Bibliography of American Civil War battles and campaigns

The American Civil War bibliography comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month.In 2001, Jonathan Sarna estimated that over 50,000 books had already appeared, with 1,500 more appearing annually. American Jewish History 89.3 (2001) 335–337. There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is more than 50 years old and lists over 6,000 titles.See Allan Nevins, Bell Irvin Wiley, and James I. Robertson, Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography (2 vol, 1970)

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Battles: surveys, strategies, tactics 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. . Blair, Jayne E. The Essential Civil War: A Handbook to the Battles, Armies, Navies And Commanders. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006. . Boritt, Gabor S., ed. Why the Confederacy Lost. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. . Catton, Bruce, James M. McPherson, and Noah Andre Trudeau. The American Heritage New History of the Civil War. New York: Viking, 1996. . Catton, Bruce. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War. 1982 ed. New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1960. . Catton, Bruce. The Civil War. New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1960. . Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. Vol. 1, The Coming Fury. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. . Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. Vol. 2, Terrible Swift Sword. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963. . Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War. Vol. 3, Never Call Retreat. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. . Chaitin, Peter M. The Coastal War: Chesapeake Bay to Rio Grande. Alexandria, Virginia: Time–Life Books, 1984. . 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. . First published Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973. 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. . Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. . Field, Ron. Confederate Cavalryman versus Union Cavalryman: Eastern Theater 1861–65. Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2015. . Field, Ron. Union Infantryman versus Confederate Infantryman: Eastern Theater 1861–65. Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2013. . Freeman, Douglas S. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. Manassas to Malvern Hill. Vol. 1 of 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1942. . Freeman, Douglas S. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville. Vol. 2 of 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1943. . Freeman, Douglas S. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. Gettysburg to Appomattox. Vol. 3 of 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1944. . Gallagher, Gary W., Stephen D. Engle, Robert K. Krick and Joseph T. Glatthaar, foreword by James M. McPherson. The American Civil War: This Might Scourge of War. Westminster, MD: Osprey Publishing Limited, 2003. . Gallagher, Gary W. and Joan Waugh. The American War: A History of the Civil War Era. Second edition. State College, PA: Flip Learning, 2019. . Goss, Thomas J. The War within the Union High Command: Politics and Generalship during the Civil War. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2003. . Griess, Thomas E. The American Civil War. The West Point Military History Series. Garden City Park, NY: Square One Publishers, 2002. . Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. . Hagan, Neil and Stephen Hyslop. Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle. National Geographic, 2009. . Hansen, Harry. The Civil War: A History. New York: Bonanza Books, 1961. . Hattaway, Herman, and Archer Jones. How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. . Kagan, Neil, and Stephen G. Hyslop. Eyewitness to the Civil War: The Complete History From Secession to Reconstruction. Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2006. . Keegan, John, The American Civil War: A Military History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. . McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. . McPherson, James M. Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. . Murray, Williamson and Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh. A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. . Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union. Vol. 1, The Improvised War 1861 – 1862. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. . Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union. Vol. 2, War Becomes Revolution 1862 – 1863. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. . Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union. Vol. 3, The Organized War 1863 – 1864. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. . Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union. Vol. 4, The Organized War to Victory 1864 – 1865. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. . Rafuse, Ethan S. McClellan's War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. . Rafuse, Ethan S. Robert E. Lee and The Fall of the Confederacy, 1863-1865. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008; Paperback edition, 2009. . Rogers, Clifford J., Ty Seidule and Samuel J. Watson, eds. The West Point History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. . Royster, Charles. Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the American Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Smith, Andrew F. Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War. St. Martin's Press, 2011. . Smithsonian Institution. The Civil War: A Visual History. New York: DK Publishing, 2011. . Walters, John Bennett. Merchant of Terror: General Sherman and Total War. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973. Weigley, Russell F. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. . Williams, Kenneth P. . Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War, five volumes. 1959. Williams, T. Harry. Lincoln and His Generals. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. . Later edition McGraw–Hill 1967.

