Other Resources
This is meant to be a comprehensive list. If, however, you know of a resource that is not listed below, please send an email to ng.ny.nyarng.list.historians@mail.mil with the name of the resource and where it is located. This can include photographs, letters, articles and other non-book materials. Also, if you have any materials in your possession that you would like to donate, the museum is always looking for items specific to New York's military heritage. Thank you.
Adriance, Cornelius B. Civil War military papers, 1863-1864.
8 items. (0.1 linear ft.).
Muster-in roll, muster-out rolls, commissions, and other military papers.
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
Chadwick Family. Papers (1843-1819).
2 boxes (.50 cu. ft.)
These papers include letters, diaries, and a personal narrative of Peter Remson Chadwick that relate to his military service during the Civil War. They provide detailed information about the Peninsular campaign, and other action he witnessed in Virginia and South Carolina. Finding aid available.
Located at the New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections.
Cooper, Doris Lake et. al. I take my pen in hand: Civil War letters of two soldiers and friends : Sidney A. Lake and Conrad Litt, 100th N.Y. Volunteers, Co. "C", Buffalo, N.Y. Bloomington, IN : Authorhouse, 2008.
Cook (Edward L.) Papers, 1862-1865
Abstract: Primarily correspondence of Edward Leigh Cook, a resident of Nunday, N.Y. Cook was a Civil War Union soldier who served with the 100th New York Infantry, Co. F. and Co. H. The letters date from September 17, 1862 to September 6, 1865. Almost all were written to his parents and sisters while Cook served in Virginia, South Carolina, and Florida. (There is at least one item that seems to have been written by a comrade to Cook's sister Laura).
In most of his correspondence, Cook describes various aspects of military life: travel, weather, the rigors of life in the field, and his private cares and concerns. He also gives his account of a number of battles in which he participated (Fort Sumter, Fort Wagner) in vivid detail. Cook also makes note of a number of famous personages and events: a visit by General Grant, the Sherman Campaign, troop movements and reported observations by Generals Lee, Sheridan, Grant and others. He describes his reactions to the death of Lincoln, the end of the war, and his desire to return home as soon as possible following Lee's surrender and the cessation of hostilities.
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
More information is here: http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt900006qx/
Corbett, Inis L. Records, 1894-1953 (bulk 1911-1951).
Description: 3 boxes. (1.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Includes minutes from annual reunions (1911-1951); general membership records and correspondence kept by the secretary; some materials related to veterans of 8th N.Y. Heavy Artillery Regiment; clippings related to the organization's activities; and official documents, including a muster roll (Co. B, 1865) and appointment of Edwin Nichols as Captain, 1864.
Note(s): Bio/History: The 100th New York Regiment broke camp at Fort Porter in 1862 to join the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War; it originally numbered approximately 1,000 men. The regiment reunited annually, often together with Peter A. Porter's 8th N.Y. Heavy Artillery regiment.
General Info: Organization: Organized into seven series: I. Correspondence, notes and records. II. Minutes from annual reunions. III. Printed materials. IV. Deaths register. V. Account book. VI. Photographs. VII. Other official documents./ Preferred citation: Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Archives, B64-5, 100th New York Infantry Regiment Veterans Association Records./ Inventory/ available in the repository:/ series level control./ Reunion minutes, muster roll, and clippings, A64-29/ integrated with present collection; A64-29 discontinued; 1991/12/30.
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
Dixon, William. Civil War papers, 1862-1864.
3 items. (0.1 linear ft.).
Appointment to rank of sergeant in 100th N.Y. Regiment, 1 Jan. 1862; letter to friends, recounting his experiences in the Battle of Fort Darling, Va., 18 May 1864; ALS, C.C. Porter, Lewiston, N.Y., to Soldier, expressing gratitude, [ca. 1862].
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library
Fenton, Reuben E. Military commission of John Wilkes Wilkeson. 1865.
Commission awarded posthumously for gallant and meritorious service in the field. Wilkeson died during the Battle of Fair Oaks in command of Company K, 100th New York Infantry.
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
Fort Wagner and Its Approaches. Map.
Galloway, Richard. The medal. New York : iUniverse, Inc., 2005.
Note(s): Life during and after the American Civil war was a torrent of hardship and misery. Drawing upon extensive research, The Medal is a fictional account of one soldier's personal triumph through combat. POW life, slavery, personal conflicts, romance, and, most importantly, loved ones - lost and found.
Granger, James Nathaniel. Companion Warren Granger , Lieutenant-Colonel 100th N. Y. infantry and Grevt Colonel U.S. volunteers, a monograph by James N. Granger. [Hartford: Lockword & Brainard co., 1895] 42 pp. illus.
