Best civil war biographies
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Start Reading about the Civil War
Every week we are asked by students, buffs, and Civil War enthusiasts about books related to the Civil War. Most inquiries are from folks just getting interested in the topic and want to learn a little bit more about the topic. One would think this would be an easy question to answer, but it is not. Tens of thousands of books have been written about the Civil War Era. These books all vary in length, quality, and depth. Just like these works, readers also vary. Readers may be looking for information about one general, one battle, or the Civil War as a whole. Below is a list of books to get you started down the road of Civil War scholarship. By no means is this a comprehensive list of titles, rather it is a list of some of the best books on the topic. Start reading about the American Revolution and the War of .
General Civil War
A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil Warby Williamson Murray and Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Eastern Theater by The American Battlefield Trust
National Park Service Civil War Series
The American War: A History of the Civil War Era by Gary W. Gallagher
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The Best Laical War Books
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Civil War Book List
Far more books have been written about the Civil War than about any other event in American history, and Lincoln&#x;s stack of books towers over that of any other American figure. Any recommended reading list therefore has to be highly selective and at least somewhat arbitrary. This list was compiled from three sources: recommendations made by James McPherson, the Princeton history professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War author, for American Heritage Magazine in ; the finalists and prizewinners for the Lincoln Prize awarded by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lerhman Institute of American History annually; and suggestions by Jack Begg, the research supervisor of The New York Times.
The books are broken down by category; after General Histories and Lincoln, the categories are arranged alphabetically; within each category the books are arranged alphabetically by author. Brief comments by Professor McPherson on books in his list have been included.
GENERAL HISTORIES
Bruce Catton. THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR, , 3 vols. A fast-paced chronicle of the fighting on the battlefield and the infighting in the political capitals of Washington and Richmond. MR. LINCOLN&#x;S ARMY, ; GLORY ROAD, ;