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Civil War

Battles

Antietam

Johnson, Curt and Anderson, Richard C. Jr. Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam. With the 1940 Report by Joseph Mills Hanson. Texas A & M University Press. College Station, Texas. 1995. 147 pages. Hardcover.

Provides a detailed examination of the role of field artillery in the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. Discusses organizational problems, capabilities and ammunition, virtually every aspect of field artillery used during the Civil War, and much more.
Price: $25.00

Chancellorsville

Stackpole, Edward J. Chancellorsville. Lee's Greatest Battle. Stackpole Books. 2nd edition. 1998. 398 pages. Softcover.

Outnumbered 2 to one, with fewer weapons, and lacking supplies, Robert E. Lee managed to crush the Army of the Potomac on one of the most daring engagements in all of military history.
Price: $12.50

Fort Fisher

Robinson, Charles M. III. Hurricane of Fire. The Union Assault on Fort Fisher. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, Maryland. First Printing. 1998. 249 pages. Hardcover.

Based upon exhaustive primary source material, this is the first full history - from a naval perspective - of the fort on North Carolina's Cape Fear River and its little-known significance as both the Achles' heel of the Union blockade and the lifeline of the Confederacy .
Price: $20.00

Fredericksburg

Stackpole, Edward J. The Fredericksburg Campaign. Drama on the Rappahannock. Stackpole Books. 2nd edition. 1991. 312 pages. Softcover.

A complete account , meticulously researched by Stackpole, recreating the Fredericksburg campaign, how it was fought and what it signified.
Price: $10.00

Gettysburg

Haskell, Colonel, Frank A. The Battle of Gettysburg, the Eyewitness Account by Colonel Frank A. Haskell. Chapman Billies, Inc. Sandwich, Massachusetts. 1993. 139 pages. Hardcover.

The first and according to many authorities, the best eyewitness account of the battle. Haskell enlisted in the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers. After serving at the Regiment's Adjutant for a year he was called to be Aide-de-camp to Brigadier General John Gibbon who would be Commander of the Second corps at Gettysburg. Within a few weeks after the battle he had written and mailed to his brother an accurate and very moving account of his experiences during the battle.

Price: $20.00

These Honored Dead. The Union Casualties at Gettysburg. By John W. Busey. Longstreet House. 2nd edition. 1996. Revised and expanded from 1988 first edition. 490 pages. Hardcover.

Over the years, several lists of Union casualties have been prepared, but they were based only on Gettysburg cemetery records and readily available compiled state and Federal sources. Mr. Busey has gone far beyond these sources to individual unit records, state service files, and the military record of individual soldiers, to compiling as full a list as can be presently obtained, making it more complete that any previous list. His list now enables us to be able to correct the obvious errors, and good detective work can often fully identify individuals whose names were previously unknown or unclear.

Price: $30.00

Gragg, Rod. Covered with Glory. The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg. HarperCollins. New York. 2000. 304 pages. Hardcover.

Fully told for the first time, is the unforgettable story of the 26th North Carolina at the Battle of Gettysburg. According to some authorities, by the time fighting ended, the unit had suffered what some authorities would calculate to be the highest casualties of any regiment in the Civil War, facing almost face-to-face combat with the Iron Brigade. On the third day the unit was placed in the front ranks of Pickett's Charge.
Price: $25.00

New Market

Davis, William C. The Battle of New Market. Louisiana State University Press. Baton Rouge. 1983 edition of book originally published in 1975. 249 pages. Softcover.

Davis narrates one of the most memorable and crucial of the engagements fought for control of the Shenandoah Valley, centering around the town of New Market. With disaster closing in on the Confederacy in 1864, a strong army under Union Major General Franz Sigel swept down the valley. There were very few Confederates to oppose the Union forces, and the young cadets of the Virginia Military Institute were called out as a last-ditch reserve corps. With the Rebel right flank collapsing, 247 cadets moved to the front lines, charge uphill, and took the Union battery in hand to hand combat.
Price: $10.00

Richmond

Cullen, Joseph P. Richmond Battlefields. National Battlefield Park. National Park Service. 1987. 46 pages. Softcover.

Discusses the Army of the Potomac, the Peninsula Campaign of 1862 and the final battles in 1864 and 1865. Cover the Drewry's Bluff, Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill, Fort Harrison, Cold Harbor, and many more.

Price: $2.50
Cherokee

Stand Watie

Index to Civil War Service Records - Stand Watie's Cherokee Regiments. Transcribed by Marybelle W. Chase. Published in 1959. 32 pages. Softcover.

This index covers the First Cherokee Mounted Volunteers and the Second Cherokee Mounted Volunteers. It is compiled from the National Archives Microcopy No. 258 Rolls 79, 80, and 90.
Price: $7.50

Illinois
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Indiana

6th and 14th Indiana Volunteers

The Alford Brothers: "We All Must Dye Sooner or Later". Edited by Richard S Skodmore. Nugget Publishers. Hanover, Indiana. 1995. 356 pages. Softcover.

This book contains a compelling story of three brothers from Alfordsville, Indiana, who served - and died - in the American Civil War. The story is told with 196 family letters: letters written by five brothers, two sisters, a father, a mother, aunts, uncles, cousins, a doctor, and a commanding officaer. They cover the period May 1861 to October 1862. Three brothers died during this time: Lafayette Alford (died 7 May 1862), Wayne Alford (died 15 June 1862) and J. Warren Alford (died 21 September 1862).

Price: $25.00

7th Indiana Volunteers

The Civil War Journal of Billy Davis. From Hopewell, Indiana to Port Republic, Virginia. Edited by Richard S. Skidmore. Nugget Publishers. 1989. Second Printing 1996. 179 pages. Softcover.

Born on a farm near Hopewell, Indiana, Davis enlisted as a 23 year old Private in the 7th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment for three months on April 22, 1861. After service in western Virginia, he mustered out in August. He re-enlisted in the same regiment for three years on Friday the 13th, September, 1861. After a bitter winter, he fought in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign in 1862, taking part in the battles of Kernstown and Port Republic. He volunteered for a dangerous assignment at Port Republic, Virginia in June 1862 and was commended for his personal valor. His obituary told how he had picked up the fallen colors on two battlefields. Later in life, he helped organize the Presbyterian Church at Iola, Kansas. He served as an elder for the next 52 years. He had been a church missionary in the Indian Territory where he established 147 Sunday Schools. The journal is presented as it was written and span the period April 1861 to May 1863, although he served for another 16 months. He died at the age of 84.

Price: $20.00.

20th Indiana Volunteers

Dunn, Craig L. Harvestfields of Death. The Twentieth Indiana Volunteers of Gettysburg. Guild Press of Indiana, Inc. Carmel, Indiana. 1999. 34 pages. Softcover.

The Twentieth Indiana Infantry was one of the most decorated of the Northern military units. It fought at the battles of Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and beyond to the end of the war. Two members of the Twentienth won the medal of honor.

Price: $19.95

Indianapolis

Indianapolis and The Civil War. By John Hampden Holliday. The Society of Indiana Pioneers. 1972. 74 pages. Softcover. This is a reprint of a 1909 Edition.

Note: ex-library copy.

Holliday was born in Indianapolis in 1846. He attended school and graduated from college in 1864. Provides a brief background on the founding of Indianapolis, various census statistics, every day life, (stores opened at 6 a.m. and closed at 9 p.m., banks opened at 8 a.m. and closed at 4 p.m., and factories started at 7 a.m. and worked until 6 p.m.), styles of clothing, Indianapolis on the first days after the fall of Fort Sumter, raising of military units, cost of equipping individual soldiers, a description of the arsenal, Camp Morton, newspaper reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation and the battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg, and Lincoln's death. (Not much recorded on the city's reaction to the end of the war.). .

Price: 6.00

Kansas

Indian Home Guards. Civil War Service Records. Transcribed by Marybelle W. Chase. Published in 1993. 203 pages. Softcover.

This book is a comprehensive index to the compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in organizations not raised by states or territories which are among the records of the National Archives. There were three regiments of Indian Home Guards, also known as the Kansas Home Guards since the Indian Home Guards were attached to the Kansas Infantry. The first regiment was composed principally of Creek Indians, the second of Osages and Cherokees, and the third of Creeks and Cherokees. Also included are white persons who were attached to the Indian Home guards.

Price: $20.00

Kentucky

The Orphan Brigade. The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home By William C. Davis. Stackpole Books. 2nd hardcover edition. 1980 with new material added 1993. 318 pages.

Based on their diaries and surviving letters, official records, and a host of brilliant postwar recollections, this book offers a humorous, touching, heroic story of a band of men from the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th Kentucky Infantry and accompanying artillery batteries who chose to fight for the Confederacy.

Price: $20.00.

Louisiana

First Brigade

Seymour, William J. Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour. Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger. Edited with an introduction by Terry L. Jones. Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge and London. 1991.162 pages. Hardcover.

Seymour provides the only existing documentation of the bombardment of Fort Jackson, Louisiana, in April, 1862, from a Confederate soldier. His reminiscences are also the only ones by any field or staff officer who served in the famous First Louisiana Brigade (Hay's Brigade) in the Army of Northern Virginia.

Price: $20.00

Massachusetts

54th Volunteer Infantry

Burchard, Peter. Glory. One Gallant Rush. Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment. St. Martin's Press. 1965. 168 pages. Softcover.

This is the story of the first African-American fighting unit raised in Massachusetts, and is leader, Robert Gould Shaw. Shaw led his troops on the attack on Fort Wagner, losing his life, but gaining everlasting glory for his unit.

Price: $7.50

Michigan

5th Michigan Cavalry

Avery , James Henry. Under Custer's Command. The Civil War Journal of James Henry Avery. Compiled by Karla Jean Husby. Edited by Eric J. Wittenberg. Forward by Gregory J. W. Urwin. Brassey's. Washington, D. C. 2000. 185 pages. Hardcover.

The battlefield journals and postwar remembrances of Sergeant Avery offers detailed descriptions of Civil War cavalry movements and daily life in the Fifth Regiment. The text is augmented with notes that provide useful historical context for the reader. Avery eloquently describes his personal experiences in battles that include Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Yellow Tavern, and Cedar Creek. This book contains the only known account of the torturous two-week march back to friendly lines made by elements of the Fifth Regment after they were separated at from their comrades on the first day of battle at Trevalian Station, Virginia.

Price: $17.50

Missouri

Selected Union Burials — Missouri Units. Volume 1. Compiled by Edward Parker. State Historical Society of Missouri. 1988. 55 pages. Plastic Comb Binding.

This alphabetical index was created from the U. S. Quartermaster’s Department Roll of Honor. This volume includes only the states bordering Missouri: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Vicksburg, Mississippi;. The lists for the Indian and Nebraska territories did not include any Missouri soldiers. These volumes provide an alphabetical listing of soldiers identified a having served in Missouri units. Some men may have served in the units but may not have been from Missouri. Some men from Missouri may have served in non-Missouri units, so they names may not be in these volumes. Includes name, location, death date, regiment, company, rank, and volume/page of the Roll of Honor.
Price: $10.00

Selected Union Burials — Missouri Units. Volume 2. Compiled by Edward Parker. State Historical Society of Missouri. 1993. 33 pages. Plastic Comb Binding.

This alphabetical index was created from the U. S. Quartermaster’s Department Roll of Honor. This volume of interments includes only the states bordering Missouri: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Vicksburg, Mississippi;. The lists for the Indian and Nebraska territories did not include any Missouri soldiers. These volumes provide an alphabetical listing of soldiers identified a having served in Missouri units. Some men may have served in the units but may not have been from Missouri. Some men from Missouri may have served in non-Missouri units, so they names may not be in these volumes. Includes name, location, death date, regiment, company, rank, and volume/page of the Roll of Honor.

Price: $10.00

New Jersey

10th Volunteer Infantry

Davis, Ron E. The Civil War Diary and Letters of John Bacon Hoffman of Shiloh, New Jersey. Seventh Day Baptist Publishing House. Plainfield, New Jersey. 1979. 89 pages plus endnotes. Softcover.

Note: signed by author

The author is descended from Mr. Hoffman. Hoffman was born in 1836 and died in 1921. He was a teacher before enlisting in the 10th Regiment of the New Jersey Veteran Volunteers in January 1864. He was captured at the Battle of the Wilderness, May 9, 1864 and subsequently rescued by General Sheridan. In February, 1865 he was promoted to Second Lieutenant. After the war he was a farmer, living in a log cabin with his wife and children. Hoffman wrote to his family often during the war and also carried a diary. This book also includes several family photographs.

Price: $15.00

New York

Politics

Brummer, Sidney David. Political History of New York State During the Period of the Civil War. Columbia University. 1911. 451 pages. Softcover. Many pages uncut.

Note: This is an original edition. Not a reprint. Thin paper covers are present but detached from book and chipping. One large chip on cover (about 3/4th inches wide and 2 1/2 inches long) near back spine missing. One large chip (about 1/2 inch by 2 inches long) missing at bottom left hand of front cover.) Pages 1 - 16 present but nearly detached.

Discusses the political situation in New York in 1860, Tammany Hall, the presidential nomination of 1860, Horace Greeley, dissention in the Democratic Party, the emergence of a Peace Party and its defeat, and much more.

Price: $15.00

North Carolina

26th Infantry

Gragg, Rod. Covered with Glory. The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg. HarperCollins. New York. 2000. 304 pages. Hardcover.

Fully told for the first time, is the unforgettable story of the 26th North Carolina at the Battle of Gettysburg. According to some authorities, by the time fighting ended, the unit had suffered what some authorities would calculate to be the highest casualties of any regiment in the Civil War, facing almost face-to-face combat with the Iron Brigade. On the third day the unit was placed in the front ranks of Pickett's Charge.

Price: $25.00

Ohio

23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Wood County

Wood County's Role in the Civil War. Volume 1. Wood County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society. 1997. 152 pages. Softcover.

Makes accessible all Wood County pages from Military Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia. It also contains a sampling of newspaper clippings of the late 1800's and early 1900's pinpointing the post-war residences of those who served. Contains 5,000 names with personal sketches. Also contains Rolls of Honor, and information on several Ohio volunteer units.

Price: $20.00

Tennessee

Tenth Infantry Regiment (Irish)

Confederate States Volunteers

Gleeson, Ed. Rebel Sons of Erin. A Civil War Unit History of The Tenth Tennessee Infantry Regiment (Irish) Confederate States Volunteers. Guild Press of Indiana. Indianapolis. 1993. 429 pages. Softcover.

The Tenth Tennessee was a Confederate military organization of brawling, hard-drinking Irishmen from the Nashville area who were loyal to the South, a small but deadly unit of expert rifleman who inflicted heavy casualties on the Union Western Army.

Price: $19.95

Texas

9th Texas Cavalry

Crabb, Martha L. All Afire To Fight. The Untold Tale of the Civil War's Ninth Texas Cavalry. Avon Book. 2000. 423 pages. Hardcover.

In October 1861, the young men of the Confederacy's newly formed Ninth Texas Cavalry forded the Red River between Texas and what is now eastern Oklahoma. They remained away from Texas for four years, losing three quarters of the unit in combat, disease or Indian attacks.

Price: $25.00

Wisconsin

2nd Volunteer Infantry

Otis, George H. The Second Wisconsin Infantry. With Letters and Recollections by other Members of the Regiment. Edited and with an Introduction by Alan d. Gaff. Morningside Bookshop. Dayton, Ohio. 1984. 372 pages. Hardcover.

Before the Civil War, Otis had been a newspaper reporter. On June 11, 1861, Otis was sworn in as the fourth corporal in Company I of the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. On March 25, 1862 he was sworn in as the commanding officer for Company I. He led his company through nearly every major campaign conducted by the Army of the Potomac: Second bull run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness and Spotsylvania. When all of the senior offices were shot at Gettysburg, Captain Otis skillfully led the regiment through the remainder of the fight. He was the Regiment's commanding officer when the war ended. Otis returned to newspaper editing after the War, and in 1880 wrote his history of the Second Wisconsin. After several complaints about his work, he undertook to write a more extensive and correct history of the unit. Over the years, other members of the 2nd Wisconsin contributed historical articles to various newspapers. These articles also appear in this edition of the book.
Price: 37.50