Subject Guides For Special Collections:
Civil War and Slavery
The following subject guide represents only a small portion of our collections, and does not represent all of the subject strengths of our collections. Please remember that the listed titles are only those in Special Collections-- many other sources can be found in other departments of the Library.
Though every attempt will be made to keep these guides current, please keep in mind that our collections are growing daily and we add titles in all subjects on an ongoing basis. Items appearing on lists without call numbers have not yet been catalogued; however, they are still accessible to interested researchers. If you would like to find out more about items in Special Collections or have a specific reference question, please email us at archive@cwu.edu.
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Subject Guide to The Civil War and Slavery
Central Washington University
Special Collections
November 2006
Prepared by Anne Bahde
Bowman, S. M., and Richard B. Irwin. Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography . New York ; Cincinnati : C.B. Richardson; C.F. Vent & Co.; etc., etc., 1865.
E467.1 .S55 B7 Rare
Brownlow, William Gannaway. Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession : With a Narrative of Personal Adventures among the Rebels. Philadelphia ; Cincinnati : G.W. Childs; Applegate & Co., 1862.
E458.2 .B90 Rare
Channing, William Ellery. Slavery. Boston : J. Munroe and company, 1835.
E449 .C454 Cab-Rare
Davis, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1881.
E487 .D26 v.1-2 Rare
Dodge, Theodore Ayrault. A Bird's-Eye View of our Civil War. Boston : J.R. Osgood, 1883.
E470 .D64 Rare
Gordon, Armistead. Befo’ de War. New York : C. Scribner’s, 1899.
PS3515 .O573 B4
Greeley, Horace. The American Conflict : A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64: Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit especially its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery, from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union. Hartford , Conn. : O. D. Case, 1864.
E468 .G78 v.1-2 Rare
Helper, Hinton Rowan. Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South. New York : A. B. Burdick, 1860.
E449 .H4832 Rare
Johnston, Harry Hamilton. History of a Slave. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1889.
PZ3 .J6436 Rare
Laut, Agnes C. The Freebooters of the Wilderness. New York : Moffat, Yard and Company, 1910.
PZ3 .L377 Rare
Loyal Publication Society of New York . Opinions of the Early Presidents : And of the Fathers of the Republic, upon Slavery, and upon Negroes as Men and Soldiers. Vol. 18. New York : W.C. Bryant & Co., printers, 1863.
E449 .O6 Rare
McPherson, Edward. A Political Manual for 1866. Washington, D. C.: Philip and Solomons, 1866.
JK8 .M35 Rare
Moore, Frank. Women of the War; their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice. Hartford , Conn. ; Chicago : S.S. Scranton & Co.; R.C. Treat; etc., etc., 1866.
E628 .M82 Rare
Mottelay, Paul Fleury, and T. Campbell-Copeland. The Soldier in our Civil War: A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-1865, Illustrating the Valor of the Soldier as Displayed on the Battle-Field. from Sketches Drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor , Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and ... Other Eye-Witnesses .. New York and Atlanta : Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, 1893.
E468.7 .M91 1893 v.1-2 Rare elephant
Pollard, Edward Alfred. The First Year of the War. Richmond : West & Johnson, 1864.
E487 .P767 Rare
---. The Second Year of the War. Vol. 2. New York : C.B. Richardson, 1864.
E487 .P776 1864 Rare
---. The Lost Cause : A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates : Comprising a Full and Authentic Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Southern Confederacy--the Campaigns, Battles, Incidents, and Adventures of the most Gigantic Struggle of the World's History.
E487 .P759 Rare
Sherman, William T. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1875.
E467.1 .S55 S52 v.1-2 Rare
Stidger, Felix Grundy. Treason History of the Order of Sons of Liberty , Formerly Circle of Honor, Succeeded by Knights of the Golden Circle , Afterward Order of American Knights. the most Gigantic Treasonable Conspiracy the World has Ever Known. 1864. .. Chicago : The Author, 1903.
E458.8 .S85 Rare
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred : A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp . Boston : Phillips, Sampson, 1856.
PS2954 .D74 1856 v.1 Rare
---. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. Boston ; Cleveland, O.: J.P. Jewett & co.; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington; etc., etc., 1853.
E449 .S8959 Rare
---. Uncle Tom's Cabin : Or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America . London : C. H. Clarke, 1852.
PS2954 .U6 1852
United States Sanitary Commission. Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities . Philadelphia : King & Baird, 1864.
E611 .U652 Rare
United States . Congress (39th, 2nd session : 1866-1867). House, and Andrew Dickson White. Murder of Union Soldiers. Vol. 23. Washington :, 1867.
E601 .U53 Rare
von Borcke, Heros. Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence . Edinburgh , London : W. Blackwood and Sons, 1866.
E470 .B68 v.1-2 Rare
Wilson, Rufus Rockwell. What Lincoln Read . Washington , D.C. :, 1932.
E457.2 .W748 Rare
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