RC CA 

LIBRARY 

Series 

October 1961 
This bibliography represents a selected 

portion of the holdings of the Air Farce 

Academy Library on this subject 

prepared by members of the Library staff 

in conjunction with the Department of 

History or 

i 
Table of Contents 

PART T - EEFERENCE WORKS e~ee~ 

2 

PART VI - NILITARK BIOGRAPhY, INCLUDING 

Pl"rfRS0NPLL NARRATIVES ~~~aoeee~ 

PART VI1 - THE: WAR, SPECIAL ARElAS AND TOPICS ee 15 
Part I - Reference Works 

-_^__-___1u( 

sf the War of 

T, Yoseloff" 

Eliot, Ellsworth. biJest Point _I_- in the 

New York, G, A, Baker, IVl+XO (E 586 ELI.) 

di-gesL New Pork, Grosset & Dunlap, 

(Ref E 4.68 N55) 

U *Sa Yfilitzry Academy, Mest P0in-L DeparirLent of 

Military 

atlas of 

New York, 

Art and Engineering 

American wars e (espe 

Pr-aeger, 1959. (Ref 

The West Point 

G 1201 *SZ U4) 

I__- 

ciaUy VQL I) 
Part I1 - Docunzents - and 

- 1860- a -of - the American ci7il 

n and Schus-ter 

Commager, Henry Steele, eds ------ The Blue -and _I__- the 

Gray; - the story of the Civil War as told & I_-- 

. 2 vols, Indianapolis, 

~1950.--~ (E 4.64. C73) 

hericaa Iliad; F tne epic 

Harwe-U, Richard Bg9 ed8 The war the 

New York, Long~ans, Green, 

-- 

1960. 4- 0 \h 464 H34-w) 

Heitman, Fralrcis Be 

dictionary of the 

- its organization, 

March z9 - l9B. 2 

-- 

ilistorical register and -_ 

United States Amy, from 

September -3 29 - 1789, - to 

- 

vols . Washington, Government Printing Office, 1903. (UT1 .US Hl+?) 

Henderson, Go F, Re - The Civil War, -I_ a soldier?s 

-9 viewe - a collection of Civil War - writings* 

Chicago, University-Tf Chicago Press, 1958. 

(E 470 f49) 

Henry, IFlobert S. As they _L saw Forrest: - some 

“recollections aZ cmments of contemporaries, 

Jackson, Tern. McCowat-Mercer, 1956, 

(E 467*1 F72H2) 

Hollingsworth, Alan M., and 

third da,y at 0 

New York, glt, $959.3 

Cox, James Me - The - 

Pickett *S e 

(E 475153 

4 

2 
asid Browm, Richard Q, 

-- 

Bureau of National Literature, 

(J 81 Eq6g) 

US, War Dept, The official atlas of the Civil 

War. New Pork, Te Yoseloff, 

(Ref G 1201 S5 U5) 

UeSo War Dept, -The War -of -the - Rebellion: a 

compilation of the official ___ya3___ records I____ of _I_u ',he 

Union 11.11 and Confederate armies. 128 ~01s~ 

Washington Governjent Printing Office, 

1880-1901, (E 464 U5) (Consult Academy 

Library public catalog for contents .) 

-- 

3 
Uptan, Ir.BL0r-y. The 

United 

Printin 

4 
the 

Forbes, Edw5ne 

front; Edwin 

q eat army. 

Press, 1-95?. 

Photographic sketch book 

New York, Dover, 1959. 

Jok~nson~ James Fie Horsernen, _blue m- and gray: 

a pictorial historyo 

Fniversity Press, 1960. 

New York, Oxford 

(E 492.5 J6) 

Her edit h 

Mathew 

1946. 

5 
e The 

nistor; of the Civil War. 10 vols. New York, 111 

_ - _I_ 

To YOSeLQff, (E ~68~7 M64 1957) 

?&ula, Narvin K, Centennial albm -_I_ of the 

civil Wars New York, T, Yoseloff, 1960, 

(E 467-73 

Fwa~t, Fletchere -Civil War -in - ' @ 

New York, Holt, 1955* (E 468.7 P9l) 

Stern, Philip Vb The2 were there; the Civil ___II _I__ 

War in action as seen its combat artistsB 

New York, Crown, 1959. -- - -- 

(EU68,7 SS3) 

6 
rpx111; spoken fiction. 

Srn-UEl E, The 

S;lsruel Eliot Morison 

history with bJilliarn 

Recording Institute, 

- 

33 1/3 rpm; spoken, 

Bales, Richard He, cornposers - The Confederacy. 

A cantata based on music of the South during 

the years 1861-65. Colwnbia, 1954. 2 sides, 

12'f; 33 l/3 rpm; musicB (97.56 C6) 

- The Union, A 

cantata based on music of" the North during 

the years 1861-65. Columbia, 1958. 2 sides, 

12"; 33 l/3 rpm; music. (97.56 U5) 

7 
Quarteet, Sofigs or' the 

War Between _.__. the States 

dated), 2 sides, 12'; 

-- 

- 

(97.55 ~86) 

North and South in 

33 1/3 rpm; music. 

- the 

(not 

Related Reading 

Harwell, Richard Be Confederate music Chapel 

Hill, University of North Carolina Press 

19530 3551 H34) 

Sikber, Irwin. Songs of the Civil War, hTew 

Pork, Columbia University PreSse 1960, 

_I__ 

For further information on Civil Nar songs, 

ccnsult the Academy Library catalog, under 

the subject heading WAR-SONGS, AMERICAN. 

8 
Nevins, Allan, ----_I_ 

The war for the Union, (The - 

improvised -9 war -- 1861-1862, Vole I, 1959) 

(War - becomes revolution, - 1862-1863, Vals 11, 

1960) New York, Scribner, 1959-1960, 

(E 468 N52) 

Randall, Jmes Ge The divided Union, Boston, 

Little, l96L (E68 R18d) 

9 
_I____. of the United States 

---- l8jO 60 the fLml 

Wood, Walter Be, and Edmonds, James E, Militarv - - - 

history of the Civil -9 War - 1861-1865. New 

York, Jack Brussel, ~1959 -- 

(E 470 ~88) 

Newspapers 

-New - York Times, 1861-1865 (Academy Library has 

microfilm edition, complete with index.) 

TI' imLes (London) , 1861-1865 (Academy Library has 

microfilm edition, complete with index. ) 

10 
Part VI - 

icers 

Ballard, Colin R. of Abraham Lincoln. Clevel zing ~0 , 

Catton, Bruce, 

military ston, Little, 1954. 

(E 672 C3 

Churibers, Lenoir. S Jackson, New York, 

Cleaves, Freeman, Meade -of - Gettysburg. Norman, 

U.S. Grant -- and the American 

W. Morrow, 1959. %Jlcll) 

(E 467.1 M48C) 

(E467.1L47D) 

University of Oklahoma Press, $960 

Davis, Burke. Gray Fox: Robert P E. -Lee -- and the 

Civil War. New York, Rinehart, 1956, 

De Forest, John W. A volunteer's adventures: 

a Union captain'srecord --- of the Civil War, 

New Haven, Yale University Press, 194.6.r -- 

(E 601 D3U 

Flet cher, 

rear. 

1954. 

- 

William A. 

Austin, University of Texas Press, 

(E 605 F61) 

Rebel - private, front - and 

Freeman, Douglas So R. - - E. Lee -9- a biography. 

4 vols. New York, Scribner, 19344935. 

(E 46?J- L4V> 
Hassier, Warren bL General - B, ~~l~

shield of the Union, Ba Loui 3 iana 

State University Press? -- 

(E 46'7.1 Am2~) 

Hassler, William We A P, Hill; Lee's 

Henderson, George F Sto::exall __II Jackson ~~ zrid the 

Civil Waro London Longmans, Gr 1 A 67 .iTd) 

Higginson, Thomas WBt Army -life in -a - black 

reginent . Lansing, Michigan State University 

Press, 1961. (E 492*9L+ 33d H6) \ 

Holzman, Robert Se Storm Ben ButlerD New York 

Macmillan, 195k. sd7xB*m 

Johnston, Joseph E. Narrative of rnilit,ar 

operations directed during the late Wa: Between 

7 the States. New York, Appleton, 1874. (Ek?oJ6) 

Lewis, Lloyd. Sherman, fighting prophet e New 

York, Harcourt, Brace, 1932. (E 467.1 S55L) 

Liddell Hart, 3asil He Sherman8 soldier, realist, 

American. New York, Praeger, 195& 'm ~5j~i) 

12 
2-2 I$ e New York, Scribner, 

(E: 

Strode, iludson. Jefferson Davis Confederate 

President, Vole 11, New York 

Brace, 1959. (E 467.1. D26S) 

Thornason, John We v Jeb Stuart. New York-, 

Scribner, 1930, (E 467.1 ~73~) 

St onewall New 

(E &67*i JlV) 

Ezra Jc Generals in pray; lives f 

- the Confederate commanderssl Baton Rouge, 

Louislma State University Press2 1959 

(E 4617 W28) 

I_. 

Weigley, Russell F, Quarternaster general of 

the Union Army; a biography of Me C. Meigs. 

New York, ColurnbTa University Press, 1959. 

(E b67.1 M51W) 

I____ --.- - 
Bell. 1, -

The -life of - 

common soldier of the Indianapolis 

Bobbs-Merribl, 195Ze 

e The life of 

common soldier of the 

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merr ill, 1943 e 

-- 

-- 

(E 607 'llr67) 

Williams, To Harry. -- P. G. To Beauregard; 

Napoleon __I in gray. Batonkouge, Louisiana 

State University Press, 1955. (E 467.1 B38N 

Wyeth, John A. That devil Forrest; ___I__- life of 

General Nathan Bedford Forreste 

Harper, 1959. '(EiL6'7;i" 

New York 

For other Civil War personalities, consult the 

Academy Library catalog and Handlin, Oscar, et 

al. Harvard guide to American history. Cambridge, 

Mass., Belknap Press, -Ref 2 1236 H.23) 
k 
Catton, Br7.ice a route from 

Frederick sburg 

N. yo, uoubleciai-, 

Graat noves south. Boston, 

Little, $960 672 c36;) 

Colton, Ray Ce 

territories :: iirizora Colorado, New Mexico 

-and - Utah, 

Press, 1959. (E 47L9 C72) 

The @I.vil --- War in the western 

Norfiian, UniverslLy of Gklahoraa 

WI 

- 

Cornish, Dudley T, - The sable arm; Negro troops 

-. in the Union Army, - 1861-1865. New York, 

Longmans, Green, 1956. (E 540 .N3 C8l) 

Cunningham, Horace He Doctors - in gray; - the 

Confederate medical serviced Baton Rouge, 

Louisiana State University Press, 1958* 

(E 546J (397) 

Davis II Burke 

- 1865, New 

To Amomat t ox : 

York, Ri-nehart, 

_c___ nine April days, 

1959. (E 477.67 D26) 
Dom6ey9 Fairfax. Clash LI 

of cavalry; the Battle of 

Brandy Station 6 Kew York 

b ____L the 

1863, New Pork, McKay, 1960, (E 47597 D7) 

(E 547 .PI8 DSj 

Hall9 Martin He SibleyPs __b_ New Mexico 

Aust5ng University of Texac, Press 

Haydon, Frederick Sc Aeronautics -in - the Union 

- and CoMederate armies ,,. e Baltimore, Sohiis 

Hopkins Press, 194L (E 4.9207 H1;1) 

Henry, Robert Sa - The story: of the Confederac 

New York, Bobbs-Merrill, $957 
Mu 

Jones, Areher, - Confederate ____u_ 

from 

Shiloh to clTicksbu-r.g@ Bs? st Louisiana 

State University Tiness, 

__. 

(E 470,s J7) 

Lonn, Ellaa. 

Na-ry. 

Forei-ners in tne Union Arqy and 

3aton Rouge, Louisiana State University -- 

(E 540 e~6 ~86) 

Maxwell, Nfiliam Q. Lincoln's fifth wheel: 

the political history -- of the United States 

Sanitary Corrimission. New York, Longmans, 

Green, 1956. (E 631 M46) 

- 

Meneely, Alexander He The War Department, 1-8610 

-- - -9 

a study- in mobilization and administration. 

New YorkColwxbia University Press, 1928, 

- - 

(UB 23 M54) 

18 
Monoghan, Sanesa Civil -

War on 

-the - westem 

border, 1854-186 . Boston Little, 1955. 

me45 M73/ + 

Naisamld, Le Van Loar?,, 

the story of <he field 

Oxfcrd hiversity fress, 1960. 

P 

- -- Armv of -- the POtOE2C, 

(E i+92,6 .“1115) 

Nichols, Jm-es Le Confederate 

Tuscaloosa, Ala., Confederate Publijhlng 

Company, 1957. (E 5460’7 N59) 

Patrick, Rembert I?. The fall of Richmond. 

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University 

Press, 1960, (3 477.61 P3) 

--- 

Pleasants, Henry, and Straley, George He 

Inf ern0 at Petersburg. Philadelphia, 

Chilton c0.9 Book Division, 1961, (E 476.93 P7) 

Shannon, Fred A. The organization and adlmjn2 “c11113 - 

istration of the Union Army) I1Ic--- 1861-1865, 

volso -- Cleveland, A. Ha Clark, l928, 

(E 491 552) 

19 
AB (E 468 R7 

(Academy Library has Vole 1 and Vole IL) 

Stackpole, Edward Ja ChanceUorsviUe; Lee% 

battlea, Harrisburg, Pa, Stackpole 

425035 s?: 

d 

9) met ___.____* at 

Harrisburg, Pa, 1p Eagle BUQ~S, 1956 

(E 47541 ss7) 

Steere, Edwardb - The Wilderness Cmpaim~ 

Harrisburg, Pa,, Stackpole, 196% LJ6.52 S8L) 

Stern, P1-liXLi.p van, Ar?, I__-end to - valor; -the - lasL 

War ___. @ Boston, Houghton 

477.6 ss3> 

e Prolome to Sumter; II the 

beginnings -of - the Civil - Warr Bloornington, 

Indo, Indiana University Press, 1961, 

(E 436 S83> 

. Soldier life in the Union _I_-9_1 

- and Confederate armieso Bloornington, Ind. 

Indiana University Presz, 1961, (E 607 SS) 

I 

20 
Tucker, Glenn. Hi-h tide at GettgsburK; the 

e Indianapolis 

475.51 m9) 

Frank Ea Jubal's raid; General 

in 

V _I___ 

famous zztack on - 

1864. New York, McSraFHi-11, 1960. 

(E 476.66 V2) 

e Rebel brass Confederate 

Baton Rouge, Louisian.2 State 

(E 545 ~24) 

command system. 

University Press, 1.956. 

Walker, Peter Fo Vicksburg; 5 people u__ 

2% -9 war 

l_S60-1€36ja Chapel Hill, University of 

North Carolina Press, 1960. (E 475.27 in_S) 

Wise, Jemings C. The long arm of Lee; 

the history of the artillerx -- of the Army 

of Northern Virginia, New York, Oxford 

ziversity Press, 1959@ 

- -- 

(E 546.6 W8.1 1959) 

21 
Periodical Articles 

S;ephen EO TI- ine Union command systerr~ 

he Donelson CaipaLgr:. Affairs, 

24 0.78-86, Swimer 1960 

has both the bound and -the microfilm. editionss) 

(The Academy Libwary 

Samer, Jams Co Sheman at il.ilil.ledgevible in 

186& Journal __. of suthern 22 :273-291, 

August 1qjL 

1863-1865 Military- Affairs 15 g25-33, 

Spring 1951. 

