Research and Writing Opportunities

The last posting summarized the thirty-five “fighting regiments” that served at some point in the trans-Mississippi. While working on the series, I was struck by how few of them have been the subject of a full length history. So…are you interested in a research project that might take a few years? If so, here are the regiments in need of a historian:

22^nd Indiana Infantry: Glasgow, Mo.; Pea Ridge, Ark.

40^th Indiana Infantry: occupation duty in Texas

8^th Illinois Infantry: Charleston, Mo.; Milliken’s Bend, La.; occupation duty in Louisiana and Texas

20^th Illinois Infantry: campaigning in Missouri in 1861

21^st Illinois Infantry: served in Missouri until May 1862

22^nd Illinois Infantry: Charleston, Mo.; Belmont, Mo.

30^th Illinois Infantry: Belmont, Mo.

42^nd Illinois Infantry: served in Missouri until April 1862; occupation duty in Texas

44^th Illinois Infantry: Pea Ridge, Ark.; occupation duty in Texas

48^th Illinois Infantry: occupation duty in Arkansas

2^nd Iowa Infantry: service in Missouri until February 1862

3^rd Iowa Infantry: skirmishing in Missouri in 1861

5^th Iowa Infantry: New Madrid, Mo.; Milliken’s Bend, La.

7^th Iowa Infantry: Belmont, Mo.

9^th Iowa Infantry: Pea Ridge, Ark.

13^th Iowa Infantry: service in Missouri in the spring of 1862

1^st Kansas Infantry: Wilson’s Creek, Mo.; service in Louisiana

1^st Michigan Cavalry: service in the Dakota Territory

5^th Michigan Cavalry: service in the Dakota Territory

6^th Michigan Cavalry: service in the Dakota Territory

11^th Missouri Infantry: actions in Missouri until March 1862

12^th Missouri Infantry: Pea Ridge, Ark.; Arkansas Post, Ark.

26^th Missouri Infantry: New Madrid, Mo.

8^th U. S. Colored Infantry: occupation duty in Texas

79^th U. S. Colored Infantry [1^st Kansas Colored]: Poison Spring, Ark.; duty in the Indian Territory

16^th Wisconsin Infantry: Goodrich, La.

The following have all benefited from a history, but in some cases veterans wrote the works. Also, the 11^th Illinois and the 24^th Iowa were subjects of master’s degree theses.

11^th Illinois Infantry: garrison duty in Missouri; campaign to Morganzia, La.

31^st Illinois Infantry: Belmont, Mo.

36^th Illinois Infantry: Pea Ridge, Ark.; occupation duty in Texas

55^th Illinois Infantry: Arkansas Post, Ark.

6^th Iowa Infantry: service in Missouri until March 1862

22^nd Iowa Infantry: service in Louisiana from August 1863-July 1864

24^th Iowa Infantry: Red River campaign

15^th Missouri Infantry: Pea Ridge, Ark.; occupation duty in Texas

114^th New York Infantry: Fort Bisland, La.; Red River campaign