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.

Bartlett, Edward Otis, 1835. The "dutchess county regiment" : (150th regiment of New York state volunteer infantry) in the Civil War. Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co. 1907. (Reprint).

Borden, Gail, et al. Gail Borden Jr. papers, 1862-1884, undated.
Description:    4 document boxes (1.67 linear ft.)
Abstract:    The Gail Borden Jr. papers document the personal and professional lives of the founder of the Borden Milk Company and his successor, John Gail Borden. The Gail Borden, Jr. papers consist of eight letterpress books, three written by Gail Borden, Jr. and five written by John Gail Borden. The collection also includes handwritten notes and transcriptions of the Borden letters, which were presumably completed by Joe B. Frantz, who owned the collection prior to its acquisition by The Texas Collection. Divided into three series by creator, the collection documents the operations of the Borden Milk Company and the personal and professional lives of the Borden family from 1862 through 1884. The first series, Gail Borden, Jr., includes three letterpress books and two letters that were removed from the first letterpress book, all written by Gail Borden, Jr. during the Civil War (1862-1865). The first of these two letters letter, dated December 28, 1862, was glued inside the front cover of the letterpress book. The second letter was loose and was removed from the letterpress book. Correspondents include Jeremiah Milbank, John Gail Borden, and Henry Lee Borden. Many of the letters include Borden's observations on the war. For example, he describes the war as "unholy" and a "divine chastisement" (January 24, 1863). Borden "resolved to make condensed milk and to fight the rebels until they conditionally surrender to the national flag" (February 4, 1863) Three months prior to the fall of Vicksburg, Borden wrote, "A fleet and an army between Vicksburg and Port Hudson!! Three cheers and thanks to God. By the by, we must find a way to make some effort towards selling our milk in New Orleans" (April 22, 1863). And, in June 1863, Borden urged his son to "trust in God, if you are to fall in battle, it will be what thousands of good men have done to sustain our glorious government" (June 28, 1863). In subsequent letters, Borden described John Gail Borden's wounding during the battle of Gettysburg (July 18 and July 21, 1863). Borden's Civil War era letters also comment on the military activities of various Union commanders, including George McClellan, George Gordon Meade, and Joseph Hooker. Although much of Borden's family lived in the South and held property in the South, Borden opposed secession (July 21, 1863). During the war, Borden was either unable or unwilling to correspond with Confederate son Henry Lee. In a letter to Henry Lee, written one month after the war's end, Borden reminded his son that he had "from the start of the rebellion been a strong Union man, and done all I could to thwart the purpose of traitors" (May 14, 1865). In a letter to Milbank, written three days later, Borden mocked Confederate President Jefferson Davis ignominious escape attempt, "The president of the Confederacy running away in petticoats. The circumstances will do more to humble the pride of the Chivalry than ten Union victories" (May 17, 1865). The second series, John Gail Borden, includes five letterpress books dated 1871-1875 and 1881-1884. Correspondents include Gail Borden, Jr., Jeremiah Milbank, Henry Lee Borden, and S.T. Hinckley (Borden's Chicago agent). Significantly, these volumes document John Gail Borden's management of the Borden Milk Company during his tenure as president. The third series, Joe B. Frantz, consists of undated handwritten transcriptions and notes, most likely created by Frantz, who at one time owned the letterpress books. The letterpress books, which are the core of this collection, were likely acquired by Frantz after the publication of his biography of Borden. The letterpress books are not cited in Frantz's book.
Held by Baylor University.

Benton, Charles Edward. As seen from the ranks, a boy in the Civil war, by Charles E. Benton, of the One hundred and fiftieth New York volunteers. . . . New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902.

Cogswell, Joseph Hubert. Roster 150th N.Y. vols. Oct. llth, 1912, 50 years from muster-in. Compiled by J. H. Cogswell, and presented to the surviving members of the Dutchess county regiment. [Titusville, Penn.: 1912].

