Regional bibliography of the American Civil War

In general the bibliography of the American Civil War comprises 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 over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 titles selected by leading scholars.See Allan Nevins, Bell Irvin Wiley, and James I. Robertson, Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography (2 vol, 1970) The largest guides to the historiography annotates over a thousand titles.Woodworth, Steven; et al., eds. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research (1996)

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States, regions, and local Colton, Ray Charles. The Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. Crofts, Daniel W. Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis. 1989. Fiske, John. The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War. 1900. Harris, William C. Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2011. Josephy, Alvin M. The Civil War in the American West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Kerby, Robert L. Kirby Smith's Confederacy: The Trans-Mississippi South, 1863–1865. Columbia University Press, 1972. Monaghan, Jay. Civil War on the Western Border, 1854–1865. 1955. Noe, Kenneth W. and Shannon H. Wilson. The Civil War in Appalachia: Collected Essays. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. Pittman, Walter Earl. Rebels in the Rockies: Confederate Irregulars in the Western Territories. McFarland & Company, 2014. .

Lincoln and the Union's war governors Hesseltine, William. Lincoln and the War Governors. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. 405 pages. Harris, William C. Lincoln and the Union Governors. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press (Concise Lincoln Library), 2013. 184 pages. Engle, Stephen D. Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln and the Union's War Governors. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. 725 pages. Review by A. James Fuller, comparing Engle's book to Hesseltine's and Harris's, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Volume 42, Issue 1, Winter 2021. Engle, Stephen D. All the President's Statesmen: Northern Governors and the American Civil War. Marquette University Press, 2006. 46 pages.

Alabama Bergeron, Jr., Arthur W. Confederate Mobile. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. . Barney, William L. The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1974. Danielson, Joseph W. War's Desolating Scourge: The Union Occupation of North Alabama. University Press of Kansas, 2012. . Delaney, Caldwell. Confederate Mobile: A Pictorial History. Mobile, Alabama: Haunted Book Shop, 1971. Denman, Clarence P. The Secession Movement in Alabama. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama State Department of Archives and History, 1933. Dodd, Don. The Civil War in Winston County, Alabama, "the free state" . Northwest Alabama Pub. Co., 1979. Fitzgerald, W. Norma. President Lincoln's Blockade and the Defense of Mobile. Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1954. Fleming, Walter L. Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. New York: Columbia University Press, 1905. the most detailed study; Dunning School full text online from Project Gutenberg Goodrow, Sister Esther Marie. Mobile During the Civil War. Mobile, Alabama: Historic Mobile Preservation Society, 1950. Hoole, William Stanley. Alabama Tories: The First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., 1862–1865. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: 1960. Jones, Robert C. Alabama and the Civil War: A History & Guide. The History Press, 2017. . Martin, Bessie. Desertion of Alabama Troops from the Confederate Army. New York: AMS Press, 1988. McIlwain, Christopher Lyle. Civil War Alabama. University of Alabama Press, 2016. McMillan, Malcolm C. The Disintegration of a Confederate State: Three Governors and Alabama's Wartime Home Front, 1861–1865. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1986. Noe, Kenneth W. et al., eds. The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. University Alabama Press, 2014. . Rigdon, John. A Guide to Alabama Civil War Research. 2011. Sterkx, H. E. Partners in Rebellion: Alabama Women in the Civil War. Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970. Storey, Margaret M. "Civil War Unionists and the Political Culture of Loyalty in Alabama, 1860–1861." Journal of Southern History (2003): 71–106. in JSTOR Storey, Margaret M., Loyalty and Loss: Alabama's Unionists in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Towns, Peggy Allen. Duty Driven: The Plight of North Alabama's African Americans During the Civil War. 2012.

Primary sources For Alabama Cutrer, Thomas W. Oh, What a Lonesome Time I Had: The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley. University of Alabama Press, 2002. Hague, Parthenia Antoinette. A blockaded family: life in southern Alabama during the Civil War. University of Nebraska Press, 2008 reprint of 1888 memoir. MacMillan, Malcolm, and C. Peter Ripley, eds. The Alabama Confederate Reader: An Exciting Story of the Civil War in Alabama. 1992. Severance, Ben H. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Alabama in the Civil War. 2012. Rogers, Jr., William W. Confederate Home Front: Montgomery During the Civil War. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2002.

Arizona Territory Masich, Andrew E. The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865, 2nd ed., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. . .

