 | Pickett's Charge: The Last Attack at Gettysburg (Civil War America) by Earl J. Hess
Buy new: £38.48 / Used from: £23.13 Hess has written a modern classic on the High Water Mark of the Confederacy. A must for all Gettysburg fans.
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 | The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864 - April 1865 by Noah Andre Trudeau
Buy used from: £18.95 Trudeau account on the siege and operations around Petersburg are classic military narrative at their best. Includes accounts about the battle for the Crater.
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 | Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War by William C. Davis
Buy used from: £0.16 A great book to have, if you want to understand the first battle of the war. Davis's writing style is not only erudite but also enjoyable.
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 | Return to Bull Run: The Battle and Campaign of Second Manassas by John J. Hennessy
Buy used from: £21.32 Mr. Hennessey's account of the second battle of Manassas chronicles how Lee and Jackson defeated John Pope's Army of Virginia. Highly regarded by many scholars and ACW buffs.
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 | Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears
Buy new: £8.61 / Used from: £3.85 The definitive account of the bloodiest day of the war. Sears, like Davis, is scholarly and entertaining at the same time. The insiders view he gives you of the Northern army is well worth it.
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 | To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen W. Sears
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £3.76 Deals with McClellan's Peninsula campaign and the emergence of Robert E. Lee in the Seven Days.
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 | Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought it (Civil War America) by William Garrett Piston
Buy new: £38.48 / Used from: £27.02 The ACW's second major battle and also a little known one. Takes place in Missouri and sets the stage for the Pea Ridge Campaign. Great maps.
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 | Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West by William L. Shea
Buy used from: £13.35 Deals with the biggest battle, west of the Misssissippi. Once again, Hess and his partner Shea, leave us a classic military narrative.
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 | Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic (Civil War (Louisana State University Press)) by Robert K. Krick
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £13.30 Marks the whirlwind Shenandoah valley campaign that made Jacskon famous. Mr. Krick is a leading expert on Jackson and the Army of Northern Virginia. Not to be missed.
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 | Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain by Robert K. Krick
Buy used from: £8.55 Old Jack considered Cedar Mt. to be his greatest victory, yet he was almost routed off the field by a smaller Federal force.
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 | We Are in for It: The First Battle of Kernstown, March 23, 1862 by Gary L. Ecelbarger
Buy used from: £26.20 Stonewall's first battle as an independent commander and his only defeat. Should be read in conjunction with Krick's books.
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 | Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £7.02 One of my favorite campaigns of the war. Lee's greatest gamble pays off and routs the Unionists... but Old Stonewall is mortally wounded by his own men. Another Sears masterpiece.
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 | The Battle of Belmont by Nathaniel Hughes
Buy new: £34.50 / Used from: £11.98 The small battle that made General Grant known throughout the North (in 1861) that he was willing to fight.
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| Shiloh : Bloody April by Wiley Sword
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £30.67 The definitive account of the fight at Pittsburg Landing. Like Belmont, Grant made another huge risk and came out badly scarred but ready to fight again.
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 | No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River (Civil War Trilogy) by Peter Cozzens
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £15.00 Rosencrans and Bragg meet at Murfreesboro.
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 | The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville (Modern War Studies) by Wiley Sword
Buy new: £14.73 / Used from: £9.00 One the the most entertaining books on the 1864 Conferderate counter-offensive. Sword jam packs the whole book not only the military aspect of the campaign, but many socio-political anecdotes.
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 | Gettysburg: The Second Day by Harry W. Pfanz
Buy new: £38.48 / Used from: £13.61 Harry W. Pfanz is THE authority on the Gettyburg National Mounment and all of his narratives are exhaustive and near definitive.
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 | Gettysburg (Civil War America) by Pfanz
Buy new: £36.58 / Used from: £12.85 Pfanz covers the what was happening west of Pickett's Charge on July 3- Culp and Cemetary Hill. Capital work!
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 | Gettysburg: The First Day (Civil War America) by Harry W. Pfanz
Buy new: £36.58 / Used from: £33.43 Day 1 of Gettysburg. Buford and his Union cavalry try ot hold off the Rebs as all roads converge on this Pennsylvania town.
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| Vicksburg Campaign by Edwin C. Bearss
Like Pfanz is the authority on Gettysburg, Mr. Bearss trilogy on the Vicksburg campaign is another modern ACW masterpiece.
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 | The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea
Buy new: £27.50 / Used from: £9.49 Forest Bushwacking at its worse. Grant is opens his campaign on Richmond.
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 | The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern by Gordon C. Rhea
Buy new: £27.50 / Used from: £12.65 The Bloody Angle became one of the few times of intense hand to hand fighting during the war. Rhea does a great job.
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 | The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock by Francis Augustin O'Reilly
Buy used from: £48.95 My least favorite ACW campaign: the slaughter at Marye's Heights.
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 | This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga (Civil War Trilogy) by Peter Cozzens
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £12.50 "Old Pete", Longstreet gives Bragg's western army a hand in defeating Rosencran's Army of the Cumberland.
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 | Decision in the West: Atlanta Campaign of 1864 (Modern War Studies) by Albert Castel
Buy new: £17.05 / Used from: £9.39 Sherman's march on Atlanta. A very uncanny history book overall because it is written in the present tense. All the more interesting.
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