Influences

Brinkley, Alan, American History, Connecting with the Past, New York: McGraw Hill, 2012 -  ISBN: 978-0-07-340695-4

Cornwell, Bernard, The Bloody Ground, The Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles, Book Four, Battle of Antietam, 1862, New York: Harper Collins, 1996 - ISBN: 0-06-093719-X

Faulkner, William, Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Random House, 1936 - ISBN 978-0-679-73218-1

Foner, Eric, Reconstruction America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, New York: Harper & Row, 1988 - ISBN: 978-0-06-093716-4

Grahame-Smith, Seth, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer, New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2010 - ISBN: 978-14555-1018-4

Hackman, Gene and Daniel Lenihan, Escape From Andersonville, A Novel of the Civil War, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008 - ISBN-13: 978-0-312-36373-4, ISBN-10: 0-312-36373-7

Jakes, John, North and South, Part I, New York: Penguin Putnam, 1982 - ISBN: 0-451-20081-0

Knauer, Kelly (editor/writer), The Civil War - The Final Year, New York: Time Books, 2014 forward by Jeff Shaara

MacDonald, John, Great Battles of the Civil War, New York: Chartwell Books, Inc., 2014 - ISBN: 10:0-7858-3095-2, ISBN: 13:978-0-7858-3095-5

Reasoner, James, Shenandoah, Book 8, The Civil War Battle Series, Nashville: Cumberland House, 2002 - ISBN: 1-58182-294-4

Shaara, Jeff, The Last Full Measure, New York: Ballantine Publishing, 1998 - ISBN: 0-345-40491-2

Shaara, Jeff, A Blaze of Glory, A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh, New York: Random House, 2012 - ISBN: 978-0-345-52735-6

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly, University of Oxford Text Archive, 1852

Webb, James, Born Fighting - How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, New York: Broadway Books, 2004 - eISBN: 978-0-7679-2295-1, v3.0

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