By Margaret Mitchell
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The story of the tempestuous romance between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara is set amid the drama of the Civil War.

Became the movie: Gone with the Wind.

By Michael Shaara
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian
With Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, June 25, 2013. 1:30 PM.

This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in the book, however, is Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, whose 20th Maine regiment of volunteers held the Union's left flank on the second day of the battle. This unit's bravery at Little Round Top helped turned the tide of the war against the rebels.

By Geraldine Brooks

In a story inspired by the father character in "Little Women" and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his beliefs challenged by his experiences.

By E.L. Doctorow

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the Civil War has a profound impact on the outcome of the war.

By Stephen Crane

Presents Stephen Crane’s classic novel about Henry Flemming, a young Civil War Union soldier who experiences his first battle and then has to come to terms with his own fears and feelings of cowardice.

Became the movie: The Red Badge of Courage

By Ty Seidule
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A retired Army brigadier general and West Point history professor challenges Confederacy myths while explaining the historical sources of ongoing national divides. By the award-winning author of West Point History of the Civil War.

By Jeff Shaara

Follows the events of the summer of 1863 as the victorious Federal army loses Chattanooga before rallying against the forces of General Braxton Bragg.

By Martha Hall Kelly
Series Caroline Ferriday #3
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey, an ancestor of Caroline Ferriday, travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress.

By Shaunna J. Edwards

In 1863, a young black woman, who embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army, crosses paths with a Jewish seamstress who helps her discover that even the most delicate threads have the capacity to save us.

By James Lincoln Collier

While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier.