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CD-Roms
- Atlas of the Official Records of the Civil War, containing 179 illustrations, 800 maps and hundreds of drawings and engravings, by Guild Press of Indiana, Inc.
- The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the States, 1861 to 1865, including a brief personal sketch and a narrative of his services in the war with Mexico, 1846–8, Volume 1, by Alfred Roman
- The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, edited by National Archives historians by Guild Press of Indiana, Inc., including:
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H Dyer
Regimental Losses in the American Civil War (1861–1865) by William F Fox
A User's Guide to the Official Records of the American Civil War by Alan & Barbara Aimone and
Military operations of the Civil War: A guide index to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies - Confederate Military History, by Guild Press of Indiana, Inc., including:
Volume 1 Legal justification of the south in secession;
Volume 2 Maryland & West Virginia
Volume 3 Virginia
Volume 4 North Carolina
Volume 5 South Carolina;
Volume 6 Georgia
Volume 7 Alabama & Mississippi
Volume 8 Tennessee
Volume 9 Kentucky & Missouri
Volume 10 Louisiana & Arkansas
Volume 11 Texas & Florida
Volume 12 The Confederate States Navy
General Books
- Aeronautics in the Union and Confererate armies, with a survey of military aeronautics prior to 1861, Volume 1, by F Stabsbury Haydon
- Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general, United States Army, Volume 1
- Burnside, by William Marvel
- Major General Robert E. Rodes of the Army of Northern Virginia: A biography, by Darrell L Collins
- Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, by Ervin L Jordan
- Bull Run: Its strategy and tactics, by R M Johnston
- From Bull Run to Appomattox: A boy's view, by L W Hopkins
- Longstreet's aide: The civil war letters of Major Thomas J. Goree, by Thomas Jewett Goree
- R. E. Lee, Volume 1, by Douglas S Freeman
- Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, Volumes 46–47, by authority of the Executive Council, 1910
- Images of America, Manassas: A place of passage, by Kathleen Mulvaney
- Rebellion Record: A diary of American events, with documents, narratives, illustrative incidents, poetry, etc., Volume 1, edited Frank Moore
- John Letcher of Virginia: The story of Virginia's Civil War Governor, by F N Boney
- The land we love: A monthly magazine devoted to literature, military, history, and agriculture, Volume 3, May–October 1867
- Narrative of military operations during the Civil War, by General Joseph E Johnston
- Stonewall Jackson and Winchester, Virginia, by Jerry Holsworth
- Battle of Young's Branch or, Manassas Plain, fought July 21, 1861
With maps of the battle field made by actual survey, and the various positions of the regiments and artillery companies placed thereon, with an account of the movements of each, procured from the commanding officer, or an officer of the regiment. Also, an account of the battle. Also, the battle ground of the 18th July, 1861, with General Beauregard's report of said battle, by T B Walker and Jas M Catlett - The C. S. A., and the battle of Bull Run: A letter to an English friend, by J G Barnard
- Confederate military history: A library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South, edited by General Clement A Evans of Georgia
- Confederate military history extended edition: A library of Confederate States history, in seventeen volumes, written by distinguished men of the South, edited by General Clement A Evans of Georgia
- General orders of the War Department, embracing the years 1861, 1862 & 1863: Adapted specially for the use of the Army and Navy of the United States, chronologically arranged in two volumes with a full alphabetical index, Volume 1, by Thomas M. O'Brien and Oliver Diefendorf
- The army in the Civil War, Volume 1: The outbreak of rebellion, by John G Nicolay, private Secretary to President Lincoln
- A History of the United States Secret Service, by L C Baker
- Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A., autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War Between the States, with notes by Jubal Anderson Early
- Pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America, Volume 1, by Benson John Lossing
- Battlefields of the South, from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh, with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps, by an English combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery on the Field Staff, with two maps
- The parting: A story of West Point on the eve of the Civil War, by Richard Barlow Adams
- The glories of war: Small battles and early heroes of 1861, by Charles P Poland, Jr.
