Howard County, MD in the Civil War

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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
• The life of Gilbert Haven : bishop of the Methodist Episcopal ... Prentice, George
• 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.
• Beverly, MA, Historical Society, assorted letters.
• 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)