Selective Bibliography

History, Literature and Film of the Civil War

Compiled by Bruce Clary

Literature with Civil War as Subject or Setting

Aaron, Daniel. The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War. Tuscaloosa: University
of Alabama Press, 2003.
Atwood, David Wilson. Where the Mockingbird Sang: A Novel of the Civil War. CreateSpace,
2010.
Bach, Peggy and David Madden, eds. Classics of Civil War Fiction. U of Alabama P, 2001.
9780817310929.
Bahr, Howard. The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War. New York, Holt-Picador, 1997.
---. The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War. New York: Holt-Picador, 2006.
---. The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War. New York: Holt-Picador, 2000.
Banks, Russell. Cloudsplitter. Harper Perennial, 1999. Call# 813 B218c.
Barrett, Faith and Cristanne Miller, eds. Words for the Hour: A New Anthology of American Civil
War Poetry. U of Massachusetts P, 2005. ISBN-13: 978-1558495098. Call# 811 W924.
Bell, Madison Smartt. Devil’s Dream: A Novel. New York: Random House-Vintage, 2009.
Bierce, Ambrose. Civil War Stories. Dover, 1994.
Bierce, Ambrose. Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of
Ambrose Bierce. Eds. Russell Duncan and David J. Klooster. U of Massachusetts P,
2002. Call# 813 B588p.
Bierce, Ambrose. Shadows of Blue & Gray: The Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce. Forge
Books, 2003.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction. 1895.
---. The Little Regiment and Other Stories. 1896.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. Waiting for the Verdict. 1868. North Carolina UP, 1968.
De Forest, John W. Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. 1867. Kessinger
Publishing, LLC, 2008.
Dixon, Thomas. The Clansman. 1905. The Novel as American Social History. Ed. Thomas D.
Clark. UP of Kentucky, 1970.
---. The Leopard’s Spots: A Romance of the White Man’s Burden, 1865-1900. 1902.
Doctorow, E. L. The March: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2005
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Fanatics. 1901.
Eastman, Mary Henderson. Aunt Phillis’s Cabin: or, Southern Life as It Truly Is. 1852.
Evans, Augusta J. Macaria: Or, Altars of Sacrifice. 1864. Library of Southern Civilization. Ed.
Drew Gilpin Faust. Louisiana State UP, 1992.
Finseth, Ian Frederick, ed. The American Civil War: An Anthology of Essential Writings.
Routledge, 1996.
Foote, Shelby. Shiloh: A Novel. 1952.
---, ed. Chickamauga: And Other Civil War Stories. Delta, 1993.
Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. Atlantic Monthly P, 1997.
Garren, Terrell. The Fifth Skull: A Historical Novel of the Civil War and the American West.
Spartanburg S.C.: Reprint Company, 2008.
Gingrich, Newt, and Forstchen, William. Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War. 1st ed. New
York: St. Martin's Press, 2003.
Hentz, Caroline. The Planters Northern Bride. Repr. Kessinger, 2004.
Hicks, Robert. The Widow of the South. Grand Central, 2006.
James, Jessica. Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia, or A Tale of the War for
Southern Independence in the Old Dominion. Gettysburg, Pa.: Patriot, 2008.
Kantor, Mackinley. Andersonville. World, 1955.
Koon, George. Old Glory and the Stars and Bars: Stories of the Civil War. Columbia S.C.:
University of South Carolina Press, 1995.
Lowenfels, Walter. Walt Whitman's Civil War. Revised ed. Da Capo Press, 1989.
Masur, Louis P, ed. Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War. Thunder's Mouth P,
2000.
Masur, Louis P., ed. The Real War Will Never Get in the Books. Oxford UP, 1995.
McClatchy, J. D., ed. Poets of the Civil War. American Poets Project. Library of America, 2005.
McPherson, James M. and William J. Cooper, eds. Writing the Civil War. U of South Carolina P,
1998.
McSherry, Frank, ed. Civil War Women: The Civil War Seen Through Women's Eyes in Stories
by Louisa May Alcott and Others. Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Melville, Hermann. Battle Pieces: The Civil War Poems of Herman Melville. Ed. Lisa Lipkin.
Castle Books, 2000.
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan, 1936. Call# 813 M682g.
Mitchell, S. Weir. In War Time. 1885.
Mrazek, Robert. Stonewall's Gold: A Novel. New York: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Griffin,
2000.
---. Unholy Fire: A Novel of the Civil War. 1st ed. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2003.
Negri, Paul, ed. Civil War Poetry. Dover, 1997.
Page, Thomas Nelson. Marse Chan and Other Stories. 1884.

