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@army.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.
Ainsworth, Jared L. HCWRTColl
(Extract from The Letters of Jared L. Ainsworth).
Located at the Military History Institute in Carlisle, PA.
Bedgood, Deanna. Civil War History and Roster of the First New York Dragoons. Denver: Outskirts Press, Inc., 2010.
Benedict, George D. George D. Benedict letters,1863-1864.
Letters, 1863-1864, from George D. Benedict, a Union soldier serving with the 1st New York Dragoons in Virginia and Maryland, to his wife, Sarah Benedict, at Belvidere, Allegany County, N.Y., and one letter from James Hall to Sarah Benedict telling her that her husband had been severely wounded. Benedict's letters describe military life, including picket duty, food, pay, and health, as well as news of fighting and news about friends.
35 items.
Located at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Bowen, James Riley. Regimental history of the First New York Dragoons (originally the 130th N.Y. Vol. Infantry) during three years of active service in the great Civil War. [Battle Creek, Mich.] The Author, 1900. x, [7]-464 p. incl. ports. front. 21 cm.
Cook, James Clinton. Cook family papers,1851-1953 (bulk 1862-1863).
Description: 1 box (0.41 linear feet)
Abstract: The collection contains correspondence between James Clinton Cook and his family exchanged during his Civil War service from 1862 to 1863. Also includes Mary Cook's letter to Benjamin Trumbull Kneeland (1825-1903), her husband's regimental surgeon, and a letter from her relative, Luther Perkins, a ship carpenter in St. Louis, Missouri. Also included are family photographs, from the 1860s to the early 1900s, a portrait of Lemuel Cook made after a famous photograph taken of him in approximately 1864, and genealogical correspondence, genealogical charts, and other materials assembled by Flora Cordelia Cook in the 1950s.
Held at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens
Culbertson, Samuel James. Samuel James Culbertson letters.
Author(s): s, 1837-1900, creator.
Year: 1862-1864
Description: 17 letters
Abstract: The Samuel James Culbertson Letters includes 17 letters written by Culbertson while he served in the Civil War. Except for two letters written to Culbertson by his brothers--Frank and Mike, letters 8a and 8b--the letters are addressed to his cousin, Sarah (Sallie) Rue Hannah Johnston of 246 Longworth St., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Held at the University of Rochester.
Darling, Charles B. Charles B. Darling correspondence,1861-1864.
The collection consists of a microfilm copy of the papers of Charles B. Darling from 1861-1864. The majority of the collection is letters from Charles B. Darling to his family. His letters are concerned with all phases of army life: recruiting; war news and rumors; marches; travel by train; campsites; the surrounding countryside; the Southern whites, about whom he expresses opinions from dislike to admiration and sympathy; the Negroes whom he dislikes, although he is opposed to the institution of slavery; camp life, which he seems to like in spite of all hardships and monotony; food; sleeping quarters; officers; rumors of homefront traitors; his comrades; chaplains, whom he describes as "mostly poor drunken scamps"; Rebel soldiers, officers and men; the destruction of Southern homes and farms; his admiration for President Abraham Lincoln; and his confidence in General Ulysses Grant. The collection also includes three letters from his father, J.M. Darling; two to his wife and one to Charles.
1 microfilm reel.
Located at Emory University.
Greenfield, Henry R. Civil War Letter Archive: Henry R. Greenfield, 130th / 1st Dragoons, New York State Volunteers.
Jackson, Walter Hinckley. Walter H. Jackson papers,1852-1936.
Correspondence relating to family matters, business affairs, and professional activities; also genealogies of the Jackson and Samuel Williams families; legal and business papers; poems; clippings; Civil War diary covering his service as chief trumpeter in the 130th New York Infantry and 19th New York Cavalry, 1862-1865; and photographs.
.3 linear ft.
Located at the University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library.
Lewis, Louis L. Louis L. Lewis papers, 1863-1888.
Description: 53 items
Abstract: The Louis L. Lewis papers consist of 55 items, 45 of which Lewis wrote between 1863 and 1865 to his fianceĢe, Mary E. Burt, during his enlistment in the 130th New York infantry, later renamed the 1st Regiment of Dragoons. Also included are a few miscellaneous family papers.
Held at the University of Michigan.
Lorish, Andrew J. Civil War Miscellaneous Collection
(Enlisted man's letters, Sep 10, 1862-Sep 4, 1864).
Located at the Military History Institute in Carlisle, PA.
Merville, Hiram P. and Chafee, Jane Spofford. Papers, 1862-1865.
Letters to family members during his service in the Civil War, with Company C, 130th New York Infantry Regiment, and with the 19th New York Cavalry Regiment in Virginia. Includes two letters he wrote in 1865 from the General Hospital in Buffalo, New York. Also includes a folder of typescript transcriptions prepared by the donor Jane Spofford Chafee. Approx.
.25 ft.
Located at Brown University.
Morey, William Carey. William Carey Morey, 1843-1925 papers,1863(ca.)-1916.
Diary kept while serving in 130th New York Infantry, the 1st New York Dragoons, 1863-65; published and unpublished writings on English and American constitutional law; and report on Rochester schools, 1873. 0.8 cubic ft.
Located at the New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections.
