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Abbott, Henry Livermore. Fallen Leaves: The Civil War Letters of Major Henry Livermore Abbott. Edited by Robert Garth Scott. Kent Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991. NRG: E 513.5 20th .F35 1991
Alexander, Edward Porter. Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Edited by Gary W. Gallagher. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. RGC: E 470 .A3725
Axelrod, Alan, ed. My Brother's Face: Portraits of the Civil War in Photographs, Diaries, and Letters. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1993. CYP: E 470 .P44 1993
Bacot, Ada W. A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860-1863. Edited by Jean V. Berlin. (Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nieneteenth-Century South.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994. NRG: E 625 .B33 1994
Berlin, Ira, ed. The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South. (Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867.) Cambridge, Engl.: Cambridge University Press, 1990. RGC: E 185.2 .F88 SER. 1 V. 3
Berlin, Ira, and others, eds. The Black Military Experience. (Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. NRG, RGC, RVS: E 185.2 .F88 SER. 2
Berlin, Ira, and others, eds. The Destruction of Slavery. (Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. NRG, RGC, RVS: E 185.2 .F88 SER. 1 V. 1
Berlin, Ira. Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era. New York: New Press, 1997. RGC: E 185.2 .F27 1997
Blessington, Joseph Palmer. The Campaigns of Walker's Texas Division, By a Private Soldier. Austin, Texas: State House Press, 1994. (Reprint of 1875 edition. Only complete history of largest single unit of Texas troops in the Civil War. Division served primarily in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Its major contributions were in opposition to Gen. N. P. Banks' invasion of Louisiana. Author was a corporal on staff of General Richard Scurry. Derived from Blessington's diaries.) NRG: E 580.5 .W34 B54 1994
Bradford, Ned, ed. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956. (Personal narratives by participants, written after the war. This is a selection of 44 articles from the total of 350 that appeared in the four-volume original publication, which is at UT Austin's Perry-Casteņeda Library, call no. E 470 B33.) PIN: E 470 .B344 1956
Brewster, Charles Harvey. When This Cruel War Is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster. Edited by David W. Blight. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. NRG: E 513.5 10th .B74 1992
Brooks, Noah. Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks. Edited by Michael Burlingame. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. (Author was correspondent for the Sacramento Daily Union. Was a close friend of the president.) CYP, NRG, RGC, RVS: E 457.15 .B88 1998
Carter, Robert Goldthwaite. Four Brothers in Blue: or, Sunshine and Shadows of the War of the Rebellion, a Story of the Great Civil War from Bull Run to Appomattox. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1978. NRG, RGC: E 601 .C33 1978
Cater, Douglas. As It Was: Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Third Texas Cavalry and the Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry. Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 1990. (Views of life in antebellum northwestern Louisiana and northeastern Texas [Rusk County]. In the Civil War, author in Third Texas Cavalry until June 1862; then in Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry to end of war. Fought in battles of Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Franklin, and Nashville.) RVS: E 580.6 3rd .C38 1990
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence. The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps. Gettysburg, Penn.: Stan Clark Military Books, 1994. RGC: E 477.67 .C44 1994
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller. A Diary from Dixie. Edited by Ben Ames Williams. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980. NRG: 487 .C52 1980
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller. A Diary from Dixie: The Civil War's Most Celebrated Journal, Written 1860-1865 by the Wife of James Chesnut, Jr., an Aide to President Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army. New York: Gramercy Books, 1997. RGC: E 487 .C52 1997
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller. Mary Chesnut's Civil War. Ed. by C. Vann Woodward. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. (Diaries by a very pro-Confederate Southern woman.) NRG, RGC: E 487 .C5
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller. The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries. Edited by C. Vann Woodward and Elisabeth Muhlenfeld. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. (Diaries by a very pro-Confederate Southern woman.) CYP, EVC, PIN RGC, RVS: E 487 .C525 1984
Chester, Thomas Morris. Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent: His Despatches from the Virginia Front. Edited by R. J. M. Blackett. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. RGC: E 540 .N3 C4 1989
Chisholm, Daniel. The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm: A Chronicle of Daily Life in the Union Army, 1864-1865. Ed. by Bill Menge and Gus Shimrak. New York: Orion Books, 1989. CYP, EVC, RVS: E 601 .C47 1989
Clarke, Asia Booth. John Wilkes Booth: A Sister's Memoir. Edited by Terry Alford. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. RVS: E 457.5 .C615 1996
Commager, Henry Steele, comp. The Blue and the Gray: The Story of the Civil War as Told by Participants. Revised and abridged. 2 vols. New York: Meridian, 1994. NRG, RGC, RVS: E 464 .B56 1994
Commager, Henry Steele, comp. Fifty Basic Civil War Documents. Malabar, Florida: R. E. Drieger, 1982. CYP, EVC, NRG, RGC, RVS: E 464 .F5 1982
Conolly, Thomas. An Irishman in Dixie: Thomas Conolly's Diary of the Fall
of the Confederacy. Ed. by Nelson D.
