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Clampitt, Bradley R. Occupied Vicksburg (LSU Press, 2016).

Cook, Robert J. Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865. (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2017).

Cutrer, Thomas W. Theater of a Separate War: The Civil War West of the Mississippi River 1861-1865. (UNC Press, 2023).

Goodrich, David. On Freedom Road: Bicycle Explorations and Reckonings on the Underground Railroad. (Pegasus Books, 2023).

Glymph, Thavolia. The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation. (UNC Press, 2022).

Lande, Jonathan. Freedom Soldiers: The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War Camps, Courts, and Prisons. (Oxford Univ. Press, 2024).

Taylor, Amy Murrell. Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps. (UNC Press, 2020).

Woodworth, Steven E. and Charles D. Grear, eds. Vicksburg Besieged (Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 2020).