Suggested Readings

Of General Interest

  • The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War, by John J. Dwyer
  • The Real Lincoln, by Thomas DiLorenzo
  • Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe, by Thomas DiLorenzo
  • The Real Lincoln, by Charles L.C. Minor
  • When In the Course of Human Events, by Charles Adams
  • Myths of American Slavery, by Walter D. Kennedy
  • The South Was Right, by James R. Kennedy and Walter D. Kennedy
  • Myths and Realities of American Slavery, by John Curtis Perry
  • Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery, by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang and Jenifer Frank
  • War Crimes Against Southern Civilians, by Walter Brian Cisco

    Of South Carolina Interest

  • Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine, by Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf
  • The CSS H.L. Hunley: Confederate Submarine, by R. Thomas Campbell
  • Gentleman and Soldier, by Edward G. Longacre
  • Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman, by Walter Brian Cisco
  • Hampton and His Redshirts, by Alfred B. Williams
  • States Rights Gist, by Walter Brian Cisco
  • Prince of Edisto, by James K. Swisher

    Women in the War Between the States

  • A Diary From Dixie, by Mary Chestnut
  • South Carolina Women in the Confederacy, by Mrs. Thomas, et al
  • Heroines of Dixie, by Katherine M. Jones
  • Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman, by Sarah Morgan
  • A Blockaded Family, by Parthenia Hague
  • Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse, by Kate Cumming
  • The Women of the Confederacy, by Francis Butler Simkins and James Welch Patton
  • Confederate Women, edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn
  • The Women of the Confederacy, by Rev. J.L. Underwood
  • The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon, edited by Elliott Ashkenazi
  • Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War, by Judith B. McGuire
  • A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaraceuc Heyward, edited by Mary D. Robertson
  • A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, edited by Jean V. Berlin
  • Hospital Days, by Jane Stuart Woolsey
  • Confederate Spy: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, by Nash K. Burger
  • Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, by Belle Boyd
  • A Woman Rice Planter, by Elizabeth Allston Pringle
  • Our Women in the War, edited by Rev. William P. McKinnon
  • They Married Confederate Officers, by Kath Neill Herran
  • Mrs. Robert E. Lee, by John Perry
  • The Lee Girls, by Mary P. Coulling
  • A Very Violent Rebel, edited by Daniel E. Southerland
  • Life in Dixie During the War, by Mary A.H. Gay
  • Varina Howell, Volumes I&II, by Eron Rowland
  • A Family of Women, by Jane H. and William H. Pease
  • All Things Altered, by Marilyn Mayer Culpepper
  • A Faithful Heart, edited by Robert T. Oliver

  • Hunley Strip