Southern Heritage Links & Suggested Reading
The Sons of Confederate Veterans, as a non-profit heritage preservation organization, is non-political. Our duty is to assure that the true history of the South and the Confederate soldier is presented to future generations. Accordingly, these links are provided as a resource only. The SCV does not necessarily endorse all the views espoused by other organizations or individuals and is affiliated with no other organizations. We cannot control the material posted on these websites but nevertheless want to offer this convenient list of links. See also the Suggested reading list for greater background.
Southern Heritage Links || Research & Reference Links || Suggested Reading
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Charge to the Sons Of Confederate Veterans "To you Sons of Confederate Veterans, we submit the
vindication of the cause for which we fought; to your strength will
be given the defense of the Confederate soldiers' good name, the
guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the
perpetuation of those principles he loved and which made him glorious and
which you also cherish. Remember, it is your duty to see
that the true history of the south is presented to future generations."
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Southern Heritage Links
Research & Reference Links
Internet Hoaxes - government site listing dozens of Internet hoaxes (viruses, taxes, schemes, etc.)
Suggested Reading
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by James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald Kennedy (Pelican Press) |
War for What? by Francis W. Springer (Nippert Publishing) |
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by James Ronald Kennedy & Walter Donald Kennedy (Pelican Press) |
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Facts Historians Leave Out - A Confederate Primer The Coming of the Glory by John S. Tilley |
The Antifederalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates |
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The Gray Fox - Robert E. Lee and his generals by Burke Davis (Wings Books) |
Footprints of a Regiment - A recollection of the 1st Georgia Regiment 1861-1865 by W.H. Andrews, 1st Sergeant, Company M (Longstreet Press) | ||
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WITH SWORD and SCALPEL - The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon (Electronic version) by John Allan Wyeth (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914) |
Reminiscences of the Civil War |
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Camp Fires of Georgia Troops, 1861-1865 by William S. Smelmund (Sharpsburg GA) |
The Essential Thomas Jefferson Edited, with an introduction, by John Gabriel Hunt |
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Robert E. Lee's Civil War by Bevin Alexander (Adams Media Corp.) |
The Living Lincoln - The Man, his mind, his times and the war he fought, reconstructed from his own writings Edited by Paul M. Angle |
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Southern History of the War by Edmund A. Pollard (Fairfax Press) |
The Real Lincoln by Charles L.C. Minor (Sprinkle Publications) |
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The Federal Government: Its True Nature & Character Reminiscences of the Civil War |
A Disquisition on Government Discourses on the Constitution by John C. Calhoun |
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The Gray Book by Arthur H. Jennings |
The Essential Calhoun by Clyde N. Wilson | ||
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The American Ideal of 1776: The Twelve Basic American Principles by Hamilton Abert Long (1976 Your Heritage Books, Inc.) |
Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era by David Herbert Donald (Vintage Books) |
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A Defense of Virginia and Through Her the South by Rev. R. L. Dabney |
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Principles of Confederacy by John Remington Graham |
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis |
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A Yankee Apology - Article from Southern Partisan, Q2-1997 |
An Abolitionist Defends the South - by Thomas DiLorenzo |
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Is Davis A Traitor? by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1879 Advocate Publishing House, St. Louis) |
The Slave Trade - The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870 by Hugh Thomas (Simon & Schuster) |
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Georgia In the War by Charles E. Jones (1865 Foote & Davies, Atlanta) |
Confederate Military History - Georgia Volume by Gen. John B. Gordon, edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans |
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Civil War Macon - The History of a Confederate City by Richard W. Iobst, PhD (Mercer University Press 1999) |
Sherman's Horsemen - Union Calvary Operations in the Atlanta Campaign by David Evans (more about this book) |
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A Southern View of the Invasion of the Southern States Captain S.A. Ashe (Raleigh, N.C.) |
Last Chance for Victory: by Bill Ward & Scott Bowden ( more about this book) |
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John Griffin's Suggested List http://www.scv674.org/books.htm |
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When in the Course of Human Events: |
The Real Lincoln |
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Griswoldville by William Harris Bragg (Mercer University Press, 2000) [ About Bragg ] |
Joe Brown's Pets: The Georgia Militia in the Civil War by William Harris Bragg with William R. Scaife (Civil War Publications, 1999) |
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Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War by Jeffery Rogers Hummel (Open Court, 1996) |
Reminiscences of the Civil War by General John B. Gordon, with an Introduction by Gen. Stephen D. Lee (Charles Scribner's & Sons, Atlanta, 1904)Published online UNC-CH |
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FICTION |
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| Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove |
How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove |
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| Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara [www.godsandgenerals.com ] | |||
| The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara | |||
| The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara |
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Southern Heritage Links || Research & Reference Links || Suggested Reading