Hazard, George S. Introduction to the records of the Buffalo Board of trade regiment, 100th N. Y.S.vol's. Compiled and presented to the Buffalo historical society, by George S. Hazard. [Buffalo, 1889] 15 folios.
Henshaw, Charles. Letters, 1861-1862.
14 items.
Letters from a captain in the 100th Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry, stationed at Camp Morgan and near Yorktown, Va., to his mother and sisters describing army life.
Located at Duke University Library.
Horn, John (John Edward) The destruction of the Weldon Railroad, Deep Bottom, Globe Tavern, and Reams Station, August 14-25, 1864 Lynchburg, Va. H.E. Howard, Inc. 1991.
Thank you to Chris Duryea for pointing out the section on the 100th, 152nd and 2nd Artillery.
Hulbert, Simon Bolivar. One battle too many : an American Civil War chronicle : the writings of Simon Bolivar Hulbert, private, Company E, 100th Regiment, New York State Volunteers 1861-1864. [Gaithersburg, Md] [Olde Soldier Books] 1987.
Hulbert, Simon Bolivar. Diaries, 1860 Jan. 1-1864 Aug. 9.
Pocket diaries, 1860 Jan. 1-1864 Aug. 9, of Simon Bolivar Hulbert begun when he was a young man in Westfield, Chautauqua County, New York, and covering his period of service with the 100th Regiment of the New York State Volunteers, to Aug. 9, two days before his death in Andersonville Prison. Hulbert was first captured near Richmond, Virginia, May 31, 1862, and released Sept. 14, 1862. He was recaptured May 16, 1864, and died Aug. 11, 1864. He writes briefly of his activities in Westfield and of army life, of his experiences as a prisoner of war in a cotton factory at Salisbury, North Carolina, and of waiting for his release at Belle Isle, his experiences at Libby Prison, and his final months at Andersonville. Typed transcription of the diaries additionally available. Some entries in pencil are faded and difficult to decipher.
Located at the New York Historical Society, New York, NY.
Hunt, Edith Johnson, et. al. Johnson-Hunt-Wilkeson genealogical papers, 1861-1962.
Description: 2 boxes. (1.0 linear ft.)
Actions: Reprocessed/retroconverted; Date: 1992/02/14; Agent: Peter Nelson
Abstract: Notes, correspondence, registers and clippings related to genealogical research on the Johnson and Wilkeson families; includes notes on Capt. Ebenezer Johnson (1760-1841), Elisha Johnson (1784-1866), Samuel Wilkeson (1781-1848) and Elizabeth Wilkeson Hamlin (1875-1951); descriptions of "The Cottage," Ebenezer Johnson's house on Delaware Ave., Buffalo; Elisha Johnson's "Hornby Lodge" at Portage, N.Y., and his "Mansion" at Tellico Plains, Tennessee; commissioning papers of Hugh M. Johnson (1842-1928), 1st Lt. in the 21st Regiment of New York State Volunteers during the Civil War; and a published version of Lt. John Wilkeson's last Civil War letters to family before dying at the Battle of Fair Oaks, Va.
Note(s): Bio/History: Ebenezer Johnson was Buffalo's first mayor. His son Elisha was a surveyor, railroad and canal engineer, and mayor of Rochester, N.Y. (1838) who moved to Tellico Plains, Tennessee in 1854. Samuel Wilkeson, considered the father of the Buffalo harbor and the man most responsible for making Buffalo the western terminus of the Erie Canal, was elected mayor of Buffalo in 1836. His daughter Louisa married Mortimer Johnson, son of Elisha Johnson. Hugh M. Johnson, son of Elisha Johnson, was a lieutenant in the 21st Regiment of New York Volunteers during the Civil War. Tellico Johnson, also a son of Elisha Johnson, served with the Pennsylvania volunteers in the Civil War, farmed in Youngstown (Niagara County), N.Y., and lived in Buffalo from 1885 to 1903. Tellico's daughter, Edith Johnson Hunt, did much of the genealogical research in the present collection.
General Info: Introduction and inventory/ available in the repository:/ folder level control. Organization: Organized into eight series: I. Johnson family genealogy. II. Individual Johnson family members. III. Johnson family legal documents. IV. Edith J. Hunt correspondence. V. Hunt family. VI. Wilkeson family. VII. Miscellaneous printed matter. VII. Albums and miscellany./ Chronological arrangement within series.
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
Lyth, Alfred. Civil War letters and diaries, 1862-1865.
6 folders (153 items) (0.5 linear ft.).
