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HIST 3264: The U.S. Civil War

U.S. Government Documents About the Civil War

"Dear friends at home--" : the letters and diary of Thomas James Owen, Fiftieth New York Volunteer Engineer Regiment, during the Civil War
Call Number: GOV DOC D 103.43/2:4
Publication Date: 1985
Battle of Ball's Bluff by Ted Ballard
Call Number: GOV DOCS D 114.12:B 32
Publication Date: 2001
Chancellorsville campaign : January-May 1863 by Bradford A. Wineman
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2013
Also at: GOV DOC D 114.2:C 49/2
Civil War begins: opening clashes, 1861 by Jennifer M. Murray
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2012
Paper copy at: GOV DOC D 114.2:C 49
Civil War Marine : a diary of the Red River expedition, 1864
Call Number: GOV DOCS D 214.13:C 49
Publication Date: 1975
Civil War naval chronology, 1861-1865
Call Number: GOV DOC D 207.2:C 49/Pt.1-6
Publication Date: 1961-1965
Civil War naval ordnance by Eugene B. Canfield
Call Number: GOV DOC D 207.10/2:OR 2
Publication Date: 1969
Fort Fisher, December 1864-January 1865 by David W. Kummer
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2012
Paper copy at: GOV DOC D 214.13:F 77 F
Freedom by the sword : the U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 by William A. Dobak
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2011
Paper copy at: GOV DOC D 114.2:SW 7
Gettysburg campaign : June-July 1863 by Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2013
Paper copy at: GOV DOC D 114.2:G 33/2
Hispanics and the Civil War: from battlefield to homefront
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2011
Historical report on the troop movements for the Second Battle of Manassas, August 28 through August 30, 1862 by John Hennessy
Call Number: GOV DOC I 29.2:M 31/5
Publication Date: 1985
Medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion. (1861-65)
Call Number: GOV DOCS W44.10:
Publication Date: 1870-1888
Military leadership of the North and the South by T. Harry Williams
Call Number: GOV DOC D 305.10:2
Publication Date: 1960
Military operations of the Civil War : a guide-index to the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865 by Dallas Irvine
Call Number: GOV DOC GS 4.21:
Publication Date: 1968-1980
Monitors of the U.S. Navy, 1861-1937 by Richard H. Webber
Call Number: GOV DOC D 207.10/2:M 74
Publication Date: 1969
Railroad generalship: foundations of Civil War strategy by Christopher R. Gabel
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 1997
Rails to oblivion: the battle of Confederate railroads in the Civil War by Christopher R. Gabel
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2002
Report of the Secretary of the Navy in relation to armored vessels
Call Number: GOV DOC N 1.2:AR 5/1
Publication Date: 1864
U.S.S. Cairo; the story of a Civil War gunboat, comprising a narrative of her wartime adventures, by Virgil Carrington Jones and an account of her raising in 1964 by Harold L. Peterson
Call Number: GOV DOCS I 29.2:C 49/7
Publication Date: 1971
Vicksburg campaign : November 1862--July 1863 by Christopher R. Gabel
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2013
Paper copy at: GOV DOC D 114.2:C 49/2/VICKSB
War of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies
Call Number: GOV DOCS W45.5:
Publication Date: 1880-1901
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