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The bibliography of the American Civil War comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War.[1]

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  1. 93 relations: A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865, Abner Doubleday, Alexander S. Webb, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Allan Nevins, Allen C. Guelzo, Amanda Foreman (historian), American Civil War, Andrew A. Humphreys, Angelina Grimké, Archie P. McDonald, Bell I. Wiley, Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln, Bibliography of slavery in the United States, Bibliography of the Reconstruction era, Bibliography of Ulysses S. Grant, Brooks D. Simpson, Bruce Catton, Catherine Crary, Clint Johnson, Craig L. Symonds, Daniel A. Farber, Daniel Ammen, David Herbert Donald, David J. Eicher, David M. Potter, David S. Reynolds, David W. Blight, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Don H. Doyle, Eastern National, Edmund Wilson, Edna Greene Medford, Edward L. Ayers, Eliza Frances Andrews, Elizabeth Varon, Eric Foner, Eugene Genovese, Fergus Bordewich, Francis Vinton Greene, Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Frank J. Williams, Gabor Boritt, Gary W. Gallagher, Geoffrey C. Ward, George Washington Williams, Hans L. Trefousse, Harold Holzer, Harold Hyman, Henry M. Cist, ... Expand index (43 more) »

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  3. Bibliographies of the American Civil War
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A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865

A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865 by George Washington Williams (published 1888) was a major book-length academic history of military history of African Americans in the American Civil War.

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Abner Doubleday

Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War.

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Alexander S. Webb

Alexander Stewart Webb (February 15, 1835 – February 12, 1911) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) won immediate recognition, especially in Europe, and with its successor, The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (1892), made him world-famous.

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Allan Nevins

Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service.

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Allen C. Guelzo

Allen Carl Guelzo (born 1953) is an American historian who serves as the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.

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Amanda Foreman (historian)

Amanda Lucy Foreman (born 1968) is a British-American biographer and historian.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Andrew A. Humphreys

Andrew Atkinson Humphreys (November 2, 1810December 27, 1883), was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, and a Union General in the American Civil War.

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Angelina Grimké

Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (February 20, 1805 – October 26, 1879) was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement.

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Archie P. McDonald

Archie Philip McDonald (November 29, 1935–August 16, 2012) was an American historian with a focus on the history of Texas.

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Bell I. Wiley

Bell Irvin Wiley (January 5, 1906 – April 4, 1980) was an American historian who specialized in the American Civil War and was an authority on military history and the social history of common people.

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Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln

This bibliography of Abraham Lincoln is a comprehensive list of written and published works about or by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.

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Bibliography of slavery in the United States

This bibliography of slavery in the United States is a guide to books documenting the history of slavery in the U.S., from its colonial origins in the 17th century through the adoption of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which officially abolished the practice in 1865.

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Bibliography of the Reconstruction era

This is a selected bibliography of the main scholarly books and articles of Reconstruction, the period after the American Civil War, 1863–1877 (or 1865 to 1877).

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Bibliography of Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States (1869–1877) following his success as military commander in the American Civil War.

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Brooks D. Simpson

Brooks Donohue Simpson (born August 4, 1957) is an American historian and an ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, specializing in American political and military history, especially the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras and the American presidency.

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Bruce Catton

Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, known best for his books concerning the American Civil War.

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Catherine Crary

Catherine Crary, née Conrad (12 February 1909 – 11 March 1974), was an American historian of the American Revolution.

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Clint Johnson

Clint Johnson (born in Fish Branch, Florida) is an American author of nonfiction, primarily about the American Civil War.

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Craig L. Symonds

Craig Lee Symonds (born 31 December 1946, in Long Beach, California) was the Distinguished Visiting Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History for the academic years 2017–2020 at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Daniel A. Farber

Daniel A. Farber (born July 16, 1950) is an American lawyer, law professor, author, and historian.

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Daniel Ammen

Daniel Ammen (May 15, 1820 – July 11, 1898) was a U.S. naval officer during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, as well as a prolific author.

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David Herbert Donald

David Herbert Donald (October 1, 1920 – May 17, 2009) was an American historian, best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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David J. Eicher

David John Eicher (born August 7, 1961) is an American editor, writer, and popularizer of astronomy and space.

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David M. Potter

David Morris Potter (December 6, 1910 – February 18, 1971) was an American historian specializing in the study of the coming of the American Civil War, especially the political factors.

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David S. Reynolds

David S. Reynolds (born 1948) is an American literary critic, biographer, and historian who has written about American literature and culture.

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David W. Blight

David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

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Don E. Fehrenbacher

Don Edward Fehrenbacher (August 21, 1920 – December 13, 1997) was an American historian.

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Don H. Doyle

Don H. Doyle is an American historian.

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Eastern National

Eastern National (also known as EN) is a nonprofit Cooperating Association based in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, that partners with the National Park Service in the United States.

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Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary critic and journalist.

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Edna Greene Medford

Edna Greene Medford is a professor of history at Howard University who specializes in 19th-century African-American history.

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Edward L. Ayers

Edward Lynn "Ed" Ayers (born January 22, 1953; Asheville, North Carolina) is an American historian, professor, administrator, and university president.

