Recommended Reading List
This is an incomplete list of books we find necessary to fully understand the Union soldier's experience in the Civil War.
CORPORAL SI KLEGG AND HIS PARD by Wilbur F. Hinman
TIME LIFE'S ECHOES OF GLORY SERIES
BULLET AND SHELL: THE CIVIL WAR AS THE SOLDIER SAW IT by George F. Williams
HARDTACK AND COFFEE by John Billings
THE LIFE OF BILLY YANK by Bell Wiley
TENTING TONIGHT: THE SOLDIER'S LIFE (Time/Life Books)
KILLED IN ACTION (Eyewitness accounts of the last moments of 100 Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg) by Gregory
Coco
CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS: THEIR EXPECTATIONS AND
THEIR EXPERIENCES by Reid Mitchell
THE UNION SOLDIER IN BATTLE: ENDURING THE ORDEAL
OF COMBAT by Earl Hess
EMBATTLED COURAGE: THE EXPERIENCE OF COMBAT
IN THE ACW by Gerald F. Linderman
LOST EPISODES OF THE CIVIL WAR edited by Barbara Rebok
CIVIL WAR LETTERS 1861-1865 by Jakie Pruett and Scott Black
A YANKEE PRIVATE'S CIVIL WAR by Robert Hale Strong;
COMPANY AYTCH by Sam Watkins, even if it is a reb account
ALL FOR THE UNION By Rhodes
THE LIFE OF BILLY YANK by Wiley
WHERE DEATH AND GLORY MEET by Russel Duncan - the TRUE account of Shaw & the 54th.
BRUCE CATTON'S ARMY OF THE POTOMAC SERIES
TODD'S MILITARY EQUIPAGE SERIES (4 VOLUMES?)
Suggestions? Problems? Questions? E-mail Brian Kaschyk