The Civil War in Georgia:
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings
Portrait of Pvt. William S. Askew, Company A, (Newman Guards) 1st Georgia Infantry, C.S.A.
The Georgia Room contains an extensive collection of materials regarding the Civil War. In order to make this bibliography both useful and manageable, it focuses primarily on works specific to Georgia’s experience in the Civil War. In particular, this list includes those works that are considered to be among the most important and valuable scholarly assessments, or that are rare or unusual. To find additional sources within the Georgia Room, you can search GIL, UGA’s online catalog, consult the bibliographies and notes of these works, and browse the shelves for relevant material.
ONLINE RESOURCES
New Georgia Encyclopedia. www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Relevant articles include:
Andrews Raid, Atlanta Campaign, George N. Barnard, Battle of Chickamauga, Black Troops in Civil War Georgia, Joseph E. Brown, Civil War: Atlanta Home Front, Civil War Prisons, Capture of Jefferson Davis, Howell Cobb, Deportation of Roswell Mill Women, John B. Gordon, Griswoldville, James Longstreet, Lost Cause Religion, Sherman's March to the Sea, Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs, Wilson's Raid, Women during the Civil War.
GALILEO. www.libs.uga.edu/research
Provides access to numerous online databases, including JSTOR and America: History and Life, in which you can search for articles, book reviews, and similar sources. Password or on-campus access is required; can be accessed from Georgia Room computer workstations.
VERTICAL FILES
The Vertical Files consist primarily of newspaper and magazine clippings. In the folders cited below, many of the magazine articles date from the 1860s through the early 20th century, with the newspaper clippings generally dating from the early 20th century through the 1990s. While folders not listed here might have a related article or information, these folders include the majority of the articles, as well as the most relevant information, regarding the Civil War in Georgia.
General InformationAndersonville Prison (3 folders)
Civil War (7), Civil War General Pamphlets (2)
Civil War-
Andrews Raid, Battles, Battle of Atlanta (3), Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Jonesboro, Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of Peachtree Creek, Battle Reenactments, Chickamauga, Jefferson Davis, Music, Refugees, Sherman's March to the Sea (2), Stoneman's Raid
Confederacy
Confederacy- "Belles, Beaux, and Brains of the '60s"
Confederate-
Blockhouse, Constitution, Flags (2), Gold and Money, Memorial Day (2), Music, Navy, Powder Works, Seal, Stamps, States of America (3), Uniform, Veterans (3), Women, in Brazil
Forts-General
Fort McAllister
Fort Pulaski (3)
Mountains - Kennesaw Mountain
Mountains - Stone Mountain (7, by years)
Secession
Biography:Joseph Emerson Brown, Howell Cobb, Thomas R. R. Cobb, Jefferson Davis, Clement A. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Gordon, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, William T. Sherman, Robert Toombs, Capt. Henry Wirz
Cities and Counties:Athens-
Civil War Battle Site, Civil War Centennial Commission, Cook and Brother Armory, Double Barreled Cannon
Atlanta- History (5 folders)
Columbus - Civil War
Macon - History (3)
Savannah - History (4)
PRIMARY SOURCES AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
Andrews, Eliza Frances. The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865. Macon: Ardivan Press, 1976.
E559 .A56
Brown, Joseph M. The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia: Or, War Scenes on the W. and A. Buffalo, N.Y.: Art-printing Works of Matthew, Northrup & Co., 1886.
E470.6 .B87m
Clayton, Sarah "Sallie" Conley. Requiem for a Lost City: A Memoir of Civil War Atlanta and the Old South. Macon, Mercer University Press, 1999.
E605 .C595
Cumming, Katharine Jane Hubbell. A Northern Daughter and a Southern Wife: The Civil War Reminiscences and Letters of Katharine H. Cumming, 1860-1865. Augusta: Richmond County Historical Society, 1976.
E487 .C950
Dodge, Grenville M. The Battle of Atlanta, and Other Campaigns, Addresses, etc. Council Bluffs, Iowa: The Monarch Print Co., 1911.
E464 .D64
Evans, Clement Anselm. Intrepid Warrior: Clement Anselm Evans, Confederate General from Georgia: Life, Letters, and Diaries of the War Years. Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1992.
E467.1 .E84 A2
Gillmore, Q.A. Official Report to the United States Engineer Department, of the Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, February, March, and April, 1862. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1862.
