A/V Audio/Visual Materials, Reserve Section, Main Floor
CMC Curriculum Materials Center, 2^nd Floor
REF MAPS Map Section, behind Reference Office, Main Floor
REF Reference Section, Main Floor
SENC South East North Carolina Collection, Special Collections, 2^nd Floor
No prefix General Collection, 2^nd Floor

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African American Women During the Civil War. Ella Forbes.     E 540.N3 F67 1998

Army Life in a Black Regiment. Thomas Wentworth Higginson.     E 492.94 1st .H53 1984

Black Confederates & Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia. Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.    E 585.A35 J67 1995

The Black Military Experience.         E 185 .2 .F88 ser.2

A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters From African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861-1865.
E 540 .N3 G74 1992

Military Necessity & Civil Rights Policy: Black Citizenship & the Constitution, 1861-1868.
Mary Frances Berry.    E 492.9 .B47

The Negro in the Civil War. Herbert Aptheker.    Spec Coll E 453 .A67

Negroes & the National War Effort: an Address by Frederick Douglass.    Spec Coll E 540 .N3 D72 1942

Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: a Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers. Susie King Taylor.  
E 492.94 33rd .T3 1988

Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent: His Dispatches From the Virginia Front. E 540.N3 C4 1989

Archaeology and Preservation

Battling for Manassas: the Fifty-Year Preservation Struggle at Manassas National Battlefield Park.

Joan M. Zenzen.    E 472.183 .Z46 1998

Illustrated Catalog of Civil War Military Goods: Union Weapons, Insignia, Uniform Accessories, and Other Equipment.    E 646.5 .S38 1985

Look to the Earth: Historical Archaeology & the American Civil War.    E 646.5 .L66 1994

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Battles of the Civil War: the Complete Kurz & Allison Prints, 1861-1865.    E 468.7 .B3 1979

The Civil War: the Artists' Record. Hermann Warner Williams.     E 468.7 .W72 1962

Civil War Sketchbook of Charles Ellery Stedman, Surgeon, United States Navy.    E 467.1 .S838 H54

Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause. Mark E. Neely, Jr.     E 467 .N44 1987

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: the Civil War in Art. Harold Holzer.     ND 210 .H66 1993

Mr. Lincoln's Contemporaries: an Album of Portraits by Mathew B. Brady. Roy Meredith.    E 415.8 .M4

Winslow Homer: Paintings of the Civil War. Marc Simpson.     ND 237 .H7 A4 1988

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Aeronautics in the Union & Confederate Armies: With a Survey of Military Aeronautics Prior to 1861.
F. Stansbury Haydon.    Spec Coll E 492.7 .H3 1941 v.1

American Civil War Navies: a Bibliography. Myron J. Smith, Jr.     REF Z 1242 .S63

Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865. Thomas Goodrich.    E 470.45 .G66 1995

Gray Phantoms of the Cape Fear: Running the Civil War Blockade. Dawson Carr.    F 262.C2 C37 1998

Infernal Machines: the Story of Confederate Submarine & Mine Warfare. Milton F. Perry.    E 596 .P4

Mr. Lincoln's Navy. Richard S. West, Jr.    E 591 .W44 1976

North Carolina as a Civil War Battleground, 1861-1865. John Gilchrist Barrett.    E 470.6 .B3

Official Records of the Union & Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.    REF E 591 .U58

Secret Missions of the Civil War; First-Hand Accounts by Men & Women Who Risked Their Lives in Underground Activities for the North & the South. Philip Stern.    E 608 .S8

Spies & Spymasters of the Civil War. Donald E. Markle.     E 608 .M345 1994

Spies for the Blue & Gray. Harnett Thomas Kane.     E 608 .K3

Spies, Scouts, & Raiders: Irregular Operations.     E 608 .S69 1985

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The Battlefields of the Civil War: the Bloody Conflict of North Against South Told Through the
Stories of Its Great Battles, Illustrated With Collections of Some of the Rarest Civil War Historical Artifacts. William C. Davis.    E 470 .D35 1996

The Civil War Battlefield Guide.    REF E 641 .C58 1990

Mystic Chords of Memory: Civil War Battlefields & Historic Sites Recaptured. David J. Eicher.
E 468.7 .E38 1998

