The American Civil War was extensively covered by the print media from both sides of the conflict, and by correspondents from around the world.  Therefore, it truly became the first “media war.”  As such, it was also the first war where many of the major figures involved repeatedly used the media to their personal or political advantage.  After the war, the U.S. Government poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into creating the massive “The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.”  This monumental work, published between 1880 and 1901 comprised 127 volumes, plus a General Index and an accompanying Atlas, is well over 120,000 pages in length, and was meant to serve as the definitive reference source of original battle reports and correspondence from the Civil War. (This work was followed by The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, which contains 30 volumes and was published between 1894 and 1922.)  Unfortunately, during the  process both works were repeatedly corrupted to serve the interests of both individuals and various regions of the county.  Additionally, over the years writers, novelists, and historians have further confused what actually transpired before, during, and after the war in an attempt to rewrite history to serve their own purposes or simply to reflect the prevailing attitudes or beliefs of the times.  As a result, there is as much information as there is disinformation regarding the American Civil War, and it is the responsibility of the scholar to determine where the truth shall lie.

Alexander, Genl. Edward Porter; Fighting for the Confederacy:
The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander  (Vosseler, William S.)

Allardice, Bruce S.; More Generals in Gray   (Bartlett, Fred)

Anders, Curt; Hearts in Conflict - A One-Volume History of the Civil War  (Benner, Thomas M.)

Andere, Curt; Hearts in Conflict - A One-Volume History of the Civil War  (Capreri, Anne)

Angle, Paul M.; A Pictorial History of the Civil War Years  (Lucas, Herbert)

Archer, Jules; A House Divided - The Lives of U.S. Grant & Robert E. Lee  (Staus, Helen)

Ayers, Edward L.; “A House Divided...” A Century of Great Civil War Quotations  (Page, Robert)

Bedwell, Randall; Brink of Destruction: A Quotable History of the Civil War  (Page, Robert)

Billings, John D.; Hard Tack & Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life  (McKeon, Edward L.)

Bishop, Jim;  The Day Lincoln Was Shot.  (Jenkins, Albert)                   

Boden, Scott & Ward, Bill; Last Chance for Victory - Robert E. Lee and the Gettysburg Campaign
(Page, Robert)

Bonekemper, Edward H. III, How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War (A) (Capreri, Anne)

Bonekemper, Edward H.; How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War (AD)  (Vosseler, William S.)

Bonekemper, Edward H.; How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War  (Bartlett, Fred)

Boritt, Gabor S.; Why the Confederacy Lost  (Bartlett, Fred)

Botkin, B.A.; A Civil War Treasury of Tales Legends & Folklore (Gavin, Thomas)

Brady, Mathew B.; A History of the Civil War, Fittingly Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Great National Struggle Sections 1-5-6-7-8-9-13-14-15, 1915  (Jarrett, Frank)

Brady, Mathew B.; Mathew Brady And His World - The Meserve Collection  (McKeon, Edward L.)

Brainare, Mary Genevie Green; Campaigns of the 146^th New York State Volunteers
(AD)  (Vosseler, William S.)

Cannan, John; The Atlanta Campaign - May to November, 1864  (McKeon, Edward L.)

Catton, Bruce; The Army of the Potomac - Road to Glory (Volume II of the Series)  (Naiberk, Charles)

Catton, Bruce; The Army of the Potomac - Road to Glory (Volume II of the Series)  (Rohner, Don)

Catton, Bruce; The Army of the Potomac: A Stillness at Appomattox (Volume III of the Series)
(Benner, Thomas M.)

Chamberlain, Genl.. Joshua Lawrence; The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaigns of the Armies (Bourbon, Richard)

Coffin, Charles Carleton; The Boys of ‘61 or Four Years of Fighting. Personal Observations with the Army and Navy, From the First Battle of Bull Run to the Fall of Richmond.  (Oswald, Gary)

Commager, Henry Steele; The Blue and the Gray. The Story of the Civil War as Told By  Participants 
(Lucas, Herbert)

Cullen, Jim;; The Civil War in Popular Culture; A Reusable Past  (Benner, Thomas M.)

Craven, Avery; The Coming of the Civil War  (McKeon, Edward L.)                                                

Daniel, Larry J. & Gunter, Riley W.; Confederate Cannon Foundries  (McKeon, Edward L.)

Davis, Kenneth C.; Don’t Know Much About the Civil War  (Benner, Thomas M.)

Davis, William C.;   Battle at Bull Run  (Lucas, Herbert)

Davis, William C.; The Civil War : A Historical Account of America’s War of Session 
(Harris, William H. Ph. D.)

Dannett, Sylvia G.L.; A Treasury of Civil War Humor  (McKeon, Edward L.)

Eaton, Clement; A History of the Southern Confederacy  (McKeon, Edward L.)

Fassanito, William A.; Grant and Lee; The Virginia Campaigns 1864-1865.  (Harris, William H. Ph. D.)

Fetzer, Dale & Mowday, Bruce; Unlikely Allies - Fort Delaware’s Prison Community in the Civil War
(A)  (Capreri, Anne)

Fetzer, Dale & Mowday, Bruce; Unlikely Allies - Fort Delaware’s Prison Community in the Civil War
(A)  (Schickling, Henry F.)

