A Civil War Book Collection for 2002

LR ^ | 02 September 2002 | Donald Miller

[Non-Sequitur]

Another good choice is a recent publication. "Gettysburg: A testing of Courage" by Noah Andre Trudeau is a really excellent single volume book on the battle and the events leading up to it. If you want to delve into Gettysburg in almost excrutiating detail then Harry W. Pfanz has at least 3 volumes out, with I don't know how many more to come.

[carlo3b]

I am an avid collector of rare books, many of which are centered around our history, with special emphasis on the civil war. I try to educate myself on historical documents originating at the time of the incident, saving myself the trouble of restating someone else's ruminations or wishful memories, as is apparent in so much of our society.

Here are the details on the editions you cited;

Hardtack and Coffee,
Billings, John D, George M. Smith & Co, 1887. This is a fine book, and it's been reprinted many times, latest being 1996.

Mr. Lincoln's Navy,
WEST, Richard S., Longmans, Green and Company, 1957. I'm not familiar with this book, I'll have to check it out.
 
 

[strela]

Thank you so much. That's what I get for sneaking in a Freep at work; those books are in a shelf about 5 feet from my computer at home, but they're not here.

[Molly Pitcher]

Thanks, stainless, for the post.

illstillbe - LOL! oh yes....

Would like to add a couple of titles, but have to be sure of them exactly...

[carlo3b]

There is a book on Civil War espionage that was a lot of fun

This is a great read about some of the goings on at the high point of the conflict. Although a newer book, these are first hand accounts of activities that gel with other tombs written at the time and a whole lot easier to find in the book stores.

Secret Missions of the Civil War, STERN PHILIP VAN DOREN, Rand McNally & Co, 1959

Here are a few of fascinating on scene accounts of actual prisoners incarcerated in camps, some famous some like Andersonville are infamous ...Gulp!

This is one of the most chilling, survivors of Andersonville.
Life and Death in a Rebel Prison, KELLOGG, Robert H.,  L. Stebbins 1865

This book is the story of the beginnings of the Secret Service and its role in the civil war. A few copies still available.
The Secret Service, The Field, The Dungeon, The Escape, RICHARDSON, ALBERT D., American Publ. Co., 1865

A really a neat little book. Still being reprinted as late as 1993
Detailed Minutiae Of Soldier Life, in the Army of Northern Virginia, Wm. L. Sheppard, McCarthy, Carlton, 1882

Some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration.
Abraham Lincoln, and Men Of War Times, McClure, A. K, Times Publishing Co. 1892

As close as your going to get to a memoir from the General himself. Fascinating! I agree with Al B.
Lee's Lieutenants, Freeman, Douglas Southall, Scribners. 3 volumes, 1942
 

[shuckmaster]

If you want to read a great book on Lincoln, I highly recommend DiLorenzo's "The Real Lincoln". It exposes most of the myths that have evolved over the last 140 years and gives a well researched true account of the man and his motivations.

[4CJ]

If you'd like to read an excellent book about the relations between the sections (past and current) I'd recommend Frank Conner's The South Under Siege 1833-2000: A History of the Relations Between the North and the South.

[Molly Pitcher]

For a fascinating photographic study of one battle, Antietam, I recommend William Frassanito's Antietam: the photographic legacy of America's bloodiest day.

The author compares contemporaneous photographs of the battlefield to recent ones, pinpointing the probable locations of key elements of the battle.

The author also compiled Touched by fire:a photographic portrait of the Civil War with William C. Davis.

[strela]

I provided the wrong title for the second book in my earlier post. The title is Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy by Dennis J. Ringle, 1998.

[billbears]

Black Confederate edited by Charles Kelly Barrow is pretty good. Also The South was Right. I think Shuck has that up on his website

[stainlessbanner]

Other books I recommend, not previously mentioned:

Tilley - Facts the Historians Leave Out.
Davis - The Civil War: Strange and Facinating Facts
Winney & Taylor - Florida in the Civil War

On my to-read list:

Rubin Jr. Louis - I'll Take My Stand : The South and the Agrarian Tradition
Davis Burke - Jeb Stuart : The Last Cavalier
Perkins Howard Cecil - Northern Editorials on Secession
Otto J Scott - The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement
Brennan Patrick - Secessionville: Assault on Charleston
Koger Larry - Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860

[carlo3b]

I highly recommend DiLorenzo's "The Real Lincoln".

Thanks, I will look it up on "abebooks.com", and pick up a copy.

[Non-Sequitur]

Thanks, I will look it up on "abebooks.com", and pick up a copy.

I doubt you'll find it there. Wait a month and you can probably pick up a copy in the $1.99 bin at Borders.

[stand watie]

i wonder why there are NO BOOKS in GENERAL circulation on damnyankee atrocities against rebel POWs as well as the mass rapes, arsons, looting and cold-blooded murder of INNOCENT civilians.

for example there were at least 15,000 MURDERED rebel POWs at just one damnyankee death camp: Point Lookout POW Camp.

evidently the "mysteriously disappearred" POWs were "just too much trouble to feed"!

free dixie,sw