Bibliography for California Civil War Research
California. Adjutant General. Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion 1861 to 1867
Sacramento: J. D. Young, Supt. State Printing, 1890
Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books,
1987. Ref.
See p. 46 (1 photocopied page) for a concise summary of the regiment's service.
Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederacy: Florida and Arkansas. NY: Facts on File,
1992. pp. 81?82 (2 photocopied pages). E553S53.1992. (Unit organizational history).
Civil War Naval Chronology
1861-1865. Washington,
DC: I\iaval History Division, 1971. Lauds G. W. Gift in information
relating to him.
Official Records of
Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Series I, Vol. 17. p 688 on Gift,
pp 701-702 on Frazee, pp 700 & 874 on Gift and Frazee.
Official Records of
Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion,Series II, Vol. 1. p 283 on Gift
and Frazee.
Register of Commissioned
and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the Confederate States to
January 1, 1864.
Richmond, VA, 1864. Lists both Gift and. Frazee.
Register of Officers
of the Confederate States Navy, 1861-1865. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1931.
Information on both Gift and Frazee.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vol. XXIV (History
of California, Vol. VII, 1860-1890.) San Francisco, California
History Publishing Company 1890. On 1861 Southern California
conditions and mention of the desert crossing.
Brewer William H.., Up
and Down California in 1860-64. Chapter on Los Angeles republished
in Pearsall & Erickson - eds. The Californians: Writing
of their Past and Present. San Francisco, CA: Hasperial House,
1961. Excellent description of Los Angeles on the eve of the
Civil War.
Castlen, Harriet Gift.
Hope Bids Me Onward. Savannah, GA: Chatham Publishing
Company, 1945. Biography of George W. Gift to end of Civil War
by a daughter written as by him. Contains only one paragraph
on the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles.
Guinn, J. M.. A History
of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and Environs,
Vol. I. Los Angeles, CA: Historic Record Company, 1915. Has information
on Los Angeles in Civil War period.
Hall, Martin Hardwick
& Long, Sam. The Confederate Army of New Mexico. Austin,
TX: Presidial Press, 1978. Information on Baylor's activities
in New Mexico and on Bethel Coopwood. Includes roster of members
of Coopwood's San Elizario Spy Company (said to be mostly Californians
& Arizonians).
Hancock, Almira. Reminiscences
of Winfield Scott Hancock by his Wife. New York, NY: C. L.
W ebster & Company, 1887. pp 66-70 relates the story of the
Los Angeles farewell party for officers who had resigned to travel
overland to the South.
Johnston, William Preston.
The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston Embracing his Services
in the Armies of the United States, The Republic of Texas and
the Confederate States. New York: NY: D. Appleton and Company,
1880. Chapter XVIV (pp 275-291) details the desert crossing citing
and referencing letters from A. S. Johnston to his wife and fran
Alonzo Ridley, George W. Gift, and Aaron Hardcastle to the author.
Keleher, William A. Turmoil
in New Mexico, 1846-1868. Santa Fe, NM: Ryder Press, 1952.
His account of the desert crossing mentions Randolph Hughes more
prominently than other accounts.
McGroarty, John Steven.
History of Los Angeles County. Chicago, IL: American Historical
Society, Inc., 1923. On Los Angeles in the Civil War era.
Morrison, Lorrin G., The
Man and the Ranch. Los Angeles, CA: the author, 1962. Good
information on the ranch, mentions regarding John Rains.
Motts, Wayne E., "Trust
in God and Fear Nothing": General Lewis A. Armistead,
CSA. Gettysburg, PA: Farnsworth Military House Impressions, 1994.
Biography of the general contains little about the desert crossing.
Newmark, Maurice H. &
Marco R. - eds.. Sixty Years In California, 1853-1913, Containing
The Reminiscences of Harris Newmark. Boston, MA: Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1930. Harris Newmark resided in Los Angeles
during Civil War days and knew many of the members of the Los
Angeles Mounted Rifles well. Provides information relating to
Johnston, Sanchez, Rains and Carlisle as well as information
on Los Angeles conditions during the first half of 1861.
Orton, Richard H. - compiler.
Records of California Men In the War of the Rebellion, 1861
to 1867. Sacramento, CA: State Superintffdent of Printing,
1890. Used for letters of Union officials on Southern sympathizers
in Los Angeles and on garrisoning the Overland trail.
Robinson, John W. Los
Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860-1865. Los Angeles, CA: Dawson's
Book Shop, 1972. Good book but has little on the Los Angeles
Mounted Rifles.
Smith, Wallace E.. This
Land was Ours: The Del Valles and Cumulos. Ventura, CA: Ventura
County Historical Society, 1977. Contains personal information
about Alonzo Ridley who was a good friend of the Del Valle family.
Thompson, Thomas H. &
West, Albert Augustus - publishers. Reproduction of Thompson
& West's History of Los Angeles County, California with Illustrations,
1890. Berkeley, CA: Howell-Norton, 1959. Has some brief mentions
of Gift and Sheriff Sanchez.