Lankford. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. RVS: E 605 .C764
1988
Cutrer, Thomas W., ed. Terry Texas Ranger Trilogy. (Includes L. B. Giles, Terry's Texas
Rangers; J. K. P. Blackburn, Reminiscences
of the Terry Rangers; E. S. Dodd, The
Diary of Ephraim Shelly Dodd.) Austin,
Tex.: State House Press, 1996 RGC: E 580.6 8th .T47 1996
Cutrer, Thomas W., ed. Terry Texas Ranger Trilogy. (Includes L. B. Giles, Terry's Texas Rangers; J. K. P. Blackburn, Reminiscences of the Terry Rangers; E. S. Dodd, The Diary of Ephraim Shelly Dodd.) Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 1996 RGC: E 580.6 8th .T47 1996
Davis, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. (Abridged for the modern reader.) Reprinted, Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1971. (Written in the late 1870s to justify the South's secession from the Union and its fighting for independence in the Civil War.) CYP, RGC: E 487 .D263 1961
Davis, Nicholas A. The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, with the Battle of Fredericksburg. Austin, Tex.: The Steck Company, 1961. (Reprint of 1863 edition. Author, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister and Confederate chaplain, recounts movement of Texan Confederate volunteers in 1861 from Houston area to Richmond, Virginia., where they became part of a regiment in Hood's Brigade. Tells of regiment's participation in Peninsular Campaign and battles of Second Bull Run, Antietam, Frederiksburg.) RGC: E 545 .D26 1961
Dawson, Sarah Morgan. The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan. Edited by Charles East. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. (Author was a young woman in Louisiana during the war.) RGC: E 605 .D28 1991
Dickerson, Frank W. Dearest Father: The Civil War Letters of Lt. Frank Dickerson, a Son of Belfast, Maine. Edited by H. Draper Hunt. Unity, Maine: North Country Press, 1992. RGC: E 492.5 5th .D5 1992
Durden, Robert Franklin. The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972. CYP, NRG, RGC: E 453 .D87
Early, Jubal Anderson. Narrative of the War between the States. New York: Da Capo Press, 1991. RGC: E 470 .E13 1991
Edmunds, Sarah Emma Edmunds. Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999. (Author joined the Union army from Michigan under the guise as a man. Served as a "male" nurse. Also served in other capacities until leaving the army in the spring of 1863.) NRG: E 628. E 36 1999
Fletcher, William A. Rebel Private, Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier. New York: Penguin Group. 1997. (Author spent first part of his life in western Louisiana and eastern Texas. Was a footsoldier with Hood's Texans and as a horseman with Terry's Texas Rangers. Fought in early battles around Richmond, at the Second Battle of Bull Run, at Fredericksburg, at Gettysburg, and at Chickamauga. Assisted with harrassment of Sherman's rear guard in march to the sea in Georgia. Memoir written when author was 65.) RGC: E 605 .F58 1885
Fox, Tryphena Blanche. A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Fox, 1856-1876. (Women's Letters and Diaraies of the Nineteenth-Century South.) Edited by Wilma King. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. (Author was Massachusetts born and bred. Nearly all the letters, most written from Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana, are to her mother in New England. They reveal much about middle-class Southern life. Fox enthustically supported the Confederate cause during the Civil War. Pages 118-142 deal with the Civil War period.) RGC: E 445 .L8 F68 1993
Gallagher, Gary W., ed. Two Witnesses at Gettysburg. The Personal Accounts of Whitelaw Reid and A. J. L. Fremantle. St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1994. (Whitelaw Reid, with Union army; A. J. L. Fremantle, with Confederate army. From their books.) CYP: E 475 .533 T97 1994
