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Civil War Resources for States Other Than New York Civil War Genealogy & History for States other than New York: Selected Sources in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Key Grosvenor Room Buffalo and Erie County Public Library * = Oversized book 1 Lafayette Square GRO = In Grosvenor Room Buffalo, NY 14203-1887 HSS = In Humanities & Social Sciences Department (716) 858-8900 RBR = in Rare Book Room, available by appointment www.buffalolib.org Ref. = Reference book, cannot be borrowed Revised August 2007 1 Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3 Bibliographies ............................................................................................................................. 3 Alabama ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Arkansas .................................................................................................................................... 5 Connecticut ................................................................................................................................ 5 Colorado ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Delaware .................................................................................................................................... 6 Florida ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Georgia ...................................................................................................................................... 6 Illinois ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Indiana ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Iowa ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Kansas ....................................................................................................................................... 9 Kentucky .................................................................................................................................... 9 Louisiana .................................................................................................................................. 10 Maine ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Maryland .................................................................................................................................. 11 Massachusetts ......................................................................................................................... 12 Michigan ................................................................................................................................... 17 Minnesota ................................................................................................................................. 17 Mississippi ................................................................................................................................ 17 Missouri .................................................................................................................................... 18 New Hampshire ........................................................................................................................ 18 New Jersey .............................................................................................................................. 19 North Carolina .......................................................................................................................... 20 Ohio .......................................................................................................................................... 21 Oklahoma ................................................................................................................................. 22 Pennsylvania ............................................................................................................................ 23 Rhode Island ............................................................................................................................ 26 South Carolina ......................................................................................................................... 26 Tennessee ............................................................................................................................... 27 Texas ....................................................................................................................................... 28 Vermont .................................................................................................................................... 28 Virginia ..................................................................................................................................... 29 West Virginia ............................................................................................................................ 31 Wisconsin ................................................................................................................................. 32 Army of the Potomac ................................................................................................................ 32 Databases ................................................................................................................................ 33 Miscellaneous .......................................................................................................................... 33 National Sources ...................................................................................................................... 34 Prison Camps & Prisoners of War ............................................................................................ 35 United States Colored Troops .................................................................................................. 36 Selected Websites ................................................................................................................... 37 The Online Catalog of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library ............................................... 38 2 Introduction The Library’s Civil War collection is extensive. We have letters, diaries, personal memoirs, biographies, histories of specific campaigns and battles, histories of how various populations (women, ethnicities, religions, occupations) participated in the war. There are too many books to list here. This list focuses on sources that identify individual soldiers. The Library owns many muster rolls and regimental histories for states other than New York. We have made every effort to list them all here but we cannot guarantee that this guide is 100% comprehensive. Our following two guides cover the material that is omitted here: Civil War Genealogy & History for Buffalo & Erie County Civil War Genealogy & History for New York State Most of the titles listed below are in storage. Staff will be happy to retrieve them. It takes only about 10 minutes. Most of these items are non-circulating and cannot be borrowed. Shelf locations are always subject to change and items do go missing. To find Civil War books that can be borrowed, visit the Information Services & Outreach Department. Bibliographies These titles will help you find existing Civil War regimental histories beyond the ones that we own. Some states have their own Civil War bibliographies, which are included with the state’s regimental histories in the following pages. Call Number Author, Title, Publisher, Date Notes GRO Ref. Horowitz, Lois CS68 A Bibliography of Military Name Lists from Pre-1675 to 1900: A Guide .H6 to Genealogical Research 1990 Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990 GRO Ref. Smith, Albert E., Jr., comp. E464 Civil War Diaries and Personal Narratives, 1960-1994: A Selected .L53 Bibliography of Books in the General Collections of the Library of 1998 Congress Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1998 E468 Murdock, Eugene Converse .M8 The Civil War in the North: A Selective Annotated Bibliography 1987 New York: Garland Pub., 1987 GRO Ref. Cole, Garold E601 Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and .C68 Articles, 1986-1996 2000 Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, ©2000 GRO Ref. Dornbusch, C. E. 3 vols. E Regimental Publications & Personal Narratives of the Civil War: A Z1242 Checklist Compiled by C.E. Dornbusch .D6 New York: New York Public Library, 1961 3 Bibliographies These titles will help you find existing Civil War regimental histories beyond the ones that we own. Some states have their own Civil War bibliographies, which are included with the state’s regimental histories in the following pages. Call Number Author, Title, Publisher, Date Notes *E Nevins, Allan Z1242 Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography .N35 Baton Rouge, LA: Published for the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission by Louisiana State University Press [1967] HSS Ref. Woodworth, Steven, ed. Z1242 The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research
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