Charles Minor Blackford (October 17, 1833 – March 10, 1903) was a Virginia lawyer and an author of American Civil War stories.

His wartime correspondence with his wife, since published, remains a valuable resource for facts about life in the Confederate Army.

Most of his service was in northern Virginia around the Rappahannock and the Rapidan Rivers, in the Shenandoah Valley, and with Lee's army at Gettysburg.

"[2] After the War, Blackford practiced law, and served as president of the People's National Bank of Lynchburg.

A seller of reprints of these volumes boasts that "Douglas Southall Freeman called Blackford's account of Appomattox one of the most important in existence.