Maryland Union Regimental History Sources

Cavalry

1st Cavalry (Cole's)
1st Cavalry
2nd Cavalry
3rd Cavalry
Purnell Legion Cavalry
Smith's Independant Company Cavalry

Infantry

Eastern Shore Infantry

Potomac Home Brigade

Other

United States Colored Troops Regiments

General Sources on Maryland Union Regiments

1. Adjutant General's Office, Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army, 1861-1865, Part 3, Washington, 1865. Roster of officers from Maryland Union units.

2. C.E. Dornbusch, Military Bibliography of the Civil War Four Vols., New York Public Library.

   Be sure to check the most recent (1980's) edition. Contains bibliographic data on published unit books for either side. New books are published frequently so there may be material available about the unit you seek that is not in this book.

3. Federal Publishing Company, The Union Army, Federal Publishing Company, Madison, Wis., 1908, Volume II - New York, Maryland, West Virginia and Ohio. The second volume of this multi-volume set contains capsule histories of all Maryland Union regiments.
4. Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, The Dyer Publishing Company, Des Moines, 1908

Contains capsule histories of all Union units. See The Civil War Archive for an online version of Dyer's Maryland unit histories. See this Civil War Archive link for Maryland U.S.C.T. unit histories (4th, 7th, 9th, 19th, 30th, and 39th U.S.C.T. Infantries) from Dyer's Compendium.

5. Janet B. Hewett, ed., The Roster of Union Soldiers 1861-1865, and U.S.C.T., Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, N.C. The multi-volume Roster contains an alpahbetical listing of all Union soldiers and an additonal two volumes contain an alpahbetical listing of the U.S.C.T. Both works are very useful for searching family history or indentifying inscribed artifacts.
6. Harold Manakee, The Civil War in Maryland , Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society, 1961.

   Contains capsule histories of all Maryland units and an overview of the state's participation in the Civil War on both sides.

7. State Commissioners,The History and Roster of Maryland Veterans, War of 1861-1865 2 Vols., Guggenheimer, Weil and Company, Baltimore, 1898.

   This book contains capsule histories of all Maryland Union units (including the 4th,7th,9th, 19th, 30th, & 39th U.S.C.T.) as well as rosters for them. The histories are short (2-4 pages), but they provide info about battles, army corps, commanders, casualties, etc.

   Online version from Archives of Maryland Online - includes full text of book

   Searchable History and Roster Online provided by the Lineages Site.

8. Daniel Carroll Toomey and Charles Albert Earp, Marylanders in Blue: The Artillery and the Cavalry, Toomey Press, Baltimore, 1999.

   This book contains a history of all of the units mentioned in its title. The unit provide much more detail than the sources listed above and are in a narrative format. Lots of illustrations. -- A must have if you are interested in this topic.

9. The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion. 128 Volumes. Washington, 1882-1900

   You may find reports from Maryland unit commanders, casualty reports, and mentions in other officers reports, orders of battles, and more.

10. U.S. Army Military History Institute Unit Bibliographies Lists of general and specific sources for all U.S., U.S.C.T., & C.S. units-note only contains info about their collection. Additional info may be found in Dornbusch.

Othe Sources that Touch On Union Regiments

8^th Maryland Infantry, U.S.A. (Reenacting Unit)