MY CIVIL WAR BOOK COLLECTION

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BIOGRAPHIES (UNION GENERALS)

Adelbert Ames: General, Senator, Governor by Blanche Ames

Death to Traitors: The Story of Lafayette C. Baker, Lincoln’s Secret Service Chief by Jacob Mogelever

A Long March: The Lives of Frank and Alice Baldwin by Robert H. Steinbach

Fighting Politician: Major General N.P. Banks by Fred Harvey Harrington

The Boy General: The Life and Careers of Francis Channing Barlow by Richard F. Welch

Life and Achievements of James Addams Beaver: Early Life, Military Services and Public Career by Frank A. Burr

The Life of General Daniel Davidson Bidwell by Frederick David Bidwell

Life of David Bell Birney: Major-General U.S. Volunteers by Oliver Davis

Frank Blair: Lincoln’s Conservative by William E. Parrish

General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory by Robert Collins

Most Promising of All: Don Carlos Buell by Stephen D. Engle

General John Buford: A Military Biography by Edward Longacre

Burnside by William Marvel

Stormy Ben Butler by Robert S. Holzman

Prudent Soldier: A Biography of Major General E.R.S. Canby by Max L. Heyman, Jr.

War Eagle: A Life of General Eugene A. Carr by James T. King

Soul of the Lion (Joshua Chamberlain) by Willard M. Wallace

Glory Hunter: A Biography of Patrick Edward Connor by Brigham D. Madsen

Major General Darius Nash Couch: Enigmatic Valor by A.M. Gambone

Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer by Louise Barnett

A Quest for Flory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren by Robert J. Schneller, Jr.

Black Jack Davidson: A Cavalry Commander on the Western Frontier by Homer K. Davidson

Denver, The Man by George C. Barns

Trails, Rails and War: The Life of General G.M. Dodge by J.R. Perkins

Damn the Torpedoes: The Story of America’s First Admiral: David Glasgow Farragut by Christopher Martin

Andrew Foote: Civil War Admiral on Western Waters by Spencer C. Tucker

From First to Last: The Life of Major General William B. Franklin by Mark A. Snell

Fremont: Pathmarker of the West by Allan Nevins

James A. Garfield by Edwin P. Hoyt

A Giant in Those Days: A Story About the Life of John White Geary by Mary deForest Geary

Iron Brigade General: John Gibbon, a Rebel in Blue by Dennis S. Lavery & Mark H. Jordan

Vermont Hero: Major General Lewis A. Grant by George S. Maharay

Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely

Life of Walter Quintin Gresham: 1832-1895 by Matilda Gresham

Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin Grierson and His Family by William H. Leckie and Shirley A. Leckie

Henry Halleck’s War: A Fresh Look at Lincoln’s Controversial General-in-Chief by Curt Anders

Hancock the Superb by Glenn Tucker

General William S. Harney: Prince of Dragoons by George Rollie Adams

Benjamin Harrison by Elisabeth P. Myers

Major-General John Frederick Hartranft: Citizen Soldier and Pennsylvania Statesman by A.M. Gambone

That Man Haupt: A Biography of Herman Haupt by James A. Ward

General Hawkins: As He Revealed Himself to His Librarian by Margaret Stillwell

Alexander "Fighting Elleck" Hays: by Wayne Mahood

Rutherford B. Hayes: Statesman of Reunion by H.J. Eckenrode

Sword and Olive Branch (Oliver Otis Howard) by John A. Carpenter

Fighting Joe Hooker by Walter H. Hebert

Thomas Hamlin Hubbard: Bvt. Brigadier General of U.S. Vols. By Henry S. Burrage

Andrew Atkinson Humphreys: A Biography by Henry H. Humphreys

The Man Behind the Guns: A Biography of Henry J. Hunt by Edward G. Longacre

The Biography of David Hunter: Lincoln’s Abolitionist General by Edward A. Miller, Jr.

Andrew Johnson: A Biography by Hans L. Trefousse

Star on Many a Battlefield: Brevett Brigadier General Joseph Karge in the American Civil War by F.C. Kajencki

Kearny the Magnificent: The Story of General Philip Kearny, 1815-1862 by Irving Werstein

Kill-Cavalry: Sherman’s Merchant of Terror: The Life of Union Gen Hugh Judson Kilpatrick by Samuel J. Martin

Frederick W. Lander: The Great Natural American Soldier by Gary L. Ecelbarger

The Political Career of General James H. Lane by Wendell Holmes Stephenson, Ph.D.

Prince of Carpetbaggers (Milton S. Littlefield) by Jonathan Daniels

Black Jack: John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era by James Pickett Jones

Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon by Christopher Phillips

Bad Hand: A Biography of General Ranald S. Mackenzie by Charles M. Robinson III

George B. McClellen: The Young Napolean by Stephen W. Sears

Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform by Richard L. Kiper

Forgotten Hero: General James B. McPherson: The Biography of a Civil War General by Elizabeth J. Whaley

Meade of Gettysburg by Freeman Cleaves

Memoirs of General Thomas Francis Meagher by Michael Cavanagh

Quartermaster General of the Union Army: a biography of M.C. Meigs by Russell F. Weigley

Brandy Station to Manila Bay: a biography of General Wesley Merritt by Don E. Alberts

Unregimented General: A Biography of Nelson A. Miles by Virginia W. Johnson

Appomattox Commander: The Story of General E.O.C. Ord by Bernarr Cresap

A Conscientious Turncoat: The Story of John M. Palmer 1817-1900 by George Thomas Palmer

