Confederate Unit Histories

United States U.S. Military U.S. Civil War Confederate Unit Histories

Some Confederate military units have published histories. These explain the unit’s role in the war, give biographical data on officers, and usually provide a unit roster of its members.

Unit Histories at the Family History Library

• Civil War Unit Histories: Regimental Histories and Personal Narratives: Part 1: The Confederate States of America and Border States. Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1991. This microfiche set includes all published state adjutant general’s office reports. It also has the unit histories and personal narratives for the Confederate and border states published from 1861 to 1920 as listed in Charles E. Dornbusch’s previously mentioned Military Bibliography of the Civil War (see page 25). Below is a detailed inventory of the collection:
• Hydrick, Blair D., compiler, Robert E. Lester, ed. Civil War Unit Histories: Regimental Histories and Personal Narratives. Part 1: Confederate States of America and Border States. Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1992. (FHL book 973 M2cwu.)
• Some unit histories chronicle troop movement by railway. The Tennessee State Library and Archives includes in their online digital map collection Appletons' Railway Map of the United States and the Canadas, circa 1864. The map may be accessed at http://tsla-teva.state.tn.us/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmaps