Sources and Acknowledgements
This site would not have been possible without the help and generosity of the following people, all of whom have allowed material to be used on this site. To those whom I have no doubt left out (purely by accident!), you are all appreciated!
My wife
, for putting up with too many hours at the computer.Bobby Dobbins - the source of many images seen on this site.
Paul Loane - for the image of Charles Walter, ending many years of searching.
Chris Edy, Jim Joyce, Scott Hann, Mike Fisher, Brian Donovan, Bob Young, Jeff Grzelak, Chip Belyea, Ann Wardman, Sue McCabe and Jael Raymond - for sharing photographs from their collections.
Art House - for providing this site with his insightful work on William Warren's history at the Bridgeport Public Library.
Jeff Grzelak - for sharing his vast collection of 17th CVI documents and images.
Bob Young - for copying (and copying) pages of the "Danbury Times", source of Augustus Bronson's letters and the "High Private Manton's" series.
Ginny Gage - for transcribing the Bronson letters, and to both Ginny and husband Lew for remembering me on their trip to Carlisle Barracks.
Walt Powell - for copying the original William Warren history of the 17th, and for providing background information on "High Private Manton", better known as James Montgomery Bailey of Company C.
Gayle Sullivan and Sue McCabe - for the copies of the Henry Huss sketches, reunion photos and biographical info on Henry Huss
The staff of the Bridgeport Public Library Historical Collections Department - caretakers of William Warren's unpublished history of the 17th Connecticut.
The staff of the US Army Military History Institute - and those unselfish souls who have made their priceless material available through the USAMHI.
To everyone else I may have inadvertently left out, thank you all!
Manuscripts and Letters (still not yet up to date)
Bridgeport Public Library
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Libraries, Blacksburg
James Bosworth letter
Fairfield Historical Society
Allen Smith letter
U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carslisle Barracks, Pa.
John Lewis letter
Connecticut Historical Society
George Phillips Papers
17th Connecticut Volunteer Association Records
Wisconsin Historical Society
George Hannaford letters
Chris Edy
Joseph North letters
Stef Adams
Keeler letters
Paul Fine
J. Henry Blakeman letter
Ann Wardman
Selah G. Blakeman letters
Jael Raymond
Isaac Crissy letters
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Pfanz, Donald C. Negligence on the Right: The Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville. Morningside Notes. Dayton, Ohio, 1984.
Hamlin, Augustus C. The Battle of Chancellorsville. Bangor, Maine, 1896.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Eds. Robert U. Johnson and Calrence C. Buel. 4 vols. New York:Century, 1887-88. Sears, Stephen W. Chancellorsville. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.
U.S. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 128 parts in 70 vols. and atlas. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
Croffut, W.A., and John M. Morris. The Military and Civil History of Connecticut During the War of 1861-65. New York:Ledyard Bill, 1868.
Silliman, Justus. A New Canaan Private in the Civil War: Letters of Justus M. Silliman, 17th Connecticut Volunteers. Ed. Edward Marcus. New Canaan, Conn.: New Canaan Historical Society, 1984.
Mensard, Luther B. The Rise and Fall of Private Mensard. Civil War Times Illustrated (January 1986), pp. 22-25.
Ray, Deborah Wing. Norwalk: Being an Account of that Connecticut Town. Norwalk: Norwalk Historical Society, 1979.
Winkler, Frederick C. Letters of Frederick C. Winkler. Ed.s Louise Hitz and William Winkler. n.p., 1963.
Harrison, Noel C. Chancellorsville Battlefield Sites. Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, Inc., 1990.
Hurd, D. Hamilton, comp. History of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & co., 1881.
Wilson, Lynn Winfield. History of Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1639-1928. Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1929.