Duden, Gottiried. Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America: and a Stay of Several Years Along the Missouri (During the Years 1824. '25, '26 and 1827). Columbia & London: The State Historical Society of Missonri and University of Missouri Press, 1980 ISUN 0-8262-0295-0
Levine, Bruce- The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants. Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,l992. ISBN 0-252-01873-7
Kaufmann, Wilhelm. The Germans in the American Civil War. Carlise, Pennsylvannia: John Kallmann Publishers, 1999 ISBN 0-9650926-8-2
Mallinckrodt, Anita. From Knights to Pioneers: One German Family in Westphal~a and Missouri. Carbondale and Edwardsville; Southern Illinois University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8093-1917-9
Rowan, Steven, ed. Germans for a Free Missouri: Translations From the St. Louis Radical Press, 1857-1862. Columbia: University of Missouri Press,1983. ISBN 0-8262-0410-4
CHAPTER 2 Saving Missouri for the Union 1961
Brooksher, William. Bloody Mill: Washington London: Brassey's, the Union 1861 The Civil War Battle of Wilson's Creek 1995. ISBN 1-57488-018-7
Romhauer, Robert. The Union Cause in St. Louis in 1861: St Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Company 1909
Winter, William The Civil War in St. Louis: Aguided Tour. St.Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1994. ISBN 1-883982-05-7
CHAPTER 3 Curtis' Campaign in Arkansas March-October 1862
Akridge, Scott & Powers, Emmett. A Severe and Bloody Fight: The Battle of Whitney's Lane and Military Occupation of White County, Arkansas, May and Jnnc, Histoical Museum, 1996, /1862. Searcy, Arkansas: White County
Shea, William & Hess, Earl. Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1P92. ISBN 0-S078-2043-S
CHAPTER 4
Grant's Vicksburg Campaign October 1862 - September 1863
Bearss, Edwin. The Campaign for Vicksburg. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, Inc., 1985. ISBN 0-89029-312-0 (vol. 1), 0-89029-313-9 (vol 2), 0-89029-516-3 (vol 3)
Miles, Jim. A River Unvexed: A History and Tour Guide to the Campaign for the Mississippi River. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1994. ISBN 1-55853-210-2
CHAPTER 5
Grant's Relief of Chattanooga Sentember-November 1863
Cozzens, Peter. The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. ISBN 0-252- 01922-9
McDonough, James. Chattanooga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy. Knoxville, The University of Tennessee Press, 1984. ISBN 0-87049- 425-2
Miles, Jim. Paths to Victory: A History and Tour Guide of the Stone's River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville Campaigns. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1991. ISBN 1-55853- 126-2
CHAPTER 6
Sherman's Atlanta Campaian May-November 1864
Cox, Jacob. Atlanta. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, Inc., 1987. Miles,Jim. Fields of Glory: A History and Tour Guide of the Atlanta Campaign. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1989. ISBN 1- 55853-023-1
Scaife, William. The Campaign for Atlanta, 4th ed. Atlanta, Georgia: William R. Scaife, 1993. ISBN 0-9619508-8-9
CHAPTER 7
Sherman's March to the Sea and Victory November 1864 - May 1865
Miles, Jim. To the Sea: A History and Tour Guide of Sherman's March. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1989. ISBN 1-55853- 047-9 I
Scaife, William. The March to the Sea, 2nd ed. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, Inc., 1993. ISBN 0-9619508-4-6
CHAPTER 8
48'ers in the Grand Army of the Republic
McConnell, Stuart. Glorious Contentment: The Grand Army of the Republic, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8078-2025-3
Silber, Nina. The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865- 1900. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8078-2116-0
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES - BIOGRAPHIES
Ambrose, Stephen. Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8071- 2071-5
Engle, Stephen. Yankee Dutchman: the Life of Franz Sigel. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55728-273-0 Gallaher, Ruth. "Samual Ryan Curtis". The Iowa Journal of History and Politics 2 (July 1927): 331-358
Grant, Ulysses. Memoirs and Selected Letters. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1990. ISBN 0-940450-58-5
Jones, James. Black Jack: John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Ptess, 1995. ISBN 0-8093-2001-0
Perret, Geoffrey. Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President. New York, Random House, 1997. ISBN 0-679-44766-0
Robertson, James, Jr. "Iowa in the Civil War: A Reference Guide". Iowa Journal of History 2 (April 1961): 129-172
Sherman, William. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc.,1990. ISBN 0-940450-65-8
REGIMENTAL HISTORIES
Third Missouri Volunteer Infantry
Buegel, John T. "The Civil War Diary of John T. Buegel", Translated by William G. Bek. Missouri Historical Review, 40 (1946):307-29
Twelfth Missouri Volunteer Infantry
Kircher, Henry. A German in the Yankee Fatherland: The Civil War Letters of Henry A. Kircher. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1983. ISBN 1-87338-289-7
Seventy-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Willison, Charles. Reminiscences of a Boy's Service with the 76th Ohio: IN the Fifteenth Army Corps, Under General Sherman, During the Civil War, By that "Boy" at Three Score. Huntington, West Virginia: Blue Acorn Press, 1995. ISBN 1-885033-13-3
GENERAL WORKS
McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-19-503863-0
MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL
Brehe, Henry Letters. Co. G, 17th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. U.S. Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pa 17013-5008.
Dorweiler, Paul, Sr. Civil War Diary 1861-1863, 17th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. U.S. Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pa. 17013-5008.
Kibler, Captain Charles H. 76th Ohio at Ring gold or Taylor's Ridge. Harrisburg Civil War Round Table, Harrisburg, Pa.. U.S. Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pa. 17013-5008.
Osterhaus, Peter J.,What I Saw of the War, Belleville Public Library, Belleville, Ill..
Peckham, Lieutenant Colonel James. Letters. U. S. Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pa. 17013-5008.
Steele, Frederick -Papers. Stanford University Libraries, Special Collections, Stanford, Ca.