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This list includes everything written by members of the 91st that I've transcribed (with links), and some references to works I do not have copies of, except for archival material from the National Archives. If you know of something else, please tell me.

[anonymous member of company G].
Bowen, Alva
Cartledge, James
Eyre, Benjamin
  • letter, Geo W Eyre to Mary Ann Eyre, May 1862 (in his mother's pension application)
Gregory, Edgar Mandlebert
  • [report of Gregory's response to Gov Curtin's speech at the flag presentation]. Philadelphia Inquirer Saturday 7 December 1861, page 8.
  • Report of action at Fredericksburg. Official Records series 1 volume 21 pages 438-440.
  • Report of Second Brigade's actions 29 March 1865 to 9 April 1865. House Miscellaneous Document 208, part 1: 'The War of the Rebellion: ... [Main Eastern Theater: Richmond-Petersburg Campaign/Operations against Fort Fisher and Wilmington/Sheridan's Expedition to Petersburg/Appomattox Campaign; January-June 1865; series 1, volume 46, chapter 58, part 1]'. Serial Set volume 3261, session volume 33, 53rd Congress, 2nd session. Pages 853-855.]
  • [letters sent as Assistant Commissioner, Freedman's Bureau, in Texas]
  • Report of [Freedmen's Bureau in] Texas [December 1865]'. Senate Executive Document 27, 39th Congress, 1st session, pp.147-150, serial set volume 1238.
  • [Report of Freedmen's Bureau in] Maryland [November 1866]. Senate executive document no. 6, 39th Congress, 2nd session, pp.89-94, serial set volume 1276.
  • [letter, Gregory to Howard, about an attack by whites on blacks at a Camp Meeting]. New York Times 19 October 1866, page 1, column 5
Hampton, George S
  • Manuscript letter, written some years after the war. See Bruce Catton A stillness at Appomatox (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, *), volume 3, pages 341, 382, and 425.
Lentz, John D
  • Report of action on 16 December 1862 at Fredericksburg, Virginia. Official Records series 1 volume 21 page 403.
  • Report of 91st's actions from 4 May 1864 to 30 July 1864. Official Records series 1 volume 30 part 1 pages 555-557, and series 1 volume 40 part 1 pages 461-462.
Moore, Thomas
  • 'What might have been. The significant closing days of the Great Rebellion'. National Tribune 21 February 1895. [cited in Advance the colors, p.315]
Raitt, C
Reiff, William C
Sellers, Eli G.
  • Report of action on 25 March 1865. Official Records series 1 volume 46 part 1 pages 275-276.
  • Report of action on 1 April 1865. Official Records series 1 volume 46 part 1 page 866.
Walter, Thomas
Welch, Joseph

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