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The Killer Angels (Mass Market Paperback)
by Michael Shaara (shelved 58 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,588 ratings — published 1974
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)
by James M. McPherson (shelved 32 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,270 ratings — published 1988
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Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by Charles Frazier (shelved 32 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.61 — 20,313 ratings — published 1997
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The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by Stephen Crane (shelved 31 times as civil-war)
avg rating 2.97 — 12,855 ratings — published 1893
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Gone With The Wind (Paperback)
by Margaret Mitchell (shelved 30 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 89,093 ratings — published 1936
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Gods and Generals (Paperback)
by Jeff Shaara (shelved 27 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,615 ratings — published 1996
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by Doris Kearns Goodwin (shelved 23 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,599 ratings — published 2005
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Hardcover)
by Drew Gilpin Faust (shelved 23 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,050 ratings — published 2008
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (Paperback)
by Tony Horwitz (shelved 22 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,995 ratings — published 1998
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The Last Full Measure (Mass Market Paperback)
by Jeff Shaara (shelved 20 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,245 ratings — published 1998
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The March: A Novel (Paperback)
by E.L. Doctorow (shelved 19 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,762 ratings — published 2005
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March (Paperback)
by Geraldine Brooks (shelved 19 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,220 ratings — published 2005
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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam (Paperback)
by Stephen W. Sears (shelved 15 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 135 ratings — published 1983
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (Paperback)
by James L. Swanson (shelved 14 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,238 ratings — published 2006
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Glory Road (Army of the Potomac 2)
by Bruce Catton (shelved 13 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 119 ratings — published 1952
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The Coming Fury (American Civil War 1)
by Bruce Catton (shelved 13 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 167 ratings — published 1961
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A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac 3)
by Bruce Catton (shelved 12 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 228 ratings — published 1953
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Across Five Aprils (Paperback)
by Irene Hunt (shelved 12 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.40 — 1,566 ratings — published 1964
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.)
by Jay Winik (shelved 12 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 624 ratings — published 2001
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Chancellorsville (Paperback)
by Stephen W. Sears (shelved 12 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 78 ratings — published 1996
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The Civil War: A Narrative (3 Volume Set)
by Shelby Foote (shelved 12 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.68 — 699 ratings — published 1974
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3 Red River to Appomattox (Paperback)
by Shelby Foote (shelved 11 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.54 — 197 ratings — published 1986
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The Civil War: A Narrative--Fort Sumter to Perryville, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by Shelby Foote (shelved 11 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 320 ratings — published 1986
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Gettysburg (Paperback)
by Stephen W. Sears (shelved 11 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 172 ratings — published 2003
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The Widow of the South (Paperback)
by Robert Hicks (shelved 11 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.54 — 2,256 ratings — published 2005
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian (Paperback)
by Shelby Foote (shelved 10 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.54 — 222 ratings — published 1986
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To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign (Hardcover)
by Stephen W. Sears (shelved 10 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 49 ratings — published 1992
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Andersonville (Plume)
by MacKinlay Kantor (shelved 10 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.02 — 483 ratings — published 1993
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Shiloh: A Novel (Paperback)
by Shelby Foote (shelved 9 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.83 — 258 ratings — published 1952
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The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War (Paperback)
by Howard Bahr (shelved 9 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 202 ratings — published 1997
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Mr. Lincoln's Army (Army of the Potomac 1)
by Bruce Catton (shelved 8 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 128 ratings — published 1951
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Stars in Their Courses : The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 (Hardcover)
by Shelby Foote (shelved 8 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.48 — 137 ratings — published 1994
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North and South (North and South Trilogy Series)
by John Jakes (shelved 8 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,061 ratings — published 1982
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: A Novel (Paperback)
by Allan Gurganus (shelved 8 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.73 — 844 ratings — published 1989
