Union Generals Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881) Poore, Benjamin. The Life and Public Services of Ambrose E. Burnside. Providence, Rhode Island: J.A. & R.A. Reid, 1882. E B967p
Woodbury, Augustus. Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps. Providence: S.S. Rider & Brother, 1867. F834 P86.9 W884
David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870) Duffy, James P. Lincoln’s Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut. New York: Wiley, 1997. E F2393d
Farragut, Loyall. The Life of David Glasgow Farragut, First Admiral of the United States Navy, Embodying his Journal and Letters. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1879. E F2393f
Hill, Jim Dan. Sea Dogs of the Sixties: Farragut and Seven Contemporaries. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1935. F8347 H646s
Lewis, Charles Lee. David Glasgow Farragut. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1941- 43. E F2393L
Mahan, A.T. Admiral Farragut. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. E F2393m
Andrew Hull Foote (1806-1863) Hoppins, J. M. Life of Andrew Hull Foote, Rear-Admiral United States Navy. New York: Harper & Bros., 1874. E F688h
Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) Catton, Bruce. Grant Moves South. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988, c1960. F896.3 G76cat2 1988
Catton, Bruce. Grant Takes Command. Boston: Little, Brown, 1969. F896.3 G76cat3 1990
Grant, Ulysses S. Memoirs and Selected Letters: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Selected Letters 1839-1865. New York: Library of America, 1990. F896.3 G759p 1990 Lewis, Lloyd. Captain Sam Grant. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. F896.3 G76Le
McFeely, William S. Grant: A Biography. New York: Norton, 1981. F896.3 G76mcf
Perret, Geoffrey. Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President. New York: Random House, 1997. F896.3 G76pe
Simon, John Y., editor. The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. F896.3 G759
Henry Wager Halleck (1815-1872) Ambrose, Stephen E. Halleck: Lincoln’s Chief of Staff. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1962. E H1837a
Grant, Ulysses S. Letters to Henry Wager Halleck, 1862-1865. SC 587 Manuscript collection
Marszalek, John F. Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies: A Life of General Henry Wager Halleck. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. E H1837m
Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886) Hancock, Almira Russell. Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock, by his wife. New York: C.L. Webster & Co., 1887. E H235h
Jordan, David M. Winfield Scott Hancock: A Soldier’s Life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. E H235jo
McClure, James Baird. Life of Gen. Hancock: Including his Early History, War Record, Public Life, Nomination, and All the Interesting Facts of his Great Career. Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, 1880. E H235m
Tucker, Glenn. Hancock the Superb. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960.
E H235t
Joseph Hooker (1814-1879) Butterfield, Daniel. Major-General Joseph Hooker and the troops from the Army of the Potomac at Wauhatchie, Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga: together with General Hooker's military record from the files of the War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, U.S.A. New York: Exchange Print Company, 1896. E H783b
Hebert, Walter H. Fighting Joe Hooker. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999 c1944. E H783h
George B. McClellan (1826-1885) Hassler, Warren W. General George B. McClellan, Shield of the Union. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1957. E M126ha
McClellan, George B. 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. New York: C.L. Webster & Company, 1887. F834 M12m
McClellan, George Brinton, edited by Stephen W. Sears. The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1861-1865. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992. E M126 1989 (1922)
Newell, Clayton R. Lee vs. McClellan: the First Campaign. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1996. F8347 W52 N544L
Sears, Stephen W. George B. McClellan: the Young Napoleon. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. E M126s
George Gordon Meade (1815-1872) Bache, Richard Meade. Life of General George Gordon Meade, Commander of the Army of the Potomac. Philadelphia: H.T. Coates & Company, 1897. E M481b
Cleaves, Freeman. Meade of Gettysburg. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. E M481c
Corrigan, B.C. A Profile of General Meade and the Four Military Installations Named for the Victor at Gettysburg. Jacksonville, Illinois and Winter Haven, Florida: ADS Press, 1984. E M481co
Fitz John Porter (1822-1901) Eisenschiml, Otto. The Celebrated Case of Fitz John Porter; an American Dreyfus Affair. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1950. E P845e
William Starke Rosecrans (1819-1898) Lamers, William M. The Edge of Glory; a Biography of General William S. Rosecrans, U.S.A. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1961. E R799L
United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Rosecrans's Campaigns. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1865. F8347 U583ro 1865
Winfield Scott (1786-1866) Elliott, Charles Winslow. Winfield Scott, the Soldier and the Man. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. E S4314e
General Scott and his Staff: Comprising Memoirs of Generals Scott, Twiggs, Smith, Quitman, Shields, Pillow, Lane, Cadwalader, Patterson and Pierce... Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press,1970. EZ G326s
Johnson, Timothy D. Winfield Scott: the Quest for Military Glory. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. E S4314j
Lockwood, John and Charles Lockwood. The Siege of Washington: the Untold Story of the Twelve Days that Shook the Union. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. F859 W31 L817s
Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) Hutton, Paul Andrew. Phil Sheridan and his Army. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. E S5525hu Morris, Roy. Sheridan: the Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan. New York: Crown, 1992. E S5525mo
Sheridan, Philip Henry. Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, General, United States Army. New York: C.L. Webster & Co., 1888. E S5525
Faulkner, Joseph. The Life of Philip Henry Sheridan, the Dashing, Brave and Successful Soldier. New York: Hurst & Co., 1888. E S5525f
Thomas West Sherman (1813-1879) Cunningham, Edward. The Port Hudson Campaign. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963. F8347 P83 C973p
Sherman, Thomas West. Letters, May 24, 1861. SC 1381 Manuscript Collection
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) Fellman, Michael. Citizen Sherman: a Life of William Tecumseh Sherman. New York: Random House, 1995. E S553f
Glatthaar, Joseph T. The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns. New York: New York University Press, 1985. F8347 S548 G549m
Kennett, Lee B. Marching through Georgia: the Story of Soldiers and Civilians during Sherman's Campaign. New York: HarperPerennial, 1996. F8347 S548 K36m
Marszalek, John F. Sherman: a Soldier's Passion for Order. New York: Free Press, 1993. E S553mas
Sherman, William T. General Sherman’s Official Account of his Great March Through Georgia and the Carolinas, from his departure from Chatanooga to the Surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston and the Confederate Forces Under his Command. To Which is Added, General Sherman’s Evidence Before the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War; the Animadversions of Secretary Stanton and General Halleck: with a defense of his Proceedings, etc. New York: Bruce and Huntington, 1865. F8347 S553g
Sherman, William T. Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman. New York: Library of America: distributed by Viking Press, c1990. E S553m 1990
Sherman, William T. “War is Hell!”: William T. Sherman’s Personal Narrative of his March Through Georgia. Savannah: Beehive Press, 1974. E S553mL
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http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/
Compiled by Emily Scarbrough Reference Intern Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library 07/2012