===Confederate homefront===
* Current, Richard N., et al eds. ''Encyclopedia of the Confederacy'' (1993) (4 Volume set; also 1 vol abridged version)
* Boritt, Gabor S., et al, ''Why the Confederacy Lost'', (1992).[http://www.questia.com/read/24351427?title=Why%20the%20Confederacy%20Lost online edition]
* Coulter, E. Merton. ''The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865'' (1950), highly detailed overview; strong Southern accent
* Davis, William C. ''Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America'' (2003)
* Quarles, Benjamin. ''The Negro in the Civil War'' (1953), standard history [http://www.amazon.com/Negro-Civil-War-Capo-paperback/dp/030680350X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196549400&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Wiley, Bell Irvin. ''Southern Negroes: 1861-1865'' (1938)
* Clinton, Catherine & Nina Silber, eds. ''Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War '' (1992), provocative essays [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=65196022 online edition]
* Faust, Drew. ''Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Invention-Slaveholding-American-Morrison/dp/0807855731/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231241330&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Harper, Judith E. ''Women during the Civil War: An Encyclopedia.'' (2004). 472 pp.
* Stout, Harry S. ''Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War.'' (2006). 544 pp.
* Wills, Garry. ''Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America'' by ISBN 0-671-86742-3
* Wilson, Edmund. '' Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War'' (1962) ===Primary sources===* [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03772887&id=7t_an-gkYa4C&printsec=titlepage&dq=appleton%27s+annual+cyclopedia&as_brr=1 ''American Annual Cyclopaedia for 1861'' (N.Y.: Appleton's, 1864)], a remarkable collection of reports on each state, Congress, and military activities, and many other topics; annual issues from 1861 to 1901 in major libraries* Angle, Paul M. , and Earl Schenck Miers, eds. ''Tragic Years, 1860-1865: A Documentary History of the American Civil War - Vol. 1'' 1960 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=6208138 online edition]* Commager, Henry Steele (ed.). ''The Blue and the Gray. The Story of the Civil War as Told by Participants.'' (1950), excerpts from primary sources* Dee, Christine, ed. ''Ohio's War: The Civil War in Documents.'' (2007). 244 pp. * Harwell, Richard B. ed. ''The Confederate Reader'' (1957) 389 pp. [http://www.questia.com/read/13580975?title=The%20Confederate%20Reader online edition]* Hesseltine, William B. ed.; ''The Tragic Conflict: The Civil War and Reconstruction'' (1962), excerpts from primary sources [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34610384 online edition]* Marten, James, ed.. ''Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front.'' (2003). 346 pp. * Risley, Ford, ed. ''The Civil War: Primary Documents on Events from 1860 to 1865.'' (2004). 320 pp. * Sizer, Lyde Cullen and Cullen, Jim, ed. ''The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources.'' (2005). 434 pp. * Yearns, W. Buck and Barret, John G.,eds. ''North Carolina Civil War Documentary'', 1980.* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/confdocs.html Confederate official government documents] major online collection of complete texts in HTML format, from U. of North Carolina* [http://americancivilwarsite.tripod.com/_diaries.html diaries, journals. reminiscences]