American Civil War in History and Fiction

From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, from Lincoln and Grant to Jefferson Davis and Lee, this CD, intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), contains 232 books related to the American Civil War -- both history and fiction.

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Table of Contents:

History

• The 25th Regiment Contecticut Volunteers in the War of Rebellion
• The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel, 1919
• Andersonville: a Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• The Army of the Cumberland by Henry Cist
• The Battle of Spring Hill Tennessee by Captain John Shellenberger
• Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told 50 Years After by Major H.B. Smith
• The Campaign of Chancellorsville by Theodore Dodge
• Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Souther Adventure in Time of WAr by Thomas W. Knox, 1865
• Captains of the Civil War: a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray by William Wood
• Chancellorsville and Gettysburg by General Abner Doubleday
• The Citizen-Soldier, or Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty
• A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson
• The Contest in America (short) John Stuart Mill
• The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by George Carleton, 1864
• Daring and Suffering, a History of the Great Railroad Adventure by William Pittenger
• Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War edited by George Washington Cable
• Forty-Six Years in the Army by General John M. Scholfield
• Four Years in Rebel Capitals by T.C. Deleon
• From Fort Henry to Corinth by General M.F. Force
• The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing 1861 to 1865
• Government and Rebellion by E.E. Adams, 1861
• Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams
• The Gulf and Inland Waters by Captain A.T. Mahan
• The Great Conspiracy, a History of the Civil War by John Logan
• Heroes of the Great Conflict: Life and Services of William Farrar Smith
• Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War by Mrs. Eugenia Potts
• History of the 19th Army Corps by Richard B. Irwain
• History of the 86th Illinois Volunteer Infantry by J.R. Kinneaer
• History of the 159th Regiment by Lieutenant Edward Duffy
• History of the Second Masschusetts REgiment of Infantry by Beverly Ford
• History of the Confederate Powder Works by General George Rains
• History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
• Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro (Noth Carolina) Expedition December 1862
• Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War edited by Elizabeth Ware Pearson
• Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister 1857-1878 edited by Jesse Grant Cramer, 1902
• Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons, a Personal Experience 1864-1865 by Colonel Homer Sprague
• A Life of General Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke, 1876
• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend
• Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Memories, a Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Mrs. Fannie Beers
• A Military Genius: Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland by Sarah Ellen Blackwell
• Military Reminiscences of the Civil War by Jacob Cox
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Monitor and the Merrimack, Both Sides of the Story by Worden, Greene, and Ramsay
• The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner by Captain J. Wilkinson
• On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill
• Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Personal Memoirs of Philip Henry Sheridan
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Personal Recollections and Experience Concerning the Battle of Stone River by Milo Hascall
• Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by his son Captain Robert E. Lee
• Reminiscences of 60 Years in Public Affairs by George Boutwell
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Report on the Condition of the South (1865) by Carl Schurz
• The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis
• Shiloh as Seen by a Private Soldier by Warren Olney
• Slavery and Four Years of War by General Jospeh Warren Kiefer
• Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis 1858
• Stephen A. Douglas, a Study in American Politics by Allen Johnson
• Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by Colonel G.F.R. Henerson
• The Story of a Canoneer under Stonewall Jaackson by Edward Moore
• The Story of Cole Younger by himself
• The Supplies for the Confederate Army. How They Were Obtained in Europe and Paid For by Caleb House
• Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army by William Stephenson
• Three Months in the Southern States April-June 1863 by Lieutenant-Colonel Fremantle [British]
• Three Years in the Sixth Corps by George Stevens
• A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, ARtillery, and Cavalry by Colonel Francis J. Lipitt, 1865
• The Trials of the Soldier's Wife by Alexandra St. Clair Abrams
• The Uprising of a Great People. The United States in 1861 by Count Agenor de Gasparin, translated from French by Mary Booth
• Woman's Work in the Civil War by L.P. Brockett

