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Bibliography

The 24th Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment by William J.K. Beaudot (Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, c2003. ISBN 9780811708944)

As If It Were Glory: Robert Beecham's Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black Regiments by Robert Beecham, edited by Michael E. Stevens (Madison, Wis. : Madison House, 1998. ISBN 9780945612551)

The Badax Tigers: From Shiloh to the with the 18th Wisconsin Volunteers by Thomas P. Nanzig (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. ISBN 9780742520844)

Brave Men's Tears: The Iron Brigade at Brawner Farm by Alan D. Gaff. 2nd ed. rev. (Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, Inc., 1996, c1988. ISBN 0890293171)

Brother to the Eagle: The Civil War Journal of Sgt. Ambrose Armitage, 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
by Ambrose Armitage, edited by Alden R. Carter ([Bangor, Maine]: Booklocker.com, c2006. ISBN 9781601450425)

The Civil War by Bruce Catton and James McPherson (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005. ISBN 9780618001873)

The Civil War by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, et al. (New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, 1994, c1990. ISBN 9780679755432)

The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote (New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, 1986. ISBN 9780394746234)

The Civil War: A Visual History by the Smithsonian Institution. 1st American ed. (New York, N.Y.: DK Publishing, 2011. ISBN 9780756671853)

Death rolls from Proceedings of the . . . Annual Encampment of the Department of . . ., Grand Army of the Republic comp. by Dennis Northcott (St. Louis, Mo. : Northcott Genealogical Publications, 2003-2007). Three volumes of alphabetical compilations of the death rolls from the Proceedings of the Annual Encampments of the departments of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) altogether containing over 2,000 names of soldiers who served from Wisconsin and later took part in GAR encampments in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.
  • Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Illinois: Transcription of the Death Rolls, 1879-1947 by Dennis Northcott and Thomas Brooks (St. Louis, Mo. : Northcott Genealogical Pubs., 2003. ISBN 0972834400).
  • Indiana Civil War Veterans: Transcription of the Death Rolls of the Department of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic, 1882-1948 by Dennis Northcott (St. Louis, Mo. : Northcott Genealogical Pubs., 2005. ISBN 0972834419)
  • Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska Civil War Veterans: Compilation of the Death Rolls of the Departments of Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, Grand Army of the Republic, 1883-1948 by Dennis Northcott (St. Louis, Mo. : Northcott Genealogical Pubs., 2007. ISBN 9780972834421; 0972834427).
Exploring Civil War Wisconsin: A Survival Guide for Researchers by Brett Barker (Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, c2003. ISBN 0870203398)

Genealogical Resources of the Civil War Era: Online and Published Military or Civilian Name Lists, 1861-1869, & Post-War Veteran Lists by William Dollarhide (Bountiful, Utah: Family Roots Pub. Co., c2009. ISBN 9781933194455)

Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade
edited by Alan T. Nolan and Sharon Eggleston Vipond (Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press, c1998. ISBN 0253334578)

In the Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg by Lance J. Herdegen and Wiliam J.K. Beaudot (Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, Inc., c1990. ISBN 089029535X)

An Irishman in the Iron Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of James P. Sullivan, Sergt., Company K, 6th Wisconsin Volunteers (New York, N.Y.: Fordham University Press, 1993. ISBN 9780823215003)

The Iron Brigade: A Military History by Alan T. Nolan (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Historical Society of Michigan, 1983. ISBN 091505616X)

Letters from the Iron Brigade: George Washington Partridge, Jr., 1839-1863: Civil War Letters to His Sisters by Hugh L. Whitehouse. 2nd ed. (Indianapolis, Ind.: Guild Press of Indiana, 1996, c1994. ISBN 1878208470)

The Military History of Wisconsin: A Record of the Civil and Military Patriotism of the State, in the War for the Union by E.B. Quiner (Chicago, Ill.: Clarke & Co. Publishers, 1866; Hudson, Wis.: The St. Croix Valley Civil War Round Table, c2000. ISBN 0967477700)

