Recommend Me A Good Civil War Book

[trey4sports]

I'm looking to get a good education on the Civil War and i can't seem to find any threads with book recommendations (on the civil war) in the forum.

Can anyone here recommend me a book on the civil war that is FAIR and not completely biased toward the North?

Thanks,
Trey

[TheDriver]

I'm looking to get a good education on the Civil War and i can't seem to find any threads with book recommendations in the forum.

Can anyone here recommend me a book on the civil war that is FAIR and not completely biased toward the North?

Thanks,
Trey
http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Civil-Guides/dp/1596985496/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298414004&sr=8-1

[trey4sports]

http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Civil-Guides/dp/1596985496/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298414004&sr=8-1

Thank you.

I actually bought that one as well as a couple other politically incorrect guide books last night. My only concern is that it is more about pointing out misc. information than a complete history of the Civil War

[Pericles]

The Story of the Confederacy by Robert S. Henry

best quick one volume read.

[Sola_Fide]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0963838105.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg.
Awesome, eye-opening book!

[Theocrat]

http://www.regnery.com/imgnew/book134_pigcivilwar.jpg (http://www.regnery.com/books/pigcivilwar.html) http://www.americanvision.com/product_images/u/164/bkh2407_front.5__41954_zoom.jpg (http://www.americanvision.com/products/War-Between-The-States%3A-America%27s-Uncivil-War.html)

[Sola_Fide]

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[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

"The life of Johnny Reb" by Bell Irvin Wiley is a good one that gives some perspective on why the common soldier of the South was fighting as well as what the daily life of the common soldier was like. Wiley also did a counterpart from the union perspective called "The life of Billy Yank" which is just as good.

There are a few books written from the perspective of the the Confederacy with perhaps the best for a beginner being "The South Was Right" by James and Walter Kennedy. There is also one called "Facts and Falsehoods Concerning The War On The South 1861-1865" by George Edmonds. That book is unique in that it is written using northern sources and not southern. A few others I would suggest:

The Legal and Historical Status of the Dred Scott Decision by Elbert William Robinson Ewing
The Real Lincoln by Charles L.C. Minor
Andersonville Prison by James Madison Page
Lincoln Unmasked by Thomas DiLorenzo
Myths of American Slavery by Walter Kennedy
The South Under Siege by Frank Conner
When In The Course Of Human Events by Charles Adams
Black Confederates by Segars and Rosenburg
The Jewish Confederates by Robert Rosen
The Real Lincoln by Thomas DiLorenzo
The Confederate Cause and Conduct of the War Between The States by George Christian & Hunter McGuire
Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend by Richard Williams
War for What by Francis Springer
Jefferson Davis: Private letters by Hudson Strode
a Civil History of the Confederate States Government by Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
Truths of History - Mildred Lewis Rutherford
Northern Rebellion and Southern Secession by Elbert Ewing
The Coming of the Glory by John Tilley
Federal Usurpation by Franklin Pierce
Abolition,The Union and the Civil War by Clement Vallandigham
Lincoln Takes Command by John Shipley Tilley

I will take a look through my library for more works that might be up your alley but many of them are very old and likely out of print. I tried to suggest those which I know are either currently in print or older works that I know were reprinted. If there is one you would really like to read but cannot find it than send me a message and I will track it down for you.

I would also suggest anything by an old friend of mine named Rev. Father Alister C. Anderson who has written many fascinating books but all are out of print and extremely hard to find. I will give him a call this week and see if he has any copies of anything left he can spare.

[TheDriver]

Thank you.

I actually bought that one as well as a couple other politically incorrect guide books last night. My only concern is that it is more about pointing out misc. information than a complete history of the Civil War

I read a book called Kentuckians are Different (http://www.amazon.com/Kentuckians-Are-Different-M-B-Morton/dp/1406727121/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298416275&sr=8-1), which had a collection of stories from the same newspaper writer, and it had some of the coolest War Between the States stories, as he personally interviewed former Confederates. But not enough of the book is dedicated to that to recommend.

Also that is something I'm really noticing: Any book written pre 1930 does not call it the Civil War, they call it The War Between the States.

I always check references of books I read, as you get great book recommendations there.

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

Just wanted to add that you should pop into chat sometime and we can always get a nice discussion going on the subject.

[Joey Fuller]

please read The Real Lincoln by Thomas DiLorenzo...

I read this around the time I was trying to comprehend Ron Paul and the Liberty movement... and it was a catalyst in my propulsion into activism,etc

[mac_hine]

http://www.whattofix.com/images/TheRealLincolnBookCover.jpg

A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britain's? In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncovers a side of Lincoln not told in many history books and overshadowed by the immense Lincoln legend.
Through extensive research and meticulous documentation, DiLorenzo portrays the sixteenth president as a man who devoted his political career to revolutionizing the American form of government from one that was very limited in scope and highly decentralized—as the Founding Fathers intended—to a highly centralized, activist state. Standing in his way, however, was the South, with its independent states, its resistance to the national government, and its reliance on unfettered free trade. To accomplish his goals, Lincoln subverted the Constitution, trampled states' rights, and launched a devastating Civil War, whose wounds haunt us still. According to this provacative book, 600,000 American soldiers did not die for the honorable cause of ending slavery but for the dubious agenda of sacrificing the independence of the states to the supremacy of the federal government, which has been tightening its vise grip on our republic to this very day.
You will discover a side of Lincoln that you were probably never taught in school—a side that calls into question the very myths that surround him and helps explain the true origins of a bloody, and perhaps, unnecessary war.
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Lincoln-Abraham-Agenda-Unnecessary/dp/0761526463/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298503227&sr=1-1

[angelatc]

Yes, I am spamming my own eBay listing. This is an older book, but it really is cool. Google it if you don't believe me. Mention RPF and I'll take a buck off your total. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130489461578&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT PM me after you bid and I'll end the auction early for you too.

[trey4sports]

Just wanted to add that you should pop into chat sometime and we can always get a nice discussion going on the subject.

Thanks, will do!

[sratiug]

The Branch and The Vine, a historical novel that chronicles an Arkansas cavalryman in William Bedford Forrest's cavalry. It's a very good read and written from tales handed down by the actual participants.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Libya on $40 a day

:D

Sorry, couldn't help myself

[scottditzen]

Here's a confederate soldier's personal account of day to day life during the war. I don't remember any overarching, intellectual, deep political thinking here. But for me personally, it was refreshing to get a view from "the other side."

http://www.amazon.com/Diary-Confederate-Soldier-Jackman-Brigade/dp/1570031649