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Northern Commands Above Regiment.Pdf U.S. Army Military History Institute Civil War-Forces 950 Soldiers Drive Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013-5021 15 Jun 2012 CIVIL WAR ARMIES: UNION COMMANDS ABOVE REGIMENT A Working Bibliography of MHI Sources CONTENTS Army of -the Cumberland.....p.1 -Georgia.....p.3 -the Gulf.....p.3 -the James.....p.3 -the Ohio.....p.4 -the Potomac.....p.4 -the Tennessee.....p.7 -Virginia.....p.7 -West Virginia.....p.7 Corps -II-XX.....p.8 -PA Reserve Corps.....p.11 -Veteran Reserve Corps.....p.12 -Wilson’s' Cavalry Corps.....p.12 Divisions.....p.13 Brigades (Alphabetically by common name).....p.13 GENERAL SOURCES Newell, Clayton R., & Shrader, Charles R. Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A History of the Regular Army in the Civil War. Lincoln, NE: U NE, 2011. 381 p. E492.3.N48. ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND The Army Reunion: With Reports of the Meetings of the Societies of the Cumberland...Chicago, December 15 and 16, 1868. Chicago: C.S. Griggs, 1869. 339 p. E493.C8.A47. Northern Commands Above Regiment p.2 Bickham, William D. Rosecrans' Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, or the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations with...Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River. Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, Keys, 1863. 476 p. E493.C8.B53. Cist, Henry M. The Army of the Cumberland. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot, 1989 reprint of 1882 edition. 289 p. E493.C8.C57. Daniel, Larry J. Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1961-1865. Baton Rouge: LSU, 2004. 490 p. E470.5.D35. Fitch, John. Annals of the Army of the Cumberland... Phila: Lippincott, 1864. 716 p. E493.C8.F548. Hunt, Robert. The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory. Tuscaloosa, AL U AL, 2010. 178 p. E493.C8.H86. Kaser, James A. "The Army of the Cumberland and the Battle of Chickamauga: An Exercise in Perspectivist Historical Research." Thesis, Bowling Green State, 1991. 226 p. E475.81.K37. Kniffin, Gilbert C. "Army of the Cumberland and the Battle of Stone's River." (MOLLUS, DC, Paper 84). 24 p. E464.M5.1991v45. _____. "The Cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland in 1863." (MOLLUS, DC, Paper 24). 15 p. E464.M54.1991v42. Legends of the Operations of the Army of the Cumberland. Wash, DC: GPO, 1869. 45 p. E493.C8.U55. McKinney, Francis F. Education in Violence: The Life of George H. Thomas and the History of the Army of the Cumberland. Detroit: Wayne State, 1961. 530 p. E467.1.T4.M32. Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Official Program of the Twentieth Annual Reunion... Chattanooga, Sept. 18th-19th 1889. Chattanooga, TN: Bradt, 1889. ca. 100 p. E493.C8.S723. U.S. Army. Dept of the Cumberland. General Orders of the.... Nashville, TN: Government Printing House, 1865. UB502.C9872.1864.Index. Index & orders for 1864; incomplete set of orders for 1861-65 at UB502.C9872.1861/65. VanHorn, Thomas B. History of the Army of the Cumberland: Its Organization, Campaigns and Battles, Written at the Request of Major-General George H. Thomas... 2 vols. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot, 1986 reprint of 1875 edition. E493.C8.V35. Williams, George W. A History of Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. NY: Harper, 1888. pp. 273-290. E540.N3.W69. Black troops in Army of Cumberland. Northern Commands Above Regiment p.3 ARMY OF GEORGIA The Army Reunion: With Reports of the Meetings of the Societies of ...and the Army of Georgia, Chicago, December 15 and 16, 1868. Chicago: C.S. Griggs, 1869. 339 p. E493.C8.A74. ARMY OF THE GULF Messner, William F. “The Federal Army and Blacks in the Gulf Department, 1862-1865.” PhD dss, U WI, 1972. 445p. E185.93.L6.M35. Soc of the Army and Navy of the Gulf. Report of Third Annual Reunion...1871 Held at Newport, R.I., July 7th, 1871. NY: George F. Nesbitt, 1872. 79 p. E462.99.S62.A5.1871. ARMY OF THE JAMES Gerrish, Theodore. The Blue and the Gray: A Graphic History of the Army of the Potomac and That of Northern Virginia, Including the Brilliant Engagements of These Forces From 1861 to 1865. The Campaigns of the Shenandoah Valley and the Army of the James... Portland, ME: Hoyt, Fogg & Donham, 1883. 