Pennsylvania in the Civil War
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The following lists regimental histories that I have identified through researching the Pennsylvania regiments. I am listing them here to make others aware of their existence for use in your own research. The list is probably not complete; if you are aware of other sources, I would be happy to add them to the list.
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INFANTRY REGIMENTS FIRST DEFENDERS Hoptak, John David. First in Defense of the Union: The Civil War History of the First Defenders, Gettysburg: John David Hoptak, May 2004. Thompson, Heber Samuel, President, First Defenders' Association. The First Defenders, 1910. 1st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Benson, Edwin N. History of the First Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania (Compiled from the Official Records, by Edwin N. Benson, R. Dale Benson, Theo. E. Wiedersheim.), Philadelphia: W. H. Dole & Co.'s 45 Volunteers and 187th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Harrisburg, 1905. Gibbs, James M. History of the First Battalion Pennsylvania Six Months Volunteers and 187th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Harrisburg, 1905. 11th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Locke, W. H. The Story of The Regiment: History of the 11th
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 1867. 23d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Wray, William J. (William John). Birney's Zouaves Civil War: Life of the 23rd Pennsylvania Volunteers.History of the Twenty Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry: Birney's Zouaves, Three Months and Three Years Service Civil War, 1861-1865. Philadelphia, 1904. 25th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Copeland, Willis R. The Logan Guards of Lewistown, Pennsylvania; Our First
Defenders of 1861; a History. Lewistown,
PA: Mifflin County Historic Society, 1962. Davis, William W. H. History of the Doylestown Guards. Doylestown, PA: Pr of "Democrat" Job Dept, 1887. Graeff, Arthur D. Four Firsts in Berks-1861: Issued by the Following
Organizations as a Partial Form of Observance of Great Centennial of the Civil War, l86l-l865. Reading, PA: Historic Society
of Berks County, et. al., 1961.
Thompson, Heber S. The First Defenders, 1910. 28th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS 28th Regiment. Re-union of the 28th & 147th regiments, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Philadelphia, November 24th, 1871. 45th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Albert, Allen D. (Editor) History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1912. Roberts, Agatha Louise. As They Remembered, New York: William-Frederick Press, 1964. Strait, Justus Daniel. (Beatrice Strait Lines, and Norma Strait Howland, Editors) The letters of Justus Daniel Strait to His Parents, 1861-1865, Elkland, Pa.: Elkland Journal, 1986. 47th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Schmidt, Lewis G. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, Allentown, 1986. 48th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Bobyshell, Christian. The 48th in the War. Philadephia,
1865.
Gould, Joseph. The Story of the Forty-Eighth, Philadelphia,
1908. Wren, James, Captain, Company B. John Michael Priest, Ed. From New Bern to Fredericksburg : Captain James Wren's diary : B Company, 48th Pennsylvania Volunteers, February 20, December 17, 1862, 1990. 49th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Westbrook, Robert S. History of the 49th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1898. Reprint by Butternut and Blue. 50th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Birch, Harold B. 50th Pennsylvania's Civil War Odyssey: The Exciting Life and Hard Times of a Union Volunteer Infantry, March 2003. Crater, Lewis. History of the Fiftieth Regiment, Penna. Veteran Volunteers, 1861-65, Reading, Pa.: Coleman Print House, 1884. 51st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Parker, Thomas H., Captain, 51st Pa. Infantry. History of the 51st Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers and Veteran Volunteers, Philadelphia: King & Baird, printers, 1869. Sauers, Richard A. (ED.) The Civil War Journal of Colonel Bolton: 51st Pennsylvania, April 20, 1861-August 2, 1865. Cambridge, MA 02141: Da Capo Press, Perseus Books Group, 2000. $9.95 52d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Mott, Smith B. The Campaigns of the 52nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, First known as the Luzerne Regiment , Philadelphia, 1911. 53d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Myers, Irvin G. We Might as Well Die Here: The 53rd Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, White Mane. ISBN# 1572493305 54th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Bennett, Charles W., Jr. Four years with the Fifty-Fourth: The Military History of Franklin Bennett, 54th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment, 1861-1865, Richmond, Va.: C. W. Bennett, 1985. 57th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS History of the 57th Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry by Martin, James M., Meadville, PA, McCoy & Calvin Printers, pgs 9-11, 61-68. 61st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Brewer, A. T. History of the Sixty-First Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 1911. 63d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Gilbert Adams Hays, Captain. Under the Red Patch: Story of the Sixty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1864. Published by the 63d Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment Association. Pittsburg: Market Review Publishing Company, 1908. 67th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Boaz, Thomas M. Libby Prison and Beyond: A Union Staff Officer in the East, 1862-1865, White Mane. Details from the diary of Robert T. Cornwell of the 67th Pennsylvania Infantry 69th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Banes, Charles H. A History of the Philadelphia Brigade: 69th , 71st , 72nd , and the 106th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876. Reprinted by Theme Prints, Ltd. Ernsberger, Don.. Paddy Owen's Regulars: A History of the 69th Penna "Irish Volunteers" Volume I & II, Xlibris Publishing, a division of Random House, September 24, 2004. McAuliffe, Anthony . The 69th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry. McDermott, Anthony W. Brief History of the 69th Regiment Pennsylvania VeteranVolunteers, 1889. 71st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Banes, Charles H. A History of the Philadelphia Brigade: 69th , 71st , 72nd , and the 106th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876. Reprinted by Theme Prints, Ltd.Donaldson, Francis A., Captain. Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson. Harris, William C. Prison Life in the Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond, Philadelphia, 1862. Lash, Gary G. Duty Well Done, The History of Edward Baker's California Regiment, Baltimore, MD 21234: Butternut and Blue, 2001, 431 pages, $60.00 72d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Banes, Charles H. A History of the Philadelphia Brigade: 69th , 71st , 72nd , and the 106th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876. Reprinted by Theme Prints, Ltd. Beidelman, George Washington. (Catherine H. Vanderslice, Editor). The Civil War letters of George Washington Beidelman, 72d Regiment, New York: Vantage Press, 1978. Donaldson, Francis A., Captain. Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson. Furness, William Henry. A Word of Consolation for the Kindred of Those Who have Fallen in Battle; Discourse Delivered September 28, 1862, (72d Regiment), Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, Printers, 1862.Pennsylvania Infantry, 72d Regiment, Seventy-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, at Bloody Angle, Gettysburg, 1889. 75th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Nachtigall, Hermann. Geschichte des 75sten Regiments, Pa. Vols. als Festgabe zum Andenken an die Errichtung und Einweihung des Denkmals zu Ehren ihrer im B?rgerkriege gefallenen Kameraden, von der Vereinigung der ?berlebenden Veteranen des 75sten Regiments, Pa. Vol, Philadelphia: Druck von C.B. Kretschman, 1886. 76th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Porter, John A. (Michael Cavanaugh et al, eds.) 76th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (Keystone Zouaves): The Personal Recollections of Sergeant John A. Porter, Wilmington, 1988. 77th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Obreiter, John. The 77th Pennsylvania at Shiloh: History of the Regiment: The Battle of Shiloh, Harrisburg 1908. 78th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS J. T. Gibson, Ed. History of the 78th Pa. Volunteer Infantry,
1905 (Reprint). Available from Mechling Book Bindery: 1-800-941-3735 83d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Judson, Amos M., Captain, Company E. History of the Eighty-Third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Dayton, OH: Morningside Books, 1986.Norton, Oliver Wilcox, Private. Attack and Defense of Little Round Top, Neale, N.Y., 1913. Schellhammer, Michael W. The 83rd Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War, McFarland Publishing Stafford, David W., Company D, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers. In Defense of the Flag. a True War Story. (Illustrated.) A pen picture of scenes and incidents during the great rebellion. Thrilling experiences during escape from southern prisons, etc, 1904. 84th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Eighty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (Infantry) Address by Captain Thomas E. Merchant at the Dedication of the Monument on the Battlefield of Gettysburg 1889, Philadelphia, 1890. Young, Jesse Bowman. The Battle of Gettysburg: The 84th Pennsylvania Infantry, Kallman Publishers. Reprint of 1913 First Edition. 85th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Dickey, Luther S. History of the Eighty-Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry, 1861-1865. Powers, NY, 1915. Palm, Ronn, Richard Sauers, Ph.D., & Schroeder, Patrick A. The
Bloody 85th: The Letters of Milton McJunkin, 2000. Available from
Mechling Book Bindery, http://www.mechlingbooks.com/ Prowell, George R. History of the Eighty-Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, York, Pennsylvania, 1903. 88th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Vautier, John. History of the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War for the Union, 1861-1865, Philadelphia, 1894. 93d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Lyon, Robert T. A Photographic Supplement of the Ninety-third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Muncy, PA: R.T. Lyon, 1987. Mark, Penrose G. Red: White: and Blue badge, Pennsylvania Veteran volunteers. A History of the 93rd Regiment, known as the "Lebanon infantry" and "One of the 300 Fighting Regiments" from September 12th, 1861, to June 27th, 1865, 1911. 95th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Galloway, George Norton. Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers (Gosline's Pennsylvania Zouaves) in the Sixth Corps. An historical paper by G. Norton Galloway ... read at a reunion of the surviving members of the 95th Pennsylvania Volunteers, held at Germantown, Pa., 1884. 97th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Price, Isaiah. History of the Ninety-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Philadelphia, 1875. Price, Isaiah, Brevet-Colonel, Compiler. Reunion of the Ninety-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, October 29th, 1884 ... at Camp Wayne, West Chester, Pa. An account of the proceedings with a roster of the comrades present, Philadelphia: Press of Donaldson & Magrath, 1884. 100th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Bates, Samuel P. Brief history of the One Hundredth Regiment (Roundheads) (to which is added short sketches of Colonel Leasure, and Chaplain Browne, with a few poems by H.B. Durant, 1884. F. Pettit, Corporal, 100th PA Volunteers. (Edited by William Gavin) Infantryman Pettit. Shippensburg: White Mane. 101st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Bailey, Chester P. Tioga Mountaineers : Company B, 101st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers-Infantry, 1861-1865, 2000. Reed, John A. History of the 101st Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865, Chicago 1910. 102d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Stewart, A. M. Camp, March and Battlefield, or Three Years and a Half with the Army of the Potomac, Philadelphia, 1865. 103d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Dickey, Luther S. History of the 103rd Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteers Infantry 1861-1865. Chicago, 1910. (Reprint) Available from
Mechling Book Bindery.
104th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Davis, W. W. H. History of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment, from August 22nd, 1861, to September 30th, 1864, Philadelphia: J. B. Rogers, printer, 1866. 105th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Hogan, Edwin P. Waiting for Jacob: a Civil War Story. Latrobe, Pa.: Saint Vincent College, 2000. Kate M. Scott. History of the 105th Pa. Regiment, 1877. Available from the Jefferson County Historical Society Watson, William. Letters of a Civil War Surgeon. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1996. Edited by Paul Fatout. 106th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Banes, Charles H. A History of the Philadelphia Brigade: 69th , 71st , 72nd , and the 106th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876. Reprinted by Theme Prints, Ltd. Ward, Joseph R. C. History of the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, 1861-1865, Philadelphia, 1883. 107th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Thomas, James B. The Civil War Letters of First Lieutenant James B. Thomas, Adjutant 107th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Butternut and Blue. 109th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Veale, Moses. The 109th Regiment Penna. Veteran Volunteers. An address delivered at the unveiling of their monument on Culp's hill, Gettysburg, Pa., September 11, 1889, Philadelphia: J. Beale, Printer, 1890. 111th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Boyle, John Richards. Soldiers True; The Story of the One Hundred and Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers and of its Campaigns in the War for the Union, 1861-1885, New York: Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati: Jennings & Pye, 1903. Miller, James T. Bound to be a Soldier: The Letters of Private James T. Miller, 111th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861-1864, University of Tennessee Press. 114th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Hagerty, Edward J. Collis' Zouaves: The 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War, Louisana State University Press, date unknown. Rauscher,
Frank. Music on the March, 1862-65, with the Army of the Potomac:
114th Regiment P.V. Collis' Zouaves, Philadelphia : W. M. Fell, 1892:
116th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Chisholm, Daniel. The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm: A Chronicle of Daily Life in the Union Army, 1864-1865, Orion Books, 1989.McCarter, William (Private 116th PA Infantry). My
Life in the Irish Brigade - The Civil War Reminiscences of Private
William McCarter , 116th Pennsylvania Infantry, Savas Publishing,
Kevin O'Brien, editor 118th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Cattell, Alexander G. An address at the unveiling of the monument erected by the Commercial exchange association of Philadelphia: 118th Regiment, Philadelphia: The Commercial list printing house, 1884. Donaldson, Francis Adams. (Edited by J. Gregory Acken) Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1998. History of the Corn Exchange Regiment ? The 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers ? From Their First Engagement at Antietam to Appomattox, Philadelphia, 1881 Survivors' Association. History of the 118th
