MAJOR AMERICAN MILITARY CONFLICTS, PART X

Spanish-American War--Casualty Lists and Burial Records

104. Peterson, Clarence S. Known Military Dead During the Spanish-American War and the Philippines Insurrection, 1898-1901. Baltimore: C. S. Peterson, 1958. (Central-HG 973.89)

105. Pompey, Sherman L. A Partial Listing of Veterans of the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War Buried in Certain Missouri Cemeteries. Warrensburg: Johnson County Historical Society, 1962. (Central-ST 353.6)

106. Tabb, Kathy, and Evelyn Sawyer. Index to Michigan Soldiers Obituaries: Civil, Spanish, and World War I. MI: Western Michigan Genealogical Society, 1989. (Central-HG 973.001)

World War I--Casualty Lists and Burial Records

107. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, D.C.: Soldiers’ Record Publishing Co., 1920, 3 vols. Lists by state of World War I Army dead. (Central-ST 940.91)

108. United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Navigation. Officers and Enlisted Men of the United States Navy Who Lost Their Lives During the World War, from April 6, 1917, to November 11, 1918. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1920. (Central-ST 940.91)

109. Zimmer, Keith. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newspaper Obituaries. St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library. Scroll down to Casualty Lists.

World War II--Casualty Lists and Burial Records

110. Mix, Ann B. Touchstones: a Guide to Records, Rights, and Resources for Families of American World War II Casualties. Bountiful, UT: AGLL, 1996. (Central-HG 929.1)

111. Steere, Edward. The Graves Registration Service in World War II. Washington, D.C.: Historical Section, Office of the Quartermaster General, 1951. (Central-ST 355.6)

112. United States. Navy Department of Information. State Summary of War Casualties, Missouri. Washington, D.C.: U.S.Government Printing Office, 1946. (Central-ST 940.5467778)

113. United States. Navy Department of Information. Combat Connected Naval Casualties, World War II, by States, 1946, U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, 2 vols. Missouri casualties are in vol. 2. (Central-HG 940.92)

114. Zimmer, Keith. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newspaper Obituaries. St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library. Scroll down to Casualty Lists.

Korean War--Casualty Lists and Burial Records

115. Korean War Dead. State-by-state lists available from the National Archives.

Vietnam War--Casualty Lists and Burial Records

116. Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Directory of Names. Washington, D.C.: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, 1982. (Central-HG 959.70433)

117. Vietnam War Dead. State-by-state lists available from the National Archives.

MAJOR AMERICAN MILITARY CONFLICTS, PART IX

Revolutionary War-- Casualty Lists and Burial Records

92. Daughters of the American Revolution. Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Missouri. Kansas City: DAR, 1966. (Central-HG 973.74)

93. Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots. Dallas: Pioneer Heritage Press, 1987-1988. (Central-HG 973.74)

94. Illinois State Genealogical Society. Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Illinois: a Bicentennial Project of the Illinois State Genealogical Society. Springfield: The Society, 1975. (Central-HG 929.3773)

95. Peterson, Clarence S. Known Military Dead During the American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783. Baltimore: C. S. Peterson, 1959. (Central-HG 973.74)

War of 1812-- Casualty Lists and Burial Records

96. Peterson, Clarence S. Known Military Dead During the War of 1812. Baltimore: C. S. Peterson, 1955. (Central-HG 973.5)

Mexican-American War-- Casualty Lists and Burial Records

97. Peterson, Clarence S. Known Military Dead during the Mexican War, 1846-1848. Baltimore: the Author, 1957. (Central-HG 973.6)

Civil War-- Casualty Lists and Burial Records

98. Confederate Roll of Honor: Missouri. Ed. by Leslie Anders. Warrensburg, MO: West Central Missouri Genealogical Society and Library, Inc., 1989.(Central-HG 973.76)

99. Faehtz, Ernest F. M. The National Memorial Day: a Record of Ceremonies Over the Graves of the Union Soldiers, May 29 & 30, 1869. Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic, 1870. (Central-ST 973.7)

100. Praus, Alexis A. Confederate Soldiers, Sailors, and Civilians Who Died as Prisoners of War at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., 1862-1865. Kalamazoo, MI: Gray Publications, 1968. (Central-HG, ST 973.76)

101. Reamy, Martha & William Reamy. Index to the Roll of Honor. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995. (Central-HG 973.76)

102. Soldiers Buried at Union Cemetery, Kansas City, MO. Kansas City: Union Cemetery Historical Society, 1988, 2 vols. (Central-HG 929.3778)

103. United States. War Department. Quartermaster’s Department. Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defense of the American Union, Interred in the National Cemeteries. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994. Multi-volume set, indexed. Lists Union soldiers buried in national cemeteries during the Civil War, or reinterred in them shortly after the war. (Central-HG 973.76)

MAJOR AMERICAN MILITARY CONFLICTS, PART VIII

Mexican-American War--Pension Records & Disability Payments

80. Payne, Dorothy E. Arkansas Pensioners, 1818-1900: Records of Some Arkansas Residents Who Applied to the Federal Government for Benefits Arising from Service in Federal Military Organizations (Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Indian and Mexican Wars). Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1985. (Central-HG 929.3767)

81. Troxel, Navena H. Mexican War Index to Pension Files, 1886-1926. Gore, OK: VT Publications, 1983, 3 vols. (Central-HG 973.74)

82. United States. Pension Bureau. List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883, 5 vols. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970. (Central-HG 973.74)

Civil War--Pension Records & Disability Payments

83. Allen, Desmond Walls. Arkansas Union Soldiers Pension Application Index. Conway, AR: Rapid Rabbit Copy Co., 1987. (Central-HG 973.74)

84. Concannon, Marie. Index to Missouri Military Pensioners, 1883. Columbia: State Historical Society of Missouri, 1997. (Central-HG 973.74)

85. Fox, Peggy Barnes. Missouri Confederate Pensions and Confederate Home Applications Index. Hillsboro, TX: Hill College Press, 1996. (Central-HG 973.7448)

86. Kentucky. Division of Archives & Records Management. Kentucky Confederate Veteran and Widows Pension Index. Hartford, KY: Cook & McDowell, 1979. (Central-HG 929.3769)

87. Missouri. Federal Soldiers’ Home of St. James, Missouri. Biennial Reports (1901-1946). Jefferson City: Mid-State Publishing Co., 1902-1947. (Central-ST 362.8)

88. Oklahoma Genealogical Society. Index to Applications for Pensions from the State of Oklahoma Submitted by Confederate Soldiers, Sailors, & Their Widows. Oklahoma City: The Society, 1969. (Central-HG 929.3766)

89. Raff, George W. The War Claimant’s Guide: a Manual of Laws, Regulations, Instructions, Forms, and Official Decisions, Relating to Pensions, Bounty Pay, & Prize Money. Cincinnati: R. Clark, 1866. (Central-ST 336.73)

90. United States. Pension Bureau. List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970, 5 vols. (Central-HG 973.74)

91. White, Virgil D. Index to Texas CSA Pension Files. Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing Co., 1989. (Central-HG 929.3764)

MAJOR AMERICAN MILITARY CONFLICTS, PART VII

Revolutionary War-- Pension Records & Disability Payments

68. Clark, Murtie June. The Pension Lists of 1792-1795: with Other Revolutionary War Pension Records. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991. (Central-HG 973.34)

69. Dorman, John F. Virginia Revolutionary Pension Applications, Abstracted. Washington, D.C.: J. F. Dorman, 1958-1980, 35 vols. (Central-HG 975.5)

70. United States. Department of the Interior. Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969. (Central-HG, ST 929.373)

71. United States. Pension Bureau. Pensioners of Revolutionary War Struck Off the Roll. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969. (Central-HG 355.151)

72. United States. War Department. Revolutionary Pensioners: a Transcript of the United States for 1813. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1959. (Central-HG 929.373)

73. United States. War Department. Pension Roll of 1835. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968. (Central-ST 973.34)

74. White, Virgil D. Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files. Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing Co., 1990-1992, 3 vols. (Central-HG 973.74)

War of 1812-- Pension Records & Disability Payments

75. McGhee, Lucy Kate. Missouri Revolutionary War Soldiers, War of 1812 and Indian Wars Pension List. Washington, D.C.: n.d. (Central-HG 977.8)

76.. The Pension Roll of 1835. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992, 4 vols. (Central-HG 973.34)

77. United States. Census Office. A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services; with Their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial Districts in 1840. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967. (Central-HG 929.373)

78. United States. War Department. Kentucky Pensions of 1835. Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1959. (Central-HG 976.9)

79. White, Virgil D. Index to War of 1812 Pension Files. Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing Co., 1992. (Central-HG 973.526)

MAJOR AMERICAN MILITARY CONFLICTS, PART VI

Korean War—Rosters & Reference Works

51. Blanchard, Carroll H. Korean War Bibliography and Maps of Korea. Albany: Korean Conflict Research Foundation, 1964. (Central-ST 016.9519)

52. Dornbusch, C. E. Histories of American Army Units, World Wars I and II and Korean Conflict, with Some Earlier Histories. Washington, D. C.: Department of the Army, 1956. (Central-ST 016.355)

53. United States. Marine Corps. First Division. First Marine Division. November 1-December 15, 1950, Chosin Reservoir. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951. (Central-ST 951.9)

Vietnam War—Rosters & Reference Works

54. Headhunters: Stories from the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, Vietnam, 1965-1971. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1987. (Central-ST 959.704342)

