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If you’ve enjoyed The Fugitive’s Son and would like to learn more about the role of Canada in the Underground Railroad, the lives of fugitive slaves, and the American Civil War, here is a list of books I read in researching Letters that you might find interesting:
Bibliography
Printed Materials:
Books:
A Regiment of Slaves: The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866
Edward G. Longacre
© 2003
ISBN 0-8117-0012-7
Stackpole Books
5067 Ritter Road,
Mechanicsville, PA, 17055
Army Life In A Black Regiment
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
© 1869
W.W. Norton and Company, NY, NY
279 pp
Benjamin Franklin Butler: The Damndest Yankee
Dick Nolan
© 1991
Presidio Press
ISBN 0-89141-393-6
358 pp
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won The Civil War
Charles Bracelen Flood
© 2006
Harper Perennial c/o Harper Collins
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-114871-2
The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves
Edited by: Benjamin Drew
Original Copyright: 1856 John P. Jewett & Co.
2000 Edition: Prospero Books (Canada)
387 pp
Lincoln: A Foreigner’s Quest
Jan Morris
© Jan Morris 2000
De Capo Press, 2001, NY, NY
201 pp
Captain James Wren’s Civil War Diary: From New Bern to Fredericksburg
Edited by John Michael Priest
© berkley Books, NY, NY 1991
ISBN: 0-425-13034-7
I Came As A Stranger: The Underground Railroad
Bryan Prince
© 2004
Tundra Books
ISBN: 0-88776-667-6
160 pp
Personal Recollections of President Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant, and General William T. Sherman
By: Major-General Grenville M. Dodge
©2005 (Original Copyright 1914)
University of the Pacific Press
Honolulu, Hawaii
ISBN: 1-4102-2369-8
237 pp.
The Black Civil War Soldiers of Illinois
By: Edward A. Miller
University of South Carolina Press
©1998
ISBN 1570031991, 9781570031991
267 pp
http://books.google.com/books?id=nch6p-M2qwkC&dq=U.S.+Army+Civil+War+Recruitment+and+Training&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=5FfKSY7_LZmMsQPdj8D8Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=12&ct=result#PPA16,M1
Angels And Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life
Adam Gopnik
©2009
ALFRED KNOPF
NY, NY
ISBN-13:978-0-307-27078-8
211 PP
Home Letters of General Sherman
Edited by: M.A. DeWolfe Howe
© 1909 Charles Scribner’s Sons
Kessinger Publishing Rare Print Editions 2009
ISBN 1-419-0641-3
402 pp
1864: Lincoln At The Gates of History
Charles Bracelin Flood
© 2009
Simon and Shuster Inc.,
New York, NY
ISBN 978-1-4165-5229-1 (pbk)
521 pp
Sherman’s March
Burke Davis
© 1980
Vintage Civil War Library
Originally published by Random House.
ISBN 0-394-75763-7 (pbk)
Southern Storm: Sherman’s March To The Sea
Noah Andre Trudeau
©2008
Harper Perennial
NY, NY
ISBN 978-0-06-059868-6 (PBK)
A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens
Donald Yacavone, ed.
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997
ISBN 978-0-252-02245-6.
Lincoln In The Times: The Life Of Abraham Lincoln As Originally Reported In The New York Times
David Herbert Donald & Harold Holzer – Editors
© 2005 The New York Times Co./St. Martin’s Press
New York, NY
Periodicals:
Lincoln’s Genius: Special Collector’s Edition
H.W. Brands
© 2009
Weider History Group Inc.,
Leesburg, Virginia
Pamphlets and Brochures:
A Voice From Harper’s Ferry
Osborne P. Anderson
1859 – Printed Privately
Boston, MA
55pp
From the Internet: http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/theses/Attfield/HTML/voice.html
Electronic Media:
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library/Museum www.alplm.org.
