Civil War 150th Anniversary, 1861-1865 / 2011-2015

American Civil War 150th Anniversary

(Sesquicentennial):  1861-65 / 2011-15 

-- National

• Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies (Cornell University.  Making of America) - searchable for official records for warships, transports, and patrol vessels, as well as by their officers, naval engagements, blockade assignments, and locales; a rich and standard source of transcribed primary material on naval and maritime operations
• War of the Rebellion:  A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Cornell University.  Making of America) - 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. 
• Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (Library of Congress.  Manuscript Division and Knoxville College.  Lincoln Studies Center)
• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (The Library and Museum)
• African American Experience in the Civil War, 1861-1865:  At Some 150 Years:  Some Selected Websites  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
• African American History (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room) - includes some Civil War-related material
• African American Odyssey (U.S.  Library of Congress.  American Memory)
• The American Civil War Story at Historic Tredegar (The Center) - Union, Confederate and African American interpretive center and museum
• Black History Month, February 2012 (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Month) - includes some Civil War-related material
• Civil War (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command)
• Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-1877  (U.S.  Library of Congress.  Researchers.  Virtual Programs and Services.  Web Guides.  Primary Documents in American History)
• Civil War Links (Rice University)
• Civil War Traveler (CivilWarTraveler.com)
• David G. Farragut, Vice-Admiral, July 5, 1801-August 14, 1870 (Civil War Trust)
• Discovering the Civil War (U.S.  National Archives.  Exhibits)
• Ethnic Composition of Civil War Forces (C.S. and U.S.A.)  (CivilWarHome.com)
• Foreign Soldiers in the American Civil War, by Andy Waskie (wesclark.com)
• German-American Soldiers in the Civil War (mrshea.com)
• Irish in the American Civil War (IrishAmericanCivilWar.wordpress.com)
• Italian Americans in the Civil War (CivilWarHome.com)
• The Lincoln Institute (The Lehrman Institute)
• Teaching with Documents:  The Fight for Equal Rights:  Black Soldiers in the Civil War (U.S.  National Archives.  Teachers' Resources.  Teaching with Documents.  Civil War and Reconstruction [1850-1877])
• History of African Americans in the Civil War (U.S.  Interior Department.  National Park Service.  Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System) -- note the links in the right-hand column
• Jews in the Civil War (Jewish-American History Foundation)
• Resource Guides (U.S.  Army Heritage Online) -- includes many Civil War-related links, quite a few of which relate to New York State and L.I. participation
• Topic:  U.S. History:  Civil War (BestHistorySites.net) - teaching-oriented site, with many newly-added and many rated sites
• ARC Gallery:  Civil War (U.S.  National Archives.  Archival Research Catalog) -- two basic tabs "Highlighted Records and Images" lead to material on a wide variety of themes, and "Matthew Brady Photographs" lead to a large collection of images by the single best known of the Civil War's photographers
• United States Civil War Center:  Civil War Collections and the Civil War Book Review  (Louisiana State University.  Libraries.  Special Collections)  -- a site well worth exploring
• State Civil War Sesquicentennial Quarterly Review (Civil War Trust) -- lists and links to websites of state commissions (New York State being conspicuously absent from the list); also provides links to Maps, Photos, Books, downloadable Battle Apps, Blogs, News, with additional major sections on Battlefields, Land Preservation, Education, About Us, and more.
• Today in Civil War History (TodayinCivilWarHistory.com) -- also lets you select another day

-- New York State 

• The Civil War (The New York Times.  Opinion Pages.  Timeline)
• The Civil War Archive:  Union Regimental Index:  New York (CivilWarArchive.com)
• Civil War Round Tables in New York State (Morrisville State College Library)
• Civil War [Soldiers'] Database  (New York State Archives.  Topics:  Military)
• 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)  
• Grand Army of the Republic Records, 1865-1949 (New York State Archives.  Research:  Topics:  Military) -- The GAR was a politically and socially influential post-war national Union Civil War veterans' association.  These records concern its many NYS Posts.
• Index of New York Images in Regimental Histories and Other Sources, Arranged by Unit Designation  (Morrisville State College.  Donald G. Butcher Library)
• Introduction to New York State Civil War Soldier Database (New York State.  Archives.  Research.   Topics.  Military)
• 1863 Draft Riots [includes a stunning map] (Lehrman Institute and Lincoln Institute.  Mr. Lincoln and New York) [the general website is well worth a browse]
• New York Civil War Sesquicentennial (NYCivilWar150.org)
• New York Civil War Sesquicentennial (Facebook.com)
• 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 and historically valuable and interesting websites]
• New York (Bits of Blue & Gray.com) - Regimental nicknames
• New York City Draft Riots (July 11-13, 1862)  (Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War) - includes 7 accounts from the Official Records
• New York Civil War Regiments Online, maintained by Sue Greenhagen (Morrisville State College)
• New York City Draft Riots (July 11-13, 1863)  (CivilWarHome.com)
• 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 
• 24 Notes that Tap Deep Emotions, by Jari A. Villanueva [Gen. Daniel Butterfield, of Utica, Gen. George McClellan's Chief of Staff, and the origin of "Taps"]
• History  (John Ericsson Society)
• U.S.S. Monitor Center (The Mariner's Museum)
• Greenpoint Monitor Museum (The Museum)
• New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 6 vols., comp. and ed. by Frederick Phisterer  (Internet Archive) - a rich source of regimental histories, statistical summaries, and short officer biographies; includes a personal name index volume
• Berdan's Sharpshooters (Rider Web Designs) -- website of a recreated famous unit, that included several NYS regiments, and Long Islanders.

