Federal Army of the United States

Federal Army of the United States

1861 - 1865

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“Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress, April 15, 1861.” The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Vol IV. Edited by Roy P. Basler, Marion D. Pratt and lloyd A. Dunlop. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 331 - 332.
“Proclamation Calling for 42,034 Volunteers, May 3, 1861.” The Collected Works, 353 - 354.
Macnamara, Daniel G. The History of the Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers Infantry. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000), 5.
The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm: A Chronicle of the Daily Life in the Union Army 1864 - 1865. Edited by W. Springer Menge and J. August Shimrak (New York: Orion Books, 1989), 3.
With Sherman to the Sea: The Civil War Letters Diaries and Reminiscences of Theodore F. Upson. Edited by Oscar Osburn Winther. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), 16 - 17.
Upson. With Sherman to the Sea, 19.
Quoted in Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1952), 32.
Macnamara. The History of the Ninth Regiment, 21.
Johnson, Mark W. That Body of Brave Men: The US Regular Infantry and the Civil War in the West. (Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2003), xxii - xxxiv.
“An Act to Increase the present Military Establishment of the United States, July 29, 1861.” Public Acts of the Thirty Seventh Congress of the United States, 26. (Accessed July 11, 2019) https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/37th-congress/c37.pdf
Bacarella, Michael. Lincoln’s Foreign Legion: The 39th New York Infantry, the Garibaldi Guard. (Shippensburg: White Mane Publishing, 1996), 33 - 34.
National Park Service. Search for Medals of Honor: Plunkett, Thomas.” (Accessed July 11, 2019) https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-medals.htm#sort=score+desc&q=Plunkett,+Thomas. Walcott, Charles F. History of the Twenty First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers in the War for the Preservation of the Union, 1861 - 1865. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1882), 241.
Menge and Shimrak. The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm, 26.
Germans in the Civil War: The Letters they Wrote Home. Edited by Walter D. Kamphoefner and and Wolfgang Helbich. Translated by Susan. C. Vogel. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), xi.
Upson. With Sherman, 1.
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 355.
McPherson. Battle Cry, 557.
Cozzens, Peter. No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), x.
McPherson, Battle Cry, 789.
Linderman, Gerald. Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War. (New York: The Free Press, 1987), 135.
Pohanka, Brian C. Vortex of Hell: History of the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry. (Lynchburg: Schroeder Publications, 2012), 359.
Corby, William. Memoirs of Chaplain Life: Three Years Chaplain in the Famous Irish Brigade, Army of the Potomac. (Chicago: LaMonte, O’Donnell & Co Printers, 1893), 29.

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