A Nation Divided

Unit Resources

Unit Reference Materials

Andrews, Eliza Frances. The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl 1864-1865. New York, D. Appleton Co., 1908.

Mobley, Joe A., ed. The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance: Volume 2, 1963. Raleigh: State Department and Archives, 1963.

Nash, Gary B. and others, eds. The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, 6th ed. New York: Pearson Education Inc., 2004. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.

Rhodes, Robert Hunt. All For The Union. New York: Vintage Civil War Library, Vintage Books, 1992.

Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Johnny Reb. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1943.

Wood, Peter H. and others. Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States. New York: Pearson Education Inc., 2003. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education, Inc.

Further Reading

Beyer, W. F. and O. F. Keydel, eds. Deeds of Valor: How America's Civil War Heroes Won the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Bordewich, Fergus M. "What Price of Glory?" Smithsonian, July 2005.

Duncan, Russell, ed. Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.

Emilio, Luis. A Brave Black Regiment: The History of the 54th Massachusetts, 1863-1865.

Gopnik, Adam. "A Critic at Large," The New Yorker, October 31, 2005.

Horowitz, Tony. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War.

Johnston, Frontis W., ed. The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance: Volume 1, 1842–1862.

Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront.

Pember, Phoebe Yates. A Southern Woman's Story http://www.jewish-history.com

Smith, Eric Ledell. "Painted with Pride in the U.S.A.," Pennsylvania Heritage, Winter 2001.

Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank.

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