 CHICAGO'S BATTERY BOYS The Chicago Mercantile Battery in the Civil War's Western Theater Organized in 1862 as part of John McClernand's 13th Corps, the battery participated in the arduous Vicksburg campaign. The artillerists performed well everywhere, Chickasaw Bluffs, Port Gibson, Champion Hill, Big Black River, and the siege of Vicksburg |
 Raising the Banner of Freedom: The 25th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Union The story of the American Civil War is best told by those who lived it. Colonel Culp brings us telling accounts of the 25th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, cited as one of the 300 fighting regiments of the Civil War. |
 All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 The amateur soldiers who formed the Army of the Ohio organized themselves into individual regiments of remarkable strength and cohesion. Commanders Robert Anderson, William Sherman, and Don Buell all failed to integrate those regiments |
 A Light and Uncertain Hold: A History of the Sixty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Thackery weaves all the historical information into a story from the formation of the 66th to it's exit muster and beyond. He uses an excellent mix of excerpts from letters home, local period newspaper articles, and various historical volumes particularly from Ohio libraries |
 Guide to Missouri Confederate Units The origins and history of Missouri Confederate units that served during the Civil War. Deeply torn, some Missourians chose sides enthusiastically, others reluctantly. The several thousand that sided with the Confederacy earned reputations for hard fighting exceeded by few other states, North or South |
 Irish Rebels, Confederate Tigers: A History Of The 6th Louisiana Volunteers A predominately Irish brigade from New Orleans. This regiment fought in Virginia during the entire Civil War, since New Orleans was captured so early in the war and the 6th Louisiana virtually became orphans in regards to State support. |
 Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox The words of the soldiers themselves provide a view of the army's experiences in camp, on the march, in combat, and under siege—from the battles in the Wilderness to the final retreat to Appomattox. It sheds new light on such questions as the state of morale in the army, the causes of desertion, ties between the army and the home front |
 Cracker Cavaliers: The 2nd Georgia Cavalry Under Wheeler and Forrest The Second Georgia fought in such famous campaigns as Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Resaca, Atlanta, and Bentonville, they also participated in deadly encounters at Farmington, Mossy Creek, Noonday Creek, Sunshine Church, and Waynesboro |
 55th North Carolina in the Civil War: A History And Roster The 55th Regiment North Carolina Troops was composed primarily of farmers and tradesmen, the regiment also presented a microcosm of the Tar Heel State with a regionally diverse membership from more than 20 counties |
 Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry The history of how our culture determines manhood. Although a rather detached supporter of abolition, Shaw was skeptical about the fighting abilities of freedmen, and initially declined the command. When he did accept, he was aware that the eyes of the nation were on his regiment, and his training of them was relentless. The 54th measured up by proving itself in battle |
 The 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War: A History and Roster With the Civil War was entering its second year North Carolina was rallying to supply more troops. The Partisan Ranger Act prompted local leaders to recruit companies of irregular soldiers for service in the Confederate Army. Seven such companies were banded together into a regiment to form the 4th North Carolina Cavalry. |
 The 2nd North Carolina Cavalry The Second North Carolina Cavalry involvement with the Army of Northern Virginia and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade, and includes official documents, letters written to and from home, diaries and memoirs to present the soldiers' war experiences |
 Tirailleurs: A History of The 4th Louisiana and The Acadians of Company H Soldiers from West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. This book follows them through the Civil War and uses diaries, letters, and memoirs to allow the soldiers to tell their own story. From a bloodbath at Shiloh's Hornet's, Nest, to the Battle of Nashville. |
 First and Second Maryland Cavalry, C.S.A An indepth look at Maryland and her divided loyalties during the Civil War. Brother against brother epitomizes the state of affairs in Maryland. Men, loyal to the South, crossed the Potomac river at great personal peril to join Confederate ranks. |
 The First and Second Maryland Infantry, C.S.A. The First Maryland Infantry was formed from Marylanders who chose to cast their lot with the Confederacy against a Union government that had invaded their state and established martial law, forcing those who disagreed with the invasion of the South to join the Confederates or to submit to what they considered as tyranny |
 Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade The most successful of North Carolina's units during the Civil War. The brigade played a central role in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg and also fought with distinction during the Petersburg campaign and in later battles including the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor |
 Red Clay to Richmond: Trail of the 35th Georgia Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. The story of the 35th Georgia Infantry Regiment. Using many previously unpublished primary accounts. Follow these men as they move from their homesteads to the Confederate capital at Richmond. Details the daily life of the average Confederate soldier.It reveals the true American spirit of courage exhibited through deprivation and hardship |
