The Civil War

Eyewitness to the Civil War: The Complete History from Secession to Reconstruction by Stephen G. Hyslop and Neil Kagan

Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War by David Detzer

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson

Secession Winter: When the Union Fell Apart by Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, and Elizabeth R. Varon

Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee by Michael Korda

The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It edited by Brooks D. Simpson, Stephen W. Sears, and Aaron Sheehan-Deans

The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It edited by Stephen W. Sears

McClellan and Failure: A Study of Civil War Fear, Incompetence and Worse by Edward H. Bonekeeper

William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life by James Lee McDonough

Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary by Walter Stahr

Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles by Brian K. Burton

Shenandoah 1862 : Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign by Peter Cozzens

The Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and Battles by Michael B. Bullard

War on the Waters, The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861–1865 by James M. McPherson

The Civil War on the Mississippi: Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River by Barbara Brooks Tomblin

From Cedar Mountain to Antietam by Edward J. Stackpole

Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters by Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S.C. Gwynne

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America by Allen C. Guelzo

The Negro’s Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union by James M. McPherson

Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson

Women on the Civil War Battlefront by Richard H. Hall

The Cavalryman of The Lost Cause: A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart by Jeffry D. Wert

Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy by Donald L. Miller

The Chancellorsville Campaign: The Nation’s High Water Mark by James K. Bryant

Gettysburg by Stephen Sears

Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America by Douglas R. Egerton

This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga by Peter Cozzens

The Chickamauga Campaign, A Mad Irregular Battle: From the Crossing of the Tennessee River through the Second Day, August 22–September 19, 1863 by David A. Powell

Clara Barton, Professional Angel by Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions by Steven Davis

The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2: 1860–1865 by Abraham Lincoln

Mobile Bay and the Mobile Campaign: The Last Great Battles of the Civil War by Chester G. Hearn

Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard

Out of the Storm: The End of the Civil War, April–June 1865 by Noah Andre Trudeau

April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes