Battles: Surveys, Strategies, Tactics
- Blair, Jayne E. The Essential Civil War: A Handbook to the Battles, Armies, Navies And Commanders (2006)
- Boritt, Gabor S. ed. Why the Confederacy Lost. 1992.
- Connelly, Thomas L., "Robert E. Lee and the Western Confederacy: A Criticism of Lee's Strategic Ability." Civil War History 15 (June 1969): 116-32
- Eicher, David J., The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War. 2001. ISBN 0-684-84944-5.
- Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative,l three volumes. 1974.
- Goss, Thomas J. The War within the Union High Command: Politics and Generalship during the Civil War. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
- Hagan, Neil and Stephen Hyslop. Atlas of the Civil War: A Comprehensive Guide to the Tactics and Terrain of Battle. National Geographic, 2009.
- Royster, Charles. Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the American Civil War (1992)
- Smith, Andrw F. Starving the South: How the North Won the Civil War. St. Martin's Press, 2011.
- Smithsonian Institution. The Civil War: A Visual History. New York: DK Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7566-7185-3.
- Walters, John Bennett. Merchant of Terror: General Sherman and Total War. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.
- Weigley, Russell Frank. A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865 (2004).
- Williams, Kenneth P. . Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War, five volumes. 1959.
- Williams, T. Harry. Lincoln and His Generals (1967).
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