Civil War Books Published in 2019
Originally published February 2020 · pp. 1–9
Civil War News decided to reach out to the publishers we know and confirm with them the Civil Warrelated books they’ve published during the 2019 calendar year. They were all most cooperative, and with their help we’re pleased to have compiled the following listing of more than 160 titles. We know it’s incomplete and apologize for any book we may have missed. The estimated number published in 2019 maybe closer to double this list.
Arcadia Publishing Charleston, SC Kevin R. Pawlak, Antietam National Battlefield John Saucer, An We Ob Jubilee: The First South Carolina Volunteers Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press Stephanie McCurry, Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
Camp Pope Publishing Iowa City, IA
Michael Banasik, Confederate “Tales of the War,” Part Five, 1864–1865
History Press Charleston, SC Jack Dempsey, Michigan’s Civil War Citizen-General: Alpheus S. Williams Michel C. Hardy, Lee’s Body Guards: The 39th Virginia Cavalry C. Russell Horres Jr., Morris Island and the Civil War: Strategy and Influence Carson O. Hudson, Hidden History of Civil War Williamsburg
Lawrence H. Freiheit, Maj. Gen. Joseph King Fenno Mansfield: A Soldier from Beginning to End
Robert G. Schultz, Thomas W. Knox, Civil War Correspondent in Missouri
Joe DeSantis Brewster, NY
Joe DeSantis, A Rose by Any Other Name: Nicknames from the Civil War
Fordham University Press New York, NY
Gary W. Gallagher and Elizabeth R. Varon, eds, New Perspectives on the Union War
Guilford, CT
Lolita Buckner Inniss, The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson
James G. Mendez, A Great Sacrifice: Northern Black Soldiers, Their Families, and the Experience of Civil War
Fox Run Publishing Burlington, NC
Sheridan R. Barringer, Custer’s Gray Rival: The Life of Confederate Major General Thomas Lafayette Rosser
Gettysburg Publishing Gettysburg, PA
Joe Owen, Lone Star Valor: Texans of the Blue & Gray at Gettysburg
Globe Pequot/Lyons Press
Michael Barton and Charles Kupfer, eds., Remembering the Civil War: The Conflict as Told Those Who Lived It
W. C. Jameson, Lost and Buried Treasures of the Civil War
Globe Pequot/Stackpole Books
John Lee Conrad, The Young Lions: Confederate Cadets at War Thomas R. Flagel, Gettysburg Don Troiani and Tom Huntington, Don Troiani’s Gettysburg: 36 Masterful Paintings and Riveting History of the Civil War’s Epic Battle Diane Monroe Smith, Washington Roebling’s Civil War: From the Bloody Battlefield at Gettysburg to the Brooklyn Bridge
Phillip Thomas Tucker, Custer at Gettysburg: A New Look at George Armstrong Custer versus Jeb Stuart in the Battle’s Climactic Cavalry Charge
Historical Publications LLC Charleston, SC
Stephen Davis, 100 Significant Civil War Photographs: Atlanta Campaign
Steve M. Miller, North Carolina Unionists and the Fight Over Secession
Alice Stuart Povall, Rebels in Repose: Confederate Commanders After the War
Joseph Stahl and Matthew Borders, Faces of Union Soldiers at Antietam
Ryan Starrett, Mississippi Bishop: William Henry Elder and the Civil War Kent State University Press Kent, OH J. Gregory Acken, ed., Blue-Blooded Cavalryman: Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863-August 1865 Thomas R. Flagel, War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion John T. Schlollerbeck, Wesley W. Wilson, Midori Kawaue and Harold A. Klingensmith, eds., James Riley Weaver’s Civil War: The Diary of a Union Cavalry Officer and Prisoner of War, 1863–1865 Jonathan W. White and Daniel Glenn, eds., Untouched by the Conflict: The Civil War Letters of Singleton Ashenfelter, Dickinson College Longstreet House Hightstown, NJ John W. Kuhl and David G. Martin, Stars Over New Jersey: New Jersey’s Generals and Admirals of the Civil War Era Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge, LA
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Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller and John W. Quist, The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era
Ross A. Brooks, The Visible Confederacy: Images and Objects in the Civil War South
William J. Cooper, Approaching Civil War and Southern History
Niels Eichhorn, Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War Michael S. Frawley, Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South: A Reevaluation Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman, eds, Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts Robert Icenhour-Ramirez, Treason on Trial: United States of America v. Jefferson Davis Allison M. Johnson, The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture Lawrence A Kreiser Jr., Marketing the Blue and Gray: Newspaper Advertising and the American Civil War Larry Lowenthal, A Yankee Regiment in Confederate Louisiana: The 31st Maine Veteran Infantry in the Gulf South Adam H. Petty, The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory: Reconsidering Virginia’s Most Notorious Civil War Battle
David Prior, Between Freedom and Progress: The Lost World of Reconstruction Politics
Christopher M. Rein, Alabamians in Blue: Freedmen, Unionists, and the Civil War in the Cotton State
John T. Whatley, An East Texas Family’s Civil War: The Letters of Nancy & William Whatley
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, NC R. Thomas Campbell, Confederate Ironclads at War Darrell L. Collins, The Army of the Cumberland: Organization, Strength, Casualties, 1862–1865
