10 Top american civil war books like Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond (Modern War Studies) by Hampton Newsome

Cover of Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond (Modern War Studies) by Hampton Newsome

Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond (Modern War Studies)

By: Hampton Newsome

4.45

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

On June 14, 1863, US Major General John Adams Dix received the following directive from General-in-…

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1. Selected Poems

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

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2. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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3. For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair At Spring Hill & the Battle of Franklin

By: None

4.26

Format: None pages,

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4. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

5. Jefferson the Virginian

By: Dumas Malone

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Hardcover

The first of five volumes in a full-length biography of Jefferson. read more

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6. Robert Browning's Poetry

By: Robert Browning , None , Andrew M. Stauffer

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

The poems are ordered chronologically according to their first appearance in book form. Thirteen ne… read more

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7. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

By: Ian W. Toll

4.76

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more

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"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"

-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

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8. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

4.45

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more

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Cover of All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War's Pivotal Battle by Troy D Harman

9. All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War's Pivotal Battle

By: Troy D Harman

3.78

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

It has long been a trope of Civil War history that Gettysburg was an accidental battlefield. Genera… read more

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10. The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West

By: Timothy B. Smith

4.48

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Killed in action at the bloody Battle of Shiloh, Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston stands … read more

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11. I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign

By: D. Scott Hartwig

4.79

Format: 984 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. The memory… read more

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12. In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet's Countermarch, Johnston's Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863

By: Allen R. Thompson

4.00

Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition

Exciting new research lifts much of the fog surrounding the Battle of Gettysburg and offers a glimp… read more

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13. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

By: Elizabeth Varon

4.15

Format: 516 pages, ebook

An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruct… read more

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"I have some little reputation, but my men made it all for me. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Article in -Sumter Republican-, October 29, 1864."

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"...the power of battle is in generalship more than in the number of soldiers. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1876)"

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"[The] object of politics is to relieve the distress of the people and to provide for their future comfort. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to the New Orleans Times, June 8, 1867."

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"It does not look like generalship to lose a battle and a cause and then lay the responsibility upon others. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896)"

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

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14. General J. E. B. Stuart: The Soldier and the Man

By: Edward G. Longacre

4.40

Format: 504 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen years have passed since the publication of the last full-length biography of Jeb Stuart. Se… read more

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15. Kubrick: An Odyssey

By: Robert P. Kolker

4.26

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey , The Shining , and A Clockwork Or… read more

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16. The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson's Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi

By: Timothy B. Smith

4.51

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

Benjamin Grierson's Union cavalry thrust through Mississippi is one of the most well-known operatio… read more

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17. Small but Important Riots: The Cavalry Battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville

By: Robert F. O'Neill

4.36

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

June 1863. The American Civil War was two years old, and the U.S. Army in Virginia was in chaos. Re… read more

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Cover of A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens

18. A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

By: Peter Cozzens

4.09

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed historian Peter Cozzens, the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insat… read more

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19. All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 (Civil War America)

By: Gerald J. Prokopowicz

4.08

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Despite its important role in the early years of the Civil War, the Army of the Ohio remains one of… read more

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"In the midst of a grueling all-night march on October 6, the men of the 10th Indiana demonstrated that they had not lost their high spirits. They were taking a brief midnight break, many of them slee…"

-Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862 (Civil War America)

Cover of “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg - Volume 1: June 3–22, 1863 by Scott L. Mingus Sr.

20. “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania”: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg - Volume 1: June 3–22, 1863

By: Scott L. Mingus Sr.

4.51

Format: 469 pages, Kindle Edition

Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg, the authors of more than forty Civil War books, have on… read more

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Cover of The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi: May 14, 1863 by Chris Mackowski

21. The Battle of Jackson, Mississippi: May 14, 1863

By: Chris Mackowski

4.28

Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition

“A comprehensive, eminently readable, lavishly illustrated, and historically accurate account” of t… read more

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Cover of Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862 by Victor Vignola

22. Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862

By: Victor Vignola

3.86

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

“The author’s new and important study concentrates on the Fair Oaks part of the battle. His researc… read more

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23. Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla

By: Thomas Goodrich

4.15

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

The first-ever biography of the perpetrator of the Centralia and Baxter Springs Massacres, as well … read more

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24. Miserable Little Conglomeration: A Social History of the Port Hudson Campaign (Voices of the Civil War)

By: Christopher Thrasher

4.67

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

While Vicksburg and Gettysburg tend to receive the most attention among Civil War battles, it is Po… read more

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Cover of Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield by Earl J. Hess

25. Civil War Field Artillery: Promise and Performance on the Battlefield

By: Earl J. Hess

4.36

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

The American Civil War saw the creation of the largest, most potent artillery force ever deployed i… read more

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Cover of The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1865: A Study in Command by William Royston Geise

26. The Confederate Military Forces in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1861-1865: A Study in Command

By: William Royston Geise

4.10

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

William Royston Geise was a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1970s… read more

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Cover of Thunder in the Harbor: Fort Sumter and the Civil War by Richard W. Hatcher III

27. Thunder in the Harbor: Fort Sumter and the Civil War

By: Richard W. Hatcher III

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Fort Sumter. Charleston. April 1861. The bombardment and surrender of Sumter were only the beginnin… read more

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28. Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond (Modern War Studies)

By: Hampton Newsome

4.45

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

On June 14, 1863, US Major General John Adams Dix received the following directive from General-in-… read more

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Cover of The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 by David A. Powell

29. The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864

By: David A. Powell

4.50

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

The Atlanta Campaign in 1864 was second only to Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign in Virginia fo… read more

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Cover of The Nashville and Decatur in the Civil War: History of an Embattled Railroad by Walter R Green

30. The Nashville and Decatur in the Civil War: History of an Embattled Railroad

By: Walter R Green

3.67

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Nashville and Decatur Railroad was in operation five months before the start of the Civil War a… read more

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Cover of History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842 by John K. Mahon

31. History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842

By: John K. Mahon

4.00

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

By the third decade of the 19th century the growing American nation had expanded so far into the Fl… read more

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20 Top civil war books like Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond (Modern War Studies) by Hampton Newsome

Transform Your Habits

The Civil War: A Narrative

Shelby Foote

3.41

Transform Your Habits

On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Ronald C. White Jr.

4.45

Transform Your Habits

All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War's Pivotal Battle

Troy D Harman

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West

Timothy B. Smith

4.48

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21 must-read civil war books like In the Shadow of the Round Tops: Longstreet's Countermarch, Johnston's Reconnaissance, and the Enduring Battles for the Memory of July 2, 1863 by Allen R. Thompson

Transform Your Habits

Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg: A Guide to the Most Famous Attack in American History

James A. Hessler , None

4.63

Transform Your Habits

Fury On the Bliss Farm at Gettysburg

John M. Archer

3.90

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Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

Charles B. Dew

4.23

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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

Garry Wills

3.95

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