Author

Title

LC number

Description

Van Lew, Elizabeth “Crazy Bet”

A Yankee Spy in Richmond

9-780393-37302

A Civil War dairy of a Yankee spy that pretended insanity while living in Richmond. Her goal to defeat the South and to end slavery.

Various ; McPherson, James M.; Jones, Archer; Gallahar, Gary; Mitchell, Reid; Glatthaar, Joseph

Why the Confederacy Lost

0-19-507405-X

Essays examining the role of military success and failure

Various authors, Edited by Hill, Lois

Poems and Songs of the Civil War

0-517-69918-4

Original Anthology of more than 100 poems and songs.

Various, Edited by Noe, Kenneth W. and Wilson, Shannon

The Civil War in Appalachia, Collected Essays

9-780870-499715

Essays of the social history of the Civil War in Appalachia

Von Borche, Heros

Memoirs of the Confederate War, Volumes 1 and 2

08-29-085-X

Memoir of the Confederate War

Walsh, George

Damage Them All You Can

0-312-87445-6

A narrative about Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern VA revealing the humanity of Lee and his lieutenants.

Warner, Ezra J.

Generals in Blue

0-8071-0882-7

Lives of Union Commanders

Warner, Ezra J.

Generals In Gray

0-8071-0823-5

Lives of Confederate Commanders

Watson, William

CLCW, Life in the Confederate Army

0-8094-4251-5

Descriptions of life in confederate army

Webb, Alexander S.

The Peninsula

n/a

From (16 volume, Campaigns of the Civil War)

Weber, Thomas

The Northern Railroads in the Civil War 1861-1865

8371-3549-4

A study of the Northern Railroads in the Civil War

Wert, Jeffry

General James Longstreet

0-671-70921-6

James Longstreet was Lee’s senior lieutenant in the Army of Northern VA. Wert argues that Longstreet opposed Lee’s ill-fated assault on July 3rd and that Lee should have listened.

Wert, Jeffry D

Gettysburg, Day Three

0-684-85914-9

The story of a decisive day in the decisive battle of the Civil War

Wert, Jeffry D.

Mosby’s Rangers

0-671-67360-2

An account of the feared 43rd battalion of the Virginia Calvary

Wert, Jeffry D.

General James Longstreet

0-671-70921-6

A Biography of the Confederacy’s Most Controversial Solider

Wheeler, Richard

On Fields of Fury

0-06-016582-0

Eyewitness History, re-creation of Grant’s attempt to end the Civil War

Wheeler, Richard

A Rising Thunder

0-06-016992-3

8th volume of eyewitness histories of Civil War

Wheeler, Richard

Witness to Gettysburg

0-452-00984-7

Eyewitness history of the bloodiest battle in Civil War history

Wiley, Bell I

The Life of Billy Yank, The common soldier of the Union

0-8071-0476-0

Examination of character of soldiers through their own letters

Wilkerson, John

CLCW, The Narrative of a Blockade Runner

0-8094-4250-7

Narrative of a Blockade runner

Wilkinson, Warren

Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen

0-06-016257-0

A look at day to day existence of a single Federal Regiment in the final year of the Civil War

William Davis, editors Time/Life

The Civil War vol.4, Brother Against Brother, The War Begins

0-8094-4700-2

History of the characters and conflicts of the Civil War

Williamson, James

CLCW, Mosby’s Rangers

0-8094-4251-5

A book about Mosby’s Rangers

Wills, Garry

Lincoln at Gettysburg, The Words that Remade America

0-671-86742-3

Demonstrates that Lincoln’s words still have power

Winik, Jay

April 1865, The month that saved America

0-06-018723-9

A Civil War Saga, A look at the final days of the Civil War

Woodcock, Marcus

A Southern Boy in Blue

1-57233-126-7

A memoir of Marcus Woodcock

Worsham, John

CLCW, One of Jackson’s foot soldiers

0-8094-4250-7

Soldiers account of war

Worsham, John

One of Jackson’s Foot Cavalry,CLCW

0-8094-4251-5

Foot soldier’s story