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Any serious study of the Maryland Campaign begins with the War of the Rebellion: The Official Records of the
Union and Confederate Armies, volume 19, parts 1 and 2. The OR’s, as they are commonly referred to, were
published by the U.S. War Department between 1880 and 1901 and ran to 127 thick volumes. The volumes on the
military campaigns of the war contain the official reports of regimental and battery commanders on up to army
commanders, and the wartime correspondence generally at the army command level. The limitation of the OR’s is
that they only included reports and correspondence that the compilers had copies of. As diligent as the compilers
were in acquiring Union and Confederate war records there are reports missing (in some cases they were never
submitted) and some valuable correspondence was lost or never found its way into the records. Some of what was
missed is included in volume 51, parts 1 and 2.
For the Army of the Potomac gaps in correspondence can be filled in by the extensive George B. McClellan
papers at the Library of Congress, which are also available on microfilm, and the army corps records in the National
Archives in Record Group 393.9.
Three other significant collections of Maryland Campaign material are the Antietam Studies collection at the
National Archives, the Ezra Carman papers at the Library of Congress, and the John M. Gould Antietam Collection
at Dartmouth College. The Antietam Studies collection consists of hundreds of letters written principally to Ezra
Carman, a veteran of the battle, and the de facto historian of the Antietam Battlefield Board from 1894 to 1898.
Carman sought to document the position of every regiment and battery in the Battle of Antietam and carried on an
extensive and thorough correspondence with Union and Confederate veterans. Although the letters were written
over 25 years after the battle Carman they are a gold mine of material for the battle and the campaign, as many
veterans included their experiences in other parts of the campaign in their correspondence. Carman’s papers at the
Library of Congress include his massive and neatly handwritten manuscript of the campaign that is positively
indispensible for any serious study of the Maryland Campaign. This was edited and published in 2008 by Joseph
Pierro as The Maryland Campaign of 1862. Thomas Clemens, an authority on the campaign, published a newly
edited and annotated edition of the first half of Carman’s manuscript in 2010, titled The Maryland Campaign of
September 1862. The second half of Carman’s manuscript will follow soon.
John M. Gould was an officer in the 10th
Maine. His collection grew out of a dispute between Gould and veterans
of the 125th
Pennsylvania who both claimed that 12th
Corps commander Major General James K. Mansfield was
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mortally wounded in front of their regiment. Gould set out initially to prove that Mansfield had been shot in front of
his regiment by corresponding with Confederate veterans who had opposed his regiment, but that effort expanded to
include correspondence from dozens of Union and Confederate veterans who fought in the vicinity of the East
Woods and Miller’s cornfield.
Abbreviations:
ABBP – Antietam Battlefield Board Papers – National Archives
ADAH – Alabama Department of Archives and History
AS – Antietam Studies Collection – National Archives
B&L – Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
CV – Confederate Veteran Magazine
CWH – Civil War History Journal
CWTI – Civil War Times Illustrated
DU – Duke University
GNMP – Gettysburg National Military Park Library
LC – Library of Congress
MDAH – Mississippi Department of Archives and History
MP – McClellan Papers, Library of Congress
NJHS – New Jersey Historical Society
NT – National Tribune newspaper
NYPL – New York Public Library
PWP – Philadelphia Weekly Press newspaper
RBH Library – Rutherford B. Hayes Library
SCL – South Carolina Library, University of South Carolina
SHC – Southern Historical Collection
SHSW – State Historical Society of Wisconsin
UNC – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
USAMHI – United States Army Military History Institute
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VHS – Virginia Historical Society
VSL – Virginia State Library
WRHS – Western Reserve Historical Society
Manuscripts
ANTIETAM NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD
Ezra Carman – Emmor B. Cope Letters
- Gabriel Campbell, 17th Mich. to Carman, Aug. 23, 1899
Roger M. Ford diary – 1st Lt., 8
th Connecticut
John Hanson, “Report of the Employment of Artillery at Antietam.”
Mat Hurlinger typescript diary, 56th Pennsylvania
Captain James L. Lemon diary, 18th
Georgia
George D. McDill to Mother, Oct. 8, 1862, 6th
Wis. Folder
Samuel Moore diary, 90th
Pennsylvania Folder
ANTIETAM on the WEB Diary of 1
st Sgt. Charles D. M. Broomhall, Co. D, 124
th Penna.
Diary of Charles S. Buell, 8th
Connecticut
ALABAMA DEPT ARCHIVES AND HISTORY History of the 3
rd Alabama by Cullen Battle
History of the 4th
Alabama
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Josiah F. Murphey memoir, 20
th Mass.
Henry Ropes letters, 20th
Mass.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY John C. Ropes papers
BOWDOIN COLLEGE Oliver O. Howard papers
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY
George Shorkley Papers - John Hartranft to Adjt. Oct 1, 1862
CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY – GILPIN LIBRARY
James Converse letters, 6th Wis.
CONFEDERATE MILITARY INSTITUTE - HILL COLLEGE, TX M. V. Smith - Reminiscence of the CW, 4th TX
N. P. - Reminiscence, 5th TX
O. T. Hanks - History of Co. K, 1st TX
P. A. Work account of 1st TX at Boonsboro and Antietam
CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Loren Goodrich letter, Oct. 2, 1862, 14th
Conn.
Lt. Col. Griffin Stedman, Report of 11th
Conn. Infantry at Antietam
John H. Burnham letter, 16th Conn.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
McClenthen family papers – Charles S. McClenthen memoirs, 26th
New York Infantry
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CIVIL WAR LIBRARY AND MUSUEM
Louis R. Fortescue Reminiscences, U. S. Signal Corps
DARTHMOUTH COLLEGE
John M. Gould Papers – Antietam Collection
DELAWARE STATE ARCHIVES
General Reference #623 Civil War Correspondence
- fragment of John Carey letter, no date, 1st Delaware
Aaron W. Murch to William Hopkins, Oct. 28, 1862, 1st Delaware
DUKE UNIVERSITY – Perkins Library
J. W. Lindsay and C. H. Andrews, "History of the 3rd
Georgia".
Haywood and W. D. Hardy Papers, W.D. Hardy to his father, Sept. 24, 1862.
Samuel Wilson Compton Papers, 11th
Ohio
John M. Gould Papers
Lafayette McLaws Papers
Uriah Parmalee Letters, 6th
New York Cavalry
Dudley D. Pendleton Papers
Fitz-John Porter Papers
Charles S. Powell Papers, War Tales, 24th
NC
John A. Smith Papers
EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY Dr. Spencer G. Welch Letter, Sept. 24, 1862, 13
th SC Surgeon
EMORY UNIVERSITY Theodore Fogle letters, 2
nd Georgia
ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
C. H. Blanchard memoir, Sgt. Co. D, 111th
PA
Unknown veteran letter to John M. Gould – 111th
Penna. Infantry
Correspondence to Erie Gazette from 145th
Penna. Infantry
Ezra Carman to Thomas M. Walker, Nov. 26, 1897, 111th
Penna. Infantry
EUGENE C. BARKER TEXAS HISTORY CENTER James J. Kirkpatrick diary (16
th Mississippi)
FLORIDA STATE ARCHIVES
David Lang Letterbook, v. 2 m 84-28.
Colonel R. F. Floyd to Governor John Milton, letter Sept. 22, 1862, 8th
Florida Infantry
FREDERICKSBURG-SPOTSYLVANIA NMP Henry C. Davis Diary, 1
st Mass. Cavalry
Sergeant John S. Tucker diary, Co. D, 5th
Alabama
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHIVES
Lt. Vjanirtus C. Allen Letters, 21st GA
Charles H. Anderson Manuscript History of 3rd
Georgia Infantry
Clifford Anderson Letter, UDC Typescripts, Vol. X, 2nd
GA Batt.
William Jones Memoir, UDC Typescripts, Vol. V, 50th
GA
Shephard Green Pryor Letters, UDC Typescripts, Vol. III, 12th
GA
Sidney J. Richardson Letter,
Levi Smith Diary, UDC Typescripts, Vol. XIII, 44th
GA
Wm. Ross Stillwell Letters, UDC Typescripts, Vol. XIV, 53rd
GA
Harry Wells Letter, UDC Typescript, Vol. II,
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John L. G. Wood Letters, UDC Typescripts, Vol. IV, 53rd
GA
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE Michael Miller letters, 1
st Penna. Reserves
GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK
George Dawes letter – 111th
NY
N. Eldred reminiscence, "Only a Boy," 111th
NY
Samuel Healy Journal typescript, 56th
PA
William Olcott reminiscences, 10th
PA reserves
John H. Harris diary 44th
GA
Gregory Coco Collection
Journal of George B. Ray, 5th
Ohio Infantry
Henry Curtis Jr. letters [37th
IL, aide to Gen. White]
Oliver J. Roe letters [1st Minnesota]
HAGERSTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY (Western Maryland Room)
Lilly Collection – Alfred Iverson to D. H. Hill, Aug. 23, 1885
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA
George G. Meade Papers
John Rutter Brooke Papers - Personal Reminiscences of Charles A. Hale, 5th
NH
John Gibbon Papers
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
Jacob D. Cox to Ezra Carman, letter, 22 January 1897
John P. Nicholson Diary, 28th
Penna.
Joseph Hooker Papers
James E. B. Stuart Papers
HUNTINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
James Randolph Simpson Collection, 125th
PA
INDIANA STATE LIBRARY
Henry C. Marsh papers, diary and letters, 19th
Indiana
Bob Patterson, "Personal Recollections of the Battle of Antietam".
Josiah C. Williams letters 27th
Indiana
Amory K. Allen letters, 14th
Indiana
Flavius Bellamy letters, 3rd
Indiana cavalry
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Lyman Holford Journal, 6th
Wisconsin
Fitz-John Porter Papers
Henry Hunt Papers
George B. McClellan Papers
Ezra A. Carman Papers
William B. Franklin Papers
Thomas F. Galway Diary, 8th
Ohio
George W. Hall Diary, 14th
Georgia
Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers
Henry J. Hunt Papers
George W. Hall Diary, 14th
Georgia
Mercer Johnston Papers, 11th
Mississippi
Daniel A. Larned Papers, Secretary, Ambrose Burnside.
George B. McClellan Papers
Marsena Patrick Diary
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Alfred Pleasonton Papers
Captain Gilbert Thompson Diary
David A. Rice Diary, 108th
New York
M. Schuler Diary, 33rd
Virginia
Cadmus Wilcox Papers
MASSACHUSETTS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
George M. Barnard Papers, 18th
Mass.
Francis C. Barlow papers, letter of Sept. 18, 1862.
Henry C. Ropes letters, 20th
Mass.
Charles E. Bowers letters, 32nd
Mass.
George H. Gordon Papers
George H. Gordon diary
Charles B. Fox diary, 13th
Mass.
Charles F. Morse Papers, 2nd
Mass.
Paul J. Revere Papers, 20th
Mass.
William S. Tilton Diaries, 22nd
Mass.
MINNISOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Daniel Bond Reminscence
Charles Goddard letters
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY A. L. P. Vairin Diary, 2
nd Miss.
William H. Hill Diary
E. E. Baldwin Letters
J. J. Wilson Papers
NATIONAL ARCHIVES Military Service Records
Gorham Coffin letters, 19th
Mass., pension file
Achibald B. Hudson deposition, 15th
Mass., pension file
RG 92, Series 707 - Antietam Battlefield Board Papers,
RG 94 - Antietam Studies Collection,
RG 94 – General’s Papers – Ambrose E. Burnside papers
RG 94, M1098 – U.S. Army Generals’ Reports of Civil War Service
RG 108 - Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac papers,
RG 393.9 – First Army Corps records
Second Army Corps records
Second Army Corps records (Army of Virginia)
Third Army Corps records (Army of Virginia)
Fifth Army Corps records
Sixth Army Corps records
Ninth Army Corps records
Twelfth Army Corps records
NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Ezra Carman Diary – 13th
NJ
Sebastian Cabot Duncan Jr. Diary 13th
NJ
Dr. John J. H. Love Letters – 13th
NJ
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Ezra Carman Papers
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY Ezra Carman Papers - Alpheus Williams to George B. McClellan, 4/18/63
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NEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES
Umberto Burnham letters, 76th
NY
History of the 30th
NY - John Bryson
NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY
Waters Braman letters, 93rd
New York, Sept. 16, 1862
NORTH CAROLINA STATE ARCHIVES Daniel Wilson Letters, 15
th NC
Daniel H. Hill Papers - R. H. Anderson and R. H. Chilton letters to Hill
OBERLIN COLLEGE
Jacob Dolson Cox Papers
OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Hugh Ewing Papers - Journal
ONTARIO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Richard A. Basset letter, 126th
NY
OSHKOSH PUBLIC MUSEUM Osman B. Taplin papers, 2
nd Wisconsin
PEARCE MUSEUM at NAVARRO COLLEGE, TX Clark Edwards Papers – 5
th Maine
Thomas Devin Letter – 6th
NY cavalry
PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Herbert Mason letters – 20
th Massachusetts
POTTER COUNTY (PA) HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lewis Mann to J. S. Mann, Sept. 20, 1862
Angelo Crapsey, 13th
PA Reserves, to Larry Lyman, Sept. 30, 1862
PUTNAM COUNTY (FL) HISTORICAL SOCIETY
M. Auld Papers, 5th
FL
ROCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY S. S. Partridge letters, 13
th NY
George Breck Letters, 1st NY Lt. Art
ROME LIBRARY, ROME, GA W. B. Judkins memoirs, Wright’s brigade
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES LIBRARY
Alexander Wight Diary - Kanawha Division
John McNulty Clugston Diary - 23rd Ohio
Michael Deady Diary - 23rd Ohio
SOUTH CAROLINA LIBRARY
Edwin Kerrison letters, South Carolina Library (Kershaw's Brig.)
