Battery L, 1st Artillery Regiment (Light) - George Breck Columns: Chapter 39: Bibliography

Books

Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary, New York: David McKay Co. Inc., 1959.

Catton, Bruce. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, New York: American Heritage Publishing Co. Inc., 1960 (1982 edition, Bonanza Books).

Catton, Bruce. A Stillness at Appomattox. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Co., 1953.

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Des Moines, Iowa: The Dyer Publishing Co., 1908.

Garrison, Webb. The Encyclopedia of Civil War Usage, Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland House, 2001.

Geary, James W. We Need Men: The Union Draft in the Civil War, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Hennessy, John J. Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

McPherson, James M. The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

McPherson, James M. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Marcotte, Robert. Where They Fell: Stories of Rochester Area Soldiers in the Civil War, Franklin, Va.: Q Publishing, 2002.

Naisawald, L. Van Loan. Grape and Canister: The Story of the Field Artillery of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.

OR (Official Records): See Scott, Robert N.

Phisterer, Frederick. New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865. Six volumes. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Co., 1912.

Scott, Robert N., prep. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.

Sheads, Scott Sumpter and Daniel Carroll Toomey. Baltimore During the Civil War, Linthicum, Md.: Toomey Press, 1997.

Speer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1997.

Trudeau, Noah Andre. Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1989.

Trudeau, Noah Andre. The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864-April 1865. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1991.

Wainwright, Charles S. A Diary of Battle: The Personal Journals of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1861-1865. Allan Nevins, ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962.

Warner, Ezra J. Generals In Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964.

Welcher, Frank J. The Union Army, 1861-1865, Organizations and Operations, Vol. 1, The Eastern Theater, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Co., Inc. 1971.

Articles, published letters

Breck, George, “George Breck’s Civil War Letters from the ‘Reynolds’ Battery.’” The Rochester Historical Society Publications, Vol. 22. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester Historical Society, 1944.

Marsh, Ruth, “A History of Rochester’s Part in the Civil War.” The Rochester Historical Society Publications, Vol. 22. Rochester: Rochester Historical Society, 1944

Map credits

Other than the exceptions listed below, maps were compiled based on The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War (Davis, Maj. George B. et al, 2003 edition by Barnes & Noble Publishing Inc., New York).

Second Bull Run:

Hennessy, John. Historical Report on the Troop Movements for the Second Battle of Manassas, August 28 through August 30, 1862, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1985.

Antietam:

Priest, John M. Antietam: The Soldiers’ Battle, Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Publishing Co., 1989.

Fredericksburg:

O'Reilly, Frank and John Dove. Battle of Fredericksburg, set of five maps, 1997.

Gettysburg:

Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg: Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg: The First Day, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Spotsylvania:

Matter, William D. If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Totopotomoy, Bethesda Church and Cold Harbor:

Bearss, Edwin. Cold Harbor campaign, set of 16 maps, 1960.

Transcribed And Donated By Bob MarcotteTranscribed And Donated By Bob Marcotte
Robert E. Marcotte
Rochester, N.Y.
February 2005