19 Essential Civil War Books
Explore the history of America's deadliest conflict with gripping fiction and nonfiction.
By
Shannon Raphael & Kelsey McConnell | Updated Oct 29, 2019 | Published Jan 25, 2019Dee Brown on the Civil War
By Dee Brown
The Confederacy's Last Hurrah
By Wiley Sword
Mr. Lincoln's Army
By Bruce Catton
Lincoln Reconsidered
By David Herbert Donald
Sherman's March
By Burke Davis
Shrouds of Glory
By Winston Groom
"The Devil's to Pay"
By Eric J. Wittenberg
Battle Cry of Freedom
By James. M. McPherson
The Civil War: A Narrative
By Shelby Foote
Mary Chesnut's Diary
By Mary Chesnut
For Cause and Comrades
By James M. McPherson
The Black Flower
By Howard Bahr
The North and South Trilogy
By John Jakes
Murder at Manassas
By Michael Kilian
Cold Mountain
By Charles Frazier
The Killer Angels
By Michael Shaara
Cain at Gettysburg
By Ralph Peters
Gone with the Wind
By Margaret Mitchell
Confederates
By Thomas Keneally
