Best of
American-Civil-War

1964

Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders


Ezra J. Warner - 1964
    Brief sketches reveal the personalities, background and careers of the nearly six hundred men who attained the rank of general in the Union Army.

Seven Days: The Emergence of Robert E. Lee and the Dawn of a Legend


Clifford Dowdey - 1964
    General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had routed General George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac. Depriving McClellan of a military decision meant the war would continue for two more years. The Seven Days depicts a critical turning point in the Civil War that would ingrain Robert E. Lee in history as one of the finest generals of all time. Masterfully written, The Seven Days is Dowdey at his finest—detailed and riveting.

Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics


Charles P. Roland - 1964
    Gallagher Selected as one of the best one hundred books ever written on the Civil War by Civil War Times Illustrated and by Civil War: The Magazine of the Civil War Society A new, revised edition of the only full-scale biography of the Confederacy's top-ranking field general during the opening campaigns of the Civil War.

Rebel's Valiant: Second Arkansas Mounted Rifles (Dismounted)


Wesley Thurman Leeper - 1964
    This regiment mostly fought in the Western Theater of the Civil War and participated in the battles of Pea Ridge, Chickamauga, Franklin, and other large battles.