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6. Civil War and Reconstruction
Angle, Paul M., and Earl Schenck Meirs. The Tragic Years, 1860-1865:
A Documentary History of the American Civil War. 2 vols. New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. PCL Stacks: 973.7 AN46T
Benedict, Michael Les. The Fruits of Victory: Alternatives
in Restoring the Union 1865-1877. Rev. ed. Lanham, Md.: University
Press of America, 1986. (Part One, pp. 3-179 is narrative, secondary
source material. Part Two, pp. 83-151, is a collection of documents
[some are excerpts] about various aspects of Reconstruction, including
legislation, speeches, proclamations, constitutional amendments,
resolutions, etc.) PCL Stacks: E 668 B462 1986
Blackford, Susan Leigh. Letters from Lee's Army: or, Memoirs
of Life in and out of the Army in Virginia during the War Between
the States. New York: Scribner, 1947. (Originally published
in 1894-1896. ("Compiled . .. . from original and contemporaneous
memoirs, correspondence and diaries . . .") PCL Stacks: 973.782
B564M 1947
The Civil War. 2 vols. New York: Grosset & Dunlap,
1956. ("The epic story of the Civil War, as narrated by eyewitnesses
and contemporaries.") PCL Stacks: 973.7 C4991
Congdon, Don, ed. Combat: The Civil War. (Combat Series.)
New York: Delacorte Press, 1967. PCL Stacks: 973.73 C76C
Cox, LaWanda, and John H. Cox, eds. Reconstruction, the Negro, and the New South. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. PCL Stacks: E 185.2 C77 1973
Hale, Edward Everett, ed. Stories of War Told by Soldiers.
Boston: Roberts Bros., 1880. PCL Stacks: 973.78 H131S 1880
Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. The Romance of the Civil War.
(Source-Readers in American History, No. 4.) New York: Macmillan
Company, 1903. PCL Stacks: 973.79 H251R
Hesseltine, William Best, ed. The Tragic Conflict: The Civil
War and Reconstruction. (The American Epochs Series.) New
York: G. Barziller, 1962. PCL Stacks: 973.7 H465T
Johannsen, Robert W., ed. Reconstruction, 1865-1877. (Sources
in American History, 6.) New York: Free Press, 1970. PCL Stacks:
E 668 J66
Johnson, Robert Underwood, and Clarence Clough Buel, eds. Battles
and Leaders of the Civil War: Being for the Most Part Contributions
by Union and Confederate Officers. 4 vols. in 8. New York:
Century, 1884-1887. PCL Circulation Desk: E 470 B33. (Also at
the Center for American History.)
Kirchberger, Joe H. The Civil War and Reconstruction, an Eyewitness
History. New York: Facts on File, 1991. PCL Stacks: E 601
K569 1991
McDonald, William. Select Statutes and other Documents Illustrative
of the History of the United States, 1861-1898. New York:
The Mcmillan Company, 1903. PCL Stacks: 973 M145S
Moore, Frank, ed. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American
Events, with Documents, Narrative, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry,
etc. 11 vols. and a supplement. New York: Putnam 1864-1868.
(Vols. 7-10 pub. in New York by Van Nostrand.) PCL Stacks: 973.7
R24
Niven, John. Years of Turmoil: Civil War and Reconstruction;
Interpretive Articles and Documentary Sources. Reading, Mass.:
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969. PCL Stacks: E 458 N65
Sellers, John R., ed. A People at War: (From the Civil War
Manuscript Holdings of the Library of Congress.) Alexandria,
Va.: Chadwyck-Healy, 1989- . ("Letters, diaries and personal
papers published for the first time, the written record of the
silent majority of the Civil War-the civilians, professionals,
camp followers, and ordinary soldiers: participants and observers,
male and female, black and white." 60 reels of microfilm.).
PCLMicroforms Section, Level 1: Reels 1-30 have call number Film
20,930; reels 31-60 have call number 20,320.
Pollard, Edward Alfred. Echoes from the South, Comprising the
Most Important Speeches, Proclamations, and Public Acts Emanating
from the South during the Late War. New York: E. B. Treat
and Co., 1866. PCL Stacks: E 484 P77
Richardson, James. D., comp. A Compilation of the Messages
and Papers of the Confederacy, Including the Diplomatic Correspondence,
1861-1865. 2 vols. Nashville: United States Publishing Company,
1906. PCL Stacks: 973.739 C76 1906
Smith, George Winston. Life in the North during the Civil War:
A Source History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
1966. PCL Stacks: 973.7 SM575L
United States. Navy Department. Official Records of the Union
and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. 30 vols.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894-1922. PCL Stacks
E 591 U58 (Ask at the circulation desk for index to these volumes.
Call number is E 591 U58 Index 1927.) (See also Alan Conrad Aimone's
A User's Guide to the Official Records of the American Civil
War. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Publishing Company, 1993.
PCL Stacks: E 464 A35 1993.)
United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies. 70 vols. in 128. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
Office, 1880-1901. PCL Stacks: E 464 U6 (There is a general index
volume. Call number is E 464 U6 INDEX.) (See also Alan Conrad
Aimone's A User's Guide to the Official Records of the American
Civil War. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Publishing Company,
1993. PCL Stacks: E 464 A35 1993.)
Wheeler, Richard. Voices of the Civil War. New York; Crowell,
1976. PCL Stacks: E 601 W57 1976
(See also: Reconstruction--[Name of individual state]--Sources)
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