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  Under the Maltese cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the loyal uprising in western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865; campaigns 155th Pennsylvania regiment

  155th Pennsylvania Regiment
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  Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts regiment

  19th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
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  The Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865

  20th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
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  History of Kershaw's brigade, with complete roll of companies, biographical sketches, incidents, anecdotes, etc

  - Kershaw's Brigade - 2nd South Carolina Infantry - 3rd South Carolina Infantry - 7th South Carolina Infantry - 8th South Carolina Infantry
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  History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers Corn exchange regiment, from their first engagement at Antietam to Appomattox. To which is added a record of its organization and a complete roster. Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations, with addenda

  - 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers - Compiled by John L. Smith - Issued in 1888 under title: History of the Corn exchange regiment, 118th Pennsylvania volunteers, and in 1892 under title: Antietam to Appomattox with 118th Penna. vols
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  The war between the Union and the Confederacy : and its lost opportunities : with a history of the 15th Alabama Regiment and the forty-eight battles in which it was engaged ... the war between the United States and Spain

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  History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry

  14th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
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  History of the "Bucktails," Kane rifle regiment of the Pennsylvania reserve Corp (13th Pennsylvania reserves, 42nd of the line)

  - "Bucktails," Kane rifle regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corp - 13th Pennsylvania Reserves, (42nd of the line) - Pub. by William H. Rauch, historian, for the regimental association
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  The Ninth regiment, New York volunteers (Hawkins' Zouaves)

  Ninth Regiment New York volunteers (Hawkins' Zouaves)
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  History of Duryée's brigade, during the campaign in Virginia under Gen. Pope, and in Maryland under Gen. McClellan, in the summer and autumn of 1862

  History of Duryée's brigade 97th Regt. New York Infantry. 104th Regt. New York Infantry. 105th Regt. New York Infantry 107th Regt. Pennsylvania Infantry.
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  History of the First regiment Minnesota volunteer infantry, 1861-1864

  1st Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
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  The story of the Fifteenth regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry in the civil war, 1861-1864

  15th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry - This facsimile reprint photo-reproduced by the Higginson Book Company, Salem, Massachusetts.
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  History of the First - Tenth - Twenty-ninth Maine Regiment : in service of the United States from May 3, 1861, to June 21, 1866

  Recruited as the 1st Maine infantry in the spring of 1861: reorganized as the 10th infantry, Oct. 1861, for two and three-year terms. "The two-years men were mustered out ... May ... 1863 and the remaining men consolidated into a battalion [10th] ... transferred to the 29th Maine vols. Nov. 1,'63." cf. Official army register of volunteers. v.1, p. 29 Not actually consolidated till May 1864 "Additions and corrections to History 1-10-29 Maine regiment. Correcting all errors that have been noticed up to February, 1893."
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  History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers

  16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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  History of the First regiment, Delaware volunteers, from the commencement of the "three months' service" to the final muster-out at the close of the rebellion

  1st Delaware Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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  The Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion, 1861 to 1865. First division, 12th and 20th corps. A History of It's Recruiting, Organization, Camp Life, Marches and Battles, Together With A Roster of The Men Composing It

  27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry
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  History of the One hundred and twenty-fifth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, 1862-1863

  125th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
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  History of the Philadelphia Brigade. Sixty-ninth, Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and One hundred and sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers

  69th Pennsylvania Volunteers 71st Pennsylvania Volunteers 72nd Pennsylvania Volunteers 106th Pennsylvania Volunteers
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  Recollections of a Confederate staff officer

  Sorrel served as an aide-de-camp and and as AAG on Longstreet's staff until October 1864.
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  Hood's Texas brigade, its marches, its battles, its achievements

  Hood's Texas Brigade, 1st TX Inf, Rgt, 4th TX Inf. Rgt. 5th TX Inf. Rgt.
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  Battles And Leaders Of The Civil War, Vol. II North To Antietam

