American Civil War in History and Fiction

From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, from Lincoln and Grant to Jefferson Davis and Lee, this CD, intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), contains 77 books related to the American Civil War -- both history and fiction.

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Complete Table of Contents:

History

• The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel, 1919
• Andersonville: a Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• The Army of the Cumberland by Henry Cist
• The Campaign of Chancellorsville by Theodore Dodge
• Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Souther Adventure in Time of WAr by Thomas W. Knox, 1865
• Captains of the Civil War: a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray by William Wood
• The Contest in America (short) John Stuart Mill
• The Continental Monthly, devoted to litearture and national policy, volume 1, Feb. 1862, number 2
• The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by George Carleton, 1864
• Government and Rebellion by E.E. Adams, 1861
• Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams
• The Great Conspiracy, a History of the Civil War by John Logan
• History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
• Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister 1857-1878 edited by Jesse Grant Cramer, 1902
• A Life of General Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke, 1876
• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend
• Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
• Volume 1
• Volume 2On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill
• Military Reminiscences of the Civil War by Jacob Cox
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Personal Memoirs of Philip Henry Sheridan
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by his son Captain Robert E. Lee
• Report on the Condition of the South (1865) by Carl Schurz
• Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis 1858
• Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by Colonel G.F.R. Henerson
• The Uprising of a Great People. The United States in 1861 by Count Agenor de Gasparin, translated from French by Mary Booth
• Lincoln
• A Compilation of the Messagesa dn Papers of the Presidents by James Richardson
• Lincoln and Johnson
• Andrew Johnson
• Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell (short)
• Abraham Lincoln, a play, by John Drinkwater
• Abraham Lincoln a History, volume 2, by John Nicolay and John Hay, 1890
• Abraham Lincoln by George Haven Putnam III, 1909
• Abraham Lincoln by John T. Morse, Jr.
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay
• Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Fiske Browne
• The Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner
• Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
• Lincoln; An Account of His Personal Life, Especially of Its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
• Lincoln Letters, published by the Bibliophile Society
• The Lincoln Story Book, compiled by Henry Williams
• Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes that made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller, With Introduction and Anecdotes By Colonel Alexander K. McClure
• McClure's Magazine, volume 6, December 1895, number 1, Abraham Lincoln
• Our American Cousin, a drama, in 3 acts, by Tom Taylor. Abraham Lincoln was watching this play when he was assassinated. (Act III, halfway through Scene 2.)
• Writings of Abraham Lincoln
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7

Fiction and Poetry

• Horatio Alger
• Frank's Campaign or the Farm and the Camp
• Joseph Altsheler
• The Guns of Bull Run
• The Guns of Shiloh
• The Rock of Chicamaugua
• The Scouts of Stonewall: the Story of the Great Valley Campaign
• Shades of the Wilderness
• The Star of Gettysburg: a Story of Southern High Tide
• The Sword of Antietam
• Ambrose Bierce
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• Winston Churchill (American cousin of the prime minister
• The Crisis
• Stephen Crane
• The Little Regiment
• The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
• John Fox
• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox
• G.A. Henty
• With Lee in Virginia: a Story of the American Civil War
• John McElroy
• The Red Acorn
• Herman Melville
• Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, 1866
• Walt Whitman
• Leaves of Grass

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