6. Biography/autobiography<BR>

6. Biography/autobiography

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Ulysses G. Grant

U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition. 1st Edition. By Bruce Catton. Boston: Little, Brown, 1954. E672-C36

Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of Natural Preservation and Reconstruction. By William C. Church. Garden City, N. Y.: Garden City Publishing Co., 1926. E668-G761-C561

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. 2 volumes. New York: C. L. Webster & Co., 1885-6. E672-G76

Captain Sam Grant. 1st Edition. By Llord Lewis. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. E672-L6744

The Personal Memoirs and Military History of U. S. Grant Versus the Record of the Army of the Potomac. By Carswell McClellan. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. E470.2-M12

Grant and His Generals. 1st Edition. By Clarence E. N. Macartney. New York: McBride Co., 1953. E467-M123

The Ancestry of General Grant, and Their Contemporaries. By Edward C. Marshall. New York: Sheldon & Company, 1869. CS71-G762-M367

From Tannery to White House: The Life of Ulysses S. Grant. By William M. Thayer. New York: Hurst & Co., c 1885. dE672-T369

General Grant. By James Grant Wilson. New York: D. Appleton and Co., c 1897. Same Title. New York: D. Appleton, c 1897. DE672-W749; dE672-W749-1897

Meet General Grant. By W. E. Woodward. With illustrations. Garden City, N. Y.: Garden City Publishing Co., c 1928. Same Title. New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. Same Title. New York: Liveright Pub. Corp., 1946. E672-W912-1928; E672-W912-1928-1; E672-W912-1946

With Are the Names of the Guests of the Fifth Avenue Hotel: On the occasion of the obsequies of General U. S. Grant, August 8th, 1885. New York: Hitchcock, Darling & Co., 1885. dE672-W5-1885

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

"Stonewall Jackson": The life and military career of Thomas Jonathan Jackson, lieutenant-general in the Confederate army. By Markinfield Addey. New York: C. T. Evans: Chicago: J. R. Walker, 1863. dE467.1-J14-A22

Stonewall Jackson and the Old Stonewall Brigade. Edited by Richard Barksdale Harwell. By John E. Cooke. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press for the Tracy W. McGregor Library, 1954. E467.1-J14-C772

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. 2 Volumes. By Lt. Col. G. F. R. Henderson. With an introduction by Field-Marshall the Right Hon. Viscount Wolsely. New York, London, etc.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900. Same Title. 2 Volumes. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1926. dE467.1-J14-H496; E467.1-J14-H496-1926

The Genealogies of the Jackson, Junkin and Morrison Families. Compiled by Michael I. Shoop. Lexington, Va.: Garland Gray Memorial Research Center, Jackson House, Historic Lexington Foundation, 1981. fCS71-J14-S559

Might Stonewall. By Frank E. Vandiver. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957. E467.1-J14-V245

Robert E. Lee

Lee the American. By Gameliel Bradford. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1929. E467.1-L47-B799-1929

Lee and His Cause: Or, the why and the how of the war between the states. By John R. Deering. New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1907. dE487-D312

Lee: A Biography. By Douglas Southall Freeman. 4 Volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. E467.1-L47-F855-1945

Lee. By Douglas Freeman. An abridgement in one volume, by Richard Harwell, of the four-volume R. E. Lee. New York, Scribner, 1961. E467.1-L47-F855

Lee's Lieutenants: A study in command. By Douglas Southall Freeman. 3 Volumes. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1942-44. E470.2-F855

General Lee. By Fitzhugh Lee, his nephew. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1894. Same Title. E467.1-L47-L45; E467.1-L47-L45-1894

Robert E. Lee, the Soldier. By Sir Frederick Maurice. With portrait, maps and plans. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925. E467.1-L47-M454

Robert E. Lee. By William P. Trent. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899. dE467.1-L47-T79

George B. McClellan

Little Mac: The Life of General George B. McClellan. By Clarence Edward Macartney. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, 1940. E467.1-M12-M123

McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it and his relations to it and to them. By George B. McClellan. New York: C. L. Webster & Company, 1887 (1886). E470.2-M126

General McClellan. By General Peter S. Michie. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901. E467.1-M12-M62

Philip H. Sheridan

"Little Phil" and His Troopers. The life of General Philip H. Sheridan. By Frank A. Burr and Richard J. Hinton. Providence, R. I.: J. A. & R. A. Reid, 1888. E467.1-S55-B96