-- Long Island, NY

• African-American Civil War Casualties Interred at Cypress Hill Cemetery, Long Island, New York, comp. by Henry Robert Burke (LWF Communications.  Resting Places of U.S. Colored Troops.  New York) 
• African-American Civil War Museum Honors OB Civil War Vet David Carll, by Dagmar Fors Karppi (Oyster Bay Enterprise-Pilot, August 20, 2010)
• Brooklyn in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Brooklyn Public Library)
• Exhibitions:  Healing the Wounds of War:  The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864  (Brooklyn Museum)
• Civil War  (Brooklyn Historical Society.  Emma:  The Catablog of Archives, Manuscripts and Special Collections at Brooklyn Historical Society)
• Civil War Links  (New York State.  Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)
• Farmingdale Prepares to Commemorate Civil War Sesquicentennial, by Christi Hinko (Farmingdale Observer, November 12, 2010)
• Rural Cemetery, Huntington, New York:  United States Officers and Colored Civil War Veterans, submitted by Bob Farrell (LWF Communications.  Resting Places of U.S. Colored Troops.  New York)
• Suffolk County (NYS Military Museum & Veterans Research Center.  The Communities of New York and the Civil War, comp. & ed. by Charles E. Dornbusch)
• Queens County (NYS Military Museum & Veterans Research Center.  The Communities of New York and the Civil War, comp. & ed. by Charles E. Dornbusch -- Queens then included present day Nassau County
• Kings County (NYS Military Museum & Veterans Research Center.  The Communities of New York and the Civil War, comp. by Charles E. Dornbusch)
• Links to Fellow Living Historians and Historical Societies (nycivilwar.com; Company "K," 67th NY Volunteers)
• Long Island (NYS Military Museum & Veterans Research Center.  The Communities of New York and the Civil War, comp. & ed. by Charles E. Dornbusch)
• Long Island and New York - Civil War Information (LI Genealogy.com)
• Long Island Civil War Regiments  (rad2duhbone53.webs.com)
• Long Island Veterans Remembered, by Robert (Bob) Farrell  (North Shore Civil War Roundtable, Huntington, Long Island, New York, October 29, 2009)
• North Shore Civil War Roundtable  (The Roundtable)
• U.S.S. Monitor (1862-1862) (U.S. Navy Dept.  Naval Historical Center)
• U.S.S. Monitor Center (Mariner's Museum)
• New York Civil War Units:  Nicknames and Synonyms (New York State. Military Museum & Veterans' Research Center)
• New York State Military Forts, Long Island, 1800-1900 (New York State.  Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center) 
• Greenpoint Monitor Museum (The Museum) 
• Continental Iron Works, Brooklyn, NY (Shipbuilding History.com)
• Miscellaneous Civil War Documents - Field Reports and Statistics Relating to Long Island Troops (LI Genealogy.com)
• The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building (About.com.  Long Island, NY.  Town of Huntington Attractions) - originally established by Civil war veterans as a public library, it later became the Town Historian's office and archives, and was more recently restored, as a museum, to the public, by the Huntington Historical Society
• 9th Virginia Infantry [Regiment], Company "C"  (9thvareenacting.com) - a recreated Confederate unit, comprised mainly of Long Island reenactors
• 14th Brooklyn, Company "E" (14thbrooklyn.info)
• Twentieth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry (Gary Kappeser)
• 20th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment [Raised in Brooklyn, largely German-speaking; Civil War and post-war period documents] (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room):
  • Bibliography
  • Acts of Congress Relating to Horses of Mounted Officers Lost in Service, U.S.A[rmy]
  • Head-Quarters.  Army of the Potomac.  General Orders No. 40 (April 10, 1863)
  • New York (State).  General Head-Quarters.  Adjutant General's Office.  General Orders No. 98 (December 31, 1862) - Promotion and appointments since December 1st
  • U.S.  War Department.  Secretary of War [Edwin M. Stanton].  Instructions for Making Muster-Rolls, Mustering into Service, Periodical Payments, and Discharging from Service of Volunteers or Militia.  Washington, [D.C.]:  Government Printing Office, [Sept. 30,] 1862.
  • U.S.  War Department.  Adjutant General's Office.  General Orders No. 79 (March 31, 1863) -- consolidating the Corps of Engineers and Topographical Engineers
  • Miscellaneous Special Orders (1862-1863) 
  • Miscellaneous Regimental Documents (Orders, Reports, Map)
  • Notices, Reports, Circulars, Returns (1862-1863) 
  • In der Schlacht von Antietam [Ger.:  In the Battle of Antietam; poem]
  • Veterans' Records (20th NYVI Regt. Veterans' Verein)
• Civil War Letters and Diary of Henry W. Prince - 1862-1865:  The "Monitors," 127th New York State Volunteers:  An Account of the Period November 24, 1864 to January 31st, 1865, Including the Battle of Honey Hill and Deveaux's Neck, South Carolina (Battle of Honey Hill, S.C.; Gary W. Myers)
• History of the 127th New York Volunteers "Monitors" in the War for the Preservation of the Union - September 8th, 1862, June 30th, 1865, material collected and arranged by Franklin McGrath, Co. A. (Internet Archive)
• 127th New York Infantry [Regiment] (Anthony P. DellaRocca)
• 11th Cavalry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company E
• 23rd Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company E
• 102nd Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company C
• 109th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company I
• 127th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Companies D,E,G,H,I,K
• 131st Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company K
• 139th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Companies A,H,I
• 146th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company G
• 155th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Companies D,E
• 159th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company F
• 176th Infantry Regiment (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center) - Company G
• The Communities of New York and the Civil War - Suffolk County (New York State Military Museum & Veterans Research Center)
• A Look at the Suffolk County Experience of the Civil War in Riverhead, by Pat Rogers (East Hampton Press & Southampton Press; 27 East Arts)
• Suffolk County G.A.R. Posts (Morrisvile College, maintained by Sue Greenhagen - Grand Army of the Republic (Union veterans') posts were scattered across the North and initially were a very powerful association and lobby.

