Ed Bearss - Selected Works

Selected Works

• Decision in Mississippi, 1962
• Rebel Victory at Vicksburg, 1963
• Hardluck Ironclad: the Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo, 1966, Revised Edition 1980
• Steele's Retreat from Camden and the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry, 1967
• Fort Smith: Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas, with Dr. A. M. Gibson, 1969
• Protecting Sherman's Lifeline: The Battles of Brice's Cross Roads and Tupelo 1864, 1971
• The Battle of Wilson's Creek, 1975
• Forrest at Brice's Cross Roads, 1975
• The Battle of Jackson; The Siege of Jackson; and Three Other Post-Vicksburg Actions, 1981
• The Battle of Five Forks, with Chris Calkins, 1985
• Vicksburg is the Key, (Volume I of Vicksburg Campaign trilogy), 1985
• Grant Strikes a Fatal Blow, (Volume II), 1986
• Unvexed to the Sea, (Volume III), 1986
• River of Lost Opportunities — The Civil War on the James River, 1995
• Smithsonian's Great Battles and Battlefields of the Civil War, with Jay Wertz, 1997
• Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War, 2006
• Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, with J. Parker Hills, 2010
• with Bryce A. Suderow, The Petersburg Campaign: The Eastern Front Battles, June–August 1864, Volume 1, forthcoming October 2011

As editor:

• A Southern Record: History of the Third Louisiana Regiment, with Willie Tunnard, 1970
• A Louisiana Confederate: Diary of Felix Pierre Poché, 1972
• Memoirs of a Confederate, Historic and Personal Campaigns of the First Manassas Confederate Brigade, 1972
• Your Affectionate Husband, J. F. Culver: Letters Written during the Civil War, with Leslie W. Dunlap, 1978
• The Gettysburg Magazine, assistant editor since 1989

Contributor:

• The Civil War Battlefield Guide, edited by Frances H. Kennedy, 1998.