National Geographic Guide to the Civil War National Battlefield Parks. A. Wilson Greene. E 641 .G74 1992

Use this subject heading for further works: United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Bibliography

The American Civil War: a Handbook of Literature & Research.     REF E 456 .A43 1996

A Bibliography of the Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1860-1865. James A. Pleasants, Jr. 
SENC F 263.3 .P53 1998

The Civil War in Books: an Analytical Bibliography.     REF E 468 .E52 1997

Guide to Civil War Books: an Annotated Selection of Modern Works on the War Between the States.
Domenica M. Barbuto .    REF E 468 .B27 1996

Use this subject heading for works: United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Biography

Use this subject heading for works: United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Causes

Children's Civil War. James Marten.     E 468.9 .M125 1998

Lessons of War: the Civil War in Children's Magazines. James Marten.     PS 509.W3 L47 1999

Reluctant Witnesses: Children's Voices From the Civil War. Emmy E. Werner.    E 468.9 .W47 1998

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United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Juvenile Fiction

[All children’s books are located in the Juvenile Fiction section, 2^nd floor, next to the Curriculum Materials Center.]

Across Five Aprils. Irene Hunt.    H913a

The Boys' War: Confederate & Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War. Jim Murphy.    973.7 M95b

Charley Skedaddle. Patricia Beatty.    B38c

The Deserter: a Spy Story of the Civil War. Peter Burchard.     B893d

The First Book of Civil War Land Battles. Treveor Nevitt Dupuy.     973.7 D93fi

Jed, the Story of a Yankee Soldier & a Southern Boy. Peter Burchard.    B893j

Latino Heroes of the Civil War. Mike Walbridge.    CMC D.9 H.22 WALCH6-9 1997 L27

Mountain Valor. Gloria Houston.    H817m

Navy History & Traditions: Naval Actions of the Civil War.     CMC V/F SS Civil 5

Phantom of the Blockade. Stephen W. Meader.    M46p

Pink & Say. Patricia Polacco.    P

Rifles for Watie. Harold Keith.    K269r

The Sacred Moon Tree: Being the True Account of the Trials & Adventures of Phoebe Sands in the Great WarBetween the States, 1861-1865. Laura Jan Shore.     Sh78s

Two Little Confederates. Thomas Nelson Page.    P146t

When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: the Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson. Barry Denenberg.    D413w

Which Way Freedom? Joyce Hansen.    H199w 1992

Who Comes With Cannons? Patricia Beatty.    B381w

Brass-Pounders. Alvin F. Harlow. E 608 .H3

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Mannerhouse. Thomas Wolfe.    PS 3545 .O337 .M3 1985

Wilderness Road. Paul Green.    PS 3513 .R452 W58

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Agriculture & the Civil War. Paul W. Gates.    HC 105.6 .G3

The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War.
Heather Cox Richardson.    HC 105.6 .R53 1997

Salt as a Factor in the Confederacy. Ella Lonn.    HC 105.65 .L6

Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880. John Solomon Otto.    S 445 .O88 1994

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Confederate Commissary General: Lucius Bellinger Northrop & the Subsistence Bureau of the Southern Army. Jerrold Northrop Moore.    E 467.1 .N67 M66 1996

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North Carolina Confederate Militia & Home Guard Records.     REF E 573.4 .B728 1995

Onslow County, North Carolina Confederate Veterans. James Michael Whaley.    REF F 262.O5 W49 v.1

The Roster of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865.    REF E 548 .R65 1995

The Roster of Union soldiers, 1861-1865.    REF E 494 .H48 1997

The Roster of Union soldiers, 1861-1865. United States Colored Troops.    REF E 470 .R677 1997

Service Records of Confederate Enlisted Marines. Ralph W. Donnelly.     E 596 .D65

Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor. Bertram Hawthorne Groene.     CD 3047 .G76

* This section comprises a huge area. Only a few selected works are listed below.