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Phelps, Elizabeth. The Gates Ajar. 1868.
Price, Charles. Freedom's Altar. Winston-Salem, N.C.: J.F. Blair, 1999.
---. Hiwassee : A Novel of the Civil War. Chicago: Academy Chicago, 2003.
Shaara, Jeff. Gods and Generals.
Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels. 1976. Ballantine, 2003. Call# 813 S524k.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. 1852. Barnes Noble,
2003.
Timrod, Henry. Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition. Eds. Edd Winfield
Parks and Aileen W. Parks. U of Georgia P, 2007.
Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Civil War. Ed. David Rachel. UP of Kentucky, 2007.
Walker, Margaret. Jubilee. 1966.
Whitman, Walt. Civil War Poetry and Prose. Dover, 1995.
Yacavone, Donald, ed.. Freedom’s Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War.
Lawrence Hill, 2004. Call# 973.7 F853.

Literary Criticism
Fahs, Alice. The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North & South, 1861-1865. U of
North Carolina P, 2000.
Morris, Jr., Roy. The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War. Oxford UP, 2000. Call# 811
W615Ym
Schaefer, Michael W. Just What War Is: The Civil War Writings of De Forest and Bierce. U of
Tennessee P, 1997.
Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. Oxford,
1962. Call# 810.9 W747p

Primary Sources
Bonner, Robert E. The Soldier’s Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War. Hill and Wang,
2006. Call# 973.74 B716s.
Chesnut, Mary. Mary Chesnut's Civil War. Ed. C. Vann Woodward. Yale UP, 1993. 978-
0300029796. Previous ed Call# 973.782 C524m.
Dawson, Sarah, ed. Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1992.
“Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina
from the Federal Union.” 24 Dec. 1860. Web. 31 Dec. 2010.
Finkelman, Paul. Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South: A Brief History with
Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.

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---. Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.
Freidel, Frank Burt, comp. Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1861-1865. Belknap, 1967.
Call#973.71 F862u v.1, v.2.
Gallagher, Gary W. Two Witnesses at Gettysburg: The Personal Accounts of Whitelaw Reid and
A. J. L. Fremantle. Brandywine, 1994. Call#973.7 T974.
Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. C.L. Webster, 1885-1886. Call# 973.73
G763Yp v.1, v.2.
Higginson, The Complete Civil War Journal and Selected Letters of Thomas Wentworth
Higginson. Ed. Christopher Looby. U of Chicago P, 2000. Call# 973.7415 H637.
Jones, Katherine M, ed. Heroines of Dixie; Confederate Women Tell Their Stories. Bobbs-
Merrill, 1955. Call# 973.782 J77h.
Kansas State Historical Society and University of Kansas. “Bibliography: Government-The
Kansas-Nebraska Act and the "Kansas Question".” Territorial Kansas Online 15 June
2006. Web. 30 Dec. 2010.
“Kansas-Nebraska Act: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services,
Library of Congress).” Library of Congress Web Guides 30 July 2010. Web. 30 Dec.
2010.
Kiper, Richard L, ed. Dear Catharine, Dear Taylor : The Civil War Letters of a Union Soldier
and His Wife. Letters transcribed by Donna B. Vaughn. UP of Kansas, 2002. Call#973.7
P378d.
Lincoln, Abraham. Lincoln on Race and Slavery. Princeton N.J.: Princeton UP, 2009.
Morgan, Sarah. Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman. Ed. Charles East.
Touchstone, 1992.
Rhodes, Elisha. All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes. 1st
ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
Sherman, William Tecumseh. Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Library of
America, 1990. Call# 973.7092 S553m.
Songs of the Civil War: First Recordings from Original Editions. New World Records, 1976.
Call# AV 784.68 S698 LP
Strong, George Templeton. Diary of the Civil War, 1860-1865. Macmillan, 1962. Call# 973.7
S923g.
Taylor, Susie King. A Black Woman’s Civil War Memoirs: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp
with the 33rd U. S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers. Ed. Patricia W.
Romero. M. Wiener Pub, 1988. Call # 973.7415 T246b.
Watkins, Samuel. Co. Aytch, or, A Side Show of the Big Show and Other Sketches. New York:
Plume, 1999.