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Eliza Frances Andrews

Eliza Frances Andrews (August 10, 1840 - January 21, 1931) was a popular American writer of the Gilded Age.

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Elizabeth Varon

Elizabeth R. Varon (born December 16, 1963) is an American historian, and Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia.

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Eric Foner

Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) is an American historian.

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Eugene Genovese

Eugene Dominic Genovese (May 19, 1930 – September 26, 2012) was an American historian of the American South and American slavery.

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Fergus Bordewich

Fergus M. Bordewich (born November 1, 1947) is an American writer, popular historian, and editor living in San Francisco.

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Francis Vinton Greene

Francis Vinton Greene (June 27, 1850 – May 15, 1921) was a United States Army officer who fought in the Spanish–American War.

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Francis Winthrop Palfrey

Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1831–1889) was an American historian and Civil War officer.

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Frank J. Williams

Frank J. Williams (born August 24, 1940) is a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, a notable Abraham Lincoln scholar and author, and a justice of the Military Commission Review Panel.

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Gabor Boritt

Gabor S. Boritt (born 1940 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American historian.

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Gary W. Gallagher

Gary William Gallagher (born October 8, 1950) is an American historian specializing in the history of the American Civil War.

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Geoffrey C. Ward

Geoffrey Champion Ward (born 1940) is an American editor, author, historian and writer of scripts for American history documentaries for public television.

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George Washington Williams

George Washington Williams (October 16, 1849 – August 2, 1891) was a soldier in the American Civil War and in Mexico before becoming a Baptist minister, politician, lawyer, journalist, and writer on African-American history.

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Hans L. Trefousse

Hans Louis Trefousse (December 18, 1921, Frankfurt/Main, Germany – January 8, 2010, Staten Island, New York was a German-born American author and historian of the Reconstruction Era and World War II. He was a long-time professor (and professor emeritus) at Brooklyn College from 1950 to 1998. He also taught as a distinguished professor of history at Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer (born February 5, 1949) is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War Era.

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Harold Hyman

Harold Melvin Hyman (July 24, 1924 – August 6, 2023) was an American historian of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era and the William P. Hobby Professor of History at Rice University.

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Henry M. Cist

Henry Martyn Cist (February 20, 1839 – December 16, 1902) was an American soldier, lawyer, and author who was a Union Army captain and staff officer during the American Civil War.

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Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager (October 25, 1902 – March 2, 1998) was an American historian.

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Hinton Rowan Helper

Hinton Rowan Helper (December 27, 1829 – March 9, 1909), from North Carolina, was a writer, abolitionist, and white supremacist.

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J. Matthew Gallman

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Jack Matthews (July 22, 1925 – November 28, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright and former professor.

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Jacob Dolson Cox

Jacob Dolson Cox, Jr. (October 27, 1828August 4, 1900), was a statesman, lawyer, Union Army general during the American Civil War, Republican politician from Ohio, Liberal Republican Party founder, educator, author, and recognized microbiologist.

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James Ford Rhodes

James Ford Rhodes (May 1, 1848 – January 22, 1927), was an American industrialist and historian born in Cleveland, Ohio.

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James G. Randall

James Garfield Randall (June 4, 1881 in Indianapolis, Indiana – February 20, 1953) was an American historian specializing in Abraham Lincoln and the era of the American Civil War.

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James I. Robertson Jr.

James Irvin "Bud" Robertson Jr. (July 18, 1930 – November 2, 2019) was an American historian on the American Civil War and professor at Virginia Tech.

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James M. McPherson

James Munro McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War.

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James Oakes (historian)

James Oakes (born December 19, 1953) is an American historian, and is a Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he teaches courses on the American Civil War and Reconstruction, Slavery, the Old South, Abolitionism, and U.S.

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James R. Soley

James Russell Soley (1 October 1850 – 11 September 1911) was a lawyer and naval historian, and served as an Assistant Secretary of the Navy for the United States military.

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James Silver

James Wesley Silver (June 28, 1907 – July 25, 1988) was a history professor and author.

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Jeffry D. Wert

Jeffry D. Wert (born May 8, 1946) is an American historian and author specializing in the American Civil War.

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Joan Waugh

Joan Waugh is an American historian and academic on the faculty at University of California, Los Angeles.

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John Codman Ropes

John Codman Ropes (April 28, 1836October 28, 1899) was an American military historian and lawyer, and the co-founder of the law firm Ropes & Gray.

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John Fabian Witt

John Fabian Witt is Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

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John George Nicolay

John George Nicolay (February 26, 1832 – September 26, 1901) was a German-born American author and diplomat who served as private secretary to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and later co-authored Abraham Lincoln: A History, a ten-volume biography of the 16th president.

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John Herbert Roper

John Herbert Roper Sr. (born August 9, 1948) is an American historian.

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Julia Grant

Julia Boggs Grant (née Dent; January 26, 1826 – December 14, 1902) was the first lady of the United States and wife of President Ulysses S. Grant.

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Ken Burns

Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker known for his documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle American history and culture.

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Kenneth M. Stampp

Kenneth Milton Stampp (12 July 191210 July 2009), Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley (1946–1983), was a celebrated historian of slavery, the American Civil War, and Reconstruction.

