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Union Soldiers

California Soldiers

2nd California Cavalry
Captain Gustavus C. Doane Autobiography and Reminiscences

Delaware Soldiers

1st Delaware Infantry (and 72nd Pennsylvania)
Edward A. Fulton Papers

2nd Delaware Infantry
David N. Lilley Papers

4th Delaware Infantry
Captain Thomas M. Reynolds Letters

Connecticut Soldiers

12th Connecticut Inf./1st Conn. Heavy Artillery
Erastus and Mary Burnham Letters

Illinois Soldiers

11th Illinois Infantry
Frederick E. Ransom Sketchbook

88th Illinois Infantry
Charles Sigwalt Diary (diary 1 of 4)

93rd Illinois Infantry
Private Jefferson Moses Diary and Memoir
Riley Hoskinson Correspondence

95th Illinois Infantry
Thomas Hannah Letters

100th Illinois Infantry
Eugene R. Sly Diary

Indiana Soldiers

17th Indiana Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel John T. Wilder Letters

42nd Indiana Infantry
James Laughlin Orr Diary

Iowa Soldiers
Diaries of 13 Iowa Soldiers

7th Iowa Infantry
Charles Berry Senior Letters and Diary

12th Iowa Infantry
James S. Dupray Letters

36th Iowa Infantry
Pvt. Newton Robert Scott Letters

Kansas Soldiers

7th Kansas Cavalry
Fletcher Pomeroy Diary

Kentucky Soldiers
Jasper N. Bertram Family Papers

Maine Soldiers

20th Maine
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Collection

Massachusetts Soldiers

2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
John McCoy Family Papers

9th Massachusetts Independent Battery Light Artillery
Charles Wellington Reed

10th Massachusetts Light Artillery
Samuel Bradlee Letters

42nd Massachusetts Infantry
William A. Cowles Collection

Michigan Soldiers

First Michigan Infantry
William H. Smith Letter

2nd Michigan Cavalry
Juckett Family Letters

6th Michigan Cavalry
George L. Harrington Diary

7th Michigan Infantry
Samuel Hodgman Letters

17th Michigan Infantry
Alonzo C. Ide Diary

27th Michigan Infantry
Milton Sawyer Diary

28th Michigan Infantry
Isaac S. Knapp Diary

Minnesota Soldiers
Minnesota Veterans Grave Registration Index

1st Minnesota Light Artillery
Christie Family Papers

New Hampshire Soldiers
Ayling's Revised Register of New Hampshire Soldiers

3rd New Hampshire Infantry
Reminiscences of Col. Elbridge J. Copp

9th New Hampshire Infantry
Army Experiences of William A. Canfield

New Jersey Soldiers

William S. Stryker, Record of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 2 vols. (Trenton, N.J.: John L. Murphy Steam Book and Job Printer, 1876).

Documents Related to the U.S. Colored Troops from New Jersey

10th New Jersey Infantry
Joseph D. Richardson Letters

New York Soldiers
New York Adjutant General Regimental Rosters
211 letters from New York soldiers from unidentified regiments

9th New York Cavalry
Cassimere Churchill Correspondence

19th New York Infantry
Captain Watson Squire Letters

97th New York Infantry
Lieutenant Rush P. Cady Letters
Corporal Dwight W. Stannard Letters

99th New York Infantry
Eugene Goodwin Diary

114th New York Infantry
Samuel S. Dunton Letters
Galutia York Letters

116th New York Infantry
Sgt. Leroy Russell Letter

117th New York Infantry
Enlistment Forms of the 117th New York Volunteers
Administrative Documents of the 117th New York Volunteers
Reunion Programs and Ribbons
John Humphrey Journal
Private George W. Pearl Letters
Private Edward S. Foster Diaries

123rd New York Infantry
Corporal Henry Welch

126th New York Infantry
Captain Morris Brown Jr., Letters

187th New York Infantry
Drummer Boy Felix Voltz

11th New York Battery
Unknown Soldier Letter

Ohio Soldiers

6th Ohio Infantry
George B. Nicholson Diary
George B. Nicholson Collection

7th Ohio Infantry
Private Charles Tenney Letters

11th Ohio Infantry
The Bitner Collection (Letters from David R. P. Shoemaker)

36th Ohio Infantry
Overall Family Letters

42nd Ohio Infantry
Arthur Tappan Strong Letters

49th Ohio Infantry
Cyrus Thomas Diary

67th Ohio Infantry
Marilyn Clay Family Papers

68th Ohio Infantry
Andrew Altman Papers (selections)
Sergeant Jacob Bruner Letters

73rd Ohio Infantry
Anthony W. Ross Letter

75th Ohio Infantry
Andrew L. Harris Letters

76th Ohio Infantry
Captain Richard W. Burt Letters

95th Ohio Infantry
Oscar Kelton Letters

97th Ohio Infantry
William Henry Ruse Letter

102nd Ohio Infantry
George Uhlich Letters (selections)

116th Ohio Infantry
William T. Patterson Diary

121st Ohio Infantry
Augustus L. Yenner Diary

123rd Ohio Infantry
Leander Coe Diary

126th Ohio Infantry
Eli Barrick Letters
David Close Letters
Sergeant Joseph Fisher Letters
Captain Thomas J. Hyatt
Rufus Ricksecker Letters
Unknown Soldier from Co. F
Letters and Reports published in the Steubenville Weekly Herald

Pennsylvania Soldiers

Samuel P. Bates, A History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 5 vols. (1869)
Civil War Veterans’ Card Files (Pennsylvania State Archives)
Online Archive Related to the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps

36th Pennsylvania Infantry
John Taylor Cuddy Letters

41st Pennsylvania Infantry
Thomas William Dick Papers

70th Pennsylvania Vols. (6th Cavalry)
Charles Gulager Sketchbook

72nd Pennsylvania Infantry
Edward A. Fulton Collection

77th Pennsylvania Infantry
The Bitner Collection (Letters from David Fogelsanger Daihl)

100th Pennsylvania Infantry
Bingham Findley Junkin Diary

105th Pennsylvania Infantry
Capt. Tilton C. Reynolds Papers

107th Pennsylvania Infantry
The Bitner Collection (Letters from William H. Kindig)

130th Pennsylvania Infantry
The Bitner Collection (Letters from Thaddeus A. Donely and William J. Martin)

156th Pennsylvania Infantry
Augustus Humbert Papers

Regular Army

18th U.S. Infantry
William A. Stokes Papers

2nd U.S. Artillery
Captain James A. Sayles Letters

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Letter of Condolence to Wife of Isaac I. Stevens

U.S. Colored Troops (USCTs)
Camp William Penn Museum

Missouri USCT

Virginia Soldiers

1st Regiment of Loyal Virginians (Union)
Hazard Stevens Letters

Wisconsin Soldiers
Records Related to the Iron Brigade

1st Wisconsin Infantry
Lieutenant Henry Clay Taylor Papers

2nd Wisconsin Infantry
Elisha Rice Reed Papers
Captain Nathaniel Rollins Diary
Captain Nathaniel Rollins POW Letter

4th Wisconsin Infantry
John T. Perry Letter

7th Wisconsin Infantry
Corporal Horace Currier Letters
Captain Emerson F. Giles Letters

10th Wisconsin Infantry
Lieutenant Lucius Dwight Hinkley
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Captain William Moore Diary

12th Wisconsin Infantry
Captain Van S. Bennett Diaries
12th Wisconsin Archive

14th Wisconsin Infantry
William Ault Letters and Diary

15th Wisconsin Infantry
John A. Johnson Letters
Captain Ole C. Johnson Letter

18th Wisconsin Infantry
Private Robert Richards Letters

22nd Wisconsin Infantry
Private Edwin R. F. Hart Prison Poetry

23rd Wisconsin Infantry
James Bennett Letters

26th Wisconsin Infantry
26th Wisconsin Archive

28th Wisconsin Infantry
Letters from Sara Billings to Captain Levi Billings
Private Solomon Canright Diary
Edward Redington Papers
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29th Wisconsin Infantry
Private Peter Stillman Cottrell Tubbs Letters

35th Wisconsin Infantry
Private Elisha Henry Estabrooks Letters

48th Wisconsin Infantry
Captain Charles W. Felker Letters

1st Brigade Band of Brodhead, Wisconsin
Civil War Band Collection

1st Wisconsin Cavalry
Henry S. Eggleston Papers
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            Folder 6
Private William Otter Letters

6th Wisconsin Light Artillery
Jules Francois Poetry

Miscellaneous and Unidentified Soldiers
Soldier writing from Nashville
Chaplain Samuel D. Lougheed in Union Army
Virginia Tech Civil War Small Manuscript Collection
Eli H. Page Diary (wheelwright in Quartermaster's Dept. from Ohio)
Databases of North and South

Private Voices (University of Georgia)


Confederate Soldiers

Arkansas Soldiers

First Arkansas Cavalry
George Harper Prestridge Letters

Kentucky Soldiers
Confederate Veterans' Pension Records

Maryland Soldiers

1st Maryland Cavalry (Confederate)
Crittenden Family Letters

Missouri

Missouri USCTs

7th Missouri Cavalry, Home Guards
Albert Badger Papers

Tennessee Soldiers

Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires

16th Tennessee Infantry
Civil War Memories of Robert C. Carden

8th Tennessee Cavalry
William F. Testerman Letter

Texas Soldiers

3rd Texas Cavalry
Major John N. Coleman Letters

21st Texas Cavalry
J.C. Morris Letter

Virginia Soldiers

Lee Family Digital Archive

Army of Northern Virginia
Harvey Black, Surgeon, Letter

5th Virginia Infantry
William Francis Brand Letters

21st Virginia Infantry
Diary of Asa John Wyatt

38th Virginia Infantry
The John and James Booker Civil War Letters

67th Virginia Infantry
H. E. Valentine Sketchbook

1st Rockbridge Artillery of Virginia
Daniel Blain Letter

Miscellaneous and Unidentified Soldiers
Soldier writing from Nashville
Archibald Atkinson, Jr., Diary of Confederate Army Doctor
Virginia Tech Civil War Small Manuscript Collection
Johnson Island Prison Autograph Books

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Union Naval Personnel

Pugh Family Letters (from Pennsylvania)
Herbert Benezet Tyson Letters (from Pennsylvania)
William J. Pittenger Diary (Mississippi Squadron)
Michael Shiner Diary (Washington Navy Yard)
Maritime Journals and Ship Logs (Delaware)

Confederate Naval Personnel

C.S.S. Alabama Digital Archive
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