A Builder of the West: The Life of General William Jackson Palmer by John S. Fisher

General John Pope: A Life for the Nation by Peter Cozzens

The Civil War Years: Admiral David Dixon Porter by Chester G. Hearn

An American Soldier and Diplomat: Horace Porter by Elsie Porter Mende

Remember Reno: A Biography of Major General Jesse Lee Reno by William F. McConnell

Toward Gettysburg: A Biography of General John F. Reynolds by Edward J. Nichols

Uncle Jerry: Life and Public Services of Jeremiah M. Rusk by Henry Casson

That Sterling Soldier: The Life of David A. Russell by A.D. Slade

The Edge of Glory: A Biography of General William S. Rosecrans, U.S.A. by William M. Lamers

Schofield: Union General in the Civil War and Reconstruction by James L. McDonough

Winfield Scott: The Soldier and the Man by Charles Winslow Elliott

Carl Schurz: Militant Liberal by Joseph Schafer

General John Sedgwick: Story of a Union Corps Commander by Richard Winslow

Sheridan: The Inevitable by Richard O'Connor

Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman by Michael Fellman

Dan Sickles: Hero of Gettysburg and Yankee King of Spain by Edgcumb Pinchon

Yankee Dutchman: The Life of Franz Sigel by Stephen D. Engle

Life and Services of William Farrar Smith: Major General, United States Volunteers by James Harrison Wilson

Soldier in White: The Life of General George Miller Sternberg by John M. Gibson

No Tears for the General: The Life of Alfred Sully, 1821-1879 by Langdon Sully

The Dependable General: George Henry Thomas, Major General, U.S.A. by Frank Palumbo

General Henry Goddard Thomas by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

No Disgrace to My Country: The Life of John C. Tidball by Eugene C. Tidball

What Death More Glorious: A Biography of General Strong Vincent by James H. Nevins and William B. Styple

General Wadsworth: The Life and Times of Brevet Major General James S. Wadsworth by Wayne Mahood

"Ben-Hur" Wallace: The Life of General Lew Wallace by Irving McKee

Life and Letters of General W.H.L. Wallace by Isabel Wallace

Gouverneur Kemble Warren: Life and letters of an American Soldier by Emerson Gifford Taylor

Edward A. Wild and the African Brigade in the Civil War by Frances H. Casstevens

From Union Stars to Top Hat: A Biography of General James Harrrison Wilson by E. G. Longacre

General George Wright: Guardian of the Pacific Coast by Carl P. Schlicke

The Life of General Samuel K. Zook: Another Forgotten Union Hero by A.M. Gambone

BIOGRAPHIES (CONFEDERATE GENERALS)

Edward Porter Alexander by Maury Klein

Henry Watkins Allen of Louisiana by Vincent H. Cassidy & Amos E. Simpson

Lee’s Noble Soldier: Lieutenant General Richard Heron Anderson by Joseph Cantey Elliot

General Turner Ashby and Stonewall's Valley Campaign by Millard Bushong

P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray by T. Harry Williams

Brigadier General Tyree H. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest’s Fighting Lieutenant by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.

The Forgotten Stonewall of the West: Major General John Stevens Bowen by Phillip Thomas Tucker

Braxton Bragg and the Confederate Defeat (Vol. 1 & Vol. II) by Grady McWhiney

Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol by William C. Davis

William Montague Browne: Versatile Anglo-Irish American 1833-1883 by E. Merton Coulter

Admiral Franklin Buchanan: Fearless Man of Action by Charles Lee Lewis

Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight by Arndt M. Stickles

Southern Hero Matthew Calbraith Butler: Conf Gen, Hampton Red Shirt, and U.S. Senator by Samuel J. Martin

Old Tige: General William L. Cabell, CSA by Paul Harvey Jr.

Tennessee’s Forgotten Warriors: Frank Cheatham and His Confederate Division by Christopher Losson

Pat Cleburne: Confederate General by Howell and Elizabeth Purdue

Thomas R. R. Cobb: The Making of a Southern Nationalist by William B. McCash

A Sketch of the Life and Service of General William Ruffin Cox by Frank S. Spruill

General James Dearing, CSA by William L. Parker

Basil Wilson Duke, CSA: The Right Man in the Right Place by Gary Robert Matthews

Old Jube: A Biograhy of Jubal A. Early by Millard Kesler Bushong, Ph.D.

Shanks: The Life and Wars of General Nathan G., CSA by Silverman, Thomas & Evans

Intrepid Warrior: Clement Anselm Evans by Robert Grier Stephens, Jr.

The Road to Glory: Confederate General Richard S. Ewell by Samuel J. Martin

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A biography by Jack Hurst

States Rights Gist: A South Carolina General of the Civil War by Walter Brian Cisco

The Gallant Gladden: The Life and Times of General A.H. Gladden, South Carolinian by Edith Anthony Purvis

John Brown Gordon by Ralph Lowell Eckert

Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance by Frank E. Vandiver

General Tom Green: A Fightin Texan by Odie Faulk

Lee’s Last Major General Bryan Grimes of North Carolina by T. Harrell Allen

Giant in Gray: A Biography of Wade Hampton of South Carolina by Manly Wade Wellman

General William J. Hardee: Old Reliable by Nathaniel Hughes, Jr.

A.P. Hill: Lee's Forgotten General by William Woods Hassler

Lee's Maverick General: Daniel Harvey Hill by Hal Bridges

The Lion of the South: General Thomas C. Hindman by Diane Neal & Thomas W. Kremm

General Robert F. Hoke: Lee's Modest Warrior by Daniel Barefoot

The Gallant Hood by John P. Dyer

Scapegoat General: The Story of Major General Benjamin Huger, C.S.A. by Jeffrey L. Rhoades

A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut

Defender of the Valley: Brigadier General John Daniel Imboden, C.S.A. by Harold R. Woodward

They Called Him Stonewall: A Life of Lt. General T.J. Jackson, C.S.A. by Burke Davis

Prince of Edisto: Brigadier General Micah Jenkins, C.S.A. by James K. Swisher

Yankee Quaker/Confederate: The Curious Career of General Bushrod Rust Johnson by Charles Cummings

Old Alleghany: The Life and Wars of General Ed Johnson by Gregg S. Clemmer

The Life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston William Preston Johnston

A Different Valor: Joseph E. Johnston: by Gilbert Govan and James Livingwood

Confederacy's Forgotten Son: James Lawson Kemper, C.S.A. by Harold Woodward

This Awful Drama: General Edwin Gray Lee, C.S.A., and His Family by Alexandra Lee Levin

General Fitzhugh Lee: A Biography by James L. Nichols

Gray Cavalier: The Life and Wars of General W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee by Mary Bandy Daughtry

Robert E. Lee: A Biography by Emory M. Thomas

General Stephen D. Lee by Herman Hattaway

James Longstreet: Lee’s War Horse by H.J. Eckenrode & Bryan Conrad

W.W. Loring: Florida’s Forgotten General "Old Blizzards" by James W. Raab

Prince John Magruder: His Life and Campaigns by Paul D. Casdorph

Samuel Bell Maxey: A Biography by Louise Horton

Tiger John (McCausland) The Rebel Who Burned Chambersburg by David L. Phillips

Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military Tradition by Thomas W. Cutrer

Rebel Raider: Life of General John Hunt Morgan by James Ramage

Acadian General: Alfred Mouton & the Civil War by William Arceneaux

Confederate Commissary Gen.: Lucius Bellinger Northrop by Jerrold Northrop Moore

General John Pegram C.S.A. by Walter S. Griggs, Jr.

Pemberton: A Biography by Michael B. Ballard

General William Dorsey Pender: A Military Biography by Edward G. Longacre

Memoirs of William Nelson Pendleton by Susan P. Lee

Carolina Cavalier: The Life and Mind of James Johnston Pettigrew by Clyde N. Wilson

Pickett, Leader of the Charge: A Biography of General George E. Pickett, C.S.A. by Edward G. Longacre

Reluctant General: The Life and Times of Albert Pike by Robert Lipscomb Duncan

The Life & Wars of Gideon J. Pillow by Hughes & Stonesifer

General Leonidas Polk C.S.A.: The Fighting Bishop by Joseph H. Parks

Kentucky’s last Cavalier: General William Preston, 1816 - 1887 by Peter J. Sehlinger

Sterling Price: Portrait of a Southerner by Robert Shalhope

Adapt or Perish: The Life of General Roger A. Pryor, C.S.A. by Robert S. Holzman

Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee's Gallant General by Gary W. Gallagher

George Wythe Randolph and the Confederate Elite by George Green Shackelford

Matt W. Ransom: Confederate General from North Carolina by Clayton Charles Marlow

Warrior in Gray: General Robert Rodes of Lee's Army by James K. Swisher

Sul Ross: Soldier, Statesman, Educator by Judith Ann Benner

Fightin' Tom Rosser, C.S.A. by Millard K. Bushong and Dean M. Bushong

Confederate General: William R. "Dirty Neck Bill" Scurry by Charles G. Anderson

Confederate Raider: Raphael Semmes of the Alabama by John M. Taylor

General Jo Shelby: Undefeated Rebel by Daniel O'Flaherty

Henry Hopkins Sibley: Confederate General of the West by Jerry Thompson

The Odyssey of a Southerner: The Life and Times of Gustavus Woodson Smith by Leonne M. Hudson

General Kirby Smith, C.S.A. by Joseph H. Parks

Soldier of Tennessee: General Alexander P. Stewart and the Civil War in the West by Sam Davis Elliot

Distinction in Every Service: Brigadier General Marcellus A. Stovall, C.S.A. by C.L. Bragg

JEB Stuart: The Last Cavalier by Burke Davis

Richard Taylor: Soldier Prince of Dixie by T. M. Parrish

Robert Toombs of Georgia by William Y. Thompson

Admiral of the Amazon: John Randolph Tucker: His Confederate Colleagues, and Peru by David P. Werlich

Van Dorn: Life & Times of a Confederate General. by Robert Hartje

Stonewall Jim: A Biography of General James A. Walker, C.S.A. by Willie Walker Caldwell

To the Manner Born: The Life of General William H.T. Walker by Russell K. Brown

Stand Watie and the Agony of the Cherokee Nation by Kenny A. Franks

Fighting Joe Wheeler by John P. Dyer

Louis T. Wigfall: Southern Fire-eater by Alvy L. King

General John H. Winder C.S.A. by Arch Fredric Blakey

A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia by Craig M. Simpson

John Taylor Wood: Sea Ghost of the Confederacy by Royce Gordon Shingleton

Pierce M. B. Young: The Warwick of the South by Lynwood M. Holland

The Zollie Tree (Felix K. Zollicoffer) by Raymond E. Myers

BIOGRAPHIES (OTHER):

