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	Crossroads of Conflict A Guide to Civil War Sites in Georgia Barry L. Brown and Gordon R. Elwell A publication of the Georgia Civil War Commission Published in association with the Georgia Department of Economic Development and the Georgia Humanities Council An essential guide for touring Civil War sites in Georgia

	Atlas of the Civil War, Month by Month Major Battles and Troop Movements Mark Swanson	A panoramic, chronological view of the war's action
	Ballots and Fence Rails Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear William McKee Evans Foreword by Charles Joyner	A pioneering history of Reconstruction at the local level
	Berry Benson's Civil War Book Memoirs of a Confederate Scout and Sharpshooter Edited by Susan Williams Benson New Introduction by Edward J. Cashin	"Well-told and very captivating." —Civil War Courier
	Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw Edited by Russell Duncan Foreword by William S. McFeely	"Splendid . . . Important . . . Superb . . . Deserves a place on every Civil War bookshelf." —New York Times Book Review
	But There Was No Peace The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction George C. Rable With a new preface	"An imaginative, well-written book." —American Historical Review
	Céline Remembering Louisiana, 1850–1871 Céline Frémaux Garcia Edited by Patrick Geary Foreword by Bertram Wyatt-Brown	"A worthy addition to the remarkable collection of memoirs on the Civil War by southern women." —Louisiana History
	Chickamauga A Battlefield History in Images Roger C. Linton	See the famous Civil War battlefield as never before
	The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender Augusta, Georgia, 1860–1890 LeeAnn Whites	A groundbreaking study of how the Civil War challenged, changed, and confused gender roles
	The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell A Chaplain's Story Edited by Peter Messent and Steve Courtney	A young chaplain vividly recounts his ordeal by fire
	The Civil War Letters of Joshua K. Callaway Joshua K. Callaway Edited by Judith Lee Hallock	The revealing correspondence of a Confederate soldier
	Civil War Stories Catherine Clinton	Actual accounts of the war's impact on the lives of women and children, black and white, on both sides of the conflict
	Civil War Time Temporality and Identity in America, 1861–1865 Cheryl A. Wells	How the Civil War changed the ways Americans understood and used time
	Confederate Athens Kenneth Coleman	"Gives one a different perspective on the Civil War from the storm-and-stress volumes on war and politics.” —Journal of American History
	The Confederate Congress Wildred Buck Yearns	A study of the Confederate Congress and its relation to the Jefferson Davis administration
	Confederate Finance Richard Cecil Todd	"Concise and comprehensive." —Journal of Southern History
	Confederate Georgia T. Conn Bryan	Recalls daily life in Georgia during the Civil War
	The Confederate Governors Edited by W. Buck Yearns	"An excellent state-by-state political history of the Confederacy." —Journal of American Studies
	Confederate Receipt Book A Compilation of Over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times Introduction by E. Merton Coulter	"Nostalgic good fun . . . A fascinating 'mini-document' of the Confederacy." —Columbia State
	A Consuming Fire The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South Eugene D. Genovese	A leading historian examines the white Southern Christian response to slavery, military defeat, and emancipation
	The Death of a Confederate Selections from the Letters of the Archibald Smith Family of Roswell, Georgia, 1864–1956 Edited by Arthur N. Skinner and James L. Skinner	"A moving account of one family's late war struggles and heartaches." —Georgia Historical Quarterly
	The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1848–1879 Edited by Christine Jacobson Carter	A transplanted northerner records her life in the South during peace and war
	Diehard Rebels The Confederate Culture of Invincibility Jason Phillips	Insight into the mindset of the Confederacy’s most unyielding soldiers
	Enemies of the Country New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South Edited by John C. Inscoe and Robert C. Kenzer	"Fresh insights into the sources, nature, limits, and remarkable diversity of southern Unionism." —American Historical Review
	Field Medical Services at the Battle of Manassas Horace H. Cunningham	"Presents a clear and depressingly grim picture of the problems confronting the army medical services in caring for the wounded." —American Historical Review
	For Free Press and Equal Rights Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South Richard H. Abbott Edited by John W. Quist	The first in-depth look at pro-Union newspapers and the transformation of the post-Civil War South
	Freedom's Shore Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen Russell Duncan	"Makes an interesting character as accessible as he is likely ever to be." —Journal of Southern History
	Georgia Boys with Stonewall Jackson James Thomas Thompson and the Walton Infantry Aurelia Austin Foreword by Bell Irvin Wiley	Letters that reveal the experiences of four Georgia soldiers who served under Stonewall Jackson