Robert W. Shand Reminiscences(Mac Wykoff)
Memoirs of the 1st South Carolina Regiment (Jeff Stocker)
Rice Varus Henry Papers - James H. Rice, Garden's battery to Mother, Nov. 12, 1862
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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
Barry G. Benson Papers, 1st SC
Dr. James R. Boulware diary, 6th
SC
Carrie H. Clack Collection - Letters of John R. Clack, 14th
VA
J. F. H. Clairborne Papers, Barksdale’s brigade
Benjamin Collins reminiscences, 20th
NC
William DeRosset Papers, 3rd
NC
John M. Gould Papers, 10th
Maine
John L. Harris, Lt. Col., Diary, 24th
NC
Daniel H. Hill Papers
William B. Howard diary, Musician, 7th
NC
H. C. Kendrick Papers
H. L. P. King diary (Staff officer to Lafayette McLaws)
Charles H. Little Papers, 9th
New Hampshire Infantry – letters and diary
Calvin Leach diary, 1st NC
James Longstreet Papers
Lafayette McLaws Papers
David G. McIntosh Memoir
William Groves Morris Papers, 37th
NC
James K. Munnerlyn Jr. Papers, (Stuart’s Cav)
William Pendleton Papers
Pfohl Papers - John F Shaffner, Surgeon, letter, 33rd
NC
R. Channing Price Papers (Stuart’s staff)
Thomas Ruffin Jr. Papers, 13th NC
Westwood Todd Reminiscences, 6th
VA
George E. Wallar Papers, 24th
VA
Samuel H. Walkup diary, 48th
NC
STEPHEN MATHER TRAINING CENTER – NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Abner Doubleday Journal
TULANE UNIVERSITY George Ring Papers, 6
th LA
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY
Nina L. Ness Collection - John Whiteside letter, 105th
NY
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Wallace McCamont reminiscences and diary, 125th
PA
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - EUGENE C. BARKER TEXAS HISTORY CENTER
James J. Kirkpatrick diary – 16th
Miss.
UNITED STATES ARMY MILITARY HISTORY INSTITUTE Henry Keiser Diary, 96
th PA
Henry C. Boyer Collection, 96th
PA
Brake Collection
-L. A. Daffan memoir, 4th
Texas
-B. B. Ross memoir, 4th
NC
-Chas. Thompson Stuart, Co. G, 26th
Georgia
Timothy Brooks Collection
- Elisha Bracken diary, 100th
PA.
J. P. Burchfield, M.D., letters – 53rd
PA
Christopher Fonvielle collection
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- Thomas Frank Forrest reminiscence, 14th
NC
Civil War Misc. Collection
- Origen G. Bigham letter, 137th
PA
- Joseph E. Blake letters, 12th
MA
- David C. Bradley letters, 65th
IL
- John Dillon letter, March 27, 1895, 63rd
NY
- Joseph P. Elliott, Quartermaster, diary, 71st PA
- Cpl. Leander E. Davis letters, M, 1 NY artillery
- Marion Hill Fitzpatrick letter, 45th
GA
- W. W. Greenland letter, Sept. 18, 1862, 125th
PA
- William A. Guest letter, 124th
PA
- James S. Kent letter, Sept. 22, 1862, 2nd
U.S.S.S.
- Sgt. James W. Kinney reminiscences, 1st MA Battery
-William F. LeMunyon reminiscences, 126th
NY
- William McIlhenny reminiscence, Cole's MD Cav.
- Capt. Addison Moore reminiscence, 28th
PA
- William A. Moore reminiscence, 3rd
NY Lt. artillery
- William H. Miller letter, 56th
PA
- Christopher Niederer diary, 20th
NY
- William B. Westervelt memoir, 27th
NY
- Colonel Oliver H. Palmer letter, 108th
NY
- Sgt. Isaac Plumb recollections, 61st NY
- Curtis C. Pollack letters, 48th
PA
- Lorenzo N. Pratt letter, M, 1st NY artillery
- John M. Steffan letters, 71st PA
CWTI Collection
-James Abraham letters and memoir, WVA Cav. , (Gilmore's Co.)
-John S. Brisbin letters, 6th U.S. Cav.
-Nicholas DeGraff memoir, 115th
NY
-Anthony Fiala Reminiscences, 1st NY Cav.
-Luther C. Furst diary, 39th
PA (teamster)
-William Andy Heirs, letter, 3rd
AL
-Charles A. Hale, Antietam memoir, 5th
NH
-Charles Alexander Harrison diary, 2nd
NJ
-Lt. Thomas Hodgkins, letters and reports, M, 1st NY artillery
-Henry Leib diary, 36th
PA
-Clarence Linden Hutchins autobiography, 16th
GA
-Benjamin Anderson Jones memoirs, 44th
VA
-James McIlwain letters, 40th
PA
-John D. McQuaide letters, 38th
PA
-Edward E. Schweitzer diary, 30th
OH
-Martin L. Sheets diary, 11th
OH
-James P. Stewart letters, Knap's PA Battery
-Jonathan Stowe diary, 15th
MA
-Joseph S. C. Taber diary, 23rd
PA (attached to army HQ staff)
-C. F. Weller letters, compiled by Kathleen M. Parrish, 15th
PA Cav.
-A. R. Wright's Brigade - Order Book
Harrisburg CWRT
-Sgt. Frank Kelley letter, 44th
New York
-Lt. Colonel Samuel M. Jackson diary, 11th
PA Reserves
-John Maycock diary, 132nd
PA
-Lewis Masonheimer diary (typescript), 130th
PA
-David Nichol letter, Knap's PA Battery
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Ario Pardee Papers, 28th
PA
John Vautier Papers, 88th
PA
Winfield Hancock Papers
George Crook Papers
Alexander R. Chamberlain Collection
- Levi L. Smith letter, 28th
PA
Lewis Leigh Collection
-Book 5, J. Edward Shipman to friend Hubbard Sept 14, 1862
-Book 5, Marcus A. Emmons letters, 21st MA
-Book 7, James McIlwain, 11th
PA Reserves
-Book 11, Constantine Hege letters, 48th
NC
-Book 27, #56, Andrew N. Terhune, 13th
NJ to Cousin, Sept 9, 1862
-Book 29, #59, Capt Henry M. Pearson letter, 6th
NH, Sept 5, 1862
-Book 33, Eugene Blackford letters, 5th
AL
-Book 35, Smith Brothers letters. 1st DE
-Book 36, William B. Hoitt letter, 19th
MA
-Book 60, Lt. Col. Thomas Welsh letter, Sept. 23, 1862 – 9th
Corps brigade command
-Book 66, Henry F. Gladding letter, 4th
RI, Sept., 20, 1862 –
Henry Curtis Papers, 37th
Illinois. Staff of Julius White
Joseph P. Elliott Papers - Quartermaster, 71st PA
Mass. MOLLUS Collection
James H. Mitchell Collection – 81st PA
Norwich CWRT Collection
- Thomas H. Pearsall letter – 89th
NY
Save the Flags Collection
- Wm. J. Burns Diary, 71st PA
- Alexander Bates Collection, 7th PA Reserves
- John O. Moore Letters, 125th
PA
- Andrew Jackson Elliott Diary, 8th
PA Reserves
- Andoniram J. Warner, Col., Reminiscences, 10th
PA Reserves
- Frederick Williams, 56th
PA, Report of Maryland Campaign
Frederick Pettit Letters, 100th
PA
"The Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Antietam” by General Luther Stevenson - (Morell's Division)
Wiley Sword Collection – Letter by unknown member of 6th
NH
Andrew B. Wardlaw diary, 14th
SC
William W. Wallace reminiscences, 125th
PA
Michael Winey Collection
- John D. Hemminger Diary, 130th
PA
James Wren Papers (Diary & Post-war address), Capt, - 48th
PA
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Joseph Jeptha Norton diary, Orr's rifles
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LIBRARY
James L. Kemper Papers
Henry C. Chritiancy Diary, 5th
Michigan
John Daniel Papers
VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Osmon Latrobe Diary, Longstreet's staff
Bejamin L. Farinholt Diary
William T. Owen Papers
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VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY
Dr. James Boulware diary, 6th
SC
D. H. Hill Papers
WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY (MD) Clinton H. Haskell Collection - John B. Stickney, 35
th MA, letter, Sept., 28, 1862
Bart Johnson Jr. to S. A. Cunningham, editor of Confederate Veteran, March 7, 1895, 3rd
AK
WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Charles H. Merrick papers – 8
th OH (Sept. 24, 1862 letter)
Adoniram J. Warner, “Minutes of the Battle of South Mountain and Antietam.”
WILSON COUNTY (NC) PUBLIC LIBRARY
George B. & Walter R. Battle letters, 4th
NC
WISCONSIN STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Edward S. Bragg Papers, 6th
WI
Horace Currier letters, 7th
WI
Rufus Dawes Papers, 6th
WI
George Fairfield Diary, 6th WI
Sidney Mead Journal, 2nd
WI
James M. Perry Diary, 6th
WI
George H. Otis diary, 2nd
WI
E. B. Quiner Scrapbooks, Correspondence of the Wisconsin Volunteers, 10 volumes
Alonzo Richards diary (microfilm) 7th
WI, Signal Corps
Henry Young Papers, 7th
WI
Cornelius Wheeler Papers, 2nd
WI
YALE UNIVERSITY
Alexander S. Webb Papers
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Russell Beatie
Ann R. Shaeffer manuscript “Records of the Past”
Brian Pohanka
“My Three Regiments,” by Jacob Eugene Duryee’, 2nd
MD
Mr. Evans J. Casso
Diary of Romain O. Landry, Donaldsville Artillery
Mrs. Ruth Y. Deming
George Lewis Bronson Letters, 11th
CT
Donald R. Jacoby
John S. Daugherty letter, 128th
Penna.
Terry A. Johnston, Jr.
Scottish-American Journal, 79th
NY
Michael Kraus
James W. Barnett diary, 53rd
PA
Patricia Murphy
1862 Diary and Letters of Ephraim E. Brown, 64th
NY
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Nicholas Picerno Collection - 10th
ME
Capt. George H. Nye letters
John A. Putnam Letters
Mrs. Alan C. Smith(courtesy Pat Knierman)
R. A. Kerr diary, Sgt. Co. H, 145th
PA
Zack Waters
W. B. Judkins recollections
Newspapers
The National Tribune
Alabama
Anniston Star
The Alabama Beacon
The Huntsville Confederate
Macon Telegraph
The Mobile Register and Advertiser
Montgomery Daily Mail
Montgomery Weekly Advertiser
Selma Morning Reporter
Georgia
The Atlanta Journal
The Daily Sun (Columbus)
Tri-Weekly Courier (Rome)
The Macon Telegraph
Maine
Brunswick Telegraph
The Lewiston Falls Journal
Maryland
The Middletown Valley Register
Massachusetts
The Pilot (Kevin O'Brian
New Jersey
Newark Evening News
New York
The Ontario Repository (Canandaigua)
Cazenovia Republican
Corning Journal
The Courier
Dansville Advertiser
Elmira Advertiser & Republican
Herkimer County Journal
The Kingston Democratic Journal
Lowville Journal & Republican
New York Times
New York Tribune
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New York Herald
Poughkeepsie Eagle
Rochester Democrat and American
Rochester Union and Advertiser - The Letters of George Breck
S. L. Republican
Steuben Courier (Bath)
North Carolina
Raleigh North Carolina Standard
Western Democrat (Charlotte, NC)
Ohio
Sanduksy Daily Register
Youngstown Mahoning Register
Pennsylvania
Mauch Chunk Gazette
Philadelphia Inquirer
Martinsburg Herald
Shenandoah Evening Herald
The Montgomery Ledger
The Philadelphia Weekly Press
The Valley Spirit (Chambersburg)
South Carolina
The Newberry Herald and News
Yorkville Enquirer, SC.
Wisconsin
The State Journal Wisconsin
Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph
Misc.
Morningside Notes
North Carolina Mountain Monument News
Periodicals Civil War History
Civil War Times Illustrated
Confederate Veteran
Land We Love
Military Images Magazine
Our Living and Our Dead
Southern Historical Society Papers
Maps Atlas of the Battlefield of Antietam – prepared under the direction of War Department, LC Geography and Map Division
The Battlefield of South Mountains Map: Showing the Positions of the forces under the command of Maj. Gen. A. E.
Burnside, NA, RG77, F91-93
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Public Documents
Adjutant Generals Dept., Michigan in the War. Lansing: W. S. George & Co., 1882.
