{"id":418,"date":"2013-01-16T11:14:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcelfreshmap.com\/tammynoriepress\/?p=418"},"modified":"2013-01-16T11:26:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T16:26:18","slug":"the-civil-war-some-suggested-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcelfreshmap.com\/tammynoriepress\/the-civil-war-some-suggested-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"The Civil War:  Some Suggested Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I prepared a reading list of Civil War volumes to hand out to an Olean High School junior year American history class as part of a Civil War presentation on Jan. 15, 2013. The list is short and sweet and my basic premise was that, for the most part, none of the students had read much, if anything, about the Civil War. My intention was to suggest some books that would be scholarly but entertaining and informative at the same time.\u00a0 Also the list had to fit on one page. This is the list I came up with. My feeling is that if any of the students read even one of these volumes they will probably be drawn to read others as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>\u00a0<\/b>Bruce Catton\u2019s trilogy on the Civil War, which includes <i>The Coming Fury<\/i>, <i>Terrible Swift Sword<\/i>, and <i>Never Call Retreat<\/i>, is a very dramatic and beautifully written set. It\u2019s accurate history but it reads with the verve of a novel. \u00a0A pretty long novel though.<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Catton also wrote a terrific little book entitled <i>U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition<\/i>. It\u2019s one of my absolute favorite Civil War books. And it\u2019s short!<\/li>\n<li>There are two excellent one volume biographies of Abraham Lincoln. \u00a0Stephen B. Oates\u2019s <i>With Malice Toward None<\/i> and\/or Benjamin P. Thomas\u2019s <i>Abraham Lincoln<\/i>. \u00a0Another really neat little book is this same Benjamin P. Thomas\u2019s <i>Lincoln\u2019s New Salem<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>The best single volume account of the overall Civil War\u2014it\u2019s pretty long and quite detailed but extremely worthwhile\u2014is James M. McPherson\u2019s <i>Battle Cry of Freedom<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>There are all sorts of truly fascinating first person accounts of being a soldier in the Civil War. \u00a0These books are America\u2019s Victorian literature. \u00a0We don\u2019t have a Dickens, a Trollope, a Thackery, an Eliott\u2026but we do have these. \u00a0And they\u2019re not only thrilling and entertaining but they\u2019re also true. \u00a0There are dozens of these but two of the best are: <i>War Years with JEB Stuart<\/i> by W.W. Blackford and <i>I Rode With Stonewall<\/i> by Henry Kyd Douglas.<\/li>\n<li><i>The Blue and the Gray<\/i>, edited by Henry Steele Commager, is a chronologically arranged collection of excerpts from contemporary accounts of the Civil War.\u00a0 The entries are usually short.\u00a0 They\u2019re like intellectual snacks.\u00a0 But the selections were chosen because they gave the illuminating sense of \u201cbeing there.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re feeling really ambitious, there\u2019s a fabulous set of volumes by Carl Sandburg (he\u2019s the poet)\u20142 volumes entitled <i>The Prairie Years<\/i>, and 4 volumes entitled <i>The War Years<\/i>. \u00a0Together they constitute a superlative biography of Lincoln and the American cultural and political environment in which he lived and governed. Make yourself a promise to read these volumes some time in your life.<\/li>\n<li>Finally there is an ongoing series <i>The Civil War: Told by Those Who Lived It<\/i>, which will consist of four volumes published by Library of America.\u00a0 McElfresh Map Company prepared the endpaper maps for each volume.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I prepared a reading list of Civil War volumes to hand out to an Olean High School junior year American history class as part of a Civil War presentation on Jan. 15, 2013. 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