Bibliography of American Civil War battles and campaigns

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The American Civil War bibliography comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month.[1] There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is more than 50 years old and lists over 6,000 titles.[2]

Note: This article forms part of Bibliography of the American Civil War

Battles: surveys, strategies, tactics

Battles and campaigns: Eastern Theater

Appomattox Campaign

Averell's Raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

  • Lowry, Terry. Last Sleep: The Battle of Droop Mountain, November 6, 1863. Charleston, West Virginia: Pictorial Histories Publishing, 1996.
  • Wittenberg, Eric J. The Battle of White Sulphur Springs: Averell Fails to Secure West Virginia. The History Press, 2011. ISBN 9781609490058.

Battle of Ball's Bluff

Battle of Big Bethel

Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns

Bermuda Hundred Campaign

Chancellorsville Campaign

Battle of New Market

Crook—Averell Raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

  • McManus, Howard Rollins. The Battle of Cloyds Mountain: the Virginia and Tennessee railroad raid, April 29 – May 19, 1864. Lynchburg, Virginia: H.E. Howard, 1989.

First Bull Run/Manassas Campaign

Fredericksburg Campaign

1862 Maryland Campaign

Overland Campaign

Peninsula Campaign

Petersburg Campaign

Second Manassas Campaign

1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign

1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Siege of Suffolk

  • Cormier, Steven A. The Siege of Suffolk: The Forgotten Campaign. Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, 1989.

Stoneman's 1865 Raid

Western Virginia Campaign

Wilmington Campaign

Gettysburg Campaign

Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign

Battle of Brandy Station

  • Beattie, Dan. Brandy Station 1863: First Step Towards Gettysburg. United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2009.
  • Borcke, Heros Von and Justus Scheibert. The Great Cavalry Battle of Brandy Station. Winston–Salem, North Carolina: Palaemon Press, 1976.
  • Crouch, Richard E. Brandy Station: A Battle Like No Other.
  • Downey, Fairfax. Clash of Cavalry: The Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863. New York: David McKay 1959.
  • McKinney, Joseph W. Brandy Station, Virginia, June 9, 1863: The Largest Cavalry Battle of the Civil War. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2006.
  • Wittenberg, Eric J. The Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863: North America's Largest Cavalry Battle. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2010.
  • Wittenber, Eric J. and Daniel T. Davis. Out Flew the Sabres: The Battle of Brandy Station, June 9, 1863. Savas Beatie, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61121-256-3.

Second Battle of Winchester

Battle of Hanover

  • (no author listed) Encounter at Hanover: Prelude to Gettysburg. Hanover, Pennsylvania: 1963.
  • Anthony, William. History of the Battle of Hanover, (York County, Pennsylvania) Tuesday, June 30, 1863. Hanover, Pennsylvania: published by the author, 1945.
  • The Historical Publication Committee of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce. Prelude to Gettysburg: Encounter at Hanover. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 1962.

Battle of Gettysburg First Day

Battle of Gettysburg Second Day

Battle of Gettysburg Third Day

Retreat from Gettysburg

Parts of the Gettysburg Battlefield

Casualties and dead from Gettysburg

Unit histories in the Gettysburg Campaign

Atlases

Battles and campaigns: Western Theater

Atlanta Campaign

Battle of Shiloh

Battle of Stones River

Carolinas Campaign

Chickamauga and Chattanooga campaigns

Fall of New Orleans

Forts Henry and Donelson

Franklin–Nashville Campaign

Iuka and Corinth Operations

Meridian and Yazoo River Expeditions

Mobile Campaign

Perryville campaign

Sherman's March to the Sea

Vicksburg Campaign

Wilson's Raid

Battles and campaigns: Trans-Mississippi

Battle of Carthage

Battle of Palmito Ranch

Battle of Pea Ridge

Battle of Wilson's Creek

Camden Expedition

New Mexico Campaign

Prairie Grove Campaign

Price's Missouri Raid

Red River Campaign

Battles and campaigns: Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach

Battles and Campaigns: Pacific Coast Theater

  • Lewis, Oscar. The War in the Far West: 1861–1865. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961.
  • Madsen, Brigham D. The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre. Provo, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1985.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ In 2001, Jonathan Sarna estimated that over 50,000 books had already appeared, with 1,500 more appearing annually. American Jewish History 89.3 (2001) 335–337.
  2. ^ See Allan Nevins, Bell Irvin Wiley, and James I. Robertson, Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography (2 vol, 1970)