Currently professor of history at Virginia Tech, William C. Davis has written over fifty books, most about the American Civil War. He has won the Jefferson Davis Prize for southern history three times, the Jules F. Landry Award for Southern history once, and has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. For several years, he was the editor of the magazine Civil War Times Illustrated. He has also served as a consultant on the A&E television series Civil War Journal. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Series
Books
The American frontier
1992
Death in the Trenches
1986
Touched by Fire
A National Historical Society Photographic Portrait of the Civil War
1985
Duel Between First Ironclads
1975
Civil War Album
Complete Photographic History of the Civil War
2005
Fighting Men of the Civil War
1989
Government of Our Own
The Making of the Confederacy
1994
The Civil War Times Illustrated
Fort Sumter to Gettysburg
1994
Virginia at War, 1862
2005
A Way Through the Wilderness
The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern Frontier
1995
Three Roads to the Alamo
The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
1998
Battle at Bull Run
A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War
1977
The West
1995
Battle of New Market
1975
Look Away!
A History of the Confederate States of America
2002
Embattled Confederacy
The Image of War, 1861-1865, Vol. 3
1982
Crucible of Command
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged
2015
Rebels and Yankees
1990
The Civil War Reenactor's Encyclopedia
2002
The Pirates Laffite
The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
1789
The Greatest Fury
The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America
2019
Civil War Parks
The Story Behind the Scenery
1984
Brothers in Arms
1995
The Cause Lost
Myths and Realities of the Confederacy
1996
The American Civil War
A Historical Account of America's War of Secession
1996
The Civil War Cookbook
1993
Brother Against Brother
The War Begins
1983
Jefferson Davis
The Man and His Hour
1991
The Image of War
1861-1865, Volume 1: Shadows of the Storm
1981
First Blood
Fort Sumter to Bull Run
1983
The Union That Shaped the Confederacy
Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens
2001
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War
1997
The Rogue Republic
How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History
2011
An Honorable Defeat
The Last Days of the Confederate Government
2001
Lincoln's Men
How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation
1998
Breckinridge
Statesman, Soldier, Symbol
1974
Lone Star Rising
2003
Taste for War
The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray
2003
The Civil War in Photographs
2002