Pennsylvania Volunteers. Philadelphia: J. L. Smith, 1905 119th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Maier, Larry B. Rough and Regular: A History of the 119th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. White Mane. 121st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Surviver's Association. History of the 121st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Philadelphia, 1893. 122d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Transactions of the First Annual Reunion of the 122d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1884. Sprenger, George F., 1st Sergeant, Company K. Concise History of the Camp and Field Life of the 122d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Lancaster, 1885. 124th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Green, Robert M. History of the One Hundred Twenty-Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, 1862-1863, Philadelphia, 1907. 125th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Banner, Glenn. Flames Across the Susquehanna, 1993, Camp Curtin Historic Society. ISBN: 1880976064. Fictional account of a drummer who enlists in the 125th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg. Follow his adventures with the Underground Railroad, and at the Battle of Antietam in 1862, and during the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863 that led to the burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge across the Susquehanna River. History of the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1862-1863. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1906. 126th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Alexander, Ted. The 126th Pennsylvania. Shippensburg, PA,
1984. 127th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS History of the 127th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, The Dauphin County Regiment,. Lebanon, 1902. 130th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Spangler, Edward W. My Little War Experience, York, PA, 1904 131st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Orwig, Joseph R. History of the 131st. Penna. Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Williamsport, Pa.: Sun Book and Job Printing House, 1902. 132d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Hitchcock, Frederick L. (Major, 132nd PA Vols). War from the Inside: The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863, Philadelphia, 1904. 138th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Imler, George R. 1864 pocket dairy of Pvt. George R. Imler, Co. E, 138th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers; personal account of the campaign of the Army of the Potomac from the Wilderness to Petersburg, 1863. Lewis, Osceola. History of the One hundred and Thirty-Eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Norristown: Wills, Iredell & Jenkins, 1866. 139th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Bartlett, Samuel P. The Crack Regiment of Pittsburgh: The Men and the Community of the 139th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1860-1865, 1996. Master's thesis, Amherst College. Contact Archives and Special Collections at archives@amherst.edu for more information. 140th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Powelson, B. F., 1st Sergeant. History of Company
"K", 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1862-1865, Steubenville,
Ohio: The Carnahan Printing Company. 1906. Under the Direction of Brevet
Captain Aleck Sweeney and with the Co-operation of others of the
Company. 141st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Craft, David, Chaplain. History of the One hundred Forty-First Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. 1862-1865, Towanda, Pa., Reporter-Journal Printing company, 1885. Molyneux, Joel. (Kermit Molyneux Bird, Editor). Quill of the Wild Goose : Civil War Letters and Diaries of Private Joel Molyneux, 141st. P.V., Shippensburg, PA, USA : Burd Street Press, 1996. 142d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS
Downey, James W. A Lethal Tour of Duty: A History of the 142d
Regiment, Pennsylvania Voluntary Infantry, 1862-65. MA Thesis,
Indiana U PA, 1995, 78 p. Warren, Horatio N. Two Reunions of the 142d Regiment Pa. Volunteers, Buffalo, N.Y.: The Courier company, printer, 1890. Available from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI, 1971. Reprint of 1890 ed. 143d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Dougherty, James J. Stone's Brigade and the Fight for the McPherson Farm. Collectively, the 143rd, 149th and 150th PA Volunteers made up Stone's Brigade 147th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS 28th Regiment. Re-union of the 28th & 147th Regiments, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Philadelphia, November 24th, 1871. Schroyer, M. S. The history of Company "G", 147th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 1994. 148th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Gayley, Alice Jane. The 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers: The Story of Company I, Butler, PA: Mechling Bookbindery, 1998. (ISBN# 0-9703825-2-9) Muffly, J. W., Editor. The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Des Moines, IA: The Kenyon Printing and Manufacturing Company, 1904. 149th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Aldrich, Lewis Cass, Ed. History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887, pages 184-202Bassler, John H. Color Episode of the One hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the First Day's Fight at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, 1907. Dougherty, James J. Stone's Brigade and the Fight
for the McPherson Farm. Collectively, the 143rd, 149th and 150th PA
