Archives and Libraries
Archives and Regional History Collections, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. Charles Barlow letter transcript; Joel and Luke Barnes letters, Roger Walcott Collection; Samuel McLain and Thomas J. Lowery letters, Mrs. Glen Rutan Collection.
Auburn University Library, Special Collections and Archives, Auburn, Alabama. John Bancroft diary-scrapbook.
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Charles Bates Papers; Ransom Bush letter; Robert H. Campbell, “Service with the Old 4th Michigan Infantry,” Michigan Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U.S. (MOLLUS); Henry S. Seage, “War Reminiscences of the Battle of Fredericksburg,” read in Detroit, March 2, 1899 (MOLLUS); Charles Cleveland diary; James Houghton journal; George Monteith letters; Jonas Richardson letters; William F. Robinson letters; copies of Silas Sadler letters; Eli Starr letters; James K. Spence letter; James G. Tuttle memoir; William Limbarker 1862 diary; John S. Conant letters; Harrison Jeffords July 7, 1862, letter.
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library. Austin Blair Papers; John M. Bancroft letters; George Maltz letters; Theodore Hinchman Papers; Marshall W. Chapin letter.
Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University Library, Bowling Green, Ohio. Dwight Woodbury 1862 letters in the Williams County (Bryan, Ohio) Leader.
Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant. William Limbarker 1861 diary; John W. Hewitt diary.
William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan. Schoff Civil War Collection; Hacker Brothers Papers; letters of Edmond Bliss.
Fulton County Historical Museum, Wauseon, Ohio. Enoch Davis diary.
Hillsdale College Archives, Hillsdale, Michigan. Will Carleton Papers.
Hudson Museum, Hudson, Michigan. Various 4th Michigan and biographical newspaper clippings, letters, photocopies, and transcriptions.
Monroe County Historical Museum, Monroe, Michigan. Heckert Papers.
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. Harrison Jeffords service and pension records and court-martial; Joseph Thompkins pension; Michael J. Vreeland pension record; William Vreeland pension; records of the adjutant general (courts-martial); Jonathon Childs pension; and the service and pension records of other soldiers and officers.
State Archives of Michigan, Lansing. 4th Michigan Infantry regimental correspondence and records.
U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Michael Vreeland papers (photocopies); Jairus Hall file (newspaper clippings).
Warren Hunting Smith Library, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y. Edward H. C. Taylor Civil War letters, G. Taylor Collection. http://academic.hws.edu/library/archives/taylor.asp.
Unpublished Items and Privately Held Manuscripts
Moses Luce autobiographical statement [memoir], Edgar A. Luce Jr.; Harrison Daniels reminiscence, Craig and Ann Emery and Hal Flynn; “Descendants of John Seage,” a genealogy by John DeVinney; Miranda Goheen diary, Bob Coch; Lemuel Allen letters (transcript), Nancy Findley; Charles Phelps letters, Jeff Phelps; Henry Seage first and second diaries, Steve Roberts; Seage's third diary, John DeVinney; Silas Sadler letters and diary, Charles Doolittle diary, and C. Fox letters, a private collector; Irvin Miner diary, Robert Walkowiak; Noah Cressey letters, Lynn Bryant; George Millens diary, Glen McQueen; certain Harrison Jeffords letters (except where otherwise noted), from another collector who wished to remain anonymous; Edgar Noble diary, Thomas Spain; David Webster letters, Steve Bucher and Rose Miller; Albert Westgate letter, Kenneth Andrews.
Books, Articles, and Other Published Material
Adams, George W. Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War. Dayton: Morningside Books, 1985.
Anderson, William M. They Died to Make Men Free: A History of the 19th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War. Dayton: Morningside Books, 1994.
Barrett, Orvey S. The Old Fourth Michigan Infantry. Detroit: W. S. Ostler, 1888.
Bertera, Martin, and Ken Oberholtzer. The 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry at Gettysburg: The Battle for the Wheatfield. Dayton: Morningside Books, 1997.
Beyer, Walter F., and Oscar F. Keydel. Deeds of Valor: How America's Heroes Won the Medal of Honor. Vol. 1. Detroit: Perrien-Keydel, 1907.
Boies, Albert H. “Brave old Woodbury.” National Tribune (Washington, D.C.), March 19, 1896.
———. “Malvern Hill.” National Tribune (Washington, D.C.), February 13, 1896.
———. “The Spirit of Comradeship.” Confederate Veteran, vol. 23, September 1915.
———. “War Memories.” A series of six articles based on his Civil War diaries, Adrian (Michigan) Daily Times, March 20 and 27, April 3, 10, 17, and 24, 1886.
Burton, Brian K. Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Busey, John W. These Honored Dead: The Union Casualties at Gettysburg. Hightstown, N.J.: Longstreet House, 1996.
Campbell, Robert H. “Pioneer Memories of the War Days of 1861–1865.” Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections (MPHC). Vol. 30. Lansing: Van Koop, Hallenbeck Crawford, 1906.
Carpenter, Jesse H. The War for the Union 1861–1865: A Record of its Defenders Living and Dead from Steuben County, Indiana. Angola, Ind.: R. H. Carpenter, 1888–89.
Carter, Robert G. Four Brothers in Blue. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.
The Civil War CD-ROM. Guild Press of Indiana, 1996.
