1. Robert Anderson:

• Maury Klein - "Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War", 1997 ISBN0679447474

• Hirshson, Stanley - "The White Tecumseh", 1997 ISBN ( Hirshson now and then tries to find something good to say about Sherman, but presents the evidence fairly, lots of revealing Sherman quotes)
• Sherman, Wm. T. - "Memoirs of General William T. Sherman", ISBN . Sometimes comical.

• Engle, Stephen - "Don Carlos Buell : Most Promising of All", 1999 ISBN
• Reid, Richard - "The army that Buell built", 1994 ISBN

• Lamers, William - "The Edge of Glory: A Biography of General William S. Rosecrans", 1999 ISBN 080712396X

• Van Horne, Thomas - "The Life of Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas", Scribners 1882, no author had better access to Thomas than Van Horne.
• Van Horne, Thomas - "History of the Army of the Cumberland" in 3 volumes, Cincinnati, 1875
• Cleeves, Freeman  - "Rock of Chickamauga", 1948, 1986
• McKinney, Francis - "Education in Violence, The Life of George H. Thomas and the History of the Army of theCumberland", 1961, 1991 ISBN , a classic work of analytical biography.
•  Palumbo, Frank A. -  "George Henry Thomas Major General, U.S.A.: The Dependable General,

     Supreme in Tactics of Strategy and Command", 1983

• The truly accurate and critical biography about Grant has yet to be written. When it is, it will answer the fundamental questions: What was Grant, penniless in 1861, doing with an "investment advisor" named J. Russell Jones in the summer of 1864, how much money did he pocket from the freedmen labor camps in Mississippi run by an officer in his command named Col. John Eaton, and how did that small man steal those big shoes?

 
• Grant, U.S. - "Personal Memoirs" (originally published and edited by Mark Twain), Da Capo paperback ed. 1952 ISBN , Grant reveals himself and the truth, no matter how hard he tries to obscure it. Entire text except index also online at the site of .

• Cozzens, Peter - "The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga", 1994 ISBN , tells amost the entire story about Grant at Chattanooga, and it isn't pretty.
• Cozzens, Peter - "This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga", 1998 ISBN
• Cozzens, Peter - "No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River", 1990 ISBN:
• Cozzens, Peter - "The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth", 1997 ISBN
• Sword, Wiley - "Mountains Touched With Fire, Chattanooga Besieged", 1995 ISBN0--X
• Sword, Wiley - "Embrace an Angry Wind: The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and

Nashville",1996 ISBN
• McDonough, James Lee - "Chattanooga - A death grip on the Confederacy",  1984 ISBN
• Michael R. Bradley - "Tullahoma", 2000 ISBN
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• "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War", 4 volumes, Yoseloff ed. 1956
• Leckie, Robert -" None Died in Vain, The Saga of the American Civil War", 1990 ISBN
• Schofield, John M. - "Forty-Six Years in the Army", 1897, 1998 ISBN , a fitting conclusion to the Grant-Sherman-Sheridan-Schofield martyrology.
• Sheriden, Philip H. - "Personal Memoirs", 1888, 1992 ISBN , another demonstration that the more one tries to hide the truth, the more it leaps out at you.
• Cuomo, Mario, ed. - "Lincoln on Democracy", 1990 ISBN -X
• Boatner, Mark - "The Civil War Dictionary", 1991 ISBN
• Buell, Thomas - "The Warrior Generals", 1998 (reprint) ISBN , makes some good points, misses others, gives Grant too many passes.
• Watkins, Sam - "Co. Aytch or A Side Show of the Big Show", Morningside Bookshop Press, 1982
• Greene, William B. - "Letters from a sharpshooter, Army of the Potomac, ", Historic Publications..
• Hebert, Walter - "Fighting Joe Hooker, 1941 ISBN
• Evans, David - "Sherman's Horsemen", 1996 ISBN
• Symonds, Craig - "Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War" 1997 ISBN
• Hallock, Judith Lee - "Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat", 1991 ISBN
• Starr, Stephen Z. - "The Union Cavalry in the Civil War", 1985 ISBN 
• Woodworth, Steven - "Jefferson Davis and his Generals - The Failure of Confederate Command in the West", 1990 ISBN , all you need to know about Bragg, Polk, Cleburne, Hardee, Price, Hindman, Longstreet, etc.
• David Herbert Donald, "Lincoln", 1995 ISBN , excellent on Lincoln, not so good on military side.
• Curt Anders, "Henry Halleck's War", 1999 ISBN
• , Joseph R. - "A History of the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry U.S.: The Boys Who Feared No Noise", Beargrass Press 2000, ISBN .