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
- Miller, Francis Trevelyan. The Photographic
History of the Civil War
- 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
- Links to Resources on the Internet
- Online Soldier Databases.
- Online Searchable databases:
- Cemeteries and Soldiers' Burials
- Veterans' Administration Grave Locator
- Graves Registration Project,
Sons of Union Veterans - a searchable database.
- N.Y. Soldiers buried in:
-
National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Andersonville
National Cemetery
- 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