Thomas Crowl, Opdycke’s Tigers in the Civil War: A History of the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Brian Patrick Duggan, General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their
Dogs: A Passion for Hounds, from the Civil War to Little Bighorn
H. Leon Greene, The Confederate Yellow Fever Conspiracy: The Germ Warfare Plot of Luke Pryor Blackburn, 1864–1865 Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue: Missouri and the Western States and Territories Robert R. Laven, A Burned Land: The Trans-Mississippi in the Civil War Joseph McKenna, British Blockade Runners in the American Civil War Cory M. Pfarr, Longstreet at Gettysburg: A Critical Assessment James S. Pula, The Civil War from its Origins to Reconstruction John Stewart, Pinkertons, Prostitutes and Spies: The Civil War Adventures of Secret Agents Timothy Webster and Hattie Lawton Robert N. Thompson, General Emory Upton and the Civil War: The Formative Experiences of an American Military Visionary Elmer R. Woodard III, A Bloody Day at Gaines’ Mill: The Battlefield Debut of the Army of Northern Virginia, June 27, 1862 Mercer University Press Macon, GA Stephen Davis, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood
Stephen Hay and William Smith, Camp Oglethorpe: Macon’s Unknown Prisoner of War Camp, 1862–1864
Karen Stokes, ed., An Everlasting Circle: Letters of the Haskell Family of Abbeville, South Carolina, 1861–1865
Michigan State University Press East Lansing, MI
Kim Crawford, The 16th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War National Museum of Civil War Medicine Press Frederick, MD Terry Reimer, The Story of Civil War Medicine: Divided by Conflict, United by Compassion Robert G. Slawson, Prologue to Change: African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era New South Books Montgomery, AL Michael P. Rucker, The Meanest and “Damnest” Job: The Civil War Experiences and Civilian History of Colonel Edmund Winchester Rucker Ohio University Press Athens, OH John W. Quist, ed., Michigan’s War: The Civil War in Documents Osprey Publishing New York, NY Gary Yee, Union Sharpshooter versus Confederate Sharpshooter Oxford University Press New York, NY Thomas J. Balcerski, Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King Mathew Fox-Amato, Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America W. Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896 Pegasus Books New York, NY Christian B. Keller, The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy Pen and Sword Military South Yorkshire, United Kingdom Col. Robert W Black, Yank and Rebel Rangers: Special Operations in the American Civil War Penguin Press London, United Kingdom Henry Louis Gates Jr., Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Princeton Architectural Press Hudson, NY Harold Holzer, Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French Savas Beatie El Dorado Hills, CA Sarah Kay Bierle, Call Out the Cadets: The Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864 Gregory Christianson, Gettysburg: Kids Who Did the Impossible! Clint Crowe, Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War, 1861–1865
Daniel T. Davis, The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry: George A. Custer in the Civil War Ronald D. Kirkwood, “Too Much for Human Endurance”: The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg James A. Hessler and Britt C. Isenberg, Gettysburg’s Peach Orchard: Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the “Commanding Ground” Along the Emmitsburg Road John Horn, The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War: A History of the 12th Virginia Infantry from John Brown’s Hanging to Appomattox, 1859–1865 Mark A. Hughes, Confederate Soldiers in the American Civil War: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages Jeffrey Wm. Hunt, Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station: The Problems of Command and Strategy after Gettysburg from Brandy Station to the Buckland Races, August 1 to October 31, 1863 Gregory A. Mertz, Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 Scott I. Mingus, Sr. and Cooper H. Wingert, Targeted Tracks: The Cumberland Valley Railroad in the Civil War, 1861–1865 David A. Powell, All Hell Can’t Stop Them: The Battles for Chattanooga-Missionary Ridge and Ringgold, November 24-27, 1863 David A. Powell, Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah: Major General Franz Sigel and the War in the Valley of Virginia, May 1864 Thomas J. Ryan and Richard R. Schaus, “Lee is Trapped and Must Be Taken”: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg, July 4 to July 14, 1863 Steven R. Stotelmyer, Too Useful to Sacrifice: Reconsidering George B. McClellan’s Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam William Lee White, Let Us Die Like Men: The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864 Jerry T. Wooten, Johnsonville: Union Supply operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5 1864 Shotwell Publishing Columbia, SC Garry Bowers, Slavery and the
