29 Best Civil War Books
Goal: Find the best Civil War books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best civil war books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
29 Best Civil War Books
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Confederates in the Attic
Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz
Race and Reunion
The Civil War in American Memory
by David W. Blight
This Republic of Suffering
by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
by Ulysses S. Grant
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Cold Mountain
A Novel
by Charles Frazier
Landscape Turned Red
The Battle of Antietam
by Stephen W. Sears
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
by Mary Chesnut
Mr. Lincoln's Army
Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Book 1
by Bruce Catton
The Civil War
Vintage Civil War Library, Book 1
by Shelby Foote
The Destructive War
William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans
by Charles Royster
The Fiery Trial
Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
by Eric Foner
The Killer Angels
The Civil War: 1861-1865, Book 2
by Michael Shaara
A Stillness at Appomattox
The Army of the Potomac Trilogy
by Bruce Catton
Company Aytch
by Samuel R. Watkins
For Cause and Comrades
Why Men Fought in the Civil War
by James M. McPherson
Forged in Battle
The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers
by Joseph T. Glatthaar
Lee's Lieutenants
A Study in Command
by Douglas Southall Freeman
Mothers of Invention
Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust
North and South
The North and South Trilogy, Book 1
by John Jakes
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
by William Craft
Sherman's March
by Burke Davis
The Black Flower
A Novel of the Civil War
by Howard Bahr
The Confederacy's Last Hurrah
Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
by Wiley Sword
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
by David M. Potter
The Life of Johnny Reb
The Common Soldier of the Confederacy
by Bell Irvin Wiley
The Lost Cause
A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates
by Edward Pollard
The March
A Novel
by E.L. Doctorow
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