Civil War Research

The New England Civil War Museum is a great place to either begin or continue your research into a particular soldier, unit, campaign or battle during the Civil War. While our museