Camp Moore Bookstore

Updated January 2012

In keeping with our commitment to provide quality information relative to the War Between the States, particularly that part involving Louisiana or sons of Louisiana, we offer the following books for sale in our own bookstore.  We do NOT have a secure server, therefore, cannot process sales over the Internet.  However, we will gladly accept your check, money order or credit card order by mail or phone to Camp Moore for any of the following books.  See shipping costs at bottom of page. 

Be sure to see our Special Clearance items in the list

 

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New Book

Andrew Lytle's Baton Rouge

Edited by Mark E. Martin

A collection of images of wartime and postwar Baton Rouge, LA

Hard Cover - 118 pages

$31.99 + Shipping

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New Book

Carrying the Flag

by Gordon C. Rhea

The story of Private Charles Whildon, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Hero

Soft Cover

$19.99 + Shipping

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New Book

Confederate Heroines

by Thomas P. Lowry

The story of 120 Southern women convicted by Union Military Justice

Hard Cover - 212 pages

$29.99 + Shipping

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New Book

The CSS Arkansas

by Myron J. Smith, Jr.

The story of the Confederate Ram Arkansas that made history on the Mississippi River in 1862

Soft Cover - 351 pages

$43.99 + Shipping

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New Book

Faces of the Confederacy

by Ronald S. Coddington

New images of Confederate soldiers and a story for each one - An excellent book!

Hard Cover - 288 pages

$29.99 + Shipping

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New Book

Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana

by Mary Gorton McBride

Story of the 13th Louisiana Colonel and Confederate Brigadier General

Hard Cover - 318 pages

$49.99 + Shipping

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New Book

The First Louisiana Special Battalion

by Gary Schreckengost

The history of the short life of Wheat's First Special Louisiana Battalion

Hard Cover - 211 pages

$49.95 + Shipping

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New Book

Thunder Across the Swamp

by Donald S. Frazier

The fight for the Lower Mississippi River from Feb. to May 1863

Hard Cover - 615 pages

$43.99 + Shipping

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New Book

Uncivil War

by James K. Hogue

The story of post-war New Orleans street battles to end Radical Reconstruction in Louisiana

Soft Cover - 227 pages

$29.99 + Shipping

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New Book

Widows by the Thousand

Edited by M. Jane Johannson

The Civil War letters of Theophilus and Harriett Perry - a member of the 28th Texas Cavalry, Perry fought in Walker's Texas Division in Louisiana and Arkansas

Soft Cover - 331 pages

$21.95 + Shipping

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New to Camp Moore

Yankee Autumn in Acadiana

The story of the Federal Invasion of Central Louisiana - This book is hard to find!  Get them while they last!

by David Edmonds

Soft Cover - 495 pages

Special Price - $19.95 + Shipping

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New to Camp Moore

The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History

The Civil War in Louisiana - Part A - Military Activity

Reprints of all of the articles that have appeared in the volumes of Louisiana History dealing with the war by such authors as Ed Bearss, Art Bergeron, Barnes Lathrop and many more.  Excellent history of some of the lesser known scenarios in Louisiana.

Hard Cover - 762 pages

Special Price - $19.95 + Shipping of $5.95

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New to Camp Moore

The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History

The Civil War in Louisiana - Part B - The Home Front

Reprints of all of the articles that have appeared in the volumes of Louisiana History dealing with the war by such authors as Ed Bearss, Art Bergeron, Barnes Lathrop and many more.

Hard Cover -  436 pages

Special Price - $19.95 + Shipping

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New to Camp Moore

Acadian General - Alfred Mouton

by William Arceneaux

Soft Cover - 188 pages

Special Price - $9.95 + Shipping

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New to Camp Moore

A Man and His Boat

Edited by Katherine Brash Jeter

The Civil War Career and Correspondence of Lieutenant Jonathan H. Carter, CSN is the story of a Confederate naval officer's heroic struggle to complete the CSS Missouri in the face of severe wartime material shortages.

Soft Cover - 188 pages

Special Price - $9.95 + Shipping

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The Camp Moore Story by Powell Casey

This book is full of soldier's letters and gives the reader a look at life in the early days when "these were the best of times".

Soft Cover - 247 pages

Reg. $9.95 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $5.00 +Shipping

 

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Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg

by George C. Rable

Hard Cover - 665 pages

Reg. $37.95 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $18.99 +Shipping

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East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg

by John M. Archer

Soft Cover - 100 pages

Reg. 12.95 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $5.99 + Shipping

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Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era

by William J. Cooper

Soft Cover - 144 pages

Reg. $24.95

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $12.49 + Shipping

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Champion Hill - Decisive Battle for Vicksburg

by Timothy B. Smith

Soft Cover -502 pages

Reg.  $30.50 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $14.99 + Shipping

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The Civil War Reminiscences of Major Silas T. Griasmore

Edited by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr.

Hard Cover - 227 pages

Reg. 27.99 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $13.99 + Shipping

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A Guide to American Civil War Places

by Julie Shively

Soft Cover

Reg. $15.99 +Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $7.99 + Shipping

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The Lee Girls

by Mary Couling

Soft Cover - 242 pages

Reg. $14.95 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $5.75 + Shipping

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Letters of a Southern Family 1816-1941

by Mary Elizabeth Sanders

Soft Cover

Reg. $18.69 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $8.99 + Shipping

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Nathan Bedford Forrest - In Search of the Enigma

by Eddy W. Davison & Ed Bearss

Hard Cover - 428 pages

Reg. $30.67 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $14.99 + Shipping

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Our Trust is in the God of Battles

Edited by Thomas W. Cutrer

The Civil War Letters of Robert Bunting, Chaplain, Terry's Texas Rangers, CSA

Hard Cover

Reg. $43.95 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $20.99 + Shipping

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A Soldier's Journey - The Civil War Diary of Henry C. Caldwell, Co. E, 7th Louisiana Infantry

edited by Keith G. Bauer

This transcription of Henry Caldwell's diary documents his service in the Army of Northern Virginia from leaving Camp Moore in June, 1861 until July, 1863.  Biographical information is included.

Soft Cover - 125 pages

$25.95 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $12.49 + Shipping

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Triumph & Defeat - The Vicksburg Campaign, Vol. 2

by Terrence J. Winschel

Soft Cover - 288 pages

Reg. $27.99 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $14.99 + Shipping

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The War the Women Lived

by Walter Sullivan

Soft Cover - 319 pages

Reg. $22.15 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $10.99 + Shipping

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A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country

by Halbert Paine

Hard Cover - 180 pages

Reg. $25.70 + Shipping

CLEARANCE - NOW ON SALE $12.85 + Shipping

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Louisianians in the Western Confederacy

by Stuart Wayne Salling

This is the definitive work on the Louisiana Brigade under Daniel Adams and Randall Gibson in the Western Theatre of the war.  Numerous images and excellent maps.  

Soft Cover - 260 pages

    $39.95 + Shipping

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The Louisiana Tigers in the Gettysburg Campaign

by Scott Mingus

Hard Cover - 315 pages

$34.95 + Shipping

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Earthen Walls, Iron Men - Fort DeRussy, Louisiana and the Defense of Red River

by Steven M. Mayeux

Hard Cover

$44.99 + Shipping

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Scarred by War - Civil War in Southeast Louisiana

by Christopher G. Pena

Local author, Chris Pena details all of the actions fought in the Bayou Lafourche region of Louisiana, including actions in and around Donaldsonville, Thibodaux, Des Allemands, Morgan City and Lafourche Station.   Included are accounts of the battles of Labadieville, Koch's Plantation, Lafourche Crossing, Brashear City (Morgan City) and Fort Butler.

