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Compiled by Kevin O’Beirne
The last ten months of the Civil War in eastern Virginia are not well known to most history buffs and reenactors. To help participants prepare for the 2004 Reams Station Preservation March, a bibliography of fairly readily available books on the Petersburg and Appomattox campaigns is presented below. While there are certainly other excellent books with useful information on these campaigns, the works listed herein were selected because they are fairly general in nature, are not specific to a given regiment …and reside on my personal bookshelf. Happy reading on your journey to learn more about these hard-fought, little known, and fascinating campaigns!
General Campaign Histories
Humphreys, Gen. Andrew A., The Virginia Campaign 1864 and 1865, New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.
Trudeau, Noah Andre, The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.
Horn, John, The Petersburg Campaign: June 1864-April 1865, Conshohocken PA: Combined Books, 1993.
Davis, William C., Death in the Trenches: Grant at Petersburg, Alexandria VA: Time Life Books, 1986.
Korn, Jerry, Pursuit to Appomattox: The Last Battles, Alexandria VA: Time Life Books, 1987.
Calkins, Christopher, The Appomattox Campaign: March 29-April 9, 1865, Conshohocken PA: Combined Books, 1997.
Trudeau, Noah Andre, Out of the Storm: The End of the Civil War, April-June 1865, Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1994
Battle Histories
Howe, Thomas J., Wasted Valor: June 15-18, 1864, 2nd Edition, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard Co., 1988.
Cavanaugh, Michael, and Marval, William, The Battle of the Crater: "The Horrid Pit", June 25-August 6, 1864, 2nd Edition, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard Co., 1989.
Horn, John, The Destruction of the Weldon Railroad: Deep Bottom, Globe Tavern, and Reams Station, August 14-25, 1864, 2nd Edition, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard Co., 1991.
Bearss, Edward, and Calkins, Christopher, The Battle of Five Forks, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard Co., 1985.
Greene, A. Wilson, Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion: The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign, Mason City IA: Savas Publishing, 2000.
Calkins, Christopher, The Battles of Appomattox Station and Appomattox Court House, April 8-9, 1865, 2nd Edition, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard Co., 1987.
Memoirs, Biographies, &c.
Lyman, Theodore (Agassiz, George, ed.), With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox, Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
Grant, Ulysses, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant and Selected Letters 1839-1865, New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1990.
Porter, Horace, Campaigning With Grant, New York: The Century Company, 1897.
Cadwaller, Sylvanus (Thomas, Benjamin, ed.), Three Years with Grant, as Recalled by War Correspondent Sylvanus Cadwaller, Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
Dana, Charles, Recollections of the Civil War, With the Leaders at Washington and In the Field in the Sixties, Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
Meade, George (Meade, George Gordon, ed.), The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade (2 vols.), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913.
Jordan, David, Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier’s Life, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Hancock, Almira, Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock, by His Wife, New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887.
Gibbon, John, Personal Recollections of the Civil War, Dayton: Morningside Bookshop, 1988.
Carmichael, Peter, Lee’s Young Artillerist: William R.J. Pegram, Charlottsville VA: University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Other regimental histories, biographies, and memoirs of the men who led and fought in the campaign.
And of course, the Official Records, Southern Historical Society Papers, Confederate Veteran, and other primary source material.
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