The American Civil War bibliography comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month.^[1] There is no complete bibliography to the war; the largest guide to books is over 40 years old and lists over 6,000 titles selected by leading scholars.^[2] Many specialized topics such as Abraham Lincoln,^[3] women,^[4] and medicine^[5] have their own lengthy bibliographies. The books on major campaigns typically contain their own specialized guides to the sources and literature. The most comprehensive guide to the historiography annotates over a thousand titles.^[6]

For the history of North and South see Union (American Civil War) and Confederate States of America and the many articles linked there.

For a guide to the bibliography see:

• *Woodworth, Steven E..; ed. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Greenwood Press, 1996.
• Eicher, David J. The Civil War in Books An Analytical Bibliography. 1997.
• Murdock, Eugene C. Civil War in the North: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. Garland, 1987.

For a guide to web sources see:

• Carter, Alice E.; Jensen, Richard. The Civil War on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites—Completely Revised and Updated. 2003.

Note: This article forms part of Bibliography of the American Civil War.

Overviews

• Current, Richard N., et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 Volume set; also 1 vol abridged version) (ISBN 0-13-275991-8)
• Heidler, David and Jeanne Heidler, eds, Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History (2002) 2740pp
• Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union (1970), vol 5. The Improvised War, 1861–1862; vo 6. War Becomes Revolution, 1862–1863; vol 7. The Organized War, 1863–1864; vol 8. The Organized War to Victory, 1864–1865; highly detailed coverage by a leading scholar.
• Resch, John P. et al., Americans at War: Society, Culture and the Homefront vol 2: 1816-1900 (2005)

Union homefront

• Bak, Richard. A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War. Chelsea: Huron River, 2004.
• Berstein, Iver. The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War. London: Oxford University Press, 1990.
• Gallman, J. Matthew, The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994.
• Geary, James W. We Need Men: The Union Draft Riot in the Civil War. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1991.
• Green, Michael S. Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War. Fordham University Press, 2004.
• Hess, Earl J. Liberty, Virtue, and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union. New York: New York University Press, 1988.
• Mitchell, Charles W. "Maryland Voices of the Civil War," 2007.
• Onuf, Nicholas and Onuf, Peter. Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War. University of Virginia Press, 2006.
• Paludan, Philip S. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. 1994.
• Paludan, Philip S. A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865 (1996), detailed scholarly history
• Richardson, Heather Cox. The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War. 1997.
• Schecter, Barnet. The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America. Walker Publishing Company, 2005.
• Smith, Michael Thomas. The Enemy Within: Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North. University of Virginia Press, 2011.
• Stampp, Kenneth M. Indiana Politics during the Civil War, 2nd edition. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1978.
• Thornton, Mark and Ekelund, Robert B., Jr. Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War. Scholarly Resources, 2004.
• Williams, David. A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom. New York: The New Press, 2005.
• Wilson, Mark R. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2006.

Union politics

• Benton, Josiah Henry. Voting in the Field: A Forgotten Chapter of the Civil War. Boston, Massachusetts: privately published, 1915.
• Gray, Wood. The Hidden Civil War: The Story of the Copperheads. New York: Viking Press, 1942.
• Johnson, David Allen. Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln and the Election of 1864. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2010.
• Klement, Frank L. The Copperheads of the Middle West. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1960
• Nelson, Larry E. Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric: Confederate Policy for the United States Presidential Contest of 1864. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1980.
• Silby, Joel H. A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860-1868. New York: Norton, 1977.
• Waugh, John C. Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency. New York: Crown Publishers, 1998.
• Weber, Jennifer L. Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Union civilian leaders

• Abbott, R. H. Ohio's Civil War Governors. Columbus, Ohio: no publisher listed, 1962.
• Ambler, Charles H. Francis H. Pierpont: Union War Governor of Virginia and Father of West Virginia. University of North Carolina Press, 1937.
• Cook, Robert J. Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
• Goodwin, Doris K., Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. 2005.
• Hoogenboom, Ari. Gustavius Vasa Fox of the Union Navy: A Biography. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
• Niven, John. Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
• Parrish, William E. Frank Blair: Lincoln's Conservative. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8262-1156-9.
• Plummer, Mark. Frontier Governor: Samuel J. Crawford of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas: 1971.
• Steele, Janet E. The Sun Shines for All: Journalism and Ideology in the Life of Charles A. Dana. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
• Thomas, Benjamin P. and Harold M. Hyman. Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1962.
• Vallandigham, James L. A Life of Clement L. Vallandigham. Baltimore, Maryland: no publisher listed, 1872.
• Waller, John L. Colossal Hamilton of Texas: A Biography of Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Militant Unionist and Reconstruction Governor. El Paso, Texas: Texas Western Press, 1968.
• Wardin, Robert B. An Account of the Private Life and Public Service of Salmon Portland Chase. Cincinnati, Ohio: Wilstach, Baldwin and Co., 1874.
• West, Jr., Richard S. Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Navy Department. New York: Bobbs–Merrill Company, 1943.