General Sheridan. By General Henry E. Davies. New York: Appleton and Company, 1895. E467.1-S55-D255

Illustrated Life, Campaigns and Public Services of Philip H. Sheridan (Major-General Sheridan). By C. W. Denison. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1865. Case-E467.1-S55-D39

Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army. 2 Volumes. New York: C. L. Webster & Company, 1888. E467.1-S55-S55

William Tecumseh Sherman

Sherman and His Campaigns: A military biography. By Col. S. M. Bowman and Lt. Col. R. B. Irwin, New York: C. B. Richardson; Cincinatti: C. F. Vent & Co., 1865. E467.1-S553-B78

Life and Deeds of General Sherman. By Henry Davenport Northrop. Philadelphia: Globe Bible Pub. Co., c 1891. E467.1-S553-N877

General Sherman. By Manning F. Force. New York: D. Appleton and Company, c 1899. E476.1-S553-F697

Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American. By B. H. Liddell Hart. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1960. E467.1-S553-L712-1960

Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. By W. Fletcher Johnson. With an introduction by Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard. Philadelphia: Edgewood Publishing Company, 1891. E467.1-S553-J71

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. 2 Volumes. By himself. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. Same Title. 2 Volumes in 1. 4th Edition. Revised and corrected. New York: C. L. Webster & Company, 1891. Same Title. Foreward by B. H. Liddell Hart. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957. E467.1-S55-S52; E467.1-S553; E467.1-S553-1957

Sherman: A Memorial in Art, Oratory, and Literature. By the Society of the Army of the Tennessee with the aid of Congress of the United States of America. Prepared by the authority of Congress under the direction of Col. Thomas W. Symons, in charge of monument and ceremonies, by De B. Randolph Keim. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1904. qE467.1-S553-K27

Others

Personnel of the Civil War. 2 Volumes. Introduction by William Frayne Amann. New York: T. Yoseloff, 1961. E494-A5

Men of Our Day. By L. P. Brockett. Biographical sketches of patriots, generals, statesmen, etc. Philadelphia: Ziegler & McCurdy, 1868. E467-B86

General Officers of the Confederate Army, Officers of the Executive Departments of the Confederate States, Members of the Confederate Congress by States. Compiled and edited by Gen. Marcus J. Wright. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1911. E467-W95

Minute Men of Pennsylvania: With a brief biography of their leader in Blair, Bedford and Cambria Counties, Col. Jacob C. Higgins. By Milton V. Burgess. Martinsburg, Pa.: Morrisons Cove Herald, 1962. E475.51-B955

Memoirs of a Swiss Officer in the American Civil War. By Rudolf Aschmann. Edited and introduction by Heinz K. Meier. Bern and Frankfurt: Herbert Lang, 1972. E601-A81

Military Memoirs of a Confederate. By Edward Porter Alexander. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910, c 1907. E545-A37

] James Buchanan and His Cabinet on the Eve of Secession. By Philip Gerald Auchampaugh. Lancaster, Pa.: Private Printing, 1926. E436-A89

Life and Achievements of James Addams Beaver. Early life, military services and public career of the commander of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. By Frank A. Burr. Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros. & Co., Printers, 1882. dE467.1-B39-B968

Felix Reville Brunot, 1820-1898. A civilian in the war for the union, president of the first Board of Indian Commissioners. By Charles Lewis Slattery. New York, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. dE93-B89-S63

The Life, Trial, and Execution of Captain John Brown: Known as Old Brown of Ossawatomie. Compiled from official and authentic sources. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969. E451-B87

Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Maj. General Benjamin F. Butler. Boston: A. M. Thayer & Co., 1892. E467.1-B87

The Miner Boy and His Monitor: Or, the career and achievements of John Ericsson, the engineer. By Rev. P. C. Headley. New York: W. H. Appleton, 1865. T40-dE68-H43

The Life of David Glasgow Farragut: First admiral of the United States Navy, embodying his journal and letters. By his son, Loyall Farragut. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1879. E467.1-F23-F219

Admiral Farragut. By Captain A. T. Mahan. New York: D. Appleton and Company, c 1892. E467.1-F23-M214

