Resources

The SCV works in conjunction with other historical groups to preserve Confederate history. The memory and reputation of the Confederate soldier, as well as the motives for his suffering and sacrifice, are being consciously distorted by some in an attempt to alter history. Unless the descendants of Southern soldiers resist those efforts, a unique part of our nations' cultural heritage will cease to exist. The SCV rejects any group whose actions tarnish or distort the image of the Confederate soldier or his reasons for fighting. We recommend the following lists of resources for learning more about the history of the Confederate States of America, the Confederate soldier, and the issue facing the south during the 1800s.

Museums

Museum and Library of Confederate History, Greenville, SC
www.confederatemuseum.org
864-421-9039

Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA
www.moc.org
804-649-1861

South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum, Columbia, SC
www.crr.sc.gov
803-737-8095

Confederate Museum, Charleston, SC
188 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC
843-723-1541

Books

Understanding the Background of the War

  • The Real Lincoln, by Thomas DiLorenzo

  • The Real Lincoln, by Charles L. C. Minor (This is different book and author than the previous book by the same title.)

  • A Constitutional History of Secession, by John Remington Graham

  • Red Republicans and Lincoln's Marxists: Marxism in the Civil War, by Walter D. Kennedy and Al Benson, Jr.

  • When in the Course of Human Events, by Charles Adams

  • The South Was Right, by James R. Kennedy and Walter D. Kennedy

  • The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War, by John J. Dwyer

  • The Coming of the Glory, by John S. Tilley


    Biographies of Confederate Leaders

  • R. E. Lee, Volumes 1-4, by Douglas Southall Freeman

  • Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Leader, by James I. Robertson, Jr.

  • JEB Stuart, by John W. Thomason, Jr.


    Biographies of South Carolina Generals

  • Wade Hampton, by Walter Brian Cisco

  • Southern Hero: Matthew Galbraith Butler, by Samuel J. Martin

  • States Rights Gist, by Walter Brian Cisco

  • Prince of Edisto, Micah Jenkins, by James K Swisher


    Confederate Soldiers

  • Confederate Wizards of the Saddle, by Bennet H. Young

  • The Jewish Confederates, by Robert N. Rosen

  • Black Southerners in Confederate Armies, compiled by J. H. Segars and Charles Kelly Barrow

  • War of the Aeronauts, by Charles M. Evans


    Slavery

  • Myths of American Slavery, by Walter D. Kennedy

  • Myths and Realities of American Slavery, by John Curtis Perry

  • Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery, by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank


    Home Front

  • War Crimes Against Southern Civilians, by Walter Brian Cisco

  • A Diary from Dixie, by Mary Chestnut

  • Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman, by Sarah Morgan


    South Carolina Topics

  • Hampton's Redshirts, by Alfred B. Williams

  • Raising the Hunley, by Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf