New York State - Civil War, 1861-1865

NYS - History - Civil War, 1861-1865

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--  General

• New York State and the Civil War (Morrisville State College.  Donald G. Butcher Library) 
• The State of New York and the Civil War (www.NYCivilWar.us) - an interesting, award- winning site
• Townsend, Thomas S.  The Honors of the State of the Empire State in the War of the Rebellion.  New York:  A. Lovell & Co., 1889.  (Internet Archive)

--  Archives

• Civil War, 1861-1865  (New York State Library.  Research Library.  Digital Collections.  Historical Documents)  

--  Chronology

• New York State in the Civil War [Timeline], 1861-1862 (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs)

--  Civil War Round Tables

• Civil War Round Tables in New York State (Morrisville State College Library)  -- there is or was also a round table that meets or met at Sachem Public Library, on Long Island

--  Draft and Draft Riots

• 1863 Draft Riots  (Lehrman Institute and Lincoln Institute)  -- includes a stunning map
• 1863 New York City Draft Riots  [video] (C-Span.  American History TV at the NYC Society for Ethical Culture)  -- Paneel discussion by distinguished historians Harold Holzer (moderator), Bernard Schecter (author of an excellent book on the subject) and Barry Lewis (NYC historian and tour guide extraordinaire) [1 hour]
• Fry, James B.  New York and the Conscription of 1863:  A Chapter in the History of the Civil War.  New York; London:  G.P. Putnam's Sons.  Th Knickerbocker Press, 1885.  (Internet Archive)
• New York City Draft Riots (July 11-13, 1863)  (Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - includes 7 accounts from the Official Records 

--  Genealogy

              See also  -- Regiments (below)

• Civil War [Soldiers'] Database  (New York State Archives.  Topics:  Military)

--  Gettysburg, Battle of, 1863

• New York (State).  New York Monuments Commission for the Batlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga.  Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg,   Albany, NY:  J.B. Lyon Co., Printers, 1902.  (Internet Archive)
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  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3

-- Grand Army of the Republic  [post-war national Union veterans' association]

• New York (State).  Historian.  Grand Army of the Republic Records Held by the New York State Archives -- The GAR was a politically and socially influential post-war national Union Civil War veterans' association.  These records concern its many NYS Posts

--  Grant, [Hiram] Ulysses Simpson, President of the United States, 1822-1885

• General Grant National Memorial, New York  (U.S.  Department of the Interior.  National Park Service)
• Grant Cottage State Historic Site (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation)
• Grant Monument Association
• Ulysses S. Grant Information Center
• Grant, Ulysses S.  Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, v.1 [full text].   New York:  Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892.  (Internet Archive)
• Grant, Ulysses S.  Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, v. 2 [full text].  New York:  Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892.  (Internet Archive)
• Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant [full text] (Bartleby.com)
• Flood, Charles Bracelen.  Grant's Final Victory:  Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year.  Cambridge, MA:  DaCapo Press, 2011.
• The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, ed. by John Y. Simon.  Carbondale, IL:  Southern Illinois University Press, [1967] -- vols. 1, 7, & 24
• Sarna, Jonathan D.  When Grant Expelled the Jews.  New York:  Nextbook/Schocken, 2012. 
• Waugh, Joan.  U.S. Grant:  American Hero, American Myth, Gary Gallagher, ed.  Chapel Hill, NC:  University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

--  Lincoln, Abraham, President of the United States, 1861-1865

• Abraham Lincoln's 1860 Cooper Union Address  [video]  (C-Span2.  Book-TV.  YouTube)  -- After introductions "the speech that made Abraham Lincoln President", read by actor Sam Waterson
• Mr. Lincoln and New York (The Lincoln Institute)  -- This website is well worth browsing

--  Maps

• The American Civil War  (U.S. Military Academy.  Department of History) -- actually an atlas

--  Music

• History of Taps (JV Music)
• Villaneuva, Jeri A.  Twenty-Four Notes that Tap Deep Emotions (U.S. Militaru Academy at West Point, NY)

--  Naval operations

• Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies ["O.R.N."]  (Cornell University.  Making of America) - While this major resource is not limited to New York State, it is searchable for official records of warships, transports, and patrol vessels, their officers, naval engagements, blockade assignments, and locales; a rich and standard source of transcribed primary material on naval and maritime operations

---  USS Monitor

• Greenpoint Monitor Museum (The Museum) -- its construction and launch site
• John Ericsson  (Wikipedia)
• U.S.S. Monitor Center (The Mariner's Museum)

--  Politics and government

• Brummer, Sidney David.  Political History of New York State During the Period of the Civil War; Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University.  New York:  The University, 1911.  (Internet Archive) 

--  Recruitment centers

• Communities of New York and the Civil War:  The Recriuting Areas of the New York Civil War Regiments, [arranged by by county and city or village], by Charles E. Dornbusch (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) 

--  Regimental histories

             See also  -- Recruitment Centers (above)

---  General

• New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 3rd ed., comp. and ed. by Frederick Phisterer.  Albany, NY:  J.B. Loyon Co., Printers, 1912.  (Internet Archive) - prime searchable source of regimental histories, official battle credits, statistical summaries, and short officer biographies
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3
  • Vol. 4
  • Vol. 5
  • Vol. 6  -- General indexes of synonyms, battles, subjects, and personal names 
• The Roster of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865:  New York:  M551-1 - M551-31, 5 vols., ed. by Janet B. Hewlett.  Wilmington, NC:  Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1997. 
• War of the Rebellion:  A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies {"O.R."] (Cornell University.  Making of America) - While not limited to New York State, this major national resource is searchable for military units and individuals, usually officers, at the regimental level and above, and occasionally lower.   Also searchable by locale, skirmish, battle, siege, campaign; a rich and standard source of transcribed primary material for land operations; reports of the movements and actions of NYS units and of their opponents on the field sometimes appear side by side.
• New York (State).  Adjutant General's Office.  A Record of the Commissioned Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates, of the Regiments which wwere Organized in the State of New York and Called into the Service of the United States to Assist in Suppressing the Rebellion Caused by the Secession of Some of the Southern States from the Union, A.D. 1861, as Taken from the Muster-In Rolls on File in the Adjutant General's Office, S.N.Y.  Albany, NY:  Comstock & Cassidy, Printers, 1864.  (Internet Archive)
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  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3
  • Vol. 4
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  • Vol. 6
  • Vol. 7
  • Vol. 8
• The Civil War Archive:  Union Regimental Index:  New York (CivilWarArchive.com)
• Index of New York Images in Regimental Histories and Other Sources, Arranged by Unit Designation 
• New York Civil War Units [arranged by type:  infantry, cavalry, artillery, other; plus some additional choices] (New York State.  Division of Military and Naval Affairs. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center.  New York State Unit History Project)  -- also links to a variety of genealogically & historically valuable & interesting websites
• New York Civil War Regiments Online, maintained by Sue Greenhagen (Morrisville State College)

---  Manual of Arms

• New York (State).  Adjutant General's Office.  The Manual of Arms for Troops Doing Duty with the Percussion Musket, with or without Priming Attachment, as Infantry and Light Infantry.  Albany, NY:  Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, 1858.  (Internet Archive)

---  Medicine

• Willard, Sylvester D.  Regimental Surgeons of the State of New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-3.  Albany, NY:  [New York (State).  Surgeon General's Office, 1863.]  (Internet Archive)

---  Prisoners

• Walter, John F.  The Confederate Dead in Brooklyn:  Biographical Sketches of 513 Confederate POWs.  Bowie, MD:  Heritage Books, Inc., 2003.

---  Regimental nicknames

• New York Civil War Units Nicknames and Synonyms  (New York [State].  Division of Military and Naval Affairs.  BYS Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)

---  Regulations

• New York (State),  Adjutant General's Office.  General Regulations for the Military Forces of the State of New York, 1858.  Albany, NY:  Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858.  (Internet Archive)

--  Voting

• New York (State).  Secretary of State.  The Soldiers' Voting Bill of the State of New York:  With Instructions from the Secretary of State.  Albany, NY:  Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers, 1864.  (Internet Archive)