Gallaway, B. P., ed. Texas, The Dark Corner of the Confederacy: Contemporary Accounts of the Lone Star State in the Civil War. 3rd ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. First thirteen documents deal with Texas in the late ante-bellum period. Includes excellent esay on Texas Civil War historiography.) PIN: E 580.9 .T49 1994
Gallman, J. Matthew, gen. ed. The Civil War Chronicle: The Only Day-by-Day Portrait of America's Tragic Conflict As Told by Soldiers, Journalists, Politicians, Farmers, Nurses, Slaves, and Other Eyewitnesses. New York: Crown Pulishers, 2000. (Excerpts from many documents. Does not cover every day of the war but is chronological in organization.) CYP, NRG, RVS: E 655 .C49 2000
Gooding, James Henry. On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front. Edited by Virginia M. Adams. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991. NRG: E 513.5 54th .G66 1991
Goyne, Minetta Altgelt. Lone Star and Double Eagle: Civil War Letters of a German-Texas Family. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1982. NRG, RGC: E 605 .G667 1982
Graber, H. W. A Terry Texas Ranger: The Life Record of H. W. Graber. Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 1987. NRG, RGC: F 391 .G69 1987
Grayson, G. W. A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G. W. Grayson. Ed. by W. David Baird. (Civilization of the American Indian Series.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. EVC, PIN RGC, RVS: E 99 .C9 G7 1988
Greene, William B. Letters from a Sharpshooter: The Civil War Letters of Private William Greene, Co. G, 2nd United States Sharpshooters (Berdan's), Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865. Belleville, Wis.: Historic Publications, 1993. RGC: E 492.7 .G74 1993
Hancock, Cornelia. Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863-1865. Edited by Henrietta Stratton Jaquette. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. (Author was a Quaker who served the Union in field and evacuating hospitals, in a contraband camp, and on the battlefield. Letters are to family members.) RVS: E 621 .H29 1998
Harwell, Richard B., ed. The Civil War Reader. 2 vols. in 1. New York: Mallard Press, 1991. (Reprinting of two collections, The Union Reader, (1957, 1958), and The Confederate Reader, (1957). Emphasis on material that is not familiar. Some documents excerpted. Each volume separately paged and indexed. Include specific title in citation.) PIN: E 464 .H37 1991
Hawks, Esther Hill. A Woman Doctor's Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks' Diary. Edited by Gerald Schwartz. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1984. (Author was one of the few female physicians who served the Union cause during the war.) RVS: E 621 .H36 1984
Haydon, Charles B. For Country, Cause & Leader: The Civil War Journal of Charles B. Haydon. Ed. by Stephen W. Sears. New York: Tichnor & Fields, 1993. RGC: E 514.5 2nd .H38 1993
Heartsill, William W. Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army: A Journal Kept by W. W. Heartsill; or Camp Life: Day by Day of the W. P. Lane Rangers from April 19, 1861 to May 20, 1865. Wilmington, N.C. : Broadfoot, 1992. (Originally published in 1867. Author in 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment.) RGC: E 580.6 W18 H43 1992
Heyward, Pauline DeCaradeuc. A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863-1888. Edited by Mary D. Robertson. (Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century South.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. (Author recounts her experiences in the latter part of the Civil War, including the invasion and plunder of her plantation home near Aiken, South Carolina.) RVS: E 605 .H56 1992
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Army Life in a Black Regiment. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1982. (Author was a Unitarian minister and fervent New England abolitionist. When the Civil War broke out, he was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas.) NRG, RVS: E 492.94 lst .H53 1982. (Another edition is at RGC: E 492.94 lst H53 1971b. The publication data is Williamstown, Mass.: Corner House Publishers, 1971.)