Coco, Gregory A. Killed in Action: Eyewitness Accounts of the Last Moments of 100 Union Soldiers Who Died at Gettysburg. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1996.
———. A Vast Sea of Misery: A History and Guide to the Union and Confederate Field Hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1–November 29, 1863. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1988.
Coddington, Edwin P. The Gettysburg Campaign. Dayton: Morningside Books, 1979.
Coxe, John. “The Battle of Gettysburg.” Confederate Veteran, vol. 21, no. 9, September 1913.
Davenport, Alfred. Camp and Field Life of the Fifth New York Volunteer Infantry. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1879.
Eisenschiml, Otto. The Celebrated Case of Fitz John Porter. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1950.
Ellis, Franklin. History of Livingston County, Michigan. Philadelphia: Everts & Abbot, 1880.
Ellis, Helen H. Michigan in the Civil War—a Guide to Material in Detroit Newspapers 1861–1865. Lansing: Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission, 1965.
Ellis, William A., comp. and ed. Norwich University, 1819–1911: Her History, Her Graduates, Her Roll of Honor. Vol. 2. Montpelier: Capital City Press, 1911.
Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. New York: Random House, 1958.
Fox, William F. Regimental Losses In The American Civil War. Albany: Albany Publishing, 1889.
Guinn, James M. Historical and Biographical Record of Southern California. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co., 1902.
James, Henry B. Memories of the Civil War. New Bedford, Mass.: F. E. James, 1898.
Jorgensen, Jay. Gettysburg's Bloody Wheatfield. Shippenburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, 2001.
Judson, Amos. History of the 83rd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Erie, Pa.: B.F.H. Lynn, 1865.
Lanman, Charles. The Red Book of Michigan; a Civil, Military and Biographical History. Detroit: E. B. Smith, 1871.
Lawson, Albert. War Anecdotes and Incidents of Army Life: Reminiscences from Both Sides of the Conflict between North and South. Cincinnati: E. H. Beasley, 1888.
Leake, Paul. History of Detroit—a Chronicle of its Progress, its Industries, its Institutions, and the People of the Fair City of the Straits. Chicago: Lewis Publication Co., 1912.
Mertz, Gregory A. “General Gouverneur K. Warren and the Fighting at Laurel Hill.” Blue & Gray, vol. 21, no. 4, summer 2004.
Michigan Adjutant General. Records of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War. Vol. 4. Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros & Everard, 1905.
Millbrook, Minnie Dobbs. A Study in Valor: Michigan Medal of Honor Winners in the Civil War. Lansing: Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission, 1966.
Monaghan, James (Jay). Custer: The Life of General George Armstrong Custer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971.
Owen, C. W. The First Michigan Infantry—Three Months and Three Years. Quincy, Mich.: Quincy Herald Print, no date.
Parker, Francis J. The Story of the Thirty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Boston: C. W. Calkins, 1880.
Parker, John L. History of the 22nd Massachusetts Infantry. 1887; Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1997.
Pfanz, Harry P. Gettysburg: The Second Day. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Pohanka, Brian. “George Yates, Captain of the Band Box Troop.” Greasy Grass (Custer Battlefield, Historical & Museum Association), vol. 8, May 1992.
Powell, William H. The Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1896.
Regan, Timothy J. The Lost Civil War Diaries: The Diaries of Corporal Timothy J. Regan. Ed. David C. Nelson and Kenneth J. Pluskat. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing, 2003.
Richter, William L. The Army in Texas during Reconstruction, 1865–1870. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987.
Robertson, John. Michigan in the War. Lansing: Michigan Adjutant General and W. S. George, 1880.
Scott, Robert Garth. Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals, & Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Willcox. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999.
Seage, Henry S. History of Co. E, 4th Mich. Infantry, 1861–1864. Lansing: Thompson & Van Buren, 1897.
Sears, Stephen W. Chancellorsville. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
———. Gettysburg. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 100 vols. Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing, 1996.
United States. Surgeon General's Office. Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, prepared under the direction of Surgeon General Joseph K. Barnes, United States Army. 3 vols. in 6 parts. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1870–88.
United States War Department. The War of Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 70 vols. in 128 parts. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
Vreeland, Carl. “Letters from Civil War Battlefields.” Oregon (Portland) Journal, in three parts, June 24, June 25, and June 26, 1964.
Wert, Jeffry D. The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Wiley, Bell I. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.
Yager, Verdie. Reflections on the Bean: History of the Hudson Area in Prose and Picture. Brooklyn, Mich.: Exponent Press, 1983.
Yates, Annie Gibson Roberts. “Colonel George W. Yates.” 1877. Research & Review (Little Big Horn Association), vol. 15, 1989.
Civil War Era Newspapers
Adrian Expositor; Adrian Watchtower; Michigan (Ann Arbor) Argus; Ann Arbor Journal; Cleveland Herald; Cleveland Plain Dealer; Detroit Advertiser; Detroit Advertiser & Tribune; Detroit Free Press; Detroit Tribune; Hillsdale Standard; Hudson Gazette; Jackson Eagle; Jonesville Independent; Lansing State Journal; Monroe Commercial; Monroe Monitor; New York Herald; Philadelphia Enquirer; Steuben (Angola, Ind.) Journal; Steuben (County, Ind.) Republican; Sturgis Journal; Tecumseh Herald; Toledo Blade; Williams County (Byran, Ohio) Leader.