The following bibliography contains some of the most significant works on the role of Tennessee during the Antebellum, the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

Overview:
Bergeron, Paul H., Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith. Tennesseans and their History. (1999).


Alexander, Thomas B. Political Reconstruction in Tennessee. (1950).

Ash, Stephen V. Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860-1870: War and Peace in the Upper South. (1988).

Atkins, Jonathan M. Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861. (1997).

Bergeron, Paul H. Antebellum Politics in Tennessee. (1982).

Bryan, Charles F. "'Tories' Amidst Rebels: Confederate Occupation of East Tennessee, 1861-1863." Journal of East Tennessee History. 75 (2002): 43-61.

Fisher, Noel C. War at Every Door: Partisan Politics and Guerrilla Violence in East Tennessee, 1860-1869. (1997).

Groce, W. Todd. Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870. (1999).

McKenzie, Robert Tracy. One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War-Era Tennessee. (1994).

Severance, Benjamin H. Tennessee's Radical Army: The State Guard and it's Role in Reconstruction, 1867-1869. (2005).

Temple, Oliver P. East Tennessee and the Civil War. (1899).