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A Southerner’s Suggested Reading List

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Please note, these books are NOT the usual Pro North, Pro Union, Anti South books that have been the norm for authors and book sellers over the past 100+ years. These are as they say “the rest of the story”

Autobiographical & Biographical

Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences In The United States And Confederate States Armies

By General John Bell Hood, ISBN 10: 1151149276 ISBN 13: 9781151149275.

A Confederate Surgeon’s Letters to His Wife

By Spencer Glasgow Welch, ISBN 10: 1460963075 ISBN 13: 9781460963074

Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had: The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley

Editor Thomas A. Cutrer ©2002, ISBN 978-0-8173-1118-6

P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray

By T. Harry Williams ©1955 ISBN 10: 0807108316 ISBN 13:9780807108314

John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence,

By Richard M. McMurray ©1992 ISBN 9780803281912 ISBN 10: 0803281919 ISBN 13:9780803281912

Nathan Bedford Forrest: The First with the Most,

By Robert Selph Henry ISBN ISBN 10: 0831713380 ISBN 13: 9780831713386.

Soldier of Tennessee: General Alexander P. Stewart and the Civil War in the West

Sam Davis Elliot ©1999, ISBN-10: 0807129704; ISBN-13: 978-0807129708.

A Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett, 

Edited by William C. Davis ©2000 ISBN 10: 157003348X ISBN 13:9781570033483.

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War, 

By Lieutenant General Richard Taylor©1870  ISBN 10: 0809442795 ISBN 13: 9780809442799. ISBN 10: 0692326782 ISBN 13: 9780692326787.

The Longest Raid of the Civil War: Little-Known and Untold Stories of Morgan’s Raid into Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio

by: Lester V. Horwitz; January 1, 2001: ISBN-10: 0967026725, ISBN-13: 978-0967026725

Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short Savage Life of a Civil War Guerilla,

By Albert E. Castel and Thomas Goodrich ISBN-10: 0700614346; ISBN-13: 978-0700614349

This War So Horrible, The Civil War Diary of Hiram Smith Williams,

Edited by Lewis N. Wynne and Robert A. Taylor ©1993, The University of Alabama
Press.  ISBN 0-8173-0642-0.

Andrew Durnford, A Black Sugar Planter in Antebellum Louisiana,

David O. Whitten Northwestern Louisiana State University Press, Natchitoches,
Louisiana, ©1981 . ISBN 10: 0917898060 ISBN 13: 9780917898068.

Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend

By James I. Robertson Jr., ISBN 10: 0028646851 ISBN 13:9780028646855.

Confederate Military History of Florida

By J J Dickison, eBooksOnDisk.com,   ISBN-10: 1932157093  ISBN-13: 978-1932157093

Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861-1865 

By Francis W Dawson,   ISBN 10: 0807118850 ISBN 13: 9780807118856

The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, Vol. 2

(The Years of Hope, April 1861 - June 1863)

By Edmund Ruffin,   ISBN 10: 0807101834 ISBN 13: 9780807101834

1861 To 1865 By An Old Johnnie: Personal Recollections And Experiences In The Confederate Army

By Capt. James Dinkins ,   ISBN 10: 1475254938 ISBN 13: 9781475254938

A Southern View of the Invasion of the Southern States and War of 1861-65

By Samuel A'court Ashe ,   SBN 10: 0692431306 ISBN 13: 9780692431306

Other Suggested Reading Pages

Must Reads

Autobiographical & Biographical

Battles:

Confederate States of America:

Jefferson Davis:

Lincoln:

Reconstruction and Post War Era:

Religion and the Confederate Army:

Secession and Constitutional Theory:

Slavery:

War Crimes and Prisoners of War:

Other Resources:

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