Abraham Lincoln

• Barr, John McKee. Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition From the Civil War to the Present. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8071-5383-3.
• Boritt, Gabor S. ed. Lincoln the War President (1994)
• Boritt, Gabor S. and Norman O. Forness, eds. The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory: Psychohistory, and History. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois State, 1988. ISBN 0-252-01527-4.
• Brookhiser, Richard. Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln. Basic Books, 2014.
• Burton, Orville V. The Essential Lincoln: Speeches and Correspondence. New York: Hill & Wang, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8090-4307-1.
• Carwardine, Richard. Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power ISBN 1-4000-4456-1 (2003)
• DiLorenzo, Thomas J. The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War. Roseville, California: Forum, 2002. attack on Lincoln from Libertarian economist
• Donald, David. Lincoln (1999) ISBN 0-684-82535-X, Major scholarly biography
• Foner, Eric. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.
• Foner, Eric, ed. Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. ISBN 978-0-393-06756-9.
• Gienapp, William E. Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biography 2002. ISBN 0-19-515099-6.
• Goodrich, Thomas. The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy. (Indiana UP, 2005). ISBN 0-253-32599-4.
• Goodwin, Doris. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-7075-4.
• Guelzo, Allen C. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, (1999). ISBN 0-8028-3872-3.
• Holzer, Harold. Lincoln President–Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860–1861. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7432-8947-4.
• Holzer, Harold, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams, eds. The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth & Memory. Fordham University Press, 2010.
• McPherson, James M. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. 1992.
• McPherson, James M. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. New York: Penguin Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4406-5245-5.
• Miers, Earl S., ed. Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology: 1809–1865, three volumes. Washington, D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission, 1960.
• Neely, Mark E. The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia. New York: McGraw–Hill, 1984.
• Neely, Mark E. The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America. 1993.
• Paludan, Phillip Shaw. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1994. ISBN 0-7006-0671-8. Major scholarly study
• Perret, Geoffrey. Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief. New York: Random House, 2004; Popular history
• Peterson, Merrill D. Lincoln in American Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Randall, James G. Lincoln the President. four volumes, 1945–55. a major scholarly study.
• Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, four volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.
• Schwartz, Barry. Abraham Lincoln in the Post–Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth–Century America. University of Chicago Press, 2009.
• Shaw, Archer H. The Lincoln Encyclopedia. New York: Macmillan, 1950.
• Steers, Jr., Edward. Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. ISBN 0-8131-2217-1.
• Tagg, Larry. The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: The Story of America's Most Reviled President. Savas Beatie, 2009.
• Thomas; Benjamin P. Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (1952) Scholarly biography
• White, Jr. Ronald C. Lincoln: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4000-6499-1.; Scholarly biography
• Wilson, Rufus Rockwell. Lincoln in Caricature. New York: Horizon Press, 1953.

Economics

• Anderson, J.L. "The Vacant Chair on the Farm: Soldier Husbands, Farm Wives, and the Iowa Home Front, 1861–1865," Annals of Iowa (2007) 66#3 pp 241–265
• Fite, Emerson David. Social and industrial conditions in the North during the Civil War (1910) online edition, old but still useful
• Flaherty, Jane. "'The Exhausted Condition of the Treasury' on the Eve of the Civil War," Civil War History, (2009) 55#2 pp. 244–277 in Project MUSE
• Gates, Paul W. Agriculture and the Civil War (1965)
• Hammond, Bray. Sovereignty and the Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War (1970).
• Huston, James L. (1983). "A Political Response to Industrialism: The Republican Embrace of Protectionist Labor Doctrines". The Journal of American History. 70 (1): 35–57. doi:10.2307/1890520. JSTOR 1890520.
• Hyman, Hyman. American Singularity: The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, the 1862 Homestead and Morrill Acts, and the 1944 GI Bill (U of Georgia Press, 2008)
• Mitchell, Wesley C. A history of the greenbacks: with special reference to the economic consequences of their issue: 1862–65 (1903)
• Myers, Margaret G. Financial History of the United States (1970)) pp 148-97
• Niven, John. Salmon P. Chase: a biography (1995)
• Richardson, Heather Cox. The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (1997)
• Studenski, Paul, and Herman E. Kroos. Financial History of the United States

==Confederate homefront==" Fiscal, monetary, banking, and tariff, including financial administration and state and local finances (1963) pp 137-160.

