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Research Files

Please feel free to download and enjoy these files. If you use them in your research, please drop me a line.


"On the Peninsula with the Berdan Sharpshooters" is a collection of letters written during the Peninsula Campaign by Adjutant J. Smith Brown of the 1st U.S. Sharpshooters.


The "Stinchcomb Letters" are a collection of letters by Captain James W. Stinchcomb of Co. B, 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during his regiment's service with the Army of the Cumberland.


The Purvis Letters files include a great set of correspondence from Sergeant John H. Purvis of Co. B, 51st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, including accounts of Dobbin's Ferry, Stones River, Chickamauga, and the Atlanta campaign. 


"Pen Lever: the Civil War letters of Charles Edward Bliven of the Army Telegraph Corps" provides a fascinating glimpse of the war in the western theater as viewed from behind the lines. Bliven worked as a telegrapher attached to General Don Carlos Buell's headquarters up until just before Shiloh, then traveled all over western Tennessee and Kentucky setting up telegraph lines for the army. In 1863, he was promoted and spent a year in Cincinnati, Ohio before being commissioned as a major in the quartermaster corps. 




I've also added two more Stones River files: one, a lengthy document on the staff organization of the Army of the Cumberland during the Stones River campaign and a detailed order of battle document with the regimental commanders listed. 


Latest addition is "Prison Life in the South," an eight part series by Captain Henry H. Alban of Co. F, 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Alban was captured at Chickamauga and this series recounts his attempt to escape in October 1864, and provides some grim reading for life while in Confederate hands. 

On the Peninsula with the Berdan Sharpshooters (pdf)Download
Stinchcomb Letters (pdf)Download
Purvis Letters 51st OVI (pdf)Download
Pen Lever Charles E Bliven Letters in the Civil War (pdf)Download
Staff Organization of the Army of the Cumberland (pdf)Download
Commanders at Stones River (pdf)Download
Prison Life in the South H H Alban Co F 21st OVI (pdf)Download

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