- Robert C. Schenck, U.S.A., Major General of Volunteers, published by order of Union Central Committee, 3rd Congressiona District, Ohio
- Sword and olive branch: Oliver Otis Howard, by John A Carpenter
- Crimson Confederates: Harvard men who fought for the South, by Helen Trimpi
- Personal memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume 1, by William Tecumseh Sherman
- The Union Army: A history of military affairs in the loyal states 1861–65, records of the regiments in the Union army, cyclopedia of battles, memoirs of commanders and soldiers, Volume 1, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware
Confederate States
Alabama
- Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, by G Ward Hubbs
- War reminiscences of William F Futon, 5th Alabama Battalion, Archer's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Light Division, by William Frierson Fulton, Jr.
- From Selma to Appomattox: The history of the Jeff Davis Artillery, by Lawrence R Laboda
- Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men from 1540 to 1872, by Willis Brewer
- From Alabama to Appomattox: History of the Ninth infantry, pictures, complete muster roll, by Price Parker
- The Eleventh Alabama Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War, by Ronald G Griffin
- History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, p1841, Volume 4, Hardaway, Robert Archelus, by Thomas McAdory Owen
- Transactions of the Alabama historical society 1898–99 Volume 3: Chapter XI, Wilcox's Brigade, by Genearl C M Wilcox, edited by Thomas M Owen
- Memorial record of Alabama: A concise account of the State's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, Volume 1, by Brant & Fuller
- From blue to grey: The life of Confederate General Cadmus M. Wilcox, by Gerard A Patterson
Arkansas
- Reminiscences of a private, William E. Bevens of the First Arkansas Infantry, C. S. A., edited with an introduction by Daniel E Sutherland
Georgia
- Georgia boys with 'Stonewall Jackson', James Thomas Thompson and the Walton Infantry, by Aurelia Austin
- The Sumter Flying Artillery: A Civil War history of the Eleventh Battalion Georgia Light Artillery, by James L Speicher
- Heroes and martyrs of Georgia: Georgia's record in the revolution of 1861, Volume 1, by James M Folsom
- Confederate military history: A library of Confederate States history, written by distinguished men of the South, Volume VI, edited by Clement A Evans
Kentucky
- Confederate military history: A library of Confederate States history, written by distinguished men of the South, Volume IX, edited by General C A Evans
- Memorial service in honor of William Preston Johnston, LL. D., first president of Tulane Univesity, 1884–1899, Introductory address by Judge Charles E Fenner, memorial oration by B M Palmer, D. D.
- Kentuckians in grey: Confederate generals and field officers of the bluegrass state, by Bruce S Allardice and Lawrence L Hewitt
- Report of the adjutant general of the state of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky volunteers, war 1861–65, Volume 1, printed by the authority of the legislature of kentucky
- History of the First Kentucky brigade, by Edwin Porter Thompson
- History of the Ohio falls cities and their counties with illustrations and bibliographical sketches, Volume 1, extract: Louisville men in the Southern army, from a statement by Colonel John D Pope, of the Attorney's bureau in the Louisville and Nashville railway offices
Louisiana
- Records of Company E, Eighth Louisiana Infantry, the Franklin Sharpshooters, housed in the National Archives
- Irish rebels, Confederate tigers: A history of the 6th Louisiana Volunteers, by James P Gannon
- Nine men in grey, by Charles L Dufour
- The pride of the Confederate artillery: The Washington Artillery in the Army of Tennessee, by Nathaniel C Hughes
- Lee's tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia, by Terry L Jones
Maryland
- Biographical sketches of distinguished Marylanders, by Esmeralda Boyle
- Recollections of a Maryland Confederate soldier and staff officer under Johnston, Jackson and Lee, by McHenry Howard
- Maryland Historical Magazine Volume VI, June 1911, No.2: The Maryland Guard Battalion, by Isaac F Nicholson, first corporal, Maryland Guard Battalion, Company G
- One of Jackson's foot cavalry: His experience and what he saw during the war 1861–1865, including a history of 'F Company', Richmond, Va., 21st Regiment Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division, Second Corps, A. N. Va., by John H Worsham
- Richard Snowden Andrews, Lieutenant colonel commanding the First Maryland Artillery, Andrews' battalion, Confederate States Army: A memoir, edited by Tunstall Smith, Baltimore
- Marylanders in the Confederacy, by Daniel D Hartzler
- Maryland's Blue & Grey: A border state's Union and Confederate junior officer corps, by Kevin C Ruffner
- The Maryland Line in the Confederate army, 1861–1861, by W W Goldsborough
Mississippi
- Military history of Mississippi, 1803–1898, taken from the official and statistical register of the State of Mississippi, 1908, by Dunbar Rowland
- The University Greys, Company A, Eleventh Mississippi Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, 1861–1865, by Maud Morrow Brown
- Oxford in the Civil War: Battle for a vanquished land, by Stephen Enzweiler
- Roster and sketches of the several military companies which were in regular service of the Confererate States during the civil war from Yazoo County, Mississippi
- History of Newton County, Mississippi, from 1834 to 1894, by A J Brown
North Carolina
- Roster of North Carolina troops in the War Between the States during the years 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 and 1865, Volume 2, by John W Moore
- Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861–65 (1901), Volume 1 & 2, written by members of the respective commands and edited by Walter Clark
South Carolina
- Company J, Fourth South Carolina Infantry at the first battle of Manassas, by B B Breazeale
- The Rebellion Record: A diary of American events with documents, narratives, illustrative incidents, poetry etc, Volume 2, Charleston Mercury, 29 July, edited by Frank Moore
- South Carolina troops in Confederate service, Volumes I & II, complied by A S Salley, Jr.
- Diary of battles, marches and incidents of the Seventh S. C. Regiment, by J J McDaniel, of Co. "M"
- History of Kershaw's brigade with complete roll of companies, biographical sketches, incidents, anecdotes, etc, by D Augustus Dickert
- History of the Fourth Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, from the commencement of the war until Lee's surrender, by J W Reid
- Diary of Edmund Ruffin: The years of hope, April, 1861–June, 1863, by Edmund Ruffin
- A gentleman and an officer: A military and social history of James B Griffin's Civil War, by Judith N McArthur and Orville V Burton
Tennessee
- The last Confederate general: John C. Vaughn and his East Tennessee cavalry, by Larry Gordon
Texas
- A history of Texas and Texans, by Frank W Johnson, a leader in the Texas revolution
- The Confederate capital and Hood's Texas brigade by Angelina V Winkler
- Our trust is in the God of battles: The civil war letters of Robert Franklin Bunting, Chaplin, Terry's Texas Rangers, C. S. A., edited by Thomas W Cutrer
- Six decades in Texas or memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, Governor of Texas in war-time, 1861–63: A personal experience in business, war, and politics, edited by C W Raines
- History of Company M, First Texas Volunteer Infantry: Hood's brigade, Longstreet's Corps, Army of the Confederate States of America, by D H Hamilton
- Reports of the committee on public safety to the Convention of the people of the state of Texas, which assembled at Austin, the 28th January, 1861, and re-assembled on the 2d day of March, 1861: Containing the missions to San Antonio, to the Rio Grande, and the N. W. Frontier, Gen'l Roger's mission to Louisiana, to procure arms and the Conference of the sub-committee with the late Gov. Houston, with accompanying documents, by the Texas Committee on public safety
- The boys in grey: Our grandparents from Kickapoo, Texas, First Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company H, Confederate States Army, 1861–1865, by Helen Anderson
Virginia
- Contributions to a history of the Richmond Howitzer Battalion: Pamphlet No. 1, Part I, organisation of First Company and John Brown raid , by Captain H Hudnall, Second Company
- Contributions to a history of the Richmond Howitzer Battalion: Pamphlet No. 4, Part III, extracts from an old order book of First Company Richmond Howitzers, by J W Randolph
- A History of the Laurel Brigade: Originally the Ashby cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia and Chew's Battery, by William McDonald
- The memoirs of general Turner Ashley and his compeers, by Rev. James Battle Avirett, Chaplin Ashby Cavalry and other officers of the Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.
