Bibliography for Minnesota Civil War Research

Catton, Bruce. The Army of the Potomac. Mr. Lincoln's Army.  Doubleday & Company. Garden City, New York. 1951

Catton, Bruce. The Army of the Potomac. Glory Road.  Doubleday & Company. Garden City, New York. 1951

Dyer, Frederick H., Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, compiled and arranged from official records of the Federal and Confederate armies. Dyer Publishing Company. Des Moines, Iowa 1905. Courtesy of the U.S. Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.



Imholte, John Q. The First Volunteers. History of the First Minnesota Volunteer Regiment 1861 1865. Ross & Haines, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1963.

Innis, Ben.  Internments at Fort Buford, 1866 - 1895, Fort Buford 6th Infantry Reg't Association. Williston. North Dakota. 1998.

Moe, Richard, The Last Full Measure, The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers, Henry Holt & Company, New York, New York, 1993. 

Tilberg, Frederick. Antietam National Battlefield Site. Maryland. National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 31, Washington, DC. 1960

Webb, Loren. Diary of Captain Loren Webb, 1861 - 1863, Firelands Historical Society. Norwalk, Ohio. 1995. Transcribed by Matthew L. Burr.

Harvey Hayes Webb family bible transcript, typed transcript, drafted in the 1950's; courtesy Hazel Skelly Webb

War of the Rebellion, a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1880. Courtesy of Cornell University Digital Library Project, located online https://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa

Service record of Lester A. Webb, Company F, 1st Reg't Minnesota Infantry, National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, DC. Compiled 1894, viewed December 2000.

Enlistments in U.S. Volunteers 1862. M233 Register of Enlistments in U. S. Army 1798 1914. Roll (?). National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, DC.

The Returns of the Sixth Regiment of Cavalry for the Month of February 1863. Recvd at AGO March 1863. MO744 Returns from Regular Army Cavalry Regiments 1833 1916, 080-04. National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, DC.

Post Returns of Troops in Garrison at Fort Snelling, Minnesota... M617 Returns from United States military Posts, 1800-1916; Fort Snelling, Min, Nov 1861 Dec 1873. National Archives & Records Administration. Washington, DC.

...Record of Internments at Fort Buford, Dakota Territory (continuation on p374 of ledger). M2014 Burial Register for Military Posts, Camps, Stations 1768-1921 1 roll. National Archives & Records Administration. Washington, DC. Viewed 21 July 2001.

...Return of July 1881 and August 1881 for Fort Buford, Dakota Territory. M617 Returns From United States Military Posts; Buford, Fort, N. Dak. Jan 1880 Sept 1895. National Archives & Records Administration. Washington, DC. Viewed 21 July 2001

Personal Communication with Keith Snyder, NPS. Antietam National Battlefield Site. Sharpsburg, Maryland. February 2001. Travel to Antietam courtesy of Robert Grant.

Civil War Combat : The Battle of Antietam. Video documentary. The History Channel. 2000. SVHS copy in possession of author.

Oxford English Dictionary. Volume 5, H-K. Oxford, Clarendon Press; Vivian Ridler, University Press. United Kingdom, 1933, reprinted 1961. (p295)