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  If we had interfered in the Confederate War it was then possible for us to reduce the power of the United States to manageable proportions "
  Lord Salisbury (British Prime Minister, 1902) Private correspondence  

Requests for a loan of any of the following books (maximum loan period 4 weeks, longer by agreement) by members of the ACWRT (UK) should be made to the Librarian, Len Ellison. Cost, which will be advised by Len, is to cover packing and postage.

Mr. Len J. Ellison
Reedale
38 Long Meadow
Gayton
Wirrall
CH60 8QQ

lenellison@aol.com

MEMBERS ONLY AT PRESENT

Agar, Herbert - The Price of Union.

Alden, John R. - Pioneer America.

Alexander, Edward Porter General - The American Civil War: 
A Critical Narrative.
- Military Memoirs of a Confederate.

Atkins, John Black - Life of Sir William Howard Russell. Vol. 2.

Baker, Lafayette - Mr. Lincoln's Master Spy.

Balsinger, D. - The Lincoln Conspiracy.

Battine, Cecil - Crisis of the Confederacy.

BATTLE - The battle of Westport, October 21-23, 1864 / edited by Fred L. Lee. Kansas City, Mo.:Westport Historical Society, 1976.

BATTLES - Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate
officers. New York: T.Yoseloff 4 v. illus., ports., maps, facsims, plans, tables

Bearss, Edwin C. - The Battle of Wilson's Creek.

Bishop, James Alonzo - The Day Lincoln Was Shot.

Boatner, Mark M. III - The Civil War Dictionary.

Bowman, Johns - The Civil War Almanac

Brock, William Ranulf - Conflict and Transformation: The U.S.,1844-7.

Brooks, Noah - Washington, D.C., in Lincoln's time.

Brown, Daniel Patrick - The Tragedy of Libby and Andersonville Prison Camps.

Burne, Alfred Higgins - Lee, Grant, and Sherman.

Carse, Robert - Blockade: The Civil War at Sea.

Carter, Samuel III - The Siege of Atlanta, 1864.

Catton, Bruce
- Glory Road.
- Mr.Lincoln's Army.
- A Stillness at Appomattox.
- The Penguin Book of the American Civil War.
- Grant, Lee, Lincoln - This Hallowed Ground.

CAUSES - The Causes of the Civil War / edited by Kenneth M.Stampp.

Cauthen, Charles Edward - South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865.

Chestnut, Mary Boykin - A Diary from Dixie.

Child, William - Letters From a Civil War Surgeon: 5th New Hampshire Volunteers

Churchill, Winston Spencer Sir - The American Civil War

Clay-Clopton, Virginia - A belle of the fifties; memoirs of Mrs.Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South,1853-1866. Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling.

Cleaves, Freeman - Meade of Gettysburg.

Coddington, Edwin B. - The Campaign of Gettysburg: A Study in Command.


Connelly, Thomas L. - Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865.
- Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862.

Cooling, Frank - The Era of the Civil War (Bibliography)

Cooper, H, John - Chancellorsville, 1863

Crozier, Emmet - Yankee Reporters, 1861-1865.

Cumming, William P. & Hugh F. Rankin - The Fate of a Nation: The American Revolution through Contemporary Eyes.

Cummings, C. M. - Yankee Quaker, Confederate General; The Curious Career of Bushrod Rust Johnson.

Dabney, Robert Lewis - The Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, (Stonewall Jackson).

Dana, Charles A - Recollections of the Civil War.

Davis, Jefferson - The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. 2 Vols.

Davis, Peter. - First Bull Run, 1861: "the picnic battle" [by] Peter Davis and H. John Cooper. London, C. Knight, 1971.

Davis, Burke
- Gray Fox; General Robert E. Lee and the Civil War.
- They Called Him Stonewall

DeLeon, Thomas C. - Four Years in Rebel Capitals : an inside View of life in the Southern Confederacy, From birth to death.

Dietz - Confederate States Catalog and Handbook of the Postage Stamps and Envelopes of the Confederate States of America, 1959.

Dinkins, James - 1861 to 1865 ... Personal recollections and experiences in the Confederate Army.

Ditzel, Paul - Quantrill

Dodge, Grenville M. - Personal Recollections of President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant, and General William T. Sherman.