- Manassas to Appomattox: The civil war memoirs of Pvt. Edgar Warfield 17th Virginia Infantry
- A record of events in Norfolk County, Virginia, from April 19th, 1861, to May 10th, 1862 with a history of the soldiers and sailors of Norfolk County, Norfolk City and Portsmouth, who served in the Confederate States Army or Navy, by John W H Porter
- Colonel John Pelham, Lee's boy artillerist, by William Woods Hassler
- Memorial, Virginia Military Institute: Biographical sketches of the graduates and élèves of the Virginia Military Institue who fell during the war between the states, by Charles D Walke
- Washington County, Viriginia, in the Civil War, by Michael Shaffer
- Snowballs and skirmish lines: A history of the Fincastle Rifles, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America, 1859–1865, by William O Doherty, Jr.
- Memoirs of Governor William Smith, of Virginia, his political, military, and personal history, by John W Bell
- The memoirs of Colonel John S Mosby, by John S Mosby
- Annals of the Lynchburg Home Guard, prepared by request by Charles M Blackford, Jr.
- The Civil War in Loudoun County, Virginia: A history of hard times, by Stevan F Meserve
- The perfect lion: The life and death of Confederate artillerist John Pelham, by Jerry H Maxwell
- One of Jackson's foot cavalry: his experience and what he saw during the war 1861–1865, including a history of 'F Company', Richmond, Va., 21st Regiment Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division, Second Corps, A. N. Va., by John H Worsham
- Repairing the 'March of Mars': The Civil War diaries of John Samuel Apperson, hospital steward in the Stonewall brigade, 1861–1865, by John Samuel Apperson, John Herbert Roper
- The Military History of the Virginia Military Institute from 1839 to 1865 with appendix, maps, and illustrations, by Jennings C Wise
- Lee's last casualty: the life and letters of Sgt. Robert W Parker, Second Virginia Cavalry, by Robert W Parker
- Confederate engineer: Training and campaigning with John Morris Wampler, by George G Kundahl
- The story of a Confederate boy in the Civil War, by David E Johnston of the 7th Virginia Infantry Regiment
- Four years in the Stonewall brigade, by John O Casler
- The Civil War in Fairfax County: Civilians and soldiers, by Charles V Mauro
- Reminiscences of a Confederate soldier of Co. C, 2nd Va. Cavalry, by R H Peck
- Autobiography of Eppa Hunton
- Lynchburg and its people, by W Asbury Christian
- Between reb and yank: A Civil War history of northern Loudoun County, Virginia, by Taylor M Chamberlin & John M Souders
- Personal reminiscences of the war of 1861–5: In camp, en bivouac, on the march, on picket, on the skirmish line, on the battlefield and and in prison, by W H Morgan
- War history of the old First Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, by Charles T Loehr
- Brigadier General John D. Imboden: Confederate commander in the Shenandoah, by Spencer Tucker
- Historical sketches of the Nottoway Grays afterwards Company G, Eighteenth Virginia Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, prepared at the request of the surviving members of the company at their first reunion at Bellefont Church, July 21, 1877, by Richard Irby
- Aler's history of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia, by F Vernon Aler
- The young lions: Confederate cadets at war, by James Lee Conrad
- Lee's young artillerist: William R. J. Pegram, by Peter S Carmichael
- The Corps forward: The biographical sketches of the VMI Cadets who fought in the battle of New Market: 136, James Septimus Larrick, by Colonel William Couper
- Memoirs of Governor William Smith, of Virginia, his political, military, and personal history, by John W Bell
United States
Connecticut
- Catalogue of Connecticut volunteer organizations, infantry, cavalry, and artillery, in the service of the United States, 1861–1865, with additional elistments, casualties, &c., &c., and brief summaries, showing the operations and service of the several regiments and batteries, by C M Ingersoll
- The Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers: A history compiled from diaries and official reports, by Edwin E Marvin
- The military and civil history of Connecticut during the war of 1861–65: Comprising a detailed account of the various regiments and batteries, through march, encampment, bivouac, and battle, also instances of distinguished personal gallantry, and biographical sketches of many heroic soldiers, together with a record of the patriotic action of citizens at home, and of the liberal support furnished by the state in its executive and legislative departments, by W A Croffut and John M Morris
Indiana
- The soldier of Indiana in the war for the union, Volume 1, by Catharine Merrill
Maine
- Maine in the war for the Union: A history of the part borne by Maine troops in the supression of the American rebellion, by William E S Whitman and Charles H True
- Major-general Hiram G. Berry: His career as a contractor, bank president, politician, and major-general of volunteers in the civil war, together with his war correspondence, embracing the period from Bull Run to Chancellorsville, by Edward K Gould
- History of the Fifth regiment Maine volunteers, comprising brief descriptions of its marches, engagements, and general services from the date of its muster in, 24 June, 1861, to the time of its muster out, 27 July, 1864, by Rev. G W Bicknell
Massachusetts
