The OMNA Faculty recommends the following works in support of our staff rides.  You don't need to buy the books (though you certainly may want to); just go to your local library!

​ Fredericksburg
Staff Ride


Chancellorsville Staff Ride


Gettysburg Staff Ride


Little Bighorn Staff Ride


Shiloh 
Staff Ride


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​San Pasqual and Taos Pueblo Revolt
​Staff Rides


1862 Valley
 Campaign 
Staff Ride


1864-1865 Overland to Appomattox Campaigns


Sharpsburg Staff Ride


​Donner-Reed Expedition Staff Ride

​Chickamauga-Chattanooga Staff Ride


​Selma Civil Rights 1965 Staff Ride
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​General Leadership Studies

Bayonet! Forward by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War on the Rappahannock by Francis O'Reilly


Chancellorsville by Stephen Sears 
Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara 


Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Bayonet! Forward by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain


A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick

Shiloh - In Hell Before Night by James McDonough
Men of Fire by Jack Hurst
That Devil Forrest by John Wyeth​

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Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
​Kearny's March by Winston Groom




Stonewall in the Valley:  Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign by Robert Tanner
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G.F.R. Henderson
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The Passing of the Armies by Joshua Chamberlain
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes by E. H. Rhodes
Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly
Staff Ride Handbook for the Overland Campaign by King, Robertson, and Clay


Landscape Turned Red by Stephen Sears
​Rebel Yell by S. C. Gwynne
The Cornfield by David Welker

Desperate Passage by Ethan Rarick
Across the Plains by Virginia Reed Murphy


Six Armies in Tennessee by Steven Woodworth
This Terrible Sound by Peter Cozzens
The Shipwreck of their Hopes by Peter Cozzens

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​Freedom Summer by Bruce Watson
In Peace and Freedom by Bernard LaFayette, Jr.
Selma - The Movie 


Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac:by Stephen W. Sears
The Leadership Moment by Michael Useem
Battle Leadership by Adolph von Schell
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt
My American Journey by Colin Powell
Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet
​Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal

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