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MINNESOTA

IN THE CIVIL WAR

1861 - 1866

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF

PUBLISHED SOURCES

Compiled by Stephen E. Osman

Minnesota Historical Society

345 Kellogg Blvd. W.

St. Paul, MN 55102

2006


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MINNESOTA IN THE CIVIL WAR

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED SOURCES

Compiled by Stephen E. Osman

INTRODUCTION

These references provide a survey of Minnesota's military role in the Civil War.

Not included here, for the sake of brevity, are those works relating to the U.S. - Dakota

Conflict of 1862 that are not concerned specifically with military activities. Also not

included are works concerning Civil War veterans' activities and organizations unless they

contain specific information on wartime service.

Sources additional to those listed that are recommended for in depth research on Minnesota

in the Civil War include:

Minnesota state, county and city histories published during the late 19th century are

often rich in personal military anecdotes.

Earlier collections of Minnesota biographies frequently detail the war service of

prominent Minnesotans.

Newspapers, especially those dating from the 50th (1911 - 1915) and the 100th (1961 -

1965) anniversaries of the war, and war time papers dating from the weeks following

specific battles or military unit activities.

Grand Army of the Republic and other veterans' publications sometimes contain

biographical memorials or anecdotes of service.

Minnesota Civil War soldier manuscript diaries, journals, letters and photographs, of

which the Minnesota Historical Society preserves rich and well cataloged collections.

Contemporary unit records of various Minnesota military organizations, including order

books, rosters, descriptive books and regimental papers, held both by the Minnesota

Historical Society and the National Archives and Reference Administration.

Card File of Minnesota Civil War Veterans maintained by the Minnesota Historical

Society Reference Department that lists military unit and often other data such as burial

location and G.A.R. membership affiliation of Minnesota Civil War soldiers and other

Civil War veterans residing in the state.

Special Veterans‟ Census of 1890 available on microfilm and with index.

Battle and movement reports, orders and correspondence concerning Minnesota troops are

located throughout the 128 volumes of The War of the Rebellion. Official Records of the


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Union and Confederate Armies. The most important of these reports were reprinted in

Volume II of Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861 - 1865. Both volumes of this

reference are the essential start to any study of Minnesota's military role in the Civil War.


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PART ONE - GENERAL REFERENCES

Ackermann, Gertrude W., “Volunteer Guards in Minnesota”, Minnesota History, Vol. 16,

No. 2 (June 1935), 166-177.

Aldrich, Stanley J., Minnesota's Military Contributions to the Civil War, unpublished M.A.

thesis, Moorhead State University, 1961.

Amann, William F., Personnel of the Civil War, Vol. II, New York, 1961, 134-135.

“A New Home and a Vote for Lincoln - Minnesota Pioneers 1860”, Gopher Historian, Vol.

22, No. 1 (Fall 1967), 6-8.

Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Minnesota for the Year Ending Dec.

1, 1866, and Of Military forces of the State from 1861 - 1866., St. Paul, 1866.

“April, 1861, Minnesota Goes to War”, Minnesota History, Vol. 37, No. 5 (March 1961),

212-215.

Babcock, Willoughby M., “Fort Snelling and the Civil War”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 16,

No. 1 (Fall 1961), 3-7.

Babcock, Willoughby M., “Minnesota's Frontier, A Neglected Sector of the Civil War”,

Minnesota History, Vol. 38, No. 6 (June 1963), 274-286.

Bakeman, Mary H., A Genealogist‟s Guide to Researching Civil War and Dakota Conflict

Ancestors in Minnesota, Roseville (MN), 2005.

Bakeman, Mary H., Index to Claimants for Depredations following the Dakota War of

1862, Roseville (MN), 2001.

Bean, Geraldine, “General Alfred Sully and the Northwest Indian Expedition”, North

Dakota History, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Summer 1966), 240-259.

Becker, William M., “The Origin of the Minnesota State Flag”, Minnesota History, Vol. 53,

No. 1 (Spring 1992), 2-8.

Bergstrom, Robert A. and Underleak, Judd, Area Civil War Veterans, Chattfield (MN),

1996.

Blegen, Theodore, “Minnesota in the Days of the Civil War”, The Minnesota Alumni

Weekly, Vol. 32, No. 19 (February 11, 1933), 319-320.


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Board of Commissioners (ed.), Minnesota in the Civil War and Indian Wars 1861 - 1865, 2

volumes, St. Paul, 1890-93. (Volume I contains rosters and brief histories of each

Minnesota unit.)

Bodnia, George, “Fort Pillow 'Massacre': Observations of a Minnesotan”, Minnesota

History, Vol. 43, No. 5 (Spring 1973), 186-190.

Bodnia, George, The Racial and Political Attitudes of Minnesota Soldiers During the Civil

War, unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Minnesota Graduate School, 1974.

Borrett, George T. (Bertha L. Heilbron, ed.), “Minnesota As Seen By Travelers: An English

Visitor Of The Civil War Period”, Minnesota History, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Sept. 1928), 270-284,

and Vol. 9, No. 4 (Dec. 1928), 379-388.

“Brooklyn Center Civil War Enlistees”, Minnesota Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sept.

1989), 114-116.

Carley, Kenneth, Minnesota in the Civil War, Minneapolis, 1961.

Carley, Kenneth, Minnesota in the Civil War – An Illustrated History, St. Paul, 2000.

Castle, Henry A., Minnesota, Its Story and Biography, Chicago and New York, 1915, 183-

215.

Chicoine, Stephen, “The Oldest Soldier: for 80 years the ex-slave and former Union soldier

Henry Mack was the continuing reminder of the dedication and service of African

Americans in the Military”, American Legacy, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 2004), 47-48, 50, 52,

54.

Clodfelter, Michael, The Dakota War: The United Sates Versus the Sioux, 1862-1865,

Jefferson (NC), 1998.

Constitution and By-Laws of the Minnesota Pioneer Guard, Organized April 17, 1856, St.

Paul, 1856.

Cooke, Chauncey H., A Soldier Boy‟s Letters to his Father and Mother 1862-65,

Independence (WI), 1915.

Cooke, Chauncey H., “A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke”,

Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1920).

Dalby, John, Rice County Military Personnel, Volume I, Roseville (MN), 1995.


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Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War (Gwen Meyer, comp.), Stories of Civil

War Veterans, Researched and Written by Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil

War, 1861-1865, 1994.

Dilts, Bryan L. (comp.), 1890 Minnesota Census Index of Civil War Veterans or their

Widows, Salt Lake City, 1985.

Donnelly, Kate, “A Country Fourth of July in Minnesota, 1862”, Minnesota History, Vol.

38, No. 2 (June 1962), 72-73.

Downs, Lynwood G., “The Soldier Vote and Minnesota Politics”, Minnesota History, Vol.

26, No. 3 (September 1945), 187-210.

Dyer, Frederick H, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Vol. III, New York, 1959,

1293-1301.

Ellis, Richard N., “Political Pressures on Army Policies on the Northern Plains 1862 –

1865”, Minnesota History, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Summer 1970), 42-53.

Engebretson, Betty L., “Minnesota Women in the Civil War‟, Gopher Historian, Vol. 17,

No. 3 (Spring 1963), 10-13, also Gopher Reader II, St. Paul, 1965, 238-241.

Executive Documents of the State of Minnesota, For The Year 1861, St. Paul, 1862,

(Annual Report of the Adjutant General, also for 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865 and 1866).

Fullard, Joyce, “Venerable Old Fort Snelling, Minnesota Took On A New Role As A Union

Training Center In The Civil War”, America's Civil War, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Nov. 1990), 58.

Furness, Marion Ramsey, “Governor Ramsey and Frontier Minnesota: Impressions from

His Diary and Letters”, Minnesota History, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec. 1947), 325-328.

Gillespie, Vera W., A Study of Four Minnesota Newspapers During the Civil War Period,

1861 - 1865, unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Minnesota, 1946.

Gove, Gertrude B., A History of St. Cloud in the Civil War, 1858 - 1865, St. Cloud (MN),

1976.

“Guide to finding Civil War soldiers”, Minnesota Genealogist, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Dec. 1990),

150.

Harbison, Winfred A., “President Lincoln and the Faribault Fire-Eater”, Minnesota History,

Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sept. 1930), 269-286.

