BGES educational programs are designed to enhance participants’ understanding of American history, specifically the American Civil War. In constructing the programs we considered the availability of quality reading materials that would help provide an understanding of the events that will be presented. The following books are recommended as a general primer and may be purchased from BGES or your favorite book dealer.
John Barrett, Sherman’s March Through the Carolinas
Jacqueline Campbell, When Sherman Marched North from the Sea
Joseph LeConte, ‘Ware Sherman
John Jakes, Savannah
Joseph Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond
Philip Tucker, The Final Fury, Palmito Ranch, The Last Battle of the Civil War
Stephen Hardin, Texian Iliad, A Military History of the Texas Revolution
Sam Haynes, Soldiers of Misfortune, The Somerville and Mier Expeditions
K. Jack Bauer, The Mexican War, 1846-1848
Larry Daniel: Shiloh
Wiley Sword, Shiloh, Bloody April
Carl von Clausewitz: On War, ed. Michael Howard and Peter Paret
Mark Boatner, Encyclopedia of the American Revolution
Banastre Tarleton, A History of the Campaigns of 1780-1781 in Southern America
Lawrence Babits: A Devil of a Whipping, The Battle of Cowpens
Wilma Dykeman, With Fire and Sword, The Battle of Kings Mountain
Guild Press: Official Records on CD/ROM
Richard Kiper, McClernand, Politician in Uniform
Timothy B. Smith, Champion Hill, Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
Edwin C. Bearss, The Vicksburg Campaign (3 volumes)
Warren Grabau, Ninety Eight Days, A Geographer’s View of the Vicksburg Campaign
Ed. David Smith, Compelled to Appear in Print, The Vicksburg Manuscript of General John C. Pemberton
Peter Walker, Vicksburg, A People at War
William Feis, Grant’s Secret Service
Richard Ketchum, Saratoga, Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War
David McCollough, 1776
John Gallagher, The Battle of Brooklyn 1776
Stephen Taaffe, The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778
David S. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing
Gordon Rhea, To the North Anna
Gordon Rhea, Cold Harbor
Frederick Hawthorne, Gettysburg, Stories of Men and Monuments as told by Battlefield Guides
Kenneth Noe, Perryville, This Grand Havoc of Battle
Peter Cozzens, The Darkest Days of the War, Iuka, Corinth and Davis Bridge
William Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American
Ethan Rafuse , A Single Grand Victory
George S. Patton Jr., War as I knew It, The Battle Memoirs of “Blood ‘n Guts”
Russell F. Weigley, Eisenhower’s Lieutenants
Omar Bradley, A General’s Life
Felix Markham, Napoleon
Keith Robbins, The First World War
William Piston and Richard Hatcher, Wilson’s Creek, The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It
Christopher Phillips, Damned Yankee, The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon
Stephen Engle, Yankee Dutchman, The Life of Franz Sigel
Kenneth Stampp, 1857, A Nation on the Brink
Xx, The Mormon Expedition
Thomas O’Conner, Civil War Boston, Homefront and Battlefield
David McCullough, John Adams
John Galvin, Three Men of Boston
Chester Hearn, The Capture of New Orleans 1862
John Winter, The Civil War in Louisiana
Chester Hearn, When the Devil Came Down to Dixie, Ben Butler in New Orleans
James Hollandsworth, The Louisiana Native Guards
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