Elmira:
Death Camp of the North
by Michael Horigan
Hardcover from Stackpole Books
Book Published: 01 March, 2002
Banished
Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York
by Peter Quinn
Paperback from Penguin USA (Paper)
Book Published: March, 1995
The
Union Preserved: A Guide to the Civil War Records in the New York State
Archives
by Daniel Lorello, Harold Holzer, Hans L. Trefousse, James M. McPherson,
New York State Archives
Hardcover from Fordham University Press
Book Published: 01 May, 1999
An
Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias
Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers
by Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Lauren Cook Burgess
Book Description: "I don't know how long before i shall have to go
into the field of battle. For my part i don't care. I don't feel afraid
to go. I don't believe there are any Rebel's bullet made for me yet."
--Pvt. Lyons Wakeman
Similar sentiments were expressed by tens of thousands of Civil War
soldiers in their diaries and in their letters to loved ones at home. What
transforms the letters of Pvt. Lyons Wakeman from merely interesting reading
into a unique and fascinating addition to Civil War literature is who wrote
them--for Private Wakeman was not what "he" seemed to be. The five-foot
tall soldier's true identity was that of a simple young farm girl from
central New York state named Sarah Rosetta Wakeman. Her letters, the only
such correspondence known to exist, provide a rare glimpse of what life
was like for a woman fighting as a common soldier in the Civil War under
the guise of a man.
Written shortly after she left home to pursue her fortune in 1862, Rosetta's
letters over the next two years tell of army life in the defences of Washington,
D.C. and on the march and in battle during the 1864 Louisiana Red River
Campaign. She wrote frequently to her family in Afton, NY, and her letters
contain feelings and observations like those expressed by the majority
of her fellow soldiers. We read of her determination to perform honorably
the duty required of a soldier, the trials of hard marching and combat,
her pride in being able to "drill just as well as any man" in her regiment,
and her eventual fatalistic attitude toward military service, and her frequent
expressions of faith in God and the afterlife. Although Rosetta did not
survive the war, her letters remain as an singular record of female military
life in the ranks, a phenomenon largely ignored by historians and researchers.
Private Wakeman was not alone in embarking on her strange adventure.
Hundreds of women, from both the North and South, disguised themselves
as men and enlisted in the armies of our nation's bloodiest war.
The experiences of these women during the Civil War are just beginning
to be recognized as elemental to understanding the life of this country
during those turbulent times. Little is known about these women precisely
because they enlisted and served in constant secrecy, fearful of revealing
their true identities. This unique collection of letters offers a firsthand
look at the personality and character of a woman who defied convention
to take a man's place in the Union army.
Paperback from Oxford Press
Book Published: March, 1996
A
Time To Dance: Virginia's Civil War Diary, Book Three (My America)
by Mary Pope Osborne, Will Osbourne
Paperback from Scholastic
Book Published: 01 August, 2003
The
Irish Brigade in the Civil War: The 69th New York and Other Irish Regiments
of the Army of the Potomac
by Joseph G. Bilby
Paperback from DaCapo Press
Book Published: April, 1998
The
Man Who Tried to Burn New York
by Nat Brandt
Paperback from iUniverse.com
Book Published: August, 1999
Hard
Breathing Days: The Civil War Letters of Cora Beach Benton, Albion, New
York, 1862-1865
by Thomas R. Taber
Hardcover from Almeron Press
Book Published: 01 April, 2003
Stories
of Freedom in Black New York
by Shane White
Hardcover from Harvard Univ Pr
Book Published: November, 2002
Confederate
Operations in Canada and New York
by John W. Headley
Paperback from University Press of the Pacific
Book Published: April, 2003
Under
the Crescent and Star : The 134th New York Volunteer Infantry in the Civil
War
by George W. Conklin
Hardcover from Axworthy Publishing
Book Published: 01 June, 2000
Lincoln's
Foreign Legion: The 39th New York Infantry, the Garibaldi Guard
by Michael Bacarella
Hardcover from White Mane Publishing Co.
