CIVIL WAR RESEARCH AND/OR GENEALOGY
New York State
- Some Basic Books:
- Holzer, Harold, ed. The Union Preserved: a Guide to the Civil War
Records in the New York State Archives.N.Y.: Fordham University
Press/N.Y.S. Archives Partnership Trust, 1999.
- Boatner, Mark. Civil War Dictionary. N.Y.: David McKay Co., 1962.
- Dornbusch, C.E. Regimental Publications & Personal Narratives of the
Civil War. N.Y.: New York Public Library, 1962-
- Dyer, Frederick. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines,
Iowa: F.H. Dyer, 1908: reprint Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Press, 1978.
It is also possible to access it online.
- Faust, Patricia, ed. Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the
Civil War. N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1986.
- The Official Records,
(the "O.R.") - scanned images from Cornell University's Digital Collection.
- The Official Records of the Union &
Confederate Navies - more scanned images from Cornell.
- New York (State). Adjutant-General's Office. Registers of the New York
Regiments in the War of the Rebellion 43 volumes. Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1894,
1906. - this is the set commonly called "the Adjutant General's Report."
- New York (State). Adjutant-General's Office. A Record of the
Commissioned Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Privates, of the
Regiments which were Organized in the State of New York...Albany: Comstock
& Cassidy, 1864-68. ["N.Y. State Muster Rolls"]
- Phisterer, Frederick. New York in the War of the Rebellion. Albany,
Lyon, 1912.
- N.Y.S. Adjutant General's Office. Town and city registers of men who
served in the Civil War... - these registers are on microfilm and may be
borrowed via interlibrary loan from the N.Y.S. Archives.
- County histories that were published in the last half of the 19th century.
- Warner, Ezra. Generals in Blue. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1993.
- A bibliography of N.Y.
Regimental Histories
- Don't forget:
- Interlibrary loan as a way of obtaining resources
- "Letters to the Editor" of the local newspapers published in the area that
you're researching. I've seen some amazing results from a simple letter
requesting information on a unit or individual.
- Reference Resources
- The Virtual Library -- Search the holdings of libraries across the country
(or the world, for that matter). Access a catalog, and search by author,
title or subject.
- Archives and
Special Collections
- National Union Catalog of
Manuscript Collections - a searchable database, A.K.A. "NUCMC"
- United States Army Military History Institute Online. This site has
been considerably improved:
- An INDEX
of the databases available. Included on this page are links to the Army War
College Library (CATSgate), the USAMHI Photo database, the Civil War Unit
History bibliographies, the biographical bibliographies, the reference
bibliographies, and the Archives Collection.
- A quick link to the USAMHI
Photo Database, (a searchable index). You can now request, by email, a
photocopy of an image.
- U.S. Army Center of
Military History
-
N.Y. Military History, Division of Military & Naval Affairs.
- New York Military Affairs
Symposium
- a site that deals with NYS's military
history, with some very good information and sources on the Civil War.
- Links to Resources on the Internet
- Online Soldier Databases.
- Online Searchable databases:
- Cemeteries and Soldiers' Burials
- N.Y. Soldiers buried in:
-
National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Andersonville
National Cemetery (Surnames A, B, and C so far)
- Battle Ground
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
- Military Asylum
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
- Gettysburg National
Cemetery
- National Cemetery
at Chattanooga, TN
- National Cemetery
at Knoxville, TN
- Stone's River
National Cemetery
- New Haven, CT
- Camp Ford, TX
- Portsmouth Grove,
RI
- City Cemetery, San
Antonio, TX
- Fairmount Cemetery,
Newark, NJ
- Fort Monroe, VA
- Hampton, VA
- Wilmington and
Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, DE
- National
Cemeteries at Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House, VA
- New Yorkers Buried in Michigan Cemeteries
- New Yorkers buried in Iowa Cemeteries
- New Yorkers buried in Union County, N.J.
- N.Y.S. Cemeteries
- includes "Soldiers' Lot" at Albany Rural, Fort Columbus, David's Island,
Lansingburgh, Fort Hamilton, Fort at Sandy Hook, Woodlawn National Cemetery
at Elmira.
- Barrancas
National Cemetery (FL)
- Bay Pines
National Cemetery (FL)
- Beaufort National Cemetery
(SC) - surnames A-S searchable
- Chalmette
(LA)
- Chattanooga
(TN)
- City Point
(VA)
- Cold Harbor
(VA)
- Danville
(KY)
- Fairhaven
- Fayetteville
(AR)
- Fort Harrison
(VA)
- Fort
Snelling (MN)
- Glendale
(VA)
- Grafton
(WV)
- Lexington
National Cemetery (KY)
- Mill Springs
(KY)
- Mobile (AL)
- Richmond
(VA)
- Santa Ana
National Cemetery
- Seven Pines
(VA)
- St.
Augustine National Cemetery (FL)
- Port Hudson and
Baton Rouge National Cemeteries (LA)
- Union
Mound M.E. Church, Cecil County, MD
- Chautauqua
County Soldiers' Burials - a NYGenWeb Project.
- Veterans of the
American Civil War Buried in Australia
- Pension Rolls, Rosters, Lists, Etc.
- Other Regional Resources
Maintained by Sue Greenhagen.
E-mail:
greenhsh@morrisville.edu