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PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA AND CIVIL WAR VETERANS’ ACTIVITIES IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES Compiled by David A. Davis, PCC Camp Historian/Civil War Memorials Officer General William Passmore Carlin Camp 25 Department Historian Department of California and Pacific Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War This list was started from a small number of books on the Civil War in the western United States collected by the compiler and then added to from an occasional search of library catalogs and websites. It also includes references on the Grand Army of the Republic (G. A. R.) and its allied orders. Each book has at least a passing reference to the Civil War and/or the G. A. R. This list is only a small part of the likely thousands of such publications out there, and is intended to cover the areas of the present states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. This list is a work in progress and will be added to, corrected, and updated as time permits. If anyone sends me a reference, I will add it to the list. Updated as of November 9, 2009. All Quiet on Yamill Hill: the Civil War in Oregon. The Journal of Corporal Royal A. Bensall; edited by Gunter Barth, 1959, University of Oregon Books, 226 p. The Archaeology of Fort Churchill; by Bruce D. Hutchison, 1998, a thesis in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts in Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno, December, 1998, 162 p. The Army of the Pacific: Its Operations in California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Plains Region, Mexico, etc., 1860-1866; by Aurora Hunt, 1951, The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, CA, 455 p. Autobiography and Reminiscences of Theophilus Noel; by Theophilus Noel, 1904, The Noel Company, Chicago, IL, 348 p. The Battle of Glorieta Pass: the Colorado Volunteers in the Civil War; By William C. Whitford, 1991, Rio Grande Press, Inc., Glorieta, NM, 197 p. The Birth of Colorado: a Civil War Perspective; by Duane A. Smith, 1989, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 268 p. Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest; by Donald S. Frazier, 1995, No. 41 Military History Series, Texas A and M Press, College Station, TX, 374 p. Bloody Trails Along the Rio Grande: the Diary of Alonzo Ferdinand Ickis; edited by Nolie, Mumey, 1958, , The Old West Publishing Company, Denver, CO, 123 p. 1 Bloody Valverde: a Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande; by John Taylor, 1995, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 185 p. The Bonanza West: the Story of the Western Mining Rushes, 1848-1900; by William S. Greever, 1963, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 430 p. The Boys in the Sky-Blue Pants, the Men and Events at Camp Independence and Forts of Eastern California, Nevada and Utah – 1862-1877; by Dorothy Clara Cragen, 1975, Pioneer Publishing Company, Fresno, CA, 222 p. Brigham and the Brigadier: General Patrick Conner and His California Volunteers in Utah and Along the Overland Trail; by James F. Varley, 1989, Westernlore Press, Tucson, AZ, 320 p. The California Column: It’s Campaigns and Services in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas During the Civil War; by George Henry Pettis, 1908, Historical Society of New Mexico, reprint, 45 p. The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War, by Leonard L. Richards, 2007, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 292 p. A California Middle Border: the Kern River Country, 1772-1880; William Harland Boyd, 1972, The Havilah Press, Richardson, TX, 226 p. California Place Names, the Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names; by Erwin G. Gudde, 1998, fourth edition, revised and enlarged by William Bright, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, 492 p. California, the Civil War, and the Indian Problem, an Account of California’s Participation in the Great Conflict; by Leo P. Kibby, 1967, Journal of the West, Lorrin L. Morrison and Carroll Spear Morrison Publishers, 68 p. A Campaign From Santa Fe to the Mississippi, Being a History of the Old Sibley Brigade From Its First Organization to the Present Time; Its Campaigns in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, in the Years 1861-2-3-4; by Theophilus Noel, 1865, Shreveport News Printing Establishment, Shreveport, LA, 152 p. Chronological List of Engagements Between the Regular Army of the United States and Various Tribes of Hostile Indians; by George W. Webb, 1939, Wing Print and Publishing Company, St. Joseph, MO, 141 p. The Civil War Diary of Samuel James Corbett; edited by Madera Method Historians of Kentfield, Madera, and Modesto, 1992, Classroom Chronicles Press, Madera, CA, 248 p. Civil War Era Stamp Taxes in Idaho Territory: A Geographical, Historical and Philatelic Census of Surviving Revenue - Stamped Documents, 1863 – 1872; by