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Memory and Forgetting

Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Belknap, 2002.
Desjardin, Thomas A. These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American
Memory. De Capo, 2004.
Fahs, Alice and Joan Waugh. The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. U of North
Carolina P, 2004.
Goldfield, David R. Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History.
Louisiana State UP, 2002. Call# 975 G618s.

Film Studies

Blight, David. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge Mass.:
Belknap—Harvard UP, 2001.
Chadwick, Bruce. The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film. Vintage, 2002
Cullen, Jim. The Civil War in Popular Culture. Smithsonian, 1996.
Gallagher, Gary W. Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape
What We Know about the Civil War. U of North Carolina P, 2008.
Hurwitz, Michael. D. W. Griffith's Film, The Birth of a Nation: The Film that Transformed
America. BookSurge, 2006.
Kinnard, Roy. The Blue and the Gray on the Silver Screen. Carol, 1996.
Lang, Robert, ed. The Birth of a Nation. Rutgers Films in Rutgers UP, 1994.
Stokes, Melvyn. D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial
Motion Picture of All Time. Oxford UP, 2008.

Period Studies

Andrews, J. Cutler. South Reports the Civil War. Princeton UP, 1970. Call# 973.7 A567s.
Ayers, Edward L. Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration.
Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2009.
---. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. Norton, 2003.
Call# 973.7 A977i.
Blackmon, Douglas. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from
the Civil War to World War II. New York: Anchor Books, 2009.
Blanton, DeAnne and Lauren M Cook. They Fought like Demons: Women Soldiers in the
American Civil War. Louisiana State UP, 2002. Call#973.7 B643t.

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Blight, David.. Union and Emancipation: Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era.
Kent Ohio: Kent State UP, 1997.
Budiansky, Stephen. The Bloody Shirt: Terror After the Civil War. New York: Plume, 2009.
Bynum, Victoria. The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies. Chapel
Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2010.
Cartmell, David. The Civil War Up Close: Thousands Of Curious, Obscure, And Fascinating
Facts About The War America Could Never Win. New Page Books, 2004.
Castel, Albert. Civil War Kansas: Reaping the Whirlwind. UP of Kansas, 1998. Call# 973.7
C348c.
Catton, Bruce. The Civil War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Cisco, Walter. War Crimes against Southern Civilians. Gretna: Pelican Pub. Co., 2007.
Cox, LaWanda. Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership. Columbia
S.C.: U of South Carolina P, 1994.
Daley, John Patrick. When Slavery Was Called Freedom: Evangelicalism, Proslavery, and the
Causes of the Civil War. UP of Kentucky, 2002. Call# 973.711 D153w.
Dew, Charles. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the
Civil War. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2002.
Egerton, Douglas. Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That
Brought on the Civil War. New York: Bloomsbury, 2010.
Eicher, David J. Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War. Little Brown, 2006.
Call# 973.713 E34d.
Escott, Paul. "What Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War
America. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2009.
Etcheson, Nicole. Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. UP of Kansas, 2004.
Call# 973.7113 E83b.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Vintage,
2009.
Fitzgerald, Michael. Splendid Failure: Postwar Reconstruction in the American South. Chicago:
Ivan R. Dee, 2007.
Foner, Eric. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. 1st ed. New York: W. W.
Norton, 2010.
---. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Knopf, 2005. Call# 973.8
F673f.
---. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. 1st ed. New York: Perennial
Classics, 2002.
---. A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863-1877. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.
Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. 3 vols. New York: Vintage, 1986.

