Palm Tree in Book Palm Beach County Library System Link to Palm Beach County Government





Non-Fiction Reading - Civil War Stories

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. Mcpherson [973.73 MCP]

Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears [973.733 SEA]

Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward [973.7 WAR]

The Civil War: A Narrative (3 volumes) by Shelby Foote [973.7 FOO]

Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War by Mark Perry [973.70922 PER]

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz [973.7 HOR]

Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War by Jeffrey
Rogers Hummel [973.7 HUM]

Fighting for the Confederacy: the personal recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander by Edward Porter Alexander [973.73013 ALE]

The Generals-- Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee by Nancy Scott Anderson [973.70922 AND]

Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood [973.730922 FLO]

An Honorable Defeat: the last days of the Confederate government by William C. Davis [973.71 DAV]

The Illustrated Battle Cry of freedom: the Civil War era by James M. McPherson [973 .73 MCP]

Lee's Lieutenants: a study in command (3 volumes) by Douglas Southall Freeman [973.7 FRE]

The Life of Billy Yank: the common soldier of the Union by Bell Irvin Wiley [973.781 WIL]

The Life of Johnny Reb: the common soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Irvin Wiley [973.784 WIL]

Mathew Brady's Illustrated History of the Civil War, 1861-65 and the causes that led up to the great conflict by Benson John Lossing [973.7 LOS]

Memoirs and selected letters: personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, selected letters 1839-1865 by Ulysses S. Grant [B GRANT]

Ordeal of the Union, 1847–1857 (4 volumes) by Allan Nevins [973 NEV]

The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps by Joshua Lawrence [973.7444 CHA]

A People's Contest: the Union and Civil War 1861-1865 by Phillip S. Paludan [973.7 PAL]

The Private Mary Chesnut: the unpublished Civil War diaries by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut [973.782 CHE]

Smithsonian's Great Battles & Battlefields of the Civil War: a definitive field guide based on the award-winning television series by MasterVision by Jay Wertz [917.304 WER]

Soul by Soul: life inside the antebellum slave market by Walter Johnson [976.335 JOH]

Southern Honor: ethics and behavior in the old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown [975 WAY]

Southern lady, Yankee Spy: the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy by Elizabeth R. Varon [BIO VAN LEW]

To The Gates of Richmond: the peninsula campaign by Stephen W. Sears [973.732 SEA]

Posted: 06/29/06


My Library Service.org

Books and Hard Hat
Library Expansion Update

Palm Beach County Library System
3650 Summit Blvd.,
West Palm Beach, FL, 33406
Phone: 561-233-2600; Fax: 561-233-2627
South County and Glades: 1-888-780-4962
Send comments to:
webmaster@pbclibrary.org

Sign Up for BookLetters
Sign Up for
BookLetters
Florida Electronic Library
Florida Public Records Law: Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address
released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing.

© 2008 Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners.