What to Read After The Civil War
Readers who loved The Civil War by Shelby Foote keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Civil War is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Civil War
Battle Cry of Freedom Part 1 of 3
A stillness at Appomattox
Landscape Turned Red
Confederates In The Attic
Lee's Lieutenants
Glory Road
The Gettysburg campaign
For Cause and Comrades
April 1865
Return to Bull Run
Gods and Generals
Citizen Soldiers
Gettysburg
Chancellorsville
Truman
Undaunted Courage
An Army at Dawn
D-Day, June 6, 1944
The Day of Battle
Shiloh
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Washington's crossing
The Killer Angels
Lincoln at Gettysburg