The New Civil War Handbook: Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages by Mark Hughes (New York, N.Y.: Savas Beatie, c2009. ISBN 9781932714623)

The New York Times Complete Civil War, 1861-1865 edited by Harold Holzer & Craig L. Symonds (New York, N.Y.: Black Dog & Leventhal, c2010. ISBN 9781579128456)

Recollections of a Newsboy in the Army of the Potomoc by Doc [Cullen B.] Aubery (Milwaukee, Wis.: s.n., 1900) [Contains the monograph, Echoes of the Marches of the Famous Iron Brigade: Unwritten Stories of that Famous Organization]

Researching Your Civil War Ancestors in Wisconsin by Dennis R. Moore (Manitowoc, Wis.: Bivouac Publications, 1994. LCCN 94-94666)

Shiloh to Durham Station: 18th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, with Capt. Robert S. McMichael's Civil War Letters by Richard L. Hamilton (United States: R.L. Hamilton, 2010. ISBN 9781456460495)

Those Damned Black Hats! The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign by Lance J. Herdegen (New York, N.Y.: Savas Beatie, c2008. ISBN 9781932714487)

When Lincoln Met Wisconsin's Nightingale: Cordelia Harvey's Campaign for Civil War Soldier Care by Daniel L. Stika (Mustang, Okla.: Tate Pub. and Enterprises, 2009. ISBN 9781615665792)

A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie: Civil War Letters of James K. Newton by James K. Newton, edited by Stephen Ambrose (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, c1961. ISBN 9780299024840)

Wisconsin in the Civil War: The Home Front and the Battle Front, 1861-1865 by Frank Klement (Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1997. ISBN 9780870202865)

With the 3rd Wisconsin Badgers: The Living Experience of the Civil War Through the Journals of Van R. Willard by Van R. Willard, edited by Steven S. Raab (Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, 1999. ISBN 9780811700023)


Websites

The American Civil War Homepage - http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

Charting a More Perfect Union, 1861-1865 [Battlefield Maps] - http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/history/CivilWar/

The Civil War - A series of three collections of photographs presented by The Atlantic magazine taken by correspondents during the war.

The Civil War: 150 Years, National Park Service Sesquicentennial Commemoration - http://www.nps.gov/civilwar150/

The Civil War Archive: Union Regimental Index: Wisconsin - http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionwi.htm

Civil War Faces - http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157625520211184/
Unidentified soldiers and sailors on ambrotypes and tintypes from the Library of Congress. Do you recognize anyone?

The Civil War Home Page - http://www.civil-war.net/?p=civil%20war&n=20

Civil War Museum, Kenosha, Wisconsin - http://www.kenosha.org/civilwar/index.html

Civil War Prisoners - http://www.civilwarprisoners.com/

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System - http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/

Civil War Travel - http://www.civilwartraveler.com/

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Civil War 150th - http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/civilwar150.php

Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/index.asp

Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry - http://secondwi.com/

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War National Graves Registration Database - http://www.suvcwdb.org/home/

Twenty-Eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry - http://www.28thwisconsin.com/

The United States Civil War Center, Civil War Collections & Civil War Book Review - http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

USA Today Civil War Special Edition - http://specials.usatoday.com/civil%20war/

Wade House Annual Civil War Weekend - http://wadehouse.wisconsinhistory.org/CivilWarWeekend/EventOverview.aspx

Wisconsin Civil War Regiments - Wisconsin Genealogy Trails - http://genealogytrails.com/wis/CivilWarIndex.html

Wisconsin Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission - http://civilwarwisconsin.com/

Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience - http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIWar

Wisconsin in the Civil War (Wisconsin Historical Society) - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/civilwar/

Wisconsin Veterans Museum Civil War Resources - http://museum.dva.state.wi.us/Resources.asp#CivilWar

Wisconsin's Civil War Battle Flags from the Collections of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum - http://www.wisconsinbattleflags.com/



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