Acton Memorial Library Civil War Archives

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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.

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.

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.

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (web site). National Park Service. http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html

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).
Digitized by Google Books and 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). Digitized by Google Books and online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=P79EAAAAIAAJ

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

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 digitized by Google Books and online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=0wgTAAAAYAAJ.  Volume 2 digitized by Google Books and online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=kyETAAAAYAAJ

Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War [abbreviated MASSCW]. Compiled and Published by the Adjutant General in Accordance with Chapter 475, Acts of 1899 and Chapter 64, Resolves of 1930. Norwood, Mass.: 1931-1937. 8 volumes plus Index. GenealColl 973.741 M414

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

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. In: 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). Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society.

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

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

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Vital Records of Acton Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1923.

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 on the Web 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. 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. Digital edition in: HeritageQuest (online database).

Annual Report of the Trustees of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts at Chelsea, Massachusetts. Soldiers Home, Chelsea, 1915. (Digitized by Google Books 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).
Digitized by Google Books and 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. Digitized by Google Books and online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=glbUAAAAMAAJ

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

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. Digitized by Google Books and 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).
Digitized by Google Books and online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=bA2YutbqU4gC

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. Digitized by Google Books and online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=n90SAAAAYAAJ&vq

Gammons, John G. The Third Massachusetts Regiment Volunteer Militia in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1868. Providence: Snow & Farnham Co., 1906. Digitized by Google Books and 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. Digitized by Google Books, 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.

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)
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. Digitized by Google Books and online at:  http://books.google.com/books?id=k2AUAAAAYAAJ&dq

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)

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

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Nason, George W.  History and Complete Roster of the Massachusetts Regiments: Minute Men of '61. Smith & McCance, 1910. (Geneal Coll/973.741/N263).
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Powers, George Whitefield.  The Story of the Thirty Eighth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. Dakin and Metcalf, 1866. Digitized by Google Books and online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=xH5DvZ6NM-AC

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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).
Digitized by Google Books and online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=EuVYAAAAMAAJ

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:
http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924096263128 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. Digitized by Google Books and 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. Digitized by Google Books and online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=xBpCAAAAIAAJ

Roster and Genealogies of the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Compiled by Susan Harnwell (web site): 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).
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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. 

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

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

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