CIVIL WAR BOOKS
Compiled by
Bennie J. McRae, Jr.
LWF Network
A Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War
- Munden, Kennth W. and Henry Putney Beers. THE
UNION. Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1986.
Suggested Reading List
- Asbell, Samuel.
LOST BLACK LEGION: A search for
the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors of Camden County, New Jersey. eBook.
- Ash, Stephen V. FIREBRAND OF LIBERTY: The Story
of Two Black Regiments that Changed the Course of the Civil War. New York
and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2008. (1st and 2nd South Carolina
Infantry Regiments)
- Ballard, Alan B. WHERE I'M BOUND (A Civil War
Novel) New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.
- Berlin, Ira, ed. FREEDOM: A Dcumentary History
of Emancipation 1861-1867 - Series II - The Black Military Experience.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
- Billington, Ray Allen, Editor. THE JOURNAL OF
CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN: A Young Black Woman's Reaction to the White World of the
Civil War Era. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1953.
- Blackett, R.J.M., ed. THOMAS MORRIS CHESTER:
Black Civil War Correspondent - His Dispatches from the Virginia Front.
New York: Da Capo Press - First Published by Louisiana State University Press,
1989.
- Blight, David W. FREDERICK DOUGLASS' CIVIL WAR:
Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press,
1989.
- Boatner, Mark M., III. THE CIVIL WAR DICTIONARY.
New York: Vintage Books, 1959.
- Bradford, Sarah. HARRIET TUBMAN: The Moses of
Her People. Sacaucus, New Jersey: Carol Publishing Group, 1997.
- Brown, William Wells. THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN
REBELLION: His Heroism and His Fidelity. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867.
[New York: Kraus Reprint Company, 1969.]
- Burchard, Peter. ONE GALLANT RUSH: Robert Gould
Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965.
- Callum, Agnes Kane. COLORED VOLUNTEERS OF
MARYLAND: Civil War - 7th Regiment United States Colored Troops, 1863-1866.
Baltimore: Mullac Publishers, 1990.
- Clark, Peter H. THE BLACK BRIGADE OF CINCINNATI.
New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969.
- Cornish, Dudley Taylor. THE SABLE ARMS: Black
Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865. Lawrence: The University Press of
Kansas, 1987.
- Cowden, Robert. A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE
FIFTY-NINTH REGIMENT OF UNITED STATES COLORED INFANTRY. Salem, NH.: Ayer
Company, Publishers, Inc., Reprinted 1971. (First Published 1883).
- Current, Richard Nelson. LINCOLN'S LOYALISTS:
Union Soldiers From the Confederacy. New York: Oxford University Press,
1992.
- Davis, Burke. TO APPOMATTOX: Nine April Days,
1865. New York: Eastern Acorn Press, 1959.
- Denney, Robert E. THE CIVIL WAR YEARS: A
Day-by-Day Chronicle. New York: Gramercy Books, 1992.
- Dyer, Frederick H. A COMPENDIUM OF THE WAR OF
THE REBELLION. 3 Volumes. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
- Editors of Combined Books. THE CIVIL WAR BOOK OF
LISTS. Conshohocken, PA.: Combined Books, Inc., 1993.
- Emilio, Luis F. A BRAVE BLACK REGIMENT. New
York: Bantam Books, 1992.
- Foner, Jack. BLACKS AND THE MILITARY IN
AMERICAN. New York: Praeger, 1974.
- Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss, Jr.
FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM: A History of Negro Americans. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1947 (Sixth Edition 1988).
- Garrison, Webb. CIVIL WAR CURIOSITIES: Strange
Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences. Nashville, TN.: Rutledge Hill
Press, 1994.
- Gladstone, William A. MEN OF COLOR.
Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1993.
- Gladstone, William A. UNITED STATES COLORED
TROOPS 1863-1867. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1990.
- Glatthaar, Joseph T. FORGED IN BATTLE: The Civil
War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. New York: Meridian,
1991.
- Glatthaar, Joseph T. THE MARCH TO THE SEA AND
BEYOND: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
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Gourdin, John R. BORROWED IDENTITY: 128th United States Colored Troops, Multiple-name Usage by Black
Civil War Veterans who served with Union Regiments Organized in South Carolina. Westminster, MD: Heritage
Books, 2009.