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The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War.     E 468.7 .C3 1960

The Centennial History of the Civil War. Bruce Catton.     E 468 .C29

The Civil War, a Narrative. Shelby Foote.    E 468 .F7

The Civil War in the United States. Karl Marx.    E 469.8 .M374

The Confederacy: a Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America.
Henry Putney Beers.    REF CD 3047 .B4 1986

Confederate Military History: a Library of Confederate States History.     Spec Coll E 484 .E92 (10 vols.) or REF E 545 .E92 1987 (extended edition)

Embattled Confederates: an Illustrated History of Southerners at War. Bell Irvin Wiley.    E 487 .W63 1964

A History of the Civil War, 1861-65: & the Causes That Led Up to the Great Conflict, by Benson J. Lossing, & a Chronological Summary & Record of Every Engagement .…Showing the Total Losses & Casualties Together with War Maps of Localities, comp. from the Official Records of the War department. Illustrated with Facsimile Photographic Reproductions of the Official War Photographs, Taken at the Time by Matthew B. Brady, Under the Authority of President Lincoln & Now in the Possession of the War Department,Washington, D.C.
Spec Coll E 468.7 .L88

The Legacy of the Civil War. Robert Penn Warren.    E 649 .W27 1983

The Union: a Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War. Kenneth W. Munden.   REF CD 3047 .M86 1986

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United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Foreign Public Opinion

British Labor & the American Civil War. Philip S. Foner.     E 469.8 .F66 1981

Confederate Operations in Canada & the North: a Little-Known Phase of the American Civil War.
Oscar A. Kinchen.    E 470.95 .K48

Europe Looks at the Civil War: an Anthology.    E 469.8 .S5

Heard Round the World: the Impact Abroad of the Civil War. H. C. Allen.    E 469.8 .H95

Lincoln & the Emperors. A. R. Tyrner-Tyrnauer.     E 469 .T9 1962a

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United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Journalists

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All the Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime. William H. Rehnquist.    KF 4750 .R44 1998

Civil War Justice: Union Army Executions Under Lincoln. Robert I. Alotta.    E 491 .A43 1989

Rebel Watchdog: the Confederate States Army Provost Guard. Kenneth Radley.    UB 825.U54 R33 1989

Stop the Evil: a Civil War History of Desertion & Murder. Robert I. Alotta.    E 527.5 116th .H68 .A44

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Civil War Generalship: the Art of Command. W. J. Wood.     E 470 .W877 1997

The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant.    E 672 .F962 1969

Grant & Lee: a Study in Personality & Generalship. J.F.C. Fuller.    E 468 .F96 1982

Grant, Lee, Lincoln & the Radicals: Essays on Civil War Leadership.    E 649 .M15

Lee's lieutenants: a Study in Command. Douglas Southall Freeman.     E 470.2 .F7 1942

Lincoln or Lee, Comparison & Contrast of the Two Greatest Leaders in the War Between the States: the Narrow & Accidental Margins of Success. William E. Dodd.    E 468 .D63 1964

Uncertain Glory: Lee's Generalship Re-Examined. John D. McKenzie.     E 467.1 .L4 M48 1997

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Desertion During the Civil War. Ella Lonn.    E 468 .L86 1966

Doctors in Gray: the Confederate Medical Service. Horace Cunningham.     E 546.7 .C8

Civil War Medicine. Stewart Brooks .    E 621 .B88

Civil War Medicine: Care & Comfort of the Wounded. Robert E. Denney.    E 621 .D44 1995

Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout & the Army of Tennessee. Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein.
E 625 .S37 1994

For Cause & Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. James M. McPherson.    E 492.3 .M38 1997

Kate: the Journal of a Confederate Nurse. Kate Cumming.     E 625 .C8 1959

My Story of the War: a Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, & in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, & at the Front, During the War of the Rebellion. With Anecdotes, Pathetic Incidents, & Thrilling Reminiscences Portraying the Lights & Shadows of Hospital Life & the Sanitary Service of the War. Mary A. Livermore.    E 621 .L79

Naval Surgeon: the Diary of Dr. Samuel Pellman Boyer.     E 182 .B7 v.1

Shook Over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, & the Civil War. Eric T. Dean, Jr.    RC 552 .P67 D434 1997

United States Sanitary Commission Records.    Microform

Guide located in Reference.    REF E 631 .U54 1996 Guide

A Woman Doctor's Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks' Diary.     E 621 .H36 1984

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The Civil War in Song & Story, 1860-1865. Frank Moore.     E 655 .M83 l970

