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US Civil War reading Recommendations?
Free Republic ^ | 11/23/2016 | Loud Mime

Posted on 11/23/2016 6:01:04 PM PST by Loud Mime

I am studying our Civil War; anybody have any recommendations for reading?


TOPICS: Reference
KEYWORDS: bookreview; books; civilwar; dixie; freeperbookclub; readinglist; ushistory
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To: Loud Mime

A Stillness at Appomatox


141 posted on 11/23/2016 9:51:14 PM PST by oldbill
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To: Loud Mime

Guns Of The South

by Harry Turtledove

It’s science fiction, but a wild great story and really does a good job of portraying historical figures like Davis, Lee and Lincoln and also does a good job of portraying life in the army.


142 posted on 11/23/2016 10:05:15 PM PST by Beernoser
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To: Loud Mime

Bump


143 posted on 11/23/2016 10:22:11 PM PST by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: Loud Mime

Bookmark


144 posted on 11/23/2016 11:46:37 PM PST by JDoutrider
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To: Pelham

USS Virginia burned to the waterline. The CSS Merrimack rose from that ruin. Sheesh.


145 posted on 11/24/2016 12:49:36 AM PST by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: Loud Mime

The West Point Atlas for the American Civil War, just for the maps.

https://www.amazon.com/Point-Atlas-American-Military-History/dp/0757001572

These West Point atlases are great accompaniments to other military histories. For instance, I once read one of David Chandler’s histories of the Napoleonic Wars side by side with the West Point Atlas, it really helps understand the narrative when you have great maps of the goings-on.


146 posted on 11/24/2016 2:20:55 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: lafroste

You have it reversed. She was commissioned as the USS Merrimac in the Boston Navy Yard in 1855. The ship was burned by her own crew on April 20 1861, to prevent her from falling into the hands of the Confederacy. The Confederates raised her and rebuilt her with the iron clad superstructure. She was then recommissioned as the CSS Virginia February 17,1862.


147 posted on 11/24/2016 2:41:54 AM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Loud Mime

Too wide a request. Are you interested in a specific battle? A certain leader? A particular battle?


148 posted on 11/24/2016 3:25:26 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: electrodave1
A civil war is one between two parties attempting to gain control over one entity not one in which one party forces the other to not assert its independence.

It was a rebellion.

149 posted on 11/24/2016 3:26:22 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: marktwain
And, pray tell, why weren’t more out of the Southern States?

The South had no shipping industry.

150 posted on 11/24/2016 3:32:25 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Stop the decline
The Official Record of the War of the Rebellion.

Available online: Link

151 posted on 11/24/2016 3:36:32 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: J.Deere Man
"Grant’s Memiors Completed by Grant just before he passed away with throat cancer."

This is the best book written by any American president. Without a doubt.

152 posted on 11/24/2016 3:39:33 AM PST by circlecity
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To: lurk
Lee’s Lieutenants by Freeman

Freeman's biography on Lee is also good.

153 posted on 11/24/2016 3:42:27 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Loud Mime

Any book by Bruce Catton...


154 posted on 11/24/2016 3:43:21 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: Loud Mime

Historian mrs jimfree recommends Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson.


155 posted on 11/24/2016 3:46:22 AM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 16 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: Loud Mime
If you want to know what it was like being there, by men who fought it, my two favorite books are:

"Fighting for the confederacy" by Edward Porter Alexander. Alexander was the preeminent artillary general for the south and fought in pretty much every major battle the ANV fought. It is a very easy read and not only analyzes the battles but gives lots of day to day stories about what it was like to be an officer in the civil war. His chapter on Gettysburg is the best overview and analysis of that battle I've read.

"Campaigning with Grant" by Horace Porter. Porter was a staff officer for Grant during his overland campaign and this book is a day to day diary of his experiences during that final year long campaign of the war. It is awesome and very similar in tone to the Alexander book. Easy to read and hard to put down. It is the best, and most intimate, portrait of Grant as a General ever written.

156 posted on 11/24/2016 3:47:30 AM PST by circlecity
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To: DiogenesLamp

Same crap different day. You think this one will hit 1700 replies, too?


157 posted on 11/24/2016 3:48:30 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: slowhandluke
Thomas Wood “The Real Lincoln”. Just got done with that one.

I think you're thinking of Thomas DiLorenzo. Thomas Woods wrote another work of fiction, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History".

158 posted on 11/24/2016 3:53:47 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: stylin19a
hey..thanks for that.

You are welcome. I was very pleased when I found it. It throws a very different light on what happened, and it was written prior to the war. It also argues in favor of the South remaining in the Union so it can hardly be seen as a pro-secession book.

159 posted on 11/24/2016 6:25:42 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Loud Mime

“Gettysburg: A Testing Of Courage” by Noah Andre Trudeau might be the best book you can find on the battle.

Highly recommended.


160 posted on 11/24/2016 6:29:32 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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