Earl J. Hess

Earl J. Hess

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March 24th, 2026: Shattered Courage (Modern War Studies, #124)

May 26th, 2026: Civil War Camps and Soldier Health (Non-Fiction)

Civil War Cavalry (Non-Fiction) was the most recently released book by Earl J. Hess, on August 13th, 2025.

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Below is a complete list of Earl J. Hess books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

List of Civil War America Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
1987
2
Two Great Rebel Armies (By: Richard M. McMurry)
1989
3
Fighting for the Confederacy (By: Gary W. Gallagher, Edward Porter Alexander)
1989
4
1990
5
Lee Considered (By: Alan T. Nolan)
1991
6
The Battle of Belmont (By: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.)
1991
7
1991
8
Burnside (By: William Marvel)
1991
9
In the Hands of Providence (By: Alice Rains Trulock)
1992
10
Glorious Contentment (By: Stuart McConnell)
1992
11
Richard Taylor (By: T. Michael Parrish)
1992
12
Pea Ridge (With: William L. Shea)
1992
13
1993
14
1993
15
Romance of Reunion (By: Nina Silber)
1993
16
Andersonville (By: William Marvel)
1994
17
1994
18
When the Yankees Came (By: Stephen V. Ash)
1995
19
The Alabama and the Kearsarge (By: William Marvel)
1996
20
1996
21
Bentonville (By: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.)
1996
22
1997
23
1997
24
1997
25
War at Every Door (By: Noel C. Fisher)
1997
26
Richard S. Ewell (By: Donald C. Pfanz)
1998
27
Lee's Miserables (By: J. Tracy Power)
1998
28
The Children's Civil War (By: James Marten)
1998
29
1998
30
1998
31
1999
32
Don Carlos Buell (By: Stephen D. Engle)
1999
33
2000
34
2000
35
Wilson's Creek (By: William Garrett Piston, Richard W. Hatcher III)
2000
36
2001
37
The Imagined Civil War (By: Alice Fahs)
2001
38
2001
39
2001
40
Lee's Last Retreat (By: William Marvel)
2002
41
A Soldier's General (By: John C. Oeffinger)
2002
42
2002
43
2002
44
When Sherman Marched North from the Sea (By: Jacqueline Glass Campbell)
2003
45
Roots of Secession (By: William A. Link)
2003
46
Staff Officers in Gray (By: Robert E.L. Krick)
2003
47
2003
48
2004
49
Cities of the Dead (By: William A. Blair)
2004
50
Women at the Front (By: Jane E. Schultz)
2004
51
2004
52
The Grand Old Man of Maine (By: Jeremiah E. Goulka)
2004
53
Vicksburg (By: Michael B. Ballard)
2004
54
Retreat from Gettysburg (By: Kent Masterson Brown)
2005
55
Plain Folk's Fight (By: Mark V. Wetherington)
2005
56
A Shattered Nation (By: Anne Sarah Rubin)
2005
57
2005
58
2005
59
2005
60
2006
61
2006
62
Germans in the Civil War (By: Walter D. Kamphoefner)
2006
63
2007
64
Why Confederates Fought (By: Aaron Sheehan-Dean)
2007
65
Wade Hampton (By: Rod Andrew Jr.)
2008
66
Freedom for Themselves (By: Richard M. Reid)
2008
67
2008
68
Lincoln and the Decision for War (By: Russell A. McClintock)
2008
69
2008
70
U. S. Grant (By: Joan Waugh)
2009
71
Mutiny at Fort Jackson (By: Michael D. Pierson)
2009
72
Modernizing a Slave Economy (By: John Majewski)
2009
73
Wars Within a War (By: Gary W. Gallagher, Joan Waugh, Mark V. Tushnet)
2009
74
A Savage Conflict (By: Daniel E. Sutherland)
2009
75
2009
76
62009
77
A Dangerous Stir (By: Mark Wahlgren Summers)
2009
78
Fields of Blood (By: William L. Shea)
2009
79
West Pointers and the Civil War (By: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh)
2009
80
Reluctant Rebels (By: Kenneth W. Noe)
2010
81
The Bravest of the Brave (By: George G. Kundahl)
2010
82
Confederate Minds (By: Michael T. Bernath)
2010
83
Border War (By: Stanley C. Harrold)
2010
84
Creating a Confederate Kentucky (By: Anne E. Marshall)
2010
85
The Won Cause (By: Barbara A. Gannon)
2011
86
Sing Not War (By: James Marten)
2011
87
2011
88
Lincoln's Forgotten Ally (By: Elizabeth D. Leonard)
2011
89
The Revolution of 1861 (By: Andre Fleche)
2012
90
2012
91
2013
92
Atlanta, Cradle of the New South (By: William A. Link)
2013
93
The Green and the Gray (By: David T. Gleeson)
2013
94
Nature's Civil War (By: Kathryn Shively)
2013
95
Washington Brotherhood (By: Rachel A. Shelden)
2013
96
2013
97
Learning from the Wounded (By: Shauna Devine)
2014
98
Stonewall's Prussian Mapmaker (By: Robert K. Krick, Richard Brady Williams)
2014
99
Through the Heart of Dixie (By: Anne Sarah Rubin)
2014
100
A Gunner in Lee's Army (By: Graham Dozier, Thomas Henry Carter)
2014
101
Belligerent Muse (By: Gary W. Gallagher, Stephen Cushman)
2014
102
Lincoln's Autocrat (By: William Marvel)
2015
103
2015
104
2016
105
2017
106
Union in Peril (By: Howard Jones)
2017
107
The Stormy Present (By: Adam I.P. Smith)
2017
108
2018
109
2018
110
Embattled Freedom (By: Amy Murrell Taylor)
2018
111
A Campaign of Giants (By: A. Wilson Greene)
2019
112
Men Is Cheap (By: Brian P Luskey)
2020
113
A Republic in the Ranks (By: Zachery A. Fry)
2020
114
2020
115
Meade at Gettysburg (By: Kent Masterson Brown)
2021
116
2022
117
2022
118
2025
119
Cassius Marcellus Clay (By: Anne E. Marshall)
2025
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List of Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Lee in the Shadow of Washington (By: Richard B. McCaslin)
2001
2
They Fought Like Demons (By: DeAnne Blanton, Lauren Cook Wike)
2002
3
Railroads in the Civil War (By: John E. Clark)
2004
4
Blood Image (By: Paul Christopher Anderson)
2006
5
2006
6
Brothers One and All (By: Mark H. Dunkelman)
2006
7
Inside the Confederate Nation (By: Lesley J. Gordon, John C. Inscoe)
2007
8
Texas Terror (By: Donald E. Reynolds)
2007
9
Bleeding Borders (By: Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel)
2009
10
Counterfeit Justice (By: Dale Baum)
2009
11
Executing Daniel Bright (By: Barton A. Myers)
2009
12
Undaunted Radical (By: John David Smith, Mark Elliott)
2010
13
2010
14
Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation (By: Daniel L. Fountain)
2010
15
Los Brazos de Dios (By: Sean M. Kelley)
2010
16
2010
17
2011
18
2011
19
Civil War Senator (By: Robert J. Cook)
2011
20
2011
21
Confederate Outlaw (By: Brian D. McKnight)
2011
22
Inventing Stonewall Jackson (By: Wallace Hettle)
2011
23
2011
24
2011
25
The Confederate Heartland (By: Bradley R. Clampitt)
2011
26
Granbury's Texas Brigade (By: John R. Lundberg)
2012
27
Marching with Sherman (By: Mark H. Dunkelman)
2012
28
Rebels on the Border (By: Aaron Astor)
2012
29
2012
30
Knights of the Golden Circle (By: David C. Keehn)
2013
31
Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era (By: Ben Wright, Zachary W. Dresser, Jason Phillips, Ryan Cordell, Nina Reid-Maroney, Joseph Moore, Jennifer Graber, Scott Nesbit, Charles Lee Irons, Edward J. Blum, Matthew Harper, Robert K. Nelson)
2013
32
2013
33
2013
34
Loathing Lincoln (By: John McKee Barr)
2014
35
2014
36
Corps Commanders in Blue (By: Brooks D. Simpson, Ethan S. Rafuse, Steven E. Woodworth, Thomas G. Clemens, Kenneth W. Noe, John J. Hennessy, Mark A. Snell, Christopher S. Stowe)
2014
37
A Broken Regiment (By: Lesley J. Gordon)
2014
38
Across the Bloody Chasm (By: M. Keith Harris)
2014
39
The Civilian War (By: Lisa Tendrich Frank)
2015
40
Patrick Henry Jones (By: Mark H Dunkelman)
2015
41
Reforging the White Republic (By: John Stauffer, Edward J. Blum)
2015
42
Almost Innocent (By: Sheila Bosworth)
2015
43
Citizen-Officers (By: Andrew S. Bledsoe)
2015
44
Confederate Political Economy (By: Michael Brem Bonner)
2016
45
Extreme Civil War (By: Matthew M. Stith)
2016
46
2016
47
Designing Gotham (By: Jon Scott Logel)
2016
48
Occupied Vicksburg (By: Bradley R. Clampitt)
2016
49
The Slaveholding Crisis (By: Carl Lawrence Paulus)
2017
50
2017
51
Hood's Texas Brigade (By: Susannah J. Ural)
2017
52
A Kingdom Divided (By: April E. Holm)
2017
53
In the Wake of War (By: Andrew F. Lang)
2017
54
2018
55
Ambivalent Nation (By: Hugh Dubrulle)
2018
56
2018
57
Civil War Writing (By: Gary W. Gallagher, Stephen Cushman, Brenda E. Stevenson, Sarah Gardner, Matthew Gallman, Keith Bohannon, William C. Davis, Kathryn Shively, Elizabeth Varon)
2019
58
Alabamians in Blue (By: Christopher M. Rein)
2019
59
Treason on Trial (By: Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez)
2019
60
Liberty and Slavery (By: Niels Eichhorn)
2019
61
2019
62
The War Went on (By: Matthew Norman, Brian Matthew Jordan, Evan C. Rothera, Zachery A. Fry, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Jonathan Neu, Angela M Riotto, Kurt Hackemer, Tyler Sperrazza, Steven E. Sodergren, Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Kelly Mezurek, Adam H. Domby, Jonathan A Noyalas)
2020
63
American Discord (By: John F. Marszalek, Lesley J. Gordon, Megan L. Bever, T. Michael Parrish, Laura Mammina, Lawrence A. Kreiser, Adam Petty, Charity Rakestraw, Glenn Brasher, Daniel Burge, Katie Deale, Will Greene, Kevin Hughes, Lindsey Privette, Chris Teeters, Christian McWhirter)
2020
64
2021
65
Rebel Salvation (By: Kathleen Zebley Liulevicius, Kathryn Kraynik)
2021
66
Civil War Witnesses and Their Books (By: Gary W. Gallagher, Stephen Cushman, Sarah Gardner, Matthew Gallman, William A. Blair, Elizabeth R. Varon, M. Keith Harris, Cecily N. Zander)
2021
67
Contesting Commemoration (By: Jack D. Noe)
2021
68
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered (By: Frank J. Williams, Jean H. Baker, Martha Jones, Brian Matthew Jordan, Frank Towers, Charles W. Mitchell, Thomas G. Clemens, Robert J. Cook, Sharita Jacobs-Thompson, Jessica Millward, Timothy J. Orr, Rob Schoeberlein, Jonathan W. White, Richard Bell)
2021
69
Invisible Wounds (By: Dillon J. Carroll)
2021
70
2022
71
Irish American Civil War Songs (By: Catherine V Bateson)
2022
72
The Army under Fire (By: Cecily N. Zander)
2024
73
The Fabric of Civil War Society (By: Shae Smith Cox)
2024
74
Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film (By: Frank J. Wetta, Martin A. Novelli)
2024
75
The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism (By: Niels Eichhorn, Duncan A. Campbell)
2024
76
Garden of Ruins (By: J. Matthew Ward)
2024
77
Between Extremes (By: Jack Furniss)
2024
78
2024
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List of Great Campaigns of the Civil War Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville (By: Daniel E. Sutherland)
1998
2
1999
3
2000
4
And Keep Moving On (By: Mark Grimsley)
2005
5
Vicksburg Is the Key (By: William L. Shea)
2005
6
Spring 1865 (By: Perry D. Jamieson)
2015
7
Counter-Thrust (By: Benjamin Franklin Cooling III)
2020
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List of Littlefield History of the Civil War Era Books in Publication Order