Cook, S. G. The "Dutchess county regiment" (150th regiment of New York state volunter infantry) in the Civil war, its story as told by its members. Based upon the writings of Rev. Edward O. Harriett. Edited by S. G. Cook and Charles E. Benton. Danbury, Conn.: Danbury Medical print, co., 1907.

DeLong, James Reid. Papers, 1847-1911, bulk 1862-1865.
Description:    146 items
Abstract:    Collection consists chiefly of letters from DeLong to his wife about camp life and surroundings as his unit moved from Baltimore to Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. Topics include Sherman's march and the Carolina Campaign. There is other family correspondence from DeLong's brother, US Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan and from John Henry Ketchum on congressional stationery.
Held by Duke University.

E. Sachse & Co. Camp Belger, encampment of the 150th Regiment New York Volunteers, aerial view, Baltimore, 1862.
Abstract:    Photograph of a lithograph produced in 1862 by E. Sachse & Co. of an aerial view of Camp Belger, encampment of the 150th Regiment of New York Volunteers in Baltimore, Maryland.

Funk, Peter W.  A Civil War soldier's diary: including his genealogy / transcribed and researached by Margaret E. Herrick. [LaGrangeville, N.Y.] : [publisher not identified], 1991.

Gallagher, Kevin J.  Miscellaneous Civil War correspondence, 1861-1865.
Description:    10 items.
Abstract:    Original letters written during the Civil War with typescript copies prepared by Kevin J. Gallagher in 1979. Abraham Golden writes from Illinois about the shooting proficiency of Illinois men compared to Dutchess County men, 1861. David Valentine writes of military drills, lack of letters from home, and being in the guard house, 1862. Valentine Jones writes from Baltimore about Confederate prisoners, the consumption of whiskey, Union soldiers being often in the guard house, and the excellent shooting of Company B, 150th Regiment, 1862. G.F. Shepley writes of the good character of Lt. J. Livingston dePeyster, 1865. There is also an unidentified letter about the Union attack on Fort Hudson near Donaldsonville, La., 1863; and a report by Walter N. Hart on the activities of the 18th New York Cavalry in Louisiana, including a mistaken battle between two Union companies, 1864.
Held by the Adriance Memorial Library. Local History, Poughkeepsie, NY.

Gildersleeve, Henry Alger. "Oration by Henry A. Gildersleeve, delivered on the battlefield of Gettysburg, September 17th, 1889, on the occasion of the dedication of the monument erected to the memory of the soldiers of "The Dutchess county regiment" (150th New York volunteer infantry) who were killed in the battle of Gettysburg."

Green, Francis C.; Wells, Loreen. Civil War letters from Francis C. Green to his wife Catherine, 1862 - 1864 : [transcription only].

Hall, Philo B. et al. Philo B. Hall collection, 1818-1870.
Description:    24 items
Abstract:    This collection contains 9 letters, 14 receipts, and 1 document related to Philo B. Hall, a metalworker from Newtown, Connecticut, who later became a farmer in southeastern Michigan. He received 7 personal letters from his sister and acquaintances in the mid-1800s, and his son Abiah wrote 1 letter to his brother Cornelius during his Civil War service in the Union Army. Also included are 12 receipts documenting Hall's purchases of professional supplies and payments of land taxes in Michigan in the mid-19th century, and a contract apprenticing him to Liba Blakslee of Newtown, Connecticut. Other items are a note and 2 additional receipts for land taxes.
Held by the University of Michigan.

Historical sketch with exercises at dedication of monument and re-union camp fire of 150th New York volunteer infantry, Gettysburg, Sept. 17, 18, 1889. [Poughkeepsie] Monument Committee of the 150th New York Volunteer Infantry. [A. V. Haight, printer, 1889].

"History of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment N. Y. Vol., Inf.." Unknown 111-116.