That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. By John A. Wyeth. Foreward by Henry Steele Commager. Maps by Jean Tremblay. Original illustrations by T. de Thulstrup. New York: Harper, 1959. E467.1-F728-W979

John White Geary, Soldier-Statesman, 1819-1873. By Harry Marlin Tinkcom. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940. E476.1-G29-T589

Reminiscences of the Civil War. By General John B. Gordon. With an introduction by General Stephen D. Lee. Memorial account by Frances Gordon Smith. New York: C. Scribner's Sons; Atlanta: Martin & Hoyt Co., 1904. Same Title. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c 1903, 1904. E470-G66; E470-G66-1904

David Gregg: Pennsylvania Cavalryman. By Milton V. Burgess. State College, Pa.: Nittany Valley Offset, c 1984. qE527-G819-B955

General Hancock. By General Francis A. Walker. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912, c 1894. Same Title. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1894. dE467.1-H23-W17; E467.1-H2-W179

Sword and Olive Branch: Oliver Otis Howard. By John A. Carpenter. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1964. E467.1-H85-C29

Life and Letters of Alexander Hays: Brevet Colonel United States Army, Brigadier General and Brevet Major General United States Volunteers. Edited and arranged with notes and contemporary history by George Thornton Fleming from data compiled by Gilbert Adams Hays. Pittsburgh, Pa., 1919. E467.1-H42-F59

General Johnston: Joseph E. By Robert M. Hughes. New York: D. Appleton and Company, c 1893. E467.1-J74-H894

Personal and Military History of Philip Kearny, Major General United States Volunteers. By John Watts De Peyster. 2nd Edition. Elizabeth, N. J.: N. J. Palmer & Co.; New York: J. Miller, 1870. E467.1-K24-D41

Abraham Lincoln, the War Years. 4 Volumes. With reproductions of photographs, cartoons, letters and documents. By Carl Sandburg. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1940. E457-S213-1940

General John A. Logan: A biography. By Byron Andrews. New York: N. S. Goodspeed & Co., 1884. E664-B63-C7

From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the civil war in America. By James Longstreet. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1896. E470-L85

Recollections of Half a Century. By Colonel Alexander McClure. Salem, Mass.: The Salem Press Company, 1902. E415.7-M166

The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army. 2 Volumes. By George Meade. Edited by George Gordon Meade. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1913. E467.1-M38-M481

The Life of General Ely S. Parker: Last grand sachem of the Iroquois and General Grant's military secretary. By Arthur C. Parker. Buffalo, N. Y.: Buffalo Historical Society, 1919. F129-B92-B9-v.23

Biographical Sketches of Eminent American Patriots. By Joseph Taggart. Includes sketches of William Starke Rosecrans and Philip Henry Sheridan. Kansas City, Mo.: The Burton Company, 1907. E184-C3-T125

The Civil War Career of Thomas A. Scott. By Samuel Richey Kamm. Philadelphia, 1940. E491-S429

Memoirs of Lieut.-General Scott, LL.D. Written by himself. New York: Sheldon & Company, 1864. dE403.1-S43

General Scott. By General Marcus J. Wright. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1897. dE403.1-S4-W952-1897

The Public Life of James A. Seddon. By Merton E. Stearns. Sugar Grove, Pa.: The author?, 1924. qE467.1-S38

Edwin McMasters Stanton: The autocrat of rebellion, emancipation, and reconstruction. By Frank Abial Flower. Akron, Oh., New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1905. E467.1-S79-F64

Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War. 1st Edition. By Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman. New York: Knoph, 1962. E467.1-S79-T45

Edwin M. Stanton: His character and public services on the eve of the Rebellion. As presented in a series of papers by Henry Wilson and J. S. Black. Easton, Pa.: Cole, Morwitz & Co., 1871. E467.1-S79-W748

In Memoriam, Edwin McMasters Stanton, His Life and Work: With an account of dedication of braonze statue in his native city. By Joseph B. Doyle, under auspices of the Stanton Monument Association. Steubenville, Oh.: The Herald Printing Company, 1911.

Thaddeus Stevens, Scourge of the South. By Fawn (McKay) Brodie. New York: Norton, 1959. E415.9-S84-B864

War Years with Jeb Stuart. By Lt. Col. W. W. Blackford, C. S. A. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1945. E470-B62

General Thomas. By Henry Coppee. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893. E467.1-T4-C785


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