US Civil War

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete

Ulysses S. Grant

The work is the complete memoir of Ulysses S. Grant, a senior United States general and later president, who…

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel is a work of political and didactic fiction that foregrounds slavery as its…

The Long Roll

Mary Johnston

The Long Roll is a sprawling Civil‑War narrative that opens amid a bustling Southern town on the eve of…

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

Stephen Crane

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative set amid the American Civil War, focusing on a young Virginian…

Great Britain and the American Civil War

Ephraim Douglass Adams

Ephraim Douglass Adams’s Great Britain and the American Civil War is a scholarly examination of how the…

An Undivided Union

Optic, Oliver; Stratemeyer, Edward

An Undivided Union is a juvenile adventure set amid the turmoil of the American Civil War, written by Oliver…

Three years in the Sixth Corps: A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of the rebellion, April, 1865

George T. Stevens

George T. Stevens’s work is a first‑hand regimental history of the Union’s Sixth Corps, written by a veteran…

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

John McElroy

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons is a first‑hand account of Union soldiers’ suffering in…

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

T. C. De Leon

Four Years in Rebel Capitals offers a self‑conscious, almost apologetic, survey of Confederate life from the…

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor’s work is a sprawling, first‑person chronicle that blends memoir, campaign history, and…

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Morford, Henry; Armstrong, William H.; Frick, Jacob G.

Red‑Tape and Pigeon‑Hole Generals is a first‑hand collection of sketches drawn by Union soldiers during the…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Leander Stillwell

Leander Stillwell’s manuscript is a first‑person account of a Union infantryman’s service from enlistment in…

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

Edward Alexander Moore

The work is a first‑hand memoir by Edward Alexander Moore, a private cannon crewman in the Rockbridge…

Ride Proud, Rebel!

Andre Norton

The work is a juvenile‑fiction narrative set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, written by Andre…

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner

J. Wilkinson

John Wilkinson’s “The Narrative of a Blockade‑runner” is a first‑hand memoir that blends personal…

Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond

Joseph A. Altsheler

The novel is a Civil‑War‑era romance set against the Confederate capital’s bustling streets.

A Little Traitor to the South A War Time Comedy with a Tragic Interlude

Cyrus Townsend Brady

This work is a Civil‑War novel that mixes a light‑hearted romance with a somber vignette about a Confederate…

The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln

Wayne Whipple

The work is a biographical sketch that assembles anecdotes, family recollections, and contemporary testimony…

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Ambrose Bierce

The piece is a Civil‑War‑era short story that opens with a stark tableau on a northern Alabama railroad…

Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

Arthur James Lyon Fremantle’s Three Months in the Southern States, April‑June 1863, is a first‑hand travel…

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War

G. F. R. Henderson

The work is a scholarly biography that intertwines the military history of the American Civil War with the…

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

Carlton McCarthy

This work is a Confederate‑focused regimental history and personal narrative by Carlton McCarthy, a veteran…

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive

Alfred Burnett

Incidents of the War is a collection of letters, sketches and anecdotes by Alfred Burnett, a Cincinnati‑based…

A Little Union Scout

Joel Chandler Harris

This work is a juvenile historical narrative that frames the adventures of a Union scout through the lens of…