A Reading & Research List
About The War Between The States
Comanche
Public Library is pleased to share its collection of historical materials
with its patrons in Comanche and surrounding areas. Its primary goal is to
provide educational and research sources along with materials for the
casual reader.
The
library's Special Collections will interest those researching ancestors
who may have served in the War Between the States. Because of known
emigration patterns and the background of many local residents. the
Special Collections accent the Southern States although a variety of
diverse historical viewpoints are available.
Also
of use to the researcher are extensive genealogical and historical items
about Texas and the Southern States. There is a Southern States oriented
collection of U.S. Census records on microfilm for 1850, 1860, 1870, and
afterward as well as other genealogical aids.
At
the library, we are more than grateful to a number of friends who have
provided the funds to acquire many of our best and most useful materials.
Regular
budget money does not stretch to include Special Collections.
Most
of the very useful materials are in the library's reference collections
and are for use in the building only. Copy facilities are available.
11th Texas Cavalry, CSA
Civil War sites in Georgia by Jim Miles. Nashville, Tennessee, Rutledge Hill Press, 1966. This handy travel guide, though not lavishly illustrated, is crowded with maps and sites the traveler would enjoy. The descriptions are excellent and interesting.
Compendium
of the Confederate Armies, Stewart Sifakis, compiler.
These
books list the individual units, their major officers, and the battles in
which each unit participated.
Confederate
P.O.W.'s, Soldiers & Sailors Who Died in Federal Prisons &
Military Hospitals in the North Compiled in the
Office of the Commissioner for Marking Graves of Confederate Dead, War
Department, 1912. Nacogdoches, Texas, Erickson Books, 1984.
Confederate Veteran magazine. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. National Historical Society, 1990-1992. Volumes 1 – 12 only. This compilation of reprinted issues covers 1893-1904. Illustrated. No index.
Generals
in Gray; Lives of the Confederate Commanders by
Ezra J.
Index to Applications for Texas Confederate Pensions, compiled by John M. Kinney, Austin, Texas, Texas State Library, 1975. This contains two lists: the accepted and the rejected applications. Many of these documents are very informative and include useful personal information. The library is collecting copies of these documents involving Comanche County residents. Much remains to be done if you wish to contribute to this project.
Individual
Pardon Applications to President Andrew Johnson, 1865-1867 and Individual
Pardon Applications to Congress 1
Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray was compiled by Miss Mamie Yeary of McGregor, Texas in 1912, and was republished Dayton, Ohio, by Momingside House, 1986. It is an outstanding collection of personal reminiscences by Texas Confederate veterans.
Texas
and Texans in the Civil War by Ralph A. Wooster.
Austin, Texas.
Eakin
Press, 1995. Dr. Wooster, a distinguished professor at Lamar State
University at Beaumont, has concentrated on studies of the Civil War years
over a long active career. This volume is a fine choice for the general
reader.
Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables, a Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide by James A. Mundie, Jr., Dean E. Letzring, Bruce S. Allardice, and John H. Luckey, with a foreword by Jerry D. Thompson. Hillsboro, Texas. Hill College Press, 2002. This first ever published illustrated field guide to the burial places of Texas’s Civil War leaders is a must see. A capsule biographical sketch with its sources is accompanied by a gravestone photo for each individual. Various indexing based on personal names, cemeteries, bibliographic sources, and geographical lists is provided.
Texas Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865, edited by Janet B. Hewett. Wilmington, N.C., Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1997. In this set, one volume is a name roster and there is another that lists the soldiers by unit. Other volumes in this series available at the library are:
Alabama
Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 in 3 volumes.
Georgia Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 in 4 volumes,
Mississippi Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865, in 3 volumes
North Carolina Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 in 3 volumes.
South Carolina Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865, in 2 volumes.
Virginia Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865, in 4 volumes.
Texas
in the War, 1861-1865 by Marcus J Wright, Brig. Gen., CSA, edited by
Harold B. Simpson Col. U.S.A.F., (Ret). This
biographical and historical reference was one of the earliest publications
of the Hill County Junior College Press in 1965.
Click On The Above Button to Go To The Confederate Monument on The Comanche Courthouse Square.
The Third National Flag of the Confederacy. On March 4th,1865, briefly before the end of the War, a third pattern was adapted. It was essentially the same as the Second National, with a broad bar of red placed on the fly end of the white field.(source:Sons of Confederate Veterans)
Bailey, Anne J. . Texans in the Confederate Cavalry.
Frazier, Don. Cottonclads! The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the Texas Coast.
Hallock, .Judith Lee General James Longstreet in the West.
Kinard, Jeff. The Battle of the Crater.
Lowe, Richard. The Texas Overland Expedition of 1863.
Mays, Thomas D. The Saltville Massacre.
McWhinney, Grady. Battle in the Wilderness. Grant meets Lee.
Shea, William L. War in the West. Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove.
Smith, Gene A. Iron and Heavy Guns. . . .the Monitor and Merrimac
Sutherland, Daniel E. The Emergence of Total War.
Tucker, Spencer C. Ralph Semmes and the Alabama.
Waugh, John C. Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians.
Woodworth, Steven E. . A Deep Steady Thunder. the Battle of Chickamauga.
We are appreciative of the 2nd Texas Frontier District Unit, Sons of the Confederate Veterans, for their gift of the McWhinney Foundation Publications listed just above.
Click on this logo below to visit their Web page.