Haugland, John C., “Politics, Patronage, and Ramsey‟s Rise to Power, 1861-63”, Minnesota

History, Vol. 37, No. 8 (Dec. 1961), 324-334.


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Heck, Frank H., The Civil War Veteran in Minnesota Life and Politics, Oxford (OH), 1941.

Heck, Frank H., “The Grand Army of the Republic in Minnesota, 1866-80”, Minnesota

History, Vol. 16, No.4 (Dec. 1935), 427-444.

Hedren, Paul L., “On Duty at Fort Ridgely, Minnesota: 1853 – 1857”, South Dakota

History, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1977), 168-192.

Heilbron, Bertha L., “Matthew Brady‟s Portraits of Prominent Minnesotans”, Minnesota

History, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Sept. 1956), 130-132.

Hicks, John D., “The Organization of the Volunteer Army in 1861 with Special Reference

to Minnesota”, Minnesota History Bulletin, II (February 1918), 324-368.

Howe, Henry, The Times of the Rebellion in the West..., Cincinnati, 1867.

Jones, Robert H., The Civil War in the Northwest: Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota

and the Dakotas, Norman (OK), 1960.

Josephy, Alvin M. Jr., The Civil War in the American West, New York, 1991.

“Justice C. Ramsey's Report on the Condition of Minnesota Volunteers”, Minnesota

Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sept. 1989), 132.

Keckeisen, James W., A Historic Study of the Life of the Minnesota Soldier in the Civil

War, unpublished M.A. thesis, Mankato State University, 1965.

Kellett, Clark (ed.), “1861: First Year of the Civil War”, Brown County's Heritage, Vol. 11,

No. 1 (March 1961).

Klement, Frank, “The Abolition Movement in Minnesota”, Minnesota History, Vol. 32, No.

1 (March 1951), 114-129.

Kunz, Virginia B., Muskets to Missiles, A Military History of Minnesota, St. Paul, 1958.

LeDuc, William G., Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster, St. Paul, 1963.

Legried, Jean R., “Robson Post No. 5 G.A.R. biographies housed in Albert Lea”, Minnesota

Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 2 (June 1989), 78-80.

Loehr, Rodney C., “The State of Minnesota 1860 – 1870”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 17, No. 3

(Spring 1963), 6-9, also Gopher Reader II, St. Paul, 1975, 227-230.


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Montjeau-Marz, Corinne L., The Dakota Internment at Fort Snelling 1862-64, St. Paul,

2005.

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Minnesota Commandery, Glimpses

of the Nation's Struggle, 6 volumes, St. Paul, 1887-1903. (Pertinent articles relating to

specific Minnesota military units are cited in next section.)

Minnesota Adjutant General‟s Report of 1866, alphabetical compilation by Park

Genealogical Books, Roseville, 1997.

The Minnesota Branch Sanitary Commission. Its Organization and Method of Work, St.

Paul, 1864.

Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesotans in the Civil and Indian Wars, An Index to the

Rosters in Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars, 1861 - 1865, St. Paul, 1936.

“Minnesotans Buried at Andersonville”, Minnesota Genealogist, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Sept.

1982), 146.

Moen, Margaret, “Six paintings in Minnesota's Capital building vividly re-create the young

state's Civil War service.”, America's Civil War, November 1994, 76-87.

Muckala, Steven H., Clearwater County in the Civil War, ca. 1995.

Neill, Edward D., Minnesota's Soldiers During the Suppression of the Rebellion of the

Slave Holding States, Minneapolis, 1878. (Also as below)

Neill, Edward D., The History of Minnesota:.., Minneapolis, 1882, 644-758.

Nesheim, Gordon R., The Contribution of Houston County to the Civil and Indian Wars,

unpublished M.A. thesis, Winona State University, 1967.

Nichols, David A., “The Other Civil War: Lincoln and the Indians”, Minnesota History,

Vol. 44, No. 1 (Spring 1974), 2-15.

Norland, Roger A., Composite Membership Rosters: Blue Earth County G.A.R.

Posts: William C. Durkee Post #25 (Eagle Lake, MN); Andrew J. Murphy Post

#108 (Lake Crystal, MN); Samuel Louden Post #74 (Mapleton, MN) & Alexander

Wilkin Post #19 (Mankato, MN), including brief post histories, unpublished manuscript,

1989.

Norland, Roger A., Common Men, Uncommon Times: Blue Earth County in The Civil and

Indian War, 1861 - 1865, Mankato, 1990.


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Noyes, Edward, “Neighbors 'To The Rescue': Wisconsin and Iowa Troops Fight Boredom,

Not Indians, in Minnesota in 1862”, Minnesota History, Vol. 46, No. 8 (Winter 1979), 312-

327.

Nziramasanga, Caiphas T., “Minnesota: First State to Send Troops”, Journal of the West,

Vol. 14 (June 1975), 42-59.

Obst, Janis, “Minnesota's Battle Flags”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Winter 1967-

1968), 9-13.

Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army, Part VII,

Washington, 1867, 302-327.

“Official Correspondence Pertaining to the War of the Outbreak, 1862 – 1865”, South

Dakota Historical Collections, Vol. 8 (1916), 100-558.

Osman Stephen E., Fort Snelling and the Civil War, book manuscript pending publication,

Minnesota Historical Society Historic Sites South District, Senior Historian files.

Osman, Stephen E., “A Guide to Minnesota Soldiers”, Minnesota Genealogist, Vol. 22, No.

2 (June 1991), 63-66.

Osman, Stephen E. (comp.), Minnesota in the Civil War 1861 - 1866: A Bibliography of

Published Sources, St. Paul, 2006.

Osman, Stephen E. and Williams, Brenda, “Civil War Burials in the Fort Snelling Post

Cemetery”, Minnesota Genealogist, pending publication.

Patrick, Stewart G., A History of the Regimental Bands of Minnesota During the Civil War,

unpublished PhD dissertation, University of North Dakota, 1972.

Pensioners on the Roll as of January 1, 1883 (Living in Minnesota) with Every Name Index,

Minneapolis, 1994.

“Pipestone County Civil War Veterans”, Minnesota Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Sept.

1989), 129.

Pipestone County Genealogical Society and Pipestone County Historical Society, And What

Nobler Purpose: Civil War Veterans and Pipestone County, Minnesota, Pipestone, 2000.

Pipestone County Genealogical Society, Biographies of Civil War Veterans Who Came to

Pipestone County, Minnesota, Pipestone, 1991.

Poatgieter, A. Hermina, “War”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Fall 1961), 1-2.


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Prucha, F. Paul, “Minnesota's Attitude toward the Southern Case for Secession”, Minnesota

History, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Dec. 1943), 307-317.

Ramsey, Alexander, “Minnesota and the War”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle, 2nd

Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1889, 227-231.

Report of the Minnesota Commission Appointed to Erect a Monument in the National

Cemetery at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., St. Paul (?), 1922.

Report of the Minnesota Commission Appointed to Erect Monuments in the National

Military Cemeteries at Little Rock, Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee, Andersonville,

Georgia, St. Paul (?), 1916.

Richardson, Antona H., Roll of the Dead, 1886-1906: Department of Minnesota, Grand

Army of the Republic, St. Paul, 2000.

Ridge, Martin, “Ignatius Donnelly: Minnesota Congressman 1863-69”, Minnesota History,

Vol. 36, No. 5 (March 1959), 173-183.

Roddis, Louis H., The Indian Wars of Minnesota, Cedar Rapids, 1956.

Sanborn, John B., “The Campaign in Missouri in September and October 1864”, Glimpses

of the Nation's Struggle, 3rd Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1890, 135-204.

Seeba, Joseph P., Minnesota, Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War, M.A. thesis,

California State University, 1999.

Shippee, Lester B., “Social and Economic Effects of the Civil War With Special Reference

to Minnesota”, Minnesota History, Vol. 2, No. 6 (May 1918), 389-412.

Skarstein, Karl Jakob, Krigen Mot Siouxene: Nordmenn Mot Indianere 1862-1863, Oslo,

2005.

Smith, Leland P., Alphabetical List of Officers Holding Commissions in Minnesota

Volunteer Units 1861 - 1866, as shown in the rolls of Minnesota in the Civil War and

Indian Wars, St. Paul, 1994.

Todd, Frederick P., American Military Equipage 1851 - 1872, Volume II, State Forces, New

York, 1983, 923-928.