War-Lyrics & Other Poems. Henry Brownell.    E 647 .B88 1972

War Lyrics & Songs of the South.    Spec Coll E 647 .W24 1866

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The American Indian in the Civil War, 1862-1865. Annie Heloise Abel.     E 540 .I3 A17 1992

Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War. Laurence M. Hauptman.     E 540 .I3 H38 1995

Lincoln & the Indians: Civil War Policy & Politics. David A Nichols.    E 457.2 .N6

Stand Watie & the Agony of the Cherokee Nation. Kenny A. Franks.     E 99 .C5 W433 1979

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United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Foreign Public Opinion

Dark Lanterns: Secret Political Societies, Conspiracies, & Treason Trials in the Civil War. Frank L. Klement.
E 458.8 .K673 1984

Northern Editorials on Secession.    E 440.5 .P45 1964

The Rise & Fall of the Confederate Government. Jefferson Davis.     E 487 .D263

Southern Pamphlets on Secession, November 1860-April 1861. E 458.1 .S68 1996

Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1861-1865.    E 464 .F7

Confederate Postal History: an Anthology From The Stamp Specialist.     HE 6500 .C65

Confederate Stamps, Old Letters & History. Raynor Hubbell.     HE 6207 .H8

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United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Prisoners And Prisons Confederate

Civil War Prisons: a Study in War Psychology. William Best Hesseltine.    E 611 .H453

Confederate P.O.W.'s: Soldiers & Sailors Who Died in Federal Prisons & Military Hospitals in the North.Frances Terry Ingmire.    REF E 548 .I55 1984

History of Andersonville Prison. Ovid L. Futch.    E 612.A5 F8 1988

Observations in the North: Eight Months in Prison & On Parole. Edward A. Pollard.     
Spec Coll E 467 .P792 1865

Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Lonnie R. Speer.      E 615 .S65 1997

To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-1865. George Levy.
E 616 .D7 L48 1994

Use this subject heading for further works: Reconstruction

The Civil War & Reconstruction. J. G. Randall.     E 468 .R26 1953

Essays on the Civil War & Reconstruction. Irwin Unger.     E 649 .U64

Ordeal By Fire: the Civil War & Reconstruction. James M. McPherson.     E 468 .M23

Trial By Fire: a People's History of the Civil War & Reconstruction. Page Smith.    E 468 .S64 1982

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United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Regimental Histories

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Catholics & the Civil War: Essays. Reverend Benjamin J. Blied.     E 540 .C3 B5

Christian Reconstruction: the American Missionary Association & Southern Blacks, 1861-1890.
Joe M. Richardson.    BV 2360 .A8 R53 1986

For Courageous Fighting & Confident Dying: Union Chaplains in the Civil War.
Warren B. Armstrong.     E 635 .A75 1998

"God Ordained This War": Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830-1865.    E 449 .G57 1991

Sermons, Speeches, & Letters on Slavery & Its War. Bishop Gilbert Haven.    E 649 .H29 1969

A Shield & Hiding Place: the Religious Life of the Civil War Armies. Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr.
E 635 .S48 1987

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Divided Houses: Gender & the Civil War.    HQ 1075 .U6 D58 1992

The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War. Thomas P. Lowry.    E 468.9 .L69 1994

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United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Songs And Music

Cheer Boys Cheer.    A/V Phonodiscs 827 v.6

Civil War Music.    A/V Audio A/V AC 232

Confederate Cavalier Nathan Bedford Forrest.    A/V Audio A/V AC 779

George Armstrong Custer in the Civil War.    A/V Audio A/V AC 777

Old Hate--New Hope. Don Molner.    CMC A/V CURR A/V PD 45

Shiloh: an Overview. George Reeves.    A/V Audio A/V AC 779

A Stillness at Appomattox (abridged). Bruce Catton.     A/V Audioc A/V AC 648

Sources & Statistics

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Numbers & Losses in the Civil War in America, 1861-1865. Thomas L. Livermore.    E 491 .L78

Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States. Frederick Phisterer.    REF E 468 .C17 1996

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The Railroads of the Confederacy. Robert C. Black.     E 545 .B55

Victory Rode the Rails: the Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War. George Richard Turner.
E 491 .T95