- History of the First Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, from the 25th of May, 1861, to the 25th of May, 1864, by Warren H Cudworth
- The record of the Second Massachusetts infantry 1861–65, by Alonzo Hall Quint
- History of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery, organised 3 October, 1861, mustered out 12 June, 1865, by Luther E Cowles
- The Fifth Regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry in its three tours of duty 1861, 1862–63, 1864, by Alfred S Roe
- History and complete roster of the Massachusetts regiments, minute men of '61 who responded to the first call of President Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1861, to defend the flag and Constitution of the United States together with photographs and biographical sketches of minute men of Massachusetts, by George W Nason
- First Regiment of Infantry Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Colonel Robert Cowdin, commanding, in service of the United States, in answer to the President's first call for troops to suppress the rebellion, April 15, 1861,
compiled from original papers in the Adjutant General and Auditor's offices of the Commonwealth - The Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in its three tours of duty 1861, 1862–63, 1864, by Alfred S Roe
- A narrative of the formation and services of the Eleventh Massachusetts Volunteers, from 15 April, 1861, to 14 July, 1865, by Gustavus B Hutchinson
- What I saw at Bull Run: An address by Edwin S. Barrett, delivered in the Town Hall, Concord, Mass., July 21st, 1886, on the 25th anniversary of the battle of Bull Run, at the reunion of the veterans of Co. G, Concord artillery, Fifth regiment, M. V. M., Capt. George L Prescott
- History of the First Regiment of Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts volunteers, formerly the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry, 1861–1865, by Alfred Seelye Roe and Charles Nutt
- Massachusetts Register, 1862, containing a record of the Government and Institutions of the State, together with a very complete account of the Massachusetts volunteers, Serial No.94, by Adams, Sampson & Co.
Michigan
- Record of service of Michigan volunteers in the civil war, 1861–1865, Volumes 1 to 2, by Aaron T Bliss
- Michigan in the war, compiled by J Robertson, Adjutant General
- The First Michigan Infantry three months and three years: Brief history of the regiment from its organisation in May, 1861, until its muster out in July, 1865, together with personal experiences of writer, by C W Owen
- The glorious old third: A history of the Third Michigan Infantry 1855 to 1927, by Steve Soper
- Recollections of the Bull Run campaign after twenty-seven years. A paper read before Michigan commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, February 1st, 1887, by companion Henry F Lyster, M. D. (Formerly Assistant Surgeon, 2nd Regiment Michigan Infantry, and Surgeon, 5th Michigan Infantry, and Acting Medical Director 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac)
Minnesota
- No more gallant a deed: A Civil War memoir of the First Minnesota Volunteers, by James A Wright
- History of the First regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1861–1864, with maps and illustrations
New Hampshire
- A history of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, in the war of the rebellion, by Martin A Haynes
- History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers: its camps, marches and battles, by Martin A Haynes
New Jersey
- New Jersey and the Rebellion: A history of the service of the troops and people of New Jersey in aid of the Union cause, by John Young Foster
- History of the First brigade, New Jersey Volunteers from 1861 to 1865, compiled under the authorisation of Kearny's First New Jersey Brigade Society, by Camille Baquet, Second Lieutenant, Company A, First Regiment New Jersey Volunteers
- The Civil War letters of General Robert McAllister, by Robert McAllister
- History of Kearny's First New Jersey brigade, Camille Baquet, The State of New Jersey, 1910
New York
- New York in the War of Rebellion, 1861–1865, Volumes 1–4, by Frederick Phisterer
- The First New York, Lincoln, Cavalry from April 19, 1861, to July 7, 1865, by William H Beach, A. M., First Lieutenant and Adjutant
- The history of Company K of the 17th Regiment, N. Y. V., compiled by Major H A Dudley and Captain A M Whaley
- Memoir of William A. Jackson, a member of the Albany Bar, and colonel of the 18th Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers, who died at the city of Washington, 11 November, 1861, by Joel Munsell
- Memoirs of Henry Villard, journalist and financier, 1835–1900, in two volumes, Volume I, 1835–1862
- Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Eighty-ninth session, 1866, Volume 4, Nos. 61 to 85 inclusive, by New York Legislature Assembly
- From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: The story of the Sixteenth New York Infantry together with personal reminiscences, by Newton M Curtis
- The Seventy-ninth Highlanders, New York Volunteers in the War of Rebellion 1861–1865, by William Todd, of Company B
- Biographical sketch of James Clark Strong, by J C Strong
- Glory was not their companion: The Twenty-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, by Paul Taylor
- James Haggerty of Tìr Conaill, Irish patriot, American hero, by James H McLaughlin, Historian, County Donegal Association of New, Inc.
