The Veteran's Bookstore
Civil War Sites: The Official Guide to
Battlefields, Monuments, and More
Within this easy-to-use guide, completely
revised and updated in clear, concise prose, are
more than 500 sites in 28 states--solemn
battlefields, gracious mansions, state parks,
cemeteries, memorials, museums, and more.
Specific directions, hours, and contact
information help to plan the trip; evocative
description and detailed maps help orient you
when you're there. As a new addition, boxed
sidebars authored by Congressmen and historians
passionately articulate many events of the Civil
War.
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Civil War : A Narrative (3 Vol. Set)
by Shelby Foote.
In 1954, Shelby Foote was a young novelist with a contract to write a short history of the Civil War. It soon became clear, however, that he had undertaken a long-term project. Twenty years later Foote finally completed his massive and essential trilogy on the War Between the States. His three books are prose masterpieces with lively characterizations and gripping action.
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Eye of the Storm : A Civil War Odyssey
by Robert Knox Sneden.
An unusual soldier's record of the Civil War has surfaced. Sneden was an ordinary volunteer in the Union army, but he could draft landscape views and maps, a talent gladly utilized by the Army of the Potomac. Sneden produced hundreds of maps and illustrations during the war, and afterward he tried to have them and his memoir published. No publishing house saw profit in it, until now.
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The Civil War Trilogy : Gods and Generals/the Killer Angels/the Last Full Measure
by Michael Shaara, Jeff M. Shaara.
Author Jeff M. Shaara rounds out the Civil War Trilogy started by his late father Michael Shaara, whose book The Killer Angels described the Battle of Gettysburg. While Gods and Generals covered action prior to Gettysburg, The Last Full Measure picks up with Confederate General Robert E. Lee's retreat from Pennsylvania and continues through the end of the war. The younger Shaara focuses on the characters of Lee and Union commander Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, both of whom play prominent roles in the earlier books.
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The Civil War Chronicle
by J. Matthew Gallman (Editor) .
In this moving day-by-day chronicle, we hear the real voices of the soldiers, nurses, farmers, laborers, slaves, and freed people who lived through America's most tragic conflict. This much-needed collection of the letters, diaries, speeches, telegrams, newspaper accounts, and official battlefield reports penned by those people presents an astonishing array of perspectives and conflicting accounts of this very personal war.
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Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson.
The esteemed, Pulitzer Prize-Winning history of the Civil War that brings to vivid life, the generals, the presidents, the soldiers, politicians, Abolitionists, Southern fire-eaters, Northern barn-burners, Copperheads, and Know-Nothings. An instant classic, this is the single volume on the tragic war and its background that every historian--amateur or trained--will want to have on the shelf to read again and again.
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The Amazing Civil War
by Webb Garrison.
Reviewer:
"I have three of Garrison's books: The Amazing Civil War, Civil War Curiosities, and More Civil War Curiosities. I would recommend each and every book to anyone! The facts that Garrison writes about are both interesting and captivating and being a high school American History teacher, I plan on using the facts that I have found no where else to captivate my students and give them a perspective on the war that they may have never found otherwise."
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Landscape Turned Red : The Battle of Antietam
by Stephen W. Sears.
The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to recreate the vivid drama of Antietam as experienced not only by its leaders but also by its soldiers, both Union and Confederate.
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Gettysburg
by Stephen W. Sears.
The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation"s history. Volumes have been written about this momentous three-day battle, but recent histories have tended to focus on the particulars rather than the big picture: on the generals or on single days of battle — even on single charges — or on the daily lives of the soldiers. In Gettysburg Sears tells the whole story in a single volume.
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Mosby's Rangers
by Jeffry D. Wert.
No single battalion was more feared during the Civil War than the 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, better known as "Mosby's Rangers." Here, in vivid and fascinating detail, is the most authoritative account of the Rangers' infamous adventures, written by a prize-winning historian. ". . . recommended for nearly any Civil War collection."--Booklist. 16 pages of photographs.
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Robert E. Lee
by Roy Blount.
An offbeat Southern commentator takes a fresh look at the great Confederate hope, Civil War hero and nationally controversial figure.
Iconic Virginian, brilliant general, and complex human being --- that last aspect of Robert E. Lee has daunted biographers and been disregarded by partisans. Now Roy Blount Jr. combines acute character insight with lively storytelling and full-hearted Southern directness to craft this unique portrait.
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 Chancellorsville
by Stephen W. Sears.
Chancellorsville was one of the Civil War's pivotal campaigns, a great victory for the South that, however, led directly to the death of top Confederate general Stonewall Jackson.
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The Blue and the Gray : The Story of the Civil War As Told by Participants
by Henry Steele Commager (Editor), Douglas Southall Freeman.
Reviewer: Just the notes connecting the first person peices of these volumes make for a good history of the Civil War! They're short but good. But that is not the point. The accounts themselves are by soldiers (and sometimes civilians) written as they lived the adventure and tragedy of the Civil War. Cavalry raids come to life. Battles materialize before your eyes.
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Tempest at Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly
by David A. Welker
The first-ever popular account of a tide-turning Civil War battle that saved the Union capital-but at a horrific price.
Every Civil War buff has heard of the Battle of Chantilly, the bloody 1862 engagement fought in a driving rainstorm only twenty miles from Washington that claimed the lives of two of the Union's most promising generals. Yet few have known the full story of courage and human drama because no one has ever produced a lively and historically accurate account of the battle-until now.
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Grant
by Jean Edward Smith.
Hiram Ulysses Grant--mistakenly enrolled in the United States Military Academy as Ulysses Simpson Grant, and so known ever since--was a failure in many of the things to which he turned his hand. An indifferent, somewhat undisciplined cadet who showed talent for mathematics and painting, he served with unexpected distinction in the U.S. war against Mexico, then repeatedly went broke as a real-estate speculator, freighter, and farmer.
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