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Army Life in a Black Regiment and Other Writings. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. (Author was a Unitarian minister and fervent New England abolitionist. When the Civil War broke out, he was commissioned as a colonel of the black troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas. Other writings include a section of Higginson's essays, among them "A Visit to John Brown's Household in 1859," "Nat Turner's Insurrection," and "Some War Scenes Revisited.") RGC: E 492.94 lst .H53 1997.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Touched by Fire: Civil War Letters and Diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1861-1864. Edited by Mark de Wolfe Howe. New York: Fordham University Press, 2000. (Originally published in 1946 by the Harvard University Press. Author, later a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, entered Union army service as a lieutenant of infantry, 20th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers.) NRG, RGC: E 601 .H73 2000
Holmes, Sarah Katherine (Stone). Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868. (Library of Southern Civilization.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972. (Louisiana woman who spent part of the Civil War in "exile" in Texas.) RGC: E 487 .H74 1972. (Another edition, with different bibliogrhical data, is at NRG. The call number is the same, except that the date at the end is 1995.)
Holt, Daniel M. A Surgeon's Civil War: The Letters and Diary of Daniel M. Holt, M.D. Edited by James M. Greiner, et al. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994. RGC: E 621 .H76 1994
Hutton, Paul Andrew, ed. The Custer Reader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. (A hybrid source. Contains both secondary and primary sources. Primary source documents relevant to Custer's service in the Civil War begin on pp. 33 and 69.) NRG, PIN: R 467.1 .C99 C85 1992
Jackman, John S. Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade. Ed. by William C. Davis. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990. (Jackman was a Kentuckian.) RGC: E 564.5 1ST .J33 1990
Jones, J. William. Personal Reminiscences of Robert E. Lee. Richmond, Va.: United States Historical Society Press, 1989. RGC: E 467.1 .L4 J78 1989
Lee, Elizabeth Blair. Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee. Edited by Virginia Jeans Laas. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. RGC: E 601 .L44 1991
Lee, J. Edward, and Ron Chepesluk, eds. South Carolina in the Civil War: The Confederate Experience in Letters and Diaries. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2000. CYP, NRG: E 605 .S7 2000
Lee, Robert E. Lee's Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-1865. Edited by Douglas Southall Freeman, with additional dispatches and foreword by Grady McWhiney. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. (Reprint of 1914 edition, with additional material.) PIN: E 470 .L48 1994
Lincoln, Abraham. Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writings and Speeches. Edited by Michael P. Johnson. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001. (Relevant material is on pp. 116-333.) CYP, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 457,2 .A145 2001
Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865. N.Y.: Library of America, 1989. NRG, RGC: E 457.92 .L522 1989b
Linden, Glenn M., & Thomas J. Pressley, eds. Voices from the House Divided: The United States Civil War as Personal Experience. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. (Excerpts from primary sources documents by twenty persons who experienced the Civil War in differering ways. Authors include Mary Boykin Chesnut, George Templeton Strong, and Frederick Douglass.) RGC: E 464 .V63 1995
Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. New York: Smithmark, 1994. RGC: E 470 .L85 1994
Manigault, Arthur. Middleton. A Carolinian Goes to War: The Civil War Narrative of Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General, C.S.A. Edited by R. Lockwood Tower. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992. RGC: E605 .M27 1992
McPherson, James M. The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. (Extensive excerpts from documents by African Americans about their experiences in the war. Arranged in narrative form, with interpretive and factual information by the author to bridge and clarify the documents.) CYP, EVC, RVS: E 540 .N3 M25 1982. (Copies of the 1965 edition are at NRG and RGC.)