New York Dragoons. 1st Regiment, 1862-1865. Regimental association 28th annual reunion at Buffalo, N.Y.,Aug. 23-28, 1897 with roster. Buffalo, N.Y.,1897. 1 v. (unpaged) 24 cm. Located at the Allen County Public Library.
Robinson, Elisha Randolph and Robert M. Stevens (transcriber). Civil War letters of Elisha Randolph Robinson. East Aurora, New York : Stevens, 1993-1994.
Description: 2 volumes (177, 263 pages) : illustrations, photographs, portraits, facsimiles ; 28 cm + 1 folder
Contents: V. 1. Civil War letters from Elisha Randolph Robinson -- v. 2. Civil War letters to Elisha Randolph Robinson. -- Biographical folder. Robinson genealogy ; descendants of Rev. John Robinson -- 1862-1865 ; memoirs of a first New York Dragoon (Sgt. E. Randolph Robinson, Co. D) / compiled and presented as her senior essay at Warsaw High School, class of 1939, by Jane K. Robinson (granddaughter).
Abstract: Correspondence between soldier and sergeant E. R. Robinson of LaGrange, Wyoming County, N.Y. and various members of his family, written mainly during his nearly three years serving with the Union army (August 1862 to July 1865) in the U.S. Civil War. The bulk of his letters were sent from locations in Virginia, including Suffolk, Manassas Junction, Culpeper and Harpers Ferry. Robinson was present at Appomattox when Lee surrendered, and wrote of what he witnessed among the troops that day in the field. Most of the letters written to him were from family members in LaGrange and other locations in New York state, and include several written prior to and after Robinson's Civil War service.
Held at SUNY at Geneseo.
Schlick, Henry N.. Henry N. Schlick papers, 1861-1879.
Description: 0.5 linear ft. (120 items; 2 v.)
Language: English; Some correspondence in German.
Abstract: The Civil War correspondence among Henry, John, and Theodore discusses family matters, the high cost of living during war times, war casualties, contrabands, hardships of camp life, and various troop activities and movements. Specific campaigns mentioned include Bull Run, Peninsular, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania. U. S. Army papers include receipts, an inventory of ordnance stores, a list of quartermaster stores, orders and reports, lists of deserters and black recruits, commission papers, a few letters, and accounts of Schlick's military service. The muster and muster-out rolls report the troops for Company K, 130th Regiment, New York Volunteers, and the 1st Regiment, New York Dragoons. Clothing issued to various servicemen in New York and Pennsylvania regiments is reported on statements. Personal letters (1871) from Charles Schlick discuss his grocery store. The 1864-1865 diary contains accounts of Henry's participation in various battles and campaigns, in President Lincoln's funeral, activities at Camp Butler, and other matters. Entries in the 1865-1870 diary discuss transportation of draftees and substitutes (including black soldiers), black deserters, receipt of pay and purchases, Lincoln's funeral, discharge from Company K, visits to Dansville and Rochester, and return to Schlick's farm in Wisconsin. Schlick also made cash entries regarding deposits and expenses.
Held at Louisiana State University.
Stickle, John Morris and Susan Greene. Tough as a boiled owl : the Civil War correspondence of John Morris Stickle of Centerville, Allegany County, New York State 1862 to 1864. Alfred Station, New York : Susan W. Greene, 2012.
Stilson, Sarah Lyra and Oliver Waldo West. Sarah Stilson correspondence, 1861-1865.
Description: Approximately 40 items; 1 container; .2 linear feet.
Abstract: Letters written by and to Sarah Stilson, a teacher in New York State, during the Civil War. The correspondence includes 27 letters written to Stilson and twelve written by her, spread fairly evenly over the war years, from March 1861 to April 1865. Several of Stilson's letters are in the form of drafts, or of notes for letters that may or may not have been sent. The heart of the collection, comprising 25 items, is Stilson's correspondence with her friend and confidante Oliver Waldo West (b. 1842), a young newspaper editor (and future lawyer) from North Dansville, Livingston County, whom Stilson had met at a teachers' institute in 1860. In August 1862 West was mustered in to Co. K, 130th New York Infantry; he remained with the regiment, as 1st lieutenant, when it was converted to cavalry and designated the 1st New York Dragoons, in mid-1863. The following October West was detached to serve on the staff of Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton, commanding the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac. He was captured on 7 May 1864, at Todd's Tavern, and spent the balance of the war in prison. The letters exchanged by West and Stilson (16 written by West, 11 by Stilson) are long, lively, and opinionated--often, it would seem, provocatively so. While much of the content is personal news, recounted at length, with frequent touches of humor, the letters are also very much a dialogue, an exchange of ideas and feelings about both contemporary affairs and the broader life of the mind. There is a good deal of commentary on literature; both West and Stilson had a weakness for verse. There is also a good deal of verbal sparring, not least about.
Held at the University of Notre Dame.
Watts, Arthur H. Ledger 1864-1865. [Auburn, Ala.] Auburn University Special Collections and Archives, 1864-1865.
Consists of the regimental account ledger of the 1st New York Dragoons (a.k.a 19th New York Cavalry or 130th New York Volunteers) kept by Lieutenant Arthur H. Watts from September of 1864 to April of 1865. Includes reports on supplies received, forage reports, ordinance, and rations issued to the regimental companies while in Virginia. Amc archives. ledger (80 p.) 12 x 18 cm.
Located at Auburn University.
Items in the museum collection are in bold.
