📚 The American Civil War

The war and its every retelling: campaigns, emancipation, and the enormous library the losing side kept writing.

Below are the 18 works carrying the subject american civil war in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	This Hallowed Ground	Bruce Catton	1956	33
	Woman's work in the Civil War	Linus Pierpont Brockett	1867	25
	Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Volume 1	William T. Sherman	1875	24
	Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Volume 2	William T. Sherman	1889	20
	Never Call Retreat-V3	Bruce Catton	1965	15
	Patriotic gore	Edmund Wilson	1962	13
	Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Volume 1, Part 2	William T. Sherman	2006	11
	Women of the war	Moore, Frank	1866	9
	Illustrated History of the Civil War	Henry Steele Commager	1976	8
	The coming fury	Bruce Catton	1961	7
	Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Volume 1, Part 1	William T. Sherman	2006	7
	Roland Blake	S. Weir Mitchell	1886	5
	Private and official correspondence	Butler, Benjamin F.	1917	5
	Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Volume 2, Part 3	William T. Sherman	2006	5
	A diplomatic adventure	S. Weir Mitchell	1906	4
	A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War	Craig L. Symonds	1983	4
	Memoirs of William T. Sherman (Complete)	William T. Sherman	1957	4
	Civil War (1860-1865), Volume 2	James M. McPherson	2014	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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