7 must-read civil war books like 'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North by Paul Taylor

Cover of 'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North by Paul Taylor

'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North

By: Paul Taylor

3.75

Format: 529 pages, Kindle Edition

James McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”—and…

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1. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

By: Stephen W. Sears

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Combining brilliant military analysis with rich narrative history, Landscape Turned Red is the defi… read more

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"Even as McClellan conferred with his superiors, sounds of renewed battle came from the direction of Chantilly, a country estate a few miles north of Centreville and on the flank of Pope’s army."

-Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam

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2. Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage

By: Noah Andre Trudeau

4.20

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

America's Civil War raged for more than four years, but it is the three days of fighting in the Pen… read more

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3. Chancellorsville

By: Stephen W. Sears

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sears describes the series of controversial events that define this crucial battle, including Gener… read more

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4. Gettysburg: The Last Invasion

By: Allen C. Guelzo

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed Civil War historian, and coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the legendary … read more

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5. Gettysburg

By: Stephen W. Sears

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A masterful, single-volume history of the Civil War's greatest campaign. Drawing on original sourc… read more

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6. Shiloh, 1862

By: Winston Groom

4.71

Format: None pages,

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7. Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice

By: David M. Oshinsky

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Prisons in the deep South, with chain gangs, shotguns, and bloodhounds, have been immortalized in m… read more

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8. Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas

By: John J. Hennessy

3.62

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

"This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. … read more

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9. Battle Cry of Freedom

By: James M. McPherson

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more

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10. To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign

By: Stephen W. Sears

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This is a history of the largest and bloodiest campaign of the American Civil War - one in which a … read more

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11. Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

By: Donald L. Miller

4.41

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksb… read more

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Cover of Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson (Modern War Studies) by Timothy B. Smith

12. Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson (Modern War Studies)

By: Timothy B. Smith

4.44

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts Henry and Donelson, he penetrated the Confederacy at o… read more

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Cover of 'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North by Paul Taylor

13. 'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North

By: Paul Taylor

3.75

Format: 529 pages, Kindle Edition

James McPherson’s classic book For Cause & Comrades explained “why men fought in the Civil War”—and… read more

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Cover of A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War by David S. Brown

14. A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

By: David S. Brown

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last Amer… read more

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14 Best history books like Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson (Modern War Studies) by Timothy B. Smith

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1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864

Gordon C. Rhea

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage

Noah Andre Trudeau

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Shiloh: Bloody April

Wiley Sword

4.35

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