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography www.members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln16
The Day Miss Todd Became Mrs. Lincoln www.home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln49
Mary Todd Lincoln (Wikipedia) www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln
Whitehouse Bio of M.T. Lincoln www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ml16
Black History Canada www.blackhistorycanada.ca/timeline
Provincial Archives of Ontario www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/freeman
Kent County History www.rootsweb.com/~onkent/newspapers
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
by W. T. Sherman © 1875 (Electronic copy)
www.fullbooks.com/The-Memoirs-of-General-W- T-Sherman-v1
Gen. W.T. Sherman (Wikipedia) www.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman
Samuel L. Clemens www.etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/price/atwain
Historic Calendar www.timeanddate.com
Buxton National Historic Site Website www.buxtonmuseum.com/History/black1
National Institute of Mental Health/Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-\stress-disorder-ptsd/index
Robert Todd Lincoln www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Todd_Lincoln
Account of Edwin Booth Saving Robert Todd Lincoln’s Life in 1863 members.aol.com/RVSNorton1/Lincoln59.html
A Modern View Of The Lincolns’ Marital Relationships marriage.about.com/od/presidentialmarriages/a/abelincoln
Bio of Elizabeth Keckley www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASkeckley.htm
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston www. wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._Johnston
John Brown Letters www.familytales.org/results
Meeting Brown and Delany www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/jbrown.htm
Civil War At Charleston www.awod.com/cwchas
Langdon’s Version of Buxton Settlement http://dinsdoc.com/landon-1.htm
Abbott Entry Dictionary Of Canadian Biography www.biographi.ca
The Evolution of Education In Ontario www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/education/.htm
Dr. Martin Delany www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/africa.htm
Imperial Tobacco History of Tobacco in Canada www.imperialtobaccocanada.com
Niagara Rail www.niagararails.com
Contentment Farm (Period clothing) www.contentmentfarm.com/online_store/Victorian
Virginia Military Institute Archives www.vmi.edu/archives.aspx?id=4919
Yale Avalon Project www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/treatise/john_brown/john_brown
Yale University Library www.yale.edu/collections_collaborative/primarysources
PBS www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sherman
Black Civil War History www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWcolored
History of the 54th Mass. Regiment www.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=54th_Massachusetts_Volunteer_Infantry
Robert Small and “The Planter” www.civilwarinteractive.com/ArticleRobertSmall
Robert Small www.mac110.assumption.edu/aas/Reports/williamwellsbrown
Toronto Metropolitan Library Ask A Librarian www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/ask_adu_mailhandler.jsp
Walt Whitman’s Canadian Diary www.archive.org/stream/waltwhitmansdiar00whituoft/waltwhitmansdiar00whituoft_djvu.txt
Richard M. Bucke wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Maurice_Bucke
University of Western Ontario Archives www.lib.uwo.ca/archives/virtualexhibits/londonasylum
U.S. National Archives www.archives.gov
Soldier’s heart or Da Costa Syndrome www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Costa%27s_syndrome
The Gentleman’s Emporium www.gentlemansemporium.com/victorian-clothing-guide.php
Handguns of the Civil War www.civilwarhandguns.com/colt
By Kerry Barlow
Spencer Repeating Rifle www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_repeating_rifle
Henry Repeating Rifle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_rifl
A Cyclopedia of Canadian Biography
Editor: George Maclean Rose
Originally published by: Rose Publishing Co.
Toronto 1886 http://books.google.ca/books?pg=PA646
Laura Matilda Towne
By Danielle Senneker http://learningtogive.org/papers/paper275.html
The Complete Letters Of Mark Twain www.fullbooks.com/The-Letters-Of-Mark-Twain-Complete6.html
Aug. 25, 1877
The Death of Gen. McPherson www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=6596
By CSA Capt. Richard Beard/Murfeesboro Post
Films and Television Programs:
The Civil War: By Ken Burns
© 1990
A Multi-part Television Series Originally Aired on PBS