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Ford, Lacy. Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South. New York: Oxford
UP, 2009.
Gallagher, Gary. The Confederate War. Cambridge Massachusetts ;;London: Harvard UP, 1999.
Glatthaar, Joseph. General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse. 1st ed. New York: Free Press,
2009.
Goodrich, Th. The Day Dixie Died: Southern Occupation, 1865-1866. Mechanicsburg, Penn.:
Stackpole, 2001.
Guelzo, Allen. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America. New
York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004.
Heyrman, Christine. Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Howe, Daniel. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. New
York: Oxford UP, 2007.
Jaffa, Harry. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas
Debates. 50th ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009.
Johnson, Walter. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard UP, 1999.
Jones, Terry L. Historical Dictionary of the Civil War. 2 vols. Scarecrow, 2002. Call# R 973.7
J79h.
Keith, LeeAnna. The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the
Death of Reconstruction. New York ;;Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
Lane, Charles. The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the
Betrayal of Reconstruction. 1st ed. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
Lemann, Nicholas. Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War. 1st ed. New York: Farrar
Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Levine, Bruce. Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War. Rev. ed. New York: Hill and
Wang, 2005.
Manning, Chandra. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War. 1st ed.
New York: Vintage Civil War Library, 2008.
Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Women in the Civil War. Introduction by Jean V. Berlin. U of Nebraska
P, 1994. Call#973.7 M416w.
McCurry, Stephanie. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South.
Cambridge Mass.: Harvard UP, 2010.
---. Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture
of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country. 1st ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Ballantine, 1989. Call# 973.73
M172b.

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---. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York N.Y.: Oxford UP,
1997.
-----. Ordeal by Fire : The Civil War and Reconstruction. Random House, 1982. Call# 973.7
M172o.
---. This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War. New York ;;Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.
Morrison, Michael. “Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the
Coming of the Civil War.” Web. 30 Dec. 2010.
Noe, Kenneth. Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861. Chapel
Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Nudelman, Franny. John Brown’s Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War. U of North
Carolina P, 2004. Call# 973.71 N964j.
Oates, Stephen B. A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War. Free Press, 1995.
Call#361.77092 B293Yo
Potter, David. The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. New York: HarperPerennial, 2007.
Reynolds, David S. John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil
War, and Seeded Civil Rights. Knopf, 2005. Call# 973.7116 B877Yr.
Richardson, Heather. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War.
New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.
Rose, Anne. Victorian America and the Civil War. 1st ed. New York: Cambridge UP, 1994.
Ross, Charles D. Trial by Fire: Science, Technology and the Civil War. White Mane, 2000. Call#
973.7 R823t.
Rothman, Adam. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. 1st ed.
Cambridge Mass.: Harvard UP, 2007.
Rubin, Anne. A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Rutkow, Ira M. Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American
Medicine. Random House, 2005, Call# 973.7 R977b.
SenGupta, Gunja. “Bleeding Kansas: A Review Essay.” Kansas History 24.Winter 2001/2002:
318-341.
Settle, Mary Lee. Know Nothing. 1960.
Sheehan-Dean, Aaron. Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Stout, Harry. Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War. New York N.Y.:
Penguin Books, 2007.
Striner, Richard. Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery. New York:
Oxford UP, 2006.
“The Crittenden Compromise.” The New York Times 6 Feb. 1861. Web. 30 Dec. 2010.

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Van Evrie, John H. Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race: The Latter, Its
Normal Condition. New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1861.
---. White Supremacy and Negro Subordination: Or, Negroes a Subordinate Race, and (So-
Called) Slavery Its Normal Condition, with an Appendix, Showing the Past and Present
Condition of the Countries South of Us. Horton & Co., 1870.
Varon, Elizabeth. Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859. Chapel Hill:
Univ Of North Carolina Pr, 2010.
“Virginia Civil War 150 YouTube Channel.” 8 Nov. 2010. Web. 30 Dec. 2010.
Wert, Jeffry. General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier: A
Biography. 1st ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Wiley, Bell. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Updated ed. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2008.
---. The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Updated ed. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State UP, 2008.
Williams, David. A People’s History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom.
New Press, 2005. Call# 973.7 W722p.

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