Toensing, Wallace F., A List of Civil War Veterans in Minnesota Compiled from Various

Sources, St. Paul, ca. 1990.

Tordoff, Jeffrey P., “A Militia Cartridge Box from Minnesota”, Minnesota History, Vol. 54,

No. 4 (Winter 1996-97), 175-176.


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Transferring the War Flags From the Old to the New Capitol, St. Paul, Minn., St. Paul,

1905.

Trenerry, Walter N., “The Minnesota Rebellion Act of 1862, A Legal Dilemma of the Civil

War”, Minnesota History, Vol. 35, No. 1 (March 1956), 1-10.

Trenerry, Walter N., “Votes for Minnesota's Civil War Soldiers”, Minnesota History, Vol.

36, No. 5 (March 1959), 167-172.

Trenerry, Walter N., “When the Boys Came Home”, Minnesota History, Vol. 38, No. 6

(June 1964), 287-297.

Trulson, Reid S., Chatfield and the Civil War, Minneapolis, 1969.

“Record of the Minnesota Regiments”, The Union Army. A History of Military Affairs in

the Loyal States 1861 - 65, Records of the Regiments..., Vol. IV, Madison, 1908, 98-114.

Warren, Paula S., “Minnesota Civil War Soldiers in Buffalo County Wisconsin”, Minnesota

Genealogist, Vol. 20, No. 1 (March 1989), 11.

Warren, Paula S., “St. Charles, Minnesota in the Civil War”, Minnesota Genealogist, Vol.

18, No. 1 (March 1987), 29-30.

Weddle, Kevin J., Appointments and Promotions: Discrimination in Minnesota Volunteer

Regiments during the Civil War, unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Minnesota

Graduate School, 1986.

Weddle, Kevin J., “Ethnic Discrimination in Minnesota Volunteer Regiments during the

Civil War”, Civil War History, Vol. 35 (Sept. 1989), 239-259.

Wiggins, David, “The Civil War”, Roots, Volume 12, No. 3 (Spring 1984).

Woolworth, Alan R., Camera and Sketchbook: Witnesses to the Sioux Uprising of 1862,

Roseville (MN), 2004.

Zalusky, Joseph W. (ed.), “The St. Anthony Zouaves”, Hennepin County History, Vol. 20,

No. 1 (Summer 1960), 3-5.

Zorn, Roman J., “Minnesota Public Opinion and the Secession Controversy, December

1860 - April 1861”, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 36 (Dec. 1949), 435-456.


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PART TWO - MILITARY UNIT REFERENCES

Rosters and brief histories and of each military unit written by participants are found in

Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861 - 1865, St. Paul, 1890. Minnesota units that

participated in the expeditions against the Sioux of 1862, 1863 and 1864 are mentioned in

many of the histories of those expeditions. Only a few such references are cited under each

unit below; please refer to the General References above and to the bibliographic listings of

each of the various other units participating in those expeditions for possible additional

sources.

FIRST REGIMENT AND FIRST BATTALION INFANTRY

Bassett, M.H., From Bull Run to Bristow Station, St. Paul, 1962.

Blegen, Theodore C., “The First Minnesota”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Nov. 1950),

16.

Bloomer, Samuel, “A Soldier's Christmas”, Minnesota History, Vol. 37, No. 8 (Dec. 1961),

334.

Bruce, Scott W., “Food and Morale in the First Minnesota”, Papers From The Civil War

Seminar, Fall, 1995, University of St. Thomas Department of History, St. Paul, 1995, 67-

78.

Buck, Anita, “To The Last Man”, Army, March, 1989, 42-45.

Caukin, Gavin B., “From Cold Harbor to Petersburg with the Second Army Corps”, War

Papers, No. 4 (MOLLUS-Oregon), Portland, 1896.

Colvill, William, Bull Run: Address of Colonel William Colvill at the Reunion of the

Survivors of the 1st Minnesota, June 21, 1877, 1877 (?).

Coolidge, Calvin, Address of...Dedicating a Memorial to Colonel William Colvill at

Cannon Falls, Minnesota, July 29, 1928, Washington, 1928.

Correspondence on the Occasion of the Presentation by Major General Sanford, United

States Minister Residing at the Court of Brussels, of a Battery of Steel Cannon to the State

of Minnesota for the Use of the First Minnesota Regiment of Volunteers, St. Paul, 1862.

Cowie, Ann, “St. Paul's First Medal of Honor Winner: Marshall Sherman and the Civil

War”, Ramsey County History, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall 1967), 3-6.


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Daniels, Treffle, Johnson, William and Reinertson, Carl, “Another Minnesota First”,

Gopher Historian, Vol. 6, No. 5 (January 1952), 11,21.

Czech, Kenneth P., “At Gettysburg the 1st Minnesota Stood Strong When the Going Was

Toughest

, America's Civil War, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Nov. 1989), 12.

Davies, Kenneth M., To The Last Man: The Chronicle of the 135th Infantry Regiment of

Minnesota, St. Paul, 1982.

Davis, Cushman K., Address before the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, August 13,

1884, St. Paul, 1884.

Dupre, Huntley, Edward Duffield Neill: Pioneer Educator, St. Paul, 1949.

[Eaton Family], “Gettysburg Hero Scion of Rugged Family Tree”, The Southern

Minnesotan, 1930-33, 9-10, 28.

Floca, Samuel W. Jr., “Not A Man Wavered”: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg (text to

accompany limited edition print of the same title by Dale Gallon), Gettysburg, 1994.

Fredericks, Tod H. and Osman, Stephen E., “Minnesota 1st Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1864”,

(plate no. 733), Military Collector & Historian, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Summer 1995).

Groat, J.N., Pages Clothed in the Plainest of Dress: The Groat Diary, Anoka (MN), 1988.

Hage, Anne A., “The Battle of Gettysburg as seen by Minnesota Soldiers”, Minnesota

History, Vol. 38, No. 6 (June 1963), 245-257.

Haiber, William and Haiber, Robert, The First Minnesota at Gettysburg, Poughquag (NY),

1991.

Haiber, William and Haiber, Robert, Thunderbolt in Blue: The History of the First

Minnesota Regiment of Volunteers, Poughquag (NY), 1992.

Hand, Daniel, “Reminiscences of An Army Surgeon”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle

(MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1887, 276-307.

Harris, John W., “Uniforming the First Minnesota”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 17, No. 3

(Spring 1963), 14-14, also Gopher Reader II, St. Paul, 1975, 236-237.

Heffelfinger, Lucia L. Peavey, Memoirs of Christopher B. Heffelfinger, Minneapolis, 1922.


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Hill, Patrick M., “Colors of War: The 28th

Virginia Regiment‟s Flag in Minnesota”,

Minnesota History, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Summer 2000), 58-73.

Hill, Patrick M., “The St. Paul Fireman Who Rose to Command the First Minnesota

Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg”, Ramsey County History, Vol. 38, No. 1

(Spring 2003), 13-16.

Hill, Patrick M., Johnson, Greg and Tholl, Perry, “On this Spot: Locating the 1st Minnesota

Monument at Gettysburg”, Gettysburg: Historical Articles of Lasting Interest, Issue Number

32 (Jan. 2005), 96-114.

Holcombe, Return I., History of the First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1861 -

1864, Stillwater, 1916.

Hospes, Adolphus C., Roster of the First Minnesota Regiment, Volunteer Infantry,

Stillwater, 1910.

Imholte, John Q., The First Volunteers: History of the First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment,

1861 - 1865, Minneapolis, 1963.

Kane, Dorothy, “Mortimer The Drummer Boy”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jan.

1949), 9-11.

King, Josias R., “The Battle of Bull Run - A Confederate Victory Obtained But Not

Achieved”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle, 6th Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1909,

497-510.

Kuehn, Karen A., “‟No Grander Heroism‟: The First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry

Regiment from Bull Run to Gettysburg”, Hennepin History Magazine, Vol. 58, No. 3

(Summer 1999), 14-34.

Ladd, Audrey and David (eds.), The Bachelder Papers: Gettysburg in Their Own Words,

Dayton, 1994.

Langellier, John and White, John, Union Infantryman 1861-65, Osprey Warrior Series #31,

Oxford (UK), 2001, plate C, 60-61.

Larsen, Arthur J. (ed.), Crusader and Feminist, Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858 -

1865, St. Paul, 1934.