• Clampitt, Bradley R. The Confederate Heartland: Military and Civilian Morale in the Western Confederacy. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
• Crofts, Daniel W. Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. ISBN 0-8078-1809-7.
• Current, Richard N., et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 Volume set; also 1 vol abridged version)
• Beals, Carleton. War Within a War: The Confederacy Against Itself. New York: Chilton Books, 1965.
• Boritt, Gabor S., et al., Why the Confederacy Lost, 1992.
• Campbell, Jacqueline Glass. When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Pres, 2003.
• Cisco, Walter Brian. War Crimes Against Southern Civilians. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 2007.
• Clark, James C. Last Train South: The Flight of the Confederate Government from Richmond. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1984.
• Coulter, E. Merton. The Confederate States of America, 1861–1865. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 1950.
• Davis, William C. and Robertson, James I., Jr., eds. Virginia at War, 1861. University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
• Davis, William C. Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America. New York: Free Press, 2003. ISBN 0-684-86585-8.
• Dyer, Thomas G. Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
• Eaton, Clement. A History of the Southern Confederacy, 1954.
• Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
• Freehling, William W. The South vs. the South: How Anti–Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Gordon, Lesley J. and Inscoe, John C., eds. Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
• Brimley, Mark. The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1866. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• Jones, J. B. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital. 1935.
• Mackey, Robert R. The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
• Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutions on the Southern Homefront. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
• McCardell, John. The Idea of a Southern Nation: Southern Nationalists and Southern Nationalism, 1830-1860. New York: Norton, 1979.
• McGuire, Hunter and George L. Christian. The Confederate Cause and Conduct in the War Between the States. Richmond, Virginia: 1907.
• Morgan, Chad. Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. University Press of Florida, 2005.
• Neely, Mark E., Jr., Confederate Bastille: Jefferson Davis and Civil Liberties, 1993.
• Rembert, W. Patrick. Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet, 2014
• Rable, George C., The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics, 1994.
• Resch, John P. et al., Americans at War: Society, Culture and the Homefront vol 2: 1816-1900 (2005)
• Robinson, Jr., William M. Justice in Gray: A History of the Judicial System of the Confederate States. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1941.
• Roland, Charles P. The Confederacy, 1962.
• Rubin, Anne Sarah. A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
• Tatum, Georgia Lee. Disloyalty in the Confederacy. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1934.
• Thomas, Emory M. The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience, 1992.
• Thomas, Emory M. Confederate Nation: 1861-1865. 1979.
• Waghelstein, John D. and Chisholm, Donald. "The Road Not Taken: Conflict Termination and Guerrillaism in the American Civil War." Journal of Strategic Studies (2006) 29(5): 871-904. ISSN 0140-2390 Fulltext: in Ebsco
• Wallenstein, Peter and Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, eds. Virginia's Civil War. University Press of Virginia, 2005.
• Williams, David. Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War. New York: The New Press, 2008.

Confederate government and politics

• Knight, H. Jackson. Confederate Invention: The Story of the Confederate States Patent Office and Its Inventors. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
• Neely, Jr., Mark E. Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1999.
• Spaw, Patsy M. The Texas Senate: Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861–1889, two volumes. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.
• Warner, Ezra J. and Buck Yearns. Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1975.

Confederate secret service

• Headley, John W. Confederate Operations in Canada and New York. New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1906.
• Tidwell, William A. April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995.
• Tidwell, William A., James O. Hall, and David W. Gaddy. Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press, 1989.

Confederate civilian leaders

• Baylor, George W. John Robert Baylor: Confederate Governor of Arizona, ed. by Odie B. Faulk. Tucson, Arizona: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1966.
• Boney, Francis N. John Letcher of Virginia: The Story of Virginia's War Governor. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1966.
• Butler, Pierce. Judah P. Benjamin. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1906.
• Current, Richard N., et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 Volume set; also 1 vol abridged version) (ISBN 0-13-275991-8)
• Dowd, Clement. Life of Zebulon B. Vance. Charlotte, North Carolina: Observer Printing and Publishing Co., 1897.
• Elliott, Sam Davis. Isham G. Harris of Tennessee: Confederate Governor and United States Senator. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
• Evans, Eli N. Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate. New York: The Free Press, 1988. ISBN 0-02-908880-1.
• King, Alvy L. Louis T. Wigfall: Southern Fire–eater. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1970.
• Meade, Robert Douthat. Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1943.
• Mobley, Joe A. War Governor of the South: North Carolina's Zeb Vance in the Confederacy. University Press of Florida, 2005.
• Philips, Christopher. Missouri's Confederate: Cleburne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2000.
• Poteat, R. Mattew. Henry Toole Clark: Civil War Governor of North Carolina. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2009. ISBN 978-0-7864-3728-3.
• Saunders, Jr., Robert. John Archibald Campbell, Southern Moderate, 1811–1889. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
• Simpson, Craig M. A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
• Tucker, Glenn. Zeb Vance: Champion of Personal Freedom. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs–Merrill Company, 1965.
• Underwood, Rodman L. Stephen Russell Mallory: A Biography of the Confederate Navy Secretary and United States Senator. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2006.
• Wakelyn, Jon L. Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy Greenwood Press ISBN 0-8371-6124-X
• Yearns, W. Buck, ed. The Confederate Governors. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Jefferson Davis

• Allen, Felicity. Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8262-1219-0.
• Canfield, Cass. The Iron Will of Jefferson Davis. New York: Fairfax Press, 1978. ISBN 0-517-36244-9.
• Cooper, William J. Jefferson Davis, American. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. ISBN 0-394-56916-4.
• Davis, William C. Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. ISBN 0-06-016706-8.
• Hattaway, Herman and Richard E. Beringer. Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2002. ISBN 0-7006-1170-3
• Strode, Hudson. Jefferson Davis, three volumes. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955–1964.
• Volume one: American Patriot 1808–1861. 1955.
• Volume two: Confederate President. 1959.
• Volume three: Tragic Hero: The Last Twenty–Five Years 1864–1889. 1964.