816. p. E493.P6.G37. Humphreys, Andrew A. The Virginia Campaign of '64 and '65: The Army of the Potomac and the Army of the James. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot, 1989 reprint of 1885 edition. E470.2.H92. Longacre, Edward G. Army of Amateurs: General Benjamin F. Butler and the Army of the James, 1863-1865. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 1997. 388 p. E467.1.B87.L66. _____. "The Army of the James, 1863-1865: A Military, Political and Social History." 4 vols. in 2. PhD dss, Temple, 1988. 1086 p. E493.J3.L66. Soc of the Army of the James. Report of the Proceedings of the...Triennial Reunion.... NY: Carleton, 1868, 1871 & 1874. E493.J3.S62. Williams, George W. A History of Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. NY: Harper, 1888. pp. 291-303. E540.N3.W69. Black troops in Army of the James Northern Commands Above Regiment p.4 See also: -Bibliography on Bermuda Hundred Campaign in Civil War-Battles-1864-Eastern Theater. ARMY OF THE OHIO The Army Reunion: With Reports of the Meetings of the Societies of...The Army of the Ohio...Chicago, December 15 and 16, 1868. Chicago: C.S. Griggs, 1869. 339 p. E493.C8.A74. Prokopowicz, Gerald J. All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862. Chapel Hill, NC: U NC, 2001. 264 p. E493.O3.P762. _____. “All for the Regiment: Unit Cohesion and Tactical Stalemate in the Army of the Ohio, 1861- 1862.” PhD dss, Harvard, 1994. 370p. E493.O3.P76. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC Barnard, John G. Report of the Engineer and Artillery Operations of the Army of the Potomac, From Its Organization to the Close of the Peninsular Campaign. NY: D. VanNostrand, 1863. 230 p. E493.P6.B37. Beatie, Russel H. The Army of the Potomac. NY: DaCapo, 2002. E470.2.B38. Vol. 1: Birth of Command, November 1860-September 1861 Vol. 2: McClellan Takes Command, September 1861-February 1862 Catton, Bruce. Glory Road: The Bloody Route From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952. 416 p. E493.P6.C36. _____. Mr. Lincoln's Army. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954. 372 p. E493.P6.C373. _____. A Stillness at Appomattox. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954. 438 p. E493.P6.C392. Cochrane, John. "The Army of the Potomac." In Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion (MOLLUS, NY, Vol. 1). NY: By the Commandery, 1891. pp. 54-57. E464.M5.1991v20. Ellett, Charles, Jr. The Army of the Potomac and Its Mismanagement; Respectfully Addressed to Congress. Wash, DC: L. Towers, 1861. 16 p. E493.P6.E44. Northern Commands Above Regiment p.5 French, Samuel L. The Army of the Potomac From 1861 to 1863: An Inside View of the History of the Army of the Potomac and Its Leaders as Told in the Official Dispatches, Reports and Secret Correspondence: From the Date of Its Organization Under General George G. McClellan in 1861, Until the Supersedure of General Hooker, and the Assignment of General Meade to Its Command in 1863. NY: Publication Society of NY, 1906. 375 p. E470.2.F73. Gerrish, Theodore. The Blue and the Gray: A Graphic History of the Army of the Potomac and That of Northern Virginia... Portland, ME: Hoyt, Fogg & Donham, 1883. 816 p. E493.P6.G37. Hagerman, Edward. "The Reorganization of Field Transportation and Field Supply in the Army of the Potomac, 1863: The Flying Column and Strategic Mobility." Military Affairs (Dec 1980): pp. 182-86. Per. Hassler, Warren W. Commanders of the Army of the Potomac. Baton Rouge: LSU, 1962. 281 p. E493.P6.H32. 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Lincoln’s Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac, 1961-1865. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 2000. 470 p. E470.L822. Lutz, Thomas. “The Army of the Potomac: A Study in Leadership.” MA thesis, CA State- Dominguez Hills, 1995. 79 p. E493.P6.L88. Lyman, Theodore. Meade’s Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman. [Edited by David W. Lowe] Kent, OH: Kent State, 2007. 518 p. E601.L96. Naisawald, L. VanLoan. Grape and Canister: The Story of the Field Artillery of the Army of the Potomac. NY: Oxford, 1960. 593 p. E492.5.N3. Northern Commands Above Regiment p.6 Pratt, Calvin E. Oration at the Re-union of the Army of the Potomac, Baltimore, M.D., May 6th, 1885.
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