CIVIL WAR SOLDIER RESOURCES
Compiled by Geri Favreau, Bob St. John and Julie Dowd with contributions by Melissa Facteau ~ Just a few of the thousands of websites available – but these should get you started ~
A History of the Town of Chazy, Clinton County – Nell Sullivan and David Martin
American Civil War Zouaves – Robin Smith – Google Books
Ancestry.com www.ancestry.com/ - Paid site – available free at local libraries
Billion Graves www.Billiongraves.com
Clinton County New York Tombstone Transcription http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~frgen/clinton/clintonindex.htm
Clinton County – Part of the NY GenWeb Project – contains the McClelland Cemetery Records http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyclinto/
Division of Military and Naval Affairs for New York State www.dmna.ny.gov
Enrollment of Eligible Persons – Town Books - Clinton County Historian’s Office
Family Search – Military search www.familysearch.org
Find a Grave www.findagrave.com
Google Books – Regimental Histories
1st NY Cavalry Regiment – “Boots and Saddles” – A History of the First Cavalry of the War Known as the First New York (Lincoln) Cavalry, and also as the Sabre Regiment, Its Organization, Campaigns and Battles – James H. Stevenson 5th NY Infantry Regiment - Camp and field life of the Fifth New York volunteer Infantry – Alfred Davenport 5th NY Cavalry Regiment – The Fifth New York Cavalry In the Civil War – Vincent L. Burns 9th Cavalry Regiment – History of the Ninth Regiment, New York Volunteer Cavalry – Newel Cheney 11th NY Cavalry – Scott’s 900 – The Story of a Cavalry Regiment: “Scott’s 900” Eleventh New York Cavalry – Thomas West Smith 16th NY Infantry Regiment – From Bull Run to Chancellorsville – Newton Martin Curtis 40th NY Infantry Regiment – History of the Fortieth (Mozart) Regiment – Sergeant Fred C. Floyd 44th NY Infantry Regiment - A history of the Forty-fourth regiment, New York volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War – Eugene Aras Nash 48th NY Infantry Regiment – The History of the Forty-Eighth Regiment New York State Volunteers In the War for the Union – Abraham J. Palmer 60th NY Infantry Regiment – History of the Sixtieth Regiment New York State Volunteers - Richad Eddy 72nd NY Infantry Regiment - History of the Third Regiment, Excelsior Brigade, 72d New York Volunteer Infantry – Henri Le Fevre Brown 76th Infantry Regiment – History of the Seventy-Sixth Regiment – New York Volunteers – Abram P. Smith 93rd NY Infantry Regiment - History of the Ninety-third Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865 – King, Gibbs, Northup 112th NY Infantry Regiment - History of the Hundred and Twelfth Regiment, NY Volunteers – William Lyman Hyde 117th NY Infantry Regiment – A History of the One Hundred and 117th Infantry New York Volunteers - James A. Mowris 118th NY Infantry Regiment – Three Years with the Adirondack Regiment – John Lovell Cunningham 121st NY Infantry Regiment – History of the 121st New York State Infantry - Isaac Oliver Best 125th NY Infantry Regiment – A Regimental History; the One Hundred Twenty Fifth New York State Volunteers – Ezra D. Simons 189th NY Infantry Regiment – History of the 189th Regiment of New York Volunteers - William H. Rogers
Headstone Inscriptions of Clinton County, NY - Vols. 1-3 - Compiled by Clyde M. Rabideau
Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903 http://search.ancestry.com/search/db/aspx?dbid=1195
History of Clinton and Franklin Counties – Duane Hamilton Hurd – Google Books
Internet Archive.org – Enter the name of the regiment required
List of New York Civil War Regiments – and their nicknames http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_Civil_War_regiments
Men Drafted from Clinton County and Men Exempt from Draft http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/counties/clinton/clinton_CNW.htm
McClellan Cemetery Records of Clinton County – part of the NY GenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyclinto/cemindex.html
National Park Service –Civil War Soldiers and Sailors http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm
New York State Archives www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml State of New York residents can use this site free by creating an account. Click on “Research” in the left hand column, then “Ancestry.com New York” in the column to the right, and create a free account. Several free databases in the Ancestry.com NY link are available under an agreement with the NY State Archives. You will find the Civil War Town Clerks’ Registers here
New York State Military Museum – Civil War Units https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/civil_index.htm
New York State Education Department www.nysed.gov - Search Civil War Soldiers
New York, Town Clerks' Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War, ca. 1861-1865 http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1964
Northern New York American Canadian Genealogical Society www.nnyacgs.com
Northern New York Library Network – Historic Newspapers http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/
Personal Memoires of U. S. Grant – U.S. Grant – Google Books
Report of the Adjutant-General Rolls – New York State Military Museum www.dmna.ny.gov/historic/mil-hist.htm
Rootsweb – WorldConnect – Search http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
The Lake Champlain and Lake George Valleys – Wallace Emerson Lamb
The Photographic History of the Civil War – Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier – Google Books
Three Centuries in the Champlain Valley – Maria Jeannette Brookings Tuttle - Google Books
Town of Plattsburgh Military Enrollment List - 1862 – Town’s Historical Record Collection
United States National Cemeteries - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_national_cemetery
Vermont in the Civil War - http://vermontcivilwar.org/research