- The last days of the 69th in Virginia: A narrative in three parts with a portrait, by Thomas Francis Meagher, Captain Company K (Irish Zouaves)
- The Irish brigade and its campaigns, with some account of the Corcoran Legion, and sketches of the principle officers, by David Power Conyngham
- The Irish brigade in the Civil War: The 69th New York and other Irish of the Army of the Potomac, by Joseph G Bilby
- History of the 71st Regiment, N. G., N. Y., American Guard, by Augustus Theodore Francis
- New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Centre, N. Y. S. Division of Military and Naval Affairs, New York State Digital Library
- The history of Company K of the 17th Regiment, N. Y. V., compiled by Major H A Dudley and Captain A M Whaley
- History of the 27th Regiment N. Y. Vols, being a record of its more than two years service in the war for the Union, from May 21st, 1861, to May 31st, 1863, with a complete roster, and short sketches of some of commanding officers, also, a record of experience and suffering of some of the comrades in Libby and other Rebel prisons, compiled by C B Fairchild, of Company D
- Rebellion Record: Document 93, departure of the 8th, 13th, and 69th N. Y. Regiments, New York Tribune, 24 April, 1861
- Chronicles of the Twenty-first Regiment New York State Volunteers, embracing a full history of the regiment from the enrolling of the first volunteer in Buffalo, April 15, 1861, to the final mustering out, May 18, 1863, including a copy of muster out rolls of field and staff, and each company, by J Harrison Mills
- History of the Fortieth, Mozart, Regiment, New York Volunteers, which was composed of four companies from New York, four companies from Massachusetts and two companies from Pennsylvania, by Sergeant Frederick C Floyd
- Rebellion Record: Document 180, Second Regiment N. Y. S. M., New York World, 1861
- Rebellion Record: Document 203, Eighth N. Y. S. V., New York Tribune, 1861
- Rebellion Record: Document 126, Albany Burgesses Corps, New York Tribune, 2 May, 1861
- Reminiscences and letters of George Arrowsmith of New Jersey late lieutenant-colonel of the One hundred and fifty-seventh regiment, New York state volunteers, by John S Applegate
- Memoirs of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher: Comprising the leading events of his career, chronologically arranged, with selections from speeches, lectures and miscellaneous writing, including personal reminiscences, by Michael Cavanagh
Ohio
- Ohio in the war: Her statesmen, her generals, and soldiers, Volume 2, by Whitelaw Reid
- History of the city of Columbus, capital of Ohio, by Alfred E Lee
Pennsylvania
- History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861–5, prepared in complience with acts of the legislation, Volume 1, by Samuel P Bates
- History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps: A complete record of the organization; and of the different companies, regiments and brigades; containing descriptions of expeditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles; together with biographical sketches of officers and personal records of each man during his term of service; compiled from official reports and other documents, by J R Sypher
- History of the First Reg't Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry, from its organization, August 1861, to September 1864, with a list of names of all officers and enlisted men who have ever belonged to the regiment , and remarks attached to each name, noting change, &c
- First in defense of the Union: The Civil War history of the First Defenders, by John D Hoptak
Rhode Island
- Narrative of the campaign of the First Rhode Island Regiment, in the spring and summer of 1861, by Augustus Woodbury
- Personal narratives of the battles of the Rebellion, being papers read before the Rhode Island soldiers and sailors, Historical Society No.1: The first campaign of the Second Rhode Island Infantry, by Elisha H Rhodes
- Rhode Island in the Rebellion, by Edwin W Stone
- The Second Rhode Island regiment: A narrative of military operations in which the regiment was engaged from the beginning to the end of the war for the Union, by Augustus Woodbury
- History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R. I. Volunteers, during the spring and summer of 1861, by Charles H Clarke