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Gourdin, John R. VOICES FROM THE PAST: 104th Infantry Regiment, USCT, Colored Civil War Soldiers from
South Carolina. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2007 (1997).
- Gragg, Rod. CIVIL WAR QUIZ AND FACT BOOK.
New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
- Greenberg, Martin H. and Waugh, Charles G.,
Editors. THE PRICE OF FREEDOM: Slavery and the Civil War. Volume 1 -
The Demise of Slavery. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2000.
- Greenberg, Martin H. and Waugh, Charles G.,
Editors. THE PRICE OF FREEDOM: Slavery and the Civil War. Volume 2 -
The Preservation of Liberty. Nashville: Cumberland House, 2000.
- Hansen, Joyce. BETWEEN 2 FIRES: Black Soldiers
in the Civil War. New York: Franklin Watts, 1993.
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. ARMY LIFE IN A
BLACK REGIMENT. Williamstown, MA.: Corner House Publishers, 1984.
- Hollandsworth, James G. Jr. THE LOUISIANA NATIVE
GUARDS: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
- Hollandsworth, James G. Jr. PRETENSE OF GLORY:
The Life of General Nathaniel P. Banks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1998.
- Humphreys, Margaret. INTENSELY HUMAN: The Health
of the Black Soldiers in the American Civil War. Baltimore: The John
Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Jordan, Ervin L., Jr. BLACK CONFEDERATES AND
AFRO-YANKEES IN CIVIL WAR VIRGINIA. Charlottesville: University Press of
Virginia, 1995.
- Josephy, Alvin M. THE CIVIL WAR IN THE AMERICAN
WEST. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
- Katz, William Loren. EYEWITNESS: The Negro in
American History. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1967.
- Lanning, Lt. Col. Michael Lee (Ret.). THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIER: From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell. Sacaucus,
NJ.: Carol Publishing Group, 1997. (Chapter 3 -- The American Civil War)
- Long, Richard A., ed. BLACK WRITERS AND THE
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: Black Involvement and Participation in the War Between the
States. Secaucus, NJ.: The Blue and Grey Press, 1988.
- Lowry, Thomas P., M.D. THE STORY THE SOLDIERS
WOULDN'T TELL: Sex in the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books,
1994.
- Main, Edwin M. THE STORY OF THE MARCHES,
BATTLES, AND INCIDENTS OF THE THIRD UNITED STATES COLORED CAVALRY.
Louisville: Globe Printing Company, 1908. Reprinted, New York: Negro
Universities Press, 1970.
- Massachusetts Adjutant General's Office.
MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AND MARINES IN THE CIVIL WAR. Norwood:
The Norwood Press, 1932.
- Massey, Mary Elizabeth. WOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966.
- McPherson, James M. MARCHING TOWARD FREEDOM:
Blacks in the Civil War 1861-1865. New York: Facts on File, 1965.
- McPherson, James M. THE NEGRO'S CIVIL WAR: How
American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. New York:
Ballatine Books, 1982.
- McRae, Bennie J. Jr., Miller, Curtis and
Trowbridge-Miller, Cheryl. NINETEENTH CENTURY FREEDOM FIGHTERS: First South
Carolina Volunteers. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007.
- Mohr, Clarence L. ON THE THRESHOLD OF FREEDOM:
Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. Athens: The University of Georgia
Press, 1986.
- Morgan, T. J. D.D., LL.D. NEGROES IN THE CIVIL
WAR (Extracted from The Negro in America and The Ideal American Republic).
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1898.
- Moss, Juanita Patience.
BATTLE OF PLYMOUTH, NORTH
CAROLINA (April 17-20, 1864): The Last Confederate Victory. Bowie,
Maryland: Heritage Books, 2003.
- Moss, Juanita Patience.
FORGOTTEN BLACK SOLDIERS
WHO SERVED IN WHITE REGIMENTS DURING THE CIVIL WAR. Westminister,
Maryland: Heritage Books, 2008.
- Mullen, Robert W. BLACKS IN AMERICA'S WARS.
New York: Anchor Foundation, 1973.