Michael Mahler, 2001, Paper Trails Publications, Santa Monica, CA, 128 p. 2 The Civil War in Apacheland, Sergeant George Hand’s Diary, California, Arizona, West Texas, New Mexico, 1861-1864; edited by Neil B. Carmony, 1996, High-Lonesome Books, Silver City, NM, 218 p. The Civil War in Arizona, the Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-1865; by Andrew E. Marsh, 2006, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 368 p. The Civil War in New Mexico; by F. Stanley, 1960, World Press, Inc., Denver, CO, 508 p. The Civil War in Oregon: Six Oregon Leaders and the Far-Reaching Impact of America’s Civil War and “Dixie” of the Pacific Northwest: Southern Oregon’s Civil War: by G. Thomas Edwards and Jeff LaLande, 1999, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Volume 100, Number 1, 81 p. The Civil War in the American West; by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., 1991, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 462 p. The Civil War in the Northwest, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas; by Robert Huhn Jones, 1960, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 232 p. The Civil War in the Southwest: Recollections of the Sibley Brigade; edited by Jerry Thompson, 2001, Texas A and M University Press, College Station, TX, 195 p. The Civil War in the Western Territories, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah; by Ray C. Colton, 1959, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 230 p. The Civil War State by State; by Paul Brewer, 2004, Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA, 256 p. Civil War Union Monuments; by Mildred C. Baruch and Ellen J. Beckman, 1978, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865, Inc., Washington, DC, 222 p. Civil War Veteran Burials from California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington Regiments Buried in Colorado; by Sherman Lee Pompey, 1965, Historical and Genealogical Publishing Company, 8 p. Colorado Volunteers in the Civil War, the New Mexico Campaign in 1862; by William Clarke Whitford, 1906, The State Historical Society of Colorado, reprinted 1963, Pruett Press, Inc., Boulder, CO, 174 p. Colusa County, Its History traced from a State of Nature Through the Early Period of Settlement and Development to the Present Day; by Justus H. Rogers, 1891, Orlando, CA, 473 p. Confederate Campaign in New Mexico, 1862; by Joseph Winston Petty, Jr., 1955, The Houston Civil War Round Table, Houston, TX, 14 p. The Confederate Invasion of New Mexico, 1861-1862; by Robert Lee Kerby, 1958, Westernlore Great West and Indian Series XIII, Westernlore Press, Los Angeles, CA, 174 p. 3 The Contest For California in 1861: How Colonel E. D. Baker Saved the Pacific States to the Union; by Elijah R. Kennedy, 1912, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 361 p. David S. Terry of California: Dueling Judge; by A. Russell Buchanan, 1956, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 348 p. The Dakota War: the United States Army Versus the Sioux, 1862-1865; by Edward M. Clodfelter, 1998, McFarlane and Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC, 267 p. The Deadliest Indian War in the West, the Snake Conflict, 1864-1868; by Gregory Michno, 2007, Caxton Press, Caldwell ID, 390 p. The Department of the Pacific in the Civil War Years; by Glenn Thomas Edwards, Jr., 1963, PhD dissertation, University of Oregon, 320 p. Desert Between the Mountains: Mormons, Miners, Padres, Mountain Men, and the Opening of the Great Basin, 1771-1869; by Michael S. Thomas, 1999, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 336 p. Early Arizona: Prehistory to Civil War; by Jay J. Wagoner, 1975, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 547 p. Early Development of El Dorado Canyon and Searchlight Mining Districts; by John M. Townley, 1968, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Volume XI, Number 1, Spring 1968, 27 p. Early History of North Dakota; Essential Outlines of American History; by Clement Augustus Lounsberry, 1919, Liberty Press, Washington, DC, 645 p. Early Nevada Forts; by George Ruhlen, 1964, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, volume VII, no. 3-4, July-December, 63 p. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, a Political, Social, and Military History; edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, 2000, W. W. Norton and Company, New York City, NY, and London, England, 2742 p. Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography in Three Volumes; by Dan Thrapp, 1991, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 3 volumes. Fearful Crossing: the central Oregon Trail Through Nevada; by Harrold Curran, 1987, Nevada Publications, Las Vegas, NV, 212 p. Fairfield’s Pioneer History of Lassen County, California, Containing Everything That Can Be Learned About It From the Beginning of the World to the Year of Our Lord 1870; by Asa Merrill Fairfield, 1916, H. S. 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