- The history of Battery A, First regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the war to preserve the union, 1861–1865, by T M Aldrich
- Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery, by T Reichardt
- Personal narratives of the battles of the Rebellion No.2: The Rhode Island Artillery at the first battle of Bull Run, by J Albert Monroe
United States Army
- Custer: The life of General George Armstrong Custer, by Jay Monaghan
- A few acts and actors in the tragedy of the Civil War in the United States, by William Bender Wilson
- Fighting rebels and redskins: Experiences in army life of Colonel George B. Sanford 1861–1892, by George B Sandford
- The Lyon campaign in Missouri being a history of the First Iowa Infantry and of the causes which led up to its organization, and how it earned the thanks of Congress, which it got: together with a birdseye view of the conditions in Iowa preceding the great Civil War of 1861, by E F Ware
- An account of the battle of Wilson's creek or Oak hills, fought between the Union troops, commanded by Gen. N. Lyon and the Southern, or Confederate troops, under command of Gens. McCulloch and Price, on Saturday, August 10, 1861, in Greene county, Missouri Written and comp. from authentic sources, by Holcombe & Adams
- That body of brave men: The U. S. Regular Infantry and the Civil War in the West, by Mark Wells Johnson
- William H. Emory: Soldier-scientist, by L David Norris, James C Milligan and Odie B Faulk
- Custer victorious: The Civil War battles of General George Armstrong Custer, by Gregory J W Urwin
- No disgrace to my country: The life of John C. Tidball, by Eugene C Tidball
- Biographical register of officers and graduates of the United States Military Academy, at West Point, N. Y., from its establishment, 16 March, 1802 to the army reorganisation of 1866–67, by Bvt. Major General George W Cullum, Colonel, Corps of Enginers, U. S. Army
- History of the United States cavalry: From the formation of the Federal Government to the 1st of June, 1863, by Albert Gallatin Brackett
- Cushing of Gettysburg: The story of a Union artillery commander, by Kent Masterson Brown
- The Army of the United States: Historical sketches of staff and line with portraits of generals in chief, by T F Rodenbough, Brevet Brigadier General, and W L Haskin, Major, First Artillery
- Of duty well and faithfully done: A history of the Regular Army in the Civil War, by Clayton R Newell and Charles R Shrader
- Colonel Richard Irving Dodge: The life and times of a career army officer, by Wayne R Kime
- Across the continent with the Fifth Cavalry, by George Frederic Price
- Official Army Register for September 1861, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, 1 September, 1861
- Military Affairs, Volume 21, No.4, Winter, 1957, pp. 188–192, published by the Society for Military Affairs
Vermont
- The Second Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 1861–1865, by Paul G Zeller
- Vermont in the civil war: A history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the union, 1861–5, by G G Benedict
Wisconsin
- A narrative of service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry, by Julian Wisner Hinkley
- The Iron Brigade: A military history, by Alan T. Nola
- The military history of Wisconsin: A record of the civil and military, by Edwin Bentley Quiner
- Adjutant General of the State of Wisconsin with reports from the Quartermaster General and Surgeon General, for the year ending 30th December , 1865
Washington D. C.
- The siege of Washington: The untold story of the twelve days that shook the Union, by John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood
- Northern Virginia 1861: The chaos of war, by William S Connery
- A report on the defenses of Washington D. C. to the chief of engineers, U.S. Army, by Brevet Major General J G Barnard
- First in defense of the Union: The Civil War history of the First Defenders, by John D Hoptak
- Lincoln's abolitionist general: The biography of David Hunter, by Edward A Miller
- A history of the national capital from its foundation through the period of the adoption of the organic act, Volume 2, by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan
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Reference Material
The above painting, 'First at Manassas', is by Don Troiani, modern America's finest historial artist.