Hard Cover - 497 pages

$30.95 + Shipping

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Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink

Edited by Gary D. Joiner

Letters, Diaries and Memoirs from the Red River Campaign 1863-1864

Hard Cover

$44.95 + Shipping

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Fire in the Cane Field

by Donald S. Frazier

The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas - January 1861 - January 1863

Hard Cover

$39.95 + Shipping

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Through the Howling Wilderness

by Gary D. Joiner

The 1864 Red River Campaign and the Union Failure in the West

Hard Cover - 301 pages

$32.95 + Shipping

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Walker's Texas Division

by Richard Lowe

This new release covers the exploits of Walker's Texas Division.   They spent the entire war in the Trans-Mississippi and much of it in Louisiana.   This is their story at Bayou Bourbeau, Milliken's Bend, Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant Hill, Jenkins Ferry.

Soft Cover - 339 pages

$24.95 + Shipping

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Brothers in Gray, The Civil War Letters of the Pierson Family

edited by ThomasW. Cutrer and T. Michael Parrish

A family from North Louisiana (Bienville Parish) that starts the war with pro-Union sentiments is drawn into the struggle with 4 sons that enlist in the Confederate armies.  One goes to Virginia while the rest stay in the Western or Trans-Mississippi theatre.  The letters are the essence of this story and tell a vrey poignant story of wartime and the pains one family went through.  Excellent reading.

Soft Cover - 269 pages

$24.95 + Shipping

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Confederate Generals in the Western Theatre,

Volume 2

Edited by Arthur Bergeron, Jr. and Lawrence Hewitt

Hard Cover - 285 pages

$39.95 + Shipping

 

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One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End

By Dr. Gary D. Joiner

 

Soft Cover - 198 pages

$39.95 + Shipping

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Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862

by Edward C. Cunningham

Soft Cover - 480 pages

$30.95 + Shipping

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Port Hudson - It's History From an Interior Point of View by Lt. Howard C. Wright

This is another work from a Louisiana soldier involved in the siege of Port Hudson in the spring of 1863.   Wright, a lieutenant in the 30th Louisiana Infantry gives a detailed description of daily life, day-to-day occurrences and picture of life under siege.  He gives a rich description from the promotion of Gen. Gardner to command to the surrender on July 9th, 1863. 

Soft Cover - 64 pages

$12.00 + Shipping

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Diary in Gray - the Civil War Journal of J. Y. Sanders edited by Mary E. Sanders

This is the diary of J. Y. Sanders of the 26th Louisiana Infantry.  He details life in the  26th from its inception in the Lafourche country of Louisiana on through the siege of Vicksburg.   Great first hand accounts!

Soft Cover - 113 pages

$11.95 + Shipping

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The Battle of Pleasant Hill by Solon F. Benson

This is a reprint of the experiences of a Federal soldier in the 32nd Iowa Infantry in the Sabine Crossroads and Pleasant Hill Campaign.

Soft Cover - 68 pages

$12.00 + Shipping

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No Pardons to Ask, Nor Apologies to Make

Edited by Gary D. Joiner

  Journal of William Henry King, Gray's 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment

HardCover

$34.99 + Shipping

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Camp Moore - Recipes from Dixie

This small booklet includes some favorite Southern recipes from some of our volunteers at Camp Moore.  These will make your mouth water and remind you of the best of home cooking!

Soft Cover - 13 pages

$2.00 + $0.75 Shipping = $2.75 Total

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Reluctant Rebel, the Secret Diary of Robert Patrick

edited by F. Jay Taylor

Robert Patrick served in the 4th Louisiana Infantry.  The book was originally written in shorthand and then transcribed after the war.  It is an eloquent work describing what Patrick saw throughout the entire war.  There are many descriptions of Port Hudson, Vicksburg and the terrible Atlanta campaign along with what Patrick witnessed, both humerous and horrifying.  Excellent reading!

Soft Cover - 269 pages

$14.99 + Shipping

Shipping Information

We ship only First Class.  Where shipping is indicated above, use that figure.  All other books please use the following table

1st Book - $4.59

2nd Book - + $3.00 additional

3rd Book - + $3.00 additional, etc.

 

Orders may be reproduced on the form below and sent to Camp Moore at the address shown.  Please allow 2-3 weeks for your delivery.  We mail ONLY at First Class Postage rates.  We accept checks, money orders and mail or phone credit card orders.  We regret that we do not have a secure server so we are unable to accept online orders.

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