Books by James Robertson

  • Robert E. Lee: Virginian Soldier, American Citizen. Atheneum Books for
    Young Readers, 2005.
  • Standing Like a Stone Wall. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001
  • The Confederate Spirit (with Mort Künstler). Rutledge Hill Press, 2000.
  • Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend. Macmillan, 1997 (main selection of two major book clubs; winner of an unprecedented eight national awards).
  • Jackson & Lee: Legends in Gray (with Mort Künstler). Rutledge Hill Press, 1995.
  • Johnny Rebs and Billy Yanks: The Civil War's Common Soldiers. (Eastern
    National Parks and Monument Association, 1994.
  • Civil War! America Becomes One Nation. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 (Literary Guild
    selection; winner of 1993 American Library Association's Best Book for Young Readers Award; first recipient of Civil War Round Table of New York's Young Readers Award).
  • Civil War Virginia. University Press of Virginia, 1991.
  • Soldiers Blue and Gray. University of South Carolina Press, 1998 (Pulitzer Prize
    nominee; book-of-the-Month Club dividend book; History Book Club alternate selection).
  • General A. P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior. Random House, 1987
    (main selection of History Book Club).
  • The 18th Virginia Infantry. H. E. Howard, Inc., 1984.
  • Tenting Tonight: The Soldier's Life. Time-Life Books, 1984.
  • The 4th Virginia Infantry Regiment. H. E. Howard, Inc., 1982.
  • Civil War Sites in Virginia: A Tour Guide. University Press of Virginia, 1982.
  • The Concise Illustrated History of the Civil War. National Historical Society, 1971.
  • The Civil War Centennial: A Report to the Congress (with Allan Nevins). U. S. Government Printing Office, 1968.
  • The Civil War: A Student Handbook. U. S. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1963.
  • The Stonewall Brigade. Louisiana State University Press, 1963; reprinted 1978.


BOOKS EDITED

  • New! Virginia at War, 1861, ed. with William C. Davis. The University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
  • Soldier of Southwestern Virginia: The Civil War Letters of Captain John
    Preson Sheffey    . Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
  • The Bell Irvin Wiley Reader (co-editor). Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
  • Four Years under General Lee (revised edition, written by Walter H. Taylor). Indiana University Press, 1996.
  • Gettysburg (new edition written by Earl Schenck Miers). M. E. Sharp, Inc., 1996.
  • The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (7 vols). Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1992-1993.
  • An Index Guide to the Southern Historical Society Papers (2 vols). Kraus
    Thompson, Ltd., 1980.
  • Proceedings of the Advisory Council of the State of Virginia, April 21-June 19, 1861. Virginia State Library, 1977.
  • Rank and File: Civil War Essays in Honor of Bell Irvin Wile. Preside Press, 1976.
  • Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier and Staff Officer, 1861-1865 (written by McHenry Howard). Morningside Press, 1975.
  • Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade (written by John O. Casler). Morningside Press, 1971, 1980, 1983.
  • Civil War books: A Critical Bibliography (managing editor and contributor, 2 vols.). Louisiana State University Press, 1965-1967; republished by Archives Society, 1997.
  • The Civil War Letters of General Robert McAllister (written by Robert McAllister). Rutgers University Press, 1965; republished by the Archives Society, 1997.
  • One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry (written by John H. Worsham). McCowat-Mercer
    Press, 1964.
  • Civil War History, Vols 1-5: A Cumulative Index (compiler). University of Iowa,
    1963.
  • Four Years with General Lee (written by Walter H. Taylor). Indiana University
    Press, 1962; republished by Bonanza Books, 1973.
  • From Manassas to Appomattox (written by James Longstreet). Indiana University
    Press, 1960; republished by Kraus Reprint Co., 1964.
  • A Confederate Girl's Diary (written by Sarah Morgan Dawson). Indiana University
    Press, 1960; republished by Greenwood Press, 1972.