Historic Civil War Novels


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Caged Confederates
The Civil War's Turning Point: Tennessee
Capturing the Heart of the Confederacy

Caged Confederates

Caged Confederates

Capturing the Heart of the Confederacy


TJ, a retired Lt. Col., U.S. Air Force Reserves, and military "brat," works for the Veterans Administration. At 15, he visited Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. A park ranger made the Civil War "come alive," with his vivid storytelling and TJ's been a Civil War buff ever since. The torch has passed and TJ tells the stories. He is a member of the Civil War Preservation Trust. He lives in Centennial, Colorado with his wife and three children.

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							Author T.J. Myers

T.J. Myers
Civil War Expert & Author

More Great Reading for the Civil War Buff

Fort Pillow

Harry Turtledove

Another historic Civil War novel featuring Tennesseans and reliving the Massacre at Fort Pillow.

ISBN: 0312354770

Forts Henry and Donelson, The Key to the Confederate Heartland

Benjamin Franklin Cooling

The battles for Forts Donelson and Henry are well depicted in this novel - Capturing the Heart of

ISBN: 0870495380

Confederates in the Attic

by Tony Horwitz

Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War is a nonfiction work that does much to explain America's continuing obsession with the Civil War.

ISBN: 067975833X

To Die in Chicago, Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862-65

George Levy

In Caged Confederates, an historic civil war novel, part of the action takes place in Camp Douglas.

ISBN: 1565543319

Gettysburg

Stephen W. Sears

This classic depicts the most well-known and epic battle of the civil war - everyone knows the name Gettysburg, but few really know the whole story...

ISBN: 0618485384

Gods and Generals

Jeff Shaara

Explore the lives of General Lee, General Hancock, General Jackson and General Chamberlain as the epic Battle of Gettysburg approaches.

ISBN: 1841580651

Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

Civil war from the home front. This classic novel explores the lives of one family in the South as the Civil war ravages their land, their family, their friends and their lives.

ISBN: 1416548947

North and South

John Jakes

In the first of a trilogy, Jakes explores the period just before the breakout of the Civil War.

ISBN: 0451200810

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Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier

Cold Mountain is a Civil War novel about Inman and his desire to reunite with his love, Ada. While fighting in the Confederate army, Inman becomes disillusioned about the violence of the war and decides to return home to Black Cove Farm at Cold Mountain. He recovers from his wounds in a Virginia hospital and he leaves. He overcomes obstacles like being a deserter, to get back home to Ada. Ada left alone to manage the farm, struggles to make a living and survive the cruel raiders who prey on the community. Inman realizes that losing something you already have is worse than not getting what you want.

ISBN: 0802142842

Terrible Swift Sword: Volume Two in the American Civil War Trilogy

Bruce Catton

The key battles of the war in all theaters are depicted in this volume of a trilogy of classic Civil War stories. Catton reveals the military leadership and complexities intertwined with the political realities of the time in both the North and the South. He explores the direct involvement of both Presidents Lincoln and Davis in the conduct of the war. Catton also depicts the carnage of the war and devastation wrought on the civilian population.

ISBN: 1435117182

A Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton

The Army of the Potomac Trilogy - The acclaimed Civil War classics and arguably Catton's most brilliant books, A Stillness at Appomattox won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. Catton vividly depicts the most spectacular conflicts between Grant and Lee and account the end of hope for the Confederacy in the waning days of the Civil War.

ISBN: 0385044518

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

The Pulitzer prize-winning acclaimed historical novel about the three day battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War. Shaara s masterful depictions of his main characters, Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Longstreet and the Union s Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, gives the reader a 'birds-eye' view of the key decisions and actions prior to and in the battle. The story was adapted as a major feature film, 'Gettysburg,' regarded by many as an accurate account of this epic battle.

ISBN: 03345348109