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  Lieutenant Egbert Worth Olcott, Lieutenant Battery G, 1st U.S. Artillery at the Battle of Antietam

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  Lieutenant Alexander C. M. Pennington, assigned to Horse Battery A, 2nd U.S. Artillery at the Battle of Antietam

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  The War of the rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Vol. 19, Part 2

  Series 1 / v. 19, Part 2: Reports, Correspondence, etc. Operations in: Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, September 3-November 14, 1862. South Mountain, Antietam.
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  The War of the rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series 1, Vol. 19, Part 1

  Series 1 / v. 19, Part 1: Reports Operations in: Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, September 3-November 14, 1862. South Mountain, Antietam.
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  Following the flag : from August 1861 to November 1862, with the Army of the Potomac

  Charles C. Coffin was one of the best-known newspaper correspondents of the American Civil War. He worked for the Boston Journal and covered the entire war, mostly with the Army of the Potomac. He has been called "the Ernie Pyle of his era," and a biographer, W.E. Griffis, referred to him as "a soldier of the pen and knight of the truth." (Wikipedia)
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  The Army of the Potomac: Gen McClellan's Report of its operations while under his command with maps and plans.

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  Battle of Antietam / Thulstrup

  Thure Thulstrup illustration of the Battle of Antietam with Union troops advancing toward the Dunker Church - G33115 U.S. Copyright Office. - "Fac-simile print by L. Prang & Co."
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  General Gordon, Reminiscences of the civil war

  A personal narrative of the American Civil War experiences of John B. Gordon. Gordon served as the Colonel in command of the 6th Alabama Regiment and saw furious combat in the Sunken road as part of Rodes' Brigade of D. H. Hill's Division in Jackson's Command.
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  Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Vol. 1

  - A personal narrative by Jacob D. Cox of his wartime experiences. - At the beginning of the Maryland Campaign, Cox's brigade became the Kanawha Division of the IX Corps of the Army of the Potomac. - Cox led the assault on the Confederates on September 14, 1862, at the Battle of South Mountain. - When corps commander Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno was killed at South Mountain, Cox assumed command of the IX Corps. - During Antietam, Cox continued to be in command of the IX Corps under Burnside's supervision.
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  Lieutenant Alanson M. Randol commanding Battery E and G, 1st U.S. Artillery at the Battle of Antietam

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  Lieutenant Francis L. Dutton 4th U.S. Artillery attached to Horse Battery C & G, 3rd U.S. Artillery at the Battle of Antietam

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  Captain John C. Tidball commanding Horse Battery A, 2nd U.S. Artillery at the Battle of Antietam

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  Part of Maryland : showing the positions of the armies at 6 a.m. September 16, 1862

  - Annotated in red and blue to show Union and Confederate positions. - Map no. IX from: The story of the Civil War, vol. 2 / John C. Ropes. Boston, 1898. - Relief shown by hachures.
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  Lieutenant Edward Warner, Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Brigadier General Henry J. Hunt

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  Map of the battlefield of Antietam, [Sept. 17, 1862]

  - [Scale ca. 1:13,300]. - Inscribed in longhand as follows: Obtained from Washington & presented to Gen. R. E. Lee by J. E. B. Stuart. - This map was in the possession of Jedediah Hotchkiss at the time of his death. Major Hotchkiss served as topographic engineer with the Army of Northern Virginia. In July 1948, the Library of Congress purchased his map collection. - Description derived from published bibliography.
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  Antietam

  - Relief shown by hachures. - Map is annotated by hand to show the Confederate positions in red, additional hachures in pencil and blue ink,and a 3/4-inch grid. - Description derived from published bibliography. - This map was in the possession of Jedediah Hotchkiss at the time of his death. Major Hotchkiss served as topographic engineer with the Army of Northern Virginia. In July 1948, the Library of Congress purchased his map collection.
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  Genl. Geo. B. McClellan passing through Frederick City Myd. at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Pursuit of Genl. Lee

  - Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.38)
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  The battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg

  - "Sketched from a point north of Antietam Creek and west of the turnpike. Charge of Genl. Sumner's Corps on centre of the enemy's position in the lane in front of the town" on mount. - Includes numerical key. - Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.265) - Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
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  The charge across the Burnside Bridge--Antietam

  - Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.39) - Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
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  Antietam, Maryland. Gen. Joe Hooker's headquarters

  - Caption from negative sleeve: Gen. Hooker's Headquarters, Battle of Antietam. - Corresponding print is in LOT 4167-C. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  A lieutenant of cavalry in Lee's army

  George William Beale was born into the Virginia nobility, son of Richard Lee Beale, who served in the House of Representatives and Congress for that state before the Civil War. He followed his father into the Confederate cavalry, 9th Virginia when the Civil War began. His well-written and compelling memoirs document his time with JEB Stuart and Hampton across most of the Eastern Theater of the Civil War. He participated in engagements during the Maryland Campaign, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, Gettysburg, The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid, and Spotsylvania. His active career was cut short in February 1865 when he was badly wounded.
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  Antietam, Maryland. Dunker church on battlefield

  - Caption from negative sleeve: Dunker [?] Church, Antietam. - Corresponding print is in LOT 4167-C. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  [Antietam, Md. President Lincoln with Gen. George B. McClellan and group of officers]

  - Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0148 - Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. - Additional information from Katz, D. Mark. Witness to an era: the life and photographs of Alexander Gardner, 1991. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  The President and General McClellan on the Battle-field of Antietam

  - "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Alex. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia." - Title from item. Date printed on photo is Oct. 4, but the photo was probably taken on Oct. 3. - Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 111.
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  Personal recollections of the war. A record of service with the Ninety-third New York Vol. Infantry, and the First Brigade, First Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac

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  Antietam, Maryland. View where Sumner's Corps charged

  - Stereo filed in LOT 4168. - Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alexander Gardner. - Caption from negative sleeve: View of Antietam Battlefield where Sumner's Corps charged the enemy. Scene of terrific conflict. Sept. 1862. - Two plates form left (LC-B811-568B) and right (LC-B811-568A) halves of a stereograph pair. - Corresponding print is in LOT 4167-C. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  Antietam, Maryland. Burying the dead Confederate soldiers

  - Caption from negative sleeve: Burying the dead, after the Battle of Antietam. - Two plates form left (LC-B811-561B) and right (LC-B811-561A) halves of a stereograph pair. - Corresponding print is in LOT 4168. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  Antietam, Maryland. Dead on battlefield

  - Caption from negative sleeve: Dead on the Battlefield of Antietam. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  Antietam, Maryland. A lone grave

  - Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alex. Gardner. - Caption from negative sleeve: A lone grave on battlefield of Antietam. - Two plates form left (LC-B811-570B) and right (LC-B811-570A) halves of a stereograph pair. - Corresponding print is in LOT 4168. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  Antietam, Md. Antietam Bridge on the Sharpsburg-Boonsboro Turnpike

  - Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0128 - Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. - Corresponding print is in LOT 4176. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  Antietam, Md. A cavalry orderly

  - Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0150 - Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. - Corresponding print is in LOT 4172-F. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  Antietam, Maryland. Newcomer's mill

  - Two plates form left (LC-B811-582A) and right (LC-B811-582B) halves of a stereograph pair. - Corresponding print is in LOT 4164-C. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  Antietam, Maryland. Miller house

  - Title from Civil War caption books. - Caption from negative sleeve: Miller's house, Antietam, Md. - Corresponding print is in LOT 4165-C. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  Berlin (now Brunswick), Md. Pontoon bridge and ruins of the stone bridge

  - Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0153 - Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  Antietam, Md. Another view of Antietam bridge

  Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0129 - Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  Life and letters of Wilder Dwight, lieut.-col. Second Mass. inf. vols

  Lieut. Col. Wilder Dwight, 2nd Massachusetts Regiment
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  War from the inside : the story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863

