| KVCWRT recommended Books |
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The following are Books recommended by members of the RT.
We are also fortunate to have the permission of James
W. Durney to publish his reviews of some of the books to be listed here.Mr. Durney is a frequent contributor of reviews to Amazon and "recommended_ACW_reading" a Yahoo group created to foster interest on new books. + =Recent additions |
| A RT Featured Book "A Important New Book in the Study of the American Civil War" Sharpshooters (1750-1900): The Men, Their Guns, Their Story, by Gary Yee Review
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| The Maps of First Bull Run: An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball's Bluff, June-October 1861 (Hardcover), by Bradley M. Gottfried Review |
| The Maps of Chickamauga-David Powell Review |
| THE NEW CIVIL WAR HANDBOOK:Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages (Paperback) by Mark Hughes Review |
| A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War by Daniel E. Sutherland Review |
| + At the Precipice: Americans North and South during the Secession Crisis (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by Shearer Davis Bowman Review |
| Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era by Nicole Etcheson Review |
| BLOOD AND TREASURE (Texas A&M University Military History Series, No 41) (softcover) by Donald S. Frazier Review |
| Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North by Jennifer L. Weber Review |
| + Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State by Anne Elizabeth Marshall Review |
| A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers Review |
| + Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 by Elizabeth R. Varon Review |
| + Failure in the Saddle-Nathan Bedford Forrest, Joe Wheeler, and the Confederate Cavalry in the Chickamauga Campaign by David Powell Review |
| Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign (Civil War America) by William L. Shea Review |
| Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January 1863 (Hardcover) by Donald S. Frazier Review |
| Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Gordon Expedition, June 1863-by Scott L. Mingus Sr. Review |
| + Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Gordon Expedition, June 1863 by Scott L. Mingus Sr. (2011 edition) Review |
| For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair At Spring Hill & the Battle of Franklin by Eric A. Jacobson Review |
| Grant's Lieutenants: From Chattanooga to Appomattox (Modern War Studies) Edited by Steven E. Woodworth Review |
| In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat by Earl J. Hess Review |
| The Last Lincolns: The Rise & Fall of a Great American Family by Charles Lachman Review |
| "They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln's Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance by Anthony Pitch Review |
| + Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig L. Symonds Review |
| + The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Forner Review |
| Lincoln's Labels: America's Best Known Brands and the Civil War (Hardcover) by James M. Schmidt Review |
| Lincoln's Political Generals by David Work Review |
| + Manifest Destinies: America's Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth Review |
| Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas by Benson Bobrick Review |
| + Notre Dame and the Civil War: Marching Onward to Victory by James M. Schmidt Review |
| Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America by Evan Carton Review |
| Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution & Surprising Release of Jefferson Davis by Clint Johnson Review |
| + Railroads of the Civil War: An Illustrated History by Michael Leavy Review |
| + Reluctant Rebels The Confederates Who Joined the Army after 1861 by Kenneth W. Noe Review |
| + Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War by Gail Stephens Review |
| The Shiloh Campaign (Civil War Campaigns in the Heartland) Editor Steven E. Woodworth Review |
| Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg by James A. Hessler Review |
| + Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee by Joseph T. Glatthaar Review |
| + Stoneman's Raid, 1865 by Chris J. Hartley Review |
| Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War by Craig L. Symonds Review |
| Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign-by Lance Herdegen Review |
| + VALLEY THUNDER: The Battle of New Market by Charles Knight Review |
| War Like the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta by Russell S. Bonds Review |
| Wars within a War: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War edited by Joan Waugh and Gary W. Gallagher Review |
| While In The Hands Of The Enemy: Military Prisons Of The Civil War by Charles W. Sanders (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Series) Review |
| Years of Change and Suffering: Modern Perspectives on Civil War Medicine by Guy R. Hasegawa & James M. Schmidt Review |
updated 8-25-11
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