Bloody Bill Anderson: The Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla by Albert Castel & Thomas Goodrich

The Pantarch: A Biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews by Madeleine B. Stern

Gamaliel Bailey and Antislavery Union by Stanley Harrold

The Confederacy’s Fighting Chaplain: Father John B. Bannon by Phillip Thomas Tucker

Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate by Eli N. Evans

A Woman of Valor: (Clara Barton) by Stephen B. Oates

Southern Lady, Yankee Spy (Elizabeth Van Lew) by Elizabeth R. Varon

Belle Boyd: Confederate Spy by Louis A. Sigaud

My Dear Lady: The Story of Anna Ella Carroll by Marjorie Barstow Greenbie

Cyclone in Calico: The Story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke by Nina Brown Baker

From Slave to Abolitionist: The Life of William Wells Brown by Lucille Schulberg Warner

The Legend of John Brown: A Biography and a History by Richard O. Boyer

John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography by John Niven

Great Westerner: The Story of Kit Carson by Bernice Blackwelder

So Fell the Angels (Salmon P. Chase) by Thomas Graham & Marva Robins Belden

Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman’s Life by Mary A. DeCredico

The Fighting Parson: A Biography of Colonel John M. Chivington by Reginald S. Craig

Buffalo Bill [Cody]: The Noblest Whiteskin by John Burke

Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander by Kent Masterson Brown

Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker Union General and Seneca Chief by William H. Armstrong

Pauline Cushman: Spy of the Cumberland by William J. Christen

Jefferson Davis by Clement Eaton

First Lady of the South: The Life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis by Ishbel Ross

Sam Davis: Hero of the Confederacy by Edythe Johns Rucker Whitley

Embattled Maiden: Life of Anna Dickinson by Giraud Chester

Heart's Work: Civil War Heroine and Champion, Dorothea Dix by Charles Schlaifer & Lucy Freeman

Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely

Douglass: Autobiographies by Frederick Douglass

Stephen A. Douglas: Defender of the Union by Gerald M. Capers

Colonel Elmer Ellsworth: A Biography of Lincoln’s Friend & First Hero of the Civil War by Ruth Painter Randall

Stonewall’s Man: Sandie Pendleton by W.G. Bean

Life of Whittier’s Heroine, Barbara Fritchie by Henry M. Nixdorff

Against Wind and Tide: A Biography of William Lloyd Garrison by Walter M. Merrill

The General's Wife: The Life of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant by Ishbel Ross

Horace Greeley: Nineteenth-Century Crusader by Glyndon G. Van Deusen

Hannibal Hamlin of Maine: Lincoln’s First Vice-President by H. Draper Hunt

A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary by Gerald Schwartz

John Hay: From Poetry to Politics by Tyler Dennett

Hinton Rowan Helper: Abolitionist/Racist by Hugh C. Bailey

Lincoln's Herndon by David Donald

They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok by Joseph G. Rosa

The Justice From Beacon Hill: The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Liva Baker

The Raven: The Life Story of Sam Houston by Marquis James

Yankee from Sweden: The Dream and the Reality in the Days of John Ericsson by Ruth White

This Was Frank James by Columbus Vaughn, Sarah Snow and Lester Snow

Jesse James was his name by William A. Settle, Jr.

Joseph Jones M.D.: Scientist of the Old South by James O. Breeden

Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery by Dorothy Sterling

Lincoln by Carl Sandburg

Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage by Ruth Randall

The Man Who Made Nasby: David Ross Locke by John M. Harrison

Thaddeus Lowe: America's One-Man Air Corps by Mary Hoehling

Confederate Navy Chief: Stephen R. Mallory by Joseph Dirkin

Life and Distinguished Services of Wm McKinley, and the Great Issues of 1896 by Murat Halstead, Esq.

High Seas Confederate: The Life and Times of John Newland Maffittt by Royce Shingleton

Hunter Holmes McGuire: Doctor in Gray by John W. Schildt

Biography of Wilmer McLean by Frank P. Cauble

Confederate Surgeon Aristides Monteiro by Sylvia G.L. Dannett and Rosamond H. Burkart

Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H. Siepel

The Man Who Killed Lincoln: The Story of John Wilkes Booth and His Part in the Assassination by Phillip Stern

Mary Surratt: An American Tragedy by Elizabeth Steger Trindal

His Name Was Mudd: The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd by Elden C. Weckesser

Alias "Paine:" Lewis Thornton Powell, the Mystery Man of the Lincoln Conspiracy by Betty J. Ownsbey

Lincoln’s Secretary: A Biography of John G. Nicolay by Helen Nicolay

Theodore Parker: A Biography by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

Samuel Chapman Armstrong: A Biographical Study by Edith Armstrong Talbot

Colonel John Pelham: Lee's Boy Artillerist by William Hassler

Allan Pinkerton: The First Private Eye by James Mackay

Rebel Rose: Life of Rose O’Neal Greenhow Confederate spy by Ishbel Ross

Edmund Ruffin: A Biography by Betty L. Mitchell

She Rode With the Generals: The True and Incredible Story of Sarah Emma Seelye by Sylvia Dannett

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War by DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook

William Henry Seward: Lincoln's Right Hand by John M. Taylor

Beacon Hill’s Colonel Robert Gould Shaw by Marion Whitney Smith

General Sherman's Son: The Life of Thomas Ewing Sherman, S.J. by Joseph T. Durkin