E472.79 G4
Gordon, John B. Reminiscences of the Civil War. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1903.
E470 .G66 1904a
Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992.
E470 .L857
Reconnaissance to Dalton, Ga. A National Account. New York, 1865.
E470.6 .S111
Sherman, William T. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, by Himself. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957.
E467.1 .S55 S52
Stephens, Alexander H. A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes, Character, Conduct and Results. Philadelphia: National Pub. Co., [1868-70].
E459 .S83
Pittenger, William. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862. New York: The War Publishing Co., 1887.
E473.55 .P688d 1887
BIOGRAPHY
Anderson, Mabel Washbourne. Life of General Stand Watie: The Only Indian Brigadier General of the Confederate Army and the Last General to Surrender. Pryor, Okla.: Mayes County Republican, 1915.
E467.1 .W333 A5
Bragg, C.L. Distinction in Every Service: Brigadier General Marcellus A. Stovall, C.S.A. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, 2002.
E467.1 .S88 B73
Brown, Russell K. To the Manner Born: The Life of General William H.T. Walker. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
E467.1 .W19 B76
Dameron, J. David. General Henry Lewis Benning: This Was a Man: A Biography of Georgia's Supreme Court Justice and Confederate General. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2004.
E467.1 .B44 D36
Davis, William C. The Union that Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.
E467 .D3 2001
Eckert, Ralph Lowell. John Brown Gordon: Soldier, Southerner, American. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
E467.1 .G66 E350
Hill, Louise Biles. Joseph E. Brown and the Confederacy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972.
E559 .B876 1972
Montgomery, Horace. Howell Cobb's Confederate Career. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Confederate Publishing, 1959.
LXK23 .M787h
Piston, William Garrett. Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
E467.1 .L55 P57
Schott, Thomas E. Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
E467.1 .S85 S36
Smith, Gerald J. "One of the Most Daring of Men": The Life of Confederate General William Tatum Wofford. Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Southern Heritage Press, 1997.
E467.1 .W66
Smith, Robert Wesley, Jr. Lee, Jackson and Davis: A Short Biography. Atlanta: NHA, Inc., 1970.
E467 .S590
Tankersley, Allen P. John B. Gordon: A Study in Gallantry. Atlanta: Whitehall Press, 1955.
E467.1 .G663 T3
BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA
Anderson, Archer. The Campaign and Battle of Chickamauga. An Address Delivered Before the Virginia Division of the Army of Northern Virginia Association, at Their Annual Meeting, in the Capitol at Richmond, Va., October 25, 1881. Richmond: W.E. Jones, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1881.
E475.81 .A55
Cozzens, Peter. This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
E475.81 .C78
Georgia at Chickamauga; Exercises at the Dedication of Georgia's Monument at Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park, May Fourth, 1899. Atlanta: L.L. Parham, 1899.
E475.81 .L56
Linton, Roger C. Chickamauga: A Battlefield History in Images. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.
E475.81 .L56
Scaife, William R. Atlas of Chickamauga and Chattanooga Area Civil War Battles. Atlanta: W.R. Scaife, 1983.
E470.6 .S320 1983
Woodworth, Steven E. Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
E470.4 .W66
SHERMAN'S ATLANTA CAMPAIGN AND MARCH TO THE SEA
Bailey, Anne J. War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2003.
E477.41 .B35
Baumgartner, Richard A. and Larry M. Strayer. Kennesaw Mountain, June 1864: Bitter Standoff at the Gibraltar of Georgia. Huntington, W. Va.: Blue Acorn Press, 2000.
E476.7 .B34
Bragg, William Harris. Griswoldville. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2000.
E477.4 .B73
Castel, Albert E. Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992.
E476.7 .C28
Davis, Stephen. Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions, American Crisis Series, no. 3. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 2001.
E476.7 .D38
Hitt, Michael D. Charged with Treason: Ordeal of 400 Mill Workers during Military Operations in Roswell, Georgia, 1864-1865. Monroe, N.Y.: Library Research Associates, 1992.
F294 .R75 H583
Hoole, William Stanley and Hugh Lynn McArthur. The Battle of Resaca, Georgia, May 14-15, 1864. University, Ala.: Confederate Pub. Co., 1983.
F294 .R47 H60
Kennett, Lee B. Marching Through Georgia: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians during Sherman's Campaign. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
E476.69 .K455
McDonough, James Lee and James Pickett Jones. War So Terrible: Sherman and Atlanta. New York: Norton, 1987.