Fetzer, Dale & Mowday, Bruce E.; Unlikely Allies - Ft. Delaware’s Prison Community  in the Civil War
(AD)  (Vosseler, William S.)

Freehling, William W.: The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay 1776-1854  (Page, Robert)

Gallagher, Gary W.; The Wilderness Campaign  (Benner, Thomas M.)

Garrison, Webb; The Amazing Civil War  (Bourbon, Richard)

Glatthaar, Joseph T.; Partners in Command: The Relationship Between Leaders in the Civil War
(Schickling, Henry)

Gottfried, Bradley M.; Stopping Picket - The History of the Philadelphia Brigade (AD)  (Vosseler, William S.)

Hayman, Leroy; The Death of Lincoln (Staus, Helen)

Headley, J. T.; The Great Rebellion; A history of the Civil War in the United States. Vol. II  (Jarrett, Frank) 

Henry, Robert Selph; The Story of the Confederacy  (Vosseler, William S.)

Hill, Sarah Jane Full; Mrs. Hill’s Journal - Civil War Reminiscences  (McKeon, Edward L.)

Hinman, Wilbur F. Lt.Col.; Corporal Si Klegg and His “Pard”: How They Lived and Talked, and What They Did and Suffered  While Fighting for The Flag (A) (Vosseler, William S.)

Horwitz, Tony; Confederates in the Attic - Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War  (Bartlett, Fred)

Hurst, Jack; Nathan Bedford Forest - A Biography  (McKeon, Edward L.)

Jacobs, M.; The Rebel Invasion of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Battle of Gettysburg July1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd  (Jarrett, Frank)

Jordan, David M.; Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier’s Life  (Page, Robert)

Jordan, Robert Paul; The Civil War  (Benner, Thomas M.)

Johnson, Swafford; A History of The U.S. Cavalry  (McKeon, Edward L.)

Katcher, Philip; The Army of Robert E. Lee  (McKeon, Edward L.)

Keneally, Thomas: American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles 
(Page, Robert)

Leech, Margaret; Reveille in Washington 1860-1865  (Benner, Thomas M.)

Martin, David G.; The Vicksburg Campaign - April, 1862 - July, 1863  (McKeon, Edward L.)

McCaslin, Richard B.; Tainted Breeze - The Great Hanging at Gainsville, Texas - 1862  (Schickling, Henry)

McClellan, H.B.; The Life and Campaigns of Major-General J.E.B. Stuart  (McKeon, Edward L.)

McPherson, James M.; Battle Cry of Freedom - The Civil War Era - Oxford History of the United States 
(AD)  (Vosseler, William S.)

McPherson, James M. & Patricia R.; Lampson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson,  U.S. Navy  (Zeitler, Mary Ann)

McWhitney, Grady & Jamieson, Perry D.; Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics & The Southern Heritage  (Lucas, Herbert)

Miers, Earl Schenck;  The Last Campaign: Grant Saves the Union  (Lucas, Herbert)

Mills, Bronwyn; Great American Generals - Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson  (McKeon, Edward L.)

Moore, Kay; If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War  (Staus, Helen)

Monsell, Helen Albee; Robert E. Lee - Young Confederate ( Staus, Helen)

Myers, E. K., PA State Printer; Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. Ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the

 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the positions of the Pennsylvania Commands engaged in the battle.  (Jarrett, Frank)

Nesbit, Mark; 35 Days to Gettysburg - The Campaigns and Diaries of Two American Enemies  (Page, Robert)

Nolan, Alan; The Ordeal of the Union - Volume IV - The Organized War to Victory 1864-1865 
(Vosseler, William S.)    

Paradis, James M.; Strike a Blow for Freedom - The 6^th Colored Infantry in the Civil War (AD) 
(Vosseler, William S.)

Patterson, Gerard A.; Debris of Battle - The Wounded at Gettysburg  (Benner, Thomas M.)

Perry, Owen; Faded Coat of Blue (HF) (Benner, Thomas M.)

Pfanz, Donald C.; Richard S. Ewell - A Soldier’s Life  (Vosseler, William S.)

Pratt, Fletcher A; A Short History of the Civil War  (Lucas, Herbert)

Pullen, John J.; Joshua Chamberlain: A Hero’s Life & Legacy (Capreri, Anne)

Roberts, Nancy; Civil War Ghosts and Legends   (Bartlett, Fred)

Rolph, Daniel N.; My Brother’s Keeper: Union & Confederate Soldiers’ Acts of Mercy During the Civil War
(AD)  (Vosseler, Wm. S.)

Sandburg, Carl; Abraham Lincoln; The Prairie Years and the War Years  (Lucas, Herbert)

Sears, Stephen W.; Controversies & Commanders; Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac 
(Benner, Thomas M.)

Sears, Stephen W.; Landscape Turned Red - The Battle of Antietam  (Lucas, Herbert)

Shaara, Jeff; Gods and Generals (HF)  (Schickling, Henry)