Suggested Readings

A Campaign of Giants—The Battle for Petersburg: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater, vol.1
Greene, A. Wilson (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018)

A Regiment of Slaves: The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866
Longacre, Edward G (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2003)

Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War
Greene, A. Wilson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006)

In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat
Hess, Earl (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009)

Strike the Blow for Freedom: The 6th United States Colored Infantry in the Civil War
Paradis, James M (Shippensburg, PA: Beidel Printing House, Inc., 1998)

The 36th United States Colored Troops in the Civil War: A History and Roster
Bryant, James K (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2012)

The Battle of the Crater: A Complete History
Schmutz, John F. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2009)

The Petersburg Campaign: The Eastern Front Battles: June-August 1864, vol 1
Bearss, Edwin C. and Bryce Suderow (El Dorado, CA: Savis Beatie, 2014)

A Grand and Terrible Dramma: Letters of Charles Wellington Reed
Campbell, Eric, ed. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000)

A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861–1865
Redkey, Edwin S., ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

As If It Were Glory: Robert Beecham’s Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black Regiments
Stevens, Michael E., ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998)

Civil War Talks Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans
Newsome, Hampton, John Horn, and John G. Selby, eds. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012)

Cold Harbor to the Crater: The End of the Overland Campaign
Janney, Caroline and Gary W. Gallagher, eds. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015)

For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops
Mezurek, Kelly (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2016)

General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse
Glatthaar, Joseph (New York: Free Press, 2008)

Lee's Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865
Tower, R. Lockwood., ed. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995)

Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia
Janney, Caroline, ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018)

Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
Brown, Elizabeth Pryor (New York: Penguin, 2007)

Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864
Newsome, Hampton (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2013)

Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg, The Battles of Chaffin’s Bluff and Poplar Spring Church, September 29-October 2, 1864
Sommers, Richard (El Dorado, CA: Savis Beatie, 2014)

The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois: The Story of the Twenty-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry
Miller, Edward A., Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.)

A Campaign of Giants The Battle for Petersburg: Vol. 1 From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
Greene, A. Wilson (UNC Press 2018)

Campaigning With Grant
Porter, Horace (The Century Co., 1897)

Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War
Greene, A. Wilson (UVA Press 2006)

Civil War Talks Further Reminiscences of George Bernard & His Fellow Veterans
Ed.Newsome, Hampton (UVA Press 2012)

Confederate Waterloo: The Battle of Five Forks and the Controversy that Brought Down a General
McCarthy, Michael J. (Savas Beatie LLC 2017)

From Petersburg to Appomattox, April 2-9, 1865
Calkins, Chris (Farmville Herald Pub. Co.,1983)

Honor in Command: Lt. Freeman S. Bowley’s Civil War Service in the 30th United States Colored Infantry
Wilson, Keith, ed. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006)

Into the Crater The Mine Attack at Petersburg
Hess, Earl (Univ. of South Carolina 2010)

Like Men of War Black Troops in the Civil War 1862-1865
Trudeau, Noah (Little Brown and Company 1998)

Lincoln’s Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24-April 8, 1865
Trudeau, Noah (Savas Beatie LLC 2016)

Meade's Army - The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col.Theodore Lyman
Lowe, David (The Kent State University Press, Kent, OH, 2007)

No Quarter - The Battle of the Crater 1864
Slotkin, Richard (Random House 2009)

On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee June 4-15, 1864
Rhea, Gordon (LSU Press 2017)

Passing of the Armies
Chamberlain, Joshua (Morningside reprint) 1915

Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder
(Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2012) Levin, Kevin M.

Richmond Redeemed, The Siege of Petersburg
Sommers, Richard (Doubleday and Co., 1981)

Seventy-Five Years in Old Virginia
Claiborne, John (The Neale Publishing Co., 1904)

The Army of the Potomac in the Overland and Petersburg Campaigns: Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864-1865.
Sodergren, Steven E. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2017)

The Battle of Five Forks
Bearss, Edwin & Chris Calkins (H.E. Howard, 1985)

The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign: Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion
Greene, A Wilson (University of Tennessee Press 2008)

The First Battle for Petersburg: The Attack and Defense of the Cockade City, June 9, 1864
Robertson, William G. (Savas Beatie LLC 2015)

The Free Women of Petersburg
Lesbock, Suzanne (W.W. Norton & Co., NY, 1984)

The Last Citadel
Trudeau, Andre (Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, 1991)

The Petersburg Campaign National Park Civil War Series
Trudeau, Noah (Eastern National 2017)

The Railroads of the Confederacy
Black, Robert (UNC Press 1998)

The Siege of Petersburg: The Battles for the Weldon Railroad, August 1864
Horn, John (Savas Beatie LLC 2015)

The Virginia Campaign of '64-'65
Humphreys, Andrew (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907)

The Women of City Point, Virginia, 1864-1865: Stories of Life and Work in the Union Occupation Headquarters
Christie, Jeanne M (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2020)

War Talks of Confederate Veterans
Bernard, George (reprint by Morningside)

Who Was Who in Company K: Reliable Facts about the Native American Soldiers in Company K, 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, During the Civil War 1861-1865
Czopek, Chris (Red Oak Research, 2015)

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