Civil War: What Your History Teacher Didn’t Teach You Philip Leigh, U. S. Grant’s Failed Presidency Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., The Greatest Lynching in American History: New York, 1863 Thomas Moore, A Fatal Mercy: The Man Who Lost the Civil War Suzanne Parfitt Johnson, ed., Maxcy Gregg’s Sporting Journals 1842–1858 Clyde N. Wilson, The War Between the States: 60 Essential Books, Vol. II Walter Kirk Wood, Beyond Slavery: The Northern Romantic Nationalist Origins of America’s Civil War Simon & Schuster New York, NY S. C. Gwynne, Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the Civil War Donald L. Miller, Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy Douglas Waller, Lincoln’s Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation Bill Smedlund Marble, NC Bill Smedlund, Sons of Tom Cobb: Troup Artillery, Athens, Georgia Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale, IL Gregory A. Borchard, Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley Richard Carwardine, Lincoln’s Sense of Humor Brian R. Dirck, The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death
Zachary Stuart Garrison, German Americans on the Middle Border: From Antislavery to Reconciliation, 1830–1877 Kent Gramm, Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead Constance Hall Jones, The Spirits of Bad Men Made Perfect: The Life and Diary of Confederate Artillerist William Ellis Jones Ron J. Keller, Lincoln in the Illinois Legislature
Jon D. Schaff, Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy
Ferenc Morton Szasz, Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns
Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear, eds., The Vicksburg Assaults, May 19-22, 1863 Sunbury Press Mechanicsburg, PA Ben Myers, American Citizen: The Civil War Writings of Captain George A. Brooks, 46th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Mark S. Singel, The Life and Loves of Thaddeus Stevens Texas A & M Press College Station, TX Roseann Bacha-Garza, Christine L. Miller and Russell K. Skowronek, eds., The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876 University of Georgia Press Athens, GA Joseph M. Beilen Jr., William Gregg’s Civil War: The Battle to Shape the History of Guerrilla Warfare Kathleen Diffley and Benjamin Fagan, eds., Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image Ruth Dunlev, The Lost President: A. D. Smith and the Hidden History of Radical Democracy in Civil War America Sarah H. Andley-Cousins, Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North Jonathan Daniel Wells, Blind No More: African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War
University of Illinois Press Champaign, IL
Brooks Blevins, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks
Jane Ann Moore and William F. Moore, Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality: Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition
Wayne G. Temple, Lincoln’s Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks
Douglas Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon on Lincoln: Letters
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln, NE
James A. Davis, Maryland, My Maryland: Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War
Jane Singer, The War Criminal’s Son: The Civil War Saga of William A. Winder
University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill, NC
Stephen V. Ash, Rebel Richmond: Life and Death in the Confederate Capital Sarah Blackwood, The Portrait’s Subject; Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States James J. Broomall, Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers Thomas J. Brown, Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America Larry J. Daniel, Conquered: Why The Army of Tennessee Failed Gregory P. Downs, The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman, eds., Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians. Philip Gerard, The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina R. Scott Huffard Jr., “Engines” of Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South Evan A. Kutzler, Living by Inches: The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons
Joseph P. Reidy, Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
Steve Sainlaude, France and the American Civil War: A Diplomatic History
David Silkenat, Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War University of Oklahoma Press Norman, OK
Joseph C. Fitzharris, The Hardest of Men: The Third Minnesota Infantry in the Civil War
John Hart, ed., Bluecoat and Pioneer: The Recollections of John Benton Hart, 1864–1865
Christopher R. Mortenson, Politician in Uniform: General Lew Wallace and the Civil War
University of Tennessee Press Knoxville, TN
Allen Carden and Thomas J. Ebert, John George Nicolay: The Man in Lincoln’s Shadow
Dan Lee, General Hyland B Lyon: A Kentucky Confederate and the War in the West
Christopher C. Moore, Apostle of the Lost Cause: J. William Jones, Baptists, and the Development of Confederate Memory Larry Peterson, Decisions of the 1862 Kentucky Campaign: The Twenty-seven Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation Larry Peterson, Decisions of the Atlanta Campaign: The Twenty-one Critical Decisions That Defined the Operation Dave Townsend, Decisions at The Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House: The Eighteen Critical Decisions That Defined the Battles
Civil War in North Carolina,
University Press of Kentucky Lexington, KY
Joseph A. Fry, Lincoln, Seward, and US Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era
Elizabeth D. Leonard, Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community’s Struggle toward Freedom
W. W. Norton & Company New York, NY Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution Publisher’s Note: We know this book list is incomplete and apologize for any book we may have missed. If someone has a closer estimate or known quantity let us know.