Lee, Aaron, From the Atlantic to the Pacific, Reminiscences of Pioneer Life and Travels

Across the Continent...also a Graphic Account of His Army Experiences in the Civil War,

by Aaron Lee, Member of First Minnesota Infantry., Seattle, 1915.


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Leehan, Brian, Field of Fire: The 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of

Gettysburg July 2nd & 3rd, 1863, video recording, 1994.

Leehan, Brian, Pale Horse on Plum Run: The First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry in the

Gettysburg Campaign, June/July 1863, Minneapolis, 2000.

Lochren, Lieutenant William, “Narrative of the First Regiment.”, Minnesota in the Civil and

Indian Wars 1861-1865., St. Paul, 1890, 1-66.

Lochren, William, “The First Minnesota at Gettysburg”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle,

3rd Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1890, 42-56.

Loehr, Rodney C., “The First Minnesota at Gettysburg”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 16, No. 2

(Winter 1961-1962), 1-5, also Gopher Reader II, St. Paul, 1975, 231-235.

Longacre, Edward G. (ed.), “'Indeed We Did Fight', A Soldier's Letters Describe the First

Minnesota Regiment Before and During the First Battle of Bull Run”, Minnesota History,

Vol. 47, No. 2 (Summer 1980), 63-70.

Maginnis, Martin, The Army of the Potomac. “Rally on Washington!” – “On to

Richmond.” Address of Martin Maginnis before the Society of the Army of the Potomac at

its Fourteenth Annual Reunion, Delivered in National Theatre at Washington, Wednesday,

May 16, 1883., Washington, 1883.

Martinson, Flora, “The Battle of Gettysburg”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Winter

1961-1962), 6-7.

Meinhard, Robert W., “The First Minnesota at Gettysburg”, Gettysburg: Historical Articles

of Lasting Interest, Issue Number 5 (July 1991), 79-88.

“Minnesota Men Whose Graves Are Marked On The Battlefield Of Gettysburg”, Minnesota

Genealogist, Vol. 14, No. 2 (June 1983), 88.

Moe, Richard, The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota

Volunteers, New York, 1993, St. Paul 2001.

Neill, Edward D., “Incidents of the Battles of Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill”, Glimpses of the

Nation's Struggle, 3rd Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1893, 454-479.

Hartwig, Scott (ed.), “No More Gallant Deed”, America‟s Civil War, Vol. 14, Issue 3 (July

2001), 38+.

Norland, Roger, “Bugler of the First Minnesota: The Life of Ernst Meyer”, Military

Images, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Nov./Dec/ 1995), 27, 37.


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Osman, Stephen E., “A Moment in Time”, Minnesota History, Vol. 59, No. 7 (Winter

2005-06), 340-347.

Osman, Stephen E., “Army Drawers in the Civil War”, Military Collector & Historian, Vol.

47, No. 3 (Fall 1995), 138-141.

Osman, Stephen E., “Read the Fine Print”, North South Trader‟s Civil War, Vol. XXIV,

No. 5 (September/October 1997), 52-56.

Osman, Stephen E., The First Minnesota, (text to accompany limited edition print of the

same title by Don Troiani), Southbury (CT), 1999.

Paulson, Gary, Soldier‟s Heart, Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the

Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers, New York, 1998.

Pierce, Lynn E., The 1st Minnesota Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, unpublished M.A.

thesis, Mankato State University, 1959.

Pressnell, Thomas H., Incidents in the Civil War, 1908-09, typescript, Minnesota Historical

Society.

Reisberg, Joanne A., Save the Colors: A Civil War Battle Cry, Young Americans Series

#5, Shippensburg (PA), 2001.

Rice, Thomas, “Samuel Smith and the First Minnesota Monument at Gettysburg”,

Minnesota History, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Spring 2006), 18-25.

Rodenbough, Theodore F. (ed.), “A Minnesota Boy's First Battle”, Uncle Sam's Medal of

Honor, New York, 1886, 1-20.

Searles, Jasper N., “The First Minnesota Infantry, U.S. Volunteers”, Glimpses of the

Nation's Struggle, 2nd Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1890, 80-113.

Smith, G. Hubert, “A Frontier Fort in Peacetime”, Minnesota History, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Fall

1976), 126-128.

Souvenir, Thirty fifth Annual Reunion of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, St. Paul,

Minn. June 20-21, 1902.

Sully, Langdon, No Tears for the General: The Life of Alfred Sully, 1821 - 1879, Palo Alto

(CA), 1974.

Taylor, Isaac L. (Hazel C. Wolf, ed.), “Campaigning with the First Minnesota, a Civil War

Diary”, Minnesota History, Vol. 25 (1944), 11-39, 117-52, 224-57, 342-61.


17

Thackery, David T., “Daniel Bond: Another Voice From the First Minnesota”, OAH

Magazine of History, Vol. 8 (Fall 1993), 14-18.

Thomas, Dean S., Ready...Aim...Fire! Small Arms Ammunition in the Battle of

Gettysburg, Arendtsville (PA), 1981, 19, 60.

Valois, Renee, “Rally „Round the Flags”, The History Channel Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 5

(September/October 2006), 22-17.

Wendel, Vickie, “First of the FIRST", Civil War Times Illustrated, Vol. 35, No. 4 (August

1996), 42-47.

Wiggins, David S., “Charley's War”, Roots, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Spring 1984), 8-15.

Wright, James A. (Steven J. Keillor, ed.), No More Gallant A Deed: a Civil War memoir of

the First Minnesota Volunteers, St. Paul, 2001.

Zalusky, Joseph W. (ed.), “The Civil War: Minnesota's Part in the Sanguinary Battle of

Gettysburg”, Hennepin County History, Volume 23, No. 1 (Summer 1963), 14-21.

Zalusky, Joseph W. (ed.), “The St. Anthony Zouaves”, Hennepin County History, Vol. 20,

No. 1 (Summer 1960), 3-5.

Zdon, Al, “1861: Minnesota forms a regiment and travels East to take part in the Battle of

Bull Run – as seen through the eyes of a St. Paul volunteer.”, The Minnesota American

Legion and Auxiliary Legionnaire, Volume 83, No. 6 (June, 2001), 10-12.


18

SECOND REGIMENT INFANTRY

Andrews, Melodie, “They Asked to Go: The Untold story of Early Blue Earth County

Women Veterans”, The Blue Earth County Historian, Fall 2005, 4.

Bircher, William, A Drummer-boy's Diary, Comprising Four Years of Service with the

Second Regiment Minnesota Veteran Volunteers, 1861 - 1865, St. Paul, 1889.

Bircher, William (Newell L. Chester, ed.), A Drummer-boy's Diary, Comprising Four Years

of Service with the Second Regiment Minnesota Veteran Volunteers, 1861 - 1865, St.

Cloud, 1995.

Bishop, General J.W., “Narrative of the Second Regiment.”, Minnesota in the Civil and


Bishop, Judson W., Official Records Concerning the Second Regiment Minnesota Veteran

Volunteer Infantry, St. Paul, 1887.

Bishop, Judson W., The Story of a Regiment, Being a Narrative of the Service of the

Second Regiment, Minnesota Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War of 1861 - 1865,

St. Paul, 1890.

Bishop, Judson W. (Newell L. Chester, ed.), The Story of a Regiment, Being a Narrative of

the Service of the Second Regiment, Minnesota Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War

of 1861 - 1865, St. Cloud, 1997.

Bishop, Judson W., “The Mill Springs Campaign; Personal Experiences and Observations

of a Company Officer”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle, 2nd Series (MOLLUS-Minn.),

St. Paul, 1890, 52-79.

Bishop, Judson W., “Van DerVeer's Brigade at Chickamauga”, Glimpses of the Nation's

Struggle, 6th Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1909, 53-75.

Carley, Ken, “The Second Minnesota in the West”, Minnesota History, Vol. 38, No. 6 (June

1963), 258-73.

Donahower, Jeremiah C., “Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge”, Glimpses of the

Nation's Struggle, 5th Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1898, 74-102.

Eigelsbach, William, B., “The blood-red blossom of war: the experiences of a Minnesota

soldier in the Civil War”, Library Development Review, 1996-1997, 14-18.

Foot, Samuel, Memorial of John Foot, Late Captain in Second Regiment of Minnesota

Volunteers, New York, 1862.