List of Modern War Studies Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary (By: J.B. Jones, James I. Robertson Jr.)
1866
2
Battle Studies (By: Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant Du Picq, Roger J. Spiller, B06)
1880
3
America's First Battles, 1776-1965 (By: Charles E. Heller)
1986
4
Recruiting for Uncle Sam (By: David R. Segal)
1989
5
1990
6
1990
7
1991
8
1991
9
1995
10
1995
11
A Yankee Ace in the RAF (By: John H. Morrow Jr., Earl Rogers)
1996
12
Planning War, Pursuing Peace (By: Paul A.C. Koistinen)
1998
13
Stopped at Stalingrad (By: Joel S.A. Hayward)
1998
14
MacArthur's Airman (By: Thomas E. Griffith Jr.)
1998
15
1999
16
The GI Offensive In Europe (By: Peter R. Mansoor)
1999
17
The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (By: Brian McAllister Linn)
2000
18
Secret Messages (By: David Alvarez)
2000
19
2000
20
Lee, Grant and Sherman (By: Douglas Southall Freeman, Albert E. Castel, Alfred H. Burne)
2000
21
2001
22
2001
23
Hell in Hürtgen Forest (By: Robert S. Rush)
2001
24
Diem's Final Failure (By: Philip E. Catton)
2002
25
Victory in Vietnam (By: Merle L. Pribbenow)
2002
26
Hitler's Volkssturm (By: David K. Yelton)
2002
27
Spies in the Vatican (By: David Alvarez)
2002
28
American Soldiers (By: Peter S. Kindsvatter)
2003
29
Hitler Strikes Poland (By: Alexander B. Rossino)
2003
30
Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm (By: Robert M. Citino)
2004
31
Arsenal of World War II (By: Paul A.C. Koistinen)
2004
32
Abandoning Vietnam (By: James H. Willbanks)
2004
33
Honoring the Civil War Dead (By: John R. Neff)
2005
34
Launch the Intruders (By: Carol Reardon)
2005
35
Hitler's Police Battalions (By: Edward B. Westermann)
2005
36
2005
37
Germany and the Axis Powers (By: Richard L. DiNardo)
2005
38
ARVN (By: Robert K. Brigham)
2006
39
Commanding the Army of the Potomac (By: Stephen R. Taaffe)
2006
40
Military Justice in Vietnam (By: William Thomas Allison)
2006
41
Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers (By: Bryan Mark Rigg)
2007
42
General Walter Krueger (By: Kevin C. Holzimmer)
2007
43
800 Days on the Eastern Front (By: Stuart Britton, Nikolai Litvin)
2007
44
Churchill and His Generals (By: Raymond Callahan)
2007
45
A Gallant Little Army (By: Timothy D. Johnson)
2007
46
From Stalingrad to Pillau (By: Stuart Britton, Isaak Kobylyanskiy)
2008
47
2008
48
Through the Maelstrom (By: David M. Glantz, Boris Gorbachevsky, Stuart Britton)
2008
49
Targeting the Third Reich (By: Robert S. Ehlers Jr.)
2009
50
Japan's Imperial Army (By: Edward J. Drea)
2009
51
Punitive War (By: Clay Mountcastle)
2009
52
Kesselring's Last Battle (By: Kerstin von Lingen, Alexandra Klemm)
2009
53
Vietnam (By: John Prados)
2009
54
Allies against the Rising Sun (By: Nicholas Evan Sarantakes)
2009
55
2010
56
Hitler's Generals on Trial (By: Valerie Genevieve Hebert)
2010
57
America's Captives (By: Paul J. Springer)
2010
58
2010
59
2011
60
Enduring Battle (By: Christopher H. Hamner)
2011
61
The Pope's Soldiers (By: David Alvarez)
2011
62
Reconstructing Iraq (By: Gordon W. Rudd)
2011
63
U.S. Army Doctrine (By: Walter E. Kretchik)
2011
64
Marshall and His Generals (By: Stephen R. Taaffe)
2011
65
Victors in Blue (By: Albert E. Castel, Brooks Simpson)
2011
66
The Wehrmacht Retreats (By: Robert M. Citino)
2012
67
2012
68
Yamashita's Ghost (By: Allan A. Ryan)
2012
69
Clash of Empires in South China (By: Franco David Macri)
2012
70
2013
71
Devil Dogs Chronicle (By: George B. Clark)
2013
72
The OSS in Burma (By: Troy J. Sacquety)
2013
73
Battalion Commanders at War (By: Steven Thomas Barry)
2013
74
The Morenci Marines (By: Kyle Longley)
2013
75
Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War (By: John H. Morrow Jr., Jeffrey T. Sammons)
2014
76
Scarlet Fields (By: John Lewis Barkley)
2014
77
Doughboys on the Great War (By: Edward A. Gutièrrez)
2014
78
2014
79
Sacrificing Childhood (By: Julie K. Degraffenried)
2014
80
Stopping the Panzers (By: Marc Milner)
2014
81
Holocaust versus Wehrmacht (By: Yaron Pasher)
2014
82
The Mediterranean Air War (By: Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.)
2015
83
2015
84
Thunder and Flames (By: Edward G. Lengel)
2015
85
General Lesley J. McNair (By: Mark T. Calhoun)
2015
86
2015
87
Vietnam Rough Riders (By: Frank McAdams)
2015
88
Nixon's Nuclear Specter (By: William Burr, Jeffrey P. Kimball)
2015
89
The Red Army and the Great Terror (By: Peter Whitewood)
2015
90
Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945 (By: Samuel Hideo Yamashita)
2015
91
When Titans Clashed (By: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House)
2015
92
2015
93
Barbarossa 1941 (By: Frank Ellis)
2015
94
MacArthur's Korean War Generals (By: Stephen R. Taaffe)
2016
95
Vietnam's High Ground (By: John Paul Harris)
2016
96
2016
97
2016
98
Losing Binh Dinh (By: Kevin M. Boylan)
2016
99
Stalin's World War II Evacuations (By: Larry E. Holmes)
2017
100
The 1929 Sino-Soviet War (By: Michael M. Walker)
2017
101
A Military History of Afghanistan (By: Ali Ahmad Jalali)
2017
102
Pershing's Crusaders (By: Richard S. Faulkner)
2017
103
Stalingrad (By: David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House)
2017
104
Triumph at Imphal-Kohima (By: Raymond Callahan)
2017
105
The Big Red One (By: First Division Museum at Cantigny)
2017
106
FDR and the Soviet Union (By: Mary E. Glantz)
2017
107
Inglorious Passages (By: Brian Steel Wills)
2017
108
The Wehrmacht's Last Stand (By: Robert M. Citino)
2017
109
The Salvadoran Crucible (By: Brian D'Haeseleer)
2017
110
2018
111
MacArthur's Coalition (By: Peter J. Dean)
2018
112
The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War (By: Jonathan M. House, Sean M. Judge, A23)
2018
113
Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 (By: Richard L. DiNardo, Daniel J. Hughes)
2018
114
Blood on the Snow (By: Graydon A. Tunstall)
2018
115
2022
116
2023
117
2023
118
2024
119
2024
120
2024
121
2024
122
Battle for Belorussia (By: David M. Glantz, Mary Elizabeth Glantz)
2024
123
Beyond Black Hawk Down (By: Jonathan Carroll)
2025
124
2026
125
2026
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List of This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
1999
2
2006
3
Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and Prairie Grove (With: William Garrett Piston, William L. Shea, Richard W. Hatcher III)
2006
4
Peninsula and Seven Days (By: Brian K. Burton)
2007
5
2008
6
Manassas (By: Ethan S. Rafuse)
2014
7
Gettysburg (By: Brooks D. Simpson, Mark Grimsley)
2015
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Earl J. Hess

Earl J. Hess was born on July 10th, 1955 and is currently 70 years old.

Earl J. Hess has written 14 Non-Fiction Books. The first was released in 1997 with the book Liberty, Virtue, and Progress. The most recently released was Civil War Cavalry which was released in 2025.

Earl J. Hess has also written the Civil War America series which has 119 books including The Second Day and Two Great Rebel Armies.

Earl J. Hess: F.A.Q

When was Earl J. Hess Born? How old is Earl J. Hess?

Earl J. Hess was born on July 10th, 1955. Earl J. Hess is currently 70 years old.

What was the first book Earl J. Hess wrote?

The first book written by Earl J. Hess was Pea Ridge, published in 1992.

What was the most recent book Earl J. Hess wrote?

Their most recently released work was Civil War Cavalry on August 13th, 2025.

Are there upcoming new books by Earl J. Hess?

Earl J. Hess has two new books coming out: Shattered Courage will be released on March 24th, 2026. Civil War Camps and Soldier Health will be released on May 26th, 2026

Click and we will keep you updated on these via e-mail, and about any new books Earl J. Hess announces in the future.

How many books has Earl J. Hess written?

Earl J. Hess has written 36 books. 14 Non-Fiction Books, 12 books in the Civil War America Series, 3 books in the Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Series, 1 book in the Great Campaigns of the Civil War Series, 1 book in the Littlefield History of the Civil War Era Series, 4 books in the Modern War Studies Series, 1 book in the This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields Series.

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