Ramsdell, Charles W. General Robert E, Lee’s 

horse supply, 1802-1865, American Historical 

Xeview- 35 t 758-777, July 1930 

Roland, Charles Po Albert Sidney Johnston and 

the loss of Forts Henry and Donelsonla Journal 

- of Southern History 23 :45-69, February 1957. 

e Albert Sidney Johnston and 

the Shiloh Campaign, 

4:355-382, December 1958. 

Civil War - History 

22 
WeUer, Jfic e hported Confederate shoulder 

-weaponse -Civil Was - History 58157-182, JuEe 

1959 el 

The Confederate use of British 

cannon, Civil War 

19578 -- 

23 
Part V1Ii - Naval Works 

Jmes P, _The I__. introduction -of - the 

ironclad warship, Cambridge, Harvard 

University Press, 1933. (V 799 ~35) 

B oy-kin, Edward Ca Ghost ship -of - the Confedof the Alabaxa and her -_L_ 

eracy; ___) the 

Bradlow9 Edna, and Bracilow, Frank. Here 

cones the Ala'aaii-a; "she career of 2 

Confedzrate raider, Cape TOW^, A, A, 

Balkema, 195% (E 599 .A3 B81) 

-- - - - 

Dufour, Charles La - The night the war was --I__ 

_II__ lost, Garden City, Nd Y., Doubleday, 

Fj608 (3 472A8 D8) 

Durkin, Joseph T, Stepher, - Re Mallorgl: 

Confederate Navy chief. Chapel Hill, 

Uaiversity of North Carolina Press, 195b0 

(E 596 PI25D) 

Gosnell, H. Allen. --I Guns on the western 

waters: the story of river gunboats in 

- the Civil Ward, - 

University Press, 1949. 

- - 

Baton Rouge, EouisianTState 

(E 591 G67) 

J ones, Virgil Ce The Civil War at sea. (The 

blockaders, January, 1861 - March, 18627 

Vol. I., 1960) New York, Holt, 1960, 

I_ _1_-- 

(E 591 J?) 

24 
Merrili, James Ne --- "The Rebel shore: - the 

of Union sea -in - the Civil War. 

91 M57)- - 

--- 

Morgan, Murray C. Dixie raider, the 

the C.S.S. Shenandoah, New York, 

194.8: -(E 596 M84) 

-- - 

- 

The Navy in the Civil. War. 3 volso (The 

- blockade ----and - the cruisers, by Soley, - Jmes 

R., Vol. I) (The Atlantic coast, by A_lr*men, 

Daniel, Vol. 11) (The --Gulf - and inland 

waters, by Mahan, Alfred T I , Vola Ill) 

New York, Scribner, 1883, 

- - 

(E 591 

Poolrnan, Kenneth. The Alabama incident 

London, W. Ki.mber1958.B 599 dl3 P82) 

Potter, Elmer B., and Nitnitz, Chester, We, eds. 

- Sea Power, -- a naval histor-y. 

No J., Prentice-Hall, 1960. 

Englewood Cliffs, 

(Ref D 27 P86) 

Pratt, Fletcher. Civil War on western waters, 

New York, Holt,1956.'(E591 P91) 

Scharf, John T, History -of - the Confederate 

States navy from its organization to the 

surrender of its last vessel... 

Rogers & Sherwoodz87.(E 596 S31) 

-- New -- York, 

S ernes, Raphael. Croisi&es de ltAlabama _et I- du Smter; ---- line de bordet journal 

articulier du commandant Re Semmesee.. 

:t -- des autresofficiers de-son 6'tat-iria.jor. 

