CWI 2025 Recommended Reading List
Berry, Stephen, All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South (Oxford, 2003)
Blair, William, Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
Blair, William, The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction (University of North Carolina Press, 2021)
Bledsoe, Andrew, Citizen-Officers: The Union and Confederate Volunteer Junior Officer Corps in the American Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, 2015)
Bledsoe, Andrew and Andrew Lang, eds., Upon the Fields of Battle: Essays on the Military History of America’s Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, 2018)
Brown, David, William Link, Brian Ward, and Martyn Bone, Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South (University Press of Florida, 2013)
Brown, Kent Masterson, The Civil War in Kentucky: The Battle for the Bluegrass State (Savas, 2000)
Brown, Kent Masterson, Retreat From Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
Carmichael, Peter S., ed., Audacity Personified: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee (Louisiana State University Press, 2004)
Carmichael, Peter S., The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (University of North Carolina Press, 2015)
Carmichael, Peter S., Lee’s Young Artillerist: William R.J. Pegram (University of Virginia Press, 1995)
Carmichael, Peter S., The War For the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies (University of North Carolina Press, 2021)
Creighton, Margaret, The Colors of Courage (Basic Books, 2008)
Edwards, Justene Hill, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank (W.W. Norton, 2024)
Fields-Black, Edda, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Fry, Zachary, A Republic in the Ranks: Loyalty and Dissent in the Army of the Potomac (University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
Gallagher, Gary, Matthew Gallman, et. al., Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict Through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
Gallagher, Gary, The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership (Kent State University Press, 1992)
Gallagher, Gary, Lee and His Army in Confederate History (University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
Gallagher, Gary, The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (Indiana University Press, 2010)
Gallagher, Gary, The Second Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership (Kent State University Press, 1993)
Gallagher, Gary, The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond (University of North Carolina Press, 1994)
Gallagher, Gary, Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership (Kent State University Press, 1999)
Glatthaar, Joseph, General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse (Simon & Schuster, 2008)
Gordon, Lesley, General George Pickett in Life and Legend (University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
Greene, A. Wilson, A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Vol. 1 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018)
Greene, A. Wilson, A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Vol. 2 (University of North Carolina Press, 2025)
Harvey, Eleanor Jones, The Civil War and American Art (Smithsonian, 2012)
Lang, Andrew, In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America (Louisiana State University Press, 2017)
McCurry, Stephanie, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Noe, Kenneth, Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (University Press of Kentucky, 2011)
Pfanz, Harry, Gettysburg, the First Day (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
Pfanz, Harry, Gettysburg, the Second Day (University of North Carolina Press, 1987)
Pfanz, Harry, Gettysburg: Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill (University of North Carolina Press, 1993)
Pickett, LaSalle, The Heart of a Soldier: The Intimate Letters of Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA
Pickett, LaSalle, What Happened to Me
Pickett, LaSalle Corbell, Across My Path: Memories of People I Have Known
Pickett, LaSalle Corbell, Pickett and His Men
Pryor, Elizabeth Brown, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (Viking, 2007)
Sears, Stephen, Gettysburg (Mariner Books, 2004)
Slade, Jim, and John Alexander, Firestorm at Gettysburg: Civilian Voices, June-November, 1863 (Schiffer, 1998)
Taylor, Amy Murrell, Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (UNC Press, 2020)
Varon, Elizabeth, James Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Wert, Jeffry, The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac (Simon & Schuster, 2006)