Libraries of Hope
  • Home
  • Well-Educated Heart
    • Catch the Vision Intro >
      • WEH Reference
      • 1 The Mother's Heart
      • 2 Change of Heart
      • 3 Joy Is Everywhere
      • 4 Heart Before Mind
      • 5 Grand Buffet
      • 6 Journey of Lifetime
    • Take 5
    • Mother's University
  • Libraries of Hope
    • Categories
    • Rotation
  • Fine Art
    • Quotes
    • Simple Joy Art
  • Audios
    • Podcasts
    • BelMonde
    • My America Story Book
  • About
    • Announcements
    • FAQ
  • Store

Civil War: High School

elementary
middle school
high school
enrichment
CULTURAL
FC   N11-275   Battle Hymn of the Republic
FC   N11-204   Civil War Hymn
WS9   U.S. Civil War

♥   When Life Was Young at the Old Farm in Maine  by C. A. Stephens (1912)
True account of a soldier returning home after war and a glimpse at what home life was like at the time.
HISTORY
FC   F9-193   Selections from Grant's Memoirs
FC   F9-257   Lee's Character
FC   F9-275   Personal Recollections from Letters of Robert E. Lee
♦   $   ​A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire by Fletcher Pratt
"Best one-volume history brings the events, figures, and battles of monumental conflict vividly to life. Absorbing details of military campaigns, battlefield strategies, and personalities revealed in an audacious style that carries readers breathlessly along from the day of Lincoln's inauguration to Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House."
♥   All Around the Civil War  by William Hawn (1908)
The southern point of view.
♦   $   ​Behind the Blue and Gray  by Delia Ray
A look at the soldier's life in the Civil War.
♥   Deeds and Daring of Both Blue and Gray  by D. M. Kelsey (1883)
Daring stories of both Union and Confederate soldiers
♥   Southern Heroes; or Friends in War Time  by Benjamin Trueblood (1895)
True stories of the Quakers during the war.
♥   Sparks from the Camp Fire  by Charles Greene (1889)
True stories of heroism.  Raw and realistic.
♦   The Many Faces of the Civil War by Irving Werstein
A Messner History
♥   Under the Guns: A Woman’s Reminiscences of the Civil War  by Annie Wittenmeyer
Eyewitness account of one who cared for the wounded soldiers during the war.
HISTORICAL FICTION
♥   $   ​​Gone With the Wind  by Margaret Mitchell
One of the best-selling novels of all time.  Set in Georgia during the Civil War and Reconstruction.  A must read!
BIOGRAPHIES
FC   F9-173   Grant:  The Man
FC   G11-232   Julia Ward Howe
FC   G12-156   General Lew Wallace
FC   G12-192   Louisa May Alcott
♥   Andrew Johnson, president of the United States 
​Reminiscences of his life and character by one of his secretaries
♦   Angel of Mercy:  The Story of Dorothea Lynde Dix by Rachel Baker
Messner Biography
♦   Belle Boyd:  Secret Agent by Jeannette Covert Nolan
Messner Biography
♥   Boys’ Life of General Grant  by Thomas Knox (1899)
Good, straightforward biography of Gen. Grant by the author of the Boy Travellers Series.  Not difficult reading for a high schooler.
♦   David Farragut:   Sea Fighter by Marie Mudra
Messner Biography
♦   $   ​Daring Sea Warrior:   Franklin Buchanan by George Fielding Eliot
Messner Biography
♥   Life of Andrew Johnson  by James Jones Sawyer (1901)
A very readable biography of the Reconstruction president.
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant  by Ulysses S. Grant (1885)
  • ♥   Volume 1
  • ♥   Volume 2
This is the highly acclaimed book Grant wrote while he was dying of throat cancer so that his family's needs would be taken care of after a devastating financial loss.  He died 5 days after completing it. It was published by Mark Twain.
♦   $   ​​Fighting Journalist:  Horace Greeley by Jules Archer
Messner Biography
SYMBOL LEGEND
►  = Audiobooks
​♥    = Free Online
​
♦    = Borrow Online
​
$    ​​= Purchase
FC  = Forgotten Classics Family Library
JC   = Junior Classics (1962 edition)
BH = My Book House (1971 edition)
Delphian Course (1913 edition)
Privacy Policy
​​Contact  Us
FAQ
© COPYRIGHT 2018. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Home
  • Well-Educated Heart
    • Catch the Vision Intro >
      • WEH Reference
      • 1 The Mother's Heart
      • 2 Change of Heart
      • 3 Joy Is Everywhere
      • 4 Heart Before Mind
      • 5 Grand Buffet
      • 6 Journey of Lifetime
    • Take 5
    • Mother's University
  • Libraries of Hope
    • Categories
    • Rotation
  • Fine Art
    • Quotes
    • Simple Joy Art
  • Audios
    • Podcasts
    • BelMonde
    • My America Story Book
  • About
    • Announcements
    • FAQ
  • Store