Letters to family members from the field and from Andersonville Prison and Parole Camp, Annapolis, Md. Includes two letters from Tom Maharg, Lyth's tentmate, to Lyth in the hospital at Hilton Head, S.C., 1863. Also includes a certificate to obtain a marriage license for Lorenzo Jones of Gloucester, Va., 13 Oct. 1859.
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
Macauley, Dan, and Mark M. Maycock. Records, 1860-1951.
4 boxes + 3 oversize v. (4.0 linear ft.)
Daily and weekly roll books, 1860-1870; class summaries, 1933- 1940; library inventory, 1875; girls' hall monitor book, 1879-1884; daily school report logs, 1867-1872; alumni association minutes, programs and other records, 1871-1939; speeches made to students and faculty, including notes of first day addresses by the principal, 1916-1918; memorials to Frederick A. and Sophie F. Vogt, 1919 and 1939; anniversary programs, 1911 and 1919; Civil War letters to students and faculty from Dan Macauley and others, 1862-1864; and other papers, including a N.Y. State Regents diploma of 1875 and a history of Hutchinson-Central Evening High School. .
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
New York (State). Adjuatant General's Office. Special Order No. 362. 17 August 1861.
Otis, Calvin N. Diary of Calvin N. Otis, 1862.
Original at the New York State Military Museum, 2001.0043.
Payne, Lewis. Diary (1863).
A pocket diary in which Payne summarized his daily activities as well as the participation of the 100th Regiment in campaigns at Cole's Island, Folly Island, and Morris Island, South Carolina.
Located at the New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections.
Pierson, Myron P. Myron P. Pierson papers, 1861-1924, 1861-1865 (bulk). 1861-1924.
2.0 cubic ft. (ca.).
Papers of Myron P. Pierson, pertaining primarily to his Civil War military career including appointments; furlough papers; ordnance records of Company B, 100th Regiment, New York State Volunteer Infantry, December 1863; diary, 1861-65; discharge, 1865; pension increase notice, 1924. Also, diary of Hellen E. Pierson, 1863; anonymous diary (of Myron P. Pierson?), 1877; and daguerreotype of Myron P. Pierson
Located at the LeRoy Historical Society, 23 East Main Street, LeRoy, New York 14482.
Proceedings of the ... reunion(s) of the 100th N. Y. veteran association. Volumes I - LV, 1887 - 1941.
Root, Calvin. A true report of the movements of the One hundredth Regiment, N.Y.S.V., from December 26th, 1862, to October 6th, 1863. Buffalo : Published for the benefit of Mrs. C. Root, 1863. 27 p. ; 22 cm.
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
Sandrock, Frederick. Civil War commissions, discharges and orders, 1863-1865.
10 items. (0.1 linear ft.).
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
Sheldon, James, et al. Family papers. 1835-1920.
16 boxes. (8.0 linear ft.)
Correspondence, poems, speeches, diaries and legal and financial papers of James Sheldon IV (1821-1887), including court records (docket books, opinions and calendars) for sessions presided over by Sheldon, 1852- 1885, and loose judicial records and notes, 1821-1884. Correspondence and two legal documents of James Sheldon III (1792-1850), 1817-1828. Correspondence, writings, clippings, notes and collected papers of Grace Carew Sheldon, 1863-1920, including clippings of her newspaper columns on Buffalo history and notes on several New York State Civil War volunteer regiments. Correspondence and pattern books of Sara P. Sheldon; Pan- American Exposition Guard records of Theodore B. Sheldon, 1901; three undated remedy and recipe books of Caroline C. McIntosh (later Mrs. Millard Fillmore); poems, letters and clippings of Edward W. Crosby, 1900- 1909; and a photo album compiled in 1950 depicting the Sheldon Homestead at 1094 Main St., Buffalo.
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
Smith, Henry P. Papers. 1835-1873.
13 folders (231 items) (0.5 linear ft.).
Letters to his wife, Christiana, and letters to Christiana from her brothers and sisters; other personal letters from family and friends, including two from W.D. Murray, with the 100th regiment N.Y. Volunteers in Virginia, 1862; and letters and other papers concerning Henry P. Smith's lumber business in Tonawanda, N.Y. and elsewhere.
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
Stoddard, George N. the 100th regiment on Folly Island, from the diary of Private George N. Stoddard. Niagara Frontier I (1954) pp. 77-81, 113-16.
Stowits, George H. History of the One hundredth regiment of New York state volunteers, being a record of its services from its muster in to its muster out, its muster in roll, roll of commissions, recruits furnished through the board of trade of the City of Buffalo, and short sketches of deceased and surviving officers, by Geo, H, Stowits, late Major. [Buffalo: Print. house of Matthews & Warren, 1870] 424 p. illus.
