Children's Books on the Civil War
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(This list is meant as a convenience only. Teachers
and parents should use their own judgment about
how appropriate a book is for the children in their
care.)
Archer, Jules. A House Divided: The Lives of
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, Scholastic,
1995.
Ayres, Katherine. North by Night: A Story of
the Underground Railroad, Delacorte.
Beller, Susan Provost and Margaret McElderry.
Never Were Men So Brave: The Irish Brigade During
the Civil War, 1998.
Bennet, Barbara. Stonewall Jackson: Lee's Greatest
Lieutenant, Silver Burdett, 1991.
Bierce, Ambrose. Ambrose Bierce's Civil War,
Regnary Publishing, Inc., 1956.
Bishop, Jim. The Day Lincoln Was Shot,
Harper and Row, 1955.
Black, Wallace B. and Jean F. Blashfield. Blockade
Runners and Ironclads: Naval Action in the Civil
War (First Book) Franklin Watts, Inc., 1997.
Brill, Marlene Targ. Diary of a Drummer Boy,
Millbrook.
Burchard, Peter and John Anthony Scott (ed.).
"We'll Stand by the Union": Robert Gould Shaw
and the Black 54th Massachusetts Regiment (Makers
of America), Facts on File, Inc., 1993.
Chang, Ina. A Separate Battle: Women and the
Civil War, Puffin, 1996.
Crane, Stephen. Red Badge of Courage, Permabound,
1956.
Dolan, Edward F. American Civil War: A House
Divided, Millbrook Press, 1997.
Dubowski, Cathy. Robert E. Lee and the Rise
of the South, Silver Burdett, 1991.
English, June A. and Thomas D. Jones. Scholastic
Encyclopedia of the United States at War, Scholastic,
1998.
Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom!, Vintage
Press, 1985.
Faulkner, William. The Unvanquished, Vintage
Press, 1986.
Foote, Shelby. Shiloh, Vintage Press, 1990.
Hakim, Joy. War, Terrible War (A History of
Us, Book 6), Oxford University Press Children's
Books, 1994.
Haskins, Jim and James Haskins. Black, Blue
and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War,
Simon and Schuster (Juv), 1998.
Hill, Lois (ed.). Poems and Songs of the Civil
War, Gramercy Books, 1990.
Hirschhorn, Vera. America's Young Heroes: A
Journal for You; Learn About Yourself, Learn the
Lessons of the Civil War, America's Young Heroes
Educational Publications, 2000.
Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils, Berkley
Publishing Company, 1962.
Hurmence, Belinda. Slavery Time: When I was
Chillun, Putnam Publishing Group, 1998.
Kantor, MacKinlay. Gettysburg (Landmark Books),
Random House, 1987.
Marrin, Albert. Commander in Chief: Abraham
Lincoln and the Civil War, Dutton Books, 1997.
Marrin, Albert. Virginia's General: Robert
E. Lee and the Civil War, Atheneum, 1994.
Murphy, Jim. The Boys' War: Confederate and
Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War, Clarion
Books, 1990.
Murphy, Jim. The Journal of James Edmond Pease,
A Civil War Union Soldier, Scholastic, inc.
Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's Heart: A Novel of
the Civil War, Delacorte.
Ray, Delia. Behind the Blue and Gray: The Soldier's
Life in the Civil War (Young Readers' History of
the Civil War), Puffin, 1996.
Robinet, Harriette Gillem. Forty Acres and
Maybe a Mule, Atheneum.
Rinaldi, Ann. The Last Silk Dress, Bantam
Books, 1988.
Shaara, Michael. Killer Angels, Ballantine
Books, 1974.
Smith, C. Carter (ed.). The Crucial Year: A
Sourcebook on the Civil War (American Albums from
the Collections of the Library of Congress),
Millbrook Press, 1993.
Susi, Geraldine Lee and Douglas P. French (illus.).
Looking for Pa: A Civil War Journey from Catlett
to Manassas, 1861, E.P.M. Publications, 1995.
Whitelaw, Nancy. Clara Barton: Civil War Nurse
(Historical American Biographies), Enslow Publishers,
Inc. 1997.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass, Library
of America, 1982.
Zeinart, Karen. Those Courageous Women of the
Civil War, Millbrook.
