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    Civil War and Reconstruction Period (1861-1877)

 

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  • Alexander, Virginia.  “Colonel Jacob Biffle.”a  Historic Maury 41:1 (2005): 10-15.

 

 

 

  • Bagby, Milton.  A Setting for Disaster.”  Civil War Times Illustrated 36:7 (1998): 26, 28, 30, 60-62.  

 

 

 

 

  • Booth, Louise.  “Confederate Sojourns in Middle Tennessee.”a Bedford County Historical Quarterly 17:4 (1991): 101-111.

 

  • Bradley, Michael.  Old Times They are Not Forgotten: A Family Saga of the Civil War.  Bell Buckle: Bell Buckle Press, 1992.

 

 

  • Bradley, Michael.  With Blood and Fire: Life Behind Union Lines in Middle Tennessee, 1863-65.  Burd Street Press, 2003.

 

  • Branch, Mary Polk.  Memoirs of a Southern Woman “Within the Lines,” and a Genealogical Record.a  Chicago: Joseph G. Branch, 1912.

 

 

  • Brewer, Richard J.  The Tullahoma Campaign: Operational Insights.  Fort Leavenworth: Unpublished Master’s Thesis, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1991.

 

  • Burtt, John T.  “War by Maneuver: The Tullahoma Campaign, June 1863.”  Strategy and Tactics 183 (November/December, 1996): 52-62.

 

  • Campbell, Andrew Jackson.  Civil War Diary.a  Ed. Jill K. Garrett.  Columbia: N.P., 1965.

 

  • Campbell, W.H.  "Life in the Tullahoma Camps, 1863."a  Coffee County Historical Society Quarterly 17: 1-2 (1986): 97-99.

 

 

  • Caughron, Jack.  “John W. Caughron and the Rebels who Refused to Surrender.”a  Historic Maury 38:4 (2002): 143-147.

 

  • Cheairs, N.F.  “Personal Experiences in the War Between the States.”a  Historic Maury 35:1 (1999): 14-17; 35:3 (1999): 103-104.

 

 

 

 

  • Chubley, George W.  “Isham Harris: Tennessee’s Civil War Governor.”a  Coffee County Historical Society Quarterly 3:4 (1974): 37-56.

 

 

  • Cimprich, John.  Slavery's End in Tennessee, 1861-1865.  Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 1985.

 

 

  • Claxton, Marvin L.  “1863 Letter from Shelbyville.”a Bedford County Historical Quarterly 8:4 (1982): 122.

 

  • Confederate Soldiers of Hickman County, Tennessee.a  Centerville: United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1996.

 

 

 

 

  • Connolly, James A.  Three Years in the Army of the Cumberland.  Ed. Paul M. Angel.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1959.

 

  • Cook, Goldea.  “A Civil War Letter from J.J. Lucas and Further Lucas Family Notes.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 7:3 (1981): 86-87.

 

  • Cook, Goldea.  “Forrest’s Escort.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 7:3 (1981): 72-73.

 

 

  • Cook, Jerry Wayne.  “Civil War Shelbyville.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 21:1 (1995): 13-15.

 

  • Cooling, Benjamin Franklin.  “Lew Wallace and Gideon Pillow: Enigmas and Variations on an American Military Theme.”  Lincoln Herald 83:2 (1981): 651-657.

 

 

 

 

  • Curry, William L.  Raid of the Confederate Cavalry Through Central Tennessee in October, 1863 Commanded by General Joseph Wheeler.  Birmingham: Birmingham Public Library Press, 1987.

 

  • Cushman, Pauline.  An Inside View of the Army Police: Thrilling Adventures of Pauline Cushman, the Distinguished American Actress and Famous Federal Spy of the Department of the Cumberland.a Cincinnati: Rickey & Carroll, Cincinnati, 1864.

 

 

 

  • Davis, Major George B., Leslie J. Perry, and Joseph W. Kirkley.  The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War.a Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1891.

 

  • DeLeon, T.C.  “‘Wheeler’s Leap’ at Duck River.”a Bedford County Historical Quarterly 7:4 (1981): 101-103.

 

  • Dinkins, Captain James.  “The Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee: Personal Recollections and Experiences in the Confederate Army.”a  Historic Maury 31:3 (1995): 108-111.

 

  • Drake, Edwin L., ed.  The Annals of the Army of Tennessee and Early Western History, Including a Chronological Summary of Battles and Engagements in the Western Armies of the Confederacy.  Nashville: A.D. Haynes, 1878.

 

  • Duncan, Bob.  “The Forrest-Gould Affair.”a  Historic Maury 32:1 (1996): 3-6.

 

  • Duncan, Bob.  “The Mailman that ‘Captured’ an Army."a Historic Maury 39:1 (2003): 31-33.

 

  • Duncan, Bob.  “The Strange Case of Jefferson Davis, Savior of Campbell Station."a  Historic Maury 39:3 (2003): 109-111.

 

  • Duncan, Bob.  "Wartime Columbia, 1861-1865."a Historic Maury 29:4 (1993): 121-125.

 

  • Duncan, Bob.  “The Yankee General’s Flag.”a  Historic Maury 38:4 (2002): 142.

 

 

 

 

  • Fitch, John.  Annals of the Army of the Cumberland: Comprising Biographies, Descriptions of Departments, Accounts of Expeditions, Skirmishes, and Battles; Also its Police Record of Spies, Smugglers, and Prominent Rebel Emissaries and Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River and of the Chickamauga Campaign. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1864.  

 

  • Folger, Fred J., III. "The Andrews Raid."  Northwest Ohio Quarterly 39:1 (1967): 10-15.

 

  • Folger, Fred J., III. "The Andrews Raid."  Northwest Ohio Quarterly 2: 51-60.

 

  • Folger, Fred J., III. "The Andrews Raid."  Northwest Ohio Quarterly 4: 5-14.  

 

 

  • Fryman, Robert J., and Laura B. Reidy.  They was There Sure Enough: A Limited Archaeological Assessment of the 1864 Civil War Battle at Spring Hill, Tennessee.  Atlanta: Garrow and Associates, 1995.

 

  • Fulcher, Richard Carlton.  Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee, November 29, 1864, with Related Action at Hardison’s Mill, Orr’s Crossroads, Rally Hill, Glen’s Store, and Mount Carmel.  Brentwood: Fulcher Publishing, 1995.

 

  • Furgeson, James R.  “A Fight or a Footrace: The Tullahoma Campaign.”  North and South: The Magazine of the Civil War Conflict 2 (January 1998):28-38, 82-89.

 

 

  • Garrett, Jill Knight.  The Civil War in Maury County, Tennessee.a  Self-published, 1966.

 

  • Garrett, Jill Knight.  The Confederate Diary of Robert D. Smith.a  Columbia: Captain James Madison Sparkman Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1975.

 

 

  • Garrett, Jill Knight, ed.  "Letters from a Union Soldier Stationed in and Near Columbia."a  Historic Maury 8:1 (1972):  36-40.

 

  • Garrett, Jill Knight, ed.  "Letters from a Union Soldier Stationed in and Near Columbia."a  Historic Maury 8:2 (9172):  54-57.

 

  • Garrett, Jill Knight, Virginia W. Alexander, and Evelny B. McAnally, eds.  Confederate Soldiers and Patriots of Maury County, Tennessee.  Columbia: UDC Captain James Madison Sparkman Chapter, 1970.

 

  • Gillum, Jamie.  The Battle of Spring Hill: Twenty Five Hours to Tragedy.  N.P., 2004.

 

 

  • Guild, General George B.  Narrative of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Wheeler’s Corps, Army of Tennessee.  Nashvile: Cool Springs Press, 1996.

 

  • Guild, General George B.  “The Boys Who Wore the Gray: Address of General Guild at Farmington, 1892." Marshall County Historical Quarterly 23:4 (Winter 1992-93): 95-97.

 

  • Gunter, Charles R., Jr.  Bedford County During the Civil War.  Knoxville: Unpublished Master’s Thesis, University of Tennessee, 1963.

 

  • Hall, Howard. "Franklin County in the Secession Crisis." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 17 (1958): 37-44.

 

 

  • Harcourt, Edward.  “Freedom’s Soldiers: What Do We Know About the Black Civil War Soldiers of Maury County?”a  Historic Maury 38:2 (2002): 58-70.

 

  • Harris, Isham.  Governor Papers (pdf file). Tennessee State Library and Archives.  Last available from the World Wide Web http://tennessee.gov/tsla/history/govpapers/
    findingaids/gp19.pdf.

 

 

 

 

  • Haywood, William Thomas.  "We Have Met the Enemy and He is Ours:  Maury Artillery Outshoots Yankee Navy."a Historic Maury 27:4 (1991):  145-148.

 

 

  • Hill, Milan.  “Private Noble Lee Stone: Images from the Past.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 16:4 (1990): 101-111.

 

  • Hill, Milan.  “Sergeant James W.C. Mitchell: Scars and Burdens of the Confederacy.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 18:3 (1992): 65-71.

 

 

 

  • Horan, James D.  Desperate Women.  New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1952.  

 

 

 

  • Horn, Stanley F., ed.  Tennesseans in the Civil War: A Military History of Confederate and Union Units with Available Rosters of Personnel.a  2 Vols.  Nashville: Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964.

 

  • "How Mrs. Fannie D. Hickerson Fooled the Bushwhackers."a  Coffee County Historical Society Quarterly 7:2 (1976):  23-24.  

 

  • Huddleston, Edwin.  The Civil War in Middle Tennessee.a Nashville: Nashville Banner, 1965.

 

 

  • Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr., and Roy P. Stonesifer, Jr.  The Life and Wars of Gideon J. Pillow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.  

 

  • Hulan, Tom.  “An Overview of the Civil War in Bedford County.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 7:4 (1981): 96-100.

 

  • James, Stephen R., Jr., Michael C. Tuttle, and Michael C. Krivor.  Remote Sensing Survey and Archaeological Assessment of Submerged Cultural Resources Associated with the Battle of Johnsonville. Memphis:  Prepared for the Tennessee Historical Commission by Panamerican Maritime, L.L.C., 1999.

 

  • James, Stephen R., Jr., and Michael C. Krivor. Submerged Cultural Resources Associated with the Battle of Johnsonville; The 2000 Season. Memphis: Prepared for the Tennessee Historical Commission by Panamerican Maritime, L.L.C., 2000.

 

  • Jeter, Donald.  “Civil War in Marshall County.”  Marshall County Historical Quarterly 23:4 (Winter 1992-93): 78-94.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

aThis document is available from the Tennessee State Library and Archives.

  • Kelsey, D.M.  Deeds of Daring by Both Blue and Gray: Thrilling Narratives of Personal Adventure, Exploits of Scouts and Spies, Forlorn Hopes, Heroism, Bravery, Patient Endurance, Imprisonments and Hair-breadth Escapes, Romantic and Tragic Events, Perilous Journeys, Bold Dashes, Brilliant Successes, Magnanimous Actions, etc., on each side of the line During the Great Civil War.a Philadelphia: Scammell & Co., 1889.

 

  • Kilmer, George L.  “Two Gentlemen Spies: A Bold Scheme to Ruin Rosecrans Army in 1863."a  Historic Maury 34:2 (1998): 52-54.

 

 

  • Lentz, Wayne.  “Pauline Cushman, [Union] Spy.”a Bedford County Historical Quarterly 20:3 (1994): 76-77.

 

  • “Letters Concerning Lt. Francis W. Reed, 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Killed in Shelbyville, June 27, 1863.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 17:4 (1991): 113-119.

 

  • Lowry, Audrey B.  A Study of the Battle of Johnsonville. Nashville: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, George Peabody College, 1956.

 

 

 

  • McGrew, Amie Coldwell.  “‘Old Bedford’ in the Civil War."a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 3:1 (1977): 27-28.

 

  • Miller, Rex.  Wheeler’s Favorites: 51st Alabama Cavalry. Patrex Press, 2001.  

 

  • Moody, David Rey.  “The Best Move of My Career": Spring Hill and the Failure of Confederate Command in the West.  San Jose: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, San Jose State University, 1993.

 

 

  • Moore, William P.  “A Confederate Soldier’s Letters Home.”a  Historic Maury 30:3 (1994): 117-124.

 

  • Moran, Nathan Kent.  Isham Harris and Confederate State Government in Tennessee.  Memphis: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Memphis, 1999.

 

 

  • Morrow, John Anderson.  The Confederate Whitworth Sharpshooters.a  N.P., 1989.

 

  • Muse, Will J.  “History of Captain Will J. Muse from Birth to the Close of the Civil War:  Part I.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 2:3 (1976): 3-11.

 

  • Muse, Will J.  “History of Captain Will J. Muse from Birth to the Close of the Civil War: Part II.”a Bedford County Historical Quarterly 2:4 (1976): 2-13.

 

  • Myers, Thomas Rawlings.  “Thomas Rawlings Myers’s Memoirs.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 7:3 (1981): 59-71.

 

  • Neil, James E.  “A Civil War Letter from C.A. Warner.”a Bedford County Historical Quarterly 7:3 (1981): 74.

 

 

  • Parsons, Newt.  “Personal Correspondence of Capt. James P. Lytle.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 8:3 (1982): 108-112.

 

  • Partin, Robert.  “A Confederate Sergeant’s Report to His Wife During the Campaign from Tullahoma to Dalton.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 12 (1953): 291-308.

 

  • Partin, Robert.  “The Momentous Events of the Civil War as Reported by a Confederate Private-Sergeant.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 18 (1959): 69-86.

 

  • Poplin, Richard.  “Boy’s Letters Shed Light on Bedford County Family During War Between the States.”a Bedford County Historical Quarterly 17:2 (1991): 36-44.

 

  • Poplin, Richard, ed.  “A Letter from James H. Wheeler, Civil War Veteran.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 7:2 (1981): 31-43.

 

  • Quin, Richard H., ed.  "Unpublished Reminiscences of the War Between the States."a  Historic Maury 24:1-4 (1988): 45-50.  

 

  • Quintard, Charles Todd.  Doctor Quintard, Chaplain, CSA, and Second Bishop of Tennessee: His Story of the War (1861-1865).a  Ed. Arthur Howard Noll.  Sewanee: University Press, 1905.

 

 

 

 

  • Rogers, E.G. "Civil War Etchings in Retrospect."a Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 27 (1961): 71-76.

 

  • Rogers, E.G. "Concerning the Nathan Bedford Forrest Legend."a Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 4 (1938): 32-63.

 

 

 

 

  • Sanders, Stuart W.  The Bishop’s Nephew.”  Civil War Times Illustrated 40:1 (2001): 24-30, 56, 58-60.  

 

 

 

 

  • Saylors, Althea.  The Sound of Brown’s Guns: The Battle of Spring Hill, November 29, 1864.  Rosewood: N.P., 1995.

 

 

  • Scofield, Levi T. The Retreat from Pulaski to Nashville: A Paper read Before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States December 1, 1886.a Cincinnati: H.C. Sherick & Co., 1886.

 

  • Shellenberger, John K.  The Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee, November 29, 1864: A Refutation of the Erroneous Statements made by Captain Scofield in his Paper Entitled "The Retreat from Pulaski to Nashville."a Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1913.

 

  • Shelton, Mrs. Don.  “A Union Man Speaks to His Church.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 8:3 (1982): 120-121.

 

 

  • Shoffner, C.L.  “Incident of the Battles of Shelbyville.”a Bedford County Historical Quarterly 21:1 (1995): 15-18.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Smith, Dwight L. “Secession Armies and a Federal Spy: Samuel E. Tillman’s Account of Seesaw Middle Tennessee.”  Tennessee Historical Quarterly 49:2 (1990): 103-111.

 

 

 

 

  • Starr, Stephen Z.  The Union Cavalry in the Civil War. 3 vols.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.

 

  • Steagald, William A.  "Civil War Tales from Mount Pleasant."a  Historic Maury 14:1-4 (1983): 57-58.  

 

  • Steenburn, Donald H.  Silent Echoes of Johnsonville: Rebel Cavalry and Yankee Gunboats.  Rogersville: Elk River Press, 1994.

 

 

 

  • Sunderland, Glen W.  Lightning at Hoover’s Gap.  New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1969.

 

 

 

 

  • Talley, Mrs. Burl.  “William Garrett Hight, Nixon’s Cavalry, C.S.A.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 7:4 (1981): 104-105.

 

  • Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission.  Guide to the Civil War in Tennessee.  Nashville: Tennessee Department of Conservation, 1960.

 

  • Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission.  Index to Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications.a Nashville: Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1964.

 

 

  • Tillman, Samuel E.  “The War Comes to Wolf Meadow.” a Bedford County Historical Quarterly 9:1 (1983): 6-9.

 

  • Timmons, William Evan.  "Following Two Maury County Soldiers Through the Civil War."a  Historic Maury 29:3 (1993):  73-79.  

 

  • "Union Provost Marshal Files."a  Microfilm.  Tennessee State Library and Archives.

 

  • Van Horne, Thomas B.  History of the Army of the Cumberlands: Its Organization, Campaigns and Battles Written at the Request of Major General George H. Thomas, Chiefly from His Private Military Journal and Official and Other Documents Furnished by Him.a  2 vols. Cincinnati: R. Clarke, 1875-76.

 

  • Waller, Charlot Clay.  Maury County Tennessee and the Civil War.  Nashville: Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Vanderbilt University, 1951.

 

 

  • Watkins, Sam R.  Co. Aytch: Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment Or--A Side Show of the Big Show. Reprint.  Wilmington: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1990.

 

  • Watters, George Wayne.  Isham Green Harris: Civil War Governor and Senator from Tennessee, 1818-1897. Tallahassee: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University, 1977.

 

 

  • Webster, Rowena.  "Memoirs of a Southern Girl, 1862-1863."a  Historic Maury 5:1 (1969):  19-25; 5:2 (1969): 20-25.  

 

  • Whiteside, Agnes.  “Civil War Recollections.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 11:2 (1985): 21-23.

 

  • Williams, Edward F., III. "The Johnsonville Raid and Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." Tennessee Historical Quarterly  28 (1969): 225-251.

 

  • Williams, Edward. F., III, and H.K. Humphreys, eds. Gunboats and Cavalry: The Story of Forrest's 1864 Johnsonville Campaign, as told to J.P. Pryor and Thomas Jordan.  Memphis:  N.B. Forrest Trail Commission, 1965.

 

 

  • Williamson, Major T.J.  "Notes About the War, 1861-1865."a  Historic Maury 11:4 (1975):  161-171.  

 

  • Wilson, George Spencer.  Wilder's Brigade of Mounted Infantry, in Tullahoma-Chickamauga Campaigns: A Paper Prepared and Read Before the Kansas Commandery of the M.O.L.L.U.S., Nov. 4th, 1891.a  N.P., 1891.

 

  • Womack, Robert.  “Captain James Lytle.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 8:2 (1982): 33-45.

 

 

 

Reconstruction

 

  • Anderson, Victoria S.  Social and Economic Conditions of Small Farmers in Antebellum and Postbellum Coffee County, Tennessee.  Carrollton:  Unpublished Master’s Thesis, West Georgia College, 1995.

 

 

 

  • Clapp, Jeremiah W. Address Delivered at the Fair of the Agricultural Association of Marshall County, Held at Holly Springs, MS, October 28, 1868.a  Nashville: L.P. Williams & Co., 1868.

 

  • Duncan, Bob.  “Dirty Doin’s in Maury County.”a  Historic Maury 34:3 (1998): 96-97.

 

  • Guild, Josephus C.  Address Delivered by the Honorable Jo C. Guild, at Waverly, Tennessee, on July 4, 1877, on the Occasion of Laying the Cornerstone of a New Courthouse.a Gallatin: A.A. Lewis & Son, 1877.

 

  • Harris, Isham G.  Resumption of Specie Payments. Speech of the Honorable I. G. Harris, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States, May 14, 1878.a  N.P., 1879.

 

  • Killebrew, Joseph B.  Report of the Bureau of Agriculture, Statistics and Mines for 1876.a  Nashville: Tavel, Eastman and Howell, 1877.

 

  • McGrew, Mrs. Sydney.  “Shelbyville, A Hundred Years Ago.”a  Bedford County Historical Quarterly 2:3 (1976): 12.

 

 

  • Rutledge, Winston.  “Confederate Monument Reconsidered.”  Marshall County Historical Quarterly 25:1 (Spring 1994): 18-22.

 

 

  • Stewart, Guy Harry.  History and Bibliography of Middle Tennessee Newspapers, 1799-1876.  Urbana-Champaign: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois, 1957.