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Minnesota and the Civil War

Mostly non-fiction, some fiction about Minnesotans in the war. Also includes more general, recommended non-fiction on the Civil War.

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Minnesota and its soldiers during the Civil War : As viewed through newspaper cl

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A stillness at Appomattox.

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In the presence of mine enemies : war in the heart of America, 1859-1863 /

Ayers, Edward L., 1953-

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7 A

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Brackett's Battalion : Minnesota cavalry in the Civil War and Dakota War /

Bergemann, Kurt D.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7476 B

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A drummer boy's diary : comprising four years of service with the Second Regimen

Bircher, William, 1845-1917.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.741 B

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Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory /

Blight, David W.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7 B

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American oracle : the Civil War in the civil rights era /

Blight, David W.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.70092 B 2011

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America's great debate : Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that

Bordewich, Fergus M.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.6 B 2012

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Go if you think it your duty : a Minnesota couple's Civil War letters /

Bowler, James Madison, 1838?-1916.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.78 B

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Minnesota in the Civil War : an illustrated history /

Carley, Kenneth.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7476 C

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The American heritage new history of the Civil War /

Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7 C

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Mary Chesnut's Civil War /

Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886.

Adult Nonfiction Book E487.C5

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Brother of mine : the Civil War letters of Thomas and William Christie /

Christie, Thomas

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.78 C 2011

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Lincoln's men : how President Lincoln became father to an army and a nation /

Davis, William C., 1946-

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7 D

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Fighting chance : the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconst

Dudden, Faye E.

Adult Nonfiction Book 324.62082 D 2011

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The dead survivors /

Erickson, K. J.

Adult Fiction ERICKSO

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This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War /

Faust, Drew Gilpin.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.71 F

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Grant and Sherman : the friendship that won the Civil War /

Flood, Charles Bracelen.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.73 F

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The fiery trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery /

Foner, Eric.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7092 F 2010

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The Civil War, a narrative. Fort Sumter to Perryville /

Foote, Shelby

Adult Nonfiction Book E468.F7 1986 v.1

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Shiloh : a novel /

Foote, Shelby

Adult Fiction FOOTE

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Cold Mountain /

Frazier, Charles, 1950-

Adult Fiction FRAZIER

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Chancellorsville 1863 : the souls of the brave /

Furgurson, Ernest B., 1929-

Adult Nonfiction Book E475.35.F87 1992

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Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America : a biography /

Gienapp, William E.

Adult Nonfiction Book E457 .G46 2002

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Henry Hastings Sibley : divided heart /

Gilman, Rhoda R.

Adult Nonfiction Book F606.S56 G55 2004

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America aflame : how the Civil War created a nation /

Goldfield, David R., 1944-

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.711 G 2011

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Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln /

Goodwin, Doris Kearns.

Adult Nonfiction Book

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Personal memoirs /

Grant, Ulysses S. 1822-1885.

Adult Nonfiction Book E672 .A3 1999

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Oldest living Confederate widow tells all /

Gurganus, Allan, 1947-

Adult Fiction GURGANU

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Confederates in the attic : dispatches from the unfinished Civil War /

Horwitz, Tony, 1958-

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7 H 1998

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Every man did his duty : pictures & stories of the men of the First Minnesota /

Jorgenson, Wayne D.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7476 J 2012

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The dynamite fiend : the chilling tale of a Confederate spy, con artist, and mas

Larabee, Ann, 1957-

Adult Nonfiction Book 921 K268

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This business of war : the recollections of a Civil War quartermaster /

Le Duc, William Gates, 1823-1917.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.78 L

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Pale horse at Plum Run : the First Minnesota at Gettysburg /

Leehan, Brian, 1959-

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7349 L

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Men of color to arms! : Black soldiers, Indian wars, and the quest for equality

Leonard, Elizabeth D.

Adult Nonfiction Book 305.89607 L 2010

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Lincoln's avengers : justice, revenge, and reunion after the Civil War /

Leonard, Elizabeth D.

Adult Nonfiction Book E457.5 .L46 2004

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All the daring of the soldier : women of the Civil War armies /

Leonard, Elizabeth D.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.71504 L

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South of Shiloh : a thriller /

Logan, Chuck, 1942-

Adult Fiction LOGAN

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One drop in a sea of blue : the liberators of the Ninth Minnesota /

Lundstrom, John B.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7476 L 2012

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Great battles of the Civil War /

Macdonald, John, 1945-

Adult Nonfiction Book E470.M17 1988

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Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era /

McPherson, James M.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.73 M

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The last full measure : the life and death of the First Minnesota Volunteers /

Moe, Richard.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7476 M

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Lincoln and the Indians : Civil War policy and politics /

Nichols, David A. 1939-

Adult Nonfiction Book E457.2.N6

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Soldier's heart : a novel of the Civil War /

Paulsen, Gary.

Teen Fiction PAULSEN

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Mystic chords /

Ridley, William J.

Adult Fiction RIDLEY

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The destructive war : William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Ameri

Royster, Charles.

Adult Nonfiction Book E468.9.R69 1991

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Landscape turned red : the battle of Antietam /

Sears, Stephen W.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7336 S

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Daughters of the Union : northern women fight the Civil War /

Silber, Nina.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7082 S

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Pursuit : a novel /

Urdahl, Dean

Adult Fiction URDAHL

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Uprising : a novel /

Urdahl, Dean

Adult Fiction URDAHL

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Eagles on their buttons : a Black infantry regiment in the Civil War /

Washington, Versalle F., 1962-

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.7415 W

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Lincoln's code : the laws of war in American history /

Witt, John Fabian

Adult Nonfiction Book 343.7301 W 2012

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No more gallant a deed : a Civil War memoir of the First Minnesota Volunteers /

Wright, James A., b. 1840.

Adult Nonfiction Book 973.741 W

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War stories : accounts of Minnesotans who defended their nation /

Zdon, Al

Adult Nonfiction Book 977.6 Z

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