55. Stanton, Shelby L. Vietnam Order of Battle. Washington, D.C.: U.S. News Books, 1981. (Central-HG Oversize 959.70433)

56. The Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1973: an Anthology and Annotated Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Printing Office, 1974. (Central-ST 959.70434)

57. The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict. Washington, D.C.: U.S.Government Printing Office, 1976. (Central-ST 959.704345)

Revolutionary War-- Bounty Land Records

58. Bockstruck, Lloyd Dewitt. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants: Awarded by State Governments. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996. (Central- HG 973.34)

59. Cartwright, Betty Goff Cook. North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791. Memphis, TN: I. C. Harper Co., 1958. (Central-HG 973.34)

60. Jillson, Willard Rouse. The Kentucky Land Grants: a Systematic Index to All of the Land Grants Recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782-1924. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1971. (Central-HG 976.9)

61. Mayo, Robert. Army and Navy Pension Laws, and Bounty Land Laws of the United States Including Sundry Resolutions of Congress from 1776-1852. Washington, D.C.: J. T. Towers, 1852. (Central-ST 355.115)

62. Smith, Clifford N. Federal Land Series: a Calendar of Archival Materials on the Land-Patents Issued by the United States Government, with Subject, Tract, and Name Indexes. Chicago: American Library Association, 1972-1982, 4 vols. Vol. 1 covers 1788-1810; vol. 2 covers 1799-1835; vol. 3 covers 1810-1814; vol. 4 covers land grants in the Virginia District of Ohio. Includes name and tract indexes in each volume. (Central-HG 333.16)

63. Wilson, Samuel M. Catalogue of Revolutionary Soldiers and Sailors of the Commonwealth of Virginia to Whom Land Bounty Warrants were Granted by Virginia for Military Services in the War for Independence. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967. (Central-HG, ST 973.34)

War of 1812-- Bounty Land Records

64. Christensen, Katherine. Arkansas Military Bounty Grants (War of 1812). Hot Springs: Arkansas Ancestors, 1971. (Central-HG 929.3767)

65. Dunaway, Maxine. Missouri Military Land Warrants, War of 1812. Springfield, MO: M. Dunaway, 1985. (Central-HG 929.3778)

66. United States. General Land Office. War of 1812 Bounty Lands in Illinois. Thomson, IL: Heritage House, 1977. (Central-HG 977.3)

67. Wardell, Patrick G. War of 1812: Virginia Bounty Land & Pension Applicants: a Quick Reference Guide to Ancestors having War of 1812 Service Who Served Lived, Died, or Married in Virginia or West Virginia. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1987. (Central-HG 973.52455)

MAJOR AMERICAN MILITARY CONFLICTS, PART V

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR--ROSTERS & REFERENCE WORKS

38. Pictorial Atlas Illustrating the Spanish-American War: Comprising a History of the Conflict. New York: G. F. Cram, 1898. (Central-ST 973.8)

39. Venzon, Anne C. The Spanish-American War: an Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1990. (Central-HG 016.97389)

WORLD WAR I--ROSTERS & REFERENCE WORKS

40. DeCastelbled, Maurice. History of the A.E.F. New York: Bookcraft, 1937. (Central-ST 940.91)

41. Livesey, Anthony. I. The Historical Atlas of World War. New York: H. Holt, 1994. (Central-HG 940.410223)

42. Ohio. Adjutant-General’s Office. The Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the World War, 1917-1918. Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1926-1929. (Central-ST 940.91)

43. Schaefer, Christina. The Great War: a Guide to the Service Records of All the World’s Fighting Men and Volunteers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998. (Central-HG 940.3)

WORLD WAR II--ROSTERS & REFERENCE WORKS

44. Conference on Research on the Second World War. World War II: an Account of Its Documents. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1976. (Central-ST 940.5307)

45. 42nd Rainbow Infantry Infantry Division. Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 1987. (Central-ST Oversize 940.541273)

46. Goodenough, Simon. War Maps: World War II, From September 1939, to August 1945, Air, Sea, and Land, Battle by Battle. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982. (Central-HG Oversize 911)

47. Sixth Marine Division: the Striking Sixth. Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Co.,1987. (Central-ST Oversize 940.541273)

48. Stanton, Shelby L. Order of Battle, U.S. Army, World War II. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1984. (Central-HG Oversize 355.30973)

49. 34th Bombardment Group (H), 1941-1945. Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Co., 1988. (Central-ST Oversize 940.544973)

50. United States. National Archives. Federal Records of World War II. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1951, 2 vols. Vol. 1 covers civilian records; Vol. 2 covers military records. (Central-HG 940.92)

I'LL BET AT LEAST ONE GUY WAS DISMAYED

Brighton, Terry. Hell Riders: the True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade. NY: Henry Holt & Co., 2004. Central-HG, BU 947.073842

On October 25, 1854, nearly 700 members of the Light Brigade, British Cavalry Division, armed only with sabres and lances, charged up a Crimean valley ringed on three sides by Russian artillery and infantry. The charge, which covered about a mile and a quarter in seven minutes' time, resulted in nearly 300 British soldiers being killed, wounded, or taken prisoner, and at least as many British horses lying dead on the field. Was the charge really the tragic result of missed communications, as has long been claimed, and was it in fact a complete waste of the lives of good men and horses? The conclusions reached by the author after extensive research may surprise you.

FIRST SPOOK

Rose, Alexander. Washington's Spies: the Story of America's First Spy Ring. NY: Bantam Books, 2006. HG, BU, MA 973.385

It's fairly common knowledge at this point that George Washington was not America's best general ever. He wasn't our best-ever strategist or tactician, and he came close at several points during the Revolution to losing it all due to strategic or tactical errors. But it's long been known that old George was quite good at one thing, certainly-- learning from his mistakes.

It seems, however, that scholars of the period have discovered that George was good at something else as well. Not just good, in fact: he was something of a visionary when it came to intelligence gathering and espionage. Now, things started badly for Washington here as in so many of his endeavors-- initial forays into the "spy game" resulted in blunders like the Nathan Hale affair, in which schoolteacher turned spy Hale was sent into the lion's den to gather intelligence. He had nearly succeeded despite the overwhelming odds, only to be taken into custody when he mistakenly flagged down a British frigate instead of the colonial navy ship he had been expecting. Washington was thus left hanging (as, alas, was poor Nathan) while a new agent was recruited.

Washington soon hit on the idea of using spies who remained in place behind enemy lines, and were thus less conspicuous to the British and local Loyalists, instead of spies sent in from outside who stood out like sore thumbs as they observed British activities and attempted to question locals and British soldiers about British numbers, movements, and armaments. The problem then was getting out messages from spies to the First Spook-- a problem solved by the use of, among other things, invisible ink.

Washington's (largely successful) effort to build what modern-day spooks would call an all-source intelligence network was one of the main reasons that he was able, with a poorly equipped and nearly always outnumbered army, to defeat the British and help a fledgling nation gain its independence. Read this book, and you'll discover how this most remarkable man accomplished this most remarkable feat.

MAJOR AMERICAN MILITARY CONFLICTS, PART IV

Civil War-- Military Service Records & Rosters

Microfilm

19. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Missouri, 193 reels. (Central-Microfilm)

20. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Missouri, 854 reels. (Central-Microfilm)

21. Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Illinois, 101 reels. (Central-Microfilm)

22. Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Missouri, 54 reels. (Central-Microfilm)

23. Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1897, 70 reels. (Central-Microfilm)

Books

24. Dornbusch, C. E. Military Bibliography of the Civil War. Dayton, OH: Morningside Books, 1987, 4 vols. Vol. 1 covers northern states, vol. 2 southern and border states. (Central-HG 016.973)

25. Groene, Bertram H. Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor. Winston-Salem, NC: J. F. Blair, 1973. (Central-HG 016.9293)

26. Hewett, Janet B. The Roster of Confederate Soldiers. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1995. Mutilvolume set. (Central-HG 973.741)

27. Hewett, Janet B. The Roster of Union Soldiers. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1997. Multi-volume set. (Central-HG 973.741)

28. Illinois. Adjutant-General’s Office. Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of Illinois. Springfield, IL: Phillips Brothers, 1900-1902, 9 vols. Organized by regiment: check website of Illinois Secretary of State to find out a man’s regiment. First 8 volumes cover Civil War regiments; last volume covers Black Hawk War, Mexican-American War, and Spanish-American War. (Central-HG 353.9)

29. Iowa. Adjutant General’s Office. List of Ex-Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines Living in Iowa (1886). Decorah, IA: Decorah Genealogy Association, 1997. (Central-HG 929.373)

30. Munden, Kenneth W. and Henry P. Beers. Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1962. (Central-ST 016.9737)

31. Neagle, James C. U.S. Military Records: a Guide to Federal and State Sources, Colonial America to the Present. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1994. (Central-HG 929.30973)

32. Pearson, Thomas A. Missouri Men Who Served in Illinois Civil War Regiments. St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library. (http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/library.htm)

33. Pearson, Thomas A. Missouri Men Who Served in Kansas Civil War Regiments.St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library. (http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/library.htm)

34. Schweitzer, George K. Civil War Genealogy: a Basic Research Guide for Tracing Your Civil War Ancestors, with Detailed Sources and Precise Instructions for Obtaining Information from Them. Knoxville, TN: G. Schweitzer, 1980.(Central-HG 016.9293)

35. United States. War Department. The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War. New York: Gramercy Books, 1983. (Central-HG, ST Oversize 973.7)

36. United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 volumes. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. Last volume is a general index to entire set: each volume also has its own index. (Central-HG, ST 973.7)

37. Welcher, Frank J. The Union Army, 1861-1865: Organization and Operations. Bloomington: University of Indiana, 1989, 2 vols. Vol. 1- Eastern Theater, Vol. 2- Western Theater. (Central-HG 973.41)

GENEALOGY & LOCAL HISTORY PROGRAMS NOV 2011-MAR 2012

Here's the latest list of upcoming programs I'll be doing at various locations. All are sponsored or co-sponsored by St. Louis Public Library. All are free and open to the public. Please note that locations vary.