Tom Custer: Ride to Glory by Carl F. Day

Contraband of War: The Story of William Henry Singleton: Slave and Soldier in the Civil War by Vlock & Levitch

Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln’s Secretary of War by Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman

Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography by Thomas E. Schott

Thaddeus Stevens: A Being Darkly Wise and Rudely Great by Ralph Korngold

Harriet Beecher Stowe: a Life by Joan D. Hedrick

Charles Sumner & the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald

Charles Sumner & the Rights of Man by David Donald

Without Fear or Favor: A Biography of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney by Walker Lewis

Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: The Life of William Holland Thomas by E. Godbold & Mattie Russell

Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter by Theodore Rosengarten

Crusade for Kindness: Henry Bergh and the ASPCA by John J. Loeper

Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South by Grady McWhiney

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter

Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories by Jean M. Humez

The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War by Frank L. Klement

Zeb Vance: Champion of Personal Freedom by Glenn Tucker

Dr. Mary Walker: The Little Lady in Pants by Charles McCool Snyder

Hit: Essays on Women’s Rights by Mary E. Walker, M.D.

Walt Whitman: A Gay Life by Gary Schmidgall

Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Navy Department by Richard S. West Jr.

Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse by Lawrence B. Goodheart

General Bennett H. Young: Confederate Raider and a Man of Many Adventures by Oscar A. Kinchen, Ph.D.

The Outlaw Youngers: A Confederate Brotherhood by Marley Brant

BATTLES:

First Blood (Ft. Sumter) by W.A. Swanburg

Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War by William C. Davis

The Battle of Ball's Bluff: The Leesburg Affair, October 21, 1861 by William F. Howard

Bloody Hill: The Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek by William Riley Brooksher

Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.

The Shiloh Campaign by David G. Martin

Forts Henry and Donelson by Benjamin Franklin Cooling

No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River by Peter Cozzens

Duel Between the First Ironclads (Monitor & Merrimac) by William C. Davis

Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas by John J. Hennessey

Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, Febrary 21, 1862 by John Taylor

Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West by William L. Shea & Earl J. Hess

The Battle of Glorieta Pass: A Gettysburg in the West March 26-28, 1862 by Thomas S. Edrinton and John Taylor

The Capture of New Orleans 1862 by Chester G. Hearn

The Peninsula Campaign 1862, McClellan & Lee, Struggle for Richmond by Joseph P. Cullen

The Seven Days: The Emergence of Lee by Clifford Dowdey

Engagement at Picacho Pass by Craig Ringer

The Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and Robert E Lee’s Maryland Campaign by James V. Murfin

The Fredricksburg Campaign by Edward J. Stackpole

Embattled Arkansas: The Prairie Grove Campaign of 1862 by Michael E. Banasik

Chancellorsville by John Bigelow Jr.

The Great Cavalry Battle of Brandy Station By Heros von Borcke and Justus Scheibert

They Met at Gettysburg by Edward J. Stackpole

The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top, Gettysburg July 2, 1863 by Oliver Norton

Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 by George R. Stewart

Chickamauga: Bloody Battle in the West by Glenn Tucker-

Marching to Cold Harbor: Victory and Failure, 1864 by R. Wayne Maney

Vicksburg: 47 Days of Siege by A.A. Hoehling

Chattanooga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy by J. McDonough

The Battle of New Market by William C. Davis

Campaign and Battle of Lunchburg, Virginia by Charles M. Blackford

The Wilderness Campaign, May 1864 by John Cannan

If it Takes All Summer (Spotsylvania) by William D. Matter

The Guns of Cedar Creek by Thomas A. Lewis

Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin by James Lee McDonough & Thomas L. Connelly

The Decisive Battle of Nashville by Stanley F. Horn

Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg

War so Terrible: Sherman and Atlanta by Mc Donough & Jones

The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864--April1865 by Noah Andre Trudeau

The Petersburg Campaign: The Battle of the Crater "The Horrid Pit" by M. A. Cavanaugh & William Marvel

Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville by Mark L. Bradley

The Appomattox Campaign by Chris M. Calkins

REFERENCE:

Who Was Who in the Civil War by Stewart Sifakis

Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography by Nevins, Robertson, Wiley

The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography by David J. Eicher

Civil War Generals: Categorical Listings and a Biographical Directory by James Spencer

Historical Times: Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War by Patricia L. Faust, Editor

The Civil War Book of Lists by the editors of Combined Books

The Civil War: Strange and Fascinating Facts by Burke Davis

Civil War Quiz and Fact Book by Rod Gragg

Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor by Bertram Hawthorne Groene

The Civil War Almanac Edited by John S. Bowman

The Civil War Dictionary by Mark M. Boatner III

The Civil War Trivia Quiz Book by William Terdoslavich

A Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War by H. E. Simmons

Civil War Sites, Memorials, Museums and Library Collections by Doug Gelbert

COMMANDERS, CAMPAIGNS & EVENTS, ARMIES

Generals of the Civil War: Biographical Sketches of the Principal Leaders by Michael Colay

The Face of Robert E. Lee: In Life and Legend by Roy Meredith

Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History by Alan T. Nolan

Reflections on Lee: A Historian’s Assessment by Charles P. Roland

Lee After the War by Marshall W. Fishwick

The Lincoln No One Knows: The Mysterious Man Who Ran the Civil War by Webb Garrison

Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie

The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop

Lincoln: the True Story of a Great Life by William H. Herndon and Jesse William Weik

