MORE GOOD READING

July 21, 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run.  Therefore, this past week we continued to look at Bullis books on the subject of the Civil War.  We focused on the four listed below because they represent a variety of view points...youth, men, women, Union, and Confederate. Here they are for your reference...and interesting reading.

1. Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, published by the G.P.O. in 1863.

2. A Youth's History of the Great Civil War in the United States, from 1861 to 1865, (with illustrations) by R. G. Horton, published by Van Evrie, Horton & Co. in 1868.

3. Life in Dixie During the War, 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865, by Mary A. H. Gay, published by The Foote & Davies Co. in 1894.

4. Four Years in Secessia: Adventures within and beyond the Union lines: embracing a great variety of facts, incidents, and romance of the war..., by Junius Henri Browne, published by O.D. Case and Company in 1865. (Dedication: "To the private soldiers of the union, the unrecorded and fameless heroes of the war, who deserve the eternal gratitude of the republic they have preserved, this unpretending volume is admiringly inscribed.")

5. The American Conflict: a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64;.... 
by Horace Greeley, published by O.D. Case & Company in 1865-66. ("...illustrated by portraits on steel of generals, statesmen, and other eminent men; views of places of historic interest; maps, diagrams of battlefields, naval actions, etc.; from official sources")

6. War Pictures from the South, by Bela Estvan, published by D. Appleton and Co. in 1863.

Most of these books can be accessed on line. As always, you're also invited to stop by the Bullis Room to take a look at the real thing.