ACW Small Arms reading list

[johan_steele]

Barry, Craig L., The Civil War Musket: A Handbook for Historical Accuracy-Lock, Stock and Barrel, Watchdog Press, 2006.

Bilby, Joseph G., Civil War Firearms , Combined Books, 1996.

Coates, Earl J. & McAulay, John D., Civil War Sharps Carbines & Rifles, Thomas Publications, 1996.

Coates, Earl J. & Thomas, Dean S., An Introduction to Civil War Small Arms, Thomas Publications, 1990.

Edwards, William B., Civil War Guns, The Stackpole Company, 1962.

Fuller, Claud E., The Rifled Musket, The Stackpole Company, 1958.

Fuller, Claud E., Springfield Shoulder Arms 1795-1865, S&S Firearms, 1986.

Graf, John F. Standard Catalog of Civil War Firearms, Krause Publications, 2008.

Hess, Earl J., The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat Reality and Myth, University Press of Kansas, 2008.

Houze, Herbert G., Colt Rifles & Muskets from 1847-1870, Krause Publications, 1996.

McAulay, John D., Civil War Small Arms of the US Navy & Marine Corps, Andrew Mowbray Publishers, 1999.

McAulay, John D., Rifles of the U.S. Army 1861-1906, Andrew Mowbray Publishers, 2003

Moller, George D. American Military Shoulder Arms Vol III UNM Press, 2011

Reilly, Robert M., United States Military Small Arms 1816-1865, Eagle Press, 1970.

Smith, Graham, Civil War Weapons, KP Books, 2005.

Sword, Wiley, Firepower from Abroad The Confederate Enfield and the LeMat Revolver, Andrew Mowbray Inc., 1986.

Sword, Wiley, Sharpshooter: Hiram Berdan, his famous Sharpshooters and their Sharps Rifles, Andrew Mowbray Inc., 1988.

Whisker, James A., Hartzler, Daniel D. & Yantz, Larry W., Firearms from Europe, Tom Rowe Books, 2002.

Whisker, James A., Hartzler, Daniel D. & Yantz, Larry W., US Civil War Carbines, Tom Rowe Books, 2001.

Whisker, James A., Hartzler, Daniel D. & Yantz, Larry W., US Model 1861 Springfield Rifle-Musket, Tom Rowe Books, 2000.

Yee, Gary, Sharpshooters 1750-1900, Sharpshooter Press, 2009.

 

[johan_steele]

Arming the Suckers 1861-1865 by Ken Baumann

Small Arms 1856 US Army Reprint by Dean Thomas

The British Soldiers Firearm: from Smoothbore to Smallbore 1850-1864 by C.H. Roads

Robert Ball. Springfield Armory Shoulder Weapons, 1795-1968.

 

[BillO]

A very good list.
I'd add "Firearms of the Confederacy" by Claude Fuller and Richard Steuart. Originally published in 1944.

 

[JRJ]

I'll take it this stimmed from the Indiana/Illinois regiment thread the other day? Haha. Thanks for putting this together johan_steele.

 

[Red Harvest]

Add:
McAulay, John D., Carbines of the Civil War, 1861-1865, Pioneer Press, 1981

 

[johan_steele]

Jordan, John W. The Eagle on US Firearms, Pioneer Press, 1991.

 

[rob63]

Murphy, John M., Confederate Rifles & Muskets

Davies, Paul J., C.S. Armory, Richmond

I wish somebody would reprint them at a reasonable price!

 

[Historyprof]

Small Arms At Gettysburg , Bilby, Joseph B.
United States Martial Flintlocks , Reilly, Robert M.
It would be great to have all of the books listed in this thread.

 

[Jobe Holiday]

"It would be great to have all of the books listed in this thread."

Actually, I do have them! I don't understand why anyone who is intertested in a specific topic wouldn't buy a book about that topic because "Oh, it's too expensive." Really? I mean SERIOUSLY?

I'll relate a quick example. I encouraged a collector/dealer friend to buy Paul Davies book on Richmond arms, which he did. About six months later I bought a Richmond socket bayonet off his table for $60 because he never read the book! You aren't going to learn what any book has to offer by osmosis, you will actually have to read the book!

Also, the list of "good" ACW reference books is nearly endless. I say that as I look over 3,000 + books on my shelves. OK, my wife is over-due to be "Sainted"!

J.

 

[johan_steele]

"It would be great to have all of the books listed in this thread."

Actually, I do have them! I don't understand why anyone who is intertested in a specific topic wouldn't buy a book about that topic because "Oh, it's too expensive." Really? I mean SERIOUSLY?

I'll relate a quick example. I encouraged a collector/dealer friend to buy Paul Davies book on Richmond arms, which he did. About six months later I bought a Richmond socket bayonet off his table for $60 because he never read the book! You aren't going to learn what any book has to offer by osmosis, you will actually have to read the book!

Also, the list of "good" ACW reference books is nearly endless. I say that as I look over 3,000 + books on my shelves. OK, my wife is over-due to be "Sainted"!

J.

My problem is that every time I get a line on Arming the Suckers or Todd's Military Equipage Vol 1 by the time I get to the link the !@#$% is sold.

 

[Historyprof]

"It would be great to have all of the books listed in this thread."

Actually, I do have them! I don't understand why anyone who is intertested in a specific topic wouldn't buy a book about that topic because "Oh, it's too expensive." Really? I mean SERIOUSLY?

I'll relate a quick example. I encouraged a collector/dealer friend to buy Paul Davies book on Richmond arms, which he did. About six months later I bought a Richmond socket bayonet off his table for $60 because he never read the book! You aren't going to learn what any book has to offer by osmosis, you will actually have to read the book!

Also, the list of "good" ACW reference books is nearly endless. I say that as I look over 3,000 + books on my shelves. OK, my wife is over-due to be "Sainted"!

J.

Actually, I'm not doing too bad. I have 18 of the books listed.

 

[Jobe Holiday]

OK, I'll come clean, I should probably tell you that I started my "Library" in the late 1950's. If you think ACW books are expensive, just start adding limited edition books on Powder Horns and Kentucky Rifles to your library and see how fast they add up!

J.

 

[gary]

I have most of the books listed above.

If anyone gets a chance, visit the following libraries:

Chickamauga National Battlefield Park's Library
National Firearms Museum in Fairfax, Virginia.
NRA Whittington Center (near Raton), New Mexico
Trinidad State Junior College in Trinidad, Colorado (they have fourteen six-shelf bookcases on guns).

 

[Jobe Holiday]

"Trinidad State Junior College in Trinidad, Colorado (they have fourteen six-shelf bookcases on guns)."

Yumpin' Yiminy ! ! ! Dat's some books fur sur!

J.

 

[MarylandLine]

Some to add:

Confederate Arms by William A. Albaugh III and William N. Simmons

Tyler Texas by William A. Albaugh III

Confederate Carbines and Musketoons by John M. Murphy, MD

Confederate Handguns by William A. Albaugh III

Brass Framed Colt and Whitney by William A. Albaugh III

The Original Confederate Colt: The story of the Leech & Rigdon and Rigdon-Ansley Revolvers by William A. Albaugh III and Richard D Steuart

 

[johan_steele]

Bumped to top of que upon request.