Click on the highlighted links to find the books and articles listed. Most are downloadable in pdf fromat. UPDATE: MSN has killed it’s digitizaiton project, therefore some of these links may be inactive. I’ll fix them as I find them. If you have a new link for the dead ones, leave me a note. Also, if you know of a link I don’t have listed here, let me know.
Reference
Annual Reports and Reunions of the Association of Graduates of the USMA
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
General Orders of the War Department, Embracing the Term 1861, 1862, & 1863
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
Moore, Frank (ed.) The Rebellion Record, A Diary of American Events, Second Volume
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
Campaign Studies
Ballard, T. First Bull Run Staff Ride, Ballard, T.
Barnard, John Gross, The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run – A Letter to an English Friend
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
Breazeale, B. B. Co. J, 4th South Carolina Infantry at the First Battle of Manassas
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
Hutchinson, Gustavus B. A Narrative of the Formation and Services of the Eleventh Massachusetts Volunteers
Ingersoll, C.M. Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations
Phisterer, Frederick New York in the War of the Rebellion
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
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
Barrett, Edwin Shepard What I Saw at Bull Run
Clement, Edward Henry The Bull Run Rout
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
Merritt, John G. 1st Minnesota at Bull Run
Metcalf, Lewis Herbert “so Eager Were We All…” 11th New York at Bull Run
Sherman, W. T. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Vol. I
Villard, H. Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835 – 1900 Vol. I
Anthologies
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 1861 to 1865, Vol. I
Smith, E.C. Thomas Jonathan 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 Public Services of Ambrose E. Burnside
Powell, William H. Powell’s Records of Living Officers of the United States Army
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
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, 1861-1862Miller, 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
Sergent, Mary Elizabeth Classmates Divided
Tidball, E. C. The View from the Top of the Knoll: Capt. John C. Tidball’s Memoir of the First Battle of Bull Run
Manuals
Scott, Henry L. Military Dictionary (1864)
Digital Collections
Digital Public Library of America
Documenting the American South
LOC Chronicling America (Newspapers)
Book Searches
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Hi there … looking for:
Roman, A The Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War Between the States 1816 to 1865, Vol. I
If you have the link for this, I’d greatly appreciate it!!! Thanks so much!
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Sorry Toni. I haven’t been able to find a link to that yet. If you find one, please let me know.
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Military Operations of General Beauregard (1884), Volume 2 also on the Internet Archives: http://www.archive.org/details/milloperations02romarich
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Yeah, I know. In fact, I can always find that one easy enough, but Vol. I took awhile. I don’t list Vol. II on here because Bull Run is covered in Vol. I. Thanks for passing it along, though.
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The link to Cullum’s Register at the USMA is dead. I can’t find a new location at the library there, either. IA has a set:
Vol 1 (1868) – http://www.archive.org/details/biographicalregi01cull
Vol 2 (1868) – http://www.archive.org/details/biographicalregi02cull
Vol 3 (1879) – http://www.archive.org/details/biographicalregi03cull
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Bummer. Lucky for me I downloaded everything for some reason. Thanks for catching that.
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There’s a book by Josiah Favill, titled “The Diary of a Young Officer” available on google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=PmIUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+diary+of+a+young+officer&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&cd=1
He fought at Bull Run in the 71st New York Militia.
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Thanks Will. I’ll add that one – it’s a classic.
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