Manarin, Louis H., Weymouth Jordan, Matthew M. Brown, and Michael W. Coffey, eds., North Carolina Troops
1861-1865: A Roster, Raleigh: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1966-.
State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865.
Hapeville, GA: Longino and Porter, 1959.
U.S. Congress, Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, 3 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1863.
U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Gov’t Printing Office, 1880-1901.
Journals, Articles and Magazines
Alexander, Edward P, "Confederate Artillery Service,” SHSP, v.11, (1883).
A thorough examination of the challenges faced by the Confederate artillery by one of their finest
artillerymen.
Allan, William, “Confederate Artillery at 2nd
Manassas and Sharpsburg,” SHSP, v. 11, (1883).
___________, “The First Maryland Campaign,” SHSP, v. 14, (1886).
Contains much of the same material found in Allan’s book length study of the army in 1862.
Andrews, William H., “Tige Anderson’s Brigade at Sharpsburg,” CV, v. 16, (1908).
Good personal account of the battle by a member of Colonel George “Tige” Anderson’s Georgia brigade.
Avery, Alphonso C., “Life and Character of Lt. General D. H. Hill,” SHSP, v. 21 (1893).
A complimentary article on Hill but with some useful details about his personality.
Balsley, J., “Lee’s Lost Order,” NT, March 26, 1908.
Balsley was a captain in the 27th
Indiana and provides a detailed description of the finding of Lee’s Special
Orders No. 191.
Barnes, Edward L., "The 95th New York," NT, Jan. 6, 1886.
A good description of the 95th
New York’s role in the Battle of South Mountain.
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Bartlett, Joseph J, "Crampton's Pass," NT, December 19, 1889.
Outstanding account of the battle by the commander of the brigade that led the 6th
Corps attack.
Beale, George W., “The Cavalry Fight at Boonsboro Graphically Described,” SHSP, v. 25, (1897).
Descriptive and detailed account of the cavalry engagement on September 15.
Beech, Wm. P., "4th New Jersey at Crampton's Pass," NT, May 8, 1884.
A useful account of the action.
Bell, Thomas, “Longstreet’s Train,” NT, July 3, 1884.
Bell, who served in the 8th
New York Cavalry, describes the breakout from Harpers Ferry of the Union
cavalry and their capture of Longstreet’s ordnance train near Williamsport, Maryland.
Belknap, C. W., “Harper’s Ferry,” NT, July 26, 1894.
Belknap served with the 125th
New York. His account of the Harpers Ferry siege and capture is of marginal
value.
Benning, Henry L., “Notes by General H. L. Benning on the Battle of Sharpsburg,” SHSP, v. 16, (1888).
The colonel of the 17th
Georgia and acting commander of Toombs’s brigade at Sharpsburg. Succinct
account of the brigade’s defense of the lower bridge (Burnside’s Bridge).
Bilby, Joseph, ed., "Give My Love to All," Civil War Times Illustrated, (XXVIII), no. 3. (1989).
Boyer, H. C., "At Crampton's Pass," Philadelphia Weekly Press, August 31, 1889.
Burnham, Uberto, "South Mountain," NT, May 24, 1928.
Burnham served with the 76th
New York. A general account of the battle but with numerous observations
about the 76th
’s role in the battle.
Casey, James B., ed., The Ordeal of Adoniram Judson Warner: His Minutes of South Mountain and Antietam,”
CWH, v. 28, no. 3, (Sept. 1982).
A transcription of Warner’s manuscript at the Western Reserve Historical Society. There are a couple
errors in the transcription, but this is one of the most detailed accounts from anyone in Meade’s division of
Pennsylvania Reserves.
Chisholm, Alexander R., “The Battle of Antietam,” SHSP, v. 31, (1903).
An analysis of the strengths of the opposing armies by a former member of Kemper’s brigade.
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Colgrove, Silas, “The Finding of Lee’s Lost Order.” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas
Yoseloff Inc., 1956, v. 2.
Colgrove was the colonel of the 27th
Indiana. His account provides additional details about the discovery
of Special Orders No. 191 by two soldiers of his regiment.
Conline,John “Recollections of the Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign,” War Papers: Commandery of the
State of Michigan. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co, 1993, v. 2.
Conline was in the 4th
Vermont Infantry. He provides some content about Crampton’s Gap in addition to
Antietam.
Cox, Jacob D., "Forcing Fox's Gap and Turner's Gap." Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas
Yoseloff Inc., 1956, v. 2.
Good, balanced account of the role of Cox and his division in the Battle of South Mountain.
Cummel, A. B., "Reno's Death," NT, August 23, 1883.
Cummings, C. C., “Storming Maryland Heights,” CV, v. 23, (1915).
Short article about Barksdale’s brigade in the battle for Maryland Heights, by a member of the 17th
Mississippi.
Cutts, A. S., “Cutts’ Battalion at Sharpsburg,” SHSP, v. 10, (1882).
An 1882 letter from Cutts describing the composition of his battery in the battle.
William L. DeRosset, "Ripley's Brigade at South Mountain," Century Magazine, (Dec. 1886).
DeRosset was in the 3rd
North Carolina Infantry and explains why Ripley’s brigade marched itself out of the
battle.
Dinkins, James, "Griffith-Barksdale-Humphrey Mississippi Brigade and Its Campaigns," SHSP, v. 32, (1904).
Dodson, R. T., “With Stuart in Maryland in 1862,” PWP, March 8, 1884.
Dodson served with Stuart’s horse artillery.
Douglas, Henry K., "Stonewall Jackson in Maryland." Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas
Yoseloff Inc., 1956.
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Douglas served on Jackson’s staff. His account includes many personal observations and details, although
recent scholarship has revealed that some of Douglas’s contemporaries thought he embellished his account and
questioned his memory.
Dye, John H., "Was Miles a Traitor," NT, Oct. 22, 1891.
A member of the 115th
New York weighs in on the post-war debate over whether Miles was a traitor. He was
not, but the debate ensued for some time in the pages of the Tribune nonetheless.
Elbe, Sigmund, “General Dixon Miles,” NT, March 3, 1892.
Elbe served with the 3rd
U.S. Infantry before the war and relates problems Miles had in the pre-war army
while serving in New Mexico.
Evans, Thomas H., "The Enemy Sullenly Held on to the City," CWTI, (April, 1968).
Detailed recollections of the Maryland Campaign by a lieutenant in the 12th
U.S. Infantry.
Faulk, Phil F., “South Mountain,” PWP, August 12, 1882.
Faulk’s observations of the battle. He served in the 11th
Pennsylvania Infantry, of Hartstuff’s brigade,
which was held in reserve during the battle.
Fout, Fred W., “Miles at Harper’s Ferry,” NT, Sept. 19, 1901.
Fout, a veteran of the 15th
Indiana Battery, provides a detailed but suspect account of Miles performance.
Franklin, William B., “Notes on Crampton’s Gap and Antietam.” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York:
Thomas Yoseloff Inc., 1956.
Franklin’s Century Magazine defense of his performance at Crampton’s Gap.
Goldsborough, C. E., “Blue and Butternut,” NT, Oct. 14, 1886.
Describes the Confederate occupation of Frederick between September 5 and 10.
Goodheart, Briscoe, “Not Justifiable,” NT, July 2, 1891.
Another veteran who thought Miles surrender of Harpers Ferry was a traitorous act.
Gorgas, Josiah, "Confederate Ordnance During the War," SHSP, v. 12, (1884).
An important article by the Confederate chief of ordnance.
Gorman, George, ed. "Memoirs of a Rebel," Military Images, v. 3, (Nov-Dec 1981).
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The memoirs of Captain John C. Gorman, 2nd
North Carolina Infantry. Excellent content on South
Mountain and Antietam.
Grantham, Jr., Dewey W., ed., “Letters of H. G. Hightower, A Confederate Soldier, 1862-1864,” Georgia Historical
Quarterly, v. 40 (1956), 176-179.
Hightower served in the 20th
Georgia of Toombs brigade.
Grattan, George D., “The Battle of Boonsboro Gap,” SHSP, XXXIX, (1914).
Grattan was an aide to Colonel Alfred Colquitt. His account supplies important details about the
Confederate defense of Turner’s Gap, and corrects errors in D. H. Hill’s Battles and Leaders article about the battle.
Hanger, J. E., “Echoes of the War: General Reno’s Death,” NT, August 23, 1883.
Henderson, Vernon F., “Diary of a Pennsylvania Reserve,” NT, August 29, 1901.
Henderson’s 1862 diary.
Heysinger, Isaac, “The Cavalry Column From Harper’s Ferry In The Antietam Campaign,” Morningside Notes,
Dayton, OH: Morningside House, 1987.
A detailed account of the Union cavalry’s escape from Harpers Ferry by a member of the 7th
Rhode Island
Squadron.
Hill, D. H., “Lee Attacks North of the Chickahominy.” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas
Yoseloff Inc., 2, 1956.
_______, “The Lost Dispatch – Letter from General D. H. Hill,” SHSP, XIII, (1885).
_______, “The Battle of South Mountain.” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas Yoseloff
Inc., 2, 1956.
Hill was blunt and unafraid to criticize Confederate operations, but his memory is not always trustworthy.
Hooker, Joseph, “Hooker on McClellan,” NT, Nov. 14, 1907.
A July 7, 1862 letter from Hooker to Hon. J. W. Nesmith about McClellan.
Howard, Oliver O., “General Howard’s Personal Reminiscences,” NT, March 6, 13, 20, 27, April 10, 1884.
A useful and detailed, but rarely consulted account by Howard. Many personal observations.
Hunter, Alexander, "A High Private's Sketch of Sharpsburg," SHSP, X, XI, (1882).
A colorful account of the battle by a private in the 17th
Virginia Infantry.
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Irwin, Richard B., “Washington Under Banks.” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas Yoseloff
Inc., 2, 1956.
Irwin was a staff officer. He describes in considerable detail the events of McClellan’s return to command
and the forces that were left to garrison Washington when the field army moved against Lee.
Johnson, Bradley T., “First Maryland Campaign,” SHSP, XII, (1884).
Johnson commanded a brigade in Jackson’s wing. Some valuable details about the campaign.
_______________ & Henry K. Douglas, “Stonewall Jackson’s Intentions at Harper’s Ferry,” Battles and Leaders of
the Civil War. New York: Thomas Yoseloff Inc., v. 2, 1956.
A critique of John G. Walker’s B&L article about the siege and capture of Harpers Ferry. Johnson and
Douglas challenged Walker’s memory on several points.
Key, J. C., “Ripley’s-Doles Brigade at Sharpsburg, Sept. 62,” Atlanta Journal, August 24, 1901.
Key was in the 4th
Georgia Infantry.
Kilmer, George L., "McClellan's Reserves," Philadelphia Weekly Press, July 29, 1882.
Laird, Milton, “At the Dunker Church,” NT, Aug. 5, 1909.
__________, “More About Lieut. Petrikin,” NT, Oct. 21, 1891.
Laird served in the 5th
Pennsylvania Reserves. His two articles discuss the events on the night of
September 16 that led to the mortal wounding of Lieutenant Petrikin of his regiment.
Little, Henry, "Reno's Death another Account,” NT, August 2, 1883.
Little was a member of Reno’s personal escort.
Longstreet, James, “The Invasion of Maryland.” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas Yoseloff
Inc., v. 2, 1956.
McCallister, Thomas, “The Capture of Longstreet’s Ammunition Train,” National Tribune, June 12, 1884.
McCallister was in the 8th
New York Cavalry and participated in the escape of the Union cavalry from
Harpers Ferry.
McCoy, T. F., “The 107th Pennsylvania at South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg,” PWP, Jan. 4, 1888.
McLaws, Lafayette, “The Capture of Harper’s Ferry,” Philadelphia Weekly Press, Sept. 5, Sept. 12, Sept. 19, 1888.
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The best Confederate account of the Harpers Ferry operation. Also contains a detailed account of
McLaws march to Sharpsburg and the Battle of Antietam.
Nichols, 3d, William H., “Harper’s Ferry,” NT, June 25, 1891.
Nichols served in the 7th
Rhode Island Cavalry Squadron and participated in the cavalry escape from Harpers
Ferry.
_______________, “Was Miles a Traitor,” NT, Dec. 24, 1891.
Another in the series of Tribune articles from Union veterans arguing whether Miles was a traitor or not.
Owen, Henry T., “South Mountain,” PWP, July 31, 1880.
Owen was an officer in the 8th
Virginia of Garnett’s brigade, andhad a talent for writing. His description of
the action on Hill 1280 against Hatch’s 1st Corps division is among the best Confederate accounts.
Park, Robert E., “Diary of Capt. Robert E. Park, Twelfth Alabama Regiment,” SHSP, v. 1, (June 1876).
Excellent account of the fighting at South Mountain between Rodes’s brigade and Meade’s Pennsylvania
Reserves.
Priest, John, ed., “Tired Soldiers Don’t go Very Fast,” CWTI, v. 30, no. 6 (Jan-Feb. 1992).
Excellent account of Antietam by a soldier in the 35th
Massachusetts.
Richards, E. V., “A Pennsylvania Soldier’s Opinion,” NT , August 23, 1883
A veteran of the 51st Pennsylvania on Reno’s mortal wounding at Fox’s Gap.
