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Ballard, Michael B. Grant at Vicksburg: The General and the Siege. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.
Berg, A. Scott. Wilson. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013.
Berkin, Carol. Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
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Brands, H. W. The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace. New York: Doubleday, 2012.
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Cadwallader, Sylvanus. Three Years with Grant: As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Reprint.
Campbell, Edwina S. Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth: Ulysses S. Grant’s Postpresidential Diplomacy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.
Campi, James, Jr. Civil War Battlefields Then and Now. San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2012.
Cantacuzène, Princess Julia. Revolutionary Days: Including Passages from My Life Here and There, 1876–1917. Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1999.
Carnegie, Andrew. The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay “The Gospel of Wealth.” Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2014. Reprint.
Catton, Bruce. The Coming Fury. Vol. 1 of The Centennial History of the Civil War. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961.
———. Terrible Swift Sword. Vol. 2 of The Centennial History of the Civil War. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963.
———. Never Call Retreat. Vol. 3 of The Centennial History of the Civil War. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965.
———. Grant Moves South. New York: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, 1988.
———. Grant Takes Command. Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, 1969. Reprint.
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence. The Passing of the Armies. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004. Reprint.
Chase, Salmon P. The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Vol. 1, Journals, 1829–1872. Edited by John Niven. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1993.
Chesnut, Mary. Mary Chesnut’s Civil War. Edited by C. Vann Woodward. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1981. Reprint.
Clews, Henry. Fifty Years in Wall Street. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Reprint.
Colman, Edna M. White House Gossip: From Andrew Johnson to Calvin Coolidge. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Page, 1927.
Comstock, Cyrus B. The Diary of Cyrus B. Comstock. Edited by Merlin E. Summer. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, 1987.
Corum, G. L. Ulysses Underground: The Unexplored Roots of U. S. Grant and the Underground Railroad. West Union, Ohio: Riveting History, 2015.
Cozzens, Peter. The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Cramer, M. J. Ulysses S. Grant: Conversations and Unpublished Letters. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1897.
Dana, Charles A. Recollections of the Civil War. New York: D. Appleton, 1898.
Dietz, Ulysses Grant, and Sam Watters. Dream House: The White House as an American Home. New York: Acanthus Press, 2009.
Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. Reprint.
Downs, Gregory P. After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Duncan, Bingham. Whitelaw Reid: Journalist, Politician, Diplomat. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1975.
Eaton, John. Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Reprint.
Egerton, Douglas R. The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014.
Ellington, Charles G. The Trial of U. S. Grant: The Pacific Coast Years, 1852–1854. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1987.
Farmer, Lydia Hoyt. The National Exposition Souvenir: What America Owes to Women. Buffalo, N.Y.: Charles Wells Moulton, 1893.
Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Ferrier, Alexander Murray. “Memoir.” Unpublished typescript written 1879. Courtesy of Mercer Warriner.
Flood, Charles Bracelen. Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2011.
Foner, Eric. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.
———. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Reprint.
Foner, Philip S. The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. Vol. 4, Reconstruction and After. New York: International Publishers, 1955.
Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 1, Fort Sumter to Perryville. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. Reprint.
———. The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 2, Fredericksburg to Meridian. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. Reprint.
———. The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 3, Red River to Appomattox. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. Reprint.
Foreman, Amanda. A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War. New York: Random House, 2010.
Fowler, Charles Henry. Patriotic Orations. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1910.
Friedman, Leon, and Fred L. Israel, eds. The Justices of the United States Supreme Court, 1789–1969. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1969.
Fuller, Major General J. F. C. Grant & Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957.
Gillette, William. Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869–1879. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Reprint.
Girardi, Robert. The Civil War Generals: Comrades, Peers, Rivals in Their Own Words. Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2013.
Goodheart, Adam. 1861: The Civil War Awakening. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
———. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Reprint.
Gordon, Ann D., ed. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Vol. 2, Against an Aristocracy of Sex, 1866 to 1873. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Gordon-Reed, Annette. Andrew Johnson. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2011.
Grant, Arthur Hastings, ed. Report of the First Reunion of the Grant Family Association at Windsor and Hartford, Conn. on October 27, 1899. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Press of A. V. Haight, 1899.
Grant, Jesse R. In the Days of My Father General Grant. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925.
Grant, Julia Dent. The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant. Edited by John Y. Simon. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975. Reprint.
Grant, Ulysses S. The Best Writings of Ulysses S. Grant. Edited by John F. Marszalek. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
———. Memoirs and Selected Letters. New York: Library of America, 1990.
———. Ulysses S. Grant: Essays and Documents. Edited by David L. Wilson and John Y. Simon. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981.
Greely, Major-General A. W. Reminiscences of Adventure and Service: A Record of Sixty-Five Years. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927.
Greenberg, Amy S. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Hamilton, Lois Neal. Amos T. Akerman and His Role in American Politics. Master’s thesis for the Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University, May 9, 1939. Copy at Grant Presidential Library.
Haskell, William G. Memorial Sermon on the Life and Death of Gen. John Aaron Rawlins. Danbury, Conn.: Times Job Printing Establishment, 1869.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes. Vol. 3, 1865–1881. Edited by Charles Richard Williams. Columbus: Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society, 1924.
Hesseltine, William B. Ulysses S. Grant: Politician. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1957. Reprint.
Hoar, George F. Autobiography of Seventy Years. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906.
Holloway, Laura C. The Ladies of the White House; or, In the House of the Presidents. Cincinnati: Forshee McMakin, 1881.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Touched with Fire: Civil War Letters and Diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1861–1864. New York: Fordham University Press, 2000.
Holzer, Harold. The Civil War in 50 Objects. With the New-York Historical Society. New York: Viking, 2013.
———. Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
———, ed. The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory. Edited with Craig L. Symonds and Frank J. Williams. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.
———, ed. Lincoln on War. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 2011.
Hope, Ian Clarence. A Scientific Way of War: Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Jones, James Pickett. John A. Logan: Stalwart Republican from Illinois. Tallahassee: Florida State University/University Presses of Florida, 1982.
Jones, John B. A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate States Capital. 2 vols. N.p.: Civil War Classic Library [n.d.]. Reprint.
Jordan, David M. Roscoe Conkling of New York: Voice in the Senate. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1971.
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Keegan, John. The American Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
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Klein, Maury. The Life and Legend of Jay Gould. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Korda, Michael. Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee. New York: HarperCollins, 2014.
———. Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009. Reprint.
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Lemann, Nicholas. Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Life and Services of General U.S. Grant, Conqueror of the Rebellion and Eighteenth President of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Philp & Solomons, 1868.
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Longacre, Edward G. Army of Amateurs: General Benjamin F. Butler and the Army of the James, 1863–1865. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1997.
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McClellan, George B. The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860–1865. Edited by Stephen W. Sears. N.p.: Da Capo Press, 1992. Reprint.
McCullough, David. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011. Reprint.
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———. Grant: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.
McKitrick, Eric L. Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.
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———. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. New York: Penguin Books, 2009. Reprint.
———. War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861–1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
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———. Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order. New York: Free Press, 1993.
———. Sherman’s Other War: The General and the Civil War Press. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999. Reprint.
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———. Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan. New York: Crown, 1992.
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