Bibliography of the American Civil War

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The American Civil War bibliography comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month. James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier stated in 2012, "No event in American history has been so thoroughly studied, not merely by historians, but by tens of thousands of other Americans who have made the war their hobby. Perhaps a hundred thousand books have been published about the Civil War."

There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 of the most valuable titles as evaluated by three leading scholars. Many specialized topics such as Abraham Lincoln, women, and medicine have their own lengthy bibliographies. The books on major campaigns typically contain their own specialized guides to the sources and literature. The most comprehensive guide to the historiography annotates over a thousand major titles, with an emphasis on military topics. The most recent guide to literary and non-military topics is A History of American Civil War Literature (2016) edited by Coleman Hutchison. It emphasizes cultural studies, memory, diaries, southern literary writings, and famous novelists.

Video Bibliography of the American Civil War

Causes of the war

Secession

Maps Bibliography of the American Civil War

American Civil War battles and campaigns

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Naval history

Ironclads

Confederate raiders

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Unit histories

• Brown, J. Willard. The Signal Corps in the War of the Rebellion. Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896.
• Glatthaar, Joseph T. Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served Under Robert E. Lee. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8078-3492-3.
• Tennesseans in the Civil War: A Military History of Confederate and Union Units with Available Rosters of Personnel, two volumes. Nashville, Tennessee: Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964.
• Williams, George Forrester (1883). Bullet and shell : war as the soldier saw it; camp, march, and picket; battlefield and bivouac; prison and hospital. New York : Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. 

Union military units

Confederate military units

Strategy and command

Technology, weapons, logistics

Reconstruction

• See Reconstruction: Bibliography for complete guide

Medical

Primary sources

Constitutional and legal

Slavery and emancipation

International affairs

Collected biographies

Military leaders

Soldiers and sailors

Prisoners

Homefront

States, regions, and local

Guerillas

Ethnic groups

African Americans

Primary sources

• Adair, Lyle, and Glenn Robins. They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2011.

American Indians

Primary sources

Women

National

North

Black South

White South

Primary sources

Ideology, rhetoric, religion

Veterans

Historiography

Surveys and reference books

Maps, photographs, environment

Bibliographies

Newspapers in the Civil War

Art and music

Popular culture, novels, films

Tour guides

Monuments, battlefields, and battlefield preservation

Government publications

Primary sources

Memoirs

For the most recent surveys see:

• Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War & Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-984328-2.
• Fellman, Michael et al. This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2nd. ed. 2007).
• Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. ISBN 978-0-684-84944-7.
• Donald, David et al. The Civil War and Reconstruction. 2001.
• McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0-19-503863-7.
• Sheehan-Dean, ed., Aaron (2014). A Companion to the U.S. Civil War. New York: Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 1-44-435131-1. CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link) , 2 vol. 1232pp; 64 topical chapters by experts; emphasis on historiography.

Other

Further reading

For a guide to the bibliography see:

• Woodworth, Steven E.; ed. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Greenwood Press, 1996.
• Eicher, David J. The Civil War in Books An Analytical Bibliography. 1997.
• Murdock, Eugene C. Civil War in the North: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. Garland, 1987.
• Sheehan-Dean, ed., Aaron (2014). A Companion to the U.S. Civil War (2 vol. 2014) comprehensive 98 page bibliography is online free

For a guide to web sources see:

• Carter, Alice E.; Jensen, Richard. The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites--Completely Revised and Updated. 2003.

For an older short survey that is online and won the Pulitzer Prize (1918), see:

• Rhodes, James Ford. A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865.

See also

• Bibliography of Ulysses S. Grant

Notes

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