History 422
Spring 1998
Researching the American Civil War and
Reconstruction
Selected Resources
General Histories
- David M. Potter, The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
(1976) E459.P67
- James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and
Reconstruction (1982) E468.M23
- James M. McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil
War Era (1988) E470.M28
1988
- Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished
Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988) E668.F66
1988
Almanacs, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias
- Thomas L. Livermore, Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in
America, 1861-65 (1900) 973.741.9L75
- Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion
(1908) E491.D99
- Mark M. Boatner III, The Civil War Dictionary (1959)
E486.B7
- Jon L. Wakelyn, Biographical Dictionary of the
Confederacy (1971) E467.W2
- John S. Bowman, The Civil War Almanac (1982) E468.3.B68
1983
- Patricia L. Faust, ed., Historical Times Illustrated
Encyclopedia of the Civil War (1986) E468.H57
1986
- Stewart Sifakis, Who Was Who in the Civil War (1988)
E467.S56
1988
- Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861-1865, 2 vols.
(1989) E491.W43
1989
- Frances H. Kennedy, ed., The Civil War Battlefield Guide
(1990) E641.C58
1990
- Richard N. Current, ed., Encyclopedia of the Confederacy,
4 vols. (1993) E487.E55
1993
Bibliographies, including Guides to Published
Primary Sources
- Ryan, Daniel J., The Civil War Literature of Ohio
(1911) Z1242.R9
- E. Merton Coulter, Travels in the Confederate States
(1948) Z1251.S7C68
- Charles E. Dornbusch, ed., Regimental Publications and
Personal Narratives of the Civil War 2 vols. (1961-1967)
Z1242.D6
- Allan Nevins, James I. Robertson, Jr., and Bell I. Wiley,
Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography, 2 vols. (1967,
1969) Z1242.N35
- Eugene C. Murdock, The Civil War in the North (1987)
Z1242.M87
1987
- T. Michael Parrish and Robert M. Willingham, Confederate
Imprints (1984) Z1242.5.P37
1984
- Garold L. Cole, Civil War Eyewitnesses (1988) Z1242.C78
1988
- Richard W. Stephenson, comp., Civil War Maps (1989)
Z6027.U5
L5 1988
- Steven E. Woodworth, ed., The American Civil War: A
Handbook of Literature and Research (1996) Z1242.A47
1996
Government Documents
- Congressional Globe (Permanent Edition), 23-42 Congress
(1834-73) 328.732G
- Congressional Record (Permanent Edition), 43rd-
Congress (1873- ) KF35.A25
- United States Congress Joint Committee on Reconstruction,
Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the first
session, Thirty-ninth Congress (1866) 973.8UN32
- Trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States,
before the Senate of the United States, on Impeachment by the
House of Representatives for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, 3
vols. (1868) 973.81J63Z
- United States Congress Joint Select Committee on the Condition
of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Report of the
Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in
the Late Insurrectionary States, so far as regards the Execution
of the Laws, and Safety of the Lives and Property of the Citizens
of the United States and Testimony Taken, 13 vols. (1872)
973.8UN33
- United States Electoral Commission, Electoral Count of
1877: Proceedings of the Electoral Commission and of the Two
Houses of Congress in Joint Meeting Relative to the Count of
Electoral Votes Cast December 6, 1876, for the Presidential Term
Commencing March 4, 1877 (1877) 973.8Un3E
- United States War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies, 70 vols. (1880-1901) 973.7UN3W1
(also known as OR-Armies)
- United States War Department, Atlas to Accompany the
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 2 vols.
(1891-95) 973.7Un3W1
Atlas (aka OR-Atlas)
- United States Navy Department, Official Records of the
Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, 30
vols. (1894-1922) 973.75UN31
(aka OR-Navies)
Documentary Collections
- James D. Richardson, ed., A Compilation of the Messages and
Papers of the Confederacy, vol. 2 (1905) 353.03C76
vol. 2
- Benjamin B. Kendrick, The Journal of the Joint Committee of
Fifteen on Reconstruction, 39th Congress, 1865-1867 (1914)
305C72
vol. 62
- Howard C. Perkins, Northern Editorials on Secession, 2
vols. (1942) 973.68P419N
- Anti-Slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library,
microform (1968) Z1249.S6L67
1968 (microform). For subject access, see Geraldine Hopkins
Hubbard, comp., A Classified Catalogue of the Collection of
Anti-Slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library (1932)
Z1249.S6O2
and Franklyn F. Bright, comp. A Supplement to a Classified
Catalogue of the Collection of anti-Slavery Propaganda in the
Oberlin College Library (1941) Z1249.S6O22
1941a
- Robert M. Myers, ed., The Children of Pride: A True Story
of Georgia and the Civil War (1972) 975.803M992C
- Ira Berlin et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of
Emancipation, 1861-1867, 4 vols. (1982-93) E185.2
F88
- George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite
Autobiography, 42 vols. (1972-79) E444.A45
- Charles L. Perdue, Jr., et al., Weevils in the Wheat:
Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves (1976) E444.V57
- C. Peter Ripley, Jr., ed., Black Abolitionist Papers, 5
vols. (1985-92) E449.B624
1985 and Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865
[microform] Main Microfilm
- William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson, Secession
Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860 (1992) E459.S43
1992
- Rachel Filene Seidman, ed., The Civil War, CD-ROM
(1996) E468
.C6225 1996
Papers, Letters, Collected Works of Prominent
Individuals
- John Niven, ed., The Salmon P. Chase Papers, 2 vols.
(1993- ), E415.6
.C48 1993
- The Papers of Jefferson Davis, 7 vols, (1971- )
E467.1.D2596
- Dunbar Rowland, ed., Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist,
His Letters, Papers, and Speeches, 10 vols. (1923) 973.7D294
- John W. Blassingame, ed., The Frederick Douglass Papers,
5 vols. (1979- ) E449.D733
- Walter M. Merrill, ed., The Letters of William Lloyd
Garrison, 6 vols. (1971-81) E449.G245
- John Y. Simon, ed., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, 10
vols. (1967- ) 973.82G767GP
- Leroy P. Graff and Ralph W. Haskins, eds., The Papers of
Andrew Johnson 14 vols. (1967- ) 973.81J63.1967
- Douglas Southall Freeman, ed., Lee's Dispatches, new
ed. (1957) E470.L481957
- Roy P. Basler et al. eds., The Collected Works of Abraham
Lincoln, 9 vols.(1953-1955) 973.7L638.1953
- The Abraham Lincoln Papers, microform, 91 reels, Main
Microfilm. See Index to the Abraham Lincoln Papers (1960)
Z6616.L599U5
.
- Stephen W. Sears, ed., The Civil War Papers of George B.
McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865 (1989) E467.1.M2A4
1989
- Robert Gould Shaw, Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune (1992)
E513.5
54th.S53 1992
- Beverly Wilson Palmer, ed., The Thaddeus Stevens Papers,
microform,12 reels (1993) Main Microfilm .S47T5. See
Beverly Wilson Palmer, ed. The Thaddeus Stevens Papers: Guide
and Indexes to the Microfilm Edition (1994) E415.9.S84A4
1993 guide.
- The Works of Charles Sumner, 15 vols. (1874-83)
973.7SU6
- Beverly Wilson Palmer, ed., The Selected Letters of Charles
Sumner, 2 vols. (1990) E415.9.S9A4
1990
Published Diaries, Memoirs, Narratives
- S. Emma E. Edmonds, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army
(1865) 973.785Ed59N
- Thmas Wallace Knox, Camp-fire and Cotton-field: Southern
Adventure in Time of War (1865) 973.781K777
- Abner Doubleday, Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie
in 1860-'61 (1876) 973.731.1D743R
- John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier (1879) 973.781B38
- Carlton McCarthy, Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the
Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (1882) 973.784M12
- Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, 2
vols. (1885-86)
973.741G76.2
- Rufus R. Dawes, Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
(1890) 973.747.5J6D
- Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (1897) 973.741G76P834
- Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (1898)
973.781D19
- William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of Gen. William T.
Sherman, Written by Himself, 2 vols. (1891) 973.7SH5.2
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment
(1900) 973.741.5H535
- Eliza Frances Andews, The War-time Journal of a Georgia
Girl, 1864-1865 (1908) 973.782AN26W
- Basil W. Duke, Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke
(1911) 973.782D885
- Theodore Lyman, Meade's Headquarters, 1863-1865 (1922)
973.781L989M
- Henry Kyd Douglas, I Road with Stonewall (1940)
973.782D746I
- George Templeton Strong, Diary, 4 vols. (1952)
973.6ST88D
- Franklin Aretas Haskell, The Battle of Gettysburg
(1958) 973.734.9H273.3
- Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches (1960) 973.776AL19H.2
- John Davis Billings, Hardtack and Coffee (1960)
973.783B496H.2
- Gideon Welles, Diary, 3 vols. (1960) 973.71W459.2
- Suzanne Colston Wilson, Column South: With theFifteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry from Antietam to the Capture of Jefferson
Davis (1960) 973.781W697C
- Walt Whitman, Memoranda During the War (1962) 818.3W596M
- Jerome M. Loving, ed., Civil War letters of George
Washington Whitman (1975) E523.551ST.W451975
- Mary Boykin Chesnut, Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981)
E487.C5
- Elisha Hunt Rhodes, All for the Union (1985) E528.5
2nd.R46 1985
- Bernhard Domschcke, Twenty Months in Capitivity (1987)
E611.D6713
1987
- Susan Taylor King, A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs
(1988) E492.94
33rd.T3 1988
- Edward Porter Alexander, Fighting for the Confederacy
(1989) E470.A3725
1989
- Henry Livermore Abbott, Fallen Leaves (1991) E513.5
20th.F35 1991
- James Henry Gooding, On the Alter of Freedom: A Black
Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front (1991) E513.5
54th .G66 1991
- Elizabeth Blair Lee, Wartime Washington (1991)
E601.L44
1991
- Cornelia Peake McDonald, A Woman's Civil War (1992)
E487.M195
1992
- Charles B. Haydon, For Country, Cause and Leader: The Civil
War Journal of Charles B. Haydond (1993) E514.5
2nd .H38 1993
- Josiah Gorgas, The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878
(1995) E467.1.G68
A3 1995
- Travels in the Confederate States (microform
collection)
- Relevant OBIS Subject Headings:
Photographic and Pictorial Collections
- Alfred H. Guernsey, Harper's Pictorial History of the Great
Rebellion, 2 vols. (1866-68) 973.797G937
- Louis S. Moat, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Famous Leaders
and Battle Scenes of the Civil War (1896) 973.797L565
- Francis T. Miller, The Photographic History of the Civil
War, 10 vols. (1912) 973.797M613
- Hermann W. Williams, The Civil War: The Artists' Record
(1961) 973.702.2W672C
- National Gallery of Art (U.S.), The Civil War: A Centennial
Exhibition of Eyewitness Drawings (1961) NC107.A55
- Stephen W. Sears, ed., The American Heritage Century
Collection of Civil War Art (1974) E468.7.A58
- Library of Congress (U.S.), Selected Civil War Photographs,
1861-1865 (1992) E468.7.S44
1992 (CD-ROM)
- Harold Holzer and Mark E. Neely, Jr. Mine Eyes Have Seen
the Glory: The Civil War in Art (1993) ND210.H66
1993
- Anne J. Bailey, Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic
History of Georgia in the Civil War (1996) E559.9
.B35 1996
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Archival
Information Locator (NAIL) <http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html>
- Library of Congress (U.S.), American Memory: Selected Civil
War Photographs <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html>
Newspapers, Periodicals, and Relevant
Indexes
- African Repository (1825-92) 326Af83
- DeBow's Review, vols. 1-34 (1846-64) on microform in
Main Periodicals
- Harper's Weekly, vols. 1-36 (1857-92) in Main Special
Collections
- (Hunt's) Merchant's Magazine and Commercial Review
(1839-70) Main Special Collections
- The Liberator (1832-65) Main
Spec Coll 326.5L61
- The Nation (1865-74) Main Special Collections, (1874- )
Main Periodicals
- National Anti-Slavery Standard (1843-70) Main
Spec Coll 326.5N213
- New-York Daily Tribune (1854-65) Storage 070.1N48
- National Era (1847-60) Main
Spec Coll 326.5N21
- New York Herald (1855-65) Main Mfilm Newspapers
- New York Times (1867-1991) Main Mfilm Newspapers (with
Index at Main Mfilm N Ind)
- North American Review, vols. 13-248 (1821-1940)
- Oberlin Evangelist (1838-62) in Main Special
Collections and Microfilm Main Reserve Room
- Periodical Indexes:
- William Frederick Poole, Poole's Index to Periodical
Literature, 1800-1906, 6 vols. (reprint ed. 1958- )
Main
Reference
- PCI Web <http://pci.chadwyck.com/>
- John W. Blassingame and Mae G. Henderson, eds.,
Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals, 5 vols.
(1980-84) AI3.B55
Websites