The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln by Mark E. Neely, Jr. and R. Gerald McMurtry

Captain Sam Grant by Lloyd Lewis

Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton

The Captain Departs: Ulysses S. Grant's Last Campaign by Thomas M Pitkin

Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson by Bevin Alexander

Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History by William G. Piston

William Tecumseh Sherman and the Settlement of the West by Robert G. Athearn

Terrible Innocence: General Sherman at War by Mark Coburn

Justice or Atrocity: General George E. Pickett and the Kinston, N.C. Hangings by Gerard A. Patterson

Saber and Scapegoat: J.E.B. Stuart and the Gettysburg Controversy by Mark Nesbitt

Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back by Robert Warren

When the Devil Came Down to Dixie: Ben Butler in New Orleans by Chester G. Hearn

The Celebrated Case of Fitz John Porter by Otto Eisenschiml

Son of the Morning Star: Custer & the Little Big Horn by Evan S. Connell

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The Mexican War: 1846-1848 by K. Jack Bauer

Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign by William Allan

Seed Corn of the Confederacy: The Virginia Military Institute at New Market by James Gindlesperger

The Long Surrender by Burke Davis

After the Guns Fell Silent: A Post-Appomattox Narrative April 1865 - March 1866 by A.A. Hoehling

Sherman's March by Burke Davis

City Under Siege: Richmond in the Civil War by Mike Wright

Jubal's Raid: General Early’s Famous Attack on Washington in 1864 by Frank E. Vandiver

Grierson’s Raid by D. Alexander Brown

General William Averell’s Salem Raid by Darrell L. Collins

The Galvanized Yankees (Union recruits from Yankee Prisons) by D. Alexander Brown

The Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas 1862 by Richard B. McCaslin

Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville, The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War by Winston Groom

Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy by Winthrop D. Jordan

Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre by Thomas Goodrich

Sheridan in the Shenandoah: Jubal Early's Nemesis by Edward J. Stackpole

Victims: True Story of the Civil War by Phillip Shaw Paludan

This One Mad Act: The Unknown Story of John Wilkes Booth and his family by Izola Forrester

The Sand Creek Massacre by Stan Hoig

Bleeding Kansas by Alice Nichols

War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion by Wayne K. Durrill

Wild Train: The Story of the Andrews Raiders by Charles O’Neill

Eight Hours Before Richmond by Virgil Carrington Jones

The Old Man: John Brown at Harper's Ferry by Truman Nelson

The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion by Stephen B. Oates

The Fort Pillow Massacre: The Reason Why by Gregory J. Jacaluso

Atlantic Impact: 1861 (The Trent Affair) by Evan John

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The Army of the Potomac: by Bruce Catton

A Stillness at Appomattox

Mr. Lincoln's Army

Glory Road

The Army of Robert E. Lee by Philip Katcher

The Army of Tennessee by Stanley F. Horn

Army of the Cumberland by Thomas B. Van Horne

The Confederate Army of New Mexico by Martin Hardwick Hall

THE CONFEDERACY, BLACKS & SLAVERY, INDIANS, WOMEN, PRISONS, DIARIES

Their Tattered Flags: The Confederacy by Frank E. Vandiver

A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy by William C. Davis

The Secession of the Southern States by Gerald W. Johnson

The Last Days of the Confederacy by A.A. Hoehling & Mary Hoehling

The Confederate State of Richmond: A biography of the Capital by Emory M. Thomas

To Appomattox (Last nine days of the war) by Burke Davis

Civil War Virginia: Batttleground for a Nation by James I. Robertson, Jr.

The South’s Finest Hour: Essays on the War Between the States by Lois Brown Robbins

They Took Their Stand by Manly Wellman

The Confederate Nation: 1861 * 1865 by Emory M. Thomas

The Confederate Carpetbaggers by Daniel E. Sutherland

The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War by Duane Schultz

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Men of Color by William A. Gladstone

Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War by Editors

The Town That Started the Civil War by Nat Brandt

The Underground Railroad: (Blacks’ Escape) by Charles Blockson

American Slavery 1619 - 1877 by Peter Kolchin

Marching Toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War by John Anthony Scott

Half Slave and Half Free: the Roots of Civil War by Bruce Levine

Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War by Noah Andre Trudeau

Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South by Steven Weisenburger

Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South by Ira Berlin

Between Two Fires: Black Soldiers in the Civil War by Joyce Hansen

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Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War by Laurence M. Hauptman

The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew’s Regiment of Mounted Rifles by W. Craig Gaines

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A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War by Ina Chang

Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War by Wendy Hamand Venet

Heroines of Dixie by Katharine M. Jones

Confederate Women by Bell Irvin Wiley

Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War by Elizabeth D. Leonard

Civil War Ghosts and Legends by Nancy Roberts

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Life and Death in Civil War Prisons by J. Michael Martiniz

Civil War Prisons & Escapes: A Day-by-Day Chronicle by Robert E. Denney

Rebels on Lake Erie: The Piracy, the Conspiracy, Prison Life by Charles E. Frohman

Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates by Edwin W. Beitzell

This Was Andersonville Edited Roy Meredith

The Salisbury Prison: A Case Study of Confederate Military Prisons 1861 - 1865 by Louis A. Brown

Camp Morton 1861-1865: Indianapolis Prison Camp by Hattie Lou Winslow and Joseph R. H. Moore

The Story of Camp Chase by William H. Knauss

Escape From Libby Prison by James Gindlesperger

Rebels at Rock Island: The Story of a Civil War Prison by Benton McAdams

Elmira: Death Camp of the North by Michael Horigan

Cahaba Prison and the Sultana Disaster by William O. Bryant

To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas by George Levy

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All For the Union: CW Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

A Diary From Dixie by Mary Chesnut

My Cave Life in Vicksburg by A Lady

The Gettysburg Nobody Knows by Gabor S. Boritt

Europe Looks at the Civil War by Belle Becker Sideman & Lillian Friedman

NAVAL, , THE WEST, THEORIES, OVERSIZED, GUERILLAS, MISC:

Battle Flags South: The Story of the Civil War Navies on Western Waters by James M. Merrill

The Battle in the Bayou Country by Morris Raphael

Confederate Mobile by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.