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List of bibliographies on American history

The List of bibliographies on American history is a stand alone list of bibliographies about the history of the United States, intended as a quick reference.

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Manning Ferguson Force

Manning Ferguson Force (December 17, 1824 – May 8, 1899) was a lawyer, judge, and soldier from Ohio.

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Mark E. Neely Jr.

Mark E. Neely Jr. (born November 10, 1944, in Amarillo, Texas) is an American historian best known as an authority on the U.S. Civil War in general and Abraham Lincoln in particular.

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Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion

The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 1861–65 (the MSHWR) was a United States Government Printing Office publication consisting of six volumes, issued between 1870 and 1888 and "prepared Under the Direction of Surgeon General United States Army, Joseph K. Barnes".

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Ordeal of the Union

Ordeal of the Union is an eight-volume series of books (published 1947–1971) on mid-19th century American history, and particularly on the American Civil War and its background, written by historian Allan Nevins.

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Otto Eisenschiml

Otto Eisenschiml (June 16, 1880 – December 7, 1963) was an Austrian-born chemist and industrial executive in the American oil industry, and a controversial author.

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Phillip S. Paludan

Phillip Shaw Paludan (January 26, 1938 – August 1, 2007) was a professor of Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield, and a leading authority on the life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

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Ralph Newman

Ralph Geoffrey Newman (3 November 1911 – 23 July 1998) was an American writer and well known Abraham Lincoln scholar.

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Reed Brockway Bontecou

Reed Brockway Bontecou (April 22, 1824 – March 27, 1907) was an American surgeon, whose extensive photographic documentation of soldiers' wounds during the Civil War informed medical treatment, and were widely used to determine the degree of injury which determined of post-war pension payments.

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Richard Carwardine

Richard John Carwardine (born 12 January 1947) is a Welsh historian and academic.

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Robert Franklin Durden

Robert Franklin Durden (May 10, 1925 - March 4, 2016) was an American historian and author who worked at Duke University.

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Rollin G. Osterweis

Rollin G. Osterweis (1907 – 1982) was an American historian in the Department of History at Yale University for twenty eight years while also serving as the Yale Director of Debating and Public Speaking.

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Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist.

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Stephen W. Sears

Stephen Ward Sears (born July 27, 1932) is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War.

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Steven E. Woodworth

Steven E. Woodworth (born January 28, 1961) is an American historian specializing in studies of the American Civil War.

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The Civil War: A Narrative

The Civil War: A Narrative (1958–1974) is a three volume, 2,968-page, 1.2 million-word history of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote.

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The Impending Crisis of the South

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It is an 1857 book by Hinton Rowan Helper, who declares himself a proud Southerner. Bibliography of the American Civil War and the Impending Crisis of the South are American Civil War books.

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The Photographic History of the Civil War

The Photographic History of the Civil War is a 10-volume compilation of war photography of the American Civil War of 1861–1865. Bibliography of the American Civil War and the Photographic History of the Civil War are American Civil War books.

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The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl

The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl is a diary written by Eliza Frances Andrews during the American Civil War.

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Theodore Lyman III

Theodore Lyman III (August 23, 1833 – September 9, 1897) was a natural scientist, military staff officer during the American Civil War, and United States Representative from Massachusetts.

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Varina Davis

Varina Anne Banks Davis (Howell; May 7, 1826 – October 16, 1906) was the only First Lady of the Confederate States of America, and the longtime second wife of President Jefferson Davis.

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William C. Davis (historian)

William Charles "Jack" Davis (born 1946) is an American historian who was a professor of history at Virginia Tech and the former director of programs at that school's Virginia Center for Civil War Studies.

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See also

American Civil War books

Bibliographies of the American Civil War

Historiography of the American Civil War

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_the_American_Civil_War

Also known as American Civil War Bibliography, Bibliography of American Civil War Eastern Theater Battles and campaigns, Films of the American Civil War, List of books on the American Civil War, Movies of the American Civil War, U.S. Civil War, Bibliography, United States Civil War bibliography.

, Henry Steele Commager, Hinton Rowan Helper, J. Matthew Gallman, Jack Matthews (author), Jacob Dolson Cox, James Ford Rhodes, James G. Randall, James I. Robertson Jr., James M. McPherson, James Oakes (historian), James R. Soley, James Silver, Jeffry D. Wert, Joan Waugh, John Codman Ropes, John Fabian Witt, John George Nicolay, John Herbert Roper, Julia Grant, Ken Burns, Kenneth M. Stampp, List of bibliographies on American history, Manning Ferguson Force, Mark E. Neely Jr., Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Ordeal of the Union, Otto Eisenschiml, Phillip S. Paludan, Ralph Newman, Reed Brockway Bontecou, Richard Carwardine, Robert Franklin Durden, Rollin G. Osterweis, Shelby Foote, Stephen W. Sears, Steven E. Woodworth, The Civil War: A Narrative, The Impending Crisis of the South, The Photographic History of the Civil War, The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, Theodore Lyman III, Varina Davis, William C. Davis (historian).