A Confederate Bookshelf (From Douglas Southall Freeman's - "The South to Posterity" -
Published by Scribner's in 1939

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THE BASIC REFERENCE WORKS:

Clement A. Evans, ed. - CONFEDERATE MILITARY HISTORY-Atlanta 1899-12vols &
supplement

R. V. Johnson & C.C. Buel, eds. - BATTLES AND LEADERS OF THE CIVIL WAR-NY
1887-4vols

Francis T. Miller - THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR - NY 1911-10vols

Frank Moore, ed. - THE REBELLION RECORD - NY 1861-1865-11vols & supplement

SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS - Richmond 1876 - on -47 vols

WAR OF THE REBELLION OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE
ARMIES - Washington 1881-1900 - 228vols


THE CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE:

Alfred T. Bledsoe - IS DAVIS A TRAITOR - Baltimore 1866

Jefferson Davis - THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT - NY
1881

Alexander H. Stephens - CONSTITUTIONAL VIEW OF THE LATE WAR BETWEEN THE
STATES - Phila 1867 - 2 vols


SOME NOTABLE BIOGRAPHIES: (By subject)

Alfred Roman - THE MILITARY OPERATIONS OF GENERAL BEAUREGARD - NY 1883 -
2 vols

John J. Craven - THE PRISON LIFE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS - NY 1866

Varina H. Davis - JEFFERSON DAVIS...A MEMOIR - NY 1890 - 2 vols

John W. A. Wyeth - LIFE OF NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST - NY 1899

R. L. Dabney - LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF LIEUT GEN. THOMAS J. JACKSON - NY 1866

G. F. R. Henderson - STONEWALL JACKSON AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - NY
1898 - 2 vols

Mary Anna Jackson - MEMOIRS OF STONEWALL JACKSON - Louisville 1895

William Preston Johnston - LIFE OF GEN. ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON - NY 1878

Charles Francis Adams - LEE'S CENTENNIAL - Boston 1907

Gamaliel Bradford - LEE THE AMERICAN - Boston 1912

J. William Jones - PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE - NY
1874

J. William Jones - LIFE AND LETTERS OF ROBERT E. LEE - NY 1906

R. E. Lee, Jr. - RECOLLECTIONS AND LETTERS OF GENERAL LEE - NY 1904

Armistead L. Long - MEMOIRS OF ROBERT E. LEE - NY 1886

Walter H. Taylor - FOUR YEARS WITH GENERAL LEE - NY 1877

H. J. Eckenrode and Bryan Conrad - JAMES LONGSTREET - Chapel Hill 1936

William M. Polk - LEONIDAS POLK: BISHOP AND GENERAL - NY 1893

H. B. McClellan - THE LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF ... J. E. B. STUART - Boston 1885

John W. Thomason, Jr. - JEB STUART - NY 1930 DISTINGUISHED PERSONAL
NARRATIVES:

E. P. Alexander - MILITARY MEMOIRS OF A CONFEDERATE - NY 1907

Heros von Borcke - MEMOIRS OF THE CONFEDERATE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE -
London 1866

Louise Haskell Daly - ALEXANDER CHEVES HASKELL, THE PORTRAIT OF A MAN -
Norwood 1934

Jubal A. Early - AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND NARRATIVE OF THE WAR
BETWEEN THE STATES - Phila 1912

Arthur Lyon Fremantle - THREE MONTHS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES - NY 1864

John B. Gordon - REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR - NY 1903

John B. Hood - ADVANCE AND RETREAT - NY 1880

Joseph E. Johnston - NARRATIVE OF MILITARY OPERATIONS... - NY 1874

J. B. Jones - A REBEL WAR CLERK'S DIARY - Phila 1866 - 2vols

James Longstreet - FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMATTOX - Phila 1895

Charles Marshall - AN AIDE-DE-CAMP OF LEE - Boston 1927

G. Moxley Sorrel - RECOLLECTIONS OF A CONFEDERATE STAFF OFFICER - NY 1905

Robert Stiles - FOUR YEARS UNDER MARSE ROBERT - NY 1903

Richard Taylor - DESTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION - NY 1878


INTERESTING NARRATIVES BY WOMEN:

Eliza Frances Andrews - THE WAR-TIME JOURNAL OF A GEORGIA GIRL, 1864-1865
- NY 1908

Mary Boykin Chesnut - A DIARY FROM DIXIE - NY 1905

Sarah Morgan Dawson - A CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARY - Boston 1913

Mrs. Burton Harrison - RECOLLECTIONS GRAVE AND GAY - NY 1911

Cornelia McDonald - A DIARY WITH REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR AND REFUGEE
LIFE - Nashville 1934

Judith B. McGuire - DIARY OF A REFUGEE - NY 1867

Phiebe Pember - A SOUTHERN WOMAN'S STORY - NY 1879

Kate Mason Rowland and Mrs Morris L. Croxall, eds. - THE JOURNAL OF JULIA LEGRAND
- Richmond 1911


GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS:

John Esten Cooke - WEARING OF THE GRAY - NY 1867

T. C. DeLeon - FOUR YEARS IN REBEL CAPITALS - Mobile 1890

T. C. DeLeon - BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE 60'S - NY 1909

Thomas R. Hay - HOOD'S TENNESSEE CAMPAIGN - NY 1929

Robert S. Henry - THE STORY OF THE CONFEDERACY - Indianapolis 1931

J. William Jones - CHRIST IN THE CAMP - Richmond 1888

J. Thomas Scharf - HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES NAVY - NY 1887

Jennings C. Wise - THE LONG ARM OF LEE - Lynchburg 1915 - 2 vols