Robbins, William M., “What Became of Lieut. Petrikin’s Watch?” NT, July 16, 1891.
As a captain in the 4th
Alabama Infantry, Robbins commanded the detail that mortally wounded
Lieutenant Petrikin. After the war Robbins sought to make contact with the lieutenant’s family through the
National Tribune. He succeeded and managed to return Petrikin’s personal effects to his sister.
Russell, Z. B., "As a Boy in the Ranks Saw It," Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, August 24, 1895.
Sanderson, W. H., "Harper’s Ferry and Its Surrender," NT, Sept. 28, Oct. 5, 1893.
Recollections of the siege and capture of Harpers Ferry by a member of the 9th
Vermont Infantry.
Scorsby, W. H., “Surrender of Harper’s Ferry,” NT, Aug. 21, 1884.
Shaw, Joseph, "Crampton's Gap," NT, Oct. 1, 1891.
Good personal account of the battle by a member of the 95th Pennsylvania.
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Smith, Sol R., “South Mountain,” NT, Jan. 17, 1895.
Stewart, James, "Short Stories," Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, Jan. 26, 1895.
Brief account of Antietam by Lt. James Stewart of Battery B, 4th
U.S. Artillery.
Sullivan, J. P., "A Private's Story,” Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph, May 13, 1888.
Sullivan served with the 6th
Wisconsin and was wounded at South Mountain.
Thompson, David, "In the Ranks to the Antietam." Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas
Yoseloff Inc., 1956, v. 2.
______________, “With Burnside to Antietam,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas
Yoseloff Inc., 1956, v. 2.
Thompson served in the 9th
New York Infantry. He was a gifted writer with an eye for detail. His
description of the charge of the 9th
New York at Antietam is unforgettable.
Turner, Vines E. and Wall, H. Clay, “23rd
NCT at South Mountain,” no date, N.C. South Mountain News, Summer
2001.
Vernon, George W., “Harper’s Ferry,” NT, March 30, 1893.
Walker, John G., “Jackson’s Capture of Harper’s Ferry.” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas
Yoseloff Inc., v. 2, 1956.
Walker should be used with caution. He embellished his role in the campaign and got many details wrong.
Washburn, Charles E., “Was Miles a Traitor,” NT, Dec. 31, 1891.
West, Robert, "Reno's Death," NT, August 2, 1883.
West was a bugler in the 51st New York and was an eyewitness to General Reno’s mortal wounding at South
Mountain.
Williams, John E., “General Miles Character,” NT, Dec. 12, 1891.
Williams, John T., “Harper’s Ferry, NT, July 30, 1891.
_____________, “Was Miles a Traitor,” NT, Sept. 24, 1891.
Wood, A. H., "How Reno Fell," NT, July 26, 1883.
Wood served on Reno’s staff and was carrying an order to the left end of the 9th
Corps line when Reno
was mortally wounded. What he learned when he returned was from others, not personal observation. He is the
source that has been used to claim that Reno was mortally wounded by his own men, which was refuted by other
veterans who wrote into the Tribune about Reno’s wounding.
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White, Julius, “The Capitulation of Harper’s Ferry.” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas
Yoseloff Inc., 1956.
White explains his role in the siege and capture of Harpers Ferry.
York, R. W., "General Hood's Release From Arrest," Our Living and Our Dead, (June, 1875).
A rare account about Lee’s release of Hood from arrest during the Battle of South Mountain.
Published Primary Sources
Union
Acken, Gregory, ed., Inside the Army of the Potomac. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1998.
The wartime letters of Captain Francis Donaldson, 118th
Pennsylvania Infantry. One of the finest
collections of letters from the Army of the Potomac.
Adams, John G. B., Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1899.
Agassiz, George R., ed., Meade’s Headquarters 1863-1865, Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman From the
Wilderness to Appomattox. (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922.
Lyman served on the headquarters staff of General George G. Meade from shortly after Gettysburg to the
end of the war. A trained observer, Lyman’s journal is an invaluable source on the army’s high command.
Albert, Allen D., ed., History of the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry. Williamsport, PA: Grit
Publishing Co., 1912.
A better than average regimental history with excellent content on South Mountain.
Banes, Charles H., History of the Philadelphia Brigade. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1876.
Banes was a staff officer in the brigade. The history lacks personal content and color.
Barnes, Joseph K., The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot
Publishing, 1990-1991, 12 vols.
The starting point for any serious research on the medical and surgical aspects of the war. Indispensible.
Bates, Samuel, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1993.
Contains the rosters of every Pennsylvania infantry, cavalry and artillery regiment and battery, plus a brief
history composed by a veteran of the unit.
___________, Martial Deeds of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: T. H. Davis & Co., 1876.
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Beach, William H., The First New York (Lincoln) Cavalry. Lincoln Cavalry Assoc.: New York, 1902.
Beach was the regimental adjutant. Contains a detailed record of the regiment’s Maryland Campaign
operations.
Benedict, G. G., Vermont in the Civil War. 2 vols., Burlington, VT: Free Press Assoc., 1886-1888.
There is a good account of the Vermont brigade at Crampton’s Gap in volume 1.
Best, Isaac O., History of the 121st New York State Infantry. Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1996.
One of the new regiments that joined the Army of the Potomac in September 1862. They were held in
reserve at Crampton’s Gap due to their inexperience. A good overall regimental history.
Bicknell, George W., History of the 5th Maine Volunteers. Portland: Hall L. Davis, 1871.
Blakeslee, B. F., History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers. Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.,
1875.
Being based on the author’s diary it is more of a personal narrative than a regimental history. This was
another of the new regiments. It was very roughly handled by Gregg’s South Carolina brigade at Antietam.
Bobyshell, Oliver C., The Forty-eighth in the War: Being a Narrative of the Campaigns of the 48th Regiment Infantry
Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers During the War of the Rebellion. Phila.: Avil Printing co., 1895.
Brown, Edward R., The Twenty Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion. Monticello, IN: n.p.,
1899.
Excellent regimental history. Good content on the campaign and excellent description of the 27th
’s
combat at Antietam.
Brown, Ida C., Michigan in the Civil War. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1966. 2 vols.
Some content on the 17th
Michigan at South Mountain and Antietam.
Brown, Joseph W., The Signal Corps U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion. Boston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Assoc.,
1896.
There is not a great deal written about the U.S. Signal Corps in the war. While the Maryland Campaign
section of this volume is not particularly detailed it is an invaluable resource on Signal Corps operations during the
war.
Bruce, George A., The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers Infantry. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906.
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Byrne, Frank L. & Weaver, Andrew T., eds., Haskell of Gettysburg: His Life and Civil War Papers. Madison: State
Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1970.
Haskell was aide to John Gibbon, commander of what became known as the Iron Brigade. He became
famous for his magnificent and detailed account of Gettysburg, but his letters are superb and include a fine
description of South Mountain.
Child, William, A History of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers in the American Civil War, 1861-1865.
Gaithersburg, MD: R. W. Musgrove, 1988.
Solid regimental history by the regimental surgeon. Good content on skirmish at Boonsboro, September
15 and 16 at Antietam and the regiment’s part in the battle on the 17th
.
Child, William, Letters From a Civil War Surgeon: The Letters of Dr. William Child of the Fifth New Hampshire
Volunteers. Solon, ME: Polar Bear & Co., 2001.
The wartime letters of the 5th
New Hampshire’s regimental historian and surgeon.
Coco, Gregory A., ed., Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charley Mills. Gettysburg, PA:
Privately printed, 1982.
Mills was a lieutenant in the 2nd
Massachusetts and was badly wounded at Antietam. Well educated and
observant, his letters for the Maryland Campaign are excellent. This can be a difficult book to find however, due to
its small print run.
________________, From Ball’s Bluff to Gettysburg and Beyond: The Civil War Letters of Private Roland E. Bowen,
15th
Massachusetts Infantry 1861-1864. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1994.
An outstanding collections of letters. Bowen’s letters on Antietam are unforgettable.
Conyngham, David P., The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns. Boston: P. Donhoe, 1869.
Mediocre account of the brigade’s action at Antietam.
Cook, Benjamin F., History of the Twelfth Massachusetts Volunteers (Webster Regiment). Boston: Twelfth
(Webster) Regiment Association, 1882.
The 12th
sustained the highest numerical regimental loss at Antietam. Cook relied upon diaries of various
members of the regiment, but the content on Antietam is disappointingly thin.
Cox, Jacob D., Military Reminiscences of the Civil War. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900.
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One of the more important accounts of the Maryland Campaign. Cox covers the campaign, South
Mountain, Antietam and the conflict between Burnside and McClellan in great detail.
Crater, Lewis, History of the Fiftieth Regiment Penna. Vet. Vols. Reading, PA: Coleman Printing House, 1884.
Crowinshield, Benjamin W., A History of the 1st Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers. Boston and New
York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1891.
Good detail on the regiment’s participation in the Maryland Campaign.
______________________, "Cavalry in Virginia During the War of the Rebellion." Military Historical Society of
Massachusetts. Papers Read Before the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts. Society: Boston,
1913), (XIII).
Cuffel, Charles A., Durell's Battery in the Civil War. Phila.: Craig, Finley & co., 1900.
Good content on Antietam. Of particular note are the excellent drawings of the battery at Antietam that
were commissioned for the history.
Cunningham,David, ed., Report of the Ohio Antietam Battlefield Commission. Springfield, OH: Springfield
Publishing Co., 1904.
Some fine content on Antietam.
Curtis, Newton Martin, From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: The Story of the Sixteenth New York Infantry Together
with Personal Reminiscences. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1906.
Curtis served with the ambulance corps in the 6th
Corps during the campaign and provides a memorable
account of the aftermath at Crampton’s Gap.
Davis, Charles E., Jr., Three Years in the Army: The Story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers from July 16,
1861 to August 1, 1864. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1894.
A quality regimental that provides good detail on the 13th
’s combat experience in Miller’s cornfield.
Davis, George B., “The Antietam Campaign.” Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Campaigns in Virginia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania, 1862-1863. Boston: Griffiths-Stillings Press, 1903.
Dawes, Rufus, Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers. Dayton, OH: Morningside Bookshop, 1984.
One of the finest unit histories/personal accounts to come out of the war.
Duncan, Russell, ed., Blue Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Athens &
London: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1992.
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Includes a superb letter by Shaw on Antietam, where he was an officer in the 2nd
Massachusetts Infantry.
Ellis, Thomas T., Leaves From the Diary of an Army Surgeon. New York; J. Bradburn, 1863.
Although Ellis did not accompany the army into Maryland his volume is filled with many valuable and
interesting details about medical operations in the Army of the Potomac through 2nd
Manassas.
Emerson, Edward W., ed., Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1971.
Lowell served in the 6th
U.S. Cavalry. He had many friends in the volunteer regiments from Massachusetts
whom he refers to frequently in his wartime letters. Quite sympathetic to McClellan. One letter pertaining directly to
Antietam.
Fairchild, Charles B., compiler, History of the Twenty Seventh Regiment N.Y. Vols. Binghamton: Carl and Matthews,
1888.
Primarily based on Fairchild’s detailed wartime diary.
Favill, Josiah M., The Diary of a Young Officer. Chicago: R. R. Donnelly & Sons Co., 1909.
Superb reminiscence by an officer in the 57th
New York.
Ford, Andrew E., The Story of the Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-1864.
Clinton: W. J. Coulter, 1898.
An average regimental history although it is useful for the 15th
’s Antietam experience.
Ford, Worthington C., ed., A Cycle of Adams Letters 1861-1865. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1969.
Includes the letters of Harvard graduate Charles Francis Adams, Jr., who served with the 1st
Massachusetts.
Good content on the regiment’s role in the Maryland Campaign.
Foster, John Y., New Jersey and the Rebellion. Newark: M. R. Dennis, 1868.
Fox, Wm. F., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War. Dayton: Morningside Bookshop, 1985.
The standard statistical work on Union regimental losses during the war.
Freeman, Warren H., Letters from Two Brothers Serving in the Civil War. Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1871.
Warren Freeman served in the 13th Massachusetts and participated in the Battle of Antietam. His wartime
“letters” were clearly edited and enhanced by Freeman after the war but they nevertheless contain much valuable
content.
Fuller, Charles A., Personal Recollections of the War of 1861. Sherburne, NY: News Job Printing House, 1906.
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Excellent reminiscence by an officer of the 61st
New York. Particularly poignant, honest account of the
regiment’s fight at the Bloody Lane at Antietam.
Gibbon, John, Personal Recollections of the Civil War. New York & London: G. P. Putnam, 1928.
Gibbon commanded an all western brigade composed of three Wisconsin and one Indiana regiment.
Their performance, under his command, in the Maryland Campaign earned them the name of the Iron Brigade.
Gibbon provides good detail on the campaign and battles of South Mountain and Antietam.
Goddard, Henry P., Fourteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. Middletown: C. W. Church, 1877.
Gordon, George H., History of the 2nd
Massachusetts regiment in the War of the Great Rebellion. Boston: Alfred
Mudge and Son, 1885.
Gordon commanded the brigade the 2nd
was attached to at Antietam. Solid regimental history.