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Gleason, Levi, “The Experiences and Observations of a Drafted Man in the Civil War”,

Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle, 6th Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1909, 545-556.

Griffin, David Brainard (Joan Albertson, ed.), Letters Home To Minnesota: The Second

Minnesota Volunteers, Spokane, 1997.

Imm, Ivan E., “The Civil War as Seen by Colonel James George, Second Minnesota

Volunteer Regiment”, Olmstead County, Minn. Historical Society Monthly Bulletin, Vol. II

(1960), 33-39.

In the Matter of the Request for Removal of the Second Minnesota Monument from

DeLong Point to Strock Knob..., St. Paul (?), 1911.

In the matter of the request by survivors of Van Derveer's Brigade for restoration of its

historical tablet to its original and proper position on De Long Point, Missionary Ridge:

before the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commissionbrief of the

survivors of the Second Minnesota Regiment., St. Paul, 1911.

Jennison, Samuel P., “The Illusions of a Soldier”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle


Johnson, Richard W., Remarks Made by Gen. R. W. Johnson at the 23rd

Reunion of the

Second Minnesota Volunteers, St. Paul, 1885.


No. 1 (March 1961).

LeBlanc, Andre, “Don‟t Waste Any Cartridges, Now, Boys! - The Second Minnesota

Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Chicamauga”, Papers From The Civil War Seminar, Fall,

1993, University of St. Thomas Department of History, St. Paul, 1995.

Martinson, Flora, “The Second Minnesota at Missionary Ridge", Gopher Historian, Vol. 16,

No. 3 (Spring 1962), 14-15.

Norland, Roger, “Damned If You Do, Dead If You Don‟t”, Military Images, Vol. XVII, No.

1 (August 1995), 22.

Norland, Roger, “Tennessee Two-Step: A Small Incident in a Large War”, Military Images,

Vol. XXI, No. 1 (July-August 1999), 34-37.

Olmanson, Bernt, Letters of Bernt Olmanson, a Union Soldier in the Civil War 1861 - 1865,

Fairfax (MN), n.d.


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Osman, Stephen E., “Read the Fine Print”, North South Trader‟s Civil War, Vol. XXIV,

No. 5 (September/October 1997), 52-56.

Pendergast, Timothy H., Pen Pictures from the Second Minnesota, Roseville (MN), 1998.

Reed, Axel Hayford, Genealogical Record of the Reads, the Reeds, the Bisbees, the

Bradfords..., Glencoe (MN), 1915.

Schmid, Benedict, The Benedict Schmid Civil War Diary: For the Time of May 28, 1864 -

July 21, 1865: Company G, Second Regiment of Minnesota, Excelsior (MN), 1976.

Westcott, Chester R., The Civil War Diary of Chester Rockwell Westcott and Letters to His

Sister, Susan Westcott, Los Altos Hills [CA], 1986.

Wheaton, George A., Letters of George A. Wheaton as transcribed by his Grandson Robert

K. Dougan and wife Martha, Rancho Mirage (CA), 1998.


21

THIRD REGIMENT INFANTRY

Andrews, Alice E. (ed.), Christopher C. Andrews...General in the Civil War. Recollections,

1829 - 1922, Cleveland, 1928.

Andrews, Christopher C., Hints To Company Officers On Their Military Duties, New York,

1863.

Andrews, Christopher C., “My Experience in Rebel Prisons”, Glimpses of the Nation's


Andrews, Gen. C.C., “Narrative of the Third Regiment.”, Minnesota in the Civil and Indian

Wars 1861-1865., St. Paul, 1890, 147-197.

Andrews, Christopher C., “The Surrender of the Third Regiment Minnesota Volunteer

Infantry”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1887, 337-368.

Andrews Christopher C., “The Third Minnesota in the Battle of Fitzhough's Woods”,


Brooksher, William R. and Snider, David K., “Surrender or Die”, Military History, Vol. 1,

No. 4 (Feb. 1985), 29.

Finnell, Arthur L., “Identifying Charles Roos: forgotten Civil War Soldier”, Minnesota

Genealogist, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec. 1991), 172-173.

Fitzharris, Joseph C., “Field Officer Courts and U.S. Civil War Military Justice”, The

Journal of Military History, Vol. 68 (January 2004), 47-72.

Fitzharris, Joseph C., “Our Disgraceful Surrender: The Third Minnesota Infantry‟s

Disintegration and Reconstruction in 1862-63”, Military History of the West, Vol. 30, No. 1

(Spring 2000).

Hafendorfer, Kenneth, The Distant Storm: Murfreesboro Raid July 13, 1862, Louisville,

1997.

Hoit, James B., “Reminiscences of My Confinement as a Prisoner of War”, Glimpses of the


Hubbard, Lucius F., Minnesota in the Campaigns of Vicksburg, November 1862 - July

1863, St. Paul (?), 1907.

Johnson, Roy P., “The Siege at Fort Abercrombie”, North Dakota History, Vol. 24, No. 1

(Jan. 1957), 4-79.


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No. 1 (March 1961).

Larson, Douglas E., “Private Alfred Gales: From Slavery to Freedom”, Minnesota History,

Vol. 57, No. 6 (Summer 2001), 274-283.

Lombard, Charles W., History of the Third Regiment Infantry Minnesota Volunteers with a

Final Record of the Original Regiment, Faribault, 1869.

Martinson, Flora, “Entering Little Rock”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Winter 1962-

1963), 18-19.

Mattson, Hans, “Early Days of Reconstruction in Northeastern Arkansas”, Glimpses of the

Nation's Struggle, 2nd Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1890, 322-337.

Mattson, Hans, Reminiscences: The Story of an Immigrant, St. Paul, 1892, 59-93.

Morse, William F., “The Indian Campaign in Minnesota in 1862”, Personal Recollections

of the War of the Rebellion, 4th Series (MOLLUS-New York), New York, 1912, 184-196.

Report of the Military Service of C.C. Andrews: Brigadier General and Brevet Major

General, U.S. Volunteers, in the War of the Rebellion: furnished in compliance with the

request from the Adjutant General‟s Office, U.S. Army, dated April 10, 1872., 1872 (?).

Reunions of the Third Minnesota Infantry Volunteers, (3rd Reunion, 1886 through 47th

Reunion, 1931, bound together).

Simon, Donald J., “The Third Minnesota Regiment in Arkansas, 1863 – 1865”, Minnesota

History, Vol. 40, No. 6 (Summer 1967), 281-292.

Strand, Charles J., Four Years with a Minnesota Soldier in the Civil War: typescript by

Charles E. Hunt, Rapid City, SD, 1994.

Swanson, Alan (ed.), “The Civil War Letters of Olof Lilejegren”, Swedish Pioneer

Historical Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 2 (1980), 86-121.

Trenerry, Walter N., “Lester's Surrender at Murfreesboro”, Minnesota History, Vol. 39, No.

5 (Spring 1965), 191-197.

Weddle, Kevin, “Disgraced at Murfreesboro, the 3rd Minnesota Recovers to Forge a Proud

Fighting Record”, America's Civil War, Vol. 4, No. 1 (May 1991), 12-13, 20-21.


23

FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY

Anderson, Peter D., (Peterson, Ralph C.E., ed.), Marching Barefoot, A Collection of Civil

War Letters written by Peter Daniel Anderson to his wife and children in Scandia,

Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1991.

Baldwin, Ray, Looking Back, Marshall (MN), 1993.

Brown, Alonzo L., History of the Fourth Regiment of Minnesota Infantry Volunteers

During the Great Rebellion, 1861 - 1865, St. Paul, 1892.

Brown, Captain Alonzo L., “Narrative of the Fourth Regiment.”, Minnesota in the Civil and


Brown, Fred E., “The Battle of Altoona”, Civil War History, Vol. 6, No. 3 (September

1960), 277-297.

Childs, Henry W., “The Life and Work of General Sanborn”, Minnesota Historical Society

Collections, Vol. 10, Pt. 2 (1905), 338-356.

Gardstrom, Dwight A., “A History of the Fourth Regimental Band and Musicians of the

Fourth Minnesota Infantry Volunteers During the War of the Great Rebellion, 1861-1865”,

unpublished PhD. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1989.


1863, St. Paul (?), 1907.

Hubbard, Lucius F., “Minnesota in the Battles of Corinth”, Glimpses of the Nation's


Martinson, Flora, “The Fourth Minnesota Entering Vicksburg”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 17,

No. 3 (Spring 1963), 16-17.