E476.7 .M34
McMurry, Richard M. Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
E467.7 .M268
Scaife, William R. Atlas of Atlanta Area Civil War Battles. Atlanta: W.R. Scaife, 1982.
E470.6 .S320 1982
OTHER CAMPAIGNS AND BATTLES IN GEORGIA
Jones, James Pickett. Yankee Blitzkrieg: Wilson's Raid through Alabama and Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1976.
E477 .P6
O'Neill, Charles. Wild Train: The Story of the Andrews Raiders. New York: Random House, 1956.
E473.55 .058w
SECONDARY SOURCES ON THE CIVIL WAR IN GEORGIA
Avery, I. W. The History of the State of Georgia from 1850 to 1881. New York: Brown and Derby, 1881.
F286 .A95
Bailey, Anne J. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Georgia in the Civil War. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996.
E559.9 .B35
Birdsall, C. M. The United States Branch Mint at Dahlonega, Georgia: Its History and Coinage. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1984.
HG461 .D332 B570
Bohannon, Keith S. The Northeast Georgia Mountains during the Secession Crisis and Civil War. Ph. D. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 2001.
E559 .B64 2001a
Boney, F. N. Rebel Georgia. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1997.
E503 .B66
Bryan, Thomas Conn. Confederate Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1953.
E559 .B916c 1953
Bryant, Jonathan M. How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
F292 .G7 B79
Corley, Florence Fleming. Confederate City, Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1865. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1960.
F294 .A9 C66
Dyer, Thomas G. Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
F294 .A857 D94
Freehling, William W. and Craig M. Simpson, eds. Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
E459 .S43
Gorman, Kathleen Lynn. When Johnny Came Marching Home Again: Confederate Veterans in the New South. Ph. D. diss., University of California, Riverside, 1994.
E545 .G67 1994a
Grice, Warren. Confederate States Court for Georgia. Savannah: Georgia Historical Society, 1925.
JK9973 .G7
Iobst, Richard W. Civil War Macon: The History of a Confederate City. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1999.
F294 .M2 I53 1999
Johnson, Michael P. Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.
F290 .J56
Lawrence, Alexander A. A Present for Mr. Lincoln: The Story of Savannah from Secession to Sherman. Macon: Ardivan Press, 1961.
F294 .S2 L3
Marvel, William. Andersonville: The Last Depot. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
E612 .A5 M444
Mohr, Clarence L. On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
E445 .G3 M64
Morgan, Chad. Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
HC107 .G43 I536
Reidy, Joseph P. From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
HD1471 .U52 G47
Risley, J. Ford. Georgia's Civil War Newspapers: Partisan, Sanguine, Enterprising. Ph. D. diss., University of Florida, 1996.
E609 .R57 1996a
Rogers, William W. Thomas County during the Civil War. Tallahassee: Florida State University, 1964.
F292 .T4 R72
Smith, Derek. Civil War Savannah. Savannah: Frederic C. Bell, 1997.
F294 .S2 S65 1997
Weitz, Mark A. A Higher Duty: Desertion among Georgia Troops during the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
E559 .W48
Whites, LeeAnn. The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
HQ1439 .A94 W5
Wilson, Charles Reagan. Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.
BR535 .W54
UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
All University of Georgia theses and dissertations are available through the Georgia Room, but require prior notification of interest in order to retrieve from the repository for use within the Georgia Room, and cannot be checked out.
Browning, Judkin. Wearing the Mast of Nationality Lightly: The Effects of Union Military Occupation During the Civil War. Ph. D. diss., University of Georgia, 2006.
LXC16 2006 Browning, J.
Evans, William David. McCook's Raid July 27-August 3, 1864. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1976.
LXC15 1976 .E92
Jobson, Andrew Harvey. Another Theater of War: Women and the Confederate Stage. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1994.
LXC15 1994 .J62
Johnson, Joseph Paul. Southwest Georgia: A Case Study in Confederate Agriculture. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1992.
LXC15 1992 .J67
Justus, Michael Thomas. The Impact of the Civil War on Georgia Baptists. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1984.
LXC15 1984 .J965
Pederson, Mary Lynn. Sister Against Sister: The Story of Sarah and Frances Butler and Their Ideological Split During the Civil War. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1989.