Sat, Nov 19, 2011, 10 AM-Noon--Squeezing Your Sources: Extracting All the Info You Can From Civil War Service and Pension Records. Join us as Tom Pearson describes ways to extract all the info that you possibly can from compiled military service records and pension records. Buder Branch. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 10 AM-Noon--Take Your Best Shot: Civil War Artillery! Join us as Tom Pearson discusses Civil War cannon and cannoneers. Buder Branch. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info: tpearson@slpl.org.

Saturday, January 28, 2012, 10 am-Noon—Cavalry Raids: Secret Weapons or Flashy Sideshows? Buder Branch. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses Civil War cavalry weapons, equipment, and tactics. Was the cavalry raid a legitimate military tactic, or was it a waste of essential resources? Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

Thursday, March 22, 2012, 10 am-Noon—Civil War 24/7: Researching Civil War Soldiers & Regiments on the Internet. Buder Branch. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses ways to thoroughly research Civil War soldiers and military units using the Internet (free and subscription sources discussed). Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

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MAJOR AMERICAN MILITARY CONFLICTS, PART III

War of 1812-- Military Service Records & Rosters

Microfilm

12. Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812, 234 reels. (Central-Microfilm)

Books

13. Coles, Harry Lewis. The War of 1812. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965. (Central-ST 973.5)

14. North Carolina. Adjutant-General. Muster Rolls of the Soldiers of the War of 1812. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976. (Central-HG 973.524)

Mexican-American War-- Military Service Records & Rosters

Microfilm

15. Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the Mexican-American War, 41 reels. (Central-Microfilm)

Books

16. Dufour, Charles. The Mexican War: a Compact History. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1968. Maps. (Central-ST 973.6)

17. Hackenburg, Randy W. Pennsylvania in the War With Mexico. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Co., 1992. (Central-HG 972.05)

18. Nebraska. Secretary of State. Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of the War of 1812, Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion, Residing in Nebraska, June 1, 1893. Lincoln: Jacob North & Co., 1893. (Central-ST 973.74)

MAJOR AMERICAN MILITARY CONFLICTS, PART II

REVOLUTIONARY WAR-- MILITARY SERVICE RECORDS & ROSTERS

Microfilm

1. General Index to Compiled Service Records of Revolutionary War Veterans [58 reels]. (Central-Microfilm)

2. Revolutionary War Service Records [138 reels]. (Central-Microfilm)

Books

3. Atwood, Rodney. The Hessians: Mercenaries from Hessen-Kassel in the American Revolution. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1980. (Central-ST 973.342)

4. Carrington, Henry B. Battles of the American Revolution: Battle Maps and Charts of the Revolution. New York: New York Times, 1968. (Central-ST 973.33)

5. Daughters of the American Revolution. Index of the Rolls of Honor (Ancestor’s Index) in the Lineage Books of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1972 [160 volumes].(Central-HG 929.373)

6. Myers, Paul W. Pennsylvania Soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Living in States Other Than Pennsylvania. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1987. (Central-HG 973.3448)

7. Smith, Clifford Neal. Brunswick Deserter-Immigrants of the American Revolution. Thomson, IL: Heritage House, 1973. (Central-HG 929.343)

8. Smith, Clifford Neal. Mercenaries from Ansbach and Bayreuth, Germany, Who Remained in America after the Revolution. McNeal, AZ: Westland Publications, 1979. (Central-HG 973.342)

9. Smith, Clifford Neal. Muster Rolls and Prisoner of War Lists in American Archival Collections Pertaining to the German Mercenary Troops who Served with the British Forces during the American Revolution. DeKalb, IL: Westland Publications, 1976. (Central-HG 973.342)

10. The State Records of North Carolina. Raleigh: P. M. Hale, 1886-1914 [30 vols]. (Central-ST 975.6)

Volume 16 has a list of soldiers in the North Carolina Continental Line.

11. White, Virgil D. Index to Revolutionary War Service Records. Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing Co., 1995 [4 vols]. (Central-HG 973.4)

DOWNLOADABLE HISTORY FROM SLPL!

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Bryson, Bill. At Home: an Informal History of Private Life.

Haskin, Leslie. Escape From the World Trade Center.

Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken: a World War Ii Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption.

Hornfischer, James D. Neptune’s Inferno: the U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal.

Kissinger, Henry. On China.

McClure, Wendy. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie.

Millard, Candice. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey.

Norwich, John Julius. Absolute Monarches: a History of the Papacy.
Smith, Dennis. A Decade of Hope: Stories of Grief and Endurance from 9/11 Families & Friends.

Vaillant, John. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin.

Wilkerson, Isabelle. The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.

MAJOR AMERICAN MILITARY CONFLICTS, PART I

1775-1783--Revolutionary War (Was your male ancestor 10-45 years of age in 1775?)

1812-1814--War of 1812 (Was your male ancestor 15-45 years of age in 1812?)

1846-1848--Mexican-American War (Was your male ancestor 16-45 years of age in 1846?)

1861-1865--Civil War (Was your male ancestor 13-45 years of age in 1861?)

1898--Spanish-American War (Was your male ancestor 18-45 years of age in 1898?)

1917-1918--World War I (Was your ancestor 17-45 years of age in 1917?)

1941-1945--World War II (Was your ancestor 13-45 years of age in 1941?)

1950-1953--Korean War (Was your ancestor 15-45 years of age in 1950?)

1964-1973--Vietnam War (Was your ancestor 9-45 years of age in 1964?)

1990-1991--Gulf War (Was your ancestor 17-45 years of age in 1990?)


If you know when an American man (or woman) was born, it is fairly easy to figure out in which war(s) he may have served. Just figure that men have generally been liable for military service between the ages of 18-45, with those between the ages of 18-35 being the ones most likely to enlist/be drafted. Also be aware that it would have been hard for men 18-35 to avoid serving in several of these wars, notably the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II, while it would have been relatively easy to avoid serving in the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and the Gulf War.

Men who have served in America’s wars have been eligible at various times for special government programs, including bounty land grants and military pensions. Bounty land warrants were granted at various times during the period 1788-1855. Warrantees could receive up to 160 acres each (privates or seamen), all of which need not have been awarded under the provisions of one particular piece of legislation. A soldier’s heirs could also receive a grant for land based on his service, so long as total acreage awarded to that man and his heirs did not exceed 160 acres.

Land warrants initially would have been redeemable in specially earmarked military districts: men receiving warrants in 1847 and after could redeem them for any open public lands, not just land in military districts. Civil War Union soldiers did not receive bounty lands, although they could deduct time in service from the residency requirements of the 1862 Homestead Act.

Most bounty land was located in the present-day states of Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Illinois, with smaller amounts in the present-day states of New York, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, South Carolina, Georgia, and Missouri. Most land warrants were issued by the federal government, although some state governments, notably Pennsylvania and New York, also rewarded Revolutionary War soldiers with land grants.

Immediately after each of these wars, pensions were available only to those men permanently disabled by their service, and to widows or orphans of men killed in the war. Pensions would become available later to any man who had served in the war who was unable to support himself and/or his family due to age and/or infirmity; then at some later point would be available to any surviving soldier of a particular war. For example, Revolutionary War vets became eligible in 1818 for pensions if they had financial need for support, and if they had either 9 months total service or had served to the end of the war.

Civil War Union soldiers received pensions from the federal government, while Confederate soldiers received pensions directly from the Southern or border state they were living in after the war (surviving Confederate widows only became eligible for federal pensions in 1959--after the last Confederate vet had passed on).

Men entering military service sometimes received one-time payments for enlisting (bounties were more widely available in the North than in the South). These payments could come from the soldier’s town, county, state, or the federal government, or from all four (some soldiers enlisting in the Union Army in late 1864/early 1865 received bonuses of up to $1,200, a very substantial sum at the time).

Certain types of aid to soldiers and/or their families were made only by state/local governments. While in service, a man’s family (in some states) could receive relief payments if receipt of a soldier’s meager pay ($13.00/month) was causing family hardship. Victims of amputation could receive artificial limbs from some states (1/3 of Mississippi’s budget in 1866 consisted of payments for artificial limbs and eyes).

Families of deceased veterans were also eligible for certain forms of aid. The family of a Union soldier killed during the war received a one-time payment of $100 from the federal government. The man’s body could be buried by the U.S. Army on or near the place where he fell, or the family could pay to transport the body home. The U.S. government furnished a headstone to a veteran’s family free of charge (and maintains a list of veterans for whom a headstone was furnished).

UPCOMING CLASSES AT SLPL

Here's the latest list of upcoming programs we’ll be offering at various metro-area locations. All are sponsored or co-sponsored by St. Louis Public Library. All are free and open to the public. Please note that locations vary.

Tues, Oct 18, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM—Over There: Researching World War I Ancestors. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses print, microfilm, manuscript, and Internet sources of info on ancestors who served during World War I. Hayner Public Library, 401 State Street, Alton, IL 62002. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more information: tpearson@slpl.org.