Donald, David H. - Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era

Douglas, Henry Kyd, - I Rode With Stonewall

Dowdey, Cliff - Wartime Papers of R.E. Lee

Durkin, Joseph T. - Stephen R. Mallory: Confederate Navy Chief.

Edge, Frederick Milnes - America Yesterday and To-day.

Edmondson, Belle - A Lost Heroine of the Confederacy : the
diaries and letters of Belle Edmondson.

Eisenschiml, Otto, ed. - The American Iliad; the epic story of the Civil War as narrated by eyewitnesses and contemporaries.

Faust, Pat L. - Encyclopedia of the Civil War

Ferris, Norman B. - Desperate Diplomacy : William H. Seward's Foreign Policy, 1861.

Fitzhugh, L.N.- Cannon Smoke

Fletcher, Henry Charles - History of the American War.Vol. 2: The Second Year of the War. [Set of three volumes initially]

Flood, Charles Bracelen - Lee - The Last Years. 

Foote, Shelby - The Civil War

Freeman, Douglas Southall
- Lee.(1961 Abridgement of original four volumes)
- Confederate Papers

Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon, Sir - Three Months in the Southern States

Friedman, Lillian
SEE
Sideman, Belle

Futch, Ovid L. - History of Andersonville Prison 

Galbraith W & L - The Lost Heroine of the Confederacy

Gallagher, Gary W. ed - The Second day at Gettysburg : essays on Confederate and Union leadership. 

Garrison, Webb B.
- A Treasury of Civil War Tales
- The Amazing Civil War

Gaskill, Joseph W. - Footprints Through Dixie 

Gates, H.L - The Classic Slave Narratives

Gladstone, Thomas H. - The Englishman in Kansas; or, Squatter life and border warfare.

Glazier, Willard, - The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape,

Good, John J., 1827-1882. - Cannon Smoke: the letters of Captain John J. 

Goodhart, Briscoe - History of the Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers. 

Gooding, J - On the Altar of Freedom

Gosnell - Rebel Raider: C.S.S. Sumter

Govan, Gilbert E. - A Different Valor; the story of General Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A., by Gilbert E. Govan and James W. Livingood.

Grant, Ulysses S. - Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.

Grissom, Michael Andrew - Southern by the Grace of God

Hallock, Judith Lee
- General James Longstreet in the West: a Monumental Failure.
- Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat

Hansen, Harry - The Civil War.

Harwell, R. S. ed.
- The Confederate Reader.
- Lee

Haskell, Franklin Aretas - The Battle of Gettysburg 

Hattaway & Jones - How the North Won

Hay, David - The Last of the Confederate Privateers.

Haydon, Frederick Stansbury - Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies

Hayman, LeRoy - The Death of Lincoln; a picture history of the assassination.

Heatwole, John L. - The Burning: Sheridan's Devastation of the Shenandoah Valley 

Henderson, George Francis Robert
- Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War, 2 vols.
- Stonewall Jackson (new version)

Hendrick, Burton Jesse - Lincoln's War Cabinet.

Henry, Robert Selph - "First with the Most" - Forrest.

Hesseltine, W.B. - Civil War Prisons

Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War. Patricia L. Faust, editor.; New York : Harper & Row, c1986.

Horn, Stanley Fitzgerald
- Gallant Rebel: The Fabulous Cruise of the C.S.S. Shenandoah
- Battle of Nashville
- The Army of Tennessee 

Johnston, Jambler - Echoes of 1861-1961 

Johnston, Mary - The Long Roll 

Jones, John E. -  Rebel War Clerk's Diary

Jones, Virgil Carrington - Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders

Jones, Katharine M. - Heroines of Dixie; Confederate women tell their story of the War

Landreth, Marsha - Great American Generals: William T. Sherman Bison Books 1990 ISBN 0861246527 (Not in Library of Congress, British Library, or New York Public Library at present. Listed by Amazon .Com as out-of-print. Feb. 2001)

Lee, Fitzhugh - General Lee.

Lee, Robert E. - The Wartime Papers of R.E. Lee. Clifford Dowdey, editor

Leech, Margaret - Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865.

