Suggested Readings

 
A Campaign of Giants—The Battle for Petersburg: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater, vol.1 Greene, A. Wilson (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018)


A Regiment of Slaves: The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866 Longacre, Edward G (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003)

Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War Greene, A. Wilson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006)

In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat Hess, Earl (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009)

Strike the Blow for Freedom: The 6th United States Colored Infantry in the Civil War Paradis, James M (Shippensburg, PA: Beidel Printing House, Inc., 1998)

The 36th United States Colored Troops in the Civil War: A History and Roster Bryant, James K (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2012)

The Battle of the Crater: A Complete History Schmutz, John F. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2009)

The Petersburg Campaign: The Eastern Front Battles: June-August 1864, vol 1 Bearss, Edwin C. and Bryce Suderow (El Dorado, CA: Savis Beatie, 2014)

A Grand and Terrible Dramma: Letters of Charles Wellington Reed Campbell, Eric, ed. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000)

A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861–1865 Redkey, Edwin S., ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

As If It Were Glory: Robert Beecham’s Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black Regiments Stevens, Michael E., ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998)

Civil War Talks Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans Newsome, Hampton, John Horn, and John G. Selby, eds. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012)

Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign Janney, Caroline and Gary W. Gallagher, eds. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015)

For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops Mezurek, Kelly (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2016)

General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse Glatthaar, Joseph (New York: Free Press, 2008)

Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865 Tower, R. Lockwood., ed. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995)

Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia Janney, Caroline, ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018)

Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters Brown, Elizabeth Pryor (New York: Penguin, 2007)

Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864 Newsome, Hampton (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2013)

Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg, The Battles of Chaffin’s Bluff and Poplar Spring Church, September 29-October 2, 1864 Sommers, Richard (El Dorado, CA: Savis Beatie, 2014)

The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry Miller, Edward A., Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.)

A Campaign of Giants The Battle for Petersburg: Vol. 1 From the Crossing of the James to the Crater Greene, A. Wilson (UNC Press 2018)

Campaigning With Grant Porter, Horace (The Century Co., 1897)

Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War Greene, A. Wilson (UVA Press 2006)

Civil War Talks Further Reminiscences of George Bernard & His Fellow Veterans Ed.Newsome, Hampton (UVA Press 2012)

Confederate Waterloo: The Battle of Five Forks and the Controversy that Brought Down a General McCarthy, Michael J. (Savas Beatie LLC 2017)

From Petersburg to Appomattox, April 2-9, 1865 Calkins, Chris (Farmville Herald Pub. Co.,1983)

Honor in Command: Lt. Freeman S. Bowley’s Civil War Service in the 30th United States Colored Infantry Wilson, Keith, ed. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006)

Into the Crater The Mine Attack at Petersburg Hess, Earl (Univ. of South Carolina 2010)

Like Men of War Black Troops in the Civil War 1862-1865 Trudeau, Noah (Little Brown and Company 1998)

Lincoln’s Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24-April 8, 1865 Trudeau, Noah (Savas Beatie LLC 2016)

Meade's Army - The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col.Theodore Lyman Lowe, David (The Kent State University Press, Kent, OH, 2007)

No Quarter - The Battle of the Crater 1864 Slotkin, Richard (Random House 2009)

On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee June 4-15, 1864 Rhea, Gordon (LSU Press 2017)

Passing of the Armies Chamberlain, Joshua (Morningside reprint) 1915

Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2012) Levin, Kevin M.

