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1855 and 1865 Massachusetts State Census for Acton. Compiled by Ann S. Lainhart. Boston, Mass., 1989. (Geneal Coll 317.44 L187).

1860 United States Federal Census. In: Ancestry.com (online database). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: 1860 U.S. Census, Population Schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.

1870 United States Federal Census. In: Ancestry.com (online database). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: 1870 U.S. Census, Population Schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.

1880 United States Federal Census. In: Ancestry.com (online database). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

1890 Veterans Schedules. In: Ancestry.com (online database). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War (National Archives Microfilm Publication M123, 118 rolls); Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

AmericanAncestor.org (online database). Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Annual reports, Town of Acton, Massachusetts. See 1862/3, 1863/4, and 1864/65 for a list of Volunteers from Acton.

Brown, Peggy Jo. Hometown Soldiers: Civil War Veterans of Assabet Village & Maynard Massachusetts. Maynard, Mass.: Flying Heron Press, 2005. (Act Coll 974.44 M471b)

Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934. In: Ancestry.com (online database). Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. T288, 544 rolls.

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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Washington: Navy Dept., Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division, 1959-1981. 8 volumes. (Ref 623.8 D554, also online at: www.history.navy.mil/danfs).

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, Ia.: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908; New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958. GenealColl 973.7 D996.

Fletcher, James. Acton in History. J.W. Lewis, 1890. (ActonColl 974.44 A188). Digitial edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=YLsTAAAAYAAJ

Hanson, J.W. Historical Sketch of the Old Sixth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers During Its Three Campaigns in 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864, Containing the History of the Several Companies Previous to 1861, and the Name and Military Record of Each Man Connected with the Regiment During the War. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1866. (Geneal Coll/973.744/H251). Digitial edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/hansonsixthregi00johnrich

Hosmer, Henry L. The Town of Acton in the Civil War 1861-1865. Tucson, AZ: The Author, 2001. (Act Coll 974.44 A188)

Husbands, Charles R. History of the Acton Minutemen and Militia Companies (1754-1925). Higginson Book Company, 2003. (Geneal Coll 874.44 A188)

Letters from Acton 1861. Commentary and compilation by Elizabeth S. Conant. Acton, Mass: Acton Historical Society, 1985 (letters in the collection of the Acton Historical Society, written to Daniel Tuttle between April and July 1861). (Ref/974.44/A188)

A List of the Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the Civil War Surviving and Resident in Massachusetts on April 1, 1915. Prepared for the Department of Massachusetts, Grand Army of the Republic, by the Director of the Bureau of Statistics. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1916. Digitial edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/listofsoldierssa00mass

Massachusetts in the Army and Navy During the War of 1861-65. Prepared under the authority of the State by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, State Military Historian. 2 vols. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing company, 1895-1896. Reprinted in 1998 by Higginson Book Company. (Geneal Coll 973.744 H637).
Volume 1 online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=0wgTAAAAYAAJ
Volume 2 online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=kyETAAAAYAAJ

Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910. From original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. In: AmericanAncestors.org (formerly NewEnglandAncestors.org) (online database). New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. In: AmericanAncestors.org (formerly NewEnglandAncestors.org) (online database). New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2008.

MASSCW see Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War.

National Graves Registration Database (online database). Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Online at: www.suvcwdb.org.

Nationwide Gravesite Locator (online database). United States Dept. of Veterans Affairs. http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/

NewEnglandAncestors.org (online database) see AmericanAncestors.org

Phalen, Harold R. History of the Town of Acton. Cambridge, Mass.: Middlesex Printing, Inc., 1954. (Acton Coll 974.44 A188)

Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865. Massachusetts Adjutant General's Office. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1868-1870. 2 volumes. Digitial edition online at:
volume 1: http://www.archive.org/details/adjutantmassrec01courrich
volume 2: http://www.archive.org/details/adjutantmassrec02courrich

Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defense of the American Union, Interred in the National Cemeteries. U.S. Quartermaster's Department. Reprinted by Genealogical Pub. Co., 1994-. 10 volumes and Index. (Geneal Coll/973.76/U58)

Sargent, A. Dean. Grand Army of the Republic: Civil War Veterans Department of Massachusetts 1866 to 1947. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 2002. Geneal Coll 973.744 S245

U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles. In: Ancestry.com (online database). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Original data: Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, Mass.