-- Brookhaven Town (Suffolk County, NY)

• Civil War (Longwood's Journey)  - click on Civil War in left-hand column
• Part XI:  Brookhaven in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Brookhaven Town @ 350 Years)

-- Patchogue-Medford Area (Brookhaven Town, Suffolk County, NY)

• Civil War, 1861-1865  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Patchogue-Medford Area Historic Images @ Flickr.com)
• Patchogue, N.Y., and the American Civil War, 1861-65:  A Selected 150th Anniversary (Sesquicentennial) Look Away, comp. and ed. by Mark Rothenberg  (Patchogue-Medford Library) 
• Regiments served by people recruited in Patchogue, N.Y. (per bibliography above):
  • 4th Heavy Artillery Regiment  (N.Y.S.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 2nd Cavalry Regiment  (N.Y.S.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 5th Kansas Cavalry (A History)  (The Arkansas Toothpick - The Civil War Hub of Arkansas)
  • 8th Cavalry Regiment  (N.Y.S.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 13th Cavalry Regiment (N.Y.S. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 5th Infantry Regiment (N.Y.S. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 12th Infantry Regiment  (N.Y.S. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 48th Infantry Regiment  (N.Y.S.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 57th Infantry Regiment (N.Y.S. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 59th Infantry Regiment  (N.Y.S.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 75th Regiment United States Colored Infantry, comp. by Bennie J. McRae, Jr.  (African American Military History.  Civil War.  Louisiana's United States Colored Civil War Regiments)
  • 90th Infantry Regiment (N.Y.S. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 95th Infantry Regiment (N.Y.S.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 107th Infantry Regiment  (N.Y.S. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 127th Infantry Regiment  (N.Y.S.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 139th Infantry Regiment  (N.Y.S.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 145th Infantry Regiment  (N.Y.S.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 146th Infantry Regiment  (N.Y.S. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
  • 159th Infantry Regiment  (N.Y.S.  Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
• Brigade servd by an individual recruited in Patchogue, NY: 
  • Spinola or Empire Brigade (N.Y.S. Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
• Richard J. Clark Post, No. 210, G.A.R., Patchogue, NY, ca. 1908 (Courtesy Suffolk Maritime Museum) - The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) was a National Union veterans association that exercised a great deal of political power and social influence over several decades 
• Zinc Sculpture  (Smithsonian Institution.  Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute) - Note that Fig. 2 is Patchogue's Civil War Monument, in front of the Vilage Hall.
• Jeremiah Jay Robinson, 1836-1907 (Surnames Databases of Long Island Genealogy)
• Willett Hawkins Robinson, 1841-1918 (Surnames Databases of Long Island Genealogy)

-- Patchogue-Medford Library

• Dr. J.J. Craven and the Origin of the Patchogue Library Association, 1883-1893, 2nd ed., by Mark Rothenberg (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room.  PML Centennial Collection), 1999, rev. and exp. 2010 - How a man with connections to Samuel F.B. Morse, the California Gold Rush, Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, the Civil War Medical Corps (of whom he was a senior member), Jefferson Davis, Nelson Miles, Andrew Johnson, an international best seller, 3 U.S. patents, helped found a L.I. Library. 
• From Association to Public Library, 1883-1900:  The Pre-History of the Patchogue-Medford Library, comp. and ed. by Mark Rothenberg(Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room.  PML Centennial Collection.  PML History in Summary Form, Part I) - first brochure in a series of threee; click to enlarge pages  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room.  PML Centennial Collection)