, 1986-1996. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. Eicher, David J. The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Murdock, Eugene Converse. The Civil War in the North: A Selective Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987. Beers, Henry Putney. The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986. Parrish, T. Michael, and Robert M. Willingham, Jr. Confederate Imprints: A Bibliography of Southern Publications from Secession to Surrender: Expanding and Revising the Earlier Works of Marjorie Crandall and Richard Harwell. Austin, TX: Jenkins Publishing Co.; Katonah, NY: Gary A. Foster, 1984. Neagles, James C. Confederate Research Sources: A Guide to Archives Collections. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City, Ut: Ancestry, 1997. Hillstrom, Kevin, and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. Lawrence W. Baker, editor. Experiencing the American Civil War: Novels, Nonfiction Books, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Films and Songs. 2 vols. Detroit: UXL Gale Group, 2002. Donald, David, compiler. Nation in Crisis, 1861-1877. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969. Munden, Kenneth W. The Union: A Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War. Washington, DC: Published for the National Archives and Records Administration by the National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1986. | ||||||
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