Civil War Resources
Lecture Recordings:
An audio recording of almost every Chicago Civil War Roundtable meeting from 1951
to 2013 in which many of these books are discussed. If you would like to purchase a copy(click here
for a list) send an email with your request to: Recordings@ChicagoCWRT.org
YouTube videos are available of many meetings from October 2011. Please click the link on the left of this page.
Battlefield Tour:
We recommended these books as great references in preparation for the 2019 Vicksburg tour: (to come)
2019 Tour - Orders and Ammunition
and the tour guidebook 2019 Tour Atlas.
Books by roundtable members:
Many of the members of the roundtable are authors and speakers on the Civil War and other topics. The Author's Library provides a list of their current and upcoming publications.
General Reading:
We recommend these fine books, authored by some of our
recent past and near future monthly meeting speakers. (printable list)
Kentuckians in Gray
Bruce Allardice and Lawrence L. Hewitt
Two Years Before the Paddlewheel: Charles F. Gunther, Mississippi River Confederate
Bruce Allardice and Wayne Wolf
In the First Line of Battle: The 12th Illinois Cavalry in the Civil War
Sam Blackwell
The Age of Lincoln
Orville Vernon Burton
The H.L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy
Tom Chaffin
Shenandoah 1862
Peter Cozzens
The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination
Gary Ecelbarger
Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South
Paul Finkelman
The Road to Disunion, Vols. I & II
William W. Freehling
Campaigning with Uncle Billy: The Civil War Memoirs of Sgt. Lyman S. Widney, 34th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Robert I. Girardi
Wilson’s Creek
Richard W. Hatcher III and William Garrett Piston
For Cause and For Country
Eric A. Jacobson
The Fredericksburg Campaign
Francis A. O’Reilly
A History of Ironclads: The Power of Iron over Wood
John V. Quarstein
Appomattox County
Patrick A. Schroeder and Scott Frantel
Impeached
David O. Stewart
Lincoln and His Admirals
Craig Symonds
Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863
Stephen R. Wise
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