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Reference

Annual Reprts and Reunions of the Association of Graduates of the USMA

Atlas to the Official Records

Cullum, G. W. Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the USMA at West Point

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Union Unit Sketches) 

Fox, W. F. Regimental Losses in the American Civil War 1861 - 1865

Heitman, F. B. Historical Register and Dictionary of the U. S. Army

Henry, Guy V. Military Records of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, Vol. I

Henry, Guy V. Military Records of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, Vol. II

Phisterer, F. Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States

Powell, W. H. Powell’s Records of Living Officers of the United States Army

Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - Part II

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (First Bull Run is Series I, Vol. II)

West Point Atlas of the American Civil War

Campaign Studies

Ballard, T. First Bull Run Staff Ride, Ballard, T.

Beauregard, G.T. A Commentary on the Campaign and Battle of Manassas 

Fry, J. B. McDowell and Tyler in the Campaign of Bull Run

Johnston, R. M. Bull Run - Its Strategy and Tactics

Patterson, R. A Narrative of the Campaign in the Valley of the Shenandoah in 1861

Smith, G.W. Generals J. E. Johnston and G. T. Beauregard at the Battle of Manassas, July, 1861

Stedman, E.C. The Battle of Bull Run

Unit Histories

Confederate

Dickert, D. A. History of Kershaw’s Brigade 

Goldsborough, W. W. The Maryland Line in the Confederate Army 1861 - 1865 

Irby, Richard Historical Sketch of the Nottaway Grays, afterwards Company G, Eighteenth Virginia Regiment 

Loehr, C. T. War History of the Old First Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia

Wise, G. History of the Seventeenth Virginia Infantry, C.S.A. 

Wise, J. C. The Long Arm of Lee

Union

Aldrich, T. M. The History of Battery A., First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery 

Benedict, G.G. Vermont in the Civil War 

Brackett, A.G. History of the United States Cavalry 

Conn, G. P. History of the New Hampshire Surgeons in the War of Rebellion 

Curtis, N. M. From Bull Run to Chancellorsville - The Story of the Sixteenth New York Infantry 

Fairchild, C.B. History of the 27th Regiment N. Y. Volunteers 

Gates, T.B. The “Ulster Guards” [20th N. Y. State Militia] and the War of the Rebellion

Gould, J. M. History of the First-Tenth-Twenty-ninth Maine Regiment

Haynes, M. A. History of the Second Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers:Its Camps, Marches and Battles

Ingersoll, C.M.  Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations 

Roe, A. S. The Fifth Regiment Massacusetts Volunteer Infantry 

Schouler, W. A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War 

Stone, E.W. Rhode Island in the Rebellion 

Todd, W. The Seventy-Ninth Higlanders New York Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion 1861 - 1865 

Waite, O. F. R. (NH Regiments) Claremont War History, April 1861 to April 1865

Waite, O. F.R. New Hampshire in the Great Rebellion

Waite, O.F.R. Vermont in the Great Rebellion

Woodbury, A. The Second Rhode Island Regiment

Memoirs

Confederate

Baylor, G. (12th VA Cav) Bull Run to Bull Run

Davis, J. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Vol. I

Early, J. A. Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States

Howard, McH. (1st MD) Recollections of a Maryland Soldier and Staff Officer

Hopkins, L.W. (6th VA) From Bull Run to Appomattox - A Boy’s View

Johnston, J.E. Narrative of Military Operations Directed, During the Late War Between the States, by Joseph E.Johnston

Longstreet, J. From Manassas to Appomattox

McKim, R. H. (1st MD) A Soldiers Recollections 

Morgan, W. H. (11th VA) Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-65 

Sorrel, G. M. Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer

White, B.F. (6th NC) in Clark’s History of the Several Regiments and Battallions from North Carolina, The Sixth Regiment at Manassas, July 21, 1861

Union

Coffin, C. C. The Boys of ‘61

Croty, D. G. (3rd MI) Four Years Campaigning in the Army of the Potomac 

Howard, O.O. Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard 

Keyes, E. D. Fifty Years Observation of Men and Events Civil and Military 

Merrell, W. H. (27th NY) Five Months in Rebeldom; or Notes from the Diary of a Bull Run Prisioner 

Sherman, W. T. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman

Villard, H. Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835 - 1900 Vol. I

Anthologies

Various, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Vol. I

 

Diaries and Letters 

Confederate

Chesnut, M. B. A Diary from Dixie

Jackson, M. A. Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson

Jones, J. B. A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary

Union

Ely, Alfred Diary of Alfred Ely, a Prisoner of War in Richmond 

Lusk, W. T. (79th NY) War Letters of William Thompson Lusk

Wolsey-Bacon & Wolsey-Howland (16th NY) Letters of a Family During the War for the Union 1861-1865

Foreign

Russel, W. H. My Diary North and South

Biographies

Confederate

Cooke, J. E. Stonewall Jackson 

Dabney, R. L. Life and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson 

Davis, V. Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, Vol.II

Jackson, M. A. Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow 

Johnson, B. T. A Memoir of the Life and Public Service of Joseph E. Johnston 

Johnson, J. L. The University Memorial Biographical Sketches of Alumni of the University of Virginia Who Fell in the Confederate War 

Riley, E. S. “Stonewall Jackson”: A Thesauras of Anecdotes and Incidents… 

Roman, A The Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War Between the States 1816 to 1865, Vol. I 

Smith, E.C. Thomas Johnathan Jackson 1824 - 1863: A Sketch 

Snow, W. P. Southern Generals: Who they Are, and What they have Done 

White, H. A. Stonewall Jackson

Union

Bancroft, F. The Life of William H. Seward 

Bowen, J. L. Massachusetts in the War 1861 - 1865 

Cavanagh, M. Memoirs of General Thomas Francis Meagher 

Dellenbaugh, F. S. George Armstrong Custer 

Green, T. M. Historic Families of Kentucky 

Headly, P. C. Massachusetts in the Rebellion 

Kennedy, H. R. John B. Woodward, a Biographical Memoir (13th NY) 

Pearson, H. G. James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo

Phisterer, F. New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 - 1865 

Poore, B.P. The Life and Pulic Services of Ambrose E. Burnside 

Reid, W. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Generals and Soldiers, Vol. I 

Riddle, A. G. The Life of Benjamin F.Wade 

Robertson, J. Michigan in the War 

Senour, F. L. R. Major General William T.Sherman and His Campaigns

Slocum, C. E. The Life and Services of Major General Henry Warner Slocum 

Various Harvard Memorial Biographies Vol. I 

Various Harvard Memorial Biographies Vol. II

Warden, R.B. An Account of the Private Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase

General Studies

 

A Blockaded British Subject Life in the South from the Commencement of the War, Vol II 

Bradburn, J. Battle-Fields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh 

Cooke, J. E. Hammer and Rapier 

Fieberger, G. J. Campaigns of the American Civil War

Frost, J. B. The Rebellion in the United States; or, The War of 1861

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeffrey, W. H. Richmond Prisons, 1861-1862 

Miller, F. T. The Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. I The Opening Battles 

Nicolay, J. G. The Outbreak of the Rebellion

Pollard, E. A. The First Year of the War

Riddle, A. G. Recollections of War Times: Reminiscences of Men and Events in Washington 1860-1865

Swinton, W. The Twelve Decisive Battles of the War

 

Magazines & Journals

 

Fiske, F. S. At the Battle of Bull Run with the Second New Hampshire Regiment 

Glynn, G. Brigadier General Thomas F.Meagher 

Hennessy, J. War Watchers at Bull Run 

Johnston, J. E. The Battle of Bull Run

Jones, E.C. Sullivan Ballou: The Macabre Case of an American Civil War Major 

King, K. J. First Battle of Bull Run: The U. S. Marines 

Knoke, K. & Burgess, J. Bull Run Discovered 

Neville, D. M. Henry Kingsbury’s Luck Runs Out

Schreckengost, G.J. 1st Louisiana Special Battalion at the First Battle of Manassas

Schreckengost, G. J. “The Fatal Blunder of the Day”: Artillery Deployment at Bull Run  

Tidball, E. C. The View from the Top of the Knoll: Capt. John C. Tidball’s Memoir of the First Battle of Bull Run

 

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