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1.
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
by:
Mary Boykin Chesnut
4.01 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman
by:
Sarah Morgan Dawson
3.83 avg rating — 908 ratings
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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
by:
Robert Hunt Rhodes
4.16 avg rating — 866 ratings
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Bushwhackers and Broken Hearts: Letters from Missouri during the Civil War
by:
P.J. Sullivan
3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
by:
Robert Gould Shaw
4.15 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
by:
Eliza Frances Andrews
3.99 avg rating — 402 ratings
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A Diary From Dixie
by:
Mary Boykin Chesnut
3.92 avg rating — 1,349 ratings
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Lucy Breckinridge of Grove Hill: The Journal of a Virginia Girl, 1862-1864
by:
Mary D. Robertson
3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Private Mary Chestnut
by:
Mary Boykin Chesnut
3.59 avg rating — 78 ratings
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A War of the People: Vermont Civil War Letters
by:
Jeffrey D. Marshall
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864
by:
Sarah Rosetta Wakeman
3.87 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Letters from a Sharpshooter : The Civil War Letters of William B. Greene, Co. G 2nd United States Sharpshooters (Berdan's) Army of the Potomac 1861-1865
by:
William H. Hastings
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861–1865 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 63)
by:
Edwin S. Redkey
4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Make Me a Map of the Valley: The Civil War Journal of Stonewall Jackson's Topographer
by:
Jedediah Hotchkiss
3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Kate: The Journal of A Confederate Nurse
by:
Kate Cumming
4.24 avg rating — 84 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Enemy: The Civil War Journal of Ida Powell Dulaney
by:
Mary L. Mackall
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868
by:
Kate Stone
4.11 avg rating — 113 ratings
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A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley: The Civil War Letters of John H. Black, Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry
by:
David J. Coles
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
by:
Theodore Rosengarten
4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Growing Up in the 1850s: The Journal of Agnes Lee
by:
Agnes Lee
3.57 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Andersonville Diary
by:
John L. Ransom
4.30 avg rating — 860 ratings
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A Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War: The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861
by:
John Hammond Moore
3.38 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
by:
Leander Stillwell
4.08 avg rating — 964 ratings
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'A Secret to Be Burried' : The Diary and Life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888
by:
Judy Nolte Lensink
4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital: Vol 2
by:
J.B. Jones
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
19.
"I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife": African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era
by:
Rita Roberts
4.58 avg rating — 84 ratings
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A Virginia Girl in the Civil War: Being a Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer
by:
Myrta Lockett Avary
3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings
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A woman's wartime journal; an account of the passage over a Georgia plantation of Sherman's army on the march to the sea, as recorded in the diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge);
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Dolly Sumner Lunt
3.88 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Beloved Bride: The Letters of Stonewall Jackson to His Wife
by:
Bill Potter
4.11 avg rating — 155 ratings
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A Remembrance of Eden: Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel's Memories of a Frontier Plantation in Arkansas, 1849-1872
by:
Margaret Jones Bolsterli
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Brother of Mine: The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie
by:
Hampton Smith
3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Southern Sons, Northern Soldiers
by:
Julie L. Holcomb
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861–1866
by:
John F. Marszalek
3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Maggie: The Civil War Journals of Maggie N. Vaulx
by:
Ross E. Hudgins
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Rebel Brothers: The Civil War Letters of the Truehearts
by:
Edward B. Williams
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte
by:
Emma LeConte
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Soldier Boy's Letters to His Father and Mother, 1862-1865
by:
Chauncey H. Cooke
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Army Life in Virginia: The Civil War Letters of George C. Benedict
by:
G. G. Benedict
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
37.
Dear Sister: The Civil War Letters of the Brothers Gould
by:
Robert F. Harris
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Secret Eye: The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1848-1889
by:
Ella Gertrude Thomas-Clanton
4.05 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary
by:
Josie Underwood
4.47 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Granger Brothers in Their Own Words: Letters Home from the Us Civil War Battlefield
by:
Louis J. D'angelo
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A Woman's Civil War: A Diary, with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862
by:
Cornelia Peake Mcdonald
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Bully for the Band!: The Civil War Letters and Diary of Four Brothers in the 10th Vermont Infantry Band
by:
Charles George
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky: The Diary of Frances Peter
by:
Frances Dallam Peter
4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Hard Marching Every Day: The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865
by:
Emil Rosenblatt
3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Preacher's Tale: The Civil War Journal of Rev. Francis Springer, Chaplain, U.S. Army of the Frontier
by:
William Furry
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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After Chancellorsville, Letters from the Heart: The Civil War Letters of Private Walter G. Dunn & Emma Randolph
by:
Judith A. Bailey
3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Troubled State: Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick
by:
Gari Carter
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Irish Green and Union Blue: The Civil War Letters of Peter Welsh, Color Sergeant, 28th Massachusetts
by:
Peter Welsh
4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Failed Ambition: The Civil War Journals And Letters Of Cavalryman Homer Harris Jewett
by:
Tom Jewett
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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No Freedom Shrieker The Civil War Letters of Union Soldier Charles Biddlecom
by:
Katherine M. Aldridge
3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie: Civil War Letters of James K. Newton (A North Coast Book)
by:
James K. Newton
4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Love and Valor : Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner
by:
Charles F. Larimer
4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Soldier Of Southwestern Virginia: The Civil War Letters Of Captain John Preston Sheffey
by:
James I. Robertson Jr.
