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Collection John Carvel Arnold Papers

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  • Bair, Sarah D. "Making Good on a Promise: The Education of Civil War Orphans in Pennsylvania, 1863–1893." History of Education Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2011): 460-485. LC catalog record.
  • Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. 5 vols. Harrisburg, Pa.: B. Singerly, 1869-1871. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and University of Michigan's "Making of America" website External.
  • Bierstadt Brothers, photographers. Camp of 49th PA Reg't, Divine Services. New Bedford, Mass.: Bierstadt Brothers, ca. 1861-1865? The Robin G. Stanford Collection, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Available online.
  • Billings, John D. Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life. Boston: G. M. Smith & Co., 1887. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, Chicago: R. R. Donnelley, 1960. LC catalog record. Reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. LC catalog record.
  • Bui, L. Bao. "'I feel impelled to write': Male Intimacy, Epistolary Privacy, and the Culture of Letter Writing During the American Civil War." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016. WorldCat catalog record External.
  • Carmichael, Peter S. The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. LC catalog record. 
  • Downing, Joseph, William Downing, Constance Happersett, Patricia Gaines, and Susannah Brody. Dear Sister: A Collection of Civil War Letters Written by Joseph and William Downing to Their Sister Sarah of Lionville, Pennsylvania. Exton, Pa.: Uwchlan Township Historical Commission, 2004. WorldCat catalog record External.
  • Giesberg, Judith. Army at Home: Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. LC catalog record.
  • Giesberg, Judith. "Orphans and Indians: Pennsylvania's Soldiers' Orphan Schools and the Landscape of Post War Childhood." In Children and Youth During the Civil War Era, edited by James Marten, pages 188-205. New York: New York University Press, 2012. LC catalog record.
  • Gold, O. David, and Martha Gold. The Civil War Soldiers' Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania, 1864-1889: An Untold Story. N.p.: Pendragon, 2016. WorldCat catalog record External.
  • Gold, O. David. "The Soldiers' Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania, 1864-1889." Ph.D. dissertation. University of Maryland, 1971. WorldCat catalog record External.
  • Greenwood, Neil Voss. "Opponents in the Valley: A Study of the Attitudes and Views of Union and Confederate Soldiers Who Participated in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign." Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, 1992. WorldCat catalog record External.
  • Hager, Christopher. I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. LC catalog record.
  • Jamieson, Perry D. Spring 1865: The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. LC catalog record.
  • Marten, James. The Children's Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. LC catalog record.
  • Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Women in the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. LC catalog record. Previously published as Bonnet Brigades. New York: Knopf, 1966. LC catalog record.
  • Mitchell, Reid. The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. LC catalog record.
  • National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. Holds the compiled military service record for John C. Arnold, Company I, 49th Pennsylvania Infantry, and the widow's pension for Mary Ann Arnold (application number 124,766; certificate number 94,085).
  • Paul, James Laughery. Pennsylvania's Soldiers' Orphan Schools, Giving a Brief Account of the Origin of the Late Civil War, the Rise and Progress of the Orphan System, and Legislative Enactments Relating Thereto; with Brief Sketches and Engravings of the Several Institutions, with Names of Pupils Subjoined . . . Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1876. LC catalog record. Third edition, Harrisburg: L. S. Hart, 1877. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Phelps, Francis J. Civil War Letters of Francis J. Phelps. Compiled by George A. Phelps. Sparks, Nev.: G. A. Phelps, 2000. LC catalog record.
  • Ray, Michael L. "The American Civil War: The Transformation of Citizens into Soldiers and the Disaffection of Soldiers for Society." Ph.D. dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, 2001. WorldCat catalog record External.
  • Richard, Patricia L. Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. LC catalog record.
  • Silber, Nina. Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. LC catalog record.
  • Smith, Derek. Lee's Last Stand: Sailor's Creek, Virginia, 1865. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Books, 2002. LC catalog record.
  • Sodergren, Steven E. The Army of the Potomac in the Overland & Petersburg Campaigns: Union Soldiers and Trench Warfare, 1864-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2017. LC catalog record.
  • Vinovskis, Maris A., ed. Toward a Social History of the American Civil War: Exploratory Essays. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. LC catalog record.
  • Wert, Jeffry D. From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864. Carlisle, Pa.: South Mountain Press, 1987. LC catalog record. Reprint, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. LC catalog record. Reprint, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1997. LC catalog record. Reprint, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. LC catalog record.
  • Wert, Jeffry D. The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. LC catalog record.
  • Westbrook, Robert S. History of the 49th Pennsylvania Volunteers. A Correctly Compiled Roll of the Members of the Regiment and Its Marches from 1861 to 1865. Altoona, Pa.: Altoona Times, 1898. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Wiley, Bell I. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952. LC catalog record. Reprint, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971. LC catalog record. Reprint, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. LC catalog record.

Created May 2018; updated November 2018