What ACW Books Are You Planning On Buying/Reading Next?

[Nathanb1]

Now we know who hit the mega millions jackpot this weekend

Sshhhhhh! Don’t tell my husband!
Forgot: I also picked up The Real Horse Soldiers by Smith. I’ve been obsessed with Grierson since I was a kid.

 

[Union_Buff]

I have currently been browsing online and my current must-read list is as follows:

• Rebel Private, Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate soldier by W.A. Fletcher
• Military Memoirs Of A Confederate: A Critical Narrative by E.P. Alexander
• Lady Rebel: The Story of Private Jane Perkins C.S.A. by Patty Bell
• Detailed Minutiate of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy

 

[Harman Farm]

A buddy of mine from the Marine Corps was getting rid of some things and asked if I’d like these for my bookshelf. At over 600 pages for each of Freeman’s volumes, it looks like I’ve got a lot of reading ahead of me!

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Good score!! I had "A Civil War Treasury" when I was a kid. It is a pretty good book if I remember correctly.

 

[Fort Fisher Guy]

Confederate Goliath by Rod Gragg.
Hurricane of fire: the Union assault on Fort Fisher by Charles Robinson.
Rebel Gibraltar by James L Walker Jr.

 

[David Knight]

Just reading Vol 3 of David A Powell series on the Chickamauga Campaign. Got a new copy for £3.39. Bargain.

 

[Virginia Dave]

Working on this one now.

 

[thebattle29]

Sears also wrote To the Gates of Richmond, which I liked a lot. It's a study of the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, with special empasis on the Battle of the Seven Days.

I will note it. Sounds good!

 

[Bruce Vail]

I have currently been browsing online and my current must-read list is as follows:

• Rebel Private, Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate soldier by W.A. Fletcher
• Military Memoirs Of A Confederate: A Critical Narrative by E.P. Alexander
• Lady Rebel: The Story of Private Jane Perkins C.S.A. by Patty Bell
• Detailed Minutiate of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy

These titles are all free on-line?

 

[Hannover]

I would like to recommend 'The Bristoe Campaign' by Adrian Tighe.

Firstly because this book is an exhaustive lovingly researched work on the little-covered autumn 1863 campaign in the East that has generally been ignored. You could argue that Tighe was so involved with researching this period he perhaps overstates its relative importance although he does a good job of describing the details of corps, divisional, and regimental activity and the interactions between the commanders involved. There are many maps with generally good detail. I noticed that reviews of the book state that it could have been slightly better edited, largely a result of missing commas, misuse of semi-colons but this is easy to ignore once you become involved. This is a book from an ACW enthusiast covering what has been an almost unknown part of the civil war.

 

[Fairfield]

Expecting Yankee Correspondence by Drs. Silber and Sievens (should arrive in February). Nina Silber is Chair of the Dept. of History at Boston University, past president of the Society of Civil War Historians and a member of the Southern Historical Assn. Mary Beth Sievens is a historian (Revolution to ACW) and researcher; she teaches at the State University of New York (Fredonia). I've read a good many letters written by Maine soldiers but this book expands the field to New England soldiers.

 

[Student of Sherman]

Currently reading this.

Jack Hurst's biography on Forrest is still one of my favorites, but wanted to give this one a read as well.

 

[Katy]

Looking for the best, definitive book on R.E. Lee. Have read a couple, but always felt there was more to know about this man.

Can't do better than Douglas Southall Freeman's four volumes! It did take me several years to finish them, but he writes beautifully and is not worshipful as some have said.

 

[Jamieva]

Tempest at Ox Hill: The Battle of Chantilly by David A. Welker

 

[Jamieva]

I would like to recommend 'The Bristoe Campaign' by Adrian Tighe.

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Firstly because this book is an exhaustive lovingly researched work on the little-covered autumn 1863 campaign in the East that has generally been ignored. You could argue that Tighe was so involved with researching this period he perhaps overstates its relative importance although he does a good job of describing the details of corps, divisional, and regimental activity and the interactions between the commanders involved. There are many maps with generally good detail. I noticed that reviews of the book state that it could have been slightly better edited, largely a result of missing commas, misuse of semi-colons but this is easy to ignore once you become involved. This is a book from an ACW enthusiast covering what has been an almost unknown part of the civil war.

I would highly recommend Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station by Jeffrey Hunt about that same time period. Came out a year or 2 ago

 

[Andersonh1]

Not quite ACW, but I've been looking for a good biography of John C. Calhoun. I read one Calhoun biography several years ago, but it's always good to get different perspectives on the same historical figure. I bought a copy of "John C. Calhoun: American Portrait" by Margaret L. Coit, which won a Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1951, so hopefully it's a good one. Clyde Wilson lists it as a recommended biography for Calhoun, and if anyone's an expert on Calhoun, it's the guy who organized and edited his papers for years.

 

[thebattle29]

I'm reading "Vicksburg", by Donald L. Miller.

 

[mobile_96]

Just finished "Heroines of Mercy Street-the real Nurses of the Civil War" by Pamela D. Toler,
and started "Lincoln's Melancholy-How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
by Joshua Shenk.

 

[Jamieva]

Lincoln Takes Command: The Campaign to Seize Norfolk and the Destruction of the CSS Virginia by Steve Norder

 

[Pete Longstreet]

I have currently been browsing online and my current must-read list is as follows:

• Rebel Private, Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate soldier by W.A. Fletcher
• Military Memoirs Of A Confederate: A Critical Narrative by E.P. Alexander
• Lady Rebel: The Story of Private Jane Perkins C.S.A. by Patty Bell
• Detailed Minutiate of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy

I just bought the E.P. Alexander book and hopefully will be reading it soon..

 

[Peace Society]

Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns
Steven F Woodworth, U of Neb Press, Lincoln 1998

Mr. Woodworth is a witty and informative writer. Reminds me of Shelby Foote with better documentation.