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American Civil War Books, CD-Roms, and Maps

Published American Civil War books, CD-Roms, and maps on the War of the Rebellion and the first battle of Bull Run (Manassas).

First Bull Run (Manassas)

The early morning of war: Bull Run, 1861, by Edward G Longacre
The first battle of Manassas: An end to innocence, 18-21 July, 1861, the Virginia Civil War Battles & Leaders Series, Second Edition, by J Hennessy
Battle at Bull Run: A history of the first major campaign of the Civil War, by W C Davis
We shall meet again: The First Battle of Manassas, Bull Run, 18-21 July, 1861, by J M McDonald
Voices of the Civil War, First Manassas, by Time Life Books

Available at Google Books, Hathi Trust Digital Library, and Internet Archive.

Bull Run: Its strategy and tactics, by R M Johnston
Battle of Young's Branch or, Manassas Plain, fought July 21, 1861 , with maps of the battle field made by actual survey, and the various positions of the regiments and artillery companies placed thereon, with an account of the movements of each, procured from the commanding officer, or an officer of the regiment. Also, an account of the battle. Also, the battle ground of the 18th July, 1861, with General Beauregard's report of said battle, by T B Walker and Jas M Catlett
The C.S.A., and the battle of Bull Run: A letter to an English friend, by J G Barnard

General

The Little Rock Arsenal crisis: On the precipice of the American Civil War, by David Sesser
For home and honor: The story of Madison county, Virginia, during the War between the States, 1861-1865, by Harold R Woodward, Jr.
Battles of the American Civil War, Volume 1: Glory enough for all 1861-1862
Rebels and Yankees: The battlefields of the Civil War, by W C Davis, with technical advisor R A Pritchard
Rebels and Yankees: The commanders of the Civil War, by W C Davis, with technical advisor R A Pritchard
Rebels and Yankees: The fighting men of the Civil War, by W C Davis, with technical advisor R A Pritchard
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume 1: The opening battles, by Castle, A Division of Book Sales
The Civil War: An illustrated history of the War Between the States, by G C Ward
Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War: Contemporary accounts and illustrations from the most important magazine of the time, by A H Guernsey & H M Alden
Campbell Brown's Civil War, with Ewell and the Army of Northern Virginia, edited , with and introduction by Terry L Jones
Lee's Lieutenants: A study in command, Volume 1, Manassas to Malvern Hill, by Douglas Southall Freeman
The years of anguish: Fauquier County, Virginia, 1861-1865, collected and compiled for the Fauquier County Civil War Centennial Committee, by Emily G Ramey and John K Gott
Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War: Contemporary accounts and illustrations from the most important magazine of the time, by A H Guernsey & H M Alden

Available at Google Books, Hathi Trust Digital Library, and Internet Archive.

The University memorial: Biographical sketches of alumni of the University of Virginia who fell in the Confederate War, five volumes in one, by Rev John Lipscomb Johnson, B A
The military operations of General Beauregard in the War Between the States, 1861 to 1865, including a brief personal sketch and a narrative of his services in the war with Mexico, 1846-8, Volume 1, by Alfred Roman
Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, Volumes 46-47, by authority of the Executive Council, 1910
Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies, with a survey of military aeronautics prior to 1861, Volume 1, by F Stabsbury Haydon
The Army in the Civil War, Volume 1: The outbreak of rebellion, by John G Nicolay, private Secretary to President A Lincoln
Confederate military history extended edition: A library of Confederate States history, in seventeen volumes, written by distinguished men of the South, edited by General Clement A Evans of Georgia
Manassas: A place of passage, by Kathleen Mulvaney
A History of the United States Secret Service, by L C Baker
The Rebellion Record: A diary of American events with documents, narratives, illustrative incidents, poetry etc, with twelve portraits of steel, and various maps and diagrams, edited by Frank Moore, author of "Diary of American Revolution"
Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America, Volume 1, by Benson John Lossing
The Union Army: A history of military affairs in the loyal states 1861-65, records of the regiments in the Union Army, cyclopedia of battles, memoirs of commanders and soldiers, Volume 1, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware
Battlefields of the South, from Bull Run to Fredericksburg, with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps, by an English combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery on the Field Staff, with two maps
The parting: A story of West Point on the eve of the Civil War, by Richard Barlow Adams
Narrative of military operations during the Civil War, by General Joseph E Johnston
Crimson Confederates: Harvard men who fought for the South, by Helen Trimpi

Uniforms

Brassey's history of uniforms, American Civil War: Union Army, text by R Smith & illustrated by R Hook
Brassey's history of uniforms, American Civil War: Confederate Army, text by R Field & illustrated by R Hook
Uniforms of the Civil War, by P Haythornwaite

Military Organisations

The Army of the Potomac: Birth of command, November 1860-September 1861, Volume 1, by Russel H Beatie
A guide to Louisiana Confederate military organizations 1861-1865, by A W Bergerun, Jr.
A guide to Virginia military organisations 1861-1865, Revised Second Edition by I A Wallace, Jr.
Unit organizations in the Civil War, by R J Zimmerman

Maps

Mapping the Civil War, featuring rare maps from the Library of Congress, by C Nelson
The maps of First Bull Run: An atlas of the First Bull Run, Manassas, Campaign, including the Battle of Ball's Bluff, June-October 1861, by Bradley M Gottfried
The Virginia Civil War Battles & Leaders Series: First Manassas battlefield map study with historical base map and six troop movement maps, Second Edition, by E Bearss

CD-Roms

Atlas of the Official Records of the Civil War, containing 179 illustrations, 800 maps, and hundreds of drawings and engravings, by Guild Press of Indiana, Inc.
The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, edited by National Archives historians by Guild Press of Indiana, Inc.
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, by Frederick H Dyer
Regimental Losses in the American Civil War (1861-1865), by William F Fox
Confederate Military History, by Guild Press of Indiana, Inc.

Confederate

Alabama

A beautiful glittering lie, by J D R Hawkins
Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men from 1540 to 1872, by Willis Brewer
History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, p1841, Volume 4, Hardaway, Robert Archelus, by Thomas McAdory Owen
Transactions of the Alabama historical society 1898-99 Volume 3: Chapter XI, Wilcox's Brigade, by General C M Wilcox, edited by Thomas M Owen
Memorial record of Alabama: A concise account of the State's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, Volume 1, by Brant & Fuller

Georgia

Heroes and martyrs of Georgia: Georgia's record in the revolution of 1861, Volume 1, by James M Folsom
Confederate military history: A library of Confederate States history, written by distinguished men of the South, Volume VI, edited by Clement A Evans
Civil War Macon: The history of a Confederate city, by Richard W Iobst

Kentucky

Confederate military history: A library of Confederate States history, written by distinguished men of the South, Volume IX, edited by General C A Evans
Memorial service in honor of William Preston Johnston, LL. D., first president of Tulane University, 1884–1899, Introductory address by Judge Charles E Fenner, memorial oration by B M Palmer, D. D.
Kentuckians in grey: Confederate generals and field officers of the bluegrass state, by Bruce S Allardice and Lawrence L Hewitt
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers, war 1861-65, Volume 1, printed by the authority of the legislature of Kentucky
History of the First Kentucky Brigade, by Edwin Porter Thompson
History of the Ohio falls cities and their counties with illustrations and bibliographical sketches, Volume 1, extract: Louisville men in the Southern Army, from a statement by Colonel John D Pope, of the Attorney's bureau in the Louisville and Nashville railway offices

Louisiana

Nine men in grey, by Charles L Dufour
Scarred by war: Civil War in Southeast Louisiana, by Christopher G Peña
Lee's tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia, by Terry L Jones

Maryland

Marylanders in the Confederacy, by Daniel D Hartzler
Maryland's Blue & Grey: A border state's Union and Confederate junior officer corps, by Kevin C Ruffner
The Maryland Line in the Confederate Army, 1861-1861, by W W Goldsborough

Mississippi

Military history of Mississippi, 1803-1898, taken from the official and statistical register of the State of Mississippi, 1908, by Dunbar Rowland
 
Oxford in the Civil War: Battle for a vanquished land, by Stephen Enzweiler
Roster and sketches of the several military companies which were in regular service of the Confederate States during the civil war from Yazoo County, Mississippi
History of Newton County, Mississippi, from 1834 to 1894, by A J Brown

North Carolina

Roster of North Carolina troops in the War Between the States during the years 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865, Volume 2, by John W Moore
Register of North Carolina troops, 1861, Adjutant General's Office, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1st November, 1861
Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the Great War 1861-65 (1901), Volume 1 & 2, written by members of the respective commands and edited by Walter Clark

South Carolina

The Rebellion Record: A diary of American events with documents, narratives, illustrative incidents, poetry etc, Volume 2, Charleston Mercury, 29 July, edited by Frank Moore
South Carolina troops in Confederate service, Volumes I and II, complied by A S Salley, Jr.
History of Kershaw's brigade with complete roll of companies, biographical sketches, incidents, anecdotes, etc, by D Augustus Dickert
A gentleman and an officer: A military and social history of James B Griffin's Civil War, by Judith N McArthur and Orville V Burton

Texas

A history of Texas and Texans, by Frank W Johnson, a leader in the Texas revolution
The Confederate capital and Hood's Texas brigade by Angelina V Winkler
 
Our trust is in the God of battles: The civil war letters of Robert Franklin Bunting, Chaplin, Terry's Texas Rangers, C. S. A., edited by Thomas W Cutrer
Six decades in Texas or memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, Governor of Texas in war-time, 1861–63: A personal experience in business, war, and politics, edited by C W Raines
Reports of the committee on public safety to the Convention of the people of the state of Texas, which assembled at Austin, the 28th January, 1861, and re-assembled on the 2d day of March, 1861: Containing the missions to San Antonio, to the Rio Grande, and the N. W. Frontier, Gen'l Roger's mission to Louisiana, to procure arms and the Conference of the sub-committee with the late Gov. Houston, with accompanying documents, by the Texas Committee on public safety

Virginia

A history of Orange County, Virginia, from its formation in 1734 to the end of reconstruction in 1870, by E. Waddey co. in Richmond, Virginia
Stonewall Jackson and Winchester, Virginia, by Jerry Holsworth
A record of events in Norfolk County, Virginia, from 19th April, 1861, to 10th May, 1862 with a history of the soldiers and sailors of Norfolk County, Norfolk City and Portsmouth, who served in the Confederate States army or navy, by John W H Porter
A History of the Laurel Brigade: Originally the Ashby Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia and Chew's Battery, by William McDonald
A record of events in Norfolk County, Virginia, from April 19th, 1861, to May 10th, 1862 with a history of the soldiers and sailors of Norfolk County, Norfolk City and Portsmouth, who served in the Confederate States Army or Navy, by John W H Porter
The years of anguish, Fauquier County, Virginia, 1861-1865: Collected and compiled for the Fauquier County Civil War Centennial Committee, by Emily G Ramey and John K Gott
History of Clarke County, Virginia and its connection with the war between the states with illustrations of colonial homes and of Confederate officers, by Thomas D Gold
A history of Jefferson County, West Virginia 1719-1940, by Millard Kessler Bushong
The Civil War in Loudoun County, Virginia: A history of hard times, by Stevan F Meserve
Memorial, Virginia Military Institute: Biographical sketches of the graduates and élèves of the Virginia Military Institute who fell during the war between the states, by Charles D Walke
Washington County, Virginia, in the Civil War, by Michael Shaffer
The Civil War in Loudoun County, Virginia: A history of hard times, by Stevan F Meserve
The Military History of the Virginia Military Institute from 1839 to 1865 with appendix, maps, and illustrations, by Jennings C Wise
Four years in the Stonewall brigade, by John O Casler
The Civil War in Fairfax County: Civilians and soldiers, by Charles V Mauro
They followed the plume: The story of J. E. B. Stuart and his staff, by Robert J Trout
Lynchburg and its people, by W Asbury Christian
Between reb and yank: A Civil War history of northern Loudoun County, Virginia, by Taylor M Chamberlin & John M Souders
Aler's history of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia, by F Vernon Aler
The young lions: Confederate cadets at war, by James Lee Conrad
The Corps forward: The biographical sketches of the VMI Cadets who fought in the battle of New Market: 136, James Septimus Larrick, by Colonel William Couper
The Parting: A story of West Point on the eve of the Civil War, by Richard Barlow Adams

Union

Connecticut

Catalogue of Connecticut volunteer organizations, infantry, cavalry, and artillery, in the service of the United States, 1861-1865, with additional enlistments, casualties, &c., &c., and brief summaries, showing the operations and service of the several regiments and batteries, by C M Ingersoll
The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861–65: Comprising a detailed account of the various regiments and batteries, through march, encampment, bivouac, and battle, also instances of distinguished personal gallantry, and biographical sketches of many heroic soldiers, together with a record of the patriotic action of citizens at home, and of the liberal support furnished by the state in its executive and legislative departments, by W A Croffut and John M Morris

District of Columbia

The siege of Washington: The untold story of the twelve days that shook the Union, by John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood
Northern Virginia 1861: The chaos of war, by William S Connery
A report on the defenses of Washington D. C. to the chief of engineers, U.S. Army, by Brevet Major General J G Barnard
Lincoln's abolitionist general: The biography of David Hunter, by Edward A Miller
A history of the national capital from its foundation through the period of the adoption of the organic act, Volume 2, by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan

Indiana

The soldier of Indiana in the war for the Union, Volume 1, by Catharine Merrill

Maine

Maine in the war for the Union: A history of the part borne by Maine troops in the suppression of the American rebellion, by William E S Whitman and Charles H True

Massachusetts

The record of the Second Massachusetts infantry 1861-65, by Alonzo Hall Quint
History and complete roster of the Massachusetts regiments, minute men of '61 who responded to the first call of President Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1861, to defend the flag and Constitution of the United States together with photographs and biographical sketches of minute men of Massachusetts, by George W Nason
Massachusetts Register, 1862, containing a record of the Government and Institutions of the State, together with a very complete account of the Massachusetts volunteers, Serial No.94, by Adams, Sampson & Co.

Michigan

Record of service of Michigan volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, Volumes 1 to 2, by Aaron T Bliss
Michigan in the war, compiled by J Robertson, Adjutant General
Recollections of the Bull Run campaign after twenty-seven years. A paper read before Michigan commander of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, February 1st, 1887, by companion Henry F Lyster, M. D. (Formerly Assistant Surgeon, 2nd Regiment Michigan Infantry, and Surgeon, 5th Michigan Infantry, and Acting Medical Director 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac)

New Hampshire

A history of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion, by Martin A Haynes
History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers: Its camps, marches and battles, by Martin A Haynes

New Jersey

New Jersey and the Rebellion: A history of the service of the troops and people of New Jersey in aid of the Union cause, by John Young Foster
History of the First brigade, New Jersey Volunteers from 1861 to 1865, compiled under the authorisation of Kearny's First New Jersey Brigade Society, by Camille Baquet, Second Lieutenant, Company A, First Regiment New Jersey Volunteers
History of Kearny's First New Jersey brigade, Camille Baquet, The State of New Jersey, 1910

New York

New York in the War of Rebellion, 1861-1865, Volumes 1-4, by Frederick Phisterer
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Eighty-ninth session, 1866, Volume 4, Nos. 61 to 85 inclusive, by New York Legislature Assembly
The Irish brigade and its campaigns, with some account of the Corcoran Legion, and sketches of the principle officers, by David Power Conyngham
New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Centre, N.Y.S. Division of Military and Naval Affairs, New York State Digital Library

Ohio

Ohio in the war: Her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers, Volume 2, by Whitelaw Reid
History of the city of Columbus, capital of Ohio, by Alfred E Lee

Pennsylvania

History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, prepared in compliance with acts of the legislation, Volume 1, by Samuel P Bates
History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps: A complete record of the organization; and of the different companies, regiments and brigades; containing descriptions of expeditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles; together with biographical sketches of officers and personal records of each man during his term of service; compiled from official reports and other documents, by J R Sypher

Rhode Island

Rhode Island in the Rebellion, by Edwin W Stone

United States Army

General orders of the War Department, embracing the years 1861, 1862 & 1863: Adapted specially for the use of the Army and Navy of the United States, chronologically arranged in two volumes with a full alphabetical index, Volume 1, by Thomas M. O'Brien and Oliver Diefendorf
A few acts and actors in the tragedy of the Civil War in the United States, by William Bender Wilson
An account of the battle of Wilson's Creek/ Oak Hills, fought between the Union troops, commanded by Gen. N. Lyon and the Southern, or Confederate troops, under command of Gens. McCulloch and Price, on Saturday, 10 August, 1861, in Greene county, Missouri Written and comp. from authentic sources, by Holcombe & Adams
Biographical register of officers and graduates of the United States Military Academy, at West Point, N. Y., from its establishment, 16 March, 1802 to the army reorganisation of 1866-67, by Bvt. Major General George W Cullum, Colonel, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army
The Army of the United States: Historical sketches of staff and line with portraits of generals in chief, by T F Rodenbough, Brevet Brigadier General, and W L Haskin, Major, First Artillery
Of duty well and faithfully done: A history of the Regular Army in the Civil War, by Clayton R Newell and Charles R Shrader
Official Army Register for September 1861, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, 1 September, 1861
Military Affairs, Volume 21, No.4, Winter, 1957, pp188192, published by the Society for Military Affairs

Vermont

Vermont in the Civil War: A history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5, by G G Benedict

Wisconsin

The Iron Brigade: A military history, by Alan T. Nola
The military history of Wisconsin: A record of the civil and military, by Edwin Bentley Quiner
Adjutant General of the State of Wisconsin with reports from the Quartermaster General and Surgeon General, for the year ending 30th December, 1865

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