Stowits, George H. et. al. Papers, 1837-1904 (bulk 1854-1904).
Description: 6 boxes. (3.0 linear ft.)
Abstract: Essays and adresses, mostly concerning education, history and the military, 1860-1901 and undated; a diary describing a trip to the British Isles in 1856; a scrapbook including articles and addresses by Stowits, and clippings about him and G.A.R. matters, 1854-1904; a cash book, 1854-1860; a letter from Brigadier-General G.B. Dandy regarding Civil War military history, 1891; personal letters from John W. Francis, 1901; letters from New York State Superintendent of Schools Charles R. Skinner concerning education, 1902-1903; and miscellaneous papers including a list of principals of the Buffalo public schools, 1861-1902.
Note(s): Bio/History: Born in Fort Plain, N.Y. in 1822. Buffalo public school principal and veteran of the 100th New York Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Active in the G.A.R. and an organizer of the Bidwell-Wilkeson Post. His History of the One Hundredth Regiment of New York State Volunteers was published in Buffalo by Matthews & Warren in 1870.
General Info: Inventory/ available in the repository:/ folder level control. Organization: Organized into six series: I. Writings and addresses, 1860-1901 and undated, subseries A-D as follows: A. Education; B. History; C. Military; D. Various subjects. II. Diary, 1856. III. Scrapbook, 1854- 1904. IV. Cash book, 1854-1860. V. Letters received, 1891-1903. VI. Miscellaneous, 1837, 1902-1903./ Chronological arrangement within series. Preferred citation: Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Archives, C64-10, George H. Stowits Papers.
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
Swift, William P. Diaries, 1861-1866.
.65 cubic feet. Photostats (negative) and photocopies.
Diaries, 1861-1866, of William P. Swift of Le Roy, Genesee County, New York. Topics include weather, family, troop movements of the 100th New York Infantry in Virginia and South Carolina, camp life, the surrender of Confederate forces, and the capture of Jefferson Davis. Includes daily notations of sermons attended and bible chapters read. Also includes entries after the war concerning work, marriage, and personal financial accounts for 1865-1866.
Accession 26076, 26077. Located at the Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
Thank you to Ed Worman for pointing out this resource.
Wagner, Adam J. Remarks : at presentation of Edwin Nichols diaries to Buffalo Historical Society, 1919 Aug. 16.
Description: 1 item (2 p.) + partial transcript ; 26 cm. (0.1 linear ft.)
Abstract: Concerns diaries of Captain Edwin Nichols, who served with the 100th Regiment N.Y. Volunteers during the Civil War.
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
Walbridge, Charles Eliphalet. Charles Eliphalet Walbridge papers, 1861-1895 ; bulk, (1861-1865).
43 items
Civil War letters re Walbridge's service as captain of company H, 100th New York Volunteers, and in various quartermaster posts. Correspondence re general progress of the campaign, camp life, government land auctions, the situation of the freedmen, and particularly to Walbridge's activities as a private freight and mule team operator in late 1865; and insights re business conditions at war's end. Other items include Walbridge's enlistment papers, 1868, for New York National Guard; membership papers in Union army veterans organizations; and bound volume of proceedings of the 100th Regiment New York State Vols. sixth annual reunion, 1892.
Located at the University of South Carolina.
More information is here: www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1998/walbri98.html
Wilkeson family. Papers. 1861-1950.
20 items. (0.1 linear ft.)
Letters, an agreement and orders regarding company of infantry raised for the Eagle Brigade by John Wilkeson and others, 1861-1862; letters pertaining to Wilkeson family history, 1942-1950; a description of a flying saucer sighted by Margaret Wilkeson Burnett, 1948, and an invitation to the 100th anniversary of Liberia, 1947.
Located at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Library.
United States Army. 100th New York Infantry Regiment. Records (1862-1864).
1 box.
Collection Call Number: SC19815.
Group comprised mostly of consolidated and tri-monthly morning reports compiled by Colonel George B. Dandy.
Located at the New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections.
United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 100th (1861-1865). Proceedings of the annual reunion. Buffalo: 1887-1890. Proceedings of 1st annual re-union includes Constitution and by-laws. 1st-4th ; [1887-1890]; v. ports. 18 cm.
Worman,Edward A. One Hundredth Infantry---New York Deep Bottom, Deep Run and Strawberry Plains or Four Mile Run, VA---July 27 to August 18, 1864--collated with various newspaper accounts of casualties.. 2015. 15 pages.
Items in the museum collection are in bold.