Neiderheiser, Cloudaugh, “Some Civil War Wallpaper Newspapers”, Minnesota History,

Vol. 33, No. 5 (Spring 1953), 211-213.

Sanborn, John B., Some Descriptions of the Battles in Which the Commands of General

John B. Sanborn, of St. Paul, Minnesota, Participated in the Departments of Tennessee and

Missouri During the Rebellion of 1861 - 1865, St. Paul, 1900 (?).

Shaw, Thomas G., “A Minnesota Officer's Rain Cap”, Military Collector & Historian, Vol.

47, No. 2 (Summer 1995).


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“A Wallpaper Newspaper of the Civil War”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Spring

1965), 6-7.

Young, Eric, Houle, Thomas (ed.), The Letters of Eric (Wedmark) Young, 1858-1866,

Sioux Falls, 1992.

Young, Eric, Houle, Thomas (ed.), Additional Letters of Eric (Wedmark) Young from

1858-1866, Sioux Falls, 1992.


25

FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY

Allen, Charles J., “Some Account and Recollections of the Operations Against the City of

Mobile and Its Defences, 1864 and 1865”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle (MOLLUS-

Minn.), St. Paul, 1887, 54-88.

Bishop, John F., “The Yellow Medicine Massacre”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle, 3rd


“Levi Carr Letter”, North Dakota Historical Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oct. 1926), 62-64.

Czech, Kenneth P., “The much-traveled 5th Minnesota fought Sioux warriors and

Confederate butternuts in six states and 34 battles”, America's Civil War, Vol. 10, No. 5

(Nov. 1997), 18, 22, 24, 78.

Hubbard, Lucius F., “Civil War Papers”, Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society,

XII (1908), 531-638.



Hubbard, Lucius F., “Minnesota in the Battles of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864”,



1863, St. Paul (?), 1907.

Hubbard, Lucius F., Minnesota in the Red River Expedition, 1864 and the Campaign of

Mobile, 1865, St. Paul (?), 1908.

Hubbard, Gen. L.F., “Narrative of the Fifth Regiment.”, Minnesota in the Civil and Indian

Wars 1861-1865., St. Paul, 1890, 243-299.

Hubbard, Lucius F., “The Red River Expedition”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle, 2nd


Johnson, Roy P., “The Siege at Fort Abercrombie”, North Dakota History, Vol. 24, No. 1

(Jan. 1957), 4-79.

Martin, N., “Letters of a Union Officer: L.F. Hubbard and the Civil War”, Minnesota


Martinson, Flora, “The Battle of Nashville”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Winter

1964-1965), 6-7.


26

Schmidt, Peter C., A Historical Study of the Fifth Minnesota Infantry Regiment in the Civil

War, unpublished M.A. thesis, Mankato State University, 1963.

Shannon, James P. (ed.), “Archbishop Ireland's Experiences as a Civil War Chaplain”,

Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 39 (Oct. 1953), 298-305.

Wall, Oscar Garret, Recollections of the Sioux Massacre: An Authentic History of the

Yellow Medicine Incident, of the Fate of Marsh and his Men, of the Siege and Battles of

Fort Ridgely, and of Other Important Battles and Experiences. Together with a Historical

Sketch of the Sibley Expedition of 1863., Lake City, 1909.


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SIXTH REGIMENT INFANTRY

Served on 1863 Indian Expedition with Seventh and Tenth Infantry, Third Battery Light

Artillery and Mounted Rangers. Citations under those, and the general headings might

provide additional details of campaign service.



Minn.), St. Paul, 1887, 54-88.

Biersach, Paul C., When We Soldiers Froze to Death - Almost, Milwaukee, 1927.

Boyd, Robert K. and Egan, J. J., The Battle of Birch Couley, as described by two of the

participants, Olivia [MN]. 1926.

Boyd, Robert K., The battle of Birch Coulee; a wounded man‟s description of a battle

with the Indians, Eau Claire, 1925.

Carley, Ken, “The Sioux Campaign of 1862, Sibley's Letters to His Wife”, Minnesota


Connolly, Alonzo P., A Thrilling Narrative of The Minnesota Massacre and the Sioux War

of 1862-63, Chicago, 1896.

Daniels, Arthur M. (ed.), A Journal of Sibley's Indian Expedition During the Summer of

1863 and Record of the Troops Employed, Minneapolis, 1980.

Egan, James J., “The Battle of Birch Coolie”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle, 3rd Series


Hennings, Christian, Memoirs of Christian Hennings, G.A.R., Wilmar, 1929.

Hill, Alfred J. (Theodore H. Lewis, ed.), History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota

Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, St. Paul, 1899.

Johnson, Hon. Charles W., “Narrative of the Sixth Regiment.”, Minnesota in the Civil and


Kunz, Virginia B. and Wall, James O., “The War Within a War: Smallpox, Malaria - W.R.

Brown's Civil War Diary”, Ramsey County History, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Fall 1970), 3-13.

Patten, Floyd J., “Good Company H!”: incidents in campaigns of the Sioux Outbreak,

Marshall (MN), 1962.


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Proceedings of the Dedication of the Monument Erected in Honor of the Volunteer Soldiers

at the Battle of Wood Lake, Minnesota..., Minneapolis, 1911.

Rothfuss, Hermann E., “German Witnesses of the Sioux Campaign”, North Dakota History,

Vol. 25, No. 4 (Oct. 1958), 122-133.

Sully, Alfred, “Official Report”, Army and Navy Official Gazette, Sept. 11, 1863.

Thimmesh, Hillary, “Phillip Killian‟s Civil War”, Symposium No. 18, St. Paul, 2000.

Wilson, Horace, Reminiscences of the Indian War of 1862, Red Wing, 1886.

Wright, Dana, “The Sibley Trail in North Dakota”, North Dakota Historical Quarterly, Vol.

1, No. 3 (Apr. 1927), 30-45, No. 4 (July 1927), 5-13, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Jan. 1928), 120-128,

and North Dakota History, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Oct. 1962), 282-296.


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SEVENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY

Served on 1863 Indian Expedition with Sixth and Tenth Infantry, Third Battery Light





Minn.), St. Paul, 1887, 54-88.

Board of Commissioners, “Narrative of the Seventh Regiment.”, Minnesota in the Civil and


Bornarth, Sylvia, F., One Hundred Fifty Years of the Bornarth Family in America, 1854-

2004, Pultneyville (NY), 2004.

Carter, Theodore G., “Revenge of the Sioux” and “General Sibley‟s Sioux Campaign”,

serialized in The St. Peter Herald, March 9 – August 17, 1906.

Carter, Theodore G., “The Tupelo Campaign as Noted at the Time by a Line Officer in the

Union Army”, Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, X (1909), 91-113.



Collins, Loren W., “The Expedition Against the Sioux Indians in 1863 Under General

Henry H. Sibley”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle, 2nd Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St.

Paul, 1890, 173-203.

Goldman, Stuart A. “George Elsbury.” Military Collector and Historian, 39 (Fall 1987),

114-115.

Hagadorn, Henry J., Pritchett, John P. (ed.) “On the March with Sibley in 1863, the Diary of

Private Henry J. Hagadorn”, North Dakota Historical Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Dec. 1930),

103-129.




Mobile, 1865, St. Paul (?), 1908.

Kelley, Duren F., Offenberg, Richard S. and Parsonage, Robert R. (eds.), The War Letters

of Duren F. Kelley, 1862-1865, New York, 1967.


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King, James T., “The Civil War of Private Morton”, North Dakota History, Vol. 35, No. 1

(Winter 1968), 8-19.

Kunz, Virginia, “We was ordered out on the double quick – They skedaddled: Sergeant

Ramer‟s Indian War”, Ramsey County History, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 1964), 16-22

Lehman, Louis, The Legend of Louis Lehman: primarily an account of his brief Military

career in the Seventh Minnesota Infantry Regiment during the Sioux War, Tacoma, 1990.


1964-1965), 6-7.

Offenberg, Richard S. and Parsonage, Robert R. (eds.), The War Letters of Duren F. Kelley,

1862 - 1865, New York, 1967.

Pritchett, John P., “Sidelights on the Sibley Expedition from the Diary of a Private”,

Minnesota History, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Dec. 1926), 326-335.