Paris, E. Dentu, 1864. E 599 .A3 S47 

Spe cia1 C oUec t ion) 

25 
Waddell, James 1, -._1_1 CB S. Sa Shenandoab; I___ the 

rnemoirs - of Lieutenant 

Edited by 

Welles, Gideon. 

secretaryJohnson. 

Vole I) (April I, 1864 - December 31, 1866, 

Vola 11) (January 1, 1867 - June 6, 1869, 

Vol. 111) Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1911. 

(E 4-68 w44) 

West, Richard S. Gideon Welles, Lincoln 

navy- department New York, Bobbs-Mer rill, 

1943. (E k67.1 W44W) 

e Mra - Lincoln's navye New York, 

Longmans, Green, 1957. (E 591 W51) 

e - The second admiral; -- a life 

- of David Dixon Porter, 1813-1891. New York, 

Coward-McCann, 1-93?. (E 467m84W) 

White, William C., and Wnite, Ruth. -__I Tin can 

on a shingle. New York, Dutton, 1957. 

E x73.2 w58) 

Periodical Articles 

Groh, George We Last of the Rebel raiders. 

American Heritage 10:48-5;1+, December 1958. 

Maynard, Douglas H. The Confederacy's superY*Alaba.ma.Ty 

1959. 

Civil War - Ustory 5:80-95, March 

26 
Charles 0. A half century of naval 

adn^jnis trat ion $6-~--19-~--~ u 

Naval Institute 3 8 t 13 09 -133g 

Decerrber 1912; 3 arch 1913. 

President Lincoln and the 

Nayye herican Historical Review 1i+r28.4--303, 

January 19O9 a 

Sims, Lydel. The submarine that wouldn’t come 

up. American Heritage 9:&8--5l+, April 1958. 

Villard, Oswald Ge The submarine and the 

torpedo in the blockade of the Confederacy. 

133 :131-137, June 1916 e 
fax% Lx - The War in P_c______. 

Catton, Bruce to war. __I_- 

Middletom, Conn., Wesleyan University 

Press, ~1958.3 (E 468 c36) 

Falls, Cyril B. A hundred 

London, DuckwoTth, c1953 

Luvaas, Jay, The ' legacy _II__IyI 

of the 

Civil War. Chicago, University 

L97j 

of Chicago 

Maurice, Sir Frederick B, Statesmen and 

soldiers -of - the Civil War; 5 study -- of t,he 

conduct of ~ the ware Boston, Little, 1926, 

Miers, Earl So - The Great Rebellion; the 

exergence -of - the herican conscience. 

Cleveland, World Publish Coo , 1958. 

(E 459 M53) 

Warren, Robert Po Legaa the Civil War; 

neditations on the centennial. New York, 

Random House, $941- W29) 

Williams, Thomas H. The military leadership 

("Harmon memorial 

Colorado, U. S. 

(E 470 W727m) 

-of - the North and South. 

lectures series," No, 2) 

Air Force Academy, 1960. 

The lesson and the legacy (a special issue 

commemorating the centennial of the U, S, 

Army in the Civil War, 1861-1865), Army 

Information Digest 16:l-128, August 1961, 

28 
Additional material on this subject may be 

found in a great number of specialized works@ 

Especially recommended for intensified research 

are the following: 

a. Books: 

in American _I___ 

history, guide to materials for research, 

Paterson, N. J., Pageant, 1942. 

(Ref 2 1236 B41) 

- 

Handlin, Oscar, et al. Harvard guide to 

(Ref Z 1236 H23) 

American history. Cambridge, Mass., 

Belknap Press, l95l+. 

be Periodicals: 

Civil War --.II-- History 1955 - 

Civil War Times 1959 - 

(any issue) 

(any issue) 

c. Periodical indexes: 

Consult the subject headings shown 

under each of the following: 

- Air University Periodical Index 

CIVIL 'WAR--Ue Sa 

International Index to Periodicals 

UNITED STATES - HETORY - civil War 

Readers -- Guide to Periodical Literature 

UNITED STATES - HISTORY - Civil War 

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