Love Letters from the Civil War
John & Donna Chapman
A collection of letters saved by the Coffin family who settled in Dallas County, lowa, and saved over 133 letters spanning 138 years. Paper 134 pp.
BookGuy price $14.95

Maine

AL073  "Unspoiled Heart" The Journal of Charles Mattocks of the 17th Maine 
ed by P.N. Racine
 Hardcover. 480 pp.   
Bookguy price  $38.50

Massachusetts

AL078  When This Cruel War Is Over.   ed David W. Blight
The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster.  Born and raised in Northampton, Massachusetts, Brewster was a twenty-seven-year-old store clerk when he enlisted in Company C of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteers in 1861.  
Bookguy price  $40

Minnesota

New Hampshire

New Jersey

After Chancellorsville: Letters from the Heart: The Civil War Letters of Private Walter G. Dunn and Emma Randolph
ed. J. A. Bailey
Severely wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville, nineteen-year-old Walter Dunn of the 11th New Jersey Infantry was taken to Baltimore. Left behind on the field were precious letters from a young woman in his hometown of Plainfield. He wrote to her again, as soon as he was able, of his blood-soaked duties as a surgeon's assistant when the Gettysburg casualties rolled in. He described the tensions of wartime Baltimore -- and rumors of peace, of battles lost or won, and impending raids. Responding, she told of the events of her daily life -- church meetings, ice cream socials, and lonely rainy days. As the correspondence continued they tentatively broached the subject of love, and of his return home, but more of war's cruelty awaited. These letters tell a story of suffering and quiet heroism, separation and reunion, and the impact of unpredictable fate on young lives.
 Paper 280 pp.
BookGuy price $22.50

New York

NWS010   Writing And Fighting The Civil War.  Soldier Correspondence To The New York Sunday Mercury.  
Ed. by William B. Styple
Soldier writing to the paper wrote of contemporary events, scenes, and personalities.  They did not write from hindsight, nor are they as prone to exaggerate their personal roles. Hardcover. 320 pp. 
Bookguy price $27
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AL097 Eye of the Storm 
Robert Knox Sneden.
Four tattered scrapbooks found in 1994 yielded a treasure trove of more than 500 watercolors that vividly depict  the experience of Union private and mapmaker Robert Knox Sneden.  He joined the 40th New York and within months was appointed as map maker at Corps headquarters. In 1863 he was captured by Mosby and wound up in Andersonville where he recorded what he saw.
Hardcover.  320 pp. $37.50
Bookguy price  $29.95

AL095   Bridge Building in Wartime. Col. Wesley Brainerd's Memoir of the 50th New York Volunteer Engineers.
ed Ed Malles
Now published for the first time, this insightful and articulate narrative adds an extensive personal perspective to the story of the Union engineers.  Hardcover.  415 pp. 
Bookguy price  $46

Ohio

Pennsylvania

PA006  A Keystone Rebel.  The Civil War Diary of Joseph Garey, Hudson's Battery Mississippi Volunteers.    
ed by David A. Welker
The story of a Pennsylvania boy who left home to fight for his adopted state of Mississippi.  
Bookguy Price $11.95

Rhode Island

All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Anyone who heard these diaries of a common Union soldier excerpted on the PBS-TV documentary The Civil War will recognize Elisha Hunt Rhodes' accounts of campaigns from Bull Run to Appomattox, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. "This remarkable diary chronicles the career of one of the Civil War's most remarkable soldiers".--James M. McPherson. 70 photos.
 Paper 272 pp. $13.95
BookGuy price $11.16

AL091P  Hard Marching Every Day: The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk 
ed by Rosenblatt.
Between December 1861, and July 1865,  Fisk, a self-educated rural school teacher from Vermont, wrote almost 100 letters to the Montpelier Green Mountain Freeman from the front. Paper
Bookguy Price $15.95

VER002   Full Duty. Vermonters in the Civil War.   
Howard Coffin
This book, written with the immediacy of a combat correspondent, dramatizes why and how a small, poor, remote northern state responded so quickly and enthusiastically to Lincoln's first call to arms in 1861.  Paper.  376 pp.  $21
Bookguy Price $14.70

Wisconsin

WIS002   3rd Wisconsin Badgers. Journals of Van R. Willard  
ed Steven S. Raab
Willard was a member of Co. G at age twenty.  He served continuously until July 1, 1864.  Hardcover  277 pp.  
Bookguy price $29.95  

WIS001   Wisconsin In The Civil War   Frank L. Klement
A vivid chronological narrative of Wisconsin's role in the pivotal event in American history, from the presidential election of 1860 to the assassination of Lincoln in the spring of 1865. 
Bookguy Price $29.95