Lewis, Lloyd
- Captain Sam Grant.
- Sherman, fighting prophet.

Long, E. B.
- The Saints and the Union: Utah Territory During the Civil War.
- Memoirs of Lee

Longstreet, James - From Manassas to Appomattox.  1992 edition Hardback

Lorant, Stefan - The life of Abraham Lincoln,

Lord, Francis Alfred - Civil War collector's encyclopedia.

Lothrop, Thornton Kirkland - William Henry Seward.

Lytle, William M. - Merchant steam vessels of the United States 1790-1868 : "The Lytle-Holdcamper list," initially compiled from official merchant marine documents of the United States and other sources/ by William M. Lytle and Forrest R. Holdcamper ; rev. and edited by C. Bradford Mitchell, with the assistance of Kenneth R. Hall. [Publication No 6 The steamship Historical Society of America, Mystic, Connecticut 1952. Book manufactured by Mcgregor & Werner, Washington D.C. No 561 of 1000 copies]

McClellan, H. B. - The life and campaigns of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart : commander of the cavalry of the Army of northern Virginia, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company ; Richmond, Va.: J. W. Randolph and English, 1885.

McElroy, John - Andersonville; a story of rebel military prisons. Specially abridged, with an introd. by Philip Van Doren Stern.

McFeely, William S. - Grant : a biography

McPherson, James M. - Battle cry of freedom : the Civil War era.
- The Negro's Civil War : how American Blacks felt and acted during the war for the Union

McWhiney, Jamieson - Attack and Die : Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage/Grady McWhiney and Perry D. Jamieson.

Martin, Christopher - Damn the Torpedoes! the Story of America's First Admiral: David Farragut 

Maurice, Frederick - Robert E. Lee the Soldier 

Mitchell, J. B. - Decisive Battles of the Civil War

Mitchell, Reid - Civil War soldiers.

Monaghan, Jay - Diplomat in carpet slippers; Abraham Lincoln deals with foreign affairs.

Moore, Samuel J. T. - Moore's complete Civil War guide to Richmond.

Mosby, John Singleton - Stuart's cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign.

Nash, Charles Edward - Biographical sketches of Gen. Pat Cleburne and Gen. T. C. Hindman.

Nelson, Truman John - The Old Man; John Brown at Harper's Ferry

Nichols, Roy F.
- The Stakes of Power, 1845-1877.
- From Sumter to Shiloh 

Nivens, A - History of the United States

Niven, John, comp. - Years of Turmoil: Civil War and Reconstruction; Interpretive Articles and Documentary Sources.

Nolan, Dick - Butler the Damnedest Yankee. 1991, Hardback

O'Connor, Richard - Sheridan, the Inevitable.

Ollier, Edmund - Cassell's history of the United States Vol. 3: 1826 - 1877 [Three volume set originally]

Patrick, Rembert Wallace - Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet

Paxson, Frederic Logan - The American Civil War. 

Pearl, Cyril - Rebel Down Under; When the "Shenandoah" Shook Melbourne, 1865.

Pember, Phoebe Yates - A Southern woman's story; life in Confederate Richmond. Including unpublished letters written from the Chimborazo Hospital.

Pemberton, John Clifford - Pemberton, defender of Vicksburg,

Penguin book of the American Civil War. By Bruce Catton,

Polk, William Tannahill - Southern accent: from Uncle Remus to Oak Ridge.

Potter, David Morris - Lincoln and his party in the secession crisis.

Pratt, Fletcher - Ordeal by fire; an informal history of the civil war.

Ramsdell, Charles W. - Behind the lines in the Southern Confederacy.

Ropes, John Codman
- The Story of the Civil War; a Concise Account, Part II
- History of the Civil War

Rose, W.L. - Rehearsal for Reconstruction
Russell, William Howard - My Diary North and South

Sandburg, Carl
- Abraham Lincoln; the Prairie Years and the War Years.
- Storm over the Land

Scharf, J. T. - The History of the Confederate States Navy. New York: Grammercy Books, 1996 [Probably a re-issue of the Third Edition]

Sears, Stephen W. - Landscape turned red : the Battle of Antietam.

Semmes, Raphael - Memoirs of service afloat during the War

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