NF What is in your Library.

Non-Fiction
Easier just to post the link to http://civilwartalk.com/threads/knowledge-of-the-naval-war.77727/page-5#post-783063 and note that I'm quite close to achieving my goal of owning at least half of them. :D (I haven't counted recently, but I think I'm at about 450 in the Civil War Navies/Diplomacy area. There are additional books I'm not including in the count, which are about other aspects of the Civil War-- maybe another 30 or so.)
 
Unless a book is on one of my core areas (naval, logistics, railroads) a book is unlikely to remain in my library after I've read it.

The same goes for me. We down-sized our house so my library is limited. I had to unload a box of WW2 and ACW topics and gave it to our town museum.
We have a realtor in town who loves books. He bought an old house and, except for the kitchen and a corner of the front room for his desk, he filled it with book shelves. I tried getting some photos but I need a wide-angle lens.

My Civil War selection focuses on local history of Tennessee and Mississippi with some selections related to the cavalry battles. My favorite book, which I've always wanted, is Dunbar Rowland's "Military History of Mississippi". I have new edition with supplements signed by author H. G. Howell.
 
While in Gettysburg last year, I bought "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion" by Allen C. Guelzo. Haven't started it yet but excited to read it
 
Dear forum members,

I m an Italian appasionate of hystory and, also, american civil war. I wish to read an USA book (in English) about C.W. which is, more possible, super-partes. Could some one advise me some easy book ? considering that I m not native english speaker and I don't know american way of say. Tanks in advance and good new year.
Fabrizio from Milan
 
This is for members to post the American Civil War book titles in their libraries, if they wish.
Most of my books are bought off Amazon so I can look at my past orders to make a list.
In another thread, CSAtoday and I published the names of our books and the libraries told a great deal about our positions and interests.
It also gives ideas to newbies about what is out there to read.
Are you able to provide us with a link to your list?
 
Okay, I'm just going to throw this out there. I'm curious as to whether I am the only one like this, or if there are others like me who just aren't vocal about it.

I have a small handful of CW books, and I have only read two of them. I do not get excited at the prospect of getting more CW books. And when I try to sit down and force myself to read, I fall asleep.

I enjoy lectures very much. I'm fascinated by museums. I also love the idea of battlefield tours. Heck, I can happily knit on a CW era sock pattern for hours, and that's the same darn stitch over and over.

But I'm just not a big reader.

I feel like that's weird.
 
Are you able to provide us with a link to your list?
Cannot share that link but.
America's Constitution: A Biography
Blockaders, Refugees, and Contrabands: Civil War on Florida'S Gulf Coast, 1861-1865
The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Civil War America)
The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation
Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836
Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross
Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (Norton Paperback)
The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848--1861: A History of the South
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency
Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Ser.)
Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
Slavery & the Law
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
Race and Reunion : The Civil War in American Memory
The Union War
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)
The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War
The Reconstruction Justice of Salmon P. Chase: In Re Turner and Texas v. White
The Untold Civil War: Exploring the Human Side of War
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: The Civil War in Art
Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War
The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861 (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty
On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-
Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War
African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign
Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26--June 3, 1864
A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military Genius
Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox
Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War
Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South,
The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction
Party Politics in Alabama from 1850 through 1860 (Library Alabama Classics)
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism and Comity (Studies in Legal History)
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War
Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution
The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850 ..
Hardtack & Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life
The Confederate Nation: 1861-1865
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South
Rebel Watchdog : The Confederate States Army Provost Guard
America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (Civil War America)
Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War
Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg
Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)
Iron Afloat: Story of the Confederate Armourclads
The Confederate Constitution of 1861: An Inquiry into American Constitutionalism
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War
How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War
Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (Nation Divided: New Studies in
Black, Blue & Gray: African Americans In The Civil War
Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union
States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 (American Political Thought)
Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy
Lincoln and His Admirals
The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been
The Cause of the South: Selections from de Bow's Review, 1846-1867 (Library of Southern
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
Lincoln at Peoria
Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President
Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate ConstitutionalismONE CONTINUOUS FIGHT: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War
Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession (Civil War America)
Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West (Modern War Studies)
The Long Surrender
Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America
Why the Confederacy Lost (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)
William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War (Civil War America)
The Fire-Eaters
Lincoln
Rebels from West Point : The 306 U.S. Military Academy Graduates Who Fought for the Confederacy
Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780-1865
General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse
Road To Disunion Volume 2 Secessionists Triumphant 1854 1861
The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
American Constitutional Interpretation
The political economy of slavery;: Studies in the economy & society of the slave South
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
Retreat to Victory?: Confederate Strategy Reconsidered (The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era)
Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign (Civil War America)
The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy
Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War
The Coming of the American Civil War (Problems in American Civilization)
What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History
To Appomattox and Beyond: The Civil War Soldier in War and Peace (American Ways Series)
 