Volunteers made up Stone's Brigade Schroeder, Patrick. Pennsylvania Bucktails: A Photographic Album of the 42nd, 149th & 150th Pennsylvania Regiments, Schroeder Publications, September 2001. 150th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Ashhurst, Richard Lewis, Brevet-Major. Address to the Survivors' Association of the 150th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. Read at Gettysburg, Sept. 25th, 1896, Printed by order the Executive Committee, Philadelphia: Printing house of Allen, Lane & Scott, 1896. Chamberlin, Thomas, Lt. Col. History of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Second Regiment, Bucktail Brigade. Revised and enlarged edition, with complete roster, Philadelphia: T. McManus, Jr. & Co., 1905. E527.5-150thDougherty, James J. Stone's Brigade and the Fight for the McPherson Farm. Collectively, the 143rd, 149th and 150th PA Volunteers made up Stone's Brigade. Kieffer, Harry M. The Recollections of a Drummer Boy, Mifflinburg, PA: Bucktail Books, 2000. Schroeder, Patrick. Pennsylvania Bucktails: A Photographic Album of the 42nd, 149th & 150th Pennsylvania Regiments, Schroeder Publications, September 2001. 151st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Dreese, Michael A. The 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers at Gettysburg: Like Ripe Apples in a Storm, McFarland Publishing. Forward by Timothy H. Smith. Walker, John Hunt (Compiler). Appointment at Gettysburg: Sergeant George W. Hellig, One Hundred Fifty-first Infantry Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers and the Civil War, Seattle, WA.: Ars Obscura, 1994. 153d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Kiefer, W. R., Rev. History of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry 1862-1863. Easton, Pennsylvania: The Chemical Publishing Co. 1909. Assisted by Newton H. Mack Simmers, William, and Bachschmid, Paul. The Volunteers Manual, or, Ten months with the 153d Pennsylvania Volunteers: Being a concise narrative of the most important events of the history of the said regiment, Easton, Pa.: D.H. Nieman, Printer, 1863. (Library of Congress) Weaver, Ethan Allen. Owen Rice, Christian, scholar and patriot; a Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Memoir, Germantown, Pa., Private Printer, 1911. (Library of Congress) 155th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Under the Maltese Cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the loyal uprising in western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865; campaigns 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, narrated by the rank and file. The 155th Regimental Association, Pittsburg, Pa., 1910. Marshall, D. P. Company "K," 155th Pa. Volunteer Zouaves: A detailed history of its organization and service to the country during the Civil War from 1862 until the collapse of the rebellion, together with many incidents and reminiscences of the camp, the march and the battle field, also much of the history of the grand old 155th assisted by J. A. Cline and W. D. Porter, Butler, Pa: Mechling Bookbindery, Inc., 1998. 158th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Clarence M. Swinn, Jr. (Compiler). Letters to Lanah: a Series of Civil War Letters Written by Samuel Ensminger, Gettysburg, PA: C. M. Swinn, 1986. 187th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Gibbs, James M. History of the 187th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Harrisburg: Central Printing and Publishing House, 1905. 192d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Myers, John C. A Daily Journal of the 192nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer, Philadelphia 1864. 195th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Walton, Thomas Beck. A Pennsylvanian in Blue: The Civil War Diary of Thomas Beck Walton. 197th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Williamson, John R. The 197th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry: One Hundred-Day Troops, 1995. 198th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Woodward, E. M. History of the One Hundred and Ninety-Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, being a complete record of the Regiment, and its camps, marches and battles together with the personal record of every officer and man during his term of service, Trenton, N. J.: MacCrellish & Quigley, Printer, 1884.
ARTILLERY REGIMENTS 1st PENNSYLVANIA LIGHT ARTILLERY/43d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Howard-Smith, Logan, ed. The History of Battery A (Formerly Known as the Keystone Battery) and Troop A, N.G.P., Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1912. Sauers, Richard & Tomasak, Peter. Ricketts' Battery: A History of Battery F, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Luzerne, PA, 2001. 2d PENNSYLVANIA HEAVY ARTILLERY/112d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Ward, George Washington. History of the Second Pennsylvania Veteran Heavy Artillery (112th Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers) 1861 to 1866, Philadelphia: G.W. Ward, 1903. INDEPENDENT BATTERY D (DURELL'S) LIGHT ARTILLERY Cuffel, Charles A. Durell's Battery in the Civil War (Independent Battery D, Pennsylvania Volunteer Artillery), a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of Berks and Bucks Counties' Artillerists in the War of the Rebellion, From the Battery's Organization, September 24, 1861, to Its Muster Out of Service, June l3, l865, Philadelphia: Craig, Finley, l900. INDEPENDENT BATTERY E (KNAP'S) LIGHT ARTILLERY Brady, James P. Hurrah for The Artillery (Knap's Independent Battery E, Pennsylvania Light Artillery), Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 2004. INDEPENDENT BATTERY I (ROBERT J. NEVIN'S) LIGHT ARTILLERY Foering, John O. Register of the Members of the Artillery Corps Washington Grays of The City of Philadelphia Who Served in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865, Philadelphia 1912.