Arkansas Bailey, Anne J., and Daniel E. Sutherland. "The history and historians of Civil War Arkansas." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 58.3 (1999): 232–63. in JSTOR, historiography. Bailey, Anne, and Daniel E. Sutherland, editors. Civil War Arkansas: Beyond Battles and Leaders. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Bradbury, John F. "'Buckwheat Cake Philanthropy': Refugees and the Union Army in the Ozarks." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 57.3 (1998): 233–254. in JSTOR Christ, Mark K. Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. Christ, Mark K., ed. Rugged and Sublime: the Civil War in Arkansas. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 1994. DeBlack, Thomas A. With Fire and Sword: Arkansas, 1861–1874. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. Dillard, Tom. "To the Back of the Elephant: Racial Conflict in the Arkansas Republican Party." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 33.1 (1974): 3–15. in JSTOR Donovan, Timothy Paul, Willard B. Gatewood, and Jeannie M. Whayne, eds. The Governors of Arkansas: Essays in Political Biography. University of Arkansas Press, 1995. Dougan, Michael B. Confederate Arkansas: The People and Policies of a Frontier State in Wartime. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1976.

Ingenthron, Elmo. Border–Land Rebellion: A History of the Civil War on the Missouri–Arkansas Border. Bronson, Missouri: Ozarks Mountaineer, 1980. Moneyhon, Carl H. The Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Arkansas: Persistence in the Midst of Ruin. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. Thomas David Y. Arkansas in War and Reconstruction, 1861–1874. Little Rock, Arkansas: Arkansas Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1926. Woods, James M. Rebellion and Realignment: Arkansas's Road to Secession. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 1987. Wright, Marcus J. Arkansas in the War, 1861–1865. Batesville, Arkansas: Independence County Historical Society, 1963.

California Matthews, Glenna. The Golden State in the Civil War: Thomas Starr King, the Republican Party, and the Birth of Modern California. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Orton, Richard H. Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion 1861 to 1867. Sacramento, California: State Printing Office, 1890. Richards, Leonard L. The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 2007.

Colorado Whitford, W.C. Colorado Volunteers in the Civil War. Glorieta: Rio Grande Press, 1989.

Connecticut Croffut, W.A. and John M. Morris. The Military and Civil History of Connecticut During the War of 1861–65. Bristol, New Hampshire: R. W. Musgrove, 1893. Hines, Blaikie. Civil War Volunteer Sons of Connecticut. Thomaston, Maine: American Patriot Press, 2002. Niven, John. Connecticut for the Union: The Role of the State in the Civil War. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1965. Warshauer, Matthew. Connecticut in the American Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, & Survival. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2011. .

Delaware Hancock Harold. Delaware during the Civil War. Historical Society of Delaware, 1961. Harris, William C. Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas: 2011.

District of Columbia Adelman, Gary E., and John J. Richtor, editors. Ninety-Nine Historic Images of Civil War Washington. Washington, D.C.: The Center for Civil War Photography and the Civil War Preservation Trust, 2006. Benjamin, Marcus, collector/editor. Washington during War Time: A Series of Papers Showing the Military, Political, and Social Phases during 1861–1865. Washington, D.C.: Committee on Literature for the Thirty Sixth Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1902. Cooling, Benjamin Franklin. Jubal Early's Raid on Washington, 1864. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1989. . Cooling, B. Franklin. Mr. Lincoln's Forts: A Guide to the Civil War Defenses of Washington. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Company, 1988. Cooling, B. Franklin. Symbol, Sword, and Shield: Defending Washington during the Civil War. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1975. Furgurson, Ernest B. Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Lawrence, Susan C., editor. Civil War Washington: History, Place, and Digital Scholarship. University of Nebraska Press, 2015. . Lee, Richard M. Mr. Lincoln's City: an Illustrated Guide to the Civil War Sites of Washington. McLean, Virginia: BPM Publications, 1981. Mitchell, Mary. Divided Town: A Study of Georgetown, D.C., during the Civil War. Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishing, 1968. Sedgwick, Paul. The Symbol and the Sword: Washington, D.C., 1860–1865. Washington, D.C.: District of Columbia Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962. Winkle, Kenneth J. Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, D.C. W.W. Norton, 2013. .

Florida Brack, Gloria Conaty. This Endless Wail: The Story of the Civil War in Florida. AuthorHouse, 2006. Buker, George. Blockaders, Refugees, and Contrabands: Civil War on Florida's Gulf Coast, 1861–1865. Tuscaloosa: Fire Ant Books, 2004. . Davis, William Watson. The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida. New York: Columbia University Press, 1913. Dodd, Dorothy. Florida in the War, 1861–1865. Tallahassee, Florida: Peninsular Publishing, 1959. Driscoll, John K. The Civil War on Pensacola Bay, 1861–1862. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2013. . Fretwell, Jacqueline K., editor. Civil War Times in St. Augustine. St. Augustine, Florida: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1988. Johns, John E. Florida during the Civil War. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, 1963. Loderhose, Gary. Way Down Upon the Suwannee River: Sketches of Florida During the Civil War. iUniverse, 2000.