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American Civil War: also called WAR BETWEEN THE STATES, ... a four-year war (1861-65) between the federal government of the United States and 11 Southern states that asserted their right to secede from the Union.
The secession of the Southern states (in chronological order, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas,
Tennessee, and North Carolina) in 1860-61 and the ensuing outbreak of armed hostilities were the culmination of decades of growing sectional friction
over the related issues of slavery, trade and tariffs, and the doctrine of states' rights. (from the encyclopedia britannica).
FLASH FORWARD TO NOW ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz returned from years of traipsing through war zones as a foreign correspondent only to find that his childhood obsession with the Civil War had caught up with him. Near his house in Virginia, he happened to encounter people who reenact the Civil War--men who dress up in period costumes and live as Johnny Rebs and Billy Yanks. Intrigued, he wound up having some odd adventures with the "hardcores," the fellows who try to immerse themselves in the war, hoping to get what they lovingly term a "period rush." Horwitz spent two years reporting on why Americans are still so obsessed with the war, and the ways in which it resonates today.

1. Confederates in the Attic : Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
2. Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
3. Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Soldier, the Legend by James I., Jr Robertson
4. The Civil War : A Narrative : Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, Red River to Appomattox (3 Vol. Set) by Shelby Foote
5. The Civil War in Depth : History in 3-D/With Viewer by Bob Zeller
6. Don't Know Much About the Civil War : Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis
7. Lincoln at Gettysburg : The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
8. The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy, Walter Donald Kennedy (Contributor)
9. Ulysses S. Grant : Soldier & President by Geoffrey Perret
10. Stars in Their Courses : The Gettysburg Campaign June-July 1863 (Modern Library) by Shelby Foote
11. Conceived in Liberty : Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War by Mark Perry
12. Mapping the Civil War : Featuring Rare Maps from the Library of Congress (Library of Congress Classics) by Christopher Nelson, Brian C. Pohanka (Designer)
13. Pickett's Charge in History and Memory (Civil War America) by Carol Reardon
14. 'Bayonet! Forward' : My Civil War Reminiscences by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
15. Landscape Turned Red : The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears
16. Co. Aytch : A Confederate's Memoir of the Civil War by Sam R. Watkins
17. Days of Defiance : Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War by Maury Klein
18. In the Hands of Providence : Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War by Alice Rains Trulock, Alan T. Nolan
19. 2,000 Questions and Answers About the Civil War : Unusual and Unique Facts About the War Between the States by Webb B. Garrison
20. All on Fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer
21. A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Mary B. Chestnut
22. The American Heritage New History of the Civil War : New History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton, et al
23. The Gettysburg Campaign : A Study in Command by Edwin B. Coddington
24. Pickett's Charge : A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 by George Rippey Stewart
25. For Cause and Comrades : Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson
26. Through Blood and Fire at Gettysburg by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
27. Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
28. The Whirlwind of War by Stephen B. Oates
29. Reelecting Lincoln : The Battle for the 1864 Presidency by John C. Waugh
30. The Passing of the Armies : An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, James M. McPherson (Introduction)
31. The Confederate War by Gary W. Gallagher
32. The Gettysburg Nobody Knows by Gabor S. Boritt(Editor), Harry W. Pfanz (Editor)
33. Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
34. With Malice Toward None : A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates
35. All for the Union : The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes (Vintage Civil War Library) by Elisha Hunt Rhodes, et al
36. Call of Duty : The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee (Leaders in Action Series) by J. Stephen Wilkins, et al
37. Civil War : A Narrative (3 Vol. Set) by Shelby Foote
38. The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell : Sex in the Civil War by Thomas P. Lowry
39. Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) by James M. McPherson
40. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7-12, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea
41. The Civil War : A Narrative : Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
42. A Stillness at Appomattox (Army of the Potomac, Vol 3) by Bruce Catton
43. The Civil War : A Narrative : Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
44. The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop, James Alonzo Bishop
45. Lee's Lieutenants : A Study in Command : Manassas to Malvern Hill (Vol 1. Repr Ed) (1st of A 3 Vol Set) by Douglas Southall Freeman
46. Nathan Bedford Forrest : A Biography (Vintage Civil War Library) by Jack Hurst
47. Grant Wins the War : Decision at Vicksburg by James R. Arnold
48. How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War by Edward H Bonekemper Iii, Edward H., III Bonekemper
49. The Civil War : A Narrative : Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote
50. Southern Quilts : Surviving Relics of the Civil War by Bets Ramsey, Merikay Waldvogel
51. Robert E. Lee's Civil War by Bevin Alexander
52. Gettysburg : An Alternate History by Peter G. Tsouras
53. Smithsonian's Great Battles & Battlefields of the Civil War : A Definitive Field Guide Based on the Award-Winning Television Series by Mastervision) by Jay Wertz, Edwin C. Bearss (Contributor)
54. War, Terrible War (A History of Us, Book 6) by Joy Hakim
55. Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Selected Letters, 1839-1865 (Library of America, 50) by Ulysses S. Grant, et al
56. Antietam : The Soldiers' Battle by John Michael Priest
57. Abraham Lincoln : Speeches and Writings 1859-1865 (Library of America) by Abraham Lincoln, Don E. Fehrenbacher (Editor)
58. A Brotherhood of Valor : The Common Soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, C.S.A., and the Iron Brigade, U.S.A by Jeffry D. Wert
59. From Manassas to Appomattox : Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet, Jeffry D. Wert (Illustrator)
60. Lee's Lieutenants : A Study in Command : Gettysburg to Appomattox (Vol 3. Repr Ed) (3rd of A 3 Vol Set) by Douglas Southall Freeman
61. Ambrose Bierce's Civil War by Ambrose Bierce, William McCann (Editor)
62. The United States at War : The Civil War : All You Want to Know by George C. Scott(Reader)
63. Civil War Curiosities : Strange Stories, Oddities, Events, and Coincidences by Webb Garrison
64. Lincoln's Men : How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation by William C. Davis
65. Stonewall Jackson : The Man, the Solider, the Legend by James I., Jr. Robertson
66. The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea
67. Lee's Lieutenants : A Study in Command : Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville (Vol 2. Repr Ed) (2nd of A 3 Vol Set) by Douglas Southall Freeman
68. Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears
69. Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
70. Through Blood & Fire : Selected Civil War Papers of Major General Joshua Chamberlain by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, et al
71. Arms and Equipment of the Confederacy by
72. The Beleaguered City : The Vicksburg Campaign December 1862-July 1863 (Modern Library) by Shelby Foote
73. The Words Lincoln Lived by : 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path by Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln
74. Civil War, Strange and Fascinating Facts by Burke Davis
75. Richard S. Ewell : A Soldier's Life (Civil War America) by Donald C. Pfanz
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