Book Published: February, 1997
Passenger
Arrivals at the Port of New York, 1820-1829
by Elizabeth P. Bentley
Hardcover from Genealogical Publishing Company
Book Published: March, 1999
History
of the 124th Regiment of New York State Volunteers: The Orange Blossom
Regiment
by Charles H. Weygant, Garry E. Adelman, Lt. Col. Charles H. Weygant
Hardcover from Ironclad Publishing
Book Published: 01 September, 2002
Colonels
in Blue: Union Army Colonels of the Civil War - New York
by Roger Hunt
Hardcover from Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Special Order
'Him
on the One Side and Me on the Other' : The Civil War Letters of Alexander
Campbell, 79th New York Infantry Regiment, and James Campbell, 1st South
Carolina Battalion
by Terry A. Johnston, Alexander Campbell, James Campbell
Hardcover from University of South Carolina Press
Book Published: May, 1999
72
Days at Gettysburg: Organization of the Tenth Regiment, New York Volunteer
Cavalry & Assignment to the Town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (December
1861 to March 1862)
by George A., Iii Rummel
Hardcover from White Mane Publishing Co.
Book Published: December, 1997
Turn
Them Out To Die Like a Mule: The Civil War Letters of John N. Henry, 49th
New York, 1816-1865
by John M. Priest
Hardcover from Gauley Mount Press
Book Published: 01 June, 1995
War
Journal of Louis N. Beaudry, Fifth New York Cavalry: The Diary of a Union
Chaplain, Commencing February 16, 1863
by Louis N. Beaudry, Richard E. Beaudry
Book Description: From the time of his departure on February 16, 1863,
to join the Union Army until he returned home on July 18, 1865, Louis N.
Beaudry kept a detailed diary of the day-to-day events of the Fifth New
York Cavalry. The unit was a participant in the Battle of Gettysburg, and
Beaudry writes of it in great detail. As the unit's chaplain, Beaudry was
very observant of those factors that influenced morale, such as fighting,
disease, boredom, hunger and weather conditions; his diary is thus uniquely
focused on the daily routine of the Fifth New York.
Hardcover from McFarland & Company
Book Published: September, 1996
The
Civil War Papers of Lt. Colonel Newton T. Colby, New York Infantry
by Newton T. Colby, William E. Hughes
Hardcover from McFarland & Company
Book Published: July, 2003
We
Came to Fight: The History of the 5th New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry
Duryee's
by Patrick A. Schroeder, Brian C. Pohanka
Hardcover from Schroeder Publications
Book Published: 01 February, 1998
One
Surgeon's Private War: Doctor William W. Potter of the 57th New York
by William W. Potter, John Michael Priest
Hardcover from White Mane Publishing Co.
Book Published: July, 1996
The
Business of Captivity in the Chemung Valley: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison
by Michael P. Gray
Hardcover from Kent State Univ Pr
Book Published: September, 2001
Step
to the Music
by Phyllis A. Whitney
Library Binding from Center Point Pub
Book Published: November, 2002
Special Order
Subdued
by the Sword: A Line Officer in the 121st New York Volunteers
by James M. Greiner
Hardcover from State Univ of New York Pr
Book Published: October, 2003
Tibbits'
Boys
by Thomas J. Reed
Paperback from University Press of America
Book Published: 20 February, 1997
Special Order
Bridge
Building in Wartime: Colonel Wesley Brainerd's Memoir of the 50th New York
Volunteer Engineers (Voices of the Civil War Series)
by Wesley Brainerd, Ed Malles
Hardcover from Univ of Tennessee Pr
Book Published: September, 1997
Gotham
at War: New York City, 1860-1865 (The American Crisis Series, No. 9)
by Edward K. Spann
Paperback from Scholarly Resources
Book Published: September, 2002
Mr. Bristol's Barn: With Excerpts from Mr. Blinn's Diary
by John Szarkowski, John Bigelow Taylor, Gilbert Tapley Vincent, Philo
Blinn
Hardcover from Harry N Abrams
Book Published: April, 1997
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New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society
and Politics in the Age of the Civil War
by Iver Bernstein
Hardcover from Oxford University Press
Book Published: December, 1989
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James Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald: A Study of Editorial
Opinion in the Civil War Era, 1854-1867 (Royal Historical Society Studies
in Hist)
by Douglas Fermer
Hardcover from Palgrave Macmillan
Book Published: September, 1986
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The Civil War and New York City
by Ernest A. McKay
Paperback from Syracuse University Press
Book Published: December, 1991
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Desolating This Fair Country: The Civil War Diary and Letters of
Lt. Henry C. Lyon, 34th New York
by Henry C. Lyon, Emily N. Radigan
Hardcover from McFarland & Company
Book Published: August, 1999
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