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Recommended Reading
Gettysburg / Civil War Books
Time Life: Civil War
(Complete 28 Volume set including index)
This series of books chronicles in great detail the American Civil War, each volume focusing on a different topic. It’s a classic set of books that every Civil War nerd should have in their library!
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
The classic novel of the Civil War. This is a fictionalized work but serves as a great primer for the Gettysburg newbie.
Books By Our Guests
Too Much for Human Endurance: The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg
by Ronald D. Kirkwood
Other Great Books
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart by Jeffry D. Wert
Gettysburg: The Story of the Battle with Maps by David Reisch and David M. Detweiler
The Maps of Gettysburg: An Atlas of the Gettysburg Campaign by Bradley M. Gottfried
Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears
Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears
Gettysburg: A Study in Command by Edwin Coddington
Brigades of Gettysburg: Union and Confederate by Bradley M Gottfried
Gettysburg- Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill by Harry Pfanz
Lee by Douglass Southall Freeman
Gettysburg Trilogy by Harry Pfanz
Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage by Noah Andre Trudeau
The Army of the Potomac: Order of Battle, 1861-1865 by Darrell Collins
The Army of the Potomac Trilogy by Bruce Catton
The Story of Robert E. Lee’s Headquarters, Gettysburg, PA by Timothy H. Smith
Custer: The Making of A Young General by Edward G. Longacre
Custer Victorious by Gregory W. Urwin
From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet
Observing Hancock at Gettysburg: The General’s Leadership Through Eyewitness Accounts by Paul E. Bretzger
Pickett’s Charge by George R. Stewart
The Devil’s To Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour by Eric J Wittenberg
Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart’s Controversial Ride to Gettysburg- 2nd Edition by Eric Wittenberg and J. David Petruzzi