Gould, Joseph, The Story of the Forty-Eighth: A Record of the Campaigns of the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Veteran
Volunteer Infantry. Phila.: Alfred M. Slocum, co., 1908.
Graham, Matthew J., The Ninth Regiment New York Volunteers. New York, E. P. Coby & Co., 1900.
Excellent regimental history. Detailed account of the regiment’s experience at Antietam.
Green, Robert M., History of the One Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of
the Rebellion, (Phila.: Ware Bros., 1907.
Another one of the new regiments that had virtually no drill or training before their first combat
experience at Antietam. Detailed account of the regiment at Antietam and includes reminiscences by numerous
veterans of the regiments.
Gould, John M., History of the First-Tenth-Twenty Ninth Main Regiment. Portland: Stephen Berry, 1871.
Gould was the 10th
Maine’s adjutant in the Maryland Campaign. He was a keen observer and fine writer.
Hall, Henry S., “Experiences in the Peninsula and Antietam Campaigns.” Commandery of the State of Kansas, War
Talks in Kansas: Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing, 1906.
Hall, Hillman, History of the Sixth New York Cavalry. Worcester, MA: Blanchard Press, 1908.
Hall, Isaac, History of the Ninety-Seventh Regiment New York Volunteers in the War for the Union. Utica: L. C.
Childs, 1890.
Hard, Abner, History of the Eighth Cavalry Regiment Illinois Volunteers. Aurora, IL: Privately Published, 1868.
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Somewhat disappointing regimental history for a regiment that was one of the finest cavalry units in the
army. One of the history’s best sections however, is its coverage of the Maryland Campaign, particularly the
engagement at Boonsboro.
Hill, A. F., Our Boys: The Personal Experiences of a Soldier in the Army of the Potomac. Philadelphia, John E. Potter,
1865.
Hill served in the Pennsylvania Reserves division and fought at South Mountain and Antietam. There is a
great deal of dialogue in this volume and it is of limited value.
Hitchcock, Frederick, War From the Inside. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1904.
Hitchcock was the adjutant of the 132nd
Pennsylvania. His account of the regiment’s experience in the
Maryland Campaign is one of the better accounts ever published. Hitchcock had an eye for details and skill with a
pen.
Holden, Walter, Ross, Wm. E., Slomba, Elizabeth, eds., Stand Firm and Fire Low: The Civil War Writings of
Colonel Edward E. Cross. Hanover & London: Univ. of New Hampshire, 2003.
Cross was the colonel of the 5th
New Hampshire Infantry, which led the pursuit of the army from South
Mountain to Antietam, and stormed the Sunken Lane on September 17. Cross was an outstanding combat
commander and his letters are filled with interesting observations and details. He was mortally wounded at
Gettysburg on July 2.
Horton, Joshua H., comp., A History of the Eleventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Dayton, OH: W. J. Shuey,
1866.
A thin, and early, regimental history.
Hough, Franklin B., History of Duryea’s Brigade During the Campaign in Virginia Under Gen. Pope and in
Maryland Under Gen. McClellan in the Summer and Autumn of 1862. Albany: J. Munsell, 1864.
Superficial treatment of South Mountain and Antietam.
Hussey, George A., History of the Ninth Regiment, N.Y.S.M. – N.G.S.N.Y. New York: Veterans of the Regiment,
1889.
The history of the 83rd
New York, one of the New York National Guard regiments.
Jaques, John W., Three Years’ Campaigns of the Ninth N.Y.S.M. During the Rebellion. New York: Hilton & co.,
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1865.
Essentially Jaques edited wartime diary while serving with the 83rd
New York Infantry.
Johnson, Charles F., The Long Roll. Aurora, NY: Roycroftens, 1911.
Johnson’s detailed reminiscences of service with the 9th
New York Infantry. Fine section on Antietam.
Jordan Jr., William B., The Civil War Journals of John Mead Gould 1861-1866. Baltimore: Butternut and Blue,
1997.
Gould was adjutant of the 10th
Maine. His journal provides excellent content on the campaign and the
Battle of Antietam. After the war Gould carried on an extensive correspondence with Union and Confederate
veterans about the fighting in the East Woods. This correspondence is in the Gould collection at Dartmouth
College.
King, W. C. and Derby, W. P., Camp-Fire Sketches and Battlefield Echoes of 61 – 65. Boston: Lindsay & Co., 1886.
Various vignettes of the war from Union veterans. Includes some Maryland Campaign/Antietam material.
Lane, David, A Soldier's Diary: The Story of a Volunteer. Jackson, MI: n.p., 1905.
Lane served in the 17th
Michigan Infantry and was present at South Mountain and Antietam. Not a great deal
of detail.
Letterman, Jonathan, Medical Recollections of the Army of the Potomac. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866.
The memoirs of McClellan’s brilliant Medical Director.
Livingston, Allen, E., Both Sides of Army Life: The Grave and Gray. (Poughkeepsie, NY: J. S. Schepmoes, 1885).
Reminiscences of a 13th
New Jersey veteran.
Lord, Edward O., History of the Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion. Concord: Republican
Press Assoc., 1895.
A fine regimental history with many reminiscences of veterans about South Mountain and Antietam.
Luff, William H., “March of the Cavalry from Harper’s Ferry, September 14, 1862,” in, Military Essays and
Recollections: Papers Read Before the Commandery of the State of Illinois, (Chicago: A. C. McClurg,
1891), v. I.
Luff served in the 12th
Illinois Cavalry and participated in the breakout of the cavalry from Harpers Ferry.
McClellan, George B., McClellan’s Own Story. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1887.
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A standard source for any study of the Maryland Campaign.
McClenthen, Charles S., A Sketch of the Campaign in Virginia and Maryland From Cedar Mountain to Antietam.
Syracuse: Masters & Lee, 1862.
Good account of the Maryland Campaign by a member of the 26th
New York Infantry.
Martin, Newton Curtis, From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: The Story of the 16th New York Infantry. New York: G. P.
Putnam, 1906.
The Maryland Campaign section focuses principally on Crampton’s Gap and the author’s work there with the
ambulance corps.
Maxon, William, Campfires of the Twenty-Third: Sketches of Camp Life, Marches, and Battles of the Twenty-Third
N.Y.V. New York: Davies and Kent, 1863.
Rare history of one of the two-year New York regiments. Fairly thin on content.
Meade, George G., Life and Letters of George G. Meade. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1913.
Although Meade’s letters were edited they are nevertheless an invaluable record of the war from one of
its most important officers. Because of the demands of the campaign, Meade correspondence during the
Maryland Campaign is relatively brief.
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts. Papers Read Before the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts.
Boston: Various publishers, 1881-1918.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Military Essays and Recollections: Papers Read Before the
Commandery of the State of Illinois. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1891.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States , War Papers: Commandery of the State of Michigan.
Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co, 1993.
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion: New York
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1992.
Mills, John Harrison, Chronicles of the Twenty-first Regiment New York State Volunteers. Buffalo: Regimental Assoc.,
1887.
A fine regimental history with excellent content on South Mountain and Antietam.
Morse, Charles F., “From Second Bull Run to Antietam.” Commandery of the State of Missouri, Papers and
Personal Reminiscences, 1861-1865. St. Louis: Becktold & Co., 1892.
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Morse served with the 2nd
Massachusetts Infantry.
Murphy, Thomas G., Four Years in the War: The History of the First Regiment of Delaware Veteran Volunteers.
Philadelphia: James S. Claxton, 1866.
New York State, New York at Gettysburg: Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg. Albany: J. B. Lyon
Printers, 3 volumes, 1902.
Some of the regiment’s that dedicated monuments at Gettysburg included a history of their regiment in
the war. Occasionally, these were quite detailed and there are several regiments that provide details about
Antietam.
Nevins, Allan, ed., A Diary of Battle: The Personal Journals of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright. Gettysburg, PA
Stan Clark Military Books, 1962 reprint.
One of the best diaries to come out of the war. Wainwright missed the Maryland Campaign but rejoined
the army immediately after Antietam. His entries are filled with information about the army and his observations
of various leaders.
Newcomer, C. Armour, Cole’s Cavalry: or Three Years in the Saddle in the Shenandoah Valley. Baltimore:
Cushing, 1895.
Thin volume, of little value for the operations at Harpers Ferry.
Nichols, William H., “Siege and Capture of Harper's Ferry,” Personal Narratives of Events in the War of the
Rebellion, Being Papers Read Before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. Wilmington,
NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1993.
Nicholas served in the 7th
Rhode Island Squadron and escaped with the rest of the Union cavalry in Harpers
Ferry on September 14.
No Author, Historical Sketch of Co. “D.” New York: D. H. Gildersleeve, 1875.
A refreshingly honest memoir by a member of the 13th
New Jersey.
Noyes, George F., The Bivouac and Battlefield. New York: Harper & Bros., 1864.
Noyes was the commissary officer for Doubleday’s brigade of Hatch’s division. He account of the Battle of
South Mountain is one of the best personal Union accounts of the action.
Otis, George H., The Second Wisconsin Infantry. Dayton: Morningside Bookshop, 1984.
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Page, Charles D., History of the Fourteenth Connecticut Vol. Infantry. Gaithersburg, MD: R. Van Sickle Military
Books, 1987.
A solid regimental history. The 14th
was one of the new untrained regiments and received a brutal
exposure to war in the attack on the Sunken Lane at Antietam.
Parker, Thomas H., History of the Fifty-First P.V. and V.V. Phila.: King & Baird, 1889.
Good, detailed accounts of the regiment’s experience at South Mountain and in the storming of the
Rohrbach (Burnside’s) Bridge at Antietam.
Pettengill, Samuel B., The College Cavaliers. Chicago: H. McAllister & Co., 1883.
History of the 7th
Rhode Island Cavalry Squadron, which participated in the breakout of Union cavalry
from Harpers Ferry.
Phisterer, Frederick, New York in the War of the Rebellion. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1890. 5 vols.
An immensely valuable reference. Includes brief military service records of every New York officer, casualties
by battle of every New York unit, a short narrative of each unit’s service and details about where they were raised.
Pickerill, W. N., ed., Indiana at Antietam: Report of the Indiana Antietam Monument Commission. Indianapolis: The
Aetna Press, 1911.
Porter, Fitz John, “Hanover Court House and Gaines’s Mill,” Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York:
Thomas Yoseloff Inc., v. 2, 1956.
Powell, William H., The Fifth Army Corps: A Record of Operations During the Civil War in the United States of
America. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1896.
This is one of the better Union army corps histories.
Priest, John Michael, ed., Captain James Wren’s Diary: From New Bern to Fredericksburg. Shippensburg, PA: White
Main Publishing, 1990.
A captain in the 48th
Pennsylvania Infantry. Wren could not spell well but his diary is a full, detailed one and
descriptive of both South Mountain and Antietam.
________________, ed., One Surgeon’s Private War: Doctor William W. Potter of the 57th
New York. Shippensburg,
PA: White Mane Publishing, 1999.
Quaife, Milo, ed., From the Cannon’s Mouth: The Civil War Letters of General Alpheus Williams. Detroit: Wayne
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State Univ. Press, 1959.
An outstanding collection of letters from a unsung, but superb soldier. Williams commanded the 12th
Corps at Antietam after the mortal wounding of General Mansfield.
Raab, Steven S., ed., With the Third Wisconsin Badgers: The Living Experience of the Civil War through the Journal of
Van R. Willard. Harrisburg: Stackpole, 2000.
Racine, J. Polk, Recollections of a Veteran or Four Years in Dixie. Elkton: Appeal Printing Office, 1894.
Racine served in the 5th
Maryland Infantry.
Regimental Association, History of the Thirty-Fifth Massachusetts. Boston: Mills, Knight and co., 1884.
Regimental Committee, History of the Thirty-Fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865. Boston: Mills,
Knight, and Co., 1884.
Good, descriptive account of the regiment’s participation in the campaign, which was their first as
soldiers, and in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam.
Regimental History Committee, History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry. Phila.: Franklin Printing Co., 1905.
A massive regimental history. Perhaps one of the most detailed for any cavalry regiment in the war.
Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Society, Personal Narratives of Events in the War of the Rebellion, Being Papers
Read Before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing,
1993.
Ripley, Edward H., “Memories of Ninth Vermont at Harper’s Ferry,” Personal Recollections of the War of the
Rebellion: New York Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot
Publishing, 1992.
Good account by a Union soldier on the Bolivar Heights line.
Rourke, Norman E., ed., I Saw the Elephant. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1995.
Samito, Christian G., ed., “Fear Was Not in Him;” The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis C. Barlow.
New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 2004.
Another superb collection of letters by one of the great combat leaders of the Union army. Barlow can be
unsentimental and unforgiving in his observations and opinions but he is also honest and eschews exaggeration.
Sauers, Richard A., ed., The Civil War Journals of Colonel William J. Bolton. Conshohocken, PA: Combined
Publishing, 2000.
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Bolton was a company commander during the Maryland Campaign.
Scott, Robert Garth, ed., Forgotten Valor: The Memoirs, Journals & Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Willcox. Kent,
OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 1999.
A fine collection from an unsung 9th
Corps division commander.
Sears, Stephen W., ed., Mr. Dunn Browne’s Experiences in the Army: The Civil War Letters of Samuel W. Fiske.
