Pennsylvania in the Civil War

Compiled service records of 85th Penna Infantry from NA microfilm online at https://archive.org/stream/compiledrecordss0177unit#page/n333/mode/2up.

Reading List

"All Quiet on the Border: The Civil War Era in Greene County, Pennsylvania," by D. Kent Fonner
"Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840-1868," by Grace Palladino
"Bouquets from the Cannon's Mouth: Soldiering with the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Reserves," by Robert E. Eberly, Jr.
"Civil War Letters from Soldiers and Citizens of Columbia County, Pennsylvania," edited by George A. Turner
"Damn Dutch: Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg," by David L. Valuska and Christian B. Keller
"Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians," by Robert M. Sandow
"Forging a Majority: The Formation of the Republican Party in Pittsburgh, 1848-1860," by Michael Fitzgibbon Holt
"Hurrah for the Artillery! Knap's Independent Battery 'E', Pennsylvania Light Artillery," compiled by James P. Brady
"The Bloody 85th: the Letters of Milton McJunkin, a Western Pennsylvania Soldier in the Civil War," edited by Ronn Palm, Dr. Richard Sauers, and Patricia A. Schroeder

Saturday, April 11, 2015