Cannot share that link but.
America's Constitution: A Biography
Blockaders, Refugees, and Contrabands: Civil War on Florida'S Gulf Coast, 1861-1865
The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Civil War America)
The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation
Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836
Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross
Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (Norton Paperback)
The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848--1861: A History of the South
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency
Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Ser.)
Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
Slavery & the Law
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
Race and Reunion : The Civil War in American Memory
The Union War
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)
The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War
The Reconstruction Justice of Salmon P. Chase: In Re Turner and Texas v. White
The Untold Civil War: Exploring the Human Side of War
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: The Civil War in Art
Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War
The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861 (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty
On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-
Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War
African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign
Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26--June 3, 1864
A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military Genius
Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox
Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War
Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South,
The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction
Party Politics in Alabama from 1850 through 1860 (Library Alabama Classics)
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism and Comity (Studies in Legal History)
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War
Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution
The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850 ..
Hardtack & Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life
The Confederate Nation: 1861-1865
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South
Rebel Watchdog : The Confederate States Army Provost Guard
America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (Civil War America)
Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War
Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg
Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)
Iron Afloat: Story of the Confederate Armourclads
The Confederate Constitution of 1861: An Inquiry into American Constitutionalism
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War
How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War
Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (Nation Divided: New Studies in
Black, Blue & Gray: African Americans In The Civil War
Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union
States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 (American Political Thought)
Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy
Lincoln and His Admirals
The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been
The Cause of the South: Selections from de Bow's Review, 1846-1867 (Library of Southern
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
Lincoln at Peoria
Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President
Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate ConstitutionalismONE CONTINUOUS FIGHT: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War
Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession (Civil War America)
Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West (Modern War Studies)
The Long Surrender
Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America
Why the Confederacy Lost (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)
William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War (Civil War America)
The Fire-Eaters
Lincoln
Rebels from West Point : The 306 U.S. Military Academy Graduates Who Fought for the Confederacy
Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780-1865
General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse
Road To Disunion Volume 2 Secessionists Triumphant 1854 1861
The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
American Constitutional Interpretation
The political economy of slavery;: Studies in the economy & society of the slave South
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
Retreat to Victory?: Confederate Strategy Reconsidered (The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era)
Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign (Civil War America)
The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy
Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War
The Coming of the American Civil War (Problems in American Civilization)
What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History
To Appomattox and Beyond: The Civil War Soldier in War and Peace (American Ways Series)

Jgoodguy, I am most humbled by your impressive list. Would that I should be as well read.
Thank you, kindly, sir.

Chellers
 
Hey, whatever floats your boat, ya know?!! :smile:
My interest is more sociopolitical than military so I was not surprised that you and I have some of the same titles.
 
Cannot share that link but.
America's Constitution: A Biography
Blockaders, Refugees, and Contrabands: Civil War on Florida'S Gulf Coast, 1861-1865
The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Civil War America)
The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation
Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836
Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross
Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (Norton Paperback)
The Growth of Southern Nationalism, 1848--1861: A History of the South
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency
Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures Ser.)
Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
Slavery & the Law
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War
Race and Reunion : The Civil War in American Memory
The Union War
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)
The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War
The Reconstruction Justice of Salmon P. Chase: In Re Turner and Texas v. White
The Untold Civil War: Exploring the Human Side of War
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: The Civil War in Art
Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War
The Confederacy on Trial: The Piracy and Sequestration Cases of 1861 (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)
Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty
On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-
Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War
African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign
Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26--June 3, 1864
A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military Genius
Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox
Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War
Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South,
The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction
Party Politics in Alabama from 1850 through 1860 (Library Alabama Classics)
Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
Imperfect Union: Slavery, Federalism and Comity (Studies in Legal History)
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War
Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution
The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850 ..
Hardtack & Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life
The Confederate Nation: 1861-1865
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South
Rebel Watchdog : The Confederate States Army Provost Guard
America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (Civil War America)
Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War
Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg
Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy (Great Campaigns of the Civil War)
Iron Afloat: Story of the Confederate Armourclads
The Confederate Constitution of 1861: An Inquiry into American Constitutionalism
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War
How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War
Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia (Nation Divided: New Studies in
Black, Blue & Gray: African Americans In The Civil War
Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union
States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 (American Political Thought)
Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy
Lincoln and His Admirals
The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been
The Cause of the South: Selections from de Bow's Review, 1846-1867 (Library of Southern
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
Lincoln at Peoria
Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President
Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate ConstitutionalismONE CONTINUOUS FIGHT: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber
Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War
Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession (Civil War America)
Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West (Modern War Studies)
The Long Surrender
Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America
Why the Confederacy Lost (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)
William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War (Civil War America)
The Fire-Eaters
Lincoln
Rebels from West Point : The 306 U.S. Military Academy Graduates Who Fought for the Confederacy
Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780-1865
General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse
Road To Disunion Volume 2 Secessionists Triumphant 1854 1861
The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
American Constitutional Interpretation
The political economy of slavery;: Studies in the economy & society of the slave South
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
Retreat to Victory?: Confederate Strategy Reconsidered (The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era)
Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign (Civil War America)
The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy
Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War
The Coming of the American Civil War (Problems in American Civilization)
What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History
To Appomattox and Beyond: The Civil War Soldier in War and Peace (American Ways Series)

That's an interesting list. I have ten of those and there's several I'm going to have a look into that have appealing titles.

When newbies ask for suggestions I often refer them to this thread:

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/standard-civil-war-reference-works.84521/

I've got quite a few of the ones listed there.

I'm more of a generalist and a social history fan (with a few exceptions such as field artillery) and so don't have much in the way of battle or campaign histories other than a few atlases. I'm also just not a fan of biography for some reason I can't really spell out so only have two of those. It's my habit to research what's in print about certain things and then to read one, or maybe two, of the most-referenced classics (studying the bibliographies of books by the well-known historians is one good way to do that). Thus, my library is composed largely of such works which cover the major issues and aspects of the civil war era (which I consider to be from around 1850 to the end of reconstruction in 1876).

There's sometimes a subject that interests me where I'll read more than the standard references but those cases are limited. I've also got quite a few one-off titles that delve into some side issue or subject that caught my interest (e.g. women soldiers, railroads, blockade running). I like photos, too, so there's some table-top books and four of Frassanito's classics. I've also got a Civil War encyclopedia which I've found to be quite useful and a number of DVDs, some courses and others on specific things such as the Hunley. And finally, there's a file cabinet full of things I've copied, cut out of magazines, downloaded (including posts from this site), and the like over the years that cover all sorts of things.

I have an interest in other historical periods or events (pretty much limited to the United States and north America) too and so have a modest collection of works about those things but nothing like what I've got on the Civil War.

And then there's my interest in American roots music, forest ecology, gardening, genealogy and a couple of other things that takes a couple of book cases to deal with but that's not the subject at hand !
 
