Publications

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in the war for the suppression of the rebellion. 1924. 608 pp. Lists approximately 26,000 enlistees from Allegheny County listed on plaques that surround first floor hall at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall. Many names are from outside the county, since they enlisted here.

Andrews, J. Cutler. The North Reports the Civil War. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1955. Trials and adventures of northern war correspondents.

Becer, Allan. "An Appalling Disaster: The Allegheny Arsenal and the Great Explosion of 1862." Westmoreland History [Westmoreland County Historical Society]. Fall 1999.

Butko, Brian. Fall 2003. "Across My Desk by Brian Butko, Editor." Western Pennsylvania History (published quarterly by the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania) 86(3): 5. On Conrad Jackson, his letters and headstone.

Butko, Brian and Nicholas P. Ciotola (editors). 2003. Industry and Infantry: The Civil War in Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Contains (1) Joseph P. Wolstoncraft, Western Pennsylvania and the Election of 1860, (2) Bingham Duncan, New Castle in 1860-61: A Community Response to a War Crisis, (3) Joseph A. Borkowski, Camp Wilkins, Military Post, 1861, (4) Alfred P. James, General James Scott Negley, (5) Mark Reinsberg (ed.), A Bucktail Voice: Civil War Correspondence of Private Cordello Collins, (6) Louis Vaira, Some Aspects of Pittsburgh's Industrial Contributions to the Civil War, (7) Dorothy Daniel, The Sanitary Fair, (8) Charles D. Cashdollar, The Pittsburgh Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention, 25-26 September 1866. Includes Appendix of more than 60 Civil War articles which have appeared in Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Pittsburgh History, and Western Pennsylvania History, grouped by subject and adapted and updated for this book.

"Civil War research fuels novels." Focus (a publication of the faculty and staff of Carnegie Mellon University) 27(4) February 1998. On the Civil War novels of Jim Gindlesperger, a manager in the Environmental Health and Safety department at CMU.

Coyle, Dan Sr. Dear Teres - The Civil War letters of Privates Joe Duff and Dennis Dugan of the78th PA Infantry Regiment. This book is a compendium of over 250 letters written from October 1861 to June 1864 and cover the battles of Nashville, Stones River, Chickamauga and Sherman's Atlanta Campaign.

Dickey, Luther S. History of the 103rd Regiment: Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry. 1910. (Reprint).

Evert, Marilyn. "Major Gustav Schleiter...German immigrant participation in the Civil War." The Homewood ( a chronicle of The Homewood Cemetery Historical Fund, a charitable trust for the preservation of The Homewood Cemetery at Frick Park) 6(1) Spring/Summer 1998. Pittsburgh's Gustav Schleiter was a three-year recruit in Company I of the Seventy-fourth Regiment. Schleiter was promoted to Major in April, 1863, just before the battle at Chancellorsville.

Fitzpatrick, Mike. Jan/Feb 2002. "The Burds." Military images 23(4): 26. € on Virginia Loris Carbis (Allegheny County), her marriage to Simeon K. Burd (Ligonier), and his enlistment in Battery E, 5th Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery.

Fox, Arthur B. Pittsburgh and Allegheny County play role during the American Civil War. Pennsylvania 25(2): 30-36.

Fox, Arthur B. Pittsburgh During the American Civil War: 1860-1866. Chicora, PA, Mechling Bookbindery, 2003?). [Reviewed by Janet Frank Atkinson in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Focus 26 Jan. 2003, P. 11.]

Fox, Arthur B. Pittsburgh's Fort Pitt Foundry in the Civil War. Pittsburgh history 81(4): 146-147.

Gancas, Ron. 2004. Fields of Freedom: United States Colored Troops from Southwestern Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh, Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum Trust, Inc. Gancas, Ron. The Gallant Seventy-Eighth, Colonel William Sirwell and The PA 78th, Regimental History, Second edition. The Pittsburgh Gazette of 7 January 1863 gave a brief, glowing account of the heroism of the 78th Volunteer Infantry at the battle of Stones River. This is the story of the boys from Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana and Westmoreland counties who fought in the Civil War.

Gibbs, Joseph. 2002. Three Years in the Bloody Eleventh: The campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves regiment. Penn State University Press.

Gibson, J. T. (ed.) History of the 78th Pa. Volunteer Infantry. 1905. (Reprint).