Lewis, Candace J. The Civil War and Dutchess County, New York : Part 2. Poughkeepsie, NY : Dutchess County Historical Society, 2016.
Series:    Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook ;; v. 94;
Contents:    Maintaining the Link: the Letters of Platt C. Curtiss, 150th regiment, New York Volunteers, "The Dutchess Regiment" -- Case and Times of Dred Scott -- Tale of Two Sisters -- Colonel John H. Ketcham: the Cincinnatus of Dutchess County -- Weapons used by the Rank and File of the 150th NY Volunteer Infantry -- Songs of the 128th -- Union Troops get Milk -- from Wassaic, New York -- Dutchess County, New York and Beaufort County, North Carolina during the Civil War -- Hope: the Inaugural Train Ride of Abraham Lincoln -- Lincoln and the Magnolia Tree -- Grief: the Funeral Train of Abraham Lincoln -- Judge Jane Bolin -- 1791 Hyde Park Farm Account Book.

Lossing, Benson John. Papers,1856-1889. 
Papers include a letter, 1856, from Samuel Adams Lee concerning his biography of Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee; a letter, 1858, from George Henry Moore, regarding the publication of Charles Lee's papers; a letter, 1865, from Captain William R. Woodin, 150th Regiment, New York Infantry, describing Charleston after its capture by Union troops, and listing documents concerning secession taken from the vacant home of Robert Barnwell Rhett and sent to Lossing; correspondence, 1870s and 1880s, between Lossing and Charles Colcock Jones, concerning the writings and publications of both men; correspondence with Jones and John F. Pickett about the great seal of the Confederate States of America; and a handwritten draft of an article by Lossing, "Castilians in the Land of the Flowers," on Panfilo de Narváez's expedition to Florida in 1527. 
18 items. 
Located at Duke University.

Mandeville, Sumner. Sermon by Rev. S. Mandeville, delivered at the house of Peter R. Sleight, LaGrange, Dutchess County, December 10, 1865, on the occasion of the burial of the remains of 1st Lieut. David B. Sleight : (late of Co. I, 150th reg., N.Y.S.V.) who entered service, October 11th, 1862, as 2nd lieut. co. I, and was promoted to 1st lieut., January 1st, 1864 : commanded his company in Sherman's campaign from Atlanta, through Georgia and the Carolinas, and was killed in action near Averysboro, N.C., while gallantly driving the enemy, March 16th, 1865 ...Poughkeepsie, N.Y. : Platt & Son, printer, 1865.
Held by the New York Historical Society.

Neuman, James. James Neuman and Tripp Family Civil War correspondence, 1863-1864.
Description:    14 letters (1 folder)
Action Note:    Actions: Collection processed in 2009.
Abstract:    The collection consists of letter correspondence among friends, James Neuman and Hiram and Elizabeth A. Tripp. The letters indicate that Hiram Tripp was holding money for Neuman for safekeeping and would purchase tobacco and other supplies regularly to send to Neuman. The letters from Neuman describe the daily life of soldiers, his involvement in the battles leading up to the fall of Atlanta, and his desires and quests for finding tobacco. One letter, dated 21 August 1864, explains how he crossed the skirmish line into rebel territory to trade a bag of coffee for tobacco. He wrote about the encounter with a Confederate soldier with whom he traded. Recognizing the human tragedy of war, Neuman noted how the soldier could have been his brother.
Held by the Altanta History Center.

Plank, Will. Banners and bugles; a record of Ulster County, New York and the mid-Hudson region in the Civil War. Marlborough, N.Y.: Centennial Press, 1972.

"Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle Newpaper Clippings relating to the 128th, 150th, and 156th Regiments Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle. July, 1863.

Powell, Thomas F.  Thomas Powell papers,1838-1887. 
The collection contains Civil War letters and papers, material about the toll road from Watertown, New York, to Watertown Center, New York, and miscellaneous legal and business papers from the Watertown area. The most significant papers are the photocopied letters from Benny T. Murfitt, who was a sergeant in the 150th New York Volunteer Regiment. 
7 folders.
Located at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Smith, Alfred Baker. Diary, 1865 Jan. 14-1865 Dec. 30. 
Pocket diary, 1865 Jan. 14-1865 Dec. 30, kept by Lt. Col. Alfred Baker Smith of Poughkeepsie, New York, while in command of the 150th New York State Volunteers. Brief daily entries record the activities of the regiment on its march with Sherman's army from Savannah, Georgia, through the Carolinas and Virginia to Washington D.C. and the Grand Review in May of that year. Smith describes marching conditions, camp sites, destruction of railroads and cotton gins, prisoners, foraging, skirmishes, etc. After June the short, sporadic entries relate to Smith's life in Poughkeepsie. 
1 v. (250 p.). 
Located at the New York Historical Society, New York, NY.

