A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire
Fletcher Pratt's lively companion to explain important battles.

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James McPherson's thorough Pulitzer Prize winning account of the war and its causes.

Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864
Covers the Atlanta Campaign in detail.

The Chickamauga Campaign - A Mad Irregular Battle: From the Crossing of Tennessee River Through the Second Day, August 22 - September 19, 1863
The first in Dave Powell's trilogy of Chickamauga, starting with Tullahoma in mid-1863.

Battle above the Clouds: Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 - November 24, 1863 (Emerging Civil War Series)
Dave Powell's account The Battle for Chattanooga, in detail.

PERSONAL ACCOUNTS

The Diary of James T. Ayers: Civil War Recruiter
Edited by John Hope Franklin.

From The Cannon's Mouth: The Civil War Letters Of General Alpheus S. Williams
Excellent personal accounts by a general to his daughters.

Uncommon Soldier: Harvey Reid And The 22nd Wisconsin March With Sherman (Voices of the Civil War)
With 22nd Wisconsin.

A Yankee Private's Civil War (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
A popular book by a member of the 105th Illinois.

Soldiering with Sherman: The Civil War Letters of George F. Cram
With the 105th Illinois.

Through the South with a Union Soldier
With the 129th Illinois.

Bound To Be A Soldier: Letters Of Private James T. Miller (Voices of the Civil War)
With the 111th Pennsylvania.

Your affectionate husband, J. F. Culver: Letters written during the Civil War by Culver, Joseph F. (2012) Paperback
With the 129th Illinois. Footnotes by Edwin C. Bearss.

While Father Is Away: The Civil War Letters of William H. Bradbury
Bradbury clerked for Butterfield, but little about military matters.

SELECTED SOURCES

Echoes of Battle: The Struggle for Chattanooga: An Illustrated Collection of Union and Confederate Narratives
Selected first-hand writings.

Echoes of Battle: The Atlanta Campaign
Selected first-hand writings.

Ambrose Bierce's Civil War.
Includes Chickamauga and Picketts Mill.

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