Vital Records of Acton Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1923. (GenealColl 929.3 M414)

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Under the direction of the Secretary of War. GPO, 1880-1901. 70 vols. (Geneal storage; Index volume shelved in Geneal Coll/973.71/W253).
Also online at: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html.
See also: Military Operations of the Civil War: A Guide-Index to the Official Records...(National Archives and Records Service, 1977-). (Geneal storage).

Additional Sources

Andrew, John A. An Address on the Occasion of Dedicating the Monument to Ladd and Whitney, Members of the Sixth Regiment, M.V.M., Killed at Baltimore, Maryland, April 19, 1861. Delivered at Lowell, Massachusetts, June 17, 1865. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1865. Digitial edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/addressonoccasio00andr

Andersonville Prisoners of War. In: Ancestry.com (online database). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Andersonville, Georgia. Andersonville Prisoner of War Database. Andersonville, GA, USA: National Park Service, Andersonville National Historic Site.

Annual Report of the Trustees of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts at Chelsea, Massachusetts. Soldiers Home, Chelsea, 1915. Digitial edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=NuGgAAAAMAAJ

Appendix "D" of the Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine, December 31, 1861. John L. Hodson, Adjutant General. Augusta: Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State, 1862. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/appendixdofannua00main

April 19, 1861. Old Sixth Mass. Regt. Lowell: Marden & Rowell, 1871. (ActonColl 973.744 U58). Also online at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2005/20051129004ol/20051129004ol.pdf. Ceremony and speeches on the ninth anniversary of the march through Baltimore.

Boies, Andrew J. Record of the Thirty-Third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, from August 1862 to August 1865. Higginson Book Company, 2000. Originally printed by the Sentinel Printing Company, 1880. (Geneal Coll/973.744/B678).
Digitial edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=EuVYAAAAMAAJ

Brown, George William. Baltimore and the 19th of April, 1861, A Study of the War. Baltimore: N. Murray, Publications Agent, Johns Hopkins University, 1887. Digitial edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=glbUAAAAMAAJ

Carpenter, Aurelius O. and Percy H. Millberry. History of Mendocino and Lake Counties California with Biographical Sketches. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic Record Company, 1914. Pages 804-806. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/historyofmendoci00carp

Caswell, Lilley B. The History of the Town of Royalston, Massachusetts. Town of Royalston, 1917. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/historyoftownofr00caswuoft

Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations (Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery) In the Service of the United States, 1861-1865...Prepared from Records in the Adutant-General's Office. Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/connecticutvolorg00catarich

Catalogue of the 14th, 15th [etc.] Connecticut Volunteers...Compiled from Records in the Adjutant-General's Office, 1862. Joseph D. Williams, Adjutant-General, 1862. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/cataloguefirsts00offigoog

Child, William H. History of the Town of Cornish New Hampshire with Genealogical Record, 1763-1910. Digitial edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/historyoftownofc01chil

Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the United States Colored Troops [microform]. National Archives and Records Administration. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org:

Compiled military service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops [microform] : Artillery organizations (1998). Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org:

Compiled military service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops [microform] : 1st United States Colored Infantry, 1st South Carolina Volunteers (Colored), Company A, 1st United States Colored Infantry (1 year) (1997). Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org:

Compiled military service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops [microform] : 2nd through 7th Colored Infantry [microform] : including 3d Tennessee Volunteers (African Descent), 6th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent), and 7th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent) (1999). Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org:

Compiled military service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops [microform] : Infantry organizations 8th through 13th including the 11th (new) (2000). Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org:

Compiled military service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops [microform] : Infantry organizations, 14th through 19th (2003). Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org:

Compiled military service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops [microform] : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusettts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry (1997). Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org:

Compiled military service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops [microform] : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusettts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry (1997). Reel 0005 - 1st United States Colored Cavalry Fly, Benjamin - Griffin, Oliver. Online at: http://www.archive.org/details/compiledmili0005akesunit.

Compiled Records of Military Units in Volunteer Union Organizations. United States. National Archives and Records Service Listed in "Microfilm resources for research," 1986 as: M594. Online at: http://www.archive.org/details/volunteerunitsunion

Volume Reel 0075 - Compiled records showing service of military units in volunteer Union organizations - MASSACHUSETTS First Cavalry through Fourth Cavalry, First Heavy Artillery First Battalion, Heavy Artillery Second Heavy Artillery) Online at: http://www.archive.org/details/compiledrecordss0075unit

Volume Reel 0076 - Compiled records showing service of military units in volunteer Union organizations - MASSACHUSETTS Third Heavy Artillery Fourth Heavy Artillery Twenty-ninth Co., Unattached, Heavy Artillery Thirtieth Co., Unattached, Heavy Artillery First Independent Battery, light Artillery through Sixteenth Battery, light Artillery Maj. Cook's Co., light Artillery First Sharp Shooters, Volunteers Second Sharp Shooters, Volunteers First Infantry Second Infantry). Online at: http://www.archive.org/details/compiledrecordss0076unit

Volume: Reel 0077 - Compiled records showing service of military units in volunteer Union organizations - MASSACHUSETTS Third Infantry Third Infantry (3 Months, l86l) Third Battalion, Riflemen, Militia Fourth Infantry Fourth Infantry (3 Months, l86l) Fourth Battalion, Militia, Infantry Fifth Infantry Fifth Infantry (3 Months, l86l) Fifth Battalion, Militia, Infantry (100 Days, Sixth Infantry Sixth Militia, Infantry (3 Months l86l) Sixth Infantry (100 Days, 186*0 Seventh Infantry Eighth Infantry Eighth Infantry (3 Months, l86l) Eighth Militia, Infantry Ninth Infantry through Eleventh Infantry
Online at: http://www.archive.org/details/compiledrecordss0077unit

Volume Reel 0078 - Compiled records showing service of military units in volunteer Union organizations - MASSACHUSETTS Twelfth Infantry Thirteenth Infantry Fifteenth Infantry through Nineteenth Infantry) Online at: http://www.archive.org/details/compiledrecordss0078unit

Volume: Reel 0079 - Compiled records showing service of military units in volunteer Union organizations - MASSACHUSETTS Twentieth Infantry through Twenty-fifth Infantry. Online at: http://www.archive.org/details/compiledrecordss0079unit

Volume: Reel 0080 - Compiled records showing service of military units in volunteer Union organizations - MASSACHUSETTS Twenty-sixth Infantry through Thirty-first Infantry. Online at: http://www.archive.org/details/compiledrecordss0080unit

Volume: Reel 0081 - Compiled records showing service of military units in volunteer Union organizations - MASSACHUSETTS Thirty-second Infantry through Thirty-ninth Infantry. Online at: http://www.archive.org/details/compiledrecordss0081unit

Volume: Reel 0082 - Compiled records showing service of military units in volunteer Union organizations - MASSACHUSETTS Fortieth Infantry, Forty-second Infantry Forty-second Infantry (100 Days, 1864) Forty-third Militia, Infantry through Fifty-third Militia, Infantry Fifty-sixth Infantry Through Sixty-second Infantry First Unattached Co., Militia Infantry (90 Days, 1864) through Thirteenth Unattached Co., Militia Infantry (90 Days, 1864) Fifteenth Unattached Co., Militia Infantry (100 Days, 1864) through Twenty-seventh Unattached Co., Militia Infantry (1 year, 1864-65) Boston Cadet Co., Militia, Infantry Salem Cadets, Militia, Infantry Capt. Staten's Co., Volunteers, Infantry (6 Months, 1862). Online at: http://www.archive.org/details/compiledrecordss0082unit

Compiled Records Showing Service of Military Units in Volunteer Union Organizations [microform]. National Archives Microfilm Publications, Microcopy 594, Roll 68. Maine, First Cavalry through Third Infantry. Washington: National Archives, 1964. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/compiledrecordss0068unit

Crowninshield, Benjamin W. A History of the First Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891. Digitial edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/historyoffirstre00crow

Dana, Malcolm McGregor. The Norwich Memorial, The Annals of Norwich New London County, Connecticut in the Great Rebellion of 1861-65. Norwich, Conn: J.H. Jewett and Co., 1873. Digitial edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=fBcCAAAAYAAJ&dq

Davis, Charles E., Jr. Three Years in the Army: The Story of the Thirteenth Massachusetts Volunteers. Estes and Lauriat, 1894. Reprint, Higginson Book Company, 2000. (Geneal Coll/973.744/D261).
Digitial edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030906261

Early History of the Department of Massachusetts, G.A.R., From 1866 to 1880 Inclusive. Compiled by Direction of the Department of Encampment of 1892. Boston, Mass.: Stillings & Co., 1895. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/earlyhistoryofde1898gran