Gindlesperger, Jim. Escape from Libby Prison. Shippensburg, Pa., White Mane. Jim Gindlesperger, a manager in the Environmental Health and Safety department at CMU

Gindlesperger, Jim. The seed corn of the Confederacy. Shippensburg, Pa., White Mane. Jim Gindlesperger, a manager in the Environmental Health and Safety department at CMU

Hahn, Ed. 1998. Civil War Letters of William C. Armor. To acquire a copy, contact the Westmoreland County Historical Society. Price is $30 plus $2 postage.

The history of the Pennsylvania Fourteenth Cavalry. History of the Civil War cavalry unit from southwestern PA. Ron Gancas, Senior Historian at Soldiers' & Sailors' updated the roster on all 2200 troopers.

Irwin, Scott. "The Diary of John H. Irwin, 155th PVI," Military Images 24(5): 27­32. March/April 2003. €regiment organized at Camp Howe near Pittsburgh in 1862.

Lang, Scott B. The Forgotten Charge: The 123rd Pennsylvania at Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia. Shippensburg, White Maine Books, 2002. See review by Arthur Fox in Western Pennsylvania History 87(3): 46-47. Fall 2004. "The 123rd Pennsylvania regiment was the state's only infantry regiment consisting entirely of Allegheny County recruits."

Lucas, Eugene F. "Washington County's military men of distinction: Seventh in a series by the volunteer curator of the WCHS Military Heritage Museum, Eugene F. Lucas." The Focus (published by The Washington County Historical Society) 2000(5) September/October 2000. Continued as eighth in series 2000(6) November/December 2000. On Captain Absalom Baird.

Martin, Nona. Jan/Feb 1997. "Civil War symbolism." Carnegie magazine. 4-page article + cover on Eastman Johnson's oil on canvas of "Union Soldiers Accepting a Drink," ca. 1865.

McAfee, Michael J. "155th Penna. Vol. Inf.," Military Images 24(5): 33. March/April 2003. €regiment organized at Camp Howe near Pittsburgh in 1862. McCarthy, Bill. Part II. One month in the Summer of '63: Pittsburgh prepares for the Civil War. Pittsburgh history 81(3): 118-133.

McCarthy, Bill. Part II. One month in the Summer of '63: Pittsburgh prepares for the Civil War. Pittsburgh history 81(4): 156-169.

Moeller, Thomas J. "'I must go to my boys'," Military Images 25(3): 33-35. November/December 2003. €"The realities of war and disease cut through the ranks of the 61st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry" (organized in Pittsburgh, August 1861). Moore, Craig. Warrior poet: The Civil War chronicles of Pittsburgh's John Nevin. Pittsburgh history 81(4): 148-154.

Murdoch, David A. Profiles in leadership: Allegheny County's lawyer-generals in the Civil War. Pittsburgh history 81(4): 172-185.

Palm, Ronn, Richard Sauers and Patrick A. Schroeder. The Bloody 85th: The Letters of Milton McJunkin: A Western Pennsylvania Soldier in the Civil War.

Palm, Ronn. Jan/Feb 2002. "Hard-luck officers of the 105th Pennsylvania Infantry." Military images 23(4): 17-19. ¤ unit originated in Pittsburgh 9 Sept to 31 Oct 1861.

Pensioners in Western Pennsylvania in 1883. Western Pa. Genealogical Society, 1993.

Ragan, Diane (comp.). Soldiers' Orphan Schools of Western Pa. 1999.

Reem, Jessica and Brian Butko. Carnegie's Civil War time capsule. Pittsburgh history 81(4): 170-171.

"Remembering David Acheson: 135 years after the Battle of Gettysburg." The Focus (published by The Washington County Historical Society) 98(4) July/August 1998. Acheson (1841-1863) was the 23-year-old captain of Company C of the Pennsylvania 140th Volunteers who is buried in Washington Cemetery.

Scott, Kate M. History of the 105th Pa. Regiment. 1877. (reprint).

Shoaf, Dana B., ed. "On the March Again at Day Break": The Gettysburg Diary of Major John I. Nevin, 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry. Civil War Regiments 6 (3): 107-138. [Shoak, originally from Lawrence County, has written about Nevin, who was from Sewickley.]

Wilson, Carolyn. The Soldier in the Attic. Western Pennsylvania History 90(4): 46-59. Winter 2007-2008. On correspondence by Lt. William H. Irwin of Allegheny City.

Wudarczyk, James. Pittsburgh's forgotten Allegheny Arsenal. Apollo, PA., Closson Press. 97 pp.

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