	The Granite Farm Letters The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth and Sallie Bird Edited by John Rozier Foreword by Theodore Rosengarten	Winner of the Founder's Award of the Museum of the Confederacy
	Guarding Greensboro A Confederate Company in the Making of a Southern Community G. Ward Hubbs	War, peace, and unity in an Alabama town
	Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia Survival in a Civil War Regiment Scott Walker	"A heartfelt recounting of one regiment's triumphs and traumas." —Journal of American History
	A Heritage of Woe The Civil War Diary of Grace Brown Elmore, 1861-1868 Edited by Marli F. Weiner	A rich personal account of a society in the midst of chaotic change
	Invisible Southerners Ethnicity in the Civil War Anne J. Bailey Foreword by Alan Downs	"Other" Southerners in time of war
	Johnny Cobb Confederate Aristocrat Horace Montgomery	“Montgomery’s perceptive and well-written book helps to explain the South’s failure to achieve independence." —American Historical Review
	Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History William Garrett Piston	"An excellent piece of American military biography." —Booklist
	Letters of Warren Akin Confederate Congressman Bell Irvin Wiley	"An important addition to the source material for the history of the Confederacy." —Mississippi Valley Historical Review
	A Long Shadow Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy Michael B. Ballard	The transformation of a fallen Rebel leader into a Lost Cause martyr
	Never Surrender Confederate Memory and Conservatism in the South Carolina Upcountry W. Scott Poole	The most focused and detailed history of southern conservatism to date
	Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era Selected Writings from the Borderlands Edited by Sharon M. Harris and Robin L. Cadwallader	The first anthology of Davis’s Civil War–era work
	Recollections of a Southern Daughter A Memoir by Cornelia Jones Pond of Liberty County Edited by Lucinda H. MacKethan	The life story of a "daughter of pride," from a privileged antebellum childhood to Civil War deprivation
	Rehearsal for Reconstruction The Port Royal Experiment Willie Lee Rose Introduction by C. Vann Woodward	The award-winning chronicle of South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War era
	Reminiscences of My Life in Camp An African American Woman's Civil War Memoir Susie King Taylor Introduction by Catherine Clinton	The only Civil War memoir by an African American woman
	Rich Man's War Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley David Williams	How exploitation, oppression, and class conflict of poor southerners contributed to the Confederate loss of the Civil War
	Sam Richards's Civil War Diary A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front Samuel Pearce Richards Edited by Wendy Hamand Venet	A man, his family, and his city, brought vividly to life
	Secession as an International Phenomenon From America’s Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements Edited by Don H. Doyle	A timely look at secession, separatism, and the nationalist passions that have inflamed such conflicts as the Civil War
	Shadows on My Heart The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia Edited by Elizabeth R. Baer	"Yields a rare insight into the heart of one Southern woman." —Civil War History
	Soldiers of Light and Love Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865–1873 Jacqueline Jones	An acclaimed study of the reform-minded northerners who taught freed slaves in the war-torn Reconstruction South
	South Carolina Women Their Lives and Times—Volume 1 Edited by Marjorie J. Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Joan Marie Johnson
	These Men She Gave Civil War Diary of Athens, Georgia John F. Stegeman	The story of Athens, Georgia, during the turbulent years of the Civil War
	Under the Guardianship of the Nation The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870 Paul A. Cimbala	"The most detailed state study of the Freedmen's Bureau to date." —H-CivWar
	Voices from Company D Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia Edited by G. Ward Hubbs	A remarkable gathering of diverse personal writings from a single Confederate military unit
	Where Death and Glory Meet Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Russell Duncan	The true story behind the film Glory
	Why the South Lost the Civil War Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. Still Jr.	"Should be required reading for anyone interested in the Confederate experiment." —Dallas Times-Herald
	William Howard Russell's Civil War Private Diary and Letters, 1861–1862 Edited by Martin Crawford	"From these private pages emerges a foreign observer who was deeply moved by the tenacity both of the North and South." —Georgia Historical Quarterly
	With Ballot and Bayonet The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers Joseph Allan Frank	"One finishes the book with a deeper understanding of how thoroughly the armies of North and South were steeped in political ideology." —American Historical Review