The Civil War Monitor has published its annual Best Seller List of the top-selling books on the American Civil War Era according to NPD Bookscan. Here is the list:
Top Ten Civil War Period (1850-1877) Books
1. Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein
2. Lincoln and the Fight for Peace by John Avlon
3. To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South’s Most Feared Ship and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War by Phil Keith with Tom Clavin
4. The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals by Samuel Mitcham
5. Gettysburg: Three Days That Saved the United States by Ben Nussbaum
6. The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story by Kermit Rossevelt III
7. A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan White
8. James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The Confederate General Who Fought the Next War by Harold Knudsen
9. The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers’ Struggle for Spotsylvania’s Bloody Angle by Jeffry Wert
10. All Roads Led to Gettysburg: A New Look at the Civil War’s Pivotal Battle by Troy Harman
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I’m so excited to read this one. It’s wonderful!!