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The River Between Us (Paperback)
by Richard Peck (shelved 7 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.79 — 696 ratings — published 2004
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Gettysburg--The Second Day (Paperback)
by Harry W. Pfanz (shelved 7 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 44 ratings — published 1987
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Never Call Retreat (American Civil War 3)
by Bruce Catton (shelved 7 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 114 ratings — published 1965
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Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg (Crown Journeys)
by James M. McPherson (shelved 7 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 96 ratings — published 2003
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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command (Paperback)
by Douglas Southall Freeman (shelved 7 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 56 ratings — published 1940
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by James M. McPherson (shelved 7 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 129 ratings — published 2002
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Terrible Swift Sword (American Civil War 2)
by Bruce Catton (shelved 7 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 141 ratings — published 1962
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Vicksburg, 1863 (Hardcover)
by Winston Groom (shelved 6 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.04 — 66 ratings — published 2009
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Little Women (Paperback)
by Louisa May Alcott (shelved 6 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 168,151 ratings — published 1867
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Tried by War : Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (Hardcover)
by James M. McPherson (shelved 6 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 373 ratings — published 2008
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Pink and Say (Hardcover)
by Patricia Polacco (shelved 6 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.42 — 545 ratings — published 1994
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Grant Moves South 1861-1863 (Paperback)
by Bruce Catton (shelved 6 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 54 ratings — published 1960
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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness (Paperback)
by Joshua Wolf Shenk (shelved 6 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 789 ratings — published 2005
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From Manassas To Appomattox (Paperback)
by James Longstreet (shelved 6 times as civil-war)
avg rating 3.40 — 42 ratings — published 1896
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Grant Takes Command (Hardcover)
by Bruce Catton (shelved 6 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 70 ratings — published 1969
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Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War (Paperback)
by Sam R. Watkins (shelved 6 times as civil-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 81 ratings — published 1962
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"No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I should watch and work to keep his little daughters safe and good for him.
Yet you told him to go, Mother, and didn’t cry when he went, and never complain now, or seem as if you needed any help, said Jo, wondering.
I gave my best to the country I love, and kept my tears till he was gone. Why should I complain, when we both have merely done our duty and will surely be the happier for it in the end? If I don’t seem to need help, it is because I have a better friend, even than Father, to comfort and sustain me. My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. The more you love and trust Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but my become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
Yet you told him to go, Mother, and didn’t cry when he went, and never complain now, or seem as if you needed any help, said Jo, wondering.
I gave my best to the country I love, and kept my tears till he was gone. Why should I complain, when we both have merely done our duty and will surely be the happier for it in the end? If I don’t seem to need help, it is because I have a better friend, even than Father, to comfort and sustain me. My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one. The more you love and trust Him, and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but my become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes, and sins, and sorrows, as freely and confidingly as you come to your mother."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
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"With the gun which was too big for him, the breech-loader which did not even belong to him but to Major de Spain and which he had fired only once, at a stump on the first day to learn the recoil and how to reload it with the paper shells, he stood against a big gum tree beside a little bayou whose black still water crept without motion out of a cane-brake, across a small clearing and into the cane again, where, invisible, a bird, the big woodpecker called Lord-to-God by negroes, clattered at a dead trunk. It was a stand like any other stand, dissimilar only in incidentals to the one where he had stood each morning for two weeks; a territory new to him yet no less familiar than that other one which after two weeks he had come to believe he knew a little--the same solitude, the same loneliness through which frail and timorous man had merely passed without altering it, leaving no mark nor scar, which looked exactly as it must have looked when the first ancestor of Sam fathers' Chickasaw predecessors crept into it and looked about him, club or stone axe or bone arrow drawn and ready, different only because, squatting at the edge of the kitchen, he had smelled the dogs huddled and cringing beneath it and saw the raked ear and side of the bitch that, as Sam had said, had to be brave once in order to keep on calling herself a dog, and saw yesterday in the earth beside the gutted log, the print of the living foot. He heard no dogs at all. He never did certainly hear them. He only heard the drumming of the woodpecker stop short off, and knew that the bear was looking at him. he did not move, holding the useless gun which he knew now he would never fire at it, now or ever, tasting in his saliva that taint of brass which he had smelled in the huddled dogs when he peered under the kitchen."
— William Faulkner (Go Down, Moses)
— William Faulkner (Go Down, Moses)
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