Scantlebury, Thomas, Wanderings in Minnesota During the Indian Troubles of 1862,

Chicago, 1867.

Strong, Douglas J., “A Civil War Wooden Mortar”, Military Collector & Historian, Vol. 22,

No. 3 (Fall 1970), 95-96.






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EIGHTH REGIMENT INFANTRY

Served on 1864 Indian Expedition with Third Battery Light Artillery and Brackett's

Battalion. Citations under those, and the general headings might provide additional details

of campaign service.

Bertram, A.H., Reminiscence and incidents of Company E, 8th Minn. Vol. Inf.: being a

sketch of the droll side of army camp life in field and garrison from actual facts by one who

was present., (microcopy of manuscript, M.H.S. collections), Monticello (MN), 1878.

Brunson, Benjamin W., “Reminiscences of Service With the Eighth Minn. Infantry”,


Hodgson, Thomas C., A Record of the Sioux War, Roseville (MN), 1999. (Also serialized

in the Dakota Country Tribune, 1889-1891.)

Houlton, Hon. William H., “Narrative of the Eighth Regiment.”, Minnesota in the Civil and


Kingsbury, David L., “General Alfred Sully's Indian Campaign of 1864”, Glimpses of the


Kingsbury, David L., “General Alfred Sully's Indian Campaign of 1864”, Minnesota

Historical Society Collections, Volume VIII, St. Paul, 1898, 449-462.

Paxson, Lewis C., Diary of Lewis C. Paxson, Stockton, N.J., 1862 - 1865, Bismark, 1908.

Pfaller, Louis, “Sully's Expedition of 1864 featuring the Kildeer Mountain and Badlands

Battles”, North Dakota History, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan. 1964), 25-77.

Risvold, Floyd (ed.), “Indians and Rebels”, Souvenir Program, Golden Anniversary Twin

Cities Philatelic Society Hosts the 30th

Annual Convention of the Trans-Mississippi

Philatelic Society, Minneapolis, 1963, 23-35.

Sanford, Paul, Sioux Arrows and Bullets, San Antonio, 1969.


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NINTH REGIMENT INFANTRY



Minn.), St. Paul, 1887, 54-88.

Aslakson, Burns, Ti Maaneders Fangenskab i Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear

og Thomasville, af B. Aslaksen, Minneapolis, 1887(?)

Basile, Leon (ed.), “Letters of a Minnesota Volunteer: The Correspondence of James M.

Woodbury”, Lincoln Herald, Vol. 82 (Summer, Fall 1980), 387-392, 438-446.



Clapp, E. L., Andersonville: six months a prisoner of war, giving a true description of the

prison . . . list of the Andersonville dead, giving the number of the grave, name, rank,

company and regiment, date of death and disease, of all the Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and

Minnesota soldiers, who died there during the summer of 1864., Milwaukee, 1865.

(reprint, Madison, 1993)




Mobile, 1865, St. Paul (?), 1908.

Hubbs, Ronald M., “The Civil War and Alexander Wilkens”, Minnesota History, Vol. 39,

No. 5 (Spring 1965), 173-190.

Lyon, William F., In and Out of Andersonville Prison, Detroit, 1905.

Macdonald, Hon. C.F., “Narrative of the Ninth Regiment.”, Minnesota in the Civil and


Macdonald, Colin F., “The Battle of Brice's Crossroads”, Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle,

6th Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1909, 443-462.


1964-1965), 6-7.




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Raus, Edmund, Where Duty Called Them: The Story of the Samuel Babcock Family of

Homer, New York, in the Civil War, Daleville [VA], 2001.

Schumaker, Brian, “Frank Weber”, Civil War Times, Vol. 44, Issue 5 (Dec2005), 12.

Surviving Members of the Ninth Regiment Minnesota Volunteers in the War of the

Rebellion, 1885.

Surviving Members of the Ninth Regiment Minnesota Volunteers in the War of the

Rebellion, 1888.


34

TENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY

Served on 1863 Indian Expedition with Sixth and Seventh Infantry, Third Battery Light





Minn.), St. Paul, 1887, 54-88.

Ahsenmacher, Henry, The Civil War Diary of a Minnesota Volunteer, Henry Ahsenmacher

1862 - 1865, St. Paul, 1990.

Baker, Gen. J.H., “Narrative of the Tenth Regiment.”, Minnesota in the Civil and Indian

Wars 1861-1865., St. Paul, 1890, 455-487.

Fridley, Russel (ed.), Charles E. Flandrau and the Defense of New Ulm, New Ulm, 1962.

Glanville, Amos E. (John K. and Carrol G. Glanville, eds.), I Saw The Ravages Of An

Indian War: A diary written by Amos E. Glanville, Sr., Company “F”, 10th

Minnesota

Volunteers, August 26, 1862 to July 20, 1863, Leoti (KS), 1988.

Harris, Ruth-Ann M., “Civil War soldier, Christopher Byrne, writes home”, American

Conference for Irish Studies, Minneapolis, 2003.

Hart, James and Smith, John, Tales of the Tenth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteers, 1862-63,

Henderson (MN), 1996.




Mobile, 1865, St. Paul (?), 1908.

Kinney, Newcombe, Reminiscences of the Sioux Indian and Civil Wars by Veteran

Newcombe Kinney, Transcribed by Mrs. John Mahon, 1916.


1964-1965), 6-7.

Smith, John and Hart, James, Tales of the Tenth Regiment Minnesota Volunteers 1862-

1863 by two soldiers, Henderson (MN), 1996.



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The Tenth Minnesota, I, (field published newspaper), Meridian (MS), June 30, 1865.

Wakefield, Larry, “Volunteer‟s Tour of Duty”, Military History, April 1989, 42-49.





36

ELEVENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY

Davenport, Rufus, “Narrative of the Eleventh Regiment.”, Minnesota in the Civil and


Fisher, William A., The Buffers by Billy Bugle, Minneapolis, 1908.

Norland, Roger A., “William Henry Gale [cover image]”, Military Images, Vol. XVI, No. 1

(July-Aug. 1994), cover, 1.

Potter, Theodore E., The Autobiography of Theodore Edgar Potter, Concord, 1913. Also

The Autobiography of Theodore Edgar Potter: An American Adventure, Berrien (MI),

1978.

Potter, Theodore E., “Captain Potter's Recollections of Minnesota Experiences”, Minnesota

History Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 8 (Nov. 1916), 492-513.


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FIRST COMPANY SHARPSHOOTERS

Service was as Co. A of Berdan's 2nd Regiment of U.S. Sharpshooters.

Coates, Earl J. and McAulay, John D., Civil War Sharps Carbines & Rifles, Gettysburg,

17325.

Marcot, Roy C., Civil War Chief of Sharpshooters Hiram Berdan, Military Commander and

Firearms Inventor, Irvine, 1989.

Norland, Roger A, “George W. Cummings, Man of Many Talents (and a Few Pranks)”,

Blue Earth County Historical Society Newsletter, Dec. 1890, 1-3.

Peteler, Lieutenant Colonel Francis, “Narrative of the First Company of Sharpshooters.”,

Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865., St. Paul, 1890, 507-512.

Stevens, C.A., Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, St. Paul,

1892.

Wright, Abraham, History of the First Company Sharpshooters of Minnesota, Minneapolis,

1889.

Sword, Wiley, Sharpshooter: Hiram Berdan, his famous Sharpshooters and Their Sharps

Rifles, Lincoln (RI), 1988.


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SECOND COMPANY SHARPSHOOTERS

Service was with the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry as Company L from May 1862 to

November 1863, thereafter as provost guard, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps.

Chaney, J.B., “Narrative of the Second Company Sharpshooters.”, Minnesota in the Civil

and Indian Wars 1861-1865., St. Paul, 1890, 513-518.

Coates, Earl J. and McAulay, John D., Civil War Sharps Carbines & Rifles, Gettysburg,

17325.

Marcot, Roy C., Civil War Chief of Sharpshooters Hiram Berdan, Military Commander and

Firearms Inventor, Irvine, 1989.

Stevens, C.A., Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, St. Paul,

1892.

Sword, Wiley, Sharpshooter: Hiram Berdan, his famous Sharpshooters and Their Sharps

Rifles, Lincoln (RI), 1988.


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1863, St. Paul (?), 1907.

