• Gone For a Soldier: The Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard
  by David H. Donald, ed., 1975.
  A soldier’s account of his experiences during the Civil War including his drawings of army life.
• The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union
  by Bell Irvin Wiley, 1951
• The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy
  by Bell Irvin Wiley, 1943.
  These two books examine the lives of typical Civil War soldiers on both sides of the conflict.
• War, Terrible War (A History of US series, Volume 6)
  by Joy Hakim, 1994.
  A general history of the Civil War with lots of pictures and interesting information about women, African Americans, military leaders, and important Civil War figures such as Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis.
• A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War
  by Ina Chang, 1991.
  The varied experiences and roles of women in the Civil War.
• The Fort Ward Coloring Book.
  Contains information about the Civil War and Fort Ward for younger readers. Available in the Fort Ward Museum shop.
• The Red Badge of Courage
  by Stephen Crane, 1894.
  Historical fiction based on the battlefield experiences of a typical Civil War soldier.