Tuesday, May 9, 2000

Things Read But Not Blogged: American Civil War

1. The American Heritage New History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton
2. The Approaching Fury: Voice of the Storm 1820-1861 by Stephen B. Oates
3. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern: May 7-12, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea
4. The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy by William C. Davis
5. The Civil War: A Narrative – Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote
6. The Civil War: A Narrative – Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
7. The Civil War: A Narrative – Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
8. Civil War Generals in Defeat by Steven E. Woodworth
9. Co. Aytch by Sam Watkins
10. Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War by Mark Perry
11. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
12. The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth by Peter Cozzens
13. Echoes of Glory: Civil War Battle Atlas by Henry Woodhead
14. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson
15. Glory Road by Bruce Catton
16. Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln by Douglas L. Wilson
17. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory by Gary W. Gallagher
18. Life in Mr. Lincoln’s Navy by Dennis J. Ringle
19. Maps of the Civil War by David Phillips
20. The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman’s Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns by Joseph T. Glatthaar
21. Mr. Lincoln’s Army by Bruce Catton
22. Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory by Carol Reardon
23. The Pride of the Confederate Artillery: The Washington Artillery in the Army of Tennessee by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.
24. Sherman’s March by Burke Davis
25. The Shipwreck of Their Hopes by Peter Cozzens
26. Six Years of Hell: Harpers Ferry During the Civil War by Chester G. Hearn
27. A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
28. Tarnished Eagles: The Courts-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels by Thomas P. Lowry
29. To the North Anna River by Gordon C. Rhea
30. We Are in For It: The First Battle of Kernstown, March 23, 1862 by Gary L. Ecelbarger
31. The Wilderness Campaign by Gary W. Gallagher