Personal Accounts
The most valuable resources available to us today are not the sanitized histories
popularized by self-proclaimed Civil War experts. They are not the authenticity articles
linked within these pages. Rather the most valuable resources available to us as
Living Historians are undoubtedly the letters, diaries, memoirs and journals of those that
lived during the war. These men and women saw first hand what the War Between The
States was all about and it is from them we should learn how to be more authentic
reenactors.
- Letters - Written home, etc. during the war.
- Diaries - Written during the war.
- Memoirs - Written after the war.
- Journals - Written during the war.
- Funny Stuff - The lighter side of primary research.
- General Orders - Interesting official orders from the
U.S. Government.
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I strongly encourage you to visit the Official 10th Texas Infantry Website to see
a wealth of primary source information in addition to the sources listed below.
Ballou,
Sullivan - July 14, 1861
Ballou, Sullivan , July 14, 1861 - More
information, same letter.
Bedinger, George Rust- 33rd Virginia
Vol. Infantry
Beers,
Lester - New York Rocket Battalion
Bentley, William - 24th
Virginia Infantry
Blair,
David Humphrey -
45th Ohio Volunteers
Black, William Johnson
- Virginia Horse Artillery (VMI)
Bradlee, Samuel J. - 10th
Massachusetts Light Artillery
Bradly, Wesley Walk - 5th Texas Partisan
Rangers
Brisbine, Napoleon -
2d Ohio Cavalry
Burt, Richard W. - 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Crowther,
Joseph - 128th New York Infantry
Corse, Montgomery Dent - Brig. Gen,
CSA, written as a POW
Cummings, Col. Arthur - 33rd Virginia
Volunteer Infantry
Dedrick, Henry - 52d
Virginia Infantry
Dunlap, Sgt. Ferdinand - 33rd Virginia
Volunteer Infantry
Durrett, James
- 18th Alabama Infantry
Ervin, John - 1st
Virginia Cavalry
Follett, John and William - 112th
Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Foust,
Charles Wesley - 10th Alabama Infantry
Garibaldi, John - 27th
Virginia Infantry
Glazener,
Abram - 18th Alabama Infantry
Golladay, Jacob Jr.,
33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
Henslee, Lovell -
45th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Howell,
E.P. - Howell's Battery, Georgia Artillery
James,
Willis - 34th
Indiana Infantry
Jones,
Edmond Hardy - 64th
Georgia
Kursheedt,
Edwin I. -
Washington Artillery, CSA
Langford, Thomas - 17th Georgia Volunteer
Infantry
Lockney, James B.
- 28th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Marchant, Peter - 47th Tennessee Infantry
Martin, Dr. Albion - 33rd Virginia Volunteer
Infantry
McKee, Archibald - 15th Iowa
Volunteer Infantry
Pitts, John
- 18th Alabama Infantry
Pope, Wiley -
25th Alabama Volunteer Infantry
Scott, Newton - 36th Iowa Volunteer
Infantry
Sharp,
George Granville -
153rd Indiana Infantry
Slagg, Alexander, Joseph, and Ezra - 23rd
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Steubing, Jake and Nancy - 26th Cavalry
Regiment CSA
Traber, Henry
- 33rd Wisconsin
Voltz, Felix - 187th New York
Volunteer Infantry
York,
Galutia H. -
114th New York Volunteer Infantry
Warren, Delano - 183rd NY Vol. Inf.
5th and 33rd Iowa
Volunteer Infantry
16th South
Carolina Volunteer Infantry
26th Wisconsin
126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Blair, David Humphery
- 45th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Carley, Lawson "Lott"
Hannibal - 5th Iowa Cavalry
Cormany,
Rachel -
Chambersburg, June 14 - July 6, 1863
Cormany,
Samuel - June 30
- July 6, 1863
Cory, Dwight
Henry - 6th Ohio Cavalry
Durling, Charles W.
- 45th Ohio Volunteers Infantry
Essick,
John - 4th Pennsylvania Infantry
Hall, James E. - 31st Virginia Infantry
Hart, Alexander - 5th Louisiana
Infantry, July 6, 1864 - May 17, 1865
Heyser,
William - Sept.
29, 1862 to July 10, 1863
Junkin, Bingham Findley - 100th Pennsylvania
Infantry
Ketzle, Henry - 37th Illinois
Infantry
McCauley,
Clay - 126th
Pennsylvania Infantry
Molineaux, G.D. - May 1, 1865 to March 2, 1866
Musgrave, Zelotes A
- 45th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Oldham, Van Buren - 9th Tennessee Infantry
Orr, James Laughlin - Captain, QM
Corps, 2nd Div., XIV Corps, Nov. 12 - Dec. 16, 1864
Seixas,
Eleanor Cohen -
Columbia, SC, Feb 28, 1865 - Sept. 10, 1865
Shuler, Capt. Michael - 33rd Virginia
Volunteer Infantry
Sinsel, George - 8th NY Heavy Artillery
Spawr,
Valentine - 14th Iowa Infantry
Underwood, Albert - 9th
Indiana Light Artillery
Waddell,
Joseph
Warman, David - Surgeon,
Fortress Monroe
Weathered, John - 9th Tennessee Cavalry
Williamson, Alice
Adams, John G. B. - Capt., 19th
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Atkinston,
Archibald Jr, Surgeon, CSA, 31st Virgina Infantry and 10th Virginia Cavalry, 1861-65
Barnhart, Lorenzo D. - private, Co. B, 110th Ohio
Carden, Robert C. - Co. B, 16th Tennessee
Infantry
Grant,
Ulysses S.
Hileman, Michael - 1820-1915, includes Civil
War years as Sgt in 96th Illinois
Hogue, Harvey S. - Co. G, 115th
Ohio, 1862-65
Hosmer, James K. - Cpl, 52nd
Massachusetts, 1862-63
Fulkerson, Thomas Graham CSA
Pember,
Phoebe Yates -
first 8 chapters of A Southern Woman's Story; Pember was a nurse at the Confederate
Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond
Piper, Aza -
62d Alabama Infantry
Ryan, Milton Asbury - Pvt., Co. B, 14th
Mississippi Volunteer Infantry
Scott, Bradford Riply Alden - boy living in
Fredericksburg, VA
Moses, Jefferson - Co. G, 93rd Illinois
Newton, Thomas - Pvt., Co. I, 6th Wisconsin, relating his experiences at
Andersonville
Worsham, John
- "One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry", 1912.
Younce, W.H. - 58th North Carolina
Infantry
Journal: James B.
Lockney, Pvt, Co. G, 28th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
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