Books on the Civil War in Kentucky

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Beach, Damian. Civil War Battles, Skirmishes and Events in Kentucky. Louisville: Different Drummer Books, 1995.

Brown, Kent M, ed. The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle for the Bluegrass. Mason City, IA: Savas Publishing, 2000.

Clark, Thomas D. Pleasant Hill in the Civil War. Harrodsburg: Pleasant Hill Press, 1972.

Connelly, Thomas L. The Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967.

Coulter, E. Merton. The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1966. 468 pages.

Davis, William C. and Meredith L. Swentor, ed. Bluegrass Confederate: The Headquarters Diary of Edward O. Guerrant. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

Engle, Stephen D. Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Gorin, Betty J. "Morgan Is Coming!": Confederate Raiders in the Heartland of Kentucky. Prospect, KY: Harmony House Press, 2005.

Hafendorfer, Kenneth. The Battle of Wildcat Mountain. Louisville: KH Press, 2003.

Hafendorfer, Kennth A. Mill Springs: Campaign and Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky. Louisville: KH Press, 2001.

Hafendorfer, Kenneth. Perryville: Battle for Kentucky Louisville: KH Press, 1991. 515 pages.

Hafendorfer, Kenneth. They Died by Twos and Tens: The Confederate Cavalry in the Kentucky Campaign of 1862. Louisville, KH Press, 1995.

Harrison, Lowell H. Lincoln of Kentucky. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. 305 pages.

Harrison, Lowell H. The Civil War in Kentucky. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1975. 112 pages.
First Edition in the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf series.
Current in print edition.

Heck, Frank H. Proud Kentuckian: John C. Breckinridge, 1821-1875. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1976.

Hess, Earl J. Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Horn, Stanley. The Army of Tennessee. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1952.

Howard, Victor B. Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1884. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983.

Lambert, D. Warren. When the Ripe Pears Fell: The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky. Richmond: Madison County Historical Society, 1995. 260 pages.

McDonough, James L. War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994. 386 pages.

McWhiney, Grady. Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat. Volume I: Field Command. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

Myers, Raymond E. The Zollie Tree. Louisville: The Filson Club Press, 1964.

Noe, Kenneth W. Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001. (NOTE: Publication date is August 1, 2001)

Owen, Kathryn, compiler. Civil War Days in Clark County. n.p., 1963.

Penn, William A. Rattling Spurs and Broad-brimmed Hats: The Civil War in Cynthiana and Harrison County, Kentucky. Midway: Battle Grove Press, 1995.

Perry, Robert. Jack May's War: Colonel Andrew Jackson May and the Civil War in Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee, and Southwestern Virginia. Johnson City, TN: The Overmountain Press, 1998.

Preston, John D. The Civil War in the Big Sandy Valley of Kentucky. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1984.

Ramage, James A. Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

Smith, John David and William Cooper, Jr., ed. A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky: The Diary of Frances Peter. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.

Starr, Stephen Z. The Union Cavalry in the Civil War: Volume III, The War in the West, 1861-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.

Tallant, Harold D. Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003

Tapp, Hambleton and James C. Klotter (Eds.). The Union, the Civil War and John W. Tuttle: A Kentucky Captain's Account. Frankfort: The Kentucky Historical Society, 1980.

Tarrant, Eastham. The Wild Riders of the First Kentucky Cavalry. Louisville: R.H. Carothers, 1894.

Thomas, Edison H. John Hunt Morgan and His Raiders. Lexington: Univesity Press of Kentucky, 1975. 120 pages.

Townsend, William H. Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955.

Works Progress Administration. Military History of Kentucky. Frankfort: State Journal, 1939.

Wharton, Mary E. and Ellen F. Williams, ed. Peach Leather and Rebel Gray: Bluegrass Life and the War, 1860-1865. Lexington: The Helicon Co., 1986. 189 pages.