Thurs, Oct 20, 10 AM-Noon— The Second War of American Independence: Researching War of 1812 Ancestors. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses book, manuscript, and Internet sources of information about War of 1812 ancestors. Buder Branch. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

Tues, Oct 25, 2:00 PM-3:30 PM—Research at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses print, microfilm, manuscript, and Internet sources of info on ancestors available via ALPL (located in Springfield, IL). Belleville Public Library, 121 E. Washington Street, Belleville, IL 62220. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more information: tpearson@slpl.org.

Sat, Nov 19, 10 AM-Noon--Squeezing Your Sources: Extracting All the Info You Can From Civil War Service and Pension Records. Join us as Tom Pearson describes ways to extract all the info that you possibly can from compiled military service records and pension records. Buder Branch. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

Sat, Dec 17, 10 AM-Noon--Take Your Best Shot: Civil War Artillery! Join us as Tom Pearson discusses Civil War cannon and cannoneers. Buder Branch. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info: tpearson@slpl.org.

Buder Branch Library
4401 Hampton Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63109
(314) 352-2900

9am - 9pm Monday-Thursday
9am - 6pm Friday and Saturday
1pm - 5pm Sunday

Free parking is available on Buder Branch parking lot.

Tom Pearson, Reference Librarian
Special Collections Department
St. Louis Public Library
1415 Olive Street
St. Louis, MO 63103

READING LISTS--CIVIL WAR BATTLES, PT. 2

THE BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK (10 August 1861)

Place: Near Springfield, Missouri

Commanders: Ben McCulloch (CSA)
Franz Sigel (USA)
Nathaniel Lyon (USA)
Sterling Price (CSA)

Engaged Forces: Confederate-11,300; Union-5,400

Casualties: KIA--Confederate-257; Union-223
WIA--Confederate-900; Union-721
MIA--Confederate-27; Union-291
TOTAL--Confederate-1,184; Union-1,235

BOOKS OF INTEREST

Adamson, Hans C. Rebellion in Missouri, 1861: Nathaniel Lyon and His Army of the West. Philadelphia: Chilton Co., Book Division, 1961. HG-973.73

Castel, Albert E. General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968. HG,ST 973.742

The Battle of Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861: Wilson's Creek Centennial Commemoration, August 10, 1961. Springfield, Mo, 1961. ST-973.73

Brooksher, William R. Bloody Hill: The Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek. Washington: Brassey's, 1995. ST,HG,BU-973.731

Holcombe, R. I. An Account of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. Springfield, Mo: Greene County Historical Society, 1998. HG-973.731

Kemp, Hardy A. About Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General, United States Army Volunteers and Wilson's Creek. S.l: s.n., 1978. ST-B

Patrick, Jeffrey L. Campaign for Wilson’s Creek: the Fight for Missouri Begins. Buffalo Gap Press: McWhiney Foundation, 2011. 973.731 (most branches)

Phillips, Christopher. Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990. ST,SLAS,HU-B

Piston, William G, and Richard W. Hatcher. Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. HG,SLAS-973.731

Rea, Ralph R. Sterling Price: the Lee of the West. Little Rock: Pioneer Press, 1959. HG-L B PRICE

READING LISTS--CIVIL WAR BATTLES, PT. 1

THE BATTLE OF 1st BULL RUN (aka FIRST MANASSAS)

PLACE: Manassas Junction, Virginia
DATE: July 21, 1861

COMMANDERS

CSA: Pierre G. T. Beauregard
Joseph Johnston

USA: Irvin McDowell

TROOPS INVOLVED

CSA: 32,500 troops available for battle (18, 053 actually involved in the fighting)
387 men killed in action or mortally wounded
1,582 men wounded
13 men captured or missing in action
1,982 casualties total

USA: 35,000 troops available for battle (18,572 actually involved in the fighting)
460 men killed in action or mortally wounded
1,124 men wounded
1,312 men captured or missing in action
2,996 casualties total

BOOKS OF INTEREST

Ballard, Ted. Battle of 1st Bull Run. Washington, DC: Center for Military History, 2007. DO- D114.12: B32/2.

Davis, William C. Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1977. ST-973.731

Detzer, David. Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2004. HG-973.731

First Manassas. Arlington, VA: Time-Life Books, 1997. ST,MA-973.731

Johnston, R. M. Bull Run: Its Strategy and Tactics. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. ST-973.73

McDonald, JoAnna M. Give Them the Bayonet! A Guide to the Battle for Henry Hill, July 21, 1861. Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1999. ST-973.731

McDonald, JoAnna M. “We Shall Meet Again”: the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), July 18-21, 1861. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 1999. ST-973.731

Nofi, Albert A. The Opening Guns: Fort Sumter to Bull Run, 1861. NY: Gallery Books, 1988. ST-973.731

Rafuse, Ethan S. A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas. Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 2002. HG-973.731

Roman, Alfred. The Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War Between the States, 1861 to 1865: Including a Brief Personal Sketch and a Narrative of His Services in the War with Mexico, 1846-8. NY: Harper, 1883. ST-973.73302

Wheeler, Richard. A Rising Thunder: From Lincoln's Election to the Battle of Bull Run : an Eyewitness History. NY: HarperCollins, 1994. ST-973.73

REMEMBERING KEITH

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has run an obit (with color photo) of our friend and co-worker, Keith Zimmer, who passed away on 30 July 2011. Keith is the guy who (singlehandedly) produced the St. Louis Obituary Index that is an invaluable resource for so many of us:

LINK

Here's the link to do a search of Keith's index:

LINK

Click on "Reference and Research," then "Genealogy."

READING LISTS--CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 14

Sterling Price
Confederate Army General

Born: 20 September 1809
Died: 29 September 1867
Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.

Price worked as an attorney, businessman, planter, and politician prior to the Civil War.

Politics

Missouri legislator; U.S. Congressman; and Missouri Governor (1853-1857).

Battles & Campaigns

Mexican-American War

Santa Cruz de Rosales (March 16, 1848)

American Civil War

Lexington, Missouri (20 September 1861)
Wilson’s Creek (10 August 1861)
Iuka (19 September 1862)
Pilot Knob (27 September 1864)
Little Blue River (21 October 1864)
Second Battle of Independence (22 October 1864)
Westport (23 October 1864)
Mine Creek (25 October 1864)

Books about Sterling Price

Buresh, Lumir F. October 25th and the Battle of Mine Creek. Kansas City, Mo: Lowell Press, 1977. ST 973.737

Busch, Walter E. Fort Davidson and the Battle of Pilot Knob: Missouri’s Alamo. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2010. ST,SC 973.737

Castel, Albert E. General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968. HG,ST 973.742

Gifford, Douglas L. The Battle of Pilot Knob: Staff Ride and Battlefield Tour Guide. Winfield, Mo: D.L. Gifford, 2003. HG 973.73

Jenkins, Paul Burrill. The Battle of Westport. Kansas City, Mo: Franklin Hudson Pub. Co, 1906. ST 973.73

Lee, Fred L. The Battle of Westport, October 21-23, 1864. Kansas City (Mo.): Westport Historical Society, 1982. ST 973.737

Peterson, Cyrus Asbury. Pilot Knob: the Thermopylae of the West. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1914. ST 973.73

Rea, Ralph R. Sterling Price: the Lee of the West. Little Rock: Pioneer Press, 1959. HG-L B PRICE

Reynolds, Thomas C., and Robert G. Schultz. General Sterling Price and the Confederacy. St. Louis: Missouri History Museum, 2009. ST 973.782

GENEALOGY & LOCAL HISTORY PROGRAMS AUGUST-DECEMBER 2011

Here's the latest list of upcoming programs I'll be doing at various locations (this list supercedes any previous list of 2011 programs you may have received). All are sponsored or co-sponsored by St. Louis Public Library. All are free and open to the public. Please note that locations vary.

Thurs, Aug 18, 10 AM-Noon—Land Rich, Dirt Poor: the Use of Land Records in Genealogical Research. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses print, microfilm, manuscript, map, and Internet sources of land records and land record research aids. Buder Branch. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

Tues, Oct 18, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM—Over There: Researching World War I Ancestors. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses print, microfilm, manuscript, and Internet sources of info on ancestors who served during World War I. Hayner Public Library, 326 Belle Street, Alton, IL 62002. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more information: tpearson@slpl.org.

Thurs, Oct 20, 10 AM-Noon— The Second War of American Independence: Researching War of 1812 Ancestors. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses book, manuscript, and Internet sources of information about War of 1812 ancestors. Buder Branch. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

Tues, Oct 25, 2:00 PM-3:30 PM—Research at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses print, microfilm, manuscript, and Internet sources of info on ancestors available via ALPL (located in Springfield, IL). Belleville Public Library, 121 E. Washington Street, Belleville, IL 62220. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more information: tpearson@slpl.org.

Sat, Nov 19, 10 AM-Noon--Squeezing Your Sources: Extracting All the Info You Can From Civil War Service and Pension Records. Join us as Tom Pearson describes ways to extract all the info that you possibly can from compiled military service records and pension records. Buder Branch. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

Sat, Dec 17, 10 AM-Noon--Take Your Best Shot: Civil War Artillery! Join us as Tom Pearson discusses Civil War cannon and cannoneers. Buder Branch. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

SLPL branch library locations and hours

Free parking is available on Buder Branch parking lot (Buder is located on Hampton Avenue several miles south of Hwy 44-- it's on the right just after the Target store).

READING LISTS--CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 13

William Tecumseh Sherman
Union Army general

Born: February 8, 1820 (Lancaster, OH)
Died: February 14, 1891 (New York City)
Buried: Calvary Cemetery (St. Louis, MO)

West Point: 1836-1840 (sixth in his class—reduced from fourth because of voluminous demerits)

Battles & Campaigns

Second Seminole War
1st Bull Run
Shiloh
Vicksburg
Jackson (MS) Expedition
Chattanooga (TN) Campaign
Meridian (MS) Campaign
Atlanta Campaign
Savannah (GA) Campaign
Carolina Campaign

Commander of U.S. Army: 1869-1883.

Books about General Sherman:

Bailey, Anne J. War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2003. ST-973.7378

Caudill, Edward, and Paul Ashdown. Sherman's March in Myth and Memory. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. HG-973.7378

Davis, Stephen. Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2001. ST-973.7371

Dugard, Martin. The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2008. HG-973.620922

Fellman, Michael. Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman. New York: Random House, 1995. ST-B SHERMAN

Flood, Charles B. Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. ST, BU-973.738

Hanson, Victor D. The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny. New York, NY: Free Press, 1999. ST-355.009

Sherman, William T, Brooks D. Simpson, and Jean V. Berlin. Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. ST-973.7092

Simms, William G, and David Aiken. A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. HG-973.738

Trudeau, Noah A. Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea. New York: Harper, 2008. ST,BU-973.7378

READING LISTS-- CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 12

Thomas Jonathan (“Stonewall”) Jackson was born in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1824. His father and older sister died of typhoid fever when Jackson was just two years old. His mother raised Jackson and two siblings by herself until she was able to remarry in 1830. His new stepfather did not like his stepchildren, however, and they were sent to live with an uncle when Jackson’s mother died in 1831. Jackson’s older brother, Warren, died of tuberculosis in 1841.

Jackson was mostly self-educated when he managed to secure admission to West Point in 1842. He began his schooling there in last place academically, but through sheer determination and hard work managed to graduate 17th in a class of 52. He participated in the Mexican-American War as an artillery officer, and received two brevet promotions for bravery, as well as a Regular Army promotion to 1st Lieutenant.

He left the army to teach at Virginia Military Institute in 1851. Jackson was not popular with his students, because he memorized his lectures and delivered them verbatim in class. If a student asked a question, he simply backed up and repeated that part of the lecture. He also taught Sunday School for black persons at the local Presbyterian Church, and was apparently very popular with those students. He owned six slaves, but was widely known as a “fair and humane” master.

Jackson supervised a contingent of VMI artillerists during the 1859 hanging of John Brown. When war broke out, Virginia Governor John Letcher appointed him a Colonel. Jackson organized the military unit that would later be named after him: the Stonewall Brigade. He was known as a rigid disciplinarian, but was nonetheless popular with most of his men because he was personally fearless, and because his methods seemed to work.

He earned his nickname at First Bull Run, where another general rallied his own troops by saying, “There stands Jackson like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!” His direction of his troops on the battlefield had made him a legend by the time he was wounded in an accidental shooting by his own men on the Chancellorsville battlefield (2 May 1863). His left arm had to be amputated, and he died of complications from pneumonia on 10 May 1863. His wife, Mary Anna, moved to North Carolina but never remarried. She was known as the Widow of the Confederacy, and died in 1915.

Alexander, Bevin. Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson. New York: Holt, 1992. HG-973.73092

Cozzens, Peter. Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. ST,BU-973.732

Davis, Don. Stonewall Jackson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. HU-B JACKSON

Gallagher, Gary W. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. ST-973.73013

Hamlin, Augustus C. The Battle of Chancellorsville: The Attack of Stonewall Jackson and His Army Upon the Right Flank of the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville, Virginia, on Saturday Afternoon, May 2, 1863. Bangor, Me: The author, 1896. ST-973.733

Johnson, Clint. In the Footsteps of Stonewall Jackson. Winston-Salem, N.C: John F. Blair, 2002. CB-917.540444

Krick, Robert K. Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. ST-973.732

Krick, Robert K. The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. ST-973.7455

Redwood, Allen C. Stonewall: Memories from the Ranks. Livermore, Maine: Signal Tree Publications, 1998. ST-B JACKSON

Robertson, James I. Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend. New York: Macmillan Pub. USA, 1997. ST-B JACKSON

READING LISTS-- CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 11

William S. Rosecrans (1819-1898) was born in Ohio and educated at West Point. He graduated fifth (in a class of 42) in 1842, having excelled in mathematics, French, drawing and English grammar. He was assigned as an engineer in Virginia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC, and then served for some time as mathematics instructor at West Point. Rosecrans converted to Roman Catholicism at a time when the vast majority of Army officers were Protestants. He resigned in failing health in 1854, and spent the next seven years regaining his strength while working as an engineer and businessman. He ran several companies, and was awarded several patents.

When war broke out in 1861, he volunteered his services and quickly received promotion to Brigadier General. Successes in western Virginia and at the Battles of Iuka and Corinth (Mississippi) led to him being named commander of the Department of the Cumberland. After a disputed victory at Stones River (Tennessee), he commanded the army during the Battle of Chickamauga (September 19-20, 1863). A mistake in troop placement on the second day resulted in a near disaster that was only averted by a desperate holding action by Union soldiers commanded by General George Thomas.

Rosecrans and most of his staff officers had fled to Chattanooga while Thomas held off the Confederates at Chickamauga. Rosecrans was shortly thereafter removed from command in Tennessee, and was later given command of the Department of the Missouri. He commanded that army during Price’s Raid (September-October 1864). After the war, he was stationed in California, where he died in 1898. Rosecrans is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Baumgartner, Richard A. Blue Lightning: Wilder's Mounted Infantry Brigade in the Battle of Chickamauga. Huntington, W. Va: Blue Acorn Press, 1997. ST-973.7359

Cozzens, Peter. No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. ST,BU-973.733

Donald, David H, and Robert Cowley. With My Face to the Enemy: Perspectives on the Civil War : Essays. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. ST.SC-973.7

Korn, Jerry. The Fight for Chattanooga: Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1985. ST,MA-973.7359

Lamers, William M. The Edge of Glory: A Biography of General William S. Rosecrans, U.S.A. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1961. ST-B ROSECRANS

Miles, Jim. Paths to Victory: A History and Tour Guide of the Stone's River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville Campaigns. Nashville, Tenn: Rutledge Hill Press, 1991. ST-973.73

Pearson, Thomas A. Railroad Boys: The Story of the 89th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (1862-1865). St. Louis, Mo: Infinite Mirror Press, 2009. HG-973.7473

Strayer, Larry M, and Richard A. Baumgartner. Echoes of Battle: The Struggle for Chattanooga : an Illustrated Collection of Union and Confederate Narratives. Huntington, W. Va: Blue Acorn Press, 1996. HG-973.7359

Woodworth, Steven E. Chickamauga: A Battlefield Guide with a Section on Chattanooga. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. HG-973.735

Woodworth, Steven E, and Grady McWhiney. A Deep Steady Thunder: The Battle of Chickamauga. Fort Worth: Ryan Place Publishers, 1996. ST-973.735

READING LISTS-- CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 10

Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862)

Johnston was born in Kentucky, and graduated from West Point in 1826. He served in the Black Hawk War, the Texas War for Independence, the Mexican-American War, and the Utah War. When the Civil War began, he was commander of the Department of the Pacific in California. He resigned his U.S. Army commission and was soon thereafter commissioned a full general in the Confederate Army by his friend, Jefferson Davis. He was commanding Confederate forces at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862, when he was wounded behind his right knee. He didn’t think the wound was serious, and remained on the battlefield. His boot soon filled with blood, and he lost consciousness. He died later that afternoon. After initial burial in New Orleans, his body was re-interred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin in 1867.

Cunningham, O E, Gary D. Joiner, and Timothy B. Smith. Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862. New York: Savas Beatie, 2007. ST-973.731

Eicher, David J. Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War. New York: Little, Brown (2006). ST-973.713

Frank, Joseph A, and George A. Reaves. "Seeing the Elephant": Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. ST-973.731

Gifford, Douglas L.. Shiloh Battlefield Tour Guide: the First Day. Winfield, Mo: Douglas L. Gifford, 2005. ST-973.731

Hafen, LeRoy R, and Ann W. Hafen. Mormon Resistance: A Documentary Account of the Utah Expedition, 1857-1858. Lincoln, Neb: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. ST-978

Hanson, Victor D. Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think. New York: Doubleday, 2003. HU-355.02

Luvaas, Jay, Stephen L. Bowman, and Leonard Fullenkamp. Guide to the Battle of Shiloh. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 1996. ST-973.731

Roland, Charles P. Albert Sidney Johnston, Soldier of Three Republics. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. ST-B JOHNSTON

Mitchell, Joseph B. Decisive Battles of the Civil War. Dorset, NH: Dorset Press, 1989. ST-973.73

Woodworth, Steven E. Civil War Generals in Defeat. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. ST-973.73

Woodworth, Steven E. Jefferson Davis and His Generals: the Failure of Confederate Command in the West. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. ST-973.7462

READING LISTS-- CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 9

Nathaniel Lyon was a Union Army general who was born in Connecticut. He secured the St. Louis Arsenal for the Union, and was killed at the Battle of Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861--the first general to be killed in battle during the Civil War.

Adamson, Hans C. Rebellion in Missouri, 1861: Nathaniel Lyon and His Army of the West. Philadelphia: Chilton Co., Book Division, 1961. HG-973.73

The Battle of Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861: Wilson's Creek Centennial Commemoration, August 10, 1961. Springfield, Mo, 1961. ST-973.73

Brooksher, William R. Bloody Hill: The Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek. Washington: Brassey's, 1995. ST,HG,BU-973.731

Hinze, David C, and Karen Farnham. The Battle of Carthage: Border War in Southwest Missouri, July 5, 1861. Campbell, CA: Savas Pub. Co, 1997. HG,SLAS-973.731

Kemp, Hardy A. About Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General, United States Army Volunteers and Wilson's Creek. S.l: s.n., 1978. ST-B

Phillips, Christopher. Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990. ST,SLAS,HU-B

Phillips, Christopher. Missouri's Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jackson and the Creation of Southern Identity in the Border West. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000. ST,SLAS,BU,DA-977.803

Piston, William G, and Richard W. Hatcher. Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. HG,SLAS-973.731

Siddali, Silvana R. Missouri's War: The Civil War in Documents. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. BR-973.803

Taylor, Holly Z. Neither North nor South: Sectionalism, St. Louis Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War (1846-1861) , 2004. ST-977.866

ST. LOUIS CEMETERY LISTS AND DEATH REGISTERS, 1764-1999: PART XI

Copyright 2009 by St. Louis Public Library. All rights reserved.

1946-1999

Old Cemeteries, St. Louis County, Mo. St. Louis, Mo.: St. Louis Genealogical Society, 1982-, 4 vols. HG,ST-929.3778

Volume 1 listings cover mostly the period 1870-1930, with some listings extending into the 1960s.

Social Security Master Death Index. Social Security Administration, Washington, DC.

Link to website

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Directory of Names. Washington, D.C.: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, 1982. HG-959.70433

Includes American military personnel killed in the Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975. Listings provide name of deceased, hometown and state, rank and branch of service, and date of death.

Zimmer, Keith B. St. Louis Obituary Index, 1992-2010: Obituaries and Death Notices Appearing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newspaper. St. Louis Public Library, 1992-2010. HG,MI-071.7866

St. Louis Obituary Index also appears on the St. Louis Public Library website.

READING LISTS-- CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 8

John Pope (1822-1892) was a Union Army general known for his success in capturing Island No. 10 and his defeat at the hands of Robert E. Lee at Second Manassas. He is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery here in St. Louis.

Cox, Merlin G. John Pope, Fighting General from Illinois (thesis) 1956. MI-B-POPE

Daniel, Larry J, and Lynn N. Bock. Island No. 10: Struggle for the Mississippi Valley. Tuscaloosa, Ala: University of Alabama Press, 1996. HG, SLAS-973.73

Hennessy, John J. Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. BU, ST-973.732

Lee Takes Command: From Seven Days to Second Bull Run. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1984. BU, CP, ST-973.732

Miles, Jim. A River Unvexed: A History and Tour Guide to the Campaign for the Mississippi River. Nashville, Tenn: Rutledge Hill Press, 1994. ST-973.730977

Ropes, John C. The Army Under Pope. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1881. ST-973.73

Schutz, Wallace J, and Walter N. Trenerry. Abandoned by Lincoln: A Military Biography of General John Pope. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. ST-B POPE

Second Manassas. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1995. BU, MA, ST-973.732

Sutherland, Daniel E, and Grady McWhiney. The Emergence of Total War. Fort Worth, Tex: Ryan Place Publishers, 1996. ST-973.732

Whitehorne, Joseph W. A. The Battle of Second Manassas: Self-guided Tour. Washington, D.C: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1990. DO-1142.M31

ST. LOUIS CEMETERY LISTS AND DEATH REGISTERS, 1764-1999: PART X

Copyright 2009 by St. Louis Public Library. All rights reserved.

1942-1945

Missouri. Federal Soldiers’ Home of St. James, Missouri. Biennial Reports (1901-1946). St. James, MO: Federal Soldiers’ Home, 1901-1946. ST-362.8

Reports vary, but usually have a listing of residents who died during the Reporting period. Death listings include name, date of death, and place of burial.

Old Cemeteries, St. Louis County, Mo. St. Louis, Mo.: St. Louis Genealogical Society, 1982-, 4 vols. HG,ST-929.3778

Volume 1 listings cover mostly the period 1870-1930, with some listings extending into the 1960s.

Saint Louis (Mo.). 28th Ward. 28th Ward Honor Roll: Dedicated to the Men and Women of the 28th Ward Serving in the Armed Forces of Their Country. Saint Louis, MO: 1944. ST-940.92

United States. Coast Guard. Summary of Merchant Marine Personnel Casualties, World War II. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950. ST-940.42

United States. Navy Department. Office of Information. Casualty Records Section. Combat-Connected Naval Casualties, World War II, by States: U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. HG-940.92

United States. Navy Department. Office of Information. Casualty Records Section. Non-combat Dead: Missouri. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948. ST-Oversize 940.5467778

United States. Navy Department. Office of Information. Casualty Records Section. State Summary of War Casualties, Missouri. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Printing Office, 1946. ST-940.5467778

Zimmer, Keith B. African-American Soldiers From the St. Louis Area Who Died During World War II. St. Louis Public Library, 1999.

This index appears on the St. Louis Public Library website.

Zimmer, Keith B. St. Louis Obituary Index, 1942-1945: Obituaries, Death Notices, and Burial Permits Appearing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newspaper. St. Louis Public Library, 1999. HG,MI-071.7866

Newspaper death notices for this period include numerous listings for soldiers and sailors killed or wounded in action, or who were listed as prisoners of war or as missing in action. St. Louis Obituary Index also appears on the St. Louis Public Library website.

ST. LOUIS CEMETERY LISTS AND DEATH REGISTERS, 1764-1999: PART IX

Copyright 2009 by St. Louis Public Library. All rights reserved.

1917-1942

Hawkins, Robert. “Fratellanza Society Burial Records.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 28:2 (Summer 1995): 37-41. HG-P

List of members of this Italian-American society buried in Calvary Catholic Cemetery 1867-1941 (most are for the period 1867-1920). Includes some burials of children of members. Listings provide name and date of burial.

Missouri. Confederate Soldiers’ Home. Biennial Reports (1897-1940). Higginsville, MO: Confederate Soldiers’ Home, 1897.1940. ST-362.8

Reports vary, but generally include listings of deaths of residents during the reporting period. Death listings include name, date of death, and sometimes place of burial.

Missouri. Federal Soldiers’ Home of St. James, Missouri. Biennial Reports (1901-1940). St. James, MO: Federal Soldiers’ Home, 1901-1940. ST-362.8

Reports vary, but generally include a listing of deaths of residents of the home during the reporting period. Death listings include name, date of death, and place of burial.

Old Cemeteries, St. Louis County, Mo. St. Louis, Mo.: St. Louis Genealogical Society, 1982-, 4 vols. HG,ST-929.3778

Volume 1 listings cover mostly the period 1870-1930, with a few listings extending into the 1960s; volume 2 listings primarily cover the period 1840-1920.

Soldiers of the Great War. Compiled by W.M. Haulsee, F.G. Howe, and A.C. Doyle. Washington, D.C.: Soldiers’ Record Publishing Association, 1920, 3 volumes. ST-940.91

This book set lists (by state) United States Army soldiers killed during World War I.

“Violent Deaths in Missouri, 1840-1918 (selected).” Pioneer Times 8:1 (January 1984). HG-P

Abstracts of miscellaneous newspaper articles on violent deaths during the period listed (some St. Louis).

“Violent Deaths in Missouri, 1866-1925 (selected).” Pioneer Times 9:2 (April 1985). HG-P

Abstracts of miscellaneous newspaper articles on violent deaths during the period listed (some St. Louis).

“Weick Undertakers Records, 1911-1950.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly: vol. VII, no. 4 (December 1974): 79; vol. VIII, no. 1 (March 1975): 17; vol. VIII, no. 2 (June 1975): 35; and vol. VIII, no. 3 (September 1975): 69. HG-P St. Louis

Zimmer, Keith B. St. Louis Obituary Index, 1918-1919: Obituaries, Death Notices,and Burial Permits Appearing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newspaper. St. Louis Public Library, 1999-2000. HG,MI-071.7866

Newspaper death notices for this period include numerous listings for soldiers and sailors killed or wounded in action, or who were listed as prisoners of war or as missing in action. These listings are available in book form at our Compton Genealogy Branch, and on our website. Note the special lists that have been compiled for World War I Casualties, Prisoners of War, and African-American Prisoners of War:

SLPL Obituary Index

READING LISTS-- CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 7

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893) was a Confederate general. He commanded Confederate forces at Fort Sumter, Battle of Bull Run (1861), Shiloh, and Corinth. He rarely saw eye-to-eye with Jefferson Davis, and as a result spent the latter part of the war attempting to be restored to an independent command. After the war, he served as Director of the Louisiana State Lottery.

Basso, Hamilton. Beauregard, the Great Creole. New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1933. ST-B BEAUREGARD

Boritt, G S. Jefferson Davis's Generals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. BU,DA,ST-973.73

Cunningham, O E, Gary D. Joiner, and Timothy B. Smith. Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862. New York: Savas Beatie, 2007. CE-973.731

Daniel, Larry J. Shiloh: The Battle That Changed the Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. HG-973.731

Davis, William C. Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1977. ST-973.731

Detzer, David. Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861. Orlando, Fla: Harcourt, 2004. HG-973.731

Hendrickson, Robert. Sumter, the First Day of the Civil War. Chelsea, Mich: Scarborough House, 1990. ST-973.731

Roman, Alfred. The Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War between the States, 1861 to 1865: Including a Brief Personal Sketch and a Narrative of His Services in the War with Mexico, 1846-8. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. ST-973.733092

Williams, T H. P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1955. ST-B BEAUREGARD

Woodworth, Steven E. Leadership and Command in the American Civil War. Campbell, CA: Savas Woodbury, 1995. ST-973.73

READING LISTS-- CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 6

James Longstreet (1821-1904) was a Confederate general whom Robert E. Lee called his "war horse." While many southerners blamed Longstreet for the Confederate loss at Gettysburg, his all-out attack at Chickamauga nearly annihilated the army of Union General William S. Rosecrans.

Clark, Champ. Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1985. CP,ST-973.7349

Cozzens, Peter. This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. ST-973.735

Dowdey, Clifford. Death of a Nation: The Story of Lee and His Men at Gettysburg. New York: Knopf, 1958. ST-973.73

Eckenrode, H J, and Bryan Conrad. James Longstreet: Lee's War Horse. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. ST-B LONGSTREET

Jaynes, Gregory. The Killing Ground: Wilderness to Cold Harbor. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1986. BU,ST-973.736

Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992. ST-973.74

Piston, William G. Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. ST-B-LONGSTREET

Trudeau, Noah A. Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989. ST-973.736

Wert, Jeffry D. General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier : a Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. BU,HU-B-LONGSTREET

Woodworth, Steven E. Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign. Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 2003. BU,ST-973.7349

ST. LOUIS CEMETERY LISTS AND DEATH REGISTERS, 1764-1999: PART VIII

Copyright 2009 by St. Louis Public Library. All rights reserved.

1901-1916

Eddlemon, Sherida K. Missouri Birth and Death Records. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1995, vol. 1. HG-929.3778

Includes sections on St. Louis firemen’s deaths, 1861-1914, and miscellaneous Catholic Church burial records.

Hawkins, Robert. “Fratellanza Society Burial Records.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 28:2 (Summer 1995): 37-41. HG-P

List of members of this Italian-American society buried in Calvary Catholic Cemetery 1867-1941 (most are for the period 1867-1920). Includes some burials of children of members. Listings provide name and date of burial.

Missouri. Confederate Soldiers’ Home. Biennial Report (1897-1940). Higginsville, MO: Confederate Soldiers’ Home, 1897-1940. ST-362.8

Reports vary, but often include listings of deaths of residents during the reporting period. Death listings include name, date of death and sometimes place of burial. This home served as a home for indigent, usually elderly veterans of the Confederate Army and Navy.

Missouri. Federal Soldiers’ Home of St. James, Missouri. Biennial Reports (1901-1946). St. James, MO: Federal Soldiers’ Home, 1901-1946. ST-362.8

Reports vary, but usually have a listing of deaths at the Home during the reporting period. Death listings include name, date of death, and place of burial. This institution served as a home for indigent, usually elderly veterans of the Union Army and Navy.

Old Cemeteries, St. Louis County, Mo. St. Louis, Mo.: St. Louis Genealogical Society, 1982-, 4 vols. HG,ST-929.3778

Volume 1 listings cover mostly the period 1870-1930, with some listings extending into the 1960s; volume 2 listings cover mostly the period 1840-1920; volume 3 listings cover mostly the period 1850-1910; and volume 4 listings cover mostly the period 1860-1900.

Saint Louis (Mo.). Department of Vital Records. Registry of Deaths [1902-1908]. St. Louis, MO: City of St. Louis Microfilm Department, 1960. 1 reel. HG-929.3778

“Violent Deaths in Missouri, 1840-1918 (selected).” Pioneer Times 8:1 (January 1984). HG-P

Abstracts of miscellaneous newspaper articles on violent deaths during the period listed (some St. Louis).

“Violent Deaths in Missouri, 1866-1925 (selected).” Pioneer Times 9:2 (April 1985). HG-P

Abstracts of miscellaneous newspaper articles on violent deaths during the period listed (some St. Louis).

“Weick Undertakers Records, 1911-1950.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly: vol. VII, no. 4 (December 1974): 79; vol. VIII, no. 1 (March 1975): 17; vol. VIII, no. 2 (June 1975): 35; and vol. VIII, no. 3 (September 1975): 69. HG-P St. Louis

Woodruff, Audrey L. Missouri Miscellany. Independence, MO: Audrey L. Woodruff, 1976-1983, vol. 16, pp.92-99. HG-929.3778

Register of deaths at the Confederate Soldiers’ Home at Higginsville for the years 1913-1918; also a list of residents residing at the Home as of December 1, 1918. Death listings include name, date of death, and place of burial.

Zimmer, Keith B. St. Louis Obituary Index, 1892-1910: Obituaries, Death Notices, and Burial Permits Appearing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newspaper. St. Louis Public Library, 1999-2000. HG,MI-071.7866

Obituary indexes may also be checked online at the St. Louis Public Library website.

READING LISTS-- CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 5

George Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) was a Union Army general who commanded the Army of the Potomac during the Seven Days’ Battles and the Battle of Antietam.

Burton, Brian K. Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. HG-973.732

Catton, Bruce. Mr. Lincoln's Army. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1962. ST-973.74

Lee Takes Command: From Seven Days to Second Bull Run. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1984. BU,CP,ST-973.732

McClellan, George B, and Stephen W. Sears. The Civil War Papers of George B. Mcclellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989. ST-B MCCLELLAN

McPherson, James M. Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. BU,DI,KI,MA,SC,ST-973.7336

Rafuse, Ethan S, and Christopher L. Brest. Antietam, South Mountain, and Harpers Ferry: A Battlefield Guide. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. HG-973.73

Sears, Stephen W. George B. Mcclellan: The Young Napoleon. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. HU-B MCCLELLAN

Sears, Stephen W. Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam. New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1983. ST-973.7336

Waugh, John C. The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox : Stonewall Jackson, George Mcclellan, and Their Brothers. New York: Warner Books, 1994. CP,ST-355.033073

Wheeler, Richard. Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of Mcclellan's Peninsula Campaign. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. ST-973.732

UPCOMING GENEALOGY/HISTORY CLASSES

Here's the latest list of upcoming programs I'll be doing at various locations. All are sponsored or co-sponsored by St. Louis Public Library. All are free and open to the public. Please note that locations vary.

Thurs, Apr 21, 7 PM-8:30 PM—So Proudly They Served: Researching Career Military and Veterans. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses print, microfilm, manuscript, and Internet sources of info on ancestors who served in the American military (Revolutionary War to the present). Waterloo (IL) Public Library, 215 Park Street, Waterloo, IL 62298. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more information: tpearson@slpl.org.

Weds, May 25, 6:30 PM-8 PM-- Prairie State Patriots: Researching Illinois Civil War Ancestors. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses print, microfilm, manuscript, and Internet sources of info on Illinois ancestors who served during the Civil War. O'Fallon Public Library, 120 Civic Plaza, O'Fallon, IL 62269. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

Sat, May 28, 10 AM-Noon-- Minie Balls, Breastworks, & Bayonets: Civil War Weapons, Strategy, & Tactics. Buder Branch. Join us as we learn how rapid changes in technology slowly resulted in big changes in military tactics during the Civil War.

Thurs, Jul 21, 10 AM-Noon-- Missouri 24/7: Researching Show-Me State Ancestors on the Internet. Join us as Tom Pearson discusses Internet sources of info on our Missouri ancestors. Buder Branch. Pre-registration recommended but not required. To register or for more info, email us at tpearson@slpl.org.

SLPL branch library locations and hours: http://www.slpl.org/slpl/library/article240098545.asp.

Some of you may also be interested in the following program, which does not involve genealogy but does involve Tom Pearson:

Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011
Place: Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 3716 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108 (located between Grand and Spring near the Fox Theatre)
Time: 1 p.m.

In conjunction with the exhibition Dreamscapes, the Pulitzer hosts Dreamtime Storytime, a series in which writers, artists, readers and dreamers share stories related to dreams. Dreamtime Storytime is every fourth Saturday of the month for the duration of the exhibition.

Today three librarians from St. Louis Public Library will read for us:

Michele Hatfield, Young Adult Librarian, will read from Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox.

Joe Sedey, Library Manager, will read from The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin.

Tom Pearson, Reference Librarian, will read poems from his book, Lords of Pitiless Heaven.

ST. LOUIS CEMETERY LISTS AND DEATH REGISTERS, 1764-1999: PART VII

Copyright 2009 by St. Louis Public Library. All rights reserved.

1866-1900

“Babler Park Cemeteries of St. Louis County.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 28:4 (Winter 1995): 107. HG-P

Listings for the following family cemeteries in Babler Park in St. Louis County: Bethe, Puellmann, Bates.

“Bartold and Wardenburg Family Cemeteries of St. Louis County.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 29:3 (Fall 1996): 83-84. HG-P

Listings for the following family cemeteries in St. Louis County: Bartold, Wardenburg, and Lueckens.

Cates, Lorraine. “Great St. Louis Cyclone of 1896- Death Toll.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 8:2 (June 1975): 43-. HG-P

This tornado continues to rank as one of the deadliest in American history (more than 100 fatalities).

Concannon, Marie. Grand Army of the Republic, Missouri Division, Index to Death Rolls, 1882-1940: taken from proceedings of the annual encampments. Columbia, Mo.: State Historical Society of Missouri, 1988. HG-929.3778

The Grand Army of the Republic was an organization for men who had served in the Union Army or Navy during the Civil War (it had more than 400,000 members in 1895).

“Deaths in Missouri Newspapers, 1871-1875.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 19:4 (Winter 1986): 115. HG-P

Some St. Louis deaths listed.

“Dreinhofer Family Cemetery.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 28:4 (Winter): 125. HG-P

Listings for persons with the following family names: Dreinhofer, Boening, Elebeck, Stosberg, Heimann.

Eddlemon, Sherida K. Missouri Birth and Death Records. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1995, vol. 1. HG-929.3778

Includes sections on St. Louis firemen’s deaths, 1861-1914, and miscellaneous Catholic Church burial records.

Eddlemon, Sherida K. Missouri Genealogical Records and Abstracts. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1990-. HG-929.3778

Volume 3 (1787-1839) includes listings for Compton Hill Cemetery(mostly 1880s and 1890s).

“Family Cemeteries of St. Louis County.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 29:2 (Summer 1996): 35. HG-P

Listings for the following family cemeteries in St. Louis County: Pillman, Hartman, Pleasants, Stump. HG-P

“Family Cemeteries of St. Louis County.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 29:3 (Fall 1996): 83-84. HG-P

Listings for the following family cemeteries in St. Louis County: Potts, Kesselring-Sandfos, Krueger-Kajewicz, Musselmeyer, Bernard.

The Great Cyclone At St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896: being a full history of the most terrifying and destructive tornado in the history of the world. Edited and compiled by Julian Curzon. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. BR,BU,CB,CO,RB/SC,SLAS-977.86503

Includes names of many victims of the devastating tornado, sometimes with brief explanation of how death occurred. An index for this book is on the St. Louis Public Library website. Names of tornado fatalities are indicated with an asterisk (*).

Guinther, Virginia L. “Deaths: Globe-Democrat, 1881.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 32:4 (Winter 1999): 161-164. HG-P

Lists deaths and burial permits reported May 3-19, 1881.

Guinther, Virginia L. “Deaths Reported in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1883.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 28:1 (Spring 1995): 11-14. HG-P

Lists deaths and burial permits reported January 15-23, 1883.

Guinther, Virginia L. “Deaths Reported in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1883.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 28:2 (Summer 1995) 57-60. G-P

Lists deaths and burial permits reported January 24-30, 1883.

Guinther, Virginia L. “Deaths Reported in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1883.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 28:4 (Winter 1995): 113-117. HG-P

Lists deaths and burial permits reported February 6-13, 1883.

Guinther, Virginia L. “Deaths Reported in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1883.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 29:1 (Spring 1996): 15-19. HG-P

Lists deaths and burial permits reported February 14-24, 1883.

Guinther, Virginia L. “Deaths Reported in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1883.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 29:3 (Fall 1996): 72-77. HG-P

Lists deaths and burial permits reported March 7-20, 1883.

Hawkins, Robert. “Fratellanza Society Burial Records.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 28:2 (Summer 1995): 37-41. HG-P

List of members of this Italian-American society buried in Calvary Catholic Cemetery 1867-1941 (most are for the period 1867-1920). Includes some burials of children of members. Listings provide name and date of burial.

Hodges, Nadine. Missouri Obituaries, vol. I: Abstracts of Obituaries Published Weekly During the Years 1880, 1881, and 1882 in the “St. Louis Christian Advocate,” publication of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for the Missouri district. Kansas City, Mo.: N. Hodges, 1966. HG-929.3778

Northcott, Dennis. “Deaths Resulting From Yellow Fever.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 32:4 (Winter 1999): 145-148. HG-P

Abstracts of yellow fever cases and deaths occurring in St. Louis in 1878. Listings include name, nativity, age, race, dates of quarantine hospital admission and discharge, date of death (if a fatality), and remarks.

Northcott, Dennis. “Mexican Veterans.” St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly 32:4 (Winter 1999): 137-143. HG-P

Membership listing (1873-1880) of the “Mexican Veterans,” an association of veterans of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). Listings are by regiment, and provide rank, company, and in some cases death date of veteran.

Old Cemeteries, St. Louis County, Mo. St. Louis, Mo.: St. Louis Genealogical Society, 1982-, 4 vols. HG,ST-929.3778

Volume 1 listings cover mostly the period 1870-1930, with some listings extending into the 1960s; volume 2 listings cover mostly the period 1840-1920, with some listings of early French burials; volume 3 listings cover mostly the period 1850-1910; and volume 4 listings cover mostly the period 1860-1900. Volume 4 includes some listings in Wesleyan Cemetery and City Cemetery for slaves and free black persons.

Saint Louis (Mo.) Coroner. Annual Report—Saint Louis Coroner, 1893-1916. Saint Louis, Mo.: Van Hoffmann Press, 1893-1916, pp. 505-510. ST-352.9

Section called “Disposition of Property of Deceased Persons for Year Ending March 31st, 1894,” records disposition of personal property of deceased persons whose deaths were referred to the Coroner’s Office between April 10, 1893 and March 23rd, 1894. Listings provide name of deceased person (if known), date of disposition of deceased’s property, list of items in deceased person’s possession at time of death, and name of person to whom property was delivered.

Saint Louis (Mo.) Coroner. Annual Report—Saint Louis Coroner, 1893-1916. Saint Louis, Mo.: Van Hoffmann Press, 1893-1916, pp. 587-593. ST-352.9

Section called “Disposition of Property of Deceased Persons for Year Ending March 31st, 1895,” records disposition of personal property of deceased persons whose deaths were referred to the Coroner’s Office between April 2, 1894 and March 30th, 1895. Listings provide name of deceased person (if known), date of disposition of property, list of items in deceased person’s possession at time of death, and name of person to whom property was delivered.

Saint Louis (Mo.) Coroner. Annual Report—Saint Louis Coroner, 1893-1916. Saint Louis, Mo.: Van Hoffmann Press, 1893-1916, pp. 688-689. ST-352.9

Listing of persons whose deaths were referred to the Coroner’s Office during the period September 9, 1895- March 28, 1896. Listings include name of deceased, date of death, and cause of death.

Saint Louis (Mo.) Coroner. Annual Report—Saint Louis Coroner, 1893-1916. Saint Louis, Mo.: Van Hoffmann Press, 1893-1916, pp. 696-702. ST-352.9

Section called “Disposition of Property of Persons Deceased for the Year Ending March 31st, 1896” lists only name of deceased person and list of items in person’s possession at time of death.

Saint Louis (Mo.) Coroner. Annual Report—Saint Louis Coroner, 1893-1916. Saint Louis, Mo.: Van Hoffmann Press, 1893-1916, pp. 692-694. ST-352.9

Listing of persons whose deaths were referred to the Coroner’s Office during the period April 1896-March 1897. Listings include name of deceased, age, nativity, marital status, occupation, and cause of death.

Saint Louis (Mo.) Coroner. Annual Report—Saint Louis Coroner, 1893-1916. Saint Louis, Mo.: Van Hoffmann Press, 1893-1916, pp. 695-702. ST-352.9

Section called “Disposition of Property of Persons Deceased for the Year Ending March 31st, 1897” lists name of deceased person, date of disposition of property, list of items in deceased person’s possession at time of death, and name of person items were delivered to.

Saint Louis (Mo.). Department of Vital Records. Registry of Deaths [1876-1908]. Saint Louis, MO: City of St. Louis Microfilm Department, 1960. 62 microfilm reels. HG-929.3778

Saint Louis (Mo.). Recorder of Deeds. Index of Birth and Death Records, St. Louis City, 1850-1910. Jefferson City, MO: Missouri State Archives, 1994. 23 microfilm reels. HG-929.377865

Since recording of births and deaths was not mandatory in Missouri during this time period, this index is by no means a complete listing of births and deaths occurring in St. Louis during the time period specified.

St. Louis and St. Louis County, Missouri Probate Records: vol. 3, 1861-1869, and vol. 4, 1869-1877. St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Genealogical Society, 1985. HG-929.3778

St. Louis Medical Society. Report to the St. Louis Medical Society on Yellow Fever; consisting of the report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the relations of the epidemic of 1878 to the city of St. Louis, and a report on the meteorological conditions and etiology of yellow fever, and of certain other diseases associated with a high temperature, and on the treatment of yellow fever. Thomas Kennard, Chairman of the Committee on Publication. St. Louis, MO: George O. Rumbold & Co., 1879. RB/SC,ST 616.928

Includes accounts by doctors who treated yellow fever victims during the epidemic, and provides names, ages, and sometimes other information about survivors and fatalities.

“St. Paul Lutheran Church (Wildwood, Missouri) Death Register, 1880-1940.” St. Louis Genealogical Society 32:4 (Winter 1999): 149-150. HG-P

Register provides first, last, and sometimes middle or maiden names, dates of birth and death, and sometimes place of burial.

“Violent Deaths in Missouri, 1866-1925 (selected).” Pioneer Times 9:2 (April 1985). HG-P

Abstracts of miscellaneous newspaper articles on violent deaths during the period listed (some St. Louis).

Woodruff, Audrey L. Missouri Obituaries: Abstracts of Obituaries Published Weekly in the “St. Louis Christian Advocate.” Bowling Green, MO: InfoTech Publications, 1992. HG-929.3778

Woodruff, Audrey L. State-wide Missouri Obituary Index, 1851-1882: as published weekly in the St. Louis Christian Advocate. Bowling Green, MO: InfoTech Publications, 1992. HG-929.3778

Woodruff, Audrey L. “Statewide Obituaries for the Years 1865-1866 Taken From the St. Louis Christian Advocate.” In Missouri Miscellany (1976-1983), vol. IV, pp. 1-31. HG-929.3778

Zimmer, Keith B. St. Louis Obituary Index, 1892-1910: Obituaries, Death Notices, and Burial Permits Appearing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newspaper. St. Louis Public Library, 1999-2000. HG,MI-071.7866