Lincoln

• A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents by James Richardson
• Lincoln and Johnson
• Andrew Johnson
• Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell (short)
• Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood
• Abraham Lincoln a Memorial Address by Rev. T.M. Eddy
• Abraham Lincoln, a play, by John Drinkwater
• Abraham Lincoln a History, volume 2, by John Nicolay and John Hay, 1890
• Abraham Lincoln by George Haven Putnam III, 1909
• Abraham Lincoln by John T. Morse, Jr.
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay
• Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Fiske Browne
• The Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner
• Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
• Life of Abraham Lincoln by John Hugh Bowers
• Lincoln; An Account of His Personal Life, Especially of Its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
• Lincoln Letters, published by the Bibliophile Society
• The Lincoln Story Book, compiled by Henry Williams
• Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters edited by Daniel Kilham Dodge
• Lincoln's Last Hours by Charles A. Leale
• Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes that made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller, With Introduction and Anecdotes By Colonel Alexander K. McClure
• McClure's Magazine, volume 6, December 1895, number 1, Abraham Lincoln
• Our American Cousin, a drama, in 3 acts, by Tom Taylor. Abraham Lincoln was watching this play when he was assassinated. (Act III, halfway through Scene 2.)
• Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln 1832-1865 edited by Merwin Roe
• Writings of Abraham Lincoln
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7

Fiction and Poetry

• Horatio Alger
• Frank's Campaign or the Farm and the Camp
• Joseph Altsheler
• Before the Dawn, a Story of the Fall of Richmond
• The Guns of Bull Run
• The Guns of Shiloh
• The Rock of Chicamaugua
• The Scouts of Stonewall: the Story of the Great Valley Campaign
• Shades of the Wilderness
• The Star of Gettysburg: a Story of Southern High Tide
• The Sword of Antietam
• The Tree of Appomattox, a Story of the Civil War's Close
• Edward Bellamy
• An Echo of Antietam
• Ambrose Bierce
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• Cyrus Townsend Brady
• A Little Traitor to the South
• Winston Churchill
• The Crisis
• Stephen Crane
• The Little Regiment
• The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
• Thomas Dixon
• The Victim, a Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis
• John Fox
• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox
• G.A. Henty
• With Lee in Virginia: a Story of the American Civil War
• Edmund Kirke
• Among the Pines or South in Secession Time
• Mary Johnston
• The Long Roll
• Emma Leslie
• Hayslope Grange, a Tale of the Civil War
• Natalie Sumner Lincoln
• The Lost Despatch
• John McElroy
• The Red Acorn
• Herman Melville
• Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, 1866
• Oliver Optic
• Fighting for the Right
• On the Blockade
• Taken by the Enemy
• A Victorious Union
• Walt Whitman
• Leaves of Grass
• Honore Willsie
• Benefits Forgot -- a Story of Lincoln and Mother Love

War-Time Issues of Magazines

Atlantic Monthly

• January 1860
• February 1860
• March 1860
• April 1860
• May 1860
• June 1860
• July 1860
• August 1860
• September 1860
• November 1860
• December 1860
• January 1861
• February 1861
• March 1861
• April 1861
• May 1861
• June 1861
• July 1861
• August 1861
• September 1861
• October 1861
• November 1861
• December 1861
• January 1862
• February 1862
• March 1862
• April 1862
• May 1862
• June 1862
• July 1862
• August 1862
• September 1862
• October 1862
• November 1862
• December 1862
• January 1863
• February 1863
• March 1863
• April 1863
• May 1863
• July 1863
• August 1863
• September 1863
• October 1863
• November 1863
• December 1863
• January 1864
• February 1864
• March 1864
• April 1864
• May 1864
• June 1864
• August 1864
• September 1864
• October 1864
• November 1864
• January 1865

Continental Monthly

• January 1862
• February 1862
• March 1862
• April 1862
• May 1862
• June 1862
• July 1862
• August 1862
• September 1862
• October 1862
• November 1862
• December 1862
• January 1863
• February 1863
• March 1863
• May 1863
• June 1863
• July 1863
• October 1863
• December 1863
• January 1864
• February 1864
• March 1864
• April 1864
• May 1864
• June 1864
• July 1864
• August 1864
• September 1864
• October 1864
• November 1864
• December 1864