This list does not begin to fully represent the sources consulted in writing Uncertain Glory, but does suggest some resources for anyone interested in information about the Civil War and, particularly, its effect on children and young people in both the North and the South. I have also included several books on the fascinating subject of spiritualism in nineteenth-century American history and culture.
Beattie, Donald, Rodney M. Cole, and Charles G. Waugh (eds.). A Distant War Comes Home: Maine in the Civil War Era. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1996.
Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989 (second edition).
Chambers II, John Whiteclay (ed.). The Oxford Companion to American Military History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Hoar, Jay S. Callow, Brave and True: A Gospel of Civil War Youth. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1999.
Marten, James. The Children’s Civil War. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Murphy, Jim. The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War. New York: Clarion Books, 1990.
Podmore, Frank. Mediums of the Nineteenth Century (volumes 1 and 2). New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, Inc., 1963 (reprint of 1902 book).
Sears, Stephen W., Aaron Sheehan-Dean, and Brooks D. Simpson (eds.). The Civil War: The First Year Told By Those Who Lived It. New York: Penguin Group, The Library of America, 2011.
Soodalter, Ron. Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader. New York: Atria Books, 2006.
Stuart, Nancy Rubin. The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2005.
Weisberg, Barbara. Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism. San Francisco: Harper, 2004.
Williams, David. A People’s History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom. New York: The New Press, 2005.