“The Tale Untwisted” about McClellan and MD Campaign, and Orders 191. It had moved to the top of my ‘to read’ pile, but new arrivals buried it, unintentionally. Long winter nights at home have allowed me to whittle away the pile, and this is up next!
I am currently reading “Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause” by Heath Hardage Lee which I would recommend. Afterwards, I am resolved to read Bruce Catton’s trilogy!
Guelzo’s – Lee
Carmichael’s – Life of the Common Soldier
Jones’ – Vol. 2 of A Rebel War Clerk’s Dairy
Watkins’ – Co. Aytch
Fremantle’s – his war diary, writings
Rossino’s – Calamity at Frederick
Chatelains’ – Empire and Treasure book
Powell’s – Atlanta Campaign Vol 1
Foote’s – Yankee Plague
Like Ann McGehee, the stack is huge. The heavy hitters are finishing Tim Smith’s Vicksburg set, starting Powell’s Atlanta series, Hartwig’s Maryland Campaign, Master’s Stones River.
Among the many 2024 stragglers are the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864, Jerry Wooten (just started reading); Minty and his Cavalry, Rand Bitter; Early Struggles for Vicksburg, Timothy Smith; and The Atlanta Campaign, Volume 1, David Powell.
My list is also pretty long, but here are the top ones.
1. Hell By The Acre, Daniel A. Masters
2. Tullahoma, David Powell and Eric Whittenberg
3. The Chickamauga Campaign, David Powell (3 Volumes)
4. Campaign of Giants, Volume 2, A. Wilson Greene (Release scheduled in early April)
Hi all, looking for some suggestions on how to flesh out my reading list for the war up till the end of 1863. The following books are what I currently own in my library. I’m open to multi volume works as well as single. Thank you!
The First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence, July 18-21 1861–by John Hennessy
Shiloh: Conquer or Perish—by Timothy Smith
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West—by Megan Kate Nelson
Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign—by Peter Cozzens
To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign—by Stephen Sears
Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas—by John Hennessy
Hartwig’s two volumes on the Antietam campaign
The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth—by Peter Cozzens
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation—by John Matteson
Hell by the Acre: A Narrative History of the Stones River Campaign, November 1862-January 1863—by Donald Masters
If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania: The Army of Northern Virginia and The Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg, Vol 2 —by Mingus Sr and Wittenberg (I can’t find Vol 1 anywhere! Haven’t looked too hard tbh, but I would like it)
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion—by Allen Guelzo
or
Gettysburg—by Stephen Sears
Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command—by Kent Masterson Brown
Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy—by Donald L. Miller
This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga—by Peter Cozzens
The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga—by Peter Cozzens
Some things I know I’m missing: a good book on Chancellorsville
Still going thru a stack from the Symposium. Currently amidship on Dranesville by Quint.
Here’s my to do list, we’ll see how it goes:
Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville, Bradley
Moore’s Historical Guide to Bentonville, Moore
General Sterling Price and the Civil War in The West, Castel
Co. Aytch, Watkins
Burnside’s Bridge, Tucker
Sounding the Shallows, Harsh
Roads From Gettysburg, Schildt
A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, Jones
I Rode With Jeb Stuart, McClellan
General Lee, by Fitzhugh Lee
Advance & Retreat, Hood
I’ve got Hunt’s Bristoe Station and Rappahannock Station books on my pile, as well as Ken Noe’s The Howling Storm and Inglorious Passages by Brian Steel Wills. Just put CW Goodyear’s President Garfield on top, as he’s speaking here in Fredericksburg next month.
Too many to mention- have stacks waiting!
“The Tale Untwisted” about McClellan and MD Campaign, and Orders 191. It had moved to the top of my ‘to read’ pile, but new arrivals buried it, unintentionally. Long winter nights at home have allowed me to whittle away the pile, and this is up next!
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant), by Julia Dent Grant.
I am currently reading “Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause” by Heath Hardage Lee which I would recommend. Afterwards, I am resolved to read Bruce Catton’s trilogy!
“I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign”
by D. Scott Hartwig
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GREAT book!
I recently finished reading Scott’s book. It’s very good. Antietam is much more understandable to me now.
Guelzo’s – Lee
Carmichael’s – Life of the Common Soldier
Jones’ – Vol. 2 of A Rebel War Clerk’s Dairy
Watkins’ – Co. Aytch
Fremantle’s – his war diary, writings
Rossino’s – Calamity at Frederick
Chatelains’ – Empire and Treasure book
Powell’s – Atlanta Campaign Vol 1
Foote’s – Yankee Plague
… and many others.
Like Ann McGehee, the stack is huge. The heavy hitters are finishing Tim Smith’s Vicksburg set, starting Powell’s Atlanta series, Hartwig’s Maryland Campaign, Master’s Stones River.
Among the many 2024 stragglers are the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864, Jerry Wooten (just started reading); Minty and his Cavalry, Rand Bitter; Early Struggles for Vicksburg, Timothy Smith; and The Atlanta Campaign, Volume 1, David Powell.
Three Cornered War and Imperfect Union
My list is also pretty long, but here are the top ones.
1. Hell By The Acre, Daniel A. Masters
2. Tullahoma, David Powell and Eric Whittenberg
3. The Chickamauga Campaign, David Powell (3 Volumes)
4. Campaign of Giants, Volume 2, A. Wilson Greene (Release scheduled in early April)
Hi all, looking for some suggestions on how to flesh out my reading list for the war up till the end of 1863. The following books are what I currently own in my library. I’m open to multi volume works as well as single. Thank you!
The First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence, July 18-21 1861–by John Hennessy
Shiloh: Conquer or Perish—by Timothy Smith
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West—by Megan Kate Nelson
Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign—by Peter Cozzens
To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign—by Stephen Sears
Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas—by John Hennessy
Hartwig’s two volumes on the Antietam campaign
The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth—by Peter Cozzens
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation—by John Matteson
Hell by the Acre: A Narrative History of the Stones River Campaign, November 1862-January 1863—by Donald Masters
If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania: The Army of Northern Virginia and The Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg, Vol 2 —by Mingus Sr and Wittenberg (I can’t find Vol 1 anywhere! Haven’t looked too hard tbh, but I would like it)
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion—by Allen Guelzo
or
Gettysburg—by Stephen Sears
Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command—by Kent Masterson Brown
Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy—by Donald L. Miller
This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga—by Peter Cozzens
The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga—by Peter Cozzens
Some things I know I’m missing: a good book on Chancellorsville
If We Are Striking For Gettysburg Volume 1 might be available from the publisher.
Look at SavasBeatie.com. Great book, worth hunting for a copy.
There are none remaining. I have read them all. Now I must turn to reading about marlin fishing and big game hunting in Africa. Sigh.
Looking at these lists, I realize this is the golden age of Civil War scholarship
Let’s hope it never ends.
Still going thru a stack from the Symposium. Currently amidship on Dranesville by Quint.
Here’s my to do list, we’ll see how it goes:
Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville, Bradley
Moore’s Historical Guide to Bentonville, Moore
General Sterling Price and the Civil War in The West, Castel
Co. Aytch, Watkins
Burnside’s Bridge, Tucker
Sounding the Shallows, Harsh
Roads From Gettysburg, Schildt
A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, Jones
I Rode With Jeb Stuart, McClellan
General Lee, by Fitzhugh Lee
Advance & Retreat, Hood
I’ve got Hunt’s Bristoe Station and Rappahannock Station books on my pile, as well as Ken Noe’s The Howling Storm and Inglorious Passages by Brian Steel Wills. Just put CW Goodyear’s President Garfield on top, as he’s speaking here in Fredericksburg next month.