New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 1998.
An excellent collection of letters by a soldier in the 14th
Connecticut, which had their baptism of fire at
Antietam.
Sedgwick, Henry D., compiler., Correspondence of John Sedgwick, Major General. New York: Devinnie Press, 1902.
2 vols.
Very rare. Includes Sedgwick’s limited but interesting letters written immediately before and during the
Maryland Campaign.
Seville, William P., History of the First Regiment Delaware Volunteers. Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware,
1884.
Simons, Ezra D., A Regimental History: The One Hundred and Twenty Fifth New York Volunteers. New York: Ezra D.
Simons, 1888.
An average regimental history.
Small, Abner R., The Sixteenth Maine in the War of the Rebellion. Portland, ME: Hall L. Davis, 1871.
The 16th
was assigned to the 1st
Corps, but being utterly raw and untrained, straggled badly in the early
stages of the campaign and was left behind. Small offers a memorable portrait of the painful process the many
green regiments assigned to the army experienced in the campaign.
Smith, Abram P., History of the Seventh Sixth Regiment New York Volunteers. Cortland: Truain, Smith & Miles,
Printers, 1876.
Not a particularly distinguished regimental, but there is some useful content on South Mountain.
Smith, Robert G., A Brief Account of the Services Rendered by the Second Delaware Volunteers in the War of the
Rebellion. Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1909.
Of marginal value.
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Sparks, David S., ed., Marsena Patrick, Inside Lincoln’s Army. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1964.
The diary of Marsena Patrick, a brigade commander in Doubleday’s division at South Mountain and Antietam,
and later the provost marshal of the Army of the Potomac. Excellent content on the campaign, South Mountain and
Antietam.
Stearns, Austin, Three Years in Company K. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1976.
One of the best memoirs of the war by a private soldier. Stearns served in the 13th
Massachusetts. Good
description of Antietam.
Strother, David, “Personal Recollections of the War,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, v. 36, (Feb. 1868).
Strother served on McClellan’s staff throughout the Maryland Campaign. His observations of McClellan
and the campaign are invaluable.
Styple, William B., ed., Death Before Dishonor: The Andersonville Diary of Eugene Forbes, 4th New Jersey. Kearny,
NJ: Belle Grove Publishing, 1995.
Includes an excellent letter about Crampton’s Gap.
______________, ed., Letters From the Peninsula: The Civil War Letters of General Philip Kearny (Kearny, NJ:
Belle Grove Publishing, 1988.
Although Kearny was killed at Chantilly, just before the Maryland Campaign, his letters are filled with
sharp, critical, observations of fellow officers and the army’s senior commanders.
Sypher, Josiah R., History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. Lancaster: Elias Barr, 1865.
Thomas, Mary W. and Sauers, Richard A., eds., The Civil War Letters of First Lieutenant James B. Thomas. Baltimore:
Butternut and Blue, 1995.
Thomas was the adjutant of the 107th
Pennsylvania. A fine collection of letters.
Thompson, O. R. Howard & Rauch, William R., History of the Bucktails. Philadelphia: Electric Printing Co., 1906.
Tobie, Edward P., History of the First Maine Cavalry. Boston: Emery and Hughes, 1887.
Good regimental history although the regiment played a minor role in the Maryland Campaign after being
detached to Frederick.
Todd, William, The Seventh Ninth Highlanders New York Volunteers in the War of Rebellion. Albany: Press of
Brandow, Barton & Co., 1886.
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Trowbridge, J. T., A Picture of the Desolated States and the Word of Restoration. Hartford, 1868.
Trowbridge toured the South after the war and reported on its condition and the progress of reconstruction.
He stopped to tour the Antietam battlefield and left a memorable account of his visit.
Vail, Enos B., Reminiscences of a Boy in the Civil War. Privately Printed, 1915.
Vanderslice, Catherine, ed., Civil War Letters of George Washington Beidelman. New York: Vantage Press, 1978.
Waite, Ernest L., compiler, History of the Nineteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865. Salem:
Salem Press Co., 1906.
Good content on the debacle of Sedgwick’s division in the West Woods at Antietam.
Waite, Otis F. R., New Hampshire in the Great Rebellion. Clairmont, NH: Tracy, Chase & co., 1870.
Walcott, Charles F., History of the Twenty-First Massachusetts in the War for the Preservation of the Union. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1882.
Walker, Francis A., History of the Second Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac. Gaithersburg, MD: Butternut
Press, 1985.
Walker was a staff officer in the corps during the Maryland Campaign and provides some interesting and
valuable details.
Ward, J. E. D., The Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Ripley, OH: n.p., 1864.
Rare, and thin, regimental history. Limited content on South Mountain and Antietam.
Ward, Joseph R. C., History of the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Phila.: McManus,
1906.
Washburn, George H., A Complete Military History and Record of the 108th N.Y. Volunteers from 1862 to 1864.
Rochester, NY: E. R. Andrews, 1894.
Richly detailed history with recollections from many veterans. Excellent content on Antietam, which was
the regiment’s first battle.
Welles, Gideon, Diary of Gideon Welles. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1909, v. 1.
One of the standard sources for details about Lincoln’s cabinet from his Secretary of the Navy.
Williams, Charles R., ed., Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes. Columbus, OH: Ohio Archaeological and
Historical Society, 1922-1926.
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Excellent content on the campaign up to South Mountain and on the engagement between Hayes’s
regiment (23rd
Ohio) and Garland’s brigade at Fox’s Gap.
Whitehouse, Hugh L., ed., Letters from the Iron Brigade: George Washington Partridge, Jr. Indianapolis: Guild Press
of Indiana, 1994.
Partridge served in the 7th
Wisconsin.
Willson, Arabella M., Disaster, Struggle, Triumph: The Adventures of One Thousand Boys and Blue. Albany, NY:
Argus Co. Printers, 1870.
The history of the 126th
New York Infantry, the regiment unjustly singled out for poor behavior at Harpers
Ferry by the Harpers Ferry Commission. There is a great deal of detail about Harpers Ferry but Willson sought to
vindicate the regiment’s performance not write an objective history.
Woodward, Evan M., Our Campaigns. Phila.: J. E. Potter, 1865.
The personal recollections of a member of the 3rd
Pennsylvania Reserves.
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Confederate
Alexander, Edward P., Military Memoirs of a Confederate. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907.
Perhaps the most honest, critical memoir of the war by a Confederate officer.
Allan, William, The Army of Northern Virginia in 1862. Dayton: Press of the Morningside Bookshop, 1984.
A balanced study of the army’s 1862 campaigns by Stonewall Jackson’s former ordnance officer.
Andrews, William H., Footprints of a Regiment: A Recollection of the 1st Georgia Regulars. Atlanta: Longstreet Press,
1992.
Andrews served in G. T. Anderson’s brigade.
Bartlett, Napier, A Soldier's Story of the War. New Orleans, 1874.
By a member of the Washington Artillery. Good description of the fighting at Antietam near the Piper farm.
Beale, R. L. T., History of the 9th Virginia Cavalry. Richmond: B. F. Johnson Publishing, 1899.
Fine narrative. Good content on the Maryland Campaign, where Beale served as a lieutenant.
___________, A Lieutenant of Cavalry in Lee’s Army. Boston: The Gorham Press, 1918.
Beale’s superb personal reminiscences. Outstanding content on the Maryland Campaign.
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Beck, Brandon, ed., Third Alabama! The Civil War Memoirs of Brigadier General Cullen Battle, CSA. Tuscaloosa:
Univ. of Alabama Press, 2000.
Useful content on South Mountain by the colonel of the 3rd
Alabama in Rodes’s brigade.
Bernard, George, War Talks of Confederate Veterans. Dayton, OH: Morningside Press, 1981.
Includes a section with excellent content on Crampton’s Gap from veterans of Mahone’s (Parham’s) brigade.
Blackford, W. W. , War Years With Jeb Stuart. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1945.
Blackford served as Stuart’s chief engineer. His account of service with Stuart’s cavalry is a classic and
contains numerous anecdotes and observations of operations in Maryland.
Brooks, Ulysses. R., ed., Stories of the Confederacy. Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1912.
Contains a short history of Hampton’s brigade with Maryland Campaign content by an unnamed soldier of
the brigade. who member of the 1st
North Carolina Cavalry
Buck, Samuel D., With the Old Confeds: Actual Experiences of a Captain in the Line. Gaithersburg, MD: Butternut
Press, 1983.
Buck served in Maryland as a lieutenant in the 13th
Virginia and was present at Harpers Ferry and Antietam.
Caldwell, James F. L., The History of a Brigade of South Carolinians. Dayton, OH: Morningside Press, 1984.
This was Gregg’s brigade in the Maryland Campaign. Some details on the Harpers Ferry operation and a
fine account of the brigade at Antietam.
Chamberlayne, John H., Ham Chamberlayne – Virginian Letters and Papers of an Artillery Officer in the War for
Southern Independence, 1861-1865. Richmond: Dietz Printing Co., 1932.
Useful for Chamberlayne’s observations of Marylanders encountered during the campaign.
Clark, Walter ed., Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War.
Wendell, NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1982.
Clark had veterans from each unit compose a short history of their regiment or battery in the war. A
wealth of material for the Maryland Campaign.
Couture, Richard T., ed., Charlie’s Letters: The Correspondence of Charles E. DeNoon. Farmville, VA: R. Couture,
1982.
DeNoon served in Mahone’s (Parham’s) brigade at South Mountain and Antietam.
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Cutrer, Thomas W., ed., Longstreet’s Aide: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Goree. Charlottesville: Univ.
Press of Virginia, 1995.
No direct content about the Maryland Campaign but valuable for Goree’s observations of Longstreet and
other Confederate officers.
Dabney, Robert L., Life and Campaigns of Lt. Gen. Jackson. New York: Blelock, 1866.
Dabney was Jackson’s chief of staff in the Valley Campaign and Seven Days battles.
Davidson, Greenlee, Captain Greenlee Davidson, C.S.A., Diary and Letters 1851-1863. Verona, VA: McClure Press,
1975.
Davidson commanded a battery in A. P. Hill’s division. Excellent content on the campaign and Harpers Ferry
operations.
Dickert, Augustus D., History of Kershaw's Brigade. Dayton: Morningside Books, 1973.
A history of the brigade by a veteran. Useful content on Harpers Ferry and Antietam.
Dinkins, James, 1861 to 1865: Personal Recollections and Experiences in the Confederate Army. Dayton, OH:
Morningside Press, 1975.
Dinkins served in Barksdale’s brigade.
Douglas, Henry K., I Rode With Stonewall. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1940.
A classic account by a member of Jackson’s staff. Recent scholarship has revealed that Douglas was
frequently guilty of exaggeration and some myth building.
Dowdy, Clifford, The Wartime Papers of R. E. Lee. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1961.
Indispensible.
Durkin, Joseph T., ed., John Dooley Confederate Soldier, His War Journal. Washington: Georgetown Univ. Press,
1945.
Dooley was a lieutenant in Kemper’s brigade. Vivid descriptions of South Mountain and Antietam.
Refreshingly honest memoir.
Early, Jubal A., War Memoirs Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States. Phila.:
Lippincott, 1912.
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Published posthumously after Early’s death. His section covering the Maryland Campaign is quite useful but
Early is a particularly biased chronicler who sought to place the Confederates and particularly Robert E. Lee in the
best possible light. Those former Confederates who had the temerity to criticize Lee, like Longstreet, were vigorously
attacked by Early without regard to historical honesty.
Eggleston, George, A Rebel’s Recollections. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1959.
Folsom, James M., Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia. Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1995.
A thin volume but some useful material for Georgia troops in the campaign.
Fonderen, Clarence A., A Brief History of the Military Career of Carpenter’s Battery. New Market, VA: Henkel &
Co., 1911.
Forsyth, Charles, History of the 3d Alabama Regiment, C.S.A. Montgomery, AL; Confederate Publishing Co., 1866.
Very brief history of the regiment. Not a great deal of useful content.
Gallagher, Gary, ed., Fighting For the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander.
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Possibly the best memoir by any officer of the Army of Northern Virginia. Alexander is no apologist for
Confederate defeat. He writes with honesty, and his analysis of the army’s battles and campaigns is superb. Since
this memoir was meant for his family it includes many personal details he left out of his published Military
Memoirs of a Confederate.
Govan, Gilbert E. & Livingood, James W., eds., The Haskell Memoirs. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1960.
The memoirs of John Cheves Haskell, staff officer and artillery officer. Although Haskell was not at Antietam
his memoirs are useful for Haskell’s observations of various officers in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Groene, Bertram H., ed., “Civil War Letters of Colonel David Lang,” Florida Historical Quarterly, v. LIV, (1976).
Lang was a captain in the 8th
Florida during the Maryland Campaign. Contains a single letter he wrote
from Frederick.
Hamilton, J. G. De Roulac, ed., The Papers of Randolph A. Shotwell. Raleigh: The North Carolina Historical
Commission, 1929-1931.
Shotwell was in Garnett’s brigade of D. R. Jones’s division. Superb description of the Confederate retreat from
South Mountain on the night of September 15.
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Hammock, Mansel, Letters to Amanda from Sergeant Marion Hill Fitzpatrick.
