Resources

Lancaster

Black Settlers, Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin Vicinity Photographs, 1860.

Egeness, Herbert L. A History of the Negro Community of Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin, 1968.

Civil War

Aubery, Cullen B. Recollections of a Newsboy in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865. His Capture and Confinement in Libby Prison, after Being Paroled, Sharing the Fortunes of the Famous Iron Brigade, 1904.

Aubery, Cullen Bryant. Echoes from the Marches of the Famous Iron Brigade 1861-1865: Unwritten Stories of That Famous Organization. Gaithersburg, Md.: R.R. Van Sickle Military Books, 1988.

Bachelder, John B., David L. Ladd, Audrey J. Ladd, and Richard Allen Sauers. The Bachelder Papers: Gettysburg in Their Own Words. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1994.

Beaudot, William J. K., and Lance J. Herdegen. An Irishman in the Iron Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of James P. Sullivan, Sergt., Company K, 6th Wisconsin Volunteers. Irish in the Civil War. New York: Fordham University Press, 1993.

Curtis, O. B. History of the Twenty-Fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade,. Detroit, Mich., 1891.

Dawes, Rufus R., and Thomas W. Lewis. Service with the Sixth Wisconsin (Illustrated): Four Years in the Iron Brigade. Murrieta, CA: RW Classic Books, 2019.

Dawes, Rufus R., and Alan T. Nolan. A Full Blown Yankee of the Iron Brigade: Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers. Bison Books ed. Lincoln [Neb.]: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Dudley, William W. The Iron Brigade at Gettysburg: Official Report of the Part Borne by the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, in Action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1st, 2d and 3d, 1863. Civil War Unit Histories. Cincinnati: Privately printed, 1879.

Dunn, Craig L. Iron Men, Iron Will: The Nineteenth Indiana Regiment of the Iron Brigade. Indianapolis, IN: Guild Press of Indiana, 1995.

Eckers, Michael. Wisconsin Iron: A Story of the Civil War. Charleston, S.C.: Michael Eckers, 2010.

Evans, Nicholas. Iron Hoosiers: The Story of the 19th Indiana Infantry. Muncie, Indiana: Ball State University, 2021.

Gaff, Alan D. Brave Men’s Tears: The Iron Brigade at Brawner Farm. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1985.

Gaff, Alan D. On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.

Harries, William Henry. The Iron Brigade in the First Day’s Battle at Gettysburg. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1895.

Helgerson, Ken, and Marcia Helgerson. Men of Iron: Stories of the Civil War in Their Own Words. College Station, TX: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, 2011.

Herdegen, Lance J. The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory: The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter. 1st ed. El Dorado Hills, Calif.: Savas Beatie, 2012.

Herdegen, Lance J. The Men Stood like Iron: How the Iron Brigade Won Its Name. Bloomington, Ind., [Chesham]: Indiana University Press ; [Combined Academic, distributor], 2005.

Herdegen, Lance J. Those Damned Black Hats!: The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign. El Dorado Hills, Calif., Newbury: Savas Beatie ; Casemate [distributor], 2010.

Hetzel, Bev. Wisconsin Civil War Casualties in the Iron Brigade. West Bend, WI: B. Hetzel.

Iron Brigade Reunion Register, 1884, 1884.

King, Charles. Gainesville, August 28th, 1862. Milwaukee: Burdick and Allen, 1903.

Larson, Ronald Paul. Wisconsin and the Civil War. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2017.

Laven, Robert R. The Last Troops of Autumn: A Military History of the Seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment, 1861-1863. Baltimore [Md.]: PublishAmerica, 2008.

Lavery, Dennis S., and Mark H. Jordan. Iron Brigade General: John Gibbon, a Rebel in Blue. Contributions in Military Studies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993.

MacLachlan, Renae. “Our Bravest and Best”: The Iron Brigade at Gettysburg. 1st ed. Gettysburg, Pa.? Friends of the National Parks at Gettysburg, 2001.

Madaus, Howard Michael, and Richard H. Zeitlin. The Flags of the Iron Brigade. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Veterans Museum, 1997.

Matrau, Henry, and Marcia Reid-Green. Letters Home: Henry Matrau of the Iron Brigade. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

McLean, James L. “The Bullets Flew like Hail”: Cutler’s Brigade at Gettysburg from McPherson’s Ridge to Culp’s Hill. First Savas Beatie edition. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2023.

Niles, Walter. This Is from Walter: Letters Home from a Soldier of the 24th Michigan of the Iron Brigade 1862-1865. Port Sanilac, Mich.: Sanilac County Historical Society, 2012.

Nolan, Alan T. The Iron Brigade : A Military History. Indiana University Press, 1983.

Nolan, Alan T., and Sharon Eggleston Vipond. Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Pardington, John Henry, and Coralou Peel Lassen. Dear Sarah: Letters Home from a Soldier of the Iron Brigade. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Partridge, George Washington, and Hugh L. Whitehouse. Letters from the Iron Brigade: George Washington Partridge, Jr., 1839-1863 : Civil War Letters to His Sisters. 2nd ed. Indianapolis: Guild Press of Indiana, 1996.

Quiner, E. B. The Military History of Wisconsin :A Record of the Civil and Military Patriotism of the State, in the War for the Union, with a History of the Campaigns in Which Wisconsin Soldiers Have Been Conspicuous--Regimental Histories--Sketches of Distinguished Officers--the Roll of the Illustrious Dead--Movements of the Legislature and State Officers, Etc. Chicago, 1866.

Ray, William R. Four Years with the Iron Brigade: The Civil War Journals of William R. Ray, Co. F, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002.

Reunion and Banquet of the Iron Brigade, 1900.

Smith, Donald L. The Twenty-Fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade. [1st ed.]. The Stackpole Civil War Centennial Series. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Co., 1962.

Walker, Charles, Nona Walker Daugherty, and Charlotte Walker. Civil War Diary of Charles Walker, 1861-1865: 1933. 2010 retyped version., 2010.

Washburn, William H. The Life and Writings of Jerome A. Watrous, Soldier-Reporter, Adjutant of the Iron Brigade. Wisconsin? W.H. Washburn, 1992.

Young, Henry Falls, Micheal J Larson, and John David Smith. Dear Delia: The Civil War Letters of Captain Henry F. Young, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry, 2019.

Reconstruction

Beck, James B. Reconstruction of Mississippi. Speech of Hon. James B. Beck, of Kentucky, against the Bill Recalling and Conferring Power to Appoint Officers of Election, &c., on the Convention. Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 24, 1869. Washington: F. & J. Rives & Geo. A. Bailey, 1869.

DuBose, John Witherspoon. Alabama’s Tragic Decade;Ten Years of Alabama, 1865-1874,. Birmingham, Ala., 1940.

Fleming, Walter L. Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama /. New York :, 1911.

Owen, Thomas McAdory. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography,. Chicago, 1921.