CAVALRY REGIMENTS 1st PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/44th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Falls, R. J. A Letter Received from Major...by the Chairman of the First Penna. Cavalry Association, and Read at the First Reunion of the Regiment, Held at Lewistown, Pa., October 14 and 15, 1886,. NY: Polhemus, 1887. Lloyd, William P. History of the First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry, From its Organization, August, l86l, to September, l864, With List of Names of All Officers and Enlisted Men Who Have Ever Belonged to the Regiment, and Remarks Attached to Each Name, Noting Change... Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1864. (Library of Congress) Scott, James K., Colonel. 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry. The Story of the Battles at Gettysburg. Harrisburg: Telegraph Press, 1927 3d PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/60th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Rawle, William Brooke, Captain, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the American Civil War, l86l-l865, Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Co., l905. Rawle, William Brooke, Captain, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. The Right Flank at Gettysburg. Olde Soldier Books. An account of the operations of Gregg's Cavalry. 4th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/64th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Doster, William E. A Brief History of the Fourth
Pennsylvania Veteran Cavalry, Longstreet House, 1997.
Reprint of 1891 edition. 6th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/70th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Gracey, Samuel L. Annals of the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Vanberg Publishing. Reprint of 1868 original. New Introduction by Eric Wittenberg. Smith, Thomas W. & Wittenberg, Eric J. We have it Damn Hard Out Here: The Civil War Letters of Sergeant Thomas W. Smith, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Kent State University Press. ISBN# 087338623X 7th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/80th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Dornblaser, Thomas F., Sergeant, 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Sabre
Strokes of the Pennsylania Dragoons in the War of 1861-1865, Philadelphia,
1884. Vale,
Joseph. Minty and the
Cavalry: A History of thr Cavalry Campaigns in the Western Armies,
Harrisburg, Pennyslvania. 1886.
Carpenter, J. Edward. A List of the Battles, Engagements, Actions and Important Skirmishes in which the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry Participated During the War of 1861-1865, Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott's Printing House, 1866. Huey, Pennock. A True History of the Charge of the Eighth Pennsylvnaia Cavalry at Chancellorsville, Philadelphia, 1885. 9th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/92d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Rowell, John W. Yankee Cavalrymen: Through the Civil War with the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry, University of Tennessee, 1971.Veil, Charles Henry. (Edited by Henman Viola) Memoirs of Charles Henry Veil: A Soldier's Recollections of the Civil War and the Arizona Territory, New York: Orion, 1993. 11th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/108th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS History of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, Together with a Complete Roster of the Regiment and Regimental Officers, Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company, 1902. Guss, Abraham Lincoln, 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry. The Coward's Curse and the Patriot's Duty, Carlisle, Pa.: Printed at the "Herald" office, 1861. 12th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/113d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Maier, Larry B. Leather and Steel : The 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry in the Civil War, White Mane. 14th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/159th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS The 14th Pa. Volunteer Cavalry in the Civil War by Rev. Wm. Slease, 1915 (Reprint), plus muster rolls added by Ron Gancus, 1999. Available from Mechling Bookbindery. 15th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/160th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Kirk, Charles H. 1st Lieutenant, Company E. History of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry Known as the Anderson Cavalry in the Rebellion of 1861-1865, Philadelphia, 1906. 16th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/161st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Miller, Charles H, 1st Lieut. and Adjutant. History of the 16th Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry, for the Year Ending October 31st, 1863, Commanded by Colonel John Irvin Gregg, of Centre County, Pa., Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1864. 17th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/162d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Moyer, Henry P. History of the Seventeenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, Lebanon, PA, 1911. 18th PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/163d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Rodenbough, Theodore. History of the Eighteenth Regiment of Cavalry Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1862-1865, New York: Wynkoop Crawford, 1909 . 21st PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/182d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Grier, Thomas H. Pennsylvania Cavalry. 21st Regiment, 1863-1865. Annual Reunions of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry Association, Gettysburg, 1891. 22d PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY/185th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Farrar, Samuel Clarke. The Twenty-Second Pennsylvania Cavalry and the Ringgold Battalion, 1861-1865, Akron, OH: New Werner Co., 1911. RINGGOLD CAVALRY Elwood, John W. Elwood's Stories of the Old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865, Coal Center, PA, 1914.
