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Western Theater Book Recommendations
Are you wanting to build a Western Theater section of your personal library? Or maybe you are interested in expanding your Western Theater knowledge and are looking for a book to do so.
We have you covered.





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
Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee 1862-1865
Thomas L. Connelly
Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army
Larry Daniel
Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed
Larry Daniel
Cannoneers in Gray: The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee
Larry Daniel
Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West
Steven E. Woodworth
Richard M. McMurry
The Army of the Cumberland
Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland 1861-1865
Larry Daniel
All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio 1861-1862
Gerald Prokopowicz
The Army of the Tennessee
Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee 1861-1865
Steven E. Woodworth
1861-1862 Kentucky Line
Divided Loyalties: Kentucky's Struggle for Armed Neutrality in the Civil War
James W. Finck
The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South
Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, JR.
The Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky
Stuart Sanders
The Battle of Wild Cat Mountain
Kenneth A. Hafendorfer
The Most Brilliant Little Victory
Marlitta H. Perkins
Forts Henry and Donelson
Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson
Timothy B. Smith
Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry-Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862
Kendall D. Gott
Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland
Benjamin Franklin Cooling
Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth
Stephen Douglas Engle
Shiloh
Timothy B. Smith
Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862
O. Edward Cunningham, Edited by Gary D. Joiner and Timothy B. Smith
Shiloh: The Battle that Changed the Civil War
Larry Daniel
Attack at Daylight and Whip Them: The Battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862
Gregory A. Mertz
James Lee McDonough
Wiley Sword
The Shiloh Campaign: March-April 1862
David G. Martin
Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland
Steven E. Woodworth
The Generals of Shiloh: Character in Leadership, April 6-7, 1862
Larry Tagg
Corinth
Corinth 1862: Siege, Battle, Occupation
Timothy B. Smith
New Orleans
A Mortal Blow to the Confederacy: The Fall of New Orleans, 1862
Mark F. Bielski
Kentucky Campaign
The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky: August 30, 1862
Kenneth A. Haffendorfer
Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle
Kenneth W. Noe
Maney's Confederate Brigade at the Battle of Perryville
Stuart Sanders
Perryville Under Fire: The Aftermath of Kentucky's Largest Civil War Battle
Stuart Sanders
Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River
Earl J. Hess
Stones River
Larry J. Daniel
No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River
Peter Cozzens
Vicksburg
Triumph and Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign Volume One
Terrence J. Winschel
Triumph and Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign Volume Two
Terrence J. Winschel
Storming Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, and the Battles of May 19-22, 1863
Earl J. Hess
The Union Assaults at Vicksburg: Grant Attacks Pemberton, May 17-22, 1863
Timothy B. Smith
The Siege of Vicksburg: Climax of the Campaign to Open the Mississippi River, May 23-July 4, 1863
Timothy B. Smith
Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg
Timothy B. Smith
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
Chickamauga
David A. Powell
David A. Powell
David A. Powell
Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale: The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863
William Lee White
Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863
Eric J. Wittenberg
David A. Powell
David A. Powell, Cartography by David Friedrichs
Chattanooga
David A. Powell
David A. Powell
The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga
David A. Powell
Atlanta Campaign
Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy
Richard McMurry
Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War
Earl J. Hess
Stephen Davis
Stephen Davis
1864 Middle Tennessee
Let Us Die Like Men: The Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864
William Lee White
For Cause & for Country: A Study of the Affair At Spring Hill & the Battle of Franklin
Eric A. Jacobson
Eric A. Jacobson and Richard A. Rupp
Sherman's March and Bennett Place
Hearts Torn Asunder: Trauma in the Civil War's Final Campaign in North Carolina
Ernest A. Dollar Jr.
Mark A. Smith and Wade Sokolosky
To Prepare for Sherman's Coming: The Battle of Wise's Forks, March 1865
Wade Sokolosky and Mark A. Smith
Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, March 1865
Daniel T. Davis and Phillip S. Greenwalt
The Battle Of Bentonville: Last Stand In The Carolinas
Mark L. Bradley
Western Navies
Neil P. Chatelain
Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron
Gary D. Joiner
Strategy and Logistics
Jerry T. Wooten
Confederate Strategy from Shiloh to Vicksburg
Archer Jones
Trans-Mississippi
Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It
William Garrett Piston and Richard W. Hatcher III
Cavalry Raids
Morgan's Great Raid: The Remarkable Expedition from Kentucky to Ohio
David L. Mowery
Union Unit Histories
Confederate Unit Histories
Diaries, Correspondence, Memoirs, and Reminiscences
Gene Barr
The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865
Janet Elizabeth Croon and Kimberly Conrad
People Studies
The Battles and Campaigns of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1861-1865
John R. Scales
John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General
Stephen M. Hood
Frank P. Varney