Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History Archives and Library
The Donald L. Myers Memorial Library Collection
LB2004.0077
Provenance: Stella Myers donated her late husband’s library collection on February 24, 2004. She requested that the collection be kept in one single collection and dedicated “In Memory of Donald L. Myers”.
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes for a small fee. Permission to publish materials from this collection must be obtained from the Director of Library/Archives.
Sallie E. Loy processed this collection on March 2, 2004.
Size: 2 Library Shelves
Arrangement:
Curatorial Research
Western Civil War Campaign (Including Atlanta, Georgia)
Eastern Civil War Campaign
General Information re: the Civil War
1st Person Accounts/Diaries/Official Records
Description: This book collection is sorted into five categories and consists of hardbound and soft cover books.
Curatorial Research
Civil War Collector’s Encyclopedia, Vol. I&II. by Francis A. Lord. 1995.
Collector’s Encyclopedia Vol. III, IV & V. by Francis A. Lord, 1995.
Gunsmithing, by Roy F. Dunlop, 1950.
Civil War History
The Civil War, An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward with RicK and Ken Burns.
The Civil War, A Narrative, Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote. 1986.
The Civil War, A Narrative, Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote. 1986.
The Civil War, A Narrative, Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote. 1986.
Civil War Tennessee by Thomas L. Connelly, 1994
Decision in The West, The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 by Albert Castel, 1992.
Double Canister at Ten Yards, The Federal Artillery and The Repulse of Pickett’s Charge by David Shultz, 1995
Eyewitnesses at The Battle of Franklin by by David R. Logsdon, 1991
Field Surgeon at Gettysburg, A Memorial Account of The Medical unit of The 32nd Massachusetts’s Regiment by Clyde B. Kernek, M.D. 1994
Fields of Glory, A History and Tour Guide of The Atlanta Campaign by Jim Miles, 1989.
Gettysburg, Battle & Battlefield by W.C. Storrick 1994.
Mosby’s Confederacy, A Guide to The Roads and Sites of Colonel John Singleton Mosby by Thomas J. Evans and James M. Moyer, 1991.
Mosby’s Raiders, The True Adventures of The Most Famous Command of The Civil War by Jeffery D. Wert, 1990
One of The Most Daring Men, The Life of Confederate General William TateWofford by Gerald J. Smith, 1997
Order of Battle, Federal and Confederate Forces Engaged in The Campaign for Atlanta by William R. Scaife, 1992.
The Army of Tennessee by Stanley Horn,1987.
The Battle of Stones River, No Better Place to Die by Peter Cozzens,1991.
The Civil War in The West, From Stones River to Chattanooga, (1) “No Better Place to Die, The Battle of Stones River”, (2) “This Terrible Sound, The Battle of Chickamauga”, (3) “The Shipwreck of Their Hopes, The Battles for Chattanooga by Peter Cozzens, 1996.
The March to the Sea by William R. Scaife, 1993.
The Orphan Brigade, The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn’t Go Home by William C. Davis, 1980.
Weapon’s of The Civil War by William C. Davis. 1991.
Western Civil War Campaign (Including Atlanta, Georgia)
First Person Accounts/Official Documents
35 Days to Gettysburg, The Campaign Diaries of Two American Enemies, Compiled and weaved together by Mark Nesbit, 1992.
A Seneca Indian in The Union Army, The Civil War Letters of Sergeant Isaac Newton Parker, 1861-1865. Compiled by Laurence M. Haumptman. 1995, (Served as Railroad guard for a period of time in North Carolina)
A Union Soldier in The Land of The Vanquished, The Diary of Sargeant Mathew Woodruff, June-December 1865, Edited and Annotated by F.N. Boney, 1969.
All for The Union, The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes Edited By Robert Hunt Rhodes, 1985.
Blue Eyed Child of Fortune, The Civil War Letters of Robert Gould Shaw Edited by Russell Duncan, 1992.
Captain James Wren’s Civil War Diary, from New Bern To Fredricksburg, Editor in Chief John Michael Priest, 1991.
Civil War Diaries and Letters of Bliss Morse by Loren J. Morse, 1985.
Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman, Edited by Jerome M. Loving, 1975.
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of The Orphan Brigade, Edited by William C. Davis, 1990.
Fallen Soldier, Memoir of a Civil War Casualty by Private Andrew Roy, Edited by William J. Miller, 1996.
Far, Far from Home, The War Time Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, 3rd South Carolina Volunteers, Edited by Guy R. Everson & Edward W. Simpson, Jr., 1994.
Footprints of A Regiment, A Recollection of The 1st Georgia Regulars, 1861-1865 by W.H. Andrews, 1st Sargeant, Company M., 1992.
Frederic Augustus James’s Civil War Diary, Sumter to Andersonville, Edited by Jefferson J. Hammer, 1973.
Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Selected Letters 1839-1865.
In and Out of The Lines by Francis Thomas Howard. 1997. (Women on the Home front in North Georgia)
Last Train from Atlanta, by A.A. Hoehling, 1958. ( A compilation work using diaries, remembrances, original newsprint mixed together and weaved into a story)
Rebel Private Front and Rear, Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier”, by William A. Fletcher, 1995.
Saddle Bag and Spinning Wheel, being the Civil War Letters of George W. Peddy, M.D. and his wife Kate F. Peddy, Edited by George Peddy Cutting, 1981.
Soldier in The West, The Civil War Letters of Alfred Lacey Hough, Edited by Robert G. Athearn, 1957.
Soldiering, The Civil War Diary of Rice C. Bull, Edited by K. Jack Bauer, 1977.
Ted Barclay, Liberty Hall Volunteers: Letters from The Stonewall Brigade Compiled By Charles W. Turner, 1992.
The Andersonville Diary & Memoirs of Charles Hopkins, Edited by William B. Styple and John J. Fitzpatrick, 1988.
The Diary of a Dead Man, 1862-1864, Compiled by J.P.Ray, 1981.
The Civil War Diary of Martha Abernathy, Wife of Dr. C.C. Abernathy of Pulaski, Tennessee, 1994.
The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm, A Chronical of Daily Life in The Union Army 1864-1865, Edited by W. Springer Menge and J. August Shimrak, 1990.
War Reminiscences/Reminiscences of The Civil War by Judge JNO W. Stevens, 1982 (a soldier in Hood’s Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia)
War of The Rebellion, Official Records of The Union and Confederate Armies, Series I., Vol. 38., Part I – Reports, Operations in North Georgia, etc. May1 – Sept. 8, 1864 relating especially to The Atlanta Campaign by The National Historical Society, 1985.
War of The Rebellion Official Records of The Union and Confederate Armies, Series I., Vol.38, Part III Reports, Operations in North Georgia, etc., May 1, Sept. 8, 1864, relating especially to The Atlanta Campaign by The National Historical Society.1985
War of The Rebellion Official Records of The Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. 38, Part IV Correspondence, Operations in North Georgia, etc., May1, Sept. 8, 1864, relating especially to The Atlanta Campaign by The National Historical Society, 1985.
War of The Rebellion Official Records of The Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. 38, Part V Correspondence, Operations in North Georgia, etc. May1, Sept 8, 1864, relating especially to The Atlanta Campaign by The National Historical Society, 1985.
War of The Rebellion: A Compilation of The Official Records of The Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XXXVIII, In Five Parts, Part IV Correspondence etc. by Washington Government Printing Office, 1891 (Atlanta Campaign)
War of The Rebellion: Official Records of The Union and Confederate Armies, Series II, Vol. V, Prisoners of War etc. by Washington Government Printing Office, 1891.
Weep not for me Dear Mother by Elizabeth Whitley Roberson, 1991.