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Central Wisconsin History Collaborative
The Civil War
Titles in red are scholarly publications.
Books recommended for the classroom follow below.
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- Edward Hagerman, The American Civil
War and the Origins of Modern Warfare (1988).
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- Reid Mitchell, Civil War Soldiers:
Their Expectations and Experiences (1988).
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- Clarence Mohr, On the Threshold of
Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (1986).
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- Drew Gilpin Faust, The Creation of
Southern Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War
South (1988).
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- Wilfred Knight, Red Fox: Stand
Waite and the Confederate Indian Nations During the Civil War
Years in Indian Territory (1988).
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- Elizabeth Leonard, All the Daring
of the Solider: Women of the Civil War Armies (1999).
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- Patricia Polocco. (1994)
Pink and Say. Philomel Books.
Chronicles
the friendship of Pink, a fifteen-year-old African-American Union
soldier, and Say, his poor white comrade, as one nurses the other
back to health from a battle wound and the two of them are
imprisoned at Andersonville. Based on a true story.
Rd Lvl: 4.9
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- Jim Murphy. (1993)
The Boys' War : Confederate and Union Soldiers
Talk About the Civil War. Clarion Books.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-106) and index.
Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs
to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger,
who fought in the Civil War.
Rd Lvl: 7.8
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- Wisler, G. Clifton. (1997) Mr. Lincoln's
Drummer. Puffin Books. A fictional
account of the courageous exploits of Willie Johnston, an
eleven-year-old Civil War drummer, who became the youngest recipient
of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
RL: 6.4
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- Gauch, Patricia Lee. (2003) Thunder at
Gettysburg. Boyds Mills Press.
Fourteen-year-old Tillie is sent to accompany a neighbor to
Weikert's farm when the fighting at Gettysburg gets too close to
home, and instead finds herself trapped in the battle that raged for
three days, from July 1-3, 1863.
RL: 5.7
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Paulsen, Gary. (1998)
Soldier's heart: being the story of the enlistment and due service
of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers : a
novel of the Civil War. Delacorte
Press.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-106). Eager to enlist,
fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing
both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
RL: 5.9
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Marrin, Albert,
Commander in Chief, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, Dutton
Children’s Books: 1997. Brings Lincoln to life by placing
him in the context of his own personal background and the larger
circumstances of the country's greatest conflict. RL 7.6
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Beatty, Patricia,
Charley Skedaddle, Morrow Junior Books: 1987
Fighting is important to
Charley Quinn, 12, a street-tough New York Bowery Boy who runs away
from his Irish-Catholic home to join the Union forces in Virginia.
But war proves much more horrible than he'd thought so terrible, in
fact, that he deserts, giving himself the disparaging name
"Skedaddle." Afterward, Charley takes refuge in the mountains with
Granny Bent, a midwife with her own secret loyalties. This
well-crafted, somewhat episodic novel makes the point that fighting
brings honor, and cowardice, shame. The settings from the Bowery, to
the battlefield, to Granny's cabin are quite powerful.
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Hesse, Karen, A
Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Scholastic, Inc. 1999
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her
father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware,
fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is
beginning to devastate her divided state. RL 5.3
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Reeder, Carolyn,
Shades of Gray, Avon Books: 1989 At the end of the Civil
War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family,
reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside
with his aunt and uncle. RL 5.3
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Graves, Kerry A.,
Going to School During the Civil War: the Confederacy, Blue
Earth Books, 2002 Discusses what it was like to attend
school during the Civil War in the South including what subjects
were studied, what was used for writing, and what games were
played. RL 6.4
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Ransom, Candice,
Children of the Civil War, (Picture of the American Past),
Carolrhoda Books, 1998 Explores the lives of children during
the Civil War, including those who joined armies, others who stayed
home, and the large numbers made homeless because of the conflict.
RL 4.1
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Meltzer, Milton,
Voices from the Civil War, Thomas Y. Crowell: 1989
Letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, ballads, newspaper articles,
and speeches depict life and events during the four years of the
Civil War. RL 9
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Lincoln, Abraham,
The Gettysburg Address. Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1995
The
words of Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address, accompanied by
illustrations and an afterward by Michael McCurdy about his
great-grandfather who fought at Gettysburg. RL 4.3
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