The Rebel Raiders: The Astonishing History of the Confederacy’s Secret Navy by James Tertius deKay

Blockade Runners of the Confederacy by Hamilton Cochran

Disaster on the Mississipi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865 by Gene Eric Salecker

The Sinking of the USS Cairo by John C. Wideman

The CSS Hunley: The Greatest Undersea Adventure of the Civil War by Richard Bak

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Contest for Calif. in 1861: How Col. E.D. Baker Saved the Pacific States to the Union by by Elijah R. Kennedy

Los Angeles in Civil War Days by John W. Robinson

The Civil War in the American West by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

The War in the Far West 1861-1865 by Oscar Lewis

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Black Writers and the American Civil War by Richard A. Long

Southern By the Grace of God by Michael Andrew Grissom

The Last Rebel Yell by Michael Andrew Grissom

When the South Was Southern by Michael Andrew Grissom

Seventy Years in Dixie: Recollections and Sayings of T.W. Caskey and Others by F.D. Srygley

A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North by John Hope Franklin

The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past by Jim Cullen

The South Was Right by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy

Assassin on Stage: Brutus, Hamlet, and the Death of Lincoln by Albert Furtwangler

What They Fought For by James M. McPherson

Southern Victory: The Civil War by Richard R. Willett

Why the North Won the Civil War by David Donald

The Causes of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp

The Outbreak of Rebellion by John G. Nicolay

Why the Civil War Came by Gabor S. Boritt

Why the Confederacy Lost by Gabor S. Boritt

America Goes to War: Introduction to the Civil War & Its Meaning to Americans Today by Bruce Catton Honor and Violence in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

The Plantation South by Katharine M. Jones

The Needless Civil War by Herbert Schaltegger

Bull’s Eyes and Misfires: 50 People Whose Obscure Efforts Shaped the American Civil War by Clint Johnson

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The Battlefields of the Civil War by William C. Davis

The Fighting Men of the Civil War by William C. Davis

The Commanders of the Civil War by William C. Davis

Twenty Days by Dorothy M. and Philip B. Kunhardt

Witness to an Era: The Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner by D. Mark Katz

Mathew Brady: Historian With a Camera by James D. Horan

White House of the Confederacy by Cadmus Marketing, Inc.

The Civil War Album by Tom Robotham

Mapping for Stonewall: The Civil War Service of Jed Hotchkiss by William J. Miller

Gone are the Days: An Illustrated History of the Old South by Harnett T. Kane

Gettysburg by Mort Kunstler and James M. McPherson

A Pictorial History of the Civil War Years by Paul M. Angle

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

Secret Missions of the Civil War by Philip Van Doren Stern

The War Between the Spies: A History of Espionage During the American Civil War by Alan Axelrod

Lethal Glory: Dramatic Defeats of the Civil War by Philip Katcher

The Civil War: A Concise Military History of the War Between the States 1861-1865 by Maurice Matloff

Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War: Authentic Accounts of the Strange and Unexplained by Christopher Coleman

The Blue and the Gray: The Story of the Civil War as Told by Participants by Henry Steele Commager

Trial by Fire: A People’s History of the Civil War and Reconstruction by Page Smith

A Southern View of the Invasion of the Southern States and war of 1861-65 by Captain S. A. Ashe

The Lost Cause: The Standard Southern History of the Confederates by E. A. Pollard

The Civil War Reader by Richard B. Harwell

The Life of Johnny Reb and The Life of Billy Yank by Bell Wiley

Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 by Eric Foner

The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians 1861-1865 by Mark Grimsley

The Last Cavaliers: Confederate and Union Cavalry in the Civil War by Samuel Carter III

Undying Glory: The Story of the Massachusett 54th Regiment by Clinton Cox

The Glittering Illusion by Sheldon Vanauken

Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War by Catherine Clinton & Nina Silber

A Banner in the Hills: West Virginia’s Statehood by George E. Moore

The Birth of Colorado: A Civil War Perspective by Duane A. Smith

The Saints and the Union: Utah Territory During the Civil War by Everette B. Long

Soldiers When They Go: The Story of Camp Randall, 1861-1865 by Carolyn J. Mattern

Stop the Evil: A Civil War History of Desertion and Murder by Robert I. Alotta

Sinews of War: How Technology, Industry, and Transportation Won the Civil War by Benjamin W. Bacon

Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peace by Hodding Carter

The New York City Draft Riots by Iver Bernstein

Civil War Justice by Robert I. Alotta

Tarnished Eagles: The Courts-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels by Thomas P. Lowry

The Public Good: Philanthropy & Welfare in the Civil War Era by Robert H. Bremner

House Undivided: The Story of Freemasonry and the Civil War by Allen E. Roberts

Reveille in Washington 1860 - 1865 by Margaret Leech

Andersonville Journey: The Civil War’s Greatest Tragedy by Edward F. Roberts

The Ku Klux Klan: A Century of Infamy by William Peirce Randel

Lincoln's Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy by Richard Current

Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War by Howard Jones

The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War by Thomas P. Lowry, M.D.

The Civil War Bawdy Houses of Washington D.C. by Thomas P. Lowry, M.D.

The Last Cavaliers (Cavalry--both sides) by Samuel Carter III

The Devil Knows How to Ride: True Story of William Clarke Quantrill & His Raiders by Edward E. Leslie

Quantrill and His Civil War Guerrillas by Carl W. Breihan

Inside War: Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri by Mike Fellman

Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders by Virgil Carrington Jones

Morgan's Raiders by Dee Alexander Brown

Mosby's Rangers by Jeffry D. Wert

Jennison’s Jayhawkers: A Civil War Cavalry Regiment and its commander by Stephen Z. Starr

RARE AND SCARCE FIRST EDITIONS

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant - 1885 (very good [VG] cond. 2 vols. $175.00)

Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman: Written by Himself - 1875 (VG. 2 vols. $180.00)

Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan - 1888 (VG. 2 vols. $225.00)

Autobiography of Lieut-Gen Winfield Scott - 1864 (VG. 2 vols. $125.00)

McClellan's Own Story - George B. McClellan - 1887 (VG. $225.00)

The Passing of the Armies - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain - 1915 (VG+. $1,500.00)

Butler’s Book - Benjamin F. Butler - 1892 (VG. $95.00)

The Volunteer Soldier of America by John A. Logan - 1887 (VG. $75.00)

Personal Recollections of General Nelson A. Miles - 1896 (VG. $195.00)

Battle of Atlanta & Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. - Grenville M. Dodge - 1910 (G+. $50.00)

Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie - Abner Doubleday - 1876 (VG. $35.00)

Gettysburg to the Rapidan: The Army of the Potomac - A.A. Humphreys - 1883 (VG. $125.00)

A Narrative of Military Service - William B. Hazen - 1885 (VG. $185.00)

Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War by Admiral Porter - 1885 (VG. $90.00)

Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt - 1901 (VG. $330.00)

Reminiscences of Neal Dow - 1898 (G. $355.00)

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Jefferson Davis - 1881 (VG. 2 vols. $250.00)

Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War - Raphael Semmes - 1869 (G+. $135.00)

The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby - 1917 (VG. $325.00)

Recollections of a Virginian General Dabney H. Maury - 1894 (VG. $125.00)

Memoirs of the War of Secession - Johnson Hagood - 1910 (VG. $275.00)

Reminiscences of the Civil War - John B. Gordon - 1903 (VG. $185.00)

Destruction and Reconstruction - Richard Taylor - 1879 (VG. $100.00)

General Jubal A. Early - 1912 (VG+. $400.00)

Advance and Retreat - John B. Hood - 1880 (VG. $285.00)

From Manassas to Appomattox - James Longstreet - 1896 (G+. $300.00)

Military Memoirs of a Confederate - E.P. Alexander - 1907 (G+. $160.00)

Narrative of Military Operations - Joseph E. Johnston - 1874 (VG. $350.00)

The Autobiography of General Isaac J. Wistar: 1827-1905 Half a Century in War and Peace - 1937 (VG. $65.00)

Memoirs of John Adams Dix - Compiled by his son Morgan Dix - 1883 (VG. 2 vols. $85.00)

Absalom Grimes: Confederate Mail Runner - 1926 (VG. $35.00)

Two Wars: An Autobiography of Gen. Samuel G. French - 1901 (G. $130.00)

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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857 (VG. $85.00)

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper - 1857, Reading Copy (Fair. $10.00)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1852 (VG. $2,500.00)

A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded by H. B. Stowe - 1853 (VG. $80.00)

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1856 (VG. 2 vols. $100.00)

Men of Our Times; or the Leading Patriots of the Day by Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 (VG+. $65.00)

Boots and Saddles by Elizabeth B. Custer - 1885 (VG. $60.00)

Total $10,065.00

NOVELS:

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Shiloh by Shelby Foote

The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr.

The Blue and the Gray by John Leekley

The Killer Angels: A Novel About the Four Days of Gettysburg by Michael Shaara

The Red Badge of Courage by Steven Crane

So Red the Rose by Stark Young

Traveller by Richard Adams

SERIES:

The Civil War by Time/Life - volumes 1 through 28

The Old West by Time/Life - volumes 1 through 26

The Vietnam Experience by Boston Publishing Co. - volumes 1 through 25

INDIANS:

Tecumseh: A Life by John Sugden

The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker by Bill Neeley

John Ross: Cherokee Chief by Gary E. Moulton

Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief by Edwin R. Sweeney

War Chief Joseph by Helen Addison Howard and Dan L. McGrath

Geronimo: A Biography by Alexander B. Adams

Sitting Bull: A Biography by Alexander B. Adams

Osceola: The Unconquered Indian by William and Ellen Hartley

Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz

Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux

The Trail of Tears: The Story of the American Indian Removals 1813-1855 by Gloria Jahoda

A Century of Dishonor: The classic account of our govt’s mistreatment of Native Americans by Helen Jackson

Indian Country by Peter Matthiessen

The Cherokee by Theda Perdue

The Lenapes by Robert S. Grumet

The Flight of the Nez Perce by Mark H. Brown

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