Hassler, William H., ed., The Civil War Letters of William Dorsey Pender to Fanny Pender (Chapel Hill: Univ. of
North Carolina Press, 1962.
Pender’s letters to his wife are among the best published of any Confederate general officer in Lee’s army.
Haynes, Draughton S., Field Diary of a Confederate Soldier. Darien, GA: Ashantilly Press, 1963.
Brief, but valuable diary of a foot soldier in the 14th
Georgia of Thomas’s brigade in A. P. Hill’s division.
Hood, John B., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. New
Orleans: Hood Orphan Memorial Fund, 1880.
Principally a defense of Hood’s command of the Army of Tennessee later in the war but does contain some
valuable observations of the Maryland Campaign and Antietam.
Hotchkiss, Jedediah, Confederate Military History: Virginia. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962.
Hubbs, G. Ward, ed., Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment.
Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2003.
An excellent resource for the 5th
Alabama. Some content on both South Mountain and Antietam.
Johnston, David E., The Story of a Confederate Boy. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1972.
Johnston served in the 7th Virginia of Kemper’s brigade. Good description of their part in the action at South
Mountain.
Jones, Frank S., History of Decatur County Georgia. Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Co., 1980.
Kindber, Al, ed., A Soldier From Valley Furnace. R&M’s Home Office: St. Clairsville, OH, 1997.
Kittrell, Warren, History of the Eleventh Georgia Volunteers. Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., 1863.
Early and very brief regimental history. Useful content on the capture of Longstreet’s ordnance train by
the Union cavalry from Harpers Ferry.
Lamb, John, "The Confederate Cavalry," SHSP, v. 26, (1898).
Lamb served in the 3rd
Virginia Cavalry. Some helpful material on the Army of Northern Virginia’s cavalry.
Lee, Laura E., Forget-Me-Nots of the Civil War, A Romance Containing Original Letters of Two Confederate
Soldiers. St. Louis: A. R. Fleming Printing Co., 1909.
Includes several detailed letters describing the campaign and Battle of Antietam by Walter Battle, 4th
North
Carolina, who served at brigade headquarters with General George B. Anderson.
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Lokey, John W., My Experiences in the War Between the States. Tishomingo, OK: John R. Lokey, 1959.
Lokey served in the 20th
Georgia. Difficult book to find.
Longstreet, James, From Manassas to Appomattox. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1960.
Longstreet is opinionated, defensive, and sometimes controversial in his views, but there is a great deal of
valuable content on the Maryland Campaign.
McCarthy, Carlton, Contributions To A History of the Richmond Howitzer Battalion. Baltimore: Butternut and
Blue, 2000.
Some content on the Maryland Campaign.
McClellan, H. B., Campaigns of Stuart's Cavalry. Edison, NJ: Blue and Gray Press, 1993.
History of Stuart’s campaigns by his adjutant. Good content on the Maryland Campaign.
McDaniel, J. J., Diary of the Battles, Marches and Incidents of the Seventh S. C. Regiment. n.p., n.d.
Short, and very rare, regimental history.
McDonald, Archie P., ed., Make Me a Map of the Valley: The Civil War Journal of Stonewall Jackson’s
Topographer. Dallas: Southern Methodist Univ. Press, 1973.
The journals of Jedediah Hotchkiss. Excellent content on Harpers Ferry operations.
McMurray, Richard, ed., Footprints of a Regiment: A Recollection of the 1st Georgia Regulars. Atlanta: Longstreet
Press, 1992.
Maurice, Frederick, ed., An Aide de camp to Lee. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2000.
The memoirs of Charles Marshall, aide-de-camp to Lee. Provides insight into Confederate strategy in
Maryland.
Moore, Edward A., The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson. New York & Washington: Neale
Publishing, 1907.
Moore served in Poague’s battery in Jackson’s wing. Good memoir with many personal details about Moore’s
experiences in the Maryland Campaign.
Morrison, J. G., "Jackson at Harper's Ferry," Philadelphia Weekly Press, Dec. 22, 1883.
The brother-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, and an aide-de-camp to the general.
Neese, George, Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery. New York: Neale Publishing, 1911.
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Neese was in Chew’s horse artillery, attached to Munford’s brigade for much of the campaign. A fine
account with very good detail about the Battle of Crampton’s Gap.
Owen, Wm. M., In Camp and Battle with the Washington Artillery. Gaithersburg, MD: Butternut and Blue, 1982.
Personal recollections of a junior officer in the famous Washington Artillery. Some good content about
Antietam.
Poague, William T., Gunner With Stonewall. Jackson, TN: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1957.
Another classic. Poague was one of the better artillerymen in the Army of Northern Virginia. He
commanded a battery at Harpers Ferry and Antietam. He covers both in the text but provides more details on
Antietam.
Polley, J. B., Hood's Texas Brigade: Its Marches, Its Battles, Its Achievements. Dayton: Morningside Bookshop, 1976.
An excellent history that includes letters from veterans describing their experiences.
Runge, William H., ed., Four Years in the Confederate Artillery: The Diary of Henry Robinson Berkely. Chapel Hill:
Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1961.
Berkely’s battery was broken up in the artillery reorganization at Leesburg, preceding the invasion of
Maryland. His diary contains interesting observations on the consequences of the election of battery officers.
Schiller, Herbert N., A Captain’s War: The Letter and Diaries of William H. S. Burgwyn 1861-1865. Shippensburg,
PA: White Mane Publishing Co., 1994.
Wartime letters and diaries of Captain William H. S. Burgwyn, who served in the 35th
North Carolina of
General John Walker’s division. Burgwyn served at Harpers Ferry and Antietam. Excellent content.
Sieburg, Evelyn R., ed., Memoirs of a Confederates Staff Officer From Bethel to Bentonville. Shippensburg, PA:
White Mane Books, 1998.
The memoirs of Major James W. Ratchford, of General D. H. Hill’s staff. Thin content.
Skock, George and Perkins, Mark W., eds., Lone Star Confederate: A Gallant and Good Soldier of the Fifth Texas
Infantry. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.
Reminiscences of Robert Campell, 5th
Texas. Campbell was wounded at 2nd
Manassas and missed the
Maryland Campaign, but his account contains many interesting and useful observations and details about the
Texas Brigade in 1862.
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Smith, W. A., The Anson Guards, Company C, Fourteenth Regiment North Carolina Volunteers 1861-1865.
Wendell, NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1978.
Sorrell, Moxley G., Recollection of a Confederate Staff Officer. New York & Washington: The Neale Publishing Co.,
1905.
A valuable recollection by a member of Longstreet’s staff. Personal content on both South Mountain and
Antietam.
Stevens, John W., War Reminiscences. Powhatan, VA: Derwent Books, 1982.
Served in the 5th
Texas. Some useful content on the campaign and Antietam.
Stocker, Jeffery, ed., Coles, Robert T., From Huntsville to Appomattox: History of the 4th Alabama Infantry. Knoxville:
Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1996.
Coles was the adjutant of the regiment and an intelligent observer. Excellent material on South Mountain and
Antietam.
Swank, Walbrook D., ed., Sabres, Saddles, and Spurs. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1998.
The diary of William R. Carter, who rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel of the 3rd
Virginia Cavalry.
Taylor, Michael W., ed., To Drive the Enemy from Southern Soil: The Letters of Col. Francis Marion Parker and
the
History of the 30th
Regiment North Carolina Troops. Dayton, OH: Morningside Press, 1998.
A fine collection of letters. Parker was wounded in the sunken lane at Antietam with G. B. Anderson’s
brigade.
Thomas, Henry W., History of the Doles - Cook Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, C. S. A. Atlanta: The Franklin
Printing and Publishing Co., 1903.
Doles brigade did not exist in September 1862, but all of the regiment’s in it did in Ripley’s brigade of D. H.
Hill’s division, and Walker’s brigade of Lawton’s division. Very useful for biographical information on field officers in
the brigade.
Tower, R. Lockwood, ed., Lee’s Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor 1862-1865.
Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1995.
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Since Taylor missed most of the campaign to carry a dispatch to President Davis there is little Maryland
Campaign content, but his letters are invaluable for insight into life at Lee’s headquarters.
Trout, Robert J., ed., With Pen and Saber: The Letters and Diaries of J. E. B. Stuart’s Staff Officers. Harrisburg, PA:
Stackpole Books, 1995.
An excellent and valuable book. Trout presents the wartime diaries and letters of nine of Stuart’s staff
officers in chronological order. Of particular interest for the Maryland Campaign are the detailed letters of R.
Channing Price.
Turner, Charles W., ed., Captain Greenlee Davidson, C.S.A., Diary and Letters, 1851-1863, Verona, VA: McClure
Press, 1975.
Davidson commanded a battery in A. P. Hill’s division. Excellent content on the campaign and Harpers
Ferry siege and capture.
Von Borcke, Heros, Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence. Gaithersburg, MD: Butternut & Blue,
1985.
Von Borcke, a German adventurer, served on Jeb Stuart’s staff. His memoir is a romanticized view of the
war but there is considerable detail about the Maryland Campaign and Stuart’s activities at Harpers Ferry and
Crampton’s Gap.
Wise, George, History of Seventeenth Virginia Infantry. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1870.
Part of Kemper’s brigade. Despite its early publication date, this is a useful regimental history. Content on
both South Mountain and Antietam.
Wood, William, Reminiscences of Big I. Jackson, TN: McCowen-Mercer Press, 1956.
Wood served as a line officer in the 19th
Virginia of Garnett’s brigade. He provides numerous details about the
campaign and battles of South Mountain, where his colonel, J. B. Strange was killed, and Antietam.
Worsham, John, One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry. New York: Neale Publishing, 1912.
A classic account from a member of Jackson’s command but relatively thin on the Maryland Campaign.
General
Buel, Clarence & Johnson, Robert U., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York: Thomas Yoseloff
Inc., 1956.
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This four volume series was assembled from a series of articles contributed principally by former Union
and Confederate general officers (although there are some articles by enlisted men) to Century Magazine in the
1880’s, about the war’s major campaigns. Volume 2 covers the Maryland Campaign with articles from Longstreet,
D. H. Hill, Julius White, Jacob Cox, George B. McClellan and others. While this is a very useful work many of the
writers used this opportunity to defend reputations and records, or employed selective memory, so each article
must be evaluated critically.
Moore, Frank, ed., The Rebellion Record. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1863.
Moore collected numerous newspaper accounts and official documents on the campaigns of the war. Good
content on the Maryland Campaign.
Palfrey, Francis W., The Antietam and Fredericksburg. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1882.
Palfrey was badly wounded at Antietam as an officer in the 20th
Massachusetts. His study of Antietam
and Fredericksburg was the only book length study of Antietam until the publication of Jim Murfin’s Gleam of
Bayonets. Although a Union officer Palfrey provides a generally balanced analysis of the campaign. He was
however, quite critical of McClellan.
Published Secondary Sources
Alexander, Ted, “The Battle of Antietam and the Sharpsburg Civilians,” Civil War Regiments, v. 6, no. 2, (1998)
Ambrose, Stephen, Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1996.
A reprint edition. A very early Ambrose work. Sympathetic to Halleck.
Andrews, J. Cutler, The South Reports the Civil War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1970.
Bartholomees Jr., J. Boone, Buff Facings and Gilt Buttons: Staff and Headquarters Operations in the Army of Northern
Virginia, 1861-1865. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina, 1998.
An important and helpful volume for understanding the trials and tribulations of staff operations in the
army.
Bell, Robert T., The 11th Virginia Infantry. Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, 1985.
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Part of the H. E. Howard Virginia Regimental History Series. The narrative section of each history is uneven.
Most are adequate, some are excellent, and others are of little value. The real heart of each history is a detailed
muster roll for the regiment.
Bilby, Joseph G., Civil War Firearms. PA: Combined Books, 1996.
Bilby, Joseph and O’Neill, Stephen D., eds., “My Boys Were Faithful and They Fought,” The Irish Brigade at
Antietam: An Anthology. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1997.
A nice collection of Irish Brigade material.
Brown, E. R., The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion. Gaithersburg: Butternut
Press, 1984.
Carmichael, Peter S., The Purcell, Crenshaw and Letcher Artillery. Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, Inc., 1990.
________________, “Pendleton and Shepherdstown.” Gary Gallagher, ed., The Antietam Campaign, (Chapel Hill”
Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1999.
A fine article on William Nelson Pendleton and his failure of command at Shepherdstown.
Clemens, Thomas G., ed., The Maryland Campaign of September 1862: Volume 1: South Mountain. New York &
Califormia: Savas Beattie LLC, 2010.
Every student of the campaign should have this volume, which is the first part of Ezra A. Carman’s
manuscript history of the Antietam Campaign. Clemens did an outstanding job of editing.
Catton, Bruce, Terrible Swift Sword. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1963.
Chambers, Lenoir, Stonewall Jackson. New York: W. Morrow, 1959.
A fine work although it has been supplanted by James I. Robertson’s biography of Jackson.
Commager, Henry Steele, ed., The Blue and The Gray: The Story of the Civil War as Told by its Participants.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1950. 2 vols.
Includes several excellent accounts of Antietam.
David, Carl L., Arming the Union. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1973.
