The List
Below you will find our book recommendations on many Western Theater topics. This list is ever growing, with newer books added every few weeks. If the book is in print, we have linked the book title directly to the publisher's website for purchase, the battlefield association/park/friends group that sells it, or another option where it is readily available. We have chosen to link to these places in order to benefit battlefield preservation and help keep the publication of Western Theater titles moving into the future.
The Army of Tennessee
Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee 1861-1862
Thomas L. Connelly
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Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee 1862-1865
Thomas L. Connelly
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Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army
Larry Daniel
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Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed
Larry Daniel
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Cannoneers in Gray: The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee
Larry Daniel
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Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West
Steven E. Woodworth
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Richard M. McMurry
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The Army of the Ohio
All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio 1861-1862
Gerald Prokopowicz
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The Cavalry of the Army of the Ohio
Dennis W. Belcher
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The Army of the Cumberland
Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland 1861-1865
Larry Daniel
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The Army of the Tennessee
Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee 1861-1865
Steven E. Woodworth
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Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862-1863
Eric Michael Burke
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1861-1862 Kentucky Line
Divided Loyalties: Kentucky's Struggle for Armed Neutrality in the Civil War
James W. Finck
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The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South
Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, JR.
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The Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky
Stuart Sanders
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The Battle of Wild Cat Mountain
Kenneth A. Hafendorfer
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The Most Brilliant Little Victory
Marlitta H. Perkins
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Forts Henry and Donelson
Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson
Timothy B. Smith
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Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862
Kendall D. Gott
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Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland
Benjamin Franklin Cooling
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Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth
Stephen Douglas Engle
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Shiloh
Timothy B. Smith
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Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862
O. Edward Cunningham, Edited by Gary D. Joiner and Timothy B. Smith
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Shiloh: The Battle that Changed the Civil War
Larry Daniel
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Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862
Gregory A. Mertz
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James Lee McDonough
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Wiley Sword
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The Shiloh Campaign: March-April 1862
David G. Martin
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Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland
Steven E. Woodworth
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Decisions at Shiloh: The Twenty-Two Critical Decisions that Defined the Battle
David A. Powell
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The Generals of Shiloh: Character in Leadership, April 6-7, 1862
Larry Tagg
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Corinth
Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation
Timothy B. Smith
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The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka & Corinth
Peter Cozzens
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New Orleans
A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy: The Fall of New Orleans, 1862
Mark F. Bielski
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Charles L. Dufour
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Kentucky Campaign
The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky: August 30, 1862
Kenneth A. Haffendorfer
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Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle
Kenneth W. Noe
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Maney's Confederate Brigade at the Battle of Perryville
Stuart Sanders
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Perryville Under Fire: The Aftermath of Kentucky's Largest Civil War Battle
Stuart Sanders
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Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River
Earl J. Hess
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War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville
James Lee McDonough
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Stones River
Larry J. Daniel
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No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River
Peter Cozzens
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Force of a Cyclone: The Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863
Caroline Ann Davis and Robert M. Dunkerly
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Stones River: Bloody Winter in Tennessee
James Lee McDonough
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Vicksburg
Triumph and Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign Volume One
Terrence J. Winschel
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Triumph and Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign Volume Two
Terrence J. Winschel
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Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863
Earl J. Hess
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Timothy B. Smith
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Bayou Battles for Vicksburg: The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1-April 30, 1863
Timohty B . Smith
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The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg: Five Battles in Seventeen Days, May 1-17, 1863
Timothy B. Smith
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The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863
Timothy B. Smith
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The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863
Timothy B. Smith
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Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
Timothy B. Smith
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The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grearson's Epic 1863 Raid Through Mississippi
Timothy B. Smith
Tullahoma
Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Civil War, June 23-July 4, 1863
David A. Powell and Eric J. Wittenberg
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Chickamauga
David A. Powell
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David A. Powell
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David A. Powell
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Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale: The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863
William Lee White
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Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863
Eric J. Wittenberg
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David A. Powell
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er 23, 1863
David A. Powell, Cartography by David Friedrichs
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Chattanooga
David A. Powell
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David A. Powell
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The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga
David A. Powell
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Atlanta Campaign
Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy
Richard McMurry
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Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War
Earl J. Hess
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Stephen Davis
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Stephen Davis
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1864 Middle Tennessee
Let Us Die Like Men: The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864
William Lee White
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For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair At Spring Hill & the Battle of Franklin
Eric A. Jacobson
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Eric A. Jacobson and Richard A. Rupp
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Sherman's March and Bennett Place
Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War's Final Campaign in North Carolina
Ernest A. Dollar Jr.
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Mark A. Smith and Wade Sokolosky
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To Prepare for Sherman's Coming: The Battle of Wise's Forks, March 1865
Wade Sokolosky and Mark A. Smith
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Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, March 1865
Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt
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The Battle Of Bentonville: Last Stand In The Carolinas
Mark L. Bradley
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Western Navies
Neil P. Chatelain
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Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron
Gary D. Joiner
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Strategy and Logistics
Jerry T. Wooten
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Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg
Archer Jones
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Cavalry Actions
Morgan's Great Raid: The Remarkable Expedition from Kentucky to Ohio
David L. Mowery
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Outwitting Forrest: The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22 - July 23, 1864
Edwin C. Bearss, edited by David A. Powell
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We Shall Conquer or Die: Partisan Warfare in 1862 Western Kentucky
Derrick Lindow
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Union Unit Histories
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Confederate Unit Histories
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Diaries, Correspondence, Memoirs, and Reminiscences
Gene Barr
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The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865
Janet Elizabeth Croon and Kimberly Conrad
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People Studies
The Battles and Campaigns of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1861-1865
John R. Scales
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John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General
Stephen M. Hood
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Frank P. Varney