- Munden, Kennth W. and Henry Putney Beers. THE
UNION: A Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War. Washington:
National Archives and Records Administration, 1986.
- Nalty, Bernard C. STRENGTH FOR THE FIGHT: A
History of Black Americans in the Military. New York: The Free Press,
1986.
- Newby, M. Dalyce (Series Editor: T. P. Morley,
M.D.). ANDERSON RUFFIN ABBOTT: First Afro-Canadian Doctor. Markham,
Ontario: Associated Medical Services, Incorporated and Fitzhenry and
Whiteside, 1998. [Chapter 6 - The Civil War Years]
- Ochs, Stephen J. A BLACK PATRIOT AND A WHITE
PRIEST: Andre Cailloux and Claude Paschal Maistre in Civil War New Orleans.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
- O'Connor, Robert J.
CATESBY: EYEWITNESS TO
THE CIVIL WAR.
West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania:
Infinity Publishing, ----.
- O'Connor, Robert J.
THE PERFECT STEEL TRAP HARPERS FERRY
1859.
West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania:
Infinity Publishing, ----.
- O'Connor, Robert J.
THE U. S. COLORED
TROOPS AT
ANDERSONVILLE PRISON.
West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania:
Infinity Publishing, 2009.
- O'Connor, Robert J.
THE VIRGINIAN WHO MIGHT HAVE SAVED
LINCOLN.
West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania:
Infinity Publishing, ----.
- Ohio Adjutant General's Office. OFFICIAL ROSTER
OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE STATE OF OHIO IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION 1861-1866.
Akron: The Werner Company, 1893.
- Quarles, Benjamin. THE NEGRO IN THE CIVIL WAR.
New York: Da Capo Press, 1953.
- Paradis, James M. STRIKE THE BLOW FOR FREEDOM:
The 6th United States Colored Infantry in the Civil War. Shippensburg,
Pennsylvania: White Mane Books, 1998.
- Redkey, Edwin S., Editor. A GRAND ARMY OF BLACK
MEN: Letters from African American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861-1865.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Regimental Association. RECORD OF THE SERVICE OF
THE FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Cambridge:
Press of John Wilson and Son, 1868. (Reprinted 1991 by Ayer Company,
Publishers, Inc., Salem, NH.)
- Rhodes, Robert Hunt. ed. ALL FOR THE UNION: The
Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes. New York: Vintage
Books, 1985.
- Romero, Patricia, and Willie Lee Rose, Editors.
SUSIE KING TAYLOR: Reminiscences of My Life - A Black Woman's Civil War
Memoirs. New York: Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1988.
- Tabor, Chris. THE SKIRMISH AT ISLAND MOUND,
MISSOURI: October 28, 1862. Independence, Missouri: The Blue and Gray Book
Shoppe, 2001.
- Todd, Glenda
McWhirter.
FIRST ALABAMA CAVALRY, USA:
Homage to Patriotism.
Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc.,
1999.
- Trudeau, Noah Andre., ed. VOICES OF THE 55TH:
Letters from the 55th Massachusetts Volunteers 1861-1865. Dayton, OH.:
Morningside House, Inc., 1996.
- United States War Department. THE WAR OF THE
REBELLION: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies. 128 Volumes. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
- Weaver, C. P., Editor. THANK GOD MY REGIMENT AN
AFRICAN ONE: The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.
- Westwood, Howard C. BLACK TROOPS WHITE
COMMANDERS AND FREEDMEN DURING THE CIVIL WAR. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1992.
- Wiley, Bell Irvin. THE LIFE OF JOHNNY REB: The
Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1943.
- Wiley, Bell Irvin. THE LIFE OF BILLY YANK: The
Common Soldier of the Union. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1952.
- Wilson, Joseph T. THE BLACK PHALANX: A History
of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65.
Hartford, CT.: American Publishing Company, 1890. (Copyright 1968 by Arno
Press, Inc., and reprinted by Ayer Company Publishers, Inc., 1992.)
- Wright, Roberta Hughes. A TRIBUTE TO CHARLOTTE
FORTEN (1837-1914). Southfield, Michigan: Charro Book Company, 1993.
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