LXC15 1989 .P371
Sarris, Jonathan Dean. "Hellish Deeds...In a Christian Land": Southern Mountain Communities at War, 1861-1865. Ph. D. diss., University of Georgia, 1998.
LXC16 1998 .S247
Singer, Ralph Benjamin Jr. Confederate Atlanta. Ph. D. diss., University of Georgia, 1973.
LXC16 1973 .S6
Sumner, Ellen Louise. Unionism in Georgia, 1860-1861. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1960.
LXC15 1960 .S9
JOURNALS
Relevant historical journals held in print in the Georgia Room include:
Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South. F294 .A8 A881
Georgia Historical Quarterly F281 .G351
Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians
Journal of South Georgia History F286 .J8
Journal of Southwestern Georgia History F286 .J8
ARTICLES
These articles represent only a small sampling of the many written on Georgia and the Civil War. Others can be found online through GALILEO or by searching the journals held in the Georgia Room and the UGA Library.
Boney, F. N. "Retribution Will Surely Be Given': 'Harper's Weekly' Looks at Confederate Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 72 (1988): 327-339.
Carlson, David. "'The Distemper of the Time': Conscription, the Courts, and Planter Privilege in Civil War South Georgia." Journal of South Georgia History 14 (1999): 1-24.
Davis, Robert S. "The Georgia Odyssey of the Confederate Gold." Georgia Historical Quarterly 86 (2002): 569-586.
Davis, Robert S., Jr. "White and Black in Blue: The Recruitment of Federal Units in Civil War North Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 85 (2001): 347-374.
Davis, Stephen. "The Conductor Versus the Foreman: William Fuller, Anthony Murphy, and the Pursuit of the Andrews Raiders." Atlanta History 34 (1991).
DeCredico, Mary A. "Atlanta Women at War: 'We Are on the Eve of Stirring Events.'" Georgia Historical Quarterly 83 (1999): 712-726.
Edwards, Stewart C. "'To Do the Manufacturing for the South': Private Industry in Confederate Columbus." Georgia Historical Quarterly 85 (2001): 538-554.
Escott, Paul D. "The Context of Freedom: Georgia's Slaves during the Civil War." Georgia Historical Quarterly 58 (1974): 79-104.
Gibbons, Robert. "Life at the Crossroads of the Confederacy: Atlanta, 1861-1865." Atlanta Historical Journal 23 (1979): 11-72.
McGee, David H. "The Siege of Fort Pulaski: 'You Might as Well Bombard the Rocky Mountains.'" Georgia Historical Quarterly 79 (1995)
Mohr, Clarence L. "Before Sherman: Georgia Blacks and the Union War Effort, 1861-1864." Journal of Southern History 45 (1979): 331-352.
Newton, Steven H. "Joe Johnston, 'Formidable Only in Flight?' Causalties, Attrition, and Morale in Georgia." North and South 3 (2000).
Parks, Joseph H. "States Rights in a Crisis: Governor Joseph E. Brown Versus President Jefferson Davis." Journal of Southern History 32 (1966): 3-24.
Wallenstein, Peter. "Rich Man's War, Rich Man's Fight: Civil War and the Transformation of Public Finance in Georgia." Journal of Southern History 50 (1984): 15-42.
Williams, David. "'Us Is Gonna Be Free': Civil War Slave Resistance in Southwest Georgia." Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians 19 (1998): 1-14.
FICTION
Doctorow, E.L. The March: A Novel. New York: Random House, 2005.
PS3554 .O3 M37
Dunn, Byron A. From Atlanta to the Sea. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1913.
PS1562 .D923 F7
Floyd, E. Randall. Deep in the Heart. Augusta, Ga.: Harbor House, 1998.
PS3556 .L65 D44
Harris, Joel Chandler. On the Plantation; A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures during the War. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897.
PS1807 .O5 1897
Jakes, John. Savannah, Or, A Gift for Mr. Lincoln. New York: Dutton, 2004.
PS3560 .A37 S38
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. New York: Scribner, 1996.
PS3525 .I972 G6
Price, Eugenia. New Moon Rising. Franklin, Tenn.: Providence House Publishers, 2000.
PS3566 .R47 N4
Statham, Frances Patton. The Roswell Women. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1987.
PS3569 .T33645 R6
Williams, Philip Lee. A Distant Flame. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2004.
PS3573 .I45535 D57
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