Selected Bibliography of George Alfred Townsend (GATH)

Civil War Related Publications

• Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, And His Romaunt Abroad During the War, Blelock and Company, New York, 1866, (also reprinted by Time-Life Books, 1982)
• Rustics in Rebellion: A Yankee Reporter on the Road to Richmond 1861-1865; University of North Carolina Press, 1950 (An Abridged Edition of "Campaigns of a Non-Combatant", with Introduction by Lida Mayo)
• The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth : With a Full Sketch of the Conspiracy of Which He Was the Leader and the Pursuit, Trial, and Execution of His Accomplices, Dick and Fitzgerald Publishers, New York, 1865
• Mr. Lincoln's Favorite Poem: "Mortality", New York Tribune, January 25, 1867
• The Real Life of Abraham Lincoln: A Talk with Mr. Herndon: His Late Law Partner, Publication House, New York, 1867

Publications of Regional Interest

• Katy of Catoctin or The Chain Breakers, 1886, (most recent reprint by Tidewater Publishers, Cambridge, MD, 1959)
• The Entailed Hat or Patty Cannon's Times, 1884, (most recent reprint by Tidewater Publishers, Cambridge, MD, 1955)
• Tales of the Chesapeake - A Collection of Twenty-six Interesting and Unusual Tales and Idyls, 1880, (most recent reprint by Tidewater Publishers, 1968)
• Poems of Men and Events, Gapland Edition, E.F. Bonaventure, New York, 1899
• Poems of the Delaware Peninsula, 1913

Other Historical Non-Fiction and Fiction Publications

• Lost Abroad, Americans in Europe in 1866, S.M. Betts and Company, Hartford, 1870
• First Ten Thousand: The Life and Battles of Garibaldi and His March on Rome, 1867
• The New World Compared with the Old: A Description of the American Government, Institutions, and Enterprises, and Those of Our Great Rivals at the Present Time, S.M. Betts and Company, Hartford, 1869
• Washington, Outside and Inside: A Picture Narrative of the Origin, Growth, and Personages of Our Governing City, James Betts and Company, Hartford, 1873
• Poetical Addresses, 1881
• President Cromwell, A Drama in Four Acts (And in Prose), 1884
• Lives of Harrison and Morton (with Life of Gen. Benjamin Harrison written by Gen. Lew Wallace (author of Ben-Hur) and Life of Hon. Levi P. Morton written by George Alfred Townsend), Hubbard Brothers Publishers, Philadelphia, 1888
• Mrs. Reynolds and Hamilton - A Romance, 1890
• Bohemian Days - Three American Tales
• Columbus In Love, Lippincott's Magazine, April 1893

NOTE: Many of these publications are available from used, rare, and antique book dealers (for example, see Wonder Books in Frederick and Hagerstown) or on the Web from Alibris.com, Amazon.com, or eBay.com

A recently published (1996) anthology of Townsend's writing and a biographical sketch of GATH's life by Jerry Shields, entitled "Gath's Literary Work and Folk, And Other Selected Writings of George Alfred Townsend", A Delaware Heritage Press Book, Wilmington, is available at many local bookstores or from the Friends of South Mountain State Battlefield museum shop.