Richmond Redeemed, The Siege of Petersburg Sommers, Richard (Doubleday and Co., 1981)

Seventy-Five Years in Old Virginia Claiborne, John (The Neale Publishing Co., 1904)

The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns: Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864-1865. Sodergren, Steven E. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017)

The Battle of Five Forks Bearss, Edwin & Chris Calkins (H.E. Howard, 1985)

The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign: Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion Greene, A Wilson (University of Tennessee Press 2008)

The First Battle for Petersburg: The Attack and Defense of the Cockade City, June 9, 1864 Robertson, William G. (Savas Beatie LLC 2015)

The Free Women of Petersburg Lesbock, Suzanne (W.W. Norton & Co., NY, 1984)

The Last Citadel Trudeau, Andre (Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, 1991)

The Petersburg Campaign National Park Civil War Series Trudeau, Noah (Eastern National 2017)

The Railroads of the Confederacy Black, Robert (UNC Press 1998)

The Siege of Petersburg: The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864 Horn, John (Savas Beatie LLC 2015)

The Virginia Campaign of '64-'65 Humphreys, Andrew (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907)

The Women of City Point, Virginia, 1864-1865: Stories of Life and Work in the Union Occupation Headquarters Christie, Jeanne M (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2020)

War Talks of Confederate Veterans Bernard, George (reprint by Morningside)

Who Was Who in Company K: Reliable Facts about the Native American Soldiers in Company K, 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, During the Civil War 1861-1865 Czopek, Chris (Red Oak Research, 2015)

 

Regimentals & Battles Bibliography

History of the 9th Massachusetts Battery Baker, Levi (Lancaster: Vanberg Publishers, 1996)

The Battle of Five Forks Bearss, Edwin, and Chris Calkins (Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, 1985)

Sleeper's 10th Massachusetts Battery Billings, John (1909. Baltimore: Butternut and Blue)

The Civil War Dictionary Boatner, III, Mark (New York: David Mckay Company, Inc. 1987)

Co. H, Holcombe Infantry Regiment South Carolina Volunteers CSA Boozer, Harold (Sumter Printing Co., Inc.)

Historical Record of the 1st Regiment Maryland Infantry Camper, Charles, and J.W. Kirklby (Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1990)

The Battle of the Crater, "The Horrid Pit" 1871 Cavanaugh, Mike, and William Marvel (Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, 1989)

History of 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers 1891 Crownshield, Benjamin (Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1995)

Death In the Trenches: Grant at Petersburg Davis, William (Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 1986)

A True History of Co. I 49th North Carolina Day, William (Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1997)

Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Dyer, Frederick (New York: Thomas Yoseloff,Publisher, 1959)

Irish Rebels and Confederate Tigers Gannon, James (Campbell: Savas Publishing Co.)

Annals of the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry Gracey, Samuel (Lancaster: Vanberg Publishers, 1996)

Saddle Soldiers - The Civil War Correspondence of Gen. William Stokes of the 4th South Carolina Cavalry Halliburton, Lloyd (Orangeburg: Saddlapper Publishing Co.)

Heavy Artillery and Light Infantry Hillhouse, Dan (Jacksonville: by author, 1992)

Destruction of the Weldon Railroad Horn, John (Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, 1991)

Wasted Valor, June 15-18, 1864 Howe, Thomas (Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, 1988)

History of the 16th North Carolina in the Civil War Mills, George (Hamilton: Edmondston Publishing, 1992)

History of 117th New York Volunteers Mowris, James (Hamilton: Edmondston Publishing, 1996)

The Story of Our Regiment - A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers 1904 Muffly, J.W., ed (Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1994)

Four Years in the New York Light Artillery Ritichie, David (Hamilton: Edmondston Publishing, 1997)

We Came To Fight Schroeder, Patrick (Brookneal: Patrick Schroeder Publications, 1998)

Compendium of the Confederate Armies. 9 vols. Sifakis, Stewart (New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1992-95)

Richmond Redeemed, The Siege at Petersburg Sommers, Richard (Garden City: Doubleday and Co., 1981)

History of the 19th Massachusetts Volunteers Waitt, Ernest (Salem: Salem Press, 1906)

Historical Sketch of the Pee Dee Guards. 1876. Wall, H.C. (Gaithersburg: Butternut Press)

A History of the 31st Georgia Volunteer Infantry White,

For Home and The Southland Zwemer, John (Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1999)

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