Did you know that the "official" regimental histories usually omitted any bad behavior, mutinies, or drunken officers? The histories written in the late 1800s were censored, bowldlerized, and sanitized.
If you are writing a book, article, thesis, term paper, or dissertation; researching an ancestor, battle, or regiment; studying a particular battle, abuse of horses, or homosexuality in the Union Navy; or writing about treason, letters that wives sent to their soldiers, bounty jumpers, bushwhackers, or jayhawkers, we can probably help! |
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We charge nothing if we can't find anything, $5 for an individual report,
and negotiated sums for large projects.
The proceeds are applied to more research and office supplies.
This project has been largely self-funded, and helped by small grants
from the Tawani Foundation and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Below are nine books which have used our court-martial material to good advantage.
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman by William Lee Miller (Lincoln and military justice)
Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation by William C. Davis (Lincoln's personal bond with the
soldiers)
Virginia at War: 1862 edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. (the impact of the war in 1862)
The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army by Lorien Foote (gender history and class divisions)
Campaigns of the 146th Regiment: New York State Volunteers by Mary Genevie Green Brainard (regimental history)
From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War Community by Dennis W. Brandt (regimental history)
A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray by William C. Davis (soldiers and conflicts over food)
The Lincoln Assassination: Crime & Punishment, Myth & Memory edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds & Frank J. Williams (Lincoln's
death in culture)
That Body of Brave Men: The U.S. Regular Infantry and the Civil War in the West by Mark W. Johnson (Conflicts between Regulars and Volunteers)
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman by William Lee Miller (Lincoln and military justice)
Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation by William C. Davis (Lincoln's personal bond with the
soldiers)
Virginia at War: 1862 edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. (the impact of the war in 1862)
The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army by Lorien Foote (gender history and class divisions)
Campaigns of the 146th Regiment: New York State Volunteers by Mary Genevie Green Brainard (regimental history)
From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War Community by Dennis W. Brandt (regimental history)
A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray by William C. Davis (soldiers and conflicts over food)
The Lincoln Assassination: Crime & Punishment, Myth & Memory edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds & Frank J. Williams (Lincoln's
death in culture)
That Body of Brave Men: The U.S. Regular Infantry and the Civil War in the West by Mark W. Johnson (Conflicts between Regulars and Volunteers)