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Site Bibliography

This is not a comprehensive bibliography on Civil War artillery, but simply an alphabetical list by author of all works referenced on The Civil War Artillery Page. Feel free to contact me at c-tenbrink@uchicago.edu if you would like suggestions for further reading.

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Alexander, E. Porter, Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander, 1989

Alexander, E. Porter, The Military Memoirs of a Confederate: A Critical Narrative, 1907

Bibliography on Civil War Artillery, on the Sunsite history FTP server

Billings, John Davis, Hardtack and Coffee, 1888

Daniel, Larry Cannoneers in Gray: The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee, 1861-1865, 1990

Daniel, Larry J., Riley W. Gunter, Confederate Cannon Foundries, 1977

Dickey, Thomas S. and Peter C. George, Field Artillery Projectiles of the American Civil War: Including a Selection of Navy Projectiles, Fuzes, Hand Grenades Rockets, and Land Mines, rev. ed., 1993

Dornbusch, C. E., Regimental Publications & Personal Narratives of the Civil War; a Checklist, 1961

Dyer, Frederick, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, 1908

Gibbon, John, The Artillerist's Manual, 2nd ed., 1863

Gibbon, John, Personal Recollections of the Civil War, 1928

Hazlett, James C., Edwin Olmsted, M. Hume Parks, Field Artillery Weapons of the Civil War, 2nd ed., 1988

Lavery, Dennis S. and Mark H. Jordan, Iron Brigade General: John Gibbon, a Rebel in Blue, 1993

Lewis, Emanuel Raymond, Seacoast Fortifications of the United States, 1979

Longacre, Edward G., The Man Behind the Guns: A Biography of General Henry J. Hunt, Commander of Artillery, Army of the Potomac, 1977

Lutz, D. E., Artillery for the Land Service of the United States, 1849-1865, 1988 (One of a series of reprints based on the Mordecai drawings.)

Melton, Jack W. and Lawrence E. Pawl, A Guide to Civil War Artillery Projectiles, 1996

Melton, Jack W., and Lawrence E. Pawl, Introduction to Field Artillery Ordnance, 1861-1865, 1994

Morgan, James, "Mounted But Not Mounted: The Confusing Terminology of Artillery", Camp Chase Gazette, March 1996

Naisawald, L. VanLoan, Grape and Canister; The Story of the Field Artillery of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865, 1960

Olmstead, Edwin, Wayne E. Stark, Spencer C. Tucker, The Big Guns: Civil War Siege, Seacoast and Naval Cannon, 1997

Peterson, Harold L., Round Shot and Rammers: An Introduction to Muzzle-Loading Land Artillery in the United States, 1969

Ripley, Warren, Artillery and Ammunition of the Civil War, 4th rev. ed., 1984

Sifakis, Stewart, Compendium of the Confederate Armies, 1995

Switlik, M. C., The More Complete Cannoneer, 3rd ed., 1990

Thomas, Dean S., Cannons: An Introduction to Civil War Artillery, 1985

Time-Life Echoes of Glory series (1991):
Arms and Equipment of the Union
Arms and Equipment of the Confederacy

U.S. Army Ordnance Department (Alfred Mordecai), Artillery for the United States Land Service, 1849

U.S. War Department, Instruction for Field Artillery, prepared by a Board of Artillery Officers [ William H. French, William F. Barry, and Henry J. Hunt], 1864

Wise, Jennings Cropper, The Long Arm of Lee, or, the History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1915

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