 Twenty-Seventh Louisiana Volunteer Infantry The first infantry regiment assigned to the defense of Vicksburg. The author, celebrates the undaunting courage of this regiment during the forty-seven-day siege by Union soldiers before the surrender of Vicksburg |
 Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke: The First Texas Cavalry in the Civil War Regimental history from the time the regiment was raised by Colonel McCulloch to defend against indian warriors tor the time the regiment was part of the Confederate Army under the Colonels Buchel and Yager until the end of the Civil War |
 A Boy Lieutenant: Memoirs of Freeman S. Bowley 30th United States Colored Troops Officer A must read for High School and College African-American Studies |
 Strike the Blow for Freedom: The 6th United States Colored Infantry in the Civil War The recruitment, training, battles and finally the mustering out of the 6th. The 6th shared some of the same influences that shaped the formation of many military units of that time |
 Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia writings from the diaries of eight members of the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment. Woven into a single chronological narrative, these writings provide a unique perspective not only on many of the war's battles and campaigns but also on aspects of life and culture in the nineteenth-century South |
 The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-Ninth U.S. Colored Infantry Study in the lives of black recruits in the Civil War era, and a journey into the hinterlands of an American racial pathos. Throughout this study, Miller explores in detail the biographies of individual soldiers, revealing their often convoluted histories |
 Southerners at War: The 38th Alabama Infantry Volunteers This is a well written, well researched book on the men of the 38th Alabama Infantry. |
 Black Southerners in Confederate Armies Official records, newspaper articles, and veterans' accounts to tell the stories of the Black Confederates. This well researched collection is a contribution to the discussion about the numbers of black Southerners involved and their significant history. |
 Lee's Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 The cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia its leadership, the military life of its officers and men as revealed in their diaries and letters, the development of its tactics as the war evolved, and the influence of government policies on its operational abilities. All the major players and battles are involved |
 Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade Forthright confessions of service years in the Army of Northern Virginia stand among the most sought after and cited accounts by a Confederate soldier. First published in 1893 and significantly revised and expanded in 1906 |
 Union Sixth Army Corps in the Chancellorsville Campaign: A Study of the Engagements of Second Fredericksburg, Salem Church And Banks's Ford The winter of 1862-1863 found the Union's Army of the Potomac in sad shape. Bloody battles, multiple defeats, lack of adequate provisions and high desertion rates had left even the hardiest Union soldiers dispirited |
 Things Grew Beautifully Worse : The Wartime Experiences of Captain John O'Brien, 30th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A. The story of an Irish immigrant to Arkansas who became a soldier, officer and prisoner during the Civil War. Captured during the Battle of Murfreesboro, Captain John O'Brien was ultimately transferred to Johnson's Island military prison in Ohio. While imprisoned, O'Brien kept a diary in which he recounts his military service and capture in addition to his daily life in the prison. Through it all, Captain O'Brien is able to maintain his sense of humanity--and even a bit of his native Irish wit and humor. |
 Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry These Cavalry histories are very thorough and offer information not found in books that just cover the main battles. Situations involving skirmishes and exactly who and what troop is involved. If you are a intermediate Civil War buff or expert you will enjoy being able to take in more information than most on the subject. |
 Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie: Reminiscences of a Confederate Cavalryman Mosgrove was born in Kentucky, in 1844, and enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment on September 10, 1862. His eyewitness account illuminates the western theater of the Civil War in Kentucky, east Tennessee, and southwest Virginia |
 The Last Confederate General: John C. Vaughn and His East Tennessee Cavalry The first man to raise an infantry regiment in the state, and one of the very last Confederate generals to surrender.History has not been kind to Vaughn, who finally emerges from the shadows in this absorbing reassessment of his life and military career |
 Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era The processes by which black men enlisted and were trained, the history of each regiment, the lives of the soldiers' families during the war, and the experiences of the colored veterans and their families living in an ex-Confederate state |
 A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861-1865 Almost 200,000 African-American soldiers fought for the Union in the Civil War. Although most were illiterate ex-slaves, several thousand were well educated, free black men from the northern states |
The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-Ninth U.S. Colored Infantry Study in the lives of black recruits in the Civil War era, and a journey into the hinterlands of an American racial pathos. Throughout this study, Miller explores in detail the biographies of individual soldiers, revealing their often convoluted histories |
 Hope and Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment This volume brings together scholarship on the history of the 54th, the formation of collective memory and identity, and the ways Americans have responded to the story of the regiment and the Saint-Gaudens monument in Boston |
 A Hard Trip: A History of the 15th Mississippi Infantry, CSA The reality of the moment in 1860-61 Mississippi. The thoughts of the men who formed the 15th Mississippi are front and center with good background about the communities the men came from and the reasons they joined the army. |
 Only a Private: A Texan Remembers the Civil War : The Memoirs of William J. Oliphant A first-hand account of the common soldier's point of view. No colonel or general, William Oliphant was, "only a private." His perspective provides a window into Texas during the first days of the Civil War, and first-hand descriptions of battles |
 Texans in the Confederate Cavalry Often outnumbered Texas Cavalry, through Bravado or sheer madness, frequently helped turn the tide of battle. From Colonel Parsons' assault on the Federal Navy during the Red River Campaign of 1864 to Terry's Texas Rangers with General Wheeler's horsemen badgering Sherman on his "March to the Sea," |
Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie: Reminiscences of a Confederate Cavalryman Mosgrove was born in Kentucky, in 1844, and enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment on September 10, 1862. His eyewitness account illuminates the western theater of the Civil War in Kentucky, east Tennessee, and southwest Virginia |
 Confederate Armies: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, the Confederate Units and the Indian Units This volume is arranged by state; units organized directly by the Confederate authorities from various state companies; and those units from the Indian nations allied with the Confederacy. Chapters are included for artillery, cavalry and infantry units that are broken down by size: battalions, batteries, companies and regiments |
 General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians The Confederacy pioneered the idea of giving blacks and women positions of authority [the Matron Law], placed Jews in positions of power, put General's stars on a Mexican and the first American Indian General. This book is his story |
 Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians Accompanying photos, clear maps. This book will leave you wanting to learn more about this rather neglected region of the war. No less important in many regards for the defining of the nation's future than the more well-known battlefields of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Highly recommended |
 The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-1865 History of the California Column in wartime Arizona and a rare compilation of letters written by the volunteer soldiers who served in the U.S. Army from 1861 to 1866. These letters provide testimony of the grueling desert conditions the soldiers endured as they fought on many fronts |
 Benning's Brigade by Dave Dameron |
A History and Roster of the Fifteenth Georgia, takes the reader on an exciting, fact-filled chronicle through the Civil War as experienced by the men from Georgia. The narrative is filled with excerpts from numerous primary sources. Detailed end-notes complement and clarify the book's references. The roster is extracted directly from the National Archives(CSA)records. The roster was placed in an electronic data base from which statistics were compiled and charts created. Original battle maps highlight regimental and brigade locations at key battles. Rare photographs of soldiers, hand written journal entries,weapons, and their beloved unit flag provide the reader with graphic treasures of the past. Also, classic and relevant civil war engravings, present a vivid, eyewitness account of key events experienced by the unit. These encompassing perspectives of the "Fighting Fifteenth" and the "Rock Brigade," provide the serious researcher or history buff an insightful and entertaining survey of an important aspect of our American heritage. |
 Across the Dark River by Clyde H. Ray The Odyssey of the 56th N.C. Infantry in the American Civil War |
The 56th N. C. Infantry was organized in the second year of the war. Composed of ten companies, it was mustered into the Confederate army in August, 1862. The regiment was raised in about twelve counties in North Carolina: Henderson, Rutherford, Wilkes, Pasquotank, Cumberland, Orange, Cleveland, Alexander, Iredell, Craven, Caswell, and Northampton. These counties extend from the mountains to the sea in North Carolina and the state as a whole was well represented. Its men came from every station of life. |
| Advance the Colors, Volume II by Richard Sauers Pennsylvania Civil War Battle Flags |
This volume covers the 88th through 215th Pennsylvania Infantry. It also provides an overview of the flag conservation effort within the state. Color and b&w photos, maps, and illustrations. |
| 54th Massachusetts |
The 54th Massachusetts book titles |
 Gettysburg Diorama Playset Gettysburg Diorama Set: Included 64 figures (with Generals Robert e. Lee, George Meade, James Longstreet 7 Winfield Scott Hancock) Union & Confederate Headquarters & Accessories |
Battle at Gettysburg American Civil War Exhibits Civil War Timeline Documents of the Civil War Civil War Naval Resources Civil War Summary State Battle Maps Civil War Store |
 22 Piece Civil War Gettysburg General Robert E Lee Headquarters Plastic Army Men Playset with 54mm 1/32nd Union and Confederate Soldier Figures, Building, Cannon |
| Gettysburg Campaign Book Titles Company Book Titles Colored Troops |
Civil War Generals Book Titles Young Reader Books Confederate Titles |
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