Regimental histories are
one of my favorite genres, but until the advent of the digital age, it was
difficult to locate veteran written histories. When I was in graduate school
most of these had to be obtained via interlibrary loan, but many of them have
been digitized and are available online. The Internet Archive has a variety of
materials available for free including a wide range of veteran penned
regimental histories. A quick search yielded the following histories of units that
served in the trans-Mississippi:
Barney, Chester. Recollections Of Field Service With The
Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers (1865)
Beecher, Harris H. Record Of The 114th Regiment, N.
Y. S. V. (1866)
Ewer, James K. The Third Massachusetts Cavalry In The War
For The Union (1903)
Lathrop, David. History Of The Fifty-Ninth Regiment,
Illinois Volunteer Infantry (1865)
Scott, John. Story Of The Thirty-Second Iowa Infantry
Volunteers (1896)
Sprague, Homer B. History Of The 13th Infantry
Regiment Of Connecticut Volunteers (1867)
By no means did I conduct
a thorough search, so other regimentals, published diaries, memoirs, etc. await
the curious.