Battles and campaigns: Eastern Theater Ashby, Thomas A. The Valley Campaigns. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1914. Coffey, David. Sheridan's Lieutenants: Phil Sheridan, His Generals, and the Final Year of the Civil War. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Collins, Darrell. General William Averell's Salem Raid: Breaking the Knoxville Supply Line. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1999. Collins, Darrell L. The Jones-Imboden Raid: The Confederate Attempt to Destroy the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Retake West Virginia. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007. . Connery, William S. Civil War Northern Virginia 1861. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2011. ISBN 9781609493523. Connery, William S. Mosby's Raids in Civil War Northern Virginia. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013. Duncan, Richard R. Lee's Endangered Left: The Civil War in Western Virginia Spring of 1864. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Freeman, Douglas S. Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1946. . vol 1 from 1861 to the Seven Days' Battles; Vol 2 from Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville, August 1862-May 1863; vol 3 to end of war. See previous section for full titles. Hunt, Jeffrey W. Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army of the Potomac’s First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, From Kelly’s Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863. Savas Beatie, 2021. . Jamieson, Perry D. Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. . Lockwood. The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Marvel, William. The Battles for Saltville: Southwest Virginia in the Civil War. Lynchburg, Virginia: H.E. Howard, 1992. Meserve, Stevan F. The Civil War in Loudoun County, Virginia: A History of Hard Times. With a Chapter on Ball's Bluff by James A. Morgan, III. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2008. . Moss, Juanita P. Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina: The Last Confederate Victory. Willow Bend Books, 2003. . Nelson, James L. Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack. William Marrow, 2004. Oxford, Lee Thomas. The Civil War on Hattteras: The Chicamacomico Affair and the Capture of the U.S. Gunboat "Fanny". Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013. . Rafuse, Ethan S. From the Mountains to the Bay: The War in Virginia, January–May 1862. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2022. ISBN 9780700633531. Rankin, Thomas M. Stonewall Jackson's Romney Campaign. Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, 1994. Sauers, Richard. The Burnside Expedition in North Carolina. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, 1996. Schultz, Duane. The Dahlgren Affair. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. Swanberg, W. A. First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter 1957. Trout, Robert J. After Gettysburg: Cavalry Operations in the Eastern Theater July 14, 1863 to December 31, 1863. Casemates Publishers, 2012. . Wheelan, Joseph. Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War. Boston: Da Capo Press, a Member of the Perseus Book Group, 2015. . Wills, Mary Alice. The Confederate Blockade of Washington, D.C., 1861–1862. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1998. . Wittenburg, Eric J. The Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station 1863. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2003. Zatarga, Michael P. The Battle of Roanoke Island: Burnside and the Fight for North Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2015. .

Appomattox Campaign Alexander, Edward S. Dawn of Victory: Breakthrough at Petersburg, March 25-April 2, 1865. Savas Beatie, 2015. . Bearss, Edwin C. and Chris Calkins. The Battle of Five Forks. Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, 1985. Cauble, Frank P. The Surrender Proceedings, April 9, 1865, Appomattox Court House. Lynchburg, Virginia: H.E. Howard, 1987. Calkins, Chris M. The Appomattox Campaign: March 29 - April 9, 1865. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania: Combined Books, 1997. . Calkins, Chris M. The Battles of Appomattox. Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1987. Calkins, Chris M. The Final Bivouac. Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1987. Calkins, Chris M. From Petersburg to Appomattox. Farmville Herald Pub. Co., 1983. Calkins, Chris M. Thirty-Six Hours Before Appomattox, April 6–7, 1865. Farmville Herald Pub. Co., 1980. Davis, Burke. Appomattox: Closing Struggle of the Civil War. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Davis, Burke. To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865. New York: Eastern Acorn Press reprint, 1981. . First published New York: Rinehart, 1959. Davis, Burke. The Long Surrender. New York: Random House, 1985. . Dunkerly, Robert M. To the Bitter End: Appomattox, Bennett Place and the Surrenders of the Confederacy. El Dorado Hills, California: Savas Beatie, 2015. . Jamieson, Perry D. Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. . Korn, Jerry. Pursuit to Appomattox: The Last Battles. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1987. .