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Journal of the Company of Military Historians

Military Collector & Historians is published quarterly by the Company of Military Historians.

Military Collector & Historians, Volume 64 No.3: The Little Fork Rangers at the skirmish of Blackburn's ford and the first battle of Manassas, by J Robert Hughes (See the Little Fork Rangers)

Military Collector & Historians, Volume 56 No.1: The Marine battalion at the battle of Bull Run, emending the record, by David Sullivan (See the United States Marine Corps Battalion)
Military Collector & Historians, Volume 56 No.1: 'We have got our nice blue uniforms', The 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry receives the regulation dress uniform, October 1861, by Scott Cross (See the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry)
Military Collector & Historians, Volume 63 No.4: The men that saved your army, Company K, 2d U.S. Infantry, April–July 1861, by Donald McConnnell and Gustav Person (See the United States Battalion Infantry)
Military Collector & Historians, Volume 64 No.2: The sons of 'Auld Reekie', The Highland Guard of Charleston, South Carolina, 1857–1860, by Ron Field
Military Collector & Historian, Volume 64 No.2: John Warren, Lieutenant, Palmetto Sharpshooters, by David Middleton Edelen II and David M Sullivan

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West Virginia History

The burning of the 21st Bridge at New Creek, by Fritz and Mark Haselberger

Wallace's raid on Romney in 1861, by Fritz Haselberger

Jstor

JSTOR offers archival and current journals, books, and primary sources across a range of disciplines.

Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D. C., Volume 60/62 (1960/1962), pp. 123–133: Military Activities in Washington in 1861, by Elden E Billings (See the District of Columbia militia)
Military Affairs, Volume 21, No.4, Winter, 1957, pp. 188–192: Federal batteries on the Henry House Hill, Bull Run, 1861, by Ralph W Donnelly
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 69, No.2, April 1961, pp. 149–180: The military orders of Daniel Ruggles, Department of Fredericksburg, 22 April–5 June, 1861, by Meriwether Stuart

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The New Orleans Daily Delta

13 August 1861: Jackson Barracks, historical military data on Louisiana militia, Volume 113, pp. 10–15

The Baltimore Sun

16 July 1861: Telegraphic dispatch from Washington D. C., 15 July, 1861 (See the Virginia Battalion State Militia)

The Richmond Daily Dispatch

4 May, 1861: The Kentucky troops (See the 1st Kentucky Infantry)
17 May, 1861: The Kentucky troops (See the 1st Kentucky Infantry)
1 July, 1861: Camp Pickens, Company H, justice to Captain F J Boggs (See the 1st Virginia Infantry)
 
17 July, 1861: By the Governor of Virginia, a proclamation (See the Virginia Battalion State Militia)
18 July, 1861: Special correspondence, Camp Pickens, 15 July, 1861 (See the Virginia Battalion State Militia)
29 July, 1861: Another gallant soldier gone
5 August, 1861: Report of Captain Welby Carter's company (See the 1st Virginia Cavalry)

Papers & letters

Christopher Heffelfinger papers 1861–1929: Christopher Heffelfinger, Company D, writing in 1915, Minnesota Historical Society
Thomas Claiborne papers, June–August 1861, supplied by Samanatha Crisp, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, The University of North Carolina
James A. Wright papers 1907–1914: James A Wright, Company F, writing in 1904, Minnesota Historical Society
Cadmus M. Wilcox papers, 1846–1887: A letter from Cadmus Wilcox to 'Sister Mary', written from camp on Bull Run, 7 miles from Manassas Junction, on 1 August, 1861, Library of Congress, Washington D. C.
A Life in Letters: Lieutenant Colonel Robert A Hardaway in the Civil War and the New South, 28 April to 6 August, 1861, Columbus State University, Georgia
The King Family Papers, manuscript, 1811–1890: Captain W King, Saltville Light Artillery, 14 July, 1861, Manassas Junction

Wisconsin Historical Society

Letter from Private Eskew, Centreville, Virginia, 20 July, 1861 (See the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry)

Southern Historical Society Papers

Volume 8: Reminiscenes of the Powhatan Troop of Cavalry in 1861, by Colonel J F Lay (See Lay's Squadron Cavalry)
Volume 11: Sketches of the history of the Washington Artillery, by Colonel J B Walton, Captain J A Chalaron, Colonel B F Eschelman, and Colonel W M Owen (See the Washington Battalion Artillery)
Volume 14: Ewell at First Manassas, by Captain George F Harrison
Volume 17: 'Bury me on the field, boys!' Memoir of Gen. C. R. Wheat, commander of the 'Louisiana Tiger Battalion', by Leo Wheat (See the 1st Special Battalion Louisiana Infantry)
Volume 23: Historical sketch of the Rockbridge artillery, C. S. Army, by a member of the famous battery (See the 1st Rockbridge Artillery)
Volume 24: Company D, Clarke Cavalry, history and roster of this command, which fought gallantly, by Joseph H Shepherd (See the 1st Virginia Cavalry)
Volume 28: Harper's Ferry and First Manassas, extracts from the diary of Captain James M. Garnett, in charge of General Ordnance Train, Army of Northern Virginia, from January, 1863, to February, 1864; and ordnance officer of Rodes' (later Grime's) Division, 2d Corps, A. N. Va., from February, 1864, to April 9, 1865
Volume 28: Very complete roll of Company F, Tenth Virginia Regiment, or the Muhlenburg Rifles, by Herbert F Milev
Volume 29: Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson, by Bradley T Johnson
Volume 30: Black Horse Troop, some reminiscences of the famous command, from the Baltimore, Md., Herald, February, 1902 (See Munford's Squadron Cavalry)
Volume 32: The Pulaski Guards, Company C, 4th Virginia Infantry, at the first battle of Manassas, 18 July, 1861 (See the 4th Virginia Infantry)
Volume 32: General Eppa Hunton at the battle of Bull Run, 21 July, 1861, statement that he saved the Confederate army from defeat (See the 8th Virginia Infantry)
Volume 34: Thirty-third at First Manassas, by Arthur C Cummings, Abingdon, 6 May, 1898 (See the 33rd Virginia Infantry)
Volume 34: First battle of Manassas, dash and heroism of the Maryland Line, Stonewall Jackson's flank saved, recollections revived by the 45th anniversary, by Colonel Winfield Peters
Volume 35: From Manassas to Frazier's farm, recollections of a soldier in many battles, General Lee to the rear, by R D Funkhouser (See the 49th Virginia Infantry)
Volume 35: Dedication of a bronze tablet in honor of the Botetourt Battery, in Vicksburg National Park 23 November, 1907, (See the 28th Virginia Infantry)
Volume 38: Roster of the Amelia Troop, which constituted Company 'G,' First Regiment Virginia Cavalry, from the beginning to the end of the Confederate war, compiled by George M Wilson (See the 1st Virginia Cavalry)
Blue & grey Special Issue: The general's tour, the battle of First Manassas, or Bull Run, July 21, 1861, Volume XXVII, Issue 5, by Henry P Elliott, Ranger, Manassas National Battlefield Park
Military Modelling October 1987: 'Sunday Picnic Uniforms', , by Paul Stevenson
Correspondence of Colonel William A. Morgan, manuscript, 1853–1889: Captain William A. Morgan, 1st Virginia Cavalry, 23 July, 1861, Manassas Junction
Lipincott's monthly magazine: A popular journal of general literature, Volume 10, Beauregard and the militia colonel, by J B Lippincott & co, 1872

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