  132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
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  A regimental history: the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth New York State Volunteers

  125th New York Volunteers
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  The One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment New York State Volunteers. A narrative of its services in the war for the Union

  120th New York Volunteers
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  History of the 42nd Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, Confederate States Army, Infantry

  42nd Regiment, Georgia Volunteers
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  The Ninety-Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers (Gosline's Pennsylvania Zouaves), in the Sixth Corps : an historical paper

  95th Pennsylvania Volunteers
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  Personal recollections of the war. A record of service with the Ninety-third New York Vol. Infantry, and the First Brigade, First Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac

  93rd New York Volunteers
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  The Seventy-ninth Highlanders, New York Volunteers in the War of Rebellion, 1861-1865

  79th New York Volunteers
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  History of the Third Regiment, Excelsior Brigade, 72d New York Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865

  72d New York Volunteer Infantry
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  Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers

  6th Wisconsin Regiment
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  A brief history of the 69th Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, from its formation until final muster out of the United States service

  69th Regiment Pennsylvania
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  History Sixty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865

  61st Pennsylvania Volunteers
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  History of the Forty-ninth New York Volunteers

  49th NY Regiment
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  A history of the Forty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, 1861-1865

  44th New York Regiment
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  History of the Fortieth (Mozart) regiment, New York Volunteers, which was composed of four companies from New York, four companies from Massachusetts and two companies from Pennsylvania

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  The War; "Stonewall" Jackson, His Campaigns, and Battles, the Regiment as I Saw Them

  37 Virginia Regiment
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  Record of the Military Service of First Lieutenant and Brevet Captain Robert Goldthwaite Carter, U. S. Army, 1862 to 1876

  22 MASS Infantry,
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  Two Boys in the Civil War and After

  Fifteenth Alabama regiment and Second Georgia Regiment
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  Our boys. The personal experiences of a soldier in the Army of the Potomac

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  History of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery. Organized October 3, 1861, mustered out June 12, 1865

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  The Confederate soldier; and Ten years in South America

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  Heavy guns and light: a history of the 4th New York Heavy Artillery

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  Diary of Tar Heel Confederate Soldier

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  Forget-me-nots of the Civil War; A Romance, Containing Reminiscences and Original Letters of Two Confederate Soldiers.

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  Sketches of the Civil War : especially of Companies A, C and H, from Iredell County, N.C. and the 4th Regimental Band

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  Two Boys in the Civil War and After

  Mitchell and William Robert Houghton combined memoirs of their experience in the American Civil War with the 2nd Georgia Regiment
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  A History of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion.

  Original book provided for digitizing by the HathiTrust Digital Library, Fort Wayne, IN
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  Reminiscences of Four Years as a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army, 1861 - 1865

  A narrative of John Gill's service during the American Civil War
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  Personal Recollections of the War: A Record of Service with the Ninety-Third New York Vol. Infantry and the First Brigade, First Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac.

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  The battle of Antietam--Charge of Burnside 9th Corps on the right flank of the Confederate Army

  Published as a block print in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of 11 October 1862
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  The History of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865

  A narrative of the battery's service in the American Civil War. Illustrated with photographs of members of the unit.
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  History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865

  Written by a committee of the veterans of the regiment. In three parts: the first a chronological record of the regiment during the war, the second containing "company sketches and personal reminiscences," and the third having rosters of the regiment by Company. Illustrated with engravings and photographs.
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  Antietam

  Park brochure for the battlefield showing topographic features and overview of military movements on 17 September 1862
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  The whole Division except our Regiment ...

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  Antietam, Md. A cavalry orderly

  - Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0150 - Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. - Corresponding print is in LOT 4172-F. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  Antietam, Md. Burnside's bridge

  - Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0130 - Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. - Corresponding print is in LOT 4176. - Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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  History of the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 2d Corps, 1861-1865

  Original book provided for digitizing by the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, Fort Wayne, IN