Find A Grave (web site). http://www.findagrave.com

James K.. The Third Masschusetts Cavalry in the War for the Union. Published by direction of the Historical Committee of the Regimental Association, 1902. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/thirdmasscavalry00ewerrich

Gammons, John G. The Third Massachusetts Regiment Volunteer Militia in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1868. Providence: Snow & Farnham Co., 1906. Digitial edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=iKkTAAAAYAAJ

Hager, Lucie Caroline. Boxborough: A New England Town and Its People. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis, 1891. (Ref 974.44 B788h)

Haynes, Martin A. A History of the Second Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, in the War of the Rebellion. Lakeport, NH, 1896. Digitial edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=hmIUAAAAYAAJ

Headley, Phinieas Camp. Massachusetts in the Rebellion: A Record of the Historical Position of the Commonwealth, and the Services of the Leading Statesmen, the Military, the Colleges, and the People in the Civil War of 1861-65. Boston: Walker, Fuller, and Company, 1866. (Reprint, Kessinger Publishing, 2009). GenealColl 8973.3 H433

Hurd, Duane Hamilton. History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men. J. W. Lewis & co., 1890. 3 volumes. (GenealColl 974.44 M627h). Vol. 1 onlne at: http://books.google.com/books?id=m74TAAAAYAAJ

Hutchinson, Gustavus B. A Narrative of the Formation and Services of the Eleventh Massachusetts Volunteers. Higginson Book Company, 2000. Originally published by Alfred Mudge & Son, 1893. (Geneal Coll/973.744/H976)
Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/narrativeofforma00hutc

Hutchinson, Nelson Vinal. History of the Seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion of the Southern States Against Constitutional Authority, 1861-65. Taunton, Mass: By the authority of the Regimenal Association, 1890. Digital edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=k2AUAAAAYAAJ&dq

Journals of the Encampment Proceedings of the Department of Massachusetts G.A.R From 1881 to 1887 Inclusive. Boston, Mass.: E.B. Stillings & Co., 1902. Digitial edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/journalsofencamp00gran

Kirwan, Thomas. Memorial History of the Seventeenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Old and New Organizations) in the Civil War from 1861-1865. Pub. for the Committee on history by the Salem Press Co., c1911. (Geneal Coll/973.744/K61)

Lapham, William B. My Recollections of the War of the Rebellion. Augusta, Maine: Burleigh & Flynt, Printers, 1892. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/myrecollectionso00laph

McConell, Stuart. Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1992. (973.741 M129)

Miller, Richard F. Harvard's Civil War: A History of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. University Press of New England, 2005. (973.744 M649)

Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars, 1861-1865. St. Paul, Minn.: Pioneer Press Company, 1890. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/minnesotacivil01minnrich

Nason, George W. History and Complete Roster of the Massachusetts Regiments: Minute Men of '61. Smith & McCance, 1910. (Geneal Coll/973.741/N263). Digital edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=2gBZAAAAMAAJ

New York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865. Compiled by Frederick Phisterer. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1890. Digital edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=ocMBAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center, New York Civil War Units NY State Unit History Project, (http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/reghist/civil/civil_index.htm)

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. United States Naval War Records Office. Library has Series I, vol. 1-7. GPO, 1898-. (Geneal Coll/973.71/O32)

Parker, Francis J. The Story of the Thirty-second Regiment Massachusetts Infantry. Higginson Book Co., 1998. Originally published by C.W. Calkins, 1880. (Geneal Coll/973.744/P239). Digital edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=XMKaP9uKWfMC

Phisterer, Frederick. New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1912. Digitized edition online at New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center: http://dmna.state.ny.us/historic/

Powers, George Whitefield. The Story of the Thirty Eighth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. Dakin and Metcalf, 1866. Digital edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=xH5DvZ6NM-AC

Record of the Service of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in North Carolina, August 1862 to May 1863. Boston: Privately printed, 1887. Digital edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=_BiBAAAAIAAJ

Record of the Thirty-Third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, from August 1862 to August 1865. Andrew J. Boies. Higginson Book Company, 2000. Originally printed by the Sentinel Printing Company, 1880. (Geneal Coll/973.744/B678).
Digital edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=EuVYAAAAMAAJ

Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1867. Revised and compiled by Brig.-Gen. Richard H. Orton, Adjutant-General of California. Sacramento: State Office, 1890. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/recordsofcalifor00cali

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois for the Years 1861-1866. Springfield, 1900.
Volume 3, http://www.archive.org/details/reportofadjutant03illi1
Volume 6, http://www.archive.org/details/reportofadjutant06illi1

