I recommend the following books for use when teaching the era of the the Civil War era to students in intermediate-level grades:
- ...If You Lived At The Time Of The Civil War by Kay Moore
- Pink and Say by Polacco, Patricia
- Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington: 1837-1865 by Cheryl Harness
- Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War by Ann Warren Turner
- My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Civil War Diary by Mary Pope Osbourne
- Enemies of Slavery by David Adler
- Young Heroes of the North and South (Cobblestone the Civil War) by Sarah Hale
- Visual Dictionary of the American Civil War by John Stanchak
- Discovery Kids Magazine: Civil War Issue
- The Cemetery Keepers of Gettysburg by Linda Oatman High
- ...If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln by Ann McGovern
- . . . If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
- My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier by Lynda Durrant
- Hold the Flag High by Catherine Clinton
- Abe Lincoln Remembers by Ann Warren Turner
- Silent Thunder by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Abraham Lincoln by Amy L. Cohn and Suzy Schmidt
- Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