Mitgang, Herbert, ed. Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait: His Life and Times from the Original Newspaper Documents of the Union, the Confederacy, and Europe. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1989. (Originally published, 1971.) RGC: E 457 .A1627 1989
Mohr, James C., and Richard Winslow, eds. The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. RGC: E 464 .C66 198
Moskow, Shirley Blotnick, ed. Emma's World: An Intimate Look at Lives Touched by the Civil War Era. Far Hills, N.J.: New Horizon Press, 1990. (Includes correspondence by Emma Sargeant Barbour Whitney.) RVS: E 601 .M67 1990
Osborn, Thomas Ward. The Fiery Trail: A Union Officer's Account of Sherman's Last Campaigns. Edited by Richard Barksdale Harwell and Philip N. Racine. Knoxville: University of Tennessess Press, 1986. NRG, RGC: E 476.69 .O83 1986
Pardington, John Henry. Dear Sarah: Letters Home from a Soldier of the Iron Brigade. Edited by Coralou Peel Lassen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. (Author a member of the 24th Michigan Infantry of the Iron Brigade. Contents tell of patriotic dedication, longing for wife and baby, details of camp life, reflections on Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and other engagements. Killed at Battle of Gettysburg.) RGC: E 514.5 24th .P37 1999
Peticolas, A. B. Rebels on the Rio Grande: The Civil War Journals of A. B. Peticolas. Ed. by Don E. Alberts. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. (Texas Confederate soldier in the New Mexico campaign.) NRG: E 605 .P47 1984
Philips, Charles, and Alan Axelrod. My Brother's Face: Portraits of the Civil War in Photographs, Diaries, and Letters. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. CYP: E 470 .P44 1993
Pike, James. The Scout and Ranger: Being the Personal Adventures of Corporal Pike of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, as a Texas Ranger, in the Indian Wars. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. (Written in 1865. Northern-born author was a Texas Ranger, 1959-'61, then returned north when Texas seceded. Joined Ohio cavalry unit to serve Union Army as scout and spy within Confederate lines. Account generally very accurate.) NRG: F 391 P63 1972)
Radkey, Edwin S., ed. A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861-1865. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. NRG, RGC, RVS: E 540 .N3 G74 1992
Ransom, John. John Ransom's Andersonville Diary. New York: Berkley Books, 1994 RGC: E 612 .A5 R2 1994
[Research Publications.] The Civil War. (Research Publications' American Journey.) Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publications: Primary Source Media, 1995. (A computer database on CD-ROM. A fully indexed and searachable collection of primary sources.) RVS: On index tables. (See a reference librarian or other LRC personnel for assistance.)
Romero, Matias. A Mexican View of America in the 1860s: A Foreign Diplomat Describes the Civil War and Reconstruction. Translated by Thomas Schoonover, with the assistance of Ebba Wesener Schoonover. Schoonover. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991. RGC: E 4464 .C672513 1991
Ropes, Hannah Anderson. Civil War Nurse: The Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980. RGC: E 621 .R663 1980
Ross, Lawrence Sullivan. Personal Civil War Letters of General Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross, CSA, to His Wife, with Other Letters. Translated and compiled by Perry Wayne Shelton. Austin, Texas: W. M. Morrison Books, 1994. RGC: E 605 .R73 1994
Russell, William Howard. My Diary, North and South. Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith, 1969. (Written by a British newspaper correspondent.) NRG, RGC: E 167 .R96 1969
Soloman, Clara. The Civil War Diary of Clara Soloman: Growing Up in New Orleans, 1861-1862. Edited with an introduction by Elliott Ashkenazi. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. (Author was a Jewish teenager.) RGC: F 374 .S65 A3 1995
Seabury, Caroline. The Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854-1863. Ed. by Suzanne L. Bunkers. (Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography.) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. (Slavery in Columbus, Mississippi.) NRG: F 213 .S42 1991
Shaw, Robert Gould. Blue-eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Ed. by Russell Duncan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. (Gould, a white man, commanded the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers (black troops) featured in the motion picture, Glory.) RVS: E 513.5 54th .S53
Silber, Nina and Mary Beth Sievons, eds. Yankee Correspondence: Civil War Letters between New England Soldiers and the Home Front. Charlotteville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. RGC: E 464 .Y36 1996
Simpson, R. W. and Tally Simpson. "Far, Far from Home": The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers. Edited by Guy R. Everson and Edward H. Simpson, Sr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. (Scope: First Bull Run, July 1861, to the Battle of Chickamauga, September 1863. Also, accounts of the Peninsular Campaign, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Preface: "A good picture of the war's impact on one Southern family.) RVS: E 577.5 3rd .S56 1994
Sneden, Robert Knox. Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey. Edited by Charles F. Bryan, Jr., and Nelson D. Lankford. New York: The Free Press, 2000. (Edited diary/memoir of a Union soldier plus his watercolors of many Civil War scenes. From the Introduction: "His narrative and art constitute one of the most important Civil War documents ever produced." Served in Virginia. Incarcerated in several Confederate prisons, including Andersonville.) CYP, RGC: E 601 .S667 2000
Sorrel, G. Moxley. Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer. New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1994. (Date of writing undetermined but sometime between 1865 and 1901. Author an associate of General James Longstreet. Fought at First Bull Run, Seven Pines, South Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, Eastern Tennessee Campaign, the Wilderness, and at the siege of Petersburg.) RGC: E 470 .S72
Stiles, T. J., comp. In Their Own Words: Civil War Commanders. Berkley Publishing Group, 1995. (Excerpts from writings by Union commanders George B. McClellan, Ulysse, Willilam Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, David D. Porter, David G. Farragut, S. Dana Greene, and by Confederate commanders P G. T. Beauregard, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, John B. Hood, John S. Mosby, John McCorkle, and John McIntosh Kell. Most major campaigns and battles represented.) NRG: E 470 .C58 1995
Stoddard, William O. Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary. Edited by Michael Burlingame. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. (Author was assistant to Lincoln's two main presidential aides, John G. Nicolay and John Hay. Included is text of memoir first published in 1890 plus thirteen "White House Sketches" written in 1866.) CYP, RVS: E 654 .S85 A3 2000-
Straubing, Harold Elk, ed. Civil War Eyewitness Reports. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1985. RGC, RVS: E 601 .C52 1985
Strother, David Hunter. A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War: The Diaries of David Hunter Strother. Edited by Cecil D. Eby, Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. PIN: E 601 .S87 1998
Sullivan, Walter, ed. The War the Women Lived: Female Voices from the Confederate South. Nashville, Tenn.: J. S. Sanders, 1995. EVC: E 605 .W275 1995
Tapert, Annette, ed. The Brothers' War. Civil War Letters to Their Loved Ones from the Blue and Gray. New York: Times Books, 1988. NRG, RGC: E 601 .B873 1988
Taylor, Richard. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Civil War. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995. RGC: E 470 .T24 1995
Taylor, Susie King. A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers. Ed. by Patricia W. Romero. New York: M. Wiener Pub., 1988. NRG, RGC, RVS: E 492 .94 33rd .T3 1988
Taylor, Thomas Thomson. Tom Taylor's Civil War. Compiled by Albert Castel. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. (A hybrid source. Historian Castel has written a narrative around many quotations from Taylor's letters home to his wife, Netta, hers to him, and also a few quotations from his diaries. Author was from Georgetown, Ohio. Period covered: September, 1861-August 30, 1865. Was a brevet brigadier general at war's end. Much about Union campaigns in Tennessee and Georgia in 1`863-1864.) NRG: E 601 .T295 2000
Trollope, Anthony. North America. 2 vols. New ed. (reprinted). London: Dawsons, 1968. (Civil War impressions by an English visitor to the Union states during the first year of the conflict. Vol. 1: August-December, 1861; Vol. 2: December, 1861-March, 1862. Eyewitness account of democracy's struggle for survival and intelligent, objective commentary on characteristic features of American life.) NRG, RGC: E 167 .T8425 1869a V. 1 RVS: E 167 .T8425 1869a V. 2.
Wakelyn, Jon L., ed. Southern Unionist Pamphlets and the Civil War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. (Includes eighteen pamphlets written by southerners during the war who supported the Union. From the book jacket: "The authors discuss their motivation to remain loyal to the union, the actions of their friends and enemies, the perilous life of unionists behind military lines, their continued support for the federal government, and their hopes for a restored Union." Part of their reason in writing was to solicit northern aid for themselves and their cause.) NRG, RGC, RVS: E 487 .S75 1999
Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta. An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters ofSarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers. Edited by Lauren Cook Burgess. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. (At least 400 women disguised themselves as men and served in the armed forces of the Union and the Confederacy in the Civil War. This is the only known published collection of primary source materials from one of them. Seemingly, the letters make no mention of the author being a woman.) PIN: E 628 .W35 1995
Walton, Buck. An Epitome of My Life; Civil War Reminiscences. Austin, Tex.: The Waterloo Press, 1965. (Written in 1914-1915. Author a prominent Austin lawyer. Enlisted in Confederate Army in March of 1862. Much of book tells of scouting and fighting in Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisiana [the last in the Red River Campaign].) RGC: E 605 .W27 1965
Welsh, Peter. Irish Green and Union Blue: The Civil War Letters of Peter Welsh, Color Sergeant, 28th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. Edited by Lawrence Frederick Cole with Margaret Cosse Richard. New York: Fordham University Press, 1986. (Letters of Irish immigrant to his wife, September 1862-May 1864. Fought in battles of Antietam , Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania. Emphasis on Welsh's quest for (and appreeciation of) freedom in America after oppression in Ireland.) EVC: E 513.5 28th .W45 1986
Werner, Emmy E. Reluctant Witnesses: Children's Voices from the Civil War. Boulder, Colo.: The Westview Press, 1998. (A hybrid source. Excerpts from diaries, journals, letters, and reminiscences of some 120 children and youth between the ages of four and sixteen when the Civil War began. Interspersed with the excerpts is extensive secondary source commentary by the author. Bibliography has many titles of published primary sources from which the excerpts were taken.) NRG, RVS: E 468 .W47 1998
Wheeler, Richard. On Fields of Fury: From the Wilderness to the Crater, an Eyewitness History. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. (Book consists of quotations from numerous primary source documents, tied together by the author's narrative.) RGC: E 476.52 .W47
Wheeler, Richard. Witness to Appomattox. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. (Book consists of quotations from numerous primary source documents, tied together by the author's narrative.) RVS: E 477.67 .W48 1989
White, Daniel B. Dear Wife: The Civil War Letters of a Private Soldier. Ed. by Jack C. Davis. Louisville: Sulgrave, 1991. CYP, EVC, PIN: E 601 .W58 1991
Wiley, Bell I. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. (Book consists of brief quotations from numerous primary source documents, tied together by the author's narrative.) PIN: E 607 .W49 1978
Wiley, Bell I. The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. (Book consists of brief quotations from numerous primary source documents, tied together by the author's narrative.) NRG, RGC: E 607 .W5 1978
Woodward, Steven E. Cultures in Conflict: The American Civil War. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2000. (Collection of memoirs, diaries, letters, and reminiscences "of ordinary Northerners and Southerners who experienced the war as soldiers or citizens [which] brings to life the conflict in culture, principles, attitudes, hopes, courage, and suffering of both sides.") NRG, RGC, RVS: E 464 .W66 2000
(See also The United States: Federalist Era through 1877; African Americans in United States History, 1600s-1877)