RESERVE REGIMENTS Sypher, J. R. History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps: A Complete Record of the Organization, and of the Different Companies, Regiments, and Brigades, Lancaster, Pa.: Elias Barr & Co., 1865. Sypher, J. R. History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps: A Complete Record of the Organization, and of the Different Companies, Regiments, and Brigades, Heritage Books. Reprint of 1865 Original. ISBN# 1556134983. Messages of Gov. Andrew G. Curtin, relative to the Reserve Corps, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1863. 1st PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES/31st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Henry N. Minnigh (Captain 30th PA Infantry, 1st Reserves). History of Company K, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves. Duncansville, Pa.: Thomas Publications. Reprint of 1891 Original. 2d PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES/31st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Woodward, E. M. Our Campaigns: The Second Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers, or, The Marches, Bivouacs, Battles, Incidents of Camp Life, and History of Our Regiment During its Three Years Term of Service, Together with a Sketch of the Army of the Potomac?, 1995. 3d PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES/32d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Woodward, E. M., Major. History of the Third Pennsylvania Reserve: Being a complete record of the regiment, with incidents of the camp, marches ... and battles; together with the personal record of every officer and man during his term of service, Trenton, N.J.: MacCrellish & Quigley, printers, 1883. 8th PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES/37th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Darby, George W., 8th Pennsylvania Reserves. The Civil War Memoirs of Sergeant George W. Darby, 1861-1865, Heritage Books. (Edited by Rogan Moore) Strathern, John H. (Compiled by Marlene C. Bumbera). The Civil War Letters of Cpl. John H. Strathern, Eighth Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994. 11th PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES/40th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Gibbs, Joseph. Three Years in the "Bloody Eleventh": The Campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves Regiment, February 2002 12th PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES/41st PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Hardin, Martin D. History of the Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps (41st regiment of the line), from its muster into the United States service, August 10th, 1861, to its muster out, June 11th, 1864, together with biographical sketches of officers and men and a complete muster-out roll, New York: Published by the author, 1890. Kier, Samuel Martin. Sons of the Commonwealth, Mechling Book Bindery, 1999. Young, Anne C. The Life and Letters of Corporal William David Jones, 12th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers. The book is self published by the author: acygen@hotmail.com. 13th PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES/42d PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS Glover, Edwin A. Bucktailed Wildcats, a Regiment of Civil War Volunteers, New York: T. Yoseloff, 1960. Schroeder, Patrick. Pennsylvania Bucktails: A Photographic Album of the 42nd, 149th & 150th Pennsylvania Regiments, Schroeder Publications, September 2001. Thomson, Osmund Rhodes Howard. History of the "Bucktails", Kane Rifle Regiment the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps (13th Pennsylvania Reserves, 42nd of the Line), Philadelphia: Electric Printing Company, 1906. 14th PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES/44th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS/1st PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY Falls, R. J. A Letter Received from Major...by the Chairman of the First Penna. Cavalry Association, and Read at the First Reunion of the Regiment, Held at Lewistown, Pa., October 14 and 15, 1886,. NY: Polhemus, 1887. Lloyd, William P. "History of the First Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry, From its Organization, August, l86l, to September, l864", With List of Names of All Officers and Enlisted Men Who Have Ever Belonged to the Regiment, and Remarks Attached to Each Name, Noting Change... Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1864. (Library of Congress) Scott, James K., Colonel. "1st Pennsylvania Cavalry. The Story of the Battles at Gettysburg", Harrisburg: Telegraph Press, 1927. MILITIA OF 1862 Richards, Louis (5th Ward Guards, Company G, 2nd Regiment). Eleven Days in the MIlitia During the War of the Rebellion: Being a Journal of the Emergency Campaign of 1862. BY A Militiaman. Philadelphia, 1883. |
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