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Addresses Delivered Before the Confederate Veterans Association of Savannah, Ga.: to Which is Added the President's Annual Report. United Confederate Veterans. Georgia Division. Confederate Survivor's Association Camp No. 756, Savannah.     Spec Coll E 484 .P76 or E 848 .U54

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United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Equipment And Supplies

Arms & Equipment of the Civil War. Jack Coggins.     UC 23 1861-65 .C6

Civil War Collector's Encyclopedia. Francis A. Lord.     REF UC 23 1861-65 .L6 1965 v.1

Civil War Sutlers & Their Wares. Francis A. Lord.     E 491 .L889

A Field Guide for Civil War Explosive Ordnance. John D. Bartleson, Jr.    UF 523 .B37

The Rifled Musket. Claud E. Fuller.    UD 390 .F87

A Chart of Wrecks of Vessels Sunk or Captured Near Wilmington, N.C., circa 1861-1865.
Charles H. Foard.     REF Map G 3904.W6S5 1968 .F6

Fort Anderson: Battle for Wilmington. Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr.     F 262 .B9 F66 1999

In Memoriam: Wilmington's Tribute of Respect to Ex-President Jefferson Davis, Containing the Exercises of the Memorial Services, Mr. Davis' Letter to the Fayetteville Committee, & Mr. Davis Reply to General Wolseley.    Spec Coll E 484 .P76

Memorial Address Delivered May 10th, 1890, at Wilmington, N.C. by Hon. Charles M. Stedman. A sketch of the Life & Character of General William MacRae, With an Account of the Battle of Ream's Station.
(2 call numbers)    E 484 .P76 and E 848 .U54

Tales of the Cape Fear Blockade, Being a Turn of the Century Account of Blockade Running. James Sprunt.
E 600 .S78 1960

Wilmington, North Carolina & the Lower Cape Fear Area During the Civil War (1861-65): an Excerpted Guide to Resources: Manuscript Collection, No. 26. Leora Hiatt McEachern.    F 263.3 .M25

The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays of Departing Hope. Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr.    E 477.28 .F66 1997

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Bonnet Brigades. Mary Elizabeth Massey.    E 628 .M3

Civil Wars: Women & the Crisis of Southern Nationalism. George C. Rable.    E 628 .R3 1989

Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists & the Civil War. Wendy Hamand Venet.      E 628 .V46 1991

The War the Women Lived: Female Voices From the Confederate South.     E 605 .W275 1995

Woman's Work in the Civil War: a Record of Heroism, Patriotism & Patience. L.P. Brockett.
Spec Coll E 628 .B864

Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War. Elizabeth D. Leonard.     E 628 .L46 1994

Andersonville: the Great Untold Story of the Civil War.     E 612 .A5 F726 1996

Battle at New Market, Va., May 15, 1864.     E 476.64 .B375 1985

The Civil War. Ken Burns.    E 468 .C584 1989

Civil War: the Fiery Trial. Peter Edwards.     E 468 .C585 1988

Civil War Battlefields. (7 volumes)    E 641 .C4 1997

Jackson's Valley Campaign series

Battle of Kernstown.    E 473.72 .B277 1985

Campaign's Impact.    E 470.2 .C356 1985

Composition of Jackson's Army.    E 470.2 .C656 1985

General James Shields.    E 473.72 .G465 1985

Hunter McGuire.    E 467.1 .M25 H865 1985

Jackson's Objective.    E 470.2 .J324 1985

Jed Hotchkiss.    E 467.1 .H67 J43 1985

Turner Ashby.    E 467.1 .A8 T875 1985

Last Full Measure. Kerwin Silfies.    E 475.53 .L375 1983

Roots of Resistance: a Story of the Underground Railroad.     E 450 .R78 1990

Surrender at Appomatox, Apr. 8, 1865.    E 477.67 .S877

Birth of a Nation. (2 call numbers)    PS 3507 .I93 B57 1993 or PN 1997 .B578 1992

The General.    PN 1997 .G453 1989

Glory.    PN 1997 .G557 1990

Gone With the Wind.    PS 3525 .I972 G6 1990

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.    PS 1097 .O227 1983

Across Five Aprils.    PZ 7 .H867 A27 1986

The Red Badge of Courage.    PS 1449 .C85 R4 1986

Compiled by S. Bittner
Reference Librarian
October 1999