Hurter, Lieutenant Henry S., “Narrative of the First Battery of Light Artillery.”, Minnesota

in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865., St. Paul, 1890, 640-653.


No. 1 (March 1961).

Meinhard, Robert W., My Dear Companion: The Civil War letters and journal of Corporal

Albion Otis Gross of the First Minnesota Battery Light Artillery, January 1, 1864 to June

10, 1865, typescript, Minnesota Historical Society Library.

Norland, Roger, “Robert Eagles: The Badge Man”, North South Trader‟s Civil War, Vol. 8,

No. 4 (2001), 30-35.

Report of the Minnesota-Shiloh Monument Commission, St. Paul (?), 1908.

Twin Cities Public Television, The Minnesota Regiments, (video recording), St. Paul, 1990.

Witham, George F., Shiloh Shells and Artillery Units, Memphis, 1980, 29-31.


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SECOND BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY

Board of Commissioners, “Narrative of the Second Battery of Light Artillery.”, Minnesota


Hafendorfer, Kenneth, Perryville: Battle for Kentucky, Louisville, 1991.

Hunter, James, Narrative of the Second Battery of Light Artillery, (further citation not

found.)

Osman, Stephen E., “A Minnesota Artillery Officer's Inventory, 1863”, Military Collector

and Historian, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer 1986), 73-74.

Roster of the Second Battery Light Artillery, Minnesota Veteran Volunteers, Minneapolis,

1897.

Wendel, Vicki (editor), Action Front, monthly newsletters of the Second Minnesota Battery

enactment group, Anoka. (historical information each month)

Wendel, Vicki, “Ordinary Heroes: The Second Minnesota Battery of Light Artillery”,

Minnesota History, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Winter 2004-05), 140-152.


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THIRD BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY

Served on 1863 Indian Expedition with Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Infantry and Mounted

Rangers and on 1864 Indian Expedition with Eighth Infantry and Brackett's Battalion.

Citations under those, and the general headings might provide additional details of

campaign service.

Dwelle, Lieutenant G. Merill, “Narrative of the Third Battery of Light Artillery.”,









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FIRST REGIMENT HEAVY ARTILLERY

Bassett, Edward H., From Bull Run to Bristow Station, St. Paul, 1962.

Cline, Cullen E., “Comparison of the Two Sides When the Struggle Began”, War Sketches

and Incidents, Vol. II (MOLLUS-Iowa), 143-167.

Egan, Lieutenant and Adjutant James J., “Narrative of the First Regiment of Heavy

Artillery.”, Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865., St. Paul, 1890, 612-639.

Grannis, Edith E.H., New Hampshire to Minnesota: Memoirs of Samuel Higbee Grannis

1839-1933, Wausau, 1962.

Heffelfinger, Lucia L. Peavey, Memoirs of Christopher B. Heffelfinger, Minneapolis, 1922.

Marvel, William, “The Great Imposters”, Blue & Gray, Vol. III, Issue 3 (Feb. 1991), 32-

33.


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BRACKETT'S BATTALION CAVALRY

Served as part of 5th Iowa Cavalry from Dec. 1861 to Jan. 1864, thereafter as independent

Minnesota battalion. Served on 1864 Indian Expedition with Eighth Infantry. Citations

under those, and the general headings might provide additional details of campaign service.

Ackerman, Gertrude W., “George Northrup, Frontier Scout”, Minnesota History, Vol. 19,

No. 4 (Dec. 1938), 388-392.

Bergemann, Kurt D., Brackett‟s Battalion, Minnesota Cavalry 1861 - 1866, Minneapolis,

1996.

Botsford, Sergeant Isaac, “Narrative of Brackett‟s Battalion of Cavalry.”, Minnesota in the

Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865., St. Paul, 1890, 572-593.

Eggleston, Edward (Louis Pfaller, ed.), “George W. Northrup: The Kit Carson of the

Northwest”, North Dakota History, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan. 1966), 5-21.

Eggleston, Edward, “The Kit Carson of the Northwest”, Minnesota History, Vol. 33, No. 7

(Autumn 1953), 280-281.

Ezsell, John S. (ed.), “Excerpts from the Civil War Diary Lieutenant Charles Alley,

Company “C”, Fifth Iowa Cavalry”, Iowa Journal of History, Vol. 49 (1951), 241-256.

“George W. Northrup - young man of the northwest frontier”, Gopher Historian, Vol. 22,

No. 3 (Spring 1968), 18-22.

Graber, John W., “One Man's Civil War”, Minnesota History, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Winter 1990),

144-145.

Marshall, Eugene, Narrative of the Civil War, 1861-1862, St. Paul, 1909.

Norland, Roger A., “Van Garren, Brackett‟s Battalion of Minnesota Cavalry Colored

Servant”, Military Images, Vol. XVII, No. 5 (March-April 1996), 11.

Nott, Charles C., Sketches of the War, A Series of Letters to the North Moore Street School

of New York by Charles C. Nott, Captain in the Fifth Iowa Cavalry, New York, 1911.



Report of the Adjutant General and Acting Quartermaster General of the State of Iowa, Vol.

II, Des Moines, 1865.


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Reynolds, Clark G., The Civil and Indian War Diaries of Eugene Marshall, Minnesota

Volunteer, Masters Thesis, Duke University, Durham, 1963.

Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion, Vol. IV, Des Moines,

1910, 845-1013.

Wells, Willoughby, “Brackett‟s Battalion of Minnesota Cavalry, Company B”, Daughters of

the American Revolution, Genealogical Records, Vol. 35, 1945.

White, Helen M. (ed.), Ho! For the Gold Fields: Northern Overland Wagon Trains of the

1860s, St. Paul, 1966.


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FIRST REGIMENT MOUNTED RANGERS (FIRST REGIMENT CAVALRY)

Served on 1863 Indian Expedition with Sixth, Seventh and Tenth Infantry, and Third

Battery Light Artillery. Citations under those, and the general headings might provide

additional details of campaign service.

Austin, Horace, “The Frontier of Southwestern Minnesota in 1857, the Ink-Pa-Doota

Outbreak, the Campaign of 1863 Against the Sioux”, Glimpses of the Nation‟s Struggle, 4th


Brackett, George A., A Winter Evening‟s Tale, New York, 1880.

Potter, Theodore E., The Autobiography of Theodore Edgar Potter, Concord, 1913. Also

The Autobiography of Theodore Edgar Potter: An American Adventure, Berrien (MI),

1978.

Potter, Theodore E., “Captain Potter's Recollections of Minnesota Experiences”, Minnesota

History Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 8 (Nov. 1916), 465-490.

Sayner, Donald B., The Orders of Colonel Samuel McPhail, 1863, Minnesota Mounted

Rangers, Tucson, 1963.

Starkey, James, “Reminiscences of Indian Depredations in Minnesota”, Glimpses of the

Nation's Struggle, 3rd Series (MOLLUS-Minn.), St. Paul, 1893, 281-286.


Tiling, Robert, Hatch's Battalion of Cavalry at Pembina, Dakota Territory, 1863 - 1864,

1982 (?).

Wilson, Captain Eugene M., “Narrative of the First Regiment of Mounted Rangers.”,






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SECOND REGIMENT CAVALRY

Served on 1864 Indian Expedition with Eighth Infantry and Brackett's Battalion. Citations

under those, and the general headings might provide details of campaign service.

Norland, Roger A., “The Frozen Prairie”, Military Images, Vol. XVIII, No. 4 (Jan.-Feb.

1997), 31-32.




Vol. 25, No. 4 (Oct. 1958), 122-133.

Williams, First Lieutenant Martin, “Narrative of the Second Regiment Cavalry.”, Minnesota



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Gluek, Alvin C. Jr., “The Sioux Uprising, A Problem in International Relations”, Minnesota

History, Vol. 34, No. 8 (Winter 1955), 319-324.

Nash, Major C.W., “Narrative of Hatch‟s Independent Battalion of Cavalry.”, Minnesota in

the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865., St. Paul, 1890, 594-611.


Vol. 25, No. 4 (Oct. 1958), 122-133.




November 2006 partial update

This bibliography is an ongoing project with frequent revisions. Additions or corrections

are eagerly solicited. Please contact the compiler: Stephen E. Osman, Minnesota

Historical Society, 345 Kellogg Blvd. W., St. Paul, MN 55102, (651) 296-2952, email

[email protected].