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Web Sites

The American Civil War. www.mycivilwar.com.

American Civil War Research Database, 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry. http://www.civilwardata.com.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov.

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Civil War Preservation Trust. Battlefields: Chantilly. http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chantilly.html.

Delaware County: New York Genealogy and History Site. http://www.dcnyhistory.org/milindexlindar.html.

Morss, Robert. Hooker’s Brigade. 2009. http://genealogy.morssweb.com/.

National Park Service. www.nps.gov/frsp/mine.htm.

New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center. http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/mil-hist.htm.

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The Third Excelsior Association. http://www.72ndnewyork.org.


Letters and Other Collections

Bailey, George. War Time Letters of George Bailey, Company H, 72nd NYSV. Unpublished. Courtesy of the Gowanda Area Historical Society.

Dean, James. War Time Letters of James Dean, Company C, 72nd NYSV. Unpublished. Courtesy of Diana Firth.

Cody, Donald, and Richard Landwehrle. “John S. Austin in Pre-War New York.” Letter to Rick Barram of Austin family history.

Compiled Military Service File: Issac L. Chadwick, Company C, 72nd New York. National Archives.

Compiled Military Service File: John Leonard, Company F, 72nd New York. National Archives.

Compiled Military Service File: John S. Austin, Company K, 72nd New York. National Archives.

Compiled Military Service File: John S. Mann, Company C, 72nd New York. National Archives.

Compiled Military Service File: Nathan McCrea, Company F, 72nd New York. National Archives.

Compiled Military Service File: Nelson Taylor, 72nd New York. National Archives.

Compiled Military Service File: William O. Steven, Company D, 72nd New York. National Archives.

Grand Army of the Republic records, 70th NYV. New York State Library, Preservation Unit.

Grand Army of the Republic records, 72nd NYV. New York State Library, Preservation Unit.

Historical Data Systems, Kingston, MA. Various analyses of regimental enrollment and casualties.

Mount Sinai Hospital. 1852–2002 Sesquicentennial Pamphlet.

O’Hagan, Fr. Joseph. “Woodstock Letters VIII, 1879.” In Civil War History, vol. 6, ed. James I. Robertson, 402–409. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1960.

Ostre, Peter. HCWRTColl-GACColl (Enlisted man’s letters, October 30, 1862–June 1, 1864). Military History Institute, Carlisle, PA.

Stoddard, Hiram. War Time Letters of Hiram Stoddard, Company I, 72nd NYSV. Unpublished. Courtesy of the Gowanda Area Historical Society.

The Third Excelsior Association Historical Collection: Colusa Cemetery Dedication Program, September 2010. Included in a packet on John C. Willing presented to the Third Excelsior Association. Compiled by Preservation Committee chairman David Resh.

Twichell, Joseph Hopkins. Joseph Hopkins Twichell Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.


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