Bibliography for California Civil War Research

  • Colton, Ray Charles (1984). The Civil War in the western territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Fischer, LeRoy H. (Editor) (1977). The Western Territories in the Civil War. Sunflower University Press.
  • Fischer, LeRoy H.(Editor) (1981). Civil War Battles in the West. Sunflower University Press.
  • Hunt, Aurora (2004). Army of the Pacific: its operations in California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Plains Region, Mexico, etc., 1860-1866. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsville, PA.
  • Hunt, Aurora (1958). Major General James Henry Carleton, 1814-1873: Western Frontier Dragoon. Arthur H. Clark Company.
  • Lash, Gary (2001). Duty Well Done: Edward D. Baker's California Regiment (71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry). Butternut and Blue.
  • McLean, James R. (2000). California Sabers. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-33786-0.
  • Masich, Andrew E. (2006). The Civil War in Arizona; the Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-1865 [1]University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. ISBN 0-8061-3747-9
  • Orton, Brigadier General Richard H. (1890). The Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion. Adjutant-General of California.
  • Strobridge, William F. (1994). Regulars in the Redwoods, The U.S. Army in Northern California, 1852-1861. Arthur Clark Company.
  • Quinn, Arthur (1994). The Rivals, William Gwin, David Broderick, and the Birth of California. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE.
  • Talbott, Laurence F. (1998). California in the War for Southern Independence. Hale & Co., Los Angeles, CA.
  • Official Army Register of Volunteer Force of U.S. Army for Years 1861-1865. (8 parts). Part 7 - Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, California, Kansas, Oregon, Nevada Listing of military units, with officers by rank or position; and individual deaths, promotions, transfers, desertions, missing personnel, discharges; battles; enlisted men who received medals of honor. Alphabetical index in back.. United States, War Department. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1865.
  • Personal Name Index to the Records of California Men in the War of the rebellion, 1861 to 1867. Gale Research Co., Detroit, MI. 1978.
  • "The J.P. Gillis Flag, or the 'Biderman' Flag of California" article from the August 27, 2002 issue of The Vidette, the newsletter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, California Division.


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