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Dear forum members,

I m an Italian appasionate of hystory and, also, american civil war. I wish to read an USA book (in English) about C.W. which is, more possible, super-partes. Could some one advise me some easy book ? considering that I m not native english speaker and I don't know american way of say. Tanks in advance and good new year.
Fabrizio from Milan

Hello Fabrizio, welcome to CWT. There are lots of books for every level of education. If you just got started there even is one named "Civil War for Dummies" which my Dear One read to be able to understand what people were talking about when we met at Gettysburg last year. And I think you can do nothing wrong with McPherson's "Battle Cry of Freedom". For more recommendations have a look at our Book and Movie Tent here, it's one of the forums and has all sorts of book recommendations for you.

I do not get excited at the prospect of getting more CW books. And when I try to sit down and force myself to read, I fall asleep.

Hahaa, @LoriAnn that's really courageous of you to say! But two indeed is a bit "substandard" ... what about some biographies? Wouldn't you like to know more about the acting people? Maybe that could be the key to more interest?
And you once said you like Philippa Gregory novels (I do too!). If you manage to read these bricks of a book, you sure would manage, let's say "The Lee Girls" by Mary Price Coulling, about the daughters of R.E. Lee. Imagine, none of them married, although they had quite some suitors. I bet you'd like that one. I did like it a lot. Or maybe even "Hardtack and Coffee" by John D. Billings. It's non-fiction, very funny and gives you an idea what the life of a soldier was about.
But now I'm curious, and it is not meant as an insult: if you are not really interested to learn more about the Civil War and discuss things, why did you join a CW internet forum?
 
I have two of the titles on jgoodguy's list and have read one other. My interest is more in the battles than the politics, but my collections goes from Mexican War to antebellum South to the battles and Reconstruction. I keep my Indian wars books with the Civil War titles, convenient because of the crossover between the soldiers who fought in both. I have about 120 titles so far, and need more bookshelf space. The two-three shelves bookcases didn't cut it after Christmas!
 
I have several hundred Civil War books and it would be interesting to have a list of them (can't remember them all lol). I might have to do that and share the list.
 
And you once said you like Philippa Gregory novels (I do too!).
Yeah, but that's only when I'm in the mood for one of her stories. I'll read the book, and then that's it...won't pick up another one for months.

But now I'm curious, and it is not meant as an insult: if you are not really interested to learn more about the Civil War and discuss things, why did you join a CW internet forum?
1) I read the discussions/debates. Get info in bits and pieces.
2) I find excellent lectures very quickly thanks to @JerseyBart.
3) Meeting others who have an interest in the war, especially those whose ancestors may have fought either with or against my own, is pretty darn cool. My siblings might not care that our GG Grandfather was at the Battle of Franklin or Lookout Mountain, but someone here does.

So you see, I'm interested, and I do learn. I just don't want to pick up an entire book on a subject. Believe me, I've tried. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah, but that's only when I'm in the mood for one of her stories. I'll read the book, and then that's it...won't pick up another one for months.


1) I read the discussions/debates. Get info in bits and pieces.
2) I find excellent lectures very quickly thanks to @JerseyBart.
3) Meeting others who have an interest in the war, especially those whose ancestors may have fought either with or against my own, is pretty darn cool. My siblings might not care that our GG Grandfather was at the Battle of Franklin or Lookout Mountain, but someone here does.

So you see, I'm interested, and I do learn. I just don't want to pick up an entire book on a subject. Believe me, I've tried. :rolleyes:

:thumbsup:
 
librarything.com has been mentioned in the past. It's great! When I started 4-5 years ago you could log 200 books for free. A lifetime mebership after that was $25. I hit 1200 with my Christmas haul!

https://www.librarything.com/catalog/klsdad

I'm far from having 1200 CW titles, but I'm over 200 now. Like you, I forked over the $25 for a lifetime membership to Librarything and add books as I get them now. I love that site.

Here is the link to my books, you can just click on the Civil War tag and see only the CW books. I have a bunch of other topics that interest me other than the CW.

https://www.librarything.com/catalog/LittleGuy1864

Rebecca
 
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