Donald, David, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Duncan, Richard R., "Marylanders and the Invasion of 1862," Civil War History, 11 (Dec 1965).
Eicher, John H. & David J., Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 2001.
An indispensible reference work.
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Elliott, Joseph C., Lee’s Noble Soldier: Richard H. Anderson. Dayton, OH: Morningside Press, 1985.
Ernst, Kathleen A., Too Afraid to Cry: Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign. Mechanicsburg, PA:
Stackpole Books, 1999.
Remains the best study of the campaign’s impact upon the civilian population.
Fishel, Edwin C., “Pinkerton and McClellan: Who Deceived Whom?” CWH, v. 34, no. 2, (June, 1988).
Valuable article that examines both Pinkerton’s and McClellan’s failures in evaluating enemy strength.
Foner, Philip S., ed., Frederick Douglas: Selected Speeches and Writings. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1999.
Frassanito, William, Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America’s Bloodiest Day. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1978.
A landmark study.
Freeman, Douglas S., Lee’s Lieutenants. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970.
Dated, but Freeman writes so well it remains a joy to read.
Frye, Dennis E., “Riding With Stonewall,” Civil War, (IX), no. 5, (1991).
A critical analysis of Henry Kyd Douglas’s I Rode With Stonewall.
___________, History of the Twelfth Virginia Cavalry. Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, 1988.
___________, “The Siege of Harper’s Ferry,” Blue and Gray Magazine, v. V, no. 1, (1987).
Gallagher, Gary, Lee the Soldier. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1996.
An superb anthology on Lee’s military career during the Civil War, including notes of the only interviews
Lee ever granted on the war to essays by leading scholars.
_____________, ed., The Antietam Campaign. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1999.
_____________, ed., The Richmond Campaign of 1862. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina, 2000.
Gannon, James P., Irish Rebels: Confederate Tigers: The 6th
Louisiana Volunteers, 1861-1865. Campbell, CA:
Savas Publishing, 1998.
Gavin, William G., The 100th
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers: The Roundhead Regiment. Dayton: Morningside
House, 1989.
Deeply researched, thorough modern regimental history.
Glatthaar, Joseph T., General Lee’s Army. New York: Free Press, 2008.
Deeply researched and well written, this is the best volume on the Army of Northern Virginia.
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Guelzo, Alan, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. New York: Simon and Shuster, 2004.
Superbly written. Winner of the 2004 Lincoln Prize.
Harsh, Joseph L., Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862. Kent,
OH & London: Kent State Univ. Press, 1998.
A brilliant analysis of Lee’s strategic thinking in the first two years of the war.
_____________, Sounding the Shallows: A Confederate Companion for the Maryland Campaign of 1862. Kent,
OH & London: Kent State Univ. Press, 2000.
A reference guide to accompany Harsh’s Maryland Campaign study, Taken at the Flood. Among the books
any student of the Maryland Campaign should have.
Joseph L. Harsh, Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862.
Kent, OH & London: Kent State Univ. Press, 1999.
Harsh’s superb study of Confederate strategy and operations during the Maryland Campaign.
Harwell, Richard B. ed., The Union Reader. New York: Longmans, Green, 1958.
A collection of primary source accounts. Includes Dr. Lewis Steiner’s classic account of the Confederate
occupation of Frederick.
Hearn, Chester G., Six Years of Hell. Louisiana State Univ. Press: Baton Rouge, 1996.
A study of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and later, West Virginia.
Henderson, G. F. R., Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. Secausus, NJ: Blue and Gray Press, 1987.
Dated, but not without merit due to Henderson’s perspective as a soldier.
Hennessey, John J., Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas (New York: Simon and
Shuster, 1993.
The standard for Second Manassas.
Hewett, Janet B., Trudeau, Noah A., and Suderow, Bruce A., eds., Supplement to the Official Records of the Union
and Confederate Armies. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1994 - 1999.
A multi-volume work that collects, reports, correspondence and other records that were omitted or not
found when the Official Records were compiled.
Hill jr., D. H., Bethel to Sharpsburg. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Co., 1926.
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A study of Confederate military operations to the Battle of Antietam by D. H. Hill’s son.
Hubbell, John T., “The Seven Days of George Brinton McClellan.” Gary W. Gallagher, ed., The Richmond
Campaign of 1862. Univ. of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, 2000.
A fine critical assessment of McClellan during the Seven Days.
Fields, Frank E., History of the 28th Virginia. Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, 1985.
Johnson, Allen & Malone, Dumas, eds., Dictionary of American Biography. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1946.
Johnson, Curt & Anderson, Jr., Richard C., Artillery Hell: The Employment of Artillery at Antietam. College Station,
TX: Texas A&M Univ. Press, 1995.
A highly useful reference on the artillery at Antietam.
Jones, Wilbur D., Giants in the Cornfield: The 27th
Indiana Infantry. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing,
1997.
Jordan Jr., Ervin L. and Thomas Jr., Herbert A., The 19th Virginia Infantry. Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, 1987.
Krick, Robert E. L., Staff Officers in Gray. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Another indispensible reference volume.
Krick, Robert K., 30th
Virginia Infantry. Berryville, VA: H. E. Howard, 1983.
One of the best of the H. E. Howard Virginia regimental series.
_________, “James Longstreet and the Second Day at Gettysburg.” Gary W. Gallagher, ed., Three Days at
Gettysburg: Essays on Union and Confederate Leadership (Kent Univ. Press: Kent, OH, 1999.
Suffers from a distinct anti-Longstreet bias, but Krick writes well and always mines numerous sources.
_________, “Sharpsburg’s Bloody Lane.” Gary W. Gallagher, ed., The Antietam Campaign. Chapel Hill:
Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Outstanding, deeply researched, tactical study from the Confederate perspective of the battle for the
Sunken Lane at Antietam.
_________, The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press,
LA, 2002.
A series of essays on various events and personalities related to the Army of Northern Virginia.
Large, George R. & Swisher, Joe A., eds., Battle of Antietam: The Official History by the Antietam Battlefield
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Board. Shippensburg, PA: Burd St. Press, 1998.
The text of every U.S. War Department tablet – most written by Ezra Carman – related to the Maryland
Campaign presented in chronological order. Excellent reference book.
Longacre, Edward, The Man Behind the Guns: A Biography of Henry Jackson Hunt. South Brunswick, NJ: A. S.
Barnes, 1977.
Lowe, Richard, Walker’s Texas Division C.S.A. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
Luvaas, Jay, ed., The Civil War: A Soldier's View, A Collection of Civil War Writing, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago
Press, 1958.
The insightful observations of the Civil War by British soldier George F. R. Henderson in the late 1890’s
and early 1900’s.
Luvaas, Jay and Nelson, Harold W., The U. S. Army War College Guide to the Battle of Antietam. Lawrence: Univ.
Press of Kansas, 1996.
Another volume that each student of the campaign should possess.
McMurray, Richard, John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky,
1982.
A thin, but excellent biography.
McPherson, James, Battle Cry of Freedom. New York: Random House, 1988.
Still the best one volume history of the war.
Mahood, Wayne, “Written in Blood” A History of the 126th
New York Infantry in the Civil War. Hightstown, NJ:
Longstreet House, 1997.
A well researched modern history. Good detail on the regiment’s painful experience at Harpers Ferry and
during the battle for Maryland Heights.
Martin, David G., The Fluvanna Artillery. Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, 1992.
Marvel, William, Burnside. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Sympathetic, but well researched and written.
Peter Michie, General McClellan. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1901.
An excellent early biography.
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Miller, William J., “‘Scarcely any Parallel in History:’ Logistics, Friction and McClellan’s Strategy for the
Peninsula Campaign.” William J. Miller, ed., The Peninsula Campaign of 1862. Campbell, CA: Savas
Woodbury Publishers, 1995, (2).
An important essay to understand the reality of McClellan’s supply situation on the Peninsula and how
this limited the number of troops he could sustain.
Montgomery, Horace, ed., Howell Cobb’s Confederate Career. Tuscaloosa, AL: Confederate Publishing Co., 1959.
Murfin, James V., The Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2004.
A reprint of Murfin’s 1965 campaign study. Until the publication of Sears Landscape Turned Red and Harsh’s
Taken at the Flood, this was the standard work on the campaign.
Naiswald, L. Van Loan, Grape and Canister. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1960.
Although a bit dated now, a highly readable narrative of the operations of Union artillery in the Eastern
Theater.
Nolan, Alan, The Iron Brigade. Ann Arbor: Historical Society of Michigan, 1983.
A classic study of a famous brigade that earned its name at South Mountain and Antietam.
Nolan, Alan and Vipond, Sharon E., eds., Giants in their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade. Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Solid collection of essays on the various important periods of the brigade’s history, including South Mountain
and Antietam.
Pellicano, John M., Conquer or Die: The 39th
New York Volunteer Infantry: Garibaldi Guard. Flushing, NY:
Pellicano Publications, 1996.
Pfanz, Harry, Special History Report: Troop Movement Maps, 1862, Harpers Ferry National Historic Park. Denver
Service Center: National Park Service, 1976.
The title is misleading. While there are maps that accompany the text, this is a detailed study of the
military operations during the siege and capture of Harpers Ferry.
Pride, Mike and Travis, Mark, My Brave Boys: To War with Colonel Cross and the Fighting Fifth. Hanover &
London: University Press of New England, 2001.
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A history of Colonel Edward Cross and the 5th
New Hampshire. Good Antietam content.
Ethan S. Rafuse, McClellan’s War: The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union. Bloomington &
Indianapolis: Indiana Univ. Press, 2005).
Not as critical as Stephen Sears’s biography, but still objective. Solid research, writing and analysis.
Randall, J. G. and Donald, David H., The Civil War and Reconstruction . Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath & Co., 1969.
Reese, Timothy J., “The Cavalry Clash at Quebec Schoolhouse,” Blue and Gray Magazine, (X), no. 3.
_____________, Sealed With Their Lives: The Battle for Crampton’s Gap, Burkittsville, Maryland, September 14.
Baltimore: Butternut and Blue, 1998.
The most detailed tactical study of the battle.
_____________, Sykes' Regular Infantry Division, 1861-1864. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 1990.
The standard work on the U.S. Regulars with the Army of the Potomac. Very good content on Antietam.
Riggs, David, The 7th Virginia Infantry. Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, 1982.
Robertson, James I., General A. P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate Warrior. New York: Random House, 1987.
________________, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co.,
1997.
The definitive biography of Jackson.
Ropes, John C., The Story of the Civil War, A Concise Account of the War in the United States of America Between
1861 and 1865. New York: G. P. Putnam’s, 1894-1913.
Dated, but Ropes offers numerous useful observations and insights into the Maryland Campaign.
Stephen W. Sears, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988.
Critical, but superb biography. Deeply researched and beautifully written.
_____________, Landscape Turned Red. New Haven & New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1983.
Superbly written narrative of the Maryland Campaign and Battle of Antietam.
_____________, “Pinkerton and McClellan: Who Deceived Whom?” Civil War History (XXXIV, No. 2).
_____________, “South Mountain,” Blue and Gray Magazine, v. 4, no. 1, (1986).
_____________, The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989.
An indispensible reference.
_____________, To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992.
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Although focused largely on the Union side this remains the best volume on the complex Peninsula
Campaign.
Slade, A. D., A. T. A. Torbert: Southern Gentleman in Blue. Dayton: Morningside Press, 1992.
Snell, Mark A., From First to Last: The Life of Major General William B. Franklin. New York: Fordham Univ.
Press, 2002.
An excellent biography of McClellan’s 6th
Corps commander.
Starr, Stephen, The Union Cavalry in the Civil War. Louisiana State Univ. Press: Baton Rouge, 3 vols., 1979.
The first two volumes cover the Union and Confederate cavalry in the Eastern Theater. Continues to be
the best overall study of Union cavalry in the war.
Stegeman, John F., These Men She Gave. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1961.
Tap, Bruce, Over Lincoln’s Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas,
1998.
Tidball, Eugene C., No Disgrace to My Country: The Life of John C. Tidball. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press,
2002.
Tischler, Allan A., The History of the Harper’s Ferry Cavalry Expedition, September 14 & 15, 1862. Winchester,
VA: Five Cedars Press, 1993.
A detailed study of the escape of the Federal cavalry from Harpers Ferry on the night of September 14.
Tribble, Byrd Barnette, Benjamin Cason Rawlings: First Virginia Volunteer for the South. Gaithersburg: Butternut
and Blue, 1995.
Wallace, Lee, The 1st Virginia Infantry. Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, 1990.
Wickman, Don, “We Are Coming Father Abra’am;” The History of the 9th Vermont Volunteer Infantry 1862-1865.
Lynchburg, VA: Schroeder Publications, 2005.
Wise, Jennings C., The Long Arm of Lee: The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia. New York:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1959.
Wyckoff, Mac, A History of the 2nd
South Carolina Infantry, 1861-1865. Fredericksburg, VA: Sgt. Kirkland’s
Museum & Historical Society, 1994.
Outstanding modern regimental history.
Mac Wyckoff, A History of the 3rd
South Carolina Infantry 1861-1865. Fredericksburg, VA: Sgt. Kirkland’s Museum
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& Historical Society, 1995.
Another fine regimental history by Wyckoff.
