Civil War & Slavery

Contributor's Form (list #15)

• ?? Ballad of the Civil War
• ?? Ghost Cadet,
• ?? If The South Had Won the War. a sci-fi version It's well done and might spark some interesting discussion.
• ?? Lincoln: A Photobiography
• ?? Nettie's Trip South One book that can be read as a read-aloud is a picture book for older students called. It's a travel diary of a Northern girl who goes South and describes slavery...thought provoking and a good discussion starter.
• ?? The forgotten Heroes. The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers. (Shamrock Hill
• ?? The Root Cellar
• Anderson, Nancy Scott. The generals : Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
• Armstrong, Jennifer. Steal Away. New York: Orchard (1992)
• Bass, ? Sherman's March.
• Beatty, Patricia. Charlie Skedaddle.
• Beatty, Patricia. Who Comes With Cannons
• Berry, James. Ajeemah and His Son. New York: HarperCollins (1992)
• Bunting, Eve Blue and Grey
• Burchard, Pter. Charlotte Forten: A Black Teacher in the Civil war. Crown,
• Chang, Ina. A separate battle : women and the Civil War
• Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher Collier. With Every Drop of Blood. New York: Delacorte Press (1994) While the vocabulary won't be a challenge to a group of TAG kids, the ideas could be. The reasons for the war, family, the "glory of war".... and this book is written from the Southern point of view.
• Collins, David R., Shattered Dreams: The Story of Mary Todd Lincoln. 1994.
• Cooper, Michael L. From Slave to Civil War Hero: The life and Times of Robert Smalls. Lodestar, 1994 $13.99 (0-525-67489-6)
• Cox, Clinton. Undying Glory - tells the story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment (the black regiment that fought for the Union Army.)
• Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.
• Denenberg, Barry WHEN WILL THIS CRUEL WAR BE OVER?
• Donahue, ? Island Far From Home.
• Fleischman, Paul has an interesting one "Bull Run". It is short, told in narratives by 16 different people connected with the Battle--great for teaching character, point of view etc
• Forman, James D. Becca's Story. New York: Scribner (1992)
• Forrester, Sandra. Sound the Jubilee. New York: Lodestar Books (1995)
• Freedman, ? Lincoln
• Freeman, Douglas Southall. Lee's lieutenants, a study in command
• Fritz, Jean Stonewall
• Green, Carl R. and William R. Sanford. Confederate generals of the Civil War
• Green, Carl R. and William R. Sanford. Union generals of the Civil War
• Guccione, Leslie D. Come Morning. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books (1995)
• Haskins, Jim. Amazing Grace: The story of behind the Song. 1992, Millbrook,
• Haskins, Jim. Get on Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad. 1993.
• Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils. Chicago: Follett (1964)
• Keith, Harold. Rifles for Waite . It is a Newbery Award winner.
• Lasky, Kathryn. True North: A Novel of the Underground Railroad. (1996)
• Lee, Robert Edward, My father, General Lee, by his son Robert E. Lee, Jr.
• Lyons, Mary. Letters From a Slave Girl. New York: Aladdin Paperbooks (1992)
• Marrin, Albert. Unconditional Surrender: U.S. Grant and the Civil War. Virginia's General: Robert E Lee and the Civil War. Albert Marrin Atheneum, $19.95 ea
• McKissack, Patricia. A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859. (1997)
• Meltzer, Milton. The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words 1619-1983. HarperCollins, 1984 $9.95 (0-06-446055-X)
• Michael Shaara Killer Angels
• Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan
• Murphy, Jim. The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War. Clarion, 1990. Clarion $7.95 (0-395-66412-8)
• O'Dell, Scott. The 290. Houghton Mifflin (1976) 118p.
• Paulsen, Gary. Soldiers' Heart, based on a real person who was fifteen at the start of the war and lied about his age to enlist in order to have a great adventure. He comes through three battles unharmed and is present at Gettysburg. It's very short but intense.
• Pember, Phoebe Yates. Shades of Grey"A Southern Woman's Story: Life in Confederate Richmond. It is an autobiography of a Civil War nurse and was originally published in 1879.
• Perez, N. A. The Slopes of War_ by is a favorite with my students.
• Piggins, Carol Ann. A Multicultural Portrait of the Civil War. Marshall
• Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. New York: Scholastic (1994)
• Ransom, John. Andersonville Diary? I think it is now printed as an oversized paperback and might cost more for a class set than when it was pocket sized. Is actually based on a real diary of this teenager that ended up in Andersonville
• Rappaport, Doreen. Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom. 1991,
• Rawls, Walton (editor). Great Civil War heroes and their battles
• Reeder, Carolyn. Across the Lines is the parallel stories of two twelve-year-old boys, one the son of a plantation owner and the other a slave. The setting is the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, Virginia.
• Reeder, Carolyn. Shades of Gray. New York: Avon (1989)
• Reit, Seymour. Behind Rebel Lines - tells of Emma Edmonds - she posed as a man and became a soldier in the Union army. She became a spy for them and went into Rebel camps many times.
• Rinaldi, Ann. In my father's house
• Rinaldi, Ann. An Acquaintance with Darkness is about Washington at the time of Lincoln's assassination
• Rinaldi, Ann. Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phyllis Wheatley.
• Rinaldi, Ann. Mine Eyes have Seen is about John Brown in the summer before the attack on Harper's Ferry.
• Rinaldi, Ann. The Last Silk Dress. Holiday House (1998) 344p.
• Rinaldi, Ann. Who writes her historical fiction from the point of view of girls and women.
• Seabrooke, Brenda. The Haunting of Holroyd Hill. New York: Dutton (1995) 137p.
• Shuva, Mary Francis. Gentle Annie: The True Story of a Civil War Nurse. Scholastic 1991. Scholastic $2.95 (0-590-43500-0)
• Smith, Gene. Lee and Grant, a dual
• Stevens, Bryna. Frank Thompson: Her Civil War Story. Macmillan, 1992. (Emma
• Sullivan, George, Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie. 1994,
• Sullivan, George. Mathew Brady: His Life and Photographs. Cobblehill, 1994
• Walkins, ? Co. Aytch
• Wisler, G. Clifton. DRUMMER OF VICKSBURG
• Wisler, G. Clifton. RED CAP It is mostly about Andersonville.
• Wisler, G. Clifton. The Journal of James Edmond Pease from the Dear America Series.
• Wisler, G. Clifton. Caleb's Choice. New York: Dutton
• Wisler, G. Clifton. Mr. Lincoln's Drummer. (1996)