SOURCE MATERIALS FOR

TWENTY-FOURTH NEW YORK CAVALRY RESEARCH


Listed below are some sources of information concerning the history of the 24th New York Cavalry.  No complete regimental history exists to my knowledge.  Walter Cass Newberry was clearly gathering information for such a history as early as 1895.  It is unclear whether he ever set pen to paper.  The Newberry Library in Chicago (named for his uncle, Walter Loomis, the founder and benefactor), holds some papers and photographs pertaining to the regiment.  Newberry was at one time a trustee of the library.  Thus, it would be a logical place where a manuscript might be found.  There is no evidence, however, that such a document exists in the library's collections.


Bodamer, John A., Civil War Diary of John A. Bodamer, original and microfilm copy held at the University of Michigan,    William L. Clements Library, Manuscript Division, Schoff Civil War Collection, Diaries & Journals 8.5.

Cooper, Alonzo, In and Out of Rebel Prisons, R.J. Oliphant, Oswego, NY (1888).

Crowninshield, Benjamin W., A History of the First Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers, Houghton, Mifflin & Company,  The Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA (1891).

Cutcheon, Byron M., The Story of the Twenieth Michigan Infantry, Robert Smith Printing Company, Lansing, MI (1904).

Kelley, Daniel G., What I Saw and Suffered in Rebel Prisons, Thomas, Howard & Johnson, Buffalo, NY (1868).

Meyer, Henry C., Civil War Experiences under Bayard, Gregg, Kilpatrick, Custer, Raulston, and Newberry 1862, 1863, 1864, privately printed by the Knickerbocker Press (G.P. Putnam's Sons), New York, NY (1911).

National Archives, Record Group (RG) 94, Regimental Books of the 24th New York Cavalry and the 1st Provisional New York Cavalry.

New York State Adjutant-General's Office, A Record of the Commissioned Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates, of the Regiments Which were Organized in the State of New York and called into the Service of the United States to Assist in Suppressing the Rebellion caused by the Secession of Some Southern States from the Union, A.D. 1861, as taken from the Muster-In Rolls on file in the Adjutant General's Office, S. N.Y., Volume III, Weed, Parsons & Company, Albany, NY (1867).

New York State Adjutant-General's Office, Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York for the Year 1894, Volume V, James B. Lyon, State Printer, Albany, NY (1895).

Newberry, Walter C., The Petersburg Mine, MOLLUS-ILL, Volume III, pp. 111-124 (Nov. 13, 1880).

Overfield, Joseph M., The Civil War Letters of Private George Parks, Gallagher Printing, Buffalo, NY (1992).

Phisterer, Frederick, New York in the War of the Rebellion, J.B. Lyon Company, Albany, NY (3rd ed. 1912).

Parsons, David K., Bugles Echo Across the Valley: Oswego County, New York and the Civil War, Sandy Creek, NY (1994).

Potter, Albert J., Orwell Veterans' Memorial Souvenir, The Seamans Press, Pulaski, NY (1910).

Preston, Noble D., History of the Tenth Regiment of Cavalry, New York State Volunteers, D. Appleton and Company, New York, NY (1892).

Pyne, Henry R., Ride to War:  The History of the First New Jersey Cavalry, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ (1961). 

United States Government, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volumes 36, 40, 42 & 46, Washington, DC (1891-1902)


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