 Flashman14  | 12 Jul 2016 5:03 a.m. PST |
If you could only have one … |
| Flashman14 | 12 Jul 2016 5:05 a.m. PST |
(Dear editors, please add this to ACW Media board as well.) |
| Florida Tory | 12 Jul 2016 5:13 a.m. PST |
Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage Rick |
| Winston Smith | 12 Jul 2016 5:35 a.m. PST |
"Jim Mundy" by Robert Fowler. |
| Frederick | 12 Jul 2016 5:55 a.m. PST |
Confederates by Thomas Keneally; a great story largely about an infantry squad in the Stonewall Brigade in 1862 |
| rmaker | 12 Jul 2016 6:13 a.m. PST |
I agree that Red Badge of Courage is great, but it isn't a novel. |
 ochoin | 12 Jul 2016 6:18 a.m. PST |
I agree that Red Badge of Courage is great, but it isn't a novel.
Someone better tell The Guardian:
link |
| ochoin | 12 Jul 2016 6:21 a.m. PST |
After Cranes' novel, I'd nominate Tom
Keneally's "Confederates". |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 12 Jul 2016 6:24 a.m. PST |
No love for "The Killer Angels"? |
 gaiusrabirius | 12 Jul 2016 6:49 a.m. PST |
Yes – "The Killer Angels." |
| Dynaman8789 | 12 Jul 2016 6:56 a.m. PST |
Killer Angels here as well. |
| avidgamer | 12 Jul 2016 7:15 a.m. PST |
Corporal Si Klegg and His "Pard" by Wilbur F. Hinman The most realistic and amusing novel about a CW soldier and his time during the Civil War written by a CW vet himself. It kicks Killer Angels' ass into the street. ;) |
| John the Greater | 12 Jul 2016 7:25 a.m. PST |
A second vote for Si Clegg. It is mandatory reading for reenactors. Cold Mountain was a better book than a movie, but even at that it is in the second or third tier of ACW novels. |
| corona66 | 12 Jul 2016 7:55 a.m. PST |
The Killer Angels is the best historical novel I've read,with Eagle in the Snow a close second. |
 miniMo | 12 Jul 2016 8:12 a.m. PST |
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott. |
dampfpanzerwagon  | 12 Jul 2016 8:19 a.m. PST |
I enjoyed the Starbuck Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. link Tony |
| Weasel | 12 Jul 2016 8:43 a.m. PST |
Killer Angels is the only one I've read, but those were pretty good. |
| Shagnasty | 12 Jul 2016 8:54 a.m. PST |
Another vote for "Killer Angels." |
| William Warner | 12 Jul 2016 9:02 a.m. PST |
Hard to pick a best, but since it hasn't been mentioned, I enjoyed Shelby Foote's "Shiloh." |
| Ragbones | 12 Jul 2016 10:38 a.m. PST |
Killer Angels, hands down.
And more love for Eagles in the Snow for best novel about the late Western Rome era. I read it every year and it never ceases to amaze me. |
| Old Contemptibles | 12 Jul 2016 2:06 p.m. PST |
It can only be "The Killer Angels". Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. |
| Bellbottom | 12 Jul 2016 2:55 p.m. PST |
Killer Angels for me too, along with Eagles in the Snow, and anything by Christan Cameron. |
| redbanner4145 | 12 Jul 2016 2:59 p.m. PST |
Andersonville by Mackinley Kantor – Pulitzer winner |
| svsavory | 12 Jul 2016 3:19 p.m. PST |
'Killer Angels' is a classic. I also enjoyed Ralph Peters' books 'Cain at Gettysburg' and 'Hell or Richmond.' |
| Old Peculiar | 12 Jul 2016 3:56 p.m. PST |
The Red Badge of Courage is a novel, why would it not be? Guns of the South…… how mit should have been! |
| Pictors Studio | 12 Jul 2016 4:07 p.m. PST |
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| BW1959 | 12 Jul 2016 5:24 p.m. PST |
Another vote for 'Cain at Gettysburg' |
| vtsaogames | 12 Jul 2016 7:49 p.m. PST |
Red Badge – yes it is a novel, based loosely on the 130th NY. Killer Angels. I'd have to flip a coin between the two. |
| ZULUPAUL | 13 Jul 2016 1:58 a.m. PST |
Red Badge of courage , a classic |
| cwbuff | 13 Jul 2016 5:14 a.m. PST |
Killer Angels but nothing wrong with Si. |
| Inkpaduta | 13 Jul 2016 11:22 a.m. PST |
Jim Mundy for a single book
and Starbuck chronicles for a series. |
| GoodOldRebel | 15 Jul 2016 1:55 p.m. PST |
Another vote for Shelby Foote's 'Shiloh' |
| Mooseworks8 | 17 Jul 2016 9:42 a.m. PST |
Harry Turtledove's "Guns of the South" |
| Billy Yank | 17 Jul 2016 5:31 p.m. PST |
"Rifles for Waite" by Harold Keith was very good--in fact, it won a Newbury Award . I read it when I was in Middle School. Reading that and "The Killer Angels" was what set me on the path to my fascination with the Civil War.
-BY |
| capncarp | 24 Jul 2016 6:54 p.m. PST |
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne. Hey, they escaped Libby Prison on a balloon! |
| SCW2003 | 29 Jul 2016 3:08 a.m. PST |
Reading Cain At Gettysburg on recommendations from this thread.
Really enjoying it, very like Killer Angels but also includes characters that are not real well known civil war personalities. |
| ACW Gamer | 17 Aug 2016 3:51 p.m. PST |
"Die Like Men," "the Barefoot Brigade" and "A Man Called Hannibal" |
| donlowry | 28 Aug 2016 9:23 a.m. PST |
Been a very long time since I read it, but: Shelby Foote's "Shiloh." |
| 138SquadronRAF | 29 Aug 2016 8:55 a.m. PST |
Actually "The Civil War" by Foote too as a Lost Cause fantasy. Goes nicely with Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" which is actually a pretty good novel but very poor history. |
