61st Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Wilson's): Difference between revisions

*[[Beginning United States Civil War Research|Beginning United States Civil War Research]] gives steps for finding information about a Civil War soldier or sailor. It covers the major records that should be used. Additional records are described in Virginia in the Civil War and United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865.

*National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System], is searchable by soldier's name and state. It contains basic facts about soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, a list of regiments, descriptions of significant battles, sources of the information, and suggestions for where to find additional information.

*[[Virginia in the Civil War|Virginia in the Civil War]] describes many Confederate and Union sources, specifically for Virginia, and how to find them.. These include compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.

*[[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865|United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865]] describes and explains United States and Confederate States records, rather than state records, and how to find them. These include veterans’ censuses, compiled service records, pension records, rosters, cemetery records, Internet databases, published books, etc.

*Sifakis, Stewart. ''Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia''. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1992- 1995. (Family History Library book {{FHL|476605|title-id|disp=975 M2ss}}, Ten Volumes.) This gives organization information for each unit and its field officers, assignments, and battles. It also lists sources further reading. Volume 5 is for Virginia.

*Stewart, William H. ''Biographical Sketch of Lieut.-Col. William Frederick Niemeyer, of the Sixty-First Virginia''. Portsmouth, Va.: n.p., 1800s. {{FHL|779510|item|disp=FHL fiche 6082876}} and ''Description of the Battle of the Crater: Recollections of the Recapture of the Lines.'' Norfolk, Va.: Landmark Book and Job Office, 1876. {{FHL|779513|item|disp=FHL fiche 6082877}} and  ''A Pair of Blankets: War-time History in Letters to the Young People of the South.'' New York: Broadway Pub. Co., 1911. Digital version at [http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030907988 Internet Archive]; {{FHL|779522|item|disp=FHL fiche 6082878 (3 fiche)}} and (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1990) {{FHL|779522|item|disp=FHL fiche 6082878}}