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front
by:
James Henry Gooding
3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Letters Home to Sarah: The Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor, Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
by:
Guy C. Taylor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Go If You Think It Your Duty: A Minnesota Couple's Civil War Letters
by:
Andrea R. Foroughi
3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Brother of Mine: The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie
by:
Hampton Smith
3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Longstreet's Aide: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Goree
by:
Thomas W. Cutrer
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Civil War Nurse: the Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes
by:
Hannah Ropes
3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Civil War Letters of First Lieutenant James B. Thomas, Adjutant, 107th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Army of the Potomac Series)
by:
James B. Thomas
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
63.
Yours for the Union: The Civil War Letters of John W. Chase, First Massachusetts Light Artillery (The North's Civil War)
by:
John S. Collier
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
63.
Rose Cottage Chronicles: Civil War Letters of the Bryant-Stephens Families of North Florida
by:
Arch Frederick Blakely
3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Fallen Leaves: The Civil War Letters of Major Henry Livermore Abbott
by:
Robert Garth Scott
4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Send Me a Pair of Old Boots & Kiss My Little Girls: The Civil War Letters of Richard and Mary Watkins, 1861-1865
by:
Jeff Toalson
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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In Care of Yellow River: The Complete Civil War Letters of Pvt. Eli Pinson Landers to His Mother
by:
Elizabeth Roberson
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Col. Frank Huger, C.S.A.: The Civil War Letters of a Confederate Artillery Officer
by:
Frank Huger
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Their Patriotic Duty: The Civil War Letters of the Evans Family of Brown County, Ohio (The ^ANorth's Civil War)
by:
Robert F. Engs
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Love Letters From the Civil War
by:
John B. Chapman
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
70.
Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home
by:
Walter D. Kamphoefner
4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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My Heart Toward Home: Letters of a Family During the Civil War
by:
Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee
by:
Virginia Jeans Laas
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Brothers 'Til Death: The Civil War Letters of Maggie, Thomas, and William Jones, 1861-1865
by:
William Jones
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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We Have It Damn Hard Out Here: The Civil War Letters of Sergeant Thomas W. Smith, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry
by:
Eric J Wittenberg
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863-1865
by:
Cornelia Hancock
3.78 avg rating — 65 ratings
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A Grand Terrible Drama: From Gettysburg to Petersburg: The Civil War Letters of Charles Wellington Reed (The North's Civil War)
by:
Eric A. Campbell
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
78.
Village Life in America 1852 to 1872 Including the Period of the American Civil War as Told in the Diary of a School Girl
by:
Caroline Cowles Richards
3.67 avg rating — 79 ratings
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One of Lee's Best Men: The Civil War Letters of General William Dorsey Pender
by:
William Woods Hassler
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
80.
Dennison's Andersonville Diary: The Diary of an Illinois Soldier in the Infamous Andersonville Prison Camp
by:
James H. Dennison
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Soldier's Story Of The Siege of Vicksburg
by:
Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Letters to Amanda: The Civil War Letters of Marion Hill Fitzpatrick, Army of North Virginia
by:
Jeffrey C. Lowe
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family
by:
Karen L. Clinard
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia
by:
Lucy Rebecca Buck
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Charlotte's Boys: Civil War Letters of the Branch Family of Savannah
by:
Mauriel Phillips Joslyn
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Love amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermillion
by:
Donald C. Elder III
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mr. Tubbs' Civil War (Ncte Research Report; 28)
by:
Nat Brandt
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
87.
Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Joseph Rafael de la Garza and Manuel Yturri (Volume 9) (Fronteras Series, sponsored by Texas A&M International University)
by:
Jerry D. Thompson
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Soldiering with Sherman: The Civil War Letters of George F. Cram
by:
Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
89.
Gideon Lincecum's Sword: Civil War Letters from the Texas Home Front
by:
Jerry Bryan Lincecum
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Hour of Our Nation's Agony: The Civil War Letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi
by:
Jennifer Ford
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
by:
Andrew Ward
4.02 avg rating — 466 ratings
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Four Years with the Iron Brigade: The Civil War Journals of William R Ray, Co. F, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry
by:
Lance J. Herdegen
3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Civil War Journal of Private Heyward Emmell, Ambulance and Infantry Corps: A Very Disagreeable War
by:
Jim Malcolm
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War
by:
Robert E. Bonner
3.72 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Torn by War
by:
Byers
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon: Growing Up in New Orleans, 1861-1862
by:
Elliott Ashkenazi
3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings