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__**Archival and Secondary Sources for the 8th Massachusetts Infantry**__

  * Byron Gilman (1843- ) Papers, MSS 332, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.
  * Cushing Guard Records, MM 9, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.
  * Salem Light Infantry Records, MM 12, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.
  * John P. Reynolds journal, University of Michigan. ["Particularly noteworthy descriptions include those of the camp at Relay House, of particular drills, flag-raising ceremonies, and of celebrations of the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill and of the Fourth of July."]
  * "In her hour of sore distress and peril" : the Civil War diaries of John P. Reynolds, Eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
  * [[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxde1f;view=1up|The life of Gilbert Haven : bishop of the Methodist Episcopal ... Prentice, George]]
  * [[https://www.worldcat.org/title/my-own-dear-wife-a-yankee-couples-civil-war/oclc/966693283&referer=brief_results|Breed, B. B., Breed, H. P., In Breed, A. G., & In White, R. L. (2016). My own dear wife: A Yankee couple's Civil War.]]
  * [[https://beverlyhistory.pastperfectonline.com/bysearchterm?keyword=8th+Regiment|Beverly, MA, Historical Society, assorted letters.]]
  * [[https://www.americanantiquarian.org/Findingaids/george_bryant_woods.pdf|Woods, George Bryant, Papers, 1801-1915. AAS.]]


__**USAHEC Resources**__

  * Henry S. Briggs papers, 1824-1887, bulk 1861-1865
  * Barlow, Joseph - BarlowColl (Enlisted man's letters to & from wife & family, 1861-65)
  * Chapple, William - CWDocColl (Enlisted man's letter, May 28, 1861)
  * Rich, Stephen - CWDocColl (Captain's letters, Apr 19, 1861-Oct 26, 1864)