Titus family. Civil War papers, 1862-1932, 1862-1865 (bulk).
Description:    approximately 1 cubic ft
Abstract:    Returns, muster rolls, commissions, invoices, memoranda, reports, government circulars and pamphlets, and other military records of the 150th Regiment of New York Volunteers concerning personnel, ordnance, clothing, camp equipment, enlistments, transportation, and hospitalization, 1862-1865; memoranda book of Lieut. David B. Sleight, 1864-1865, with entries after Sleight's death in 1865 by Capt. Richard Titus; diary kept by Richard Titus while in the service, 1863, and his letters written home from Baltimore, Virginia, and Tennessee, 1862-1864; a report by Vincent Colyer on the reception and care of returning soldiers, 1865; an undated photograph of the men in the 150th Regiment; and a clipping on the Grand Army of the Republic in Poughkeepsie, 1932.
Held by the Dutchess County Historical Society, Poughkeepsie, NY.

Topps, David. "The Dutchess County Regiment." Gettysburg Magazine No. 12 (Jan 1995): pp. 42-60.

Van Kleeck, Peter,  collector. Miscellaneous family papers, 1768-1907, 1827-1907 (bulk).
Description:    19 items.
Abstract:    Miscellaneous papers of the Van Kleeck family and others including deeds, mortgages, bonds, and agreements of the Denny, Green, Fraser, and Traver families, 1827-1907; wills of Elzina Denny, 1880, and Baltus Van Kleeck, 1768; and the muster-in-roll of Lieut. Charles Smith, 150th Regiment, New York Volunteers, 1865.
Held by the Dutchess County Historical Society, Poughkeepsie, NY.

Van Wyck, Richard T. and Virginia Hughes Kaminsky (ed.). A War to Petrify the Heart: The Civil War Letters of a Dutchess County, N.Y. Volunteer, Richard T. Van Wyck. Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press, 1997.

Wahlberg, Holly. In their own words : telling Dutchess County history. Poughkeepsie, N.Y. : Dutchess County Historical Society, 2010.

Watson, William K. Papers, 1862-1902, bulk 1862-1865.
Description:    1 microfilm reel ; 16 mm
Abstract:    The core of the William K. Watson Papers, 1862-1902, bulk 1862-1865, is the diary of William K. Watson, which covers January 1864 to March 1865. Most of the remaining items in the collection are letters to and from his wife, Tillie, that date from 1862-1865. Watson frequently writes of family matters and how deeply he misses his wife and children. Sgt. Watson (1833-1916) was a Union soldier from Zanesville, Ohio, who enlisted in 1862 with the 150th New York Volunteer Regiment. He headquartered in Tennessee at Normandy near Tullahoma during the winter of 1864 before participating in the Battle of Atlanta and Sherman's march from Atlanta to Savannah. He describes various other battles and skirmishes that take place during the latter part of the war, including the Battle at New Hope Church, May 25-27, 1864; the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864; and the Battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864.
Held by the Tennessee State Library & Archives.

Willson, George T. George T. Willson letter, 1864 September 29.
Description:    1 Folder
Abstract:    This collection contains a letter from George T. Willson to his sister. The letter discusses the weather in Atlanta; his work escorting citizens out of Atlanta, per General Sherman's removal order; and Lincoln's chances of being re-elected president and Confederate soldiers' thoughts on the election. He also discussed Colonel Ketcham's leadership abilities and reputation in the regiment.
Held by the Atlanta History Center.

Unit bibliography from the Army Heritage Center

Items in the museum collection are in bold.