Report of the Commission on Andersonville Monument. Massachusetts Commission on Andersonville Monument. Boston, Wright & Potter printing Co., state printers, 1902. "A list of the Massachusetts soldiers known to be buried in the national cemetery, Andersonville, Ga.": p. 43-75. (Geneal Coll/973.771/M414)

Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866. Prepared and published by authority of the Leigislature, by Augustus D. Ayling, Adjutant General. Concord: Ira C. Evans, Public Printer, 1895. Digital edition online at The Internet Archive: Part 1 (pp. 1-602): http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924096263128, Part 2 (pp. 603-end): http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924096263136

Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and Lists of Vermonters Who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-66. Theodore S. Peck, Adjutant-General. Montpelier, VT: Watchman Publishing, 1892. Digital edition online at The Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924080774148.

Robinson, Frank T. History of the Fifth Regiment, M.V.M. Boston: W. F. Brown & co., printers, 1879. Digital edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=EYIKAQAAIAAJ

Roe, Alfred C. Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in Its Three Tours of Duty, 1861, 1862-'63, 1864. Fifth Regiment Veteran Association, 1911. GenealColl 973.744 R698. Digital edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=xBpCAAAAIAAJ

Roe, Alfred Seelye. The Twenty-Fourth Regiment, Massachusuetts Volunteers, 1861-1866, "New England Guard Regiment." Published by Twenty-fourth Veteran Association, 1907. Digital edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=WR1CAAAAIAAJ

Roe, Alfred S. The Thirty-ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865. Worcester, Mass.: Regimental Veteran Association, 1914. (GenealColl 973.744 R698). Digital edition online at The Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/stream/thirtyninthregim00roea

Roster and Genealogies of the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (web site). Compiled by Susan Harnwell. http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/

Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 (online database). Wisconsin Historical Society. Online at: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/roster/index.asp

Schouler, William. History of Massachusetts in the Civil War. E.P. Dutton, 1868-71. 2 volumes. (Geneal Coll/973.7/S376).
Digital edition online at the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/historyofmassach00scho; Vol. 2 digitized by Google Books at: http://books.google.com/books?id=NgoTAAAAYAAJ;

Stevens, William B. History of Stoneham, Massachusetts. Stoneham, Mass.: F.L. & W.E. Whittier, 1891. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/stream/historystoneham00stevgoog

Supplement to the Annual Reports of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine, for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65 and 1866. The Adjutant General, 1867. Cover title: Alphabetical Index of Maine Volunteers, etc., Mustered into the Service of the United States during the War of 1861. (Geneal Coll/973.7441/M225)

Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1994-. Incomplete holdings—check library’s catalog.

U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 (online database). In Ancestry.com. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

VermontCivilWar.org (web site). Tom Ledoux, web master. http://vermontcivilwar.org

Waite, Otis, F.R. New Hampshire in the Great Rebellion. Claremont, NH, 1870. Digital edition online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=ihhCAAAAIAAJ

Watertown's Military History. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1907. Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/watertownsmilita00water

Watson, Benjamin Frank. Addresses, Reviews and Episodes, Chiefly Concerning the "Old Sixth" Massachusetts Regiment. New York, 1901.Digital edition online at: http://www.archive.org/details/addressesreviews00wats

Watson, Benjamin Frank. An Oration Delivered at Huntington Hall, Lowell, Massachusetts. New York : L. Middleditch, printer, 1886? GenealColl 973.744 W337

Whitcomb, Caroline Elizabeth. History of the Second Massachusetts Battery (Nims' Battery) of Light Artillery, 1861-1865. Concord, N.H.: The Rumford press [c1912]. (Geneal Coll/973.744/W581)

Wilkinson, Warren. Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen: The Fifty-Seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac, 1864-1865. Harper & Row, 1990. (973.744 W687 )

Willis, Henry A. The Fifty-Third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers: Comprising also a History of the Siege of Port Hudson. Higginson Book Company, 2000. Originally published by Press of Blanchard & Brown, 1889. (Geneal Coll/973.744/W734)

Wisconsin Losses in the Civil War: A List of Names of Wisconsin Soldiers Killed in Action, Mortally Wounded or Dying from Other Causes in the Civil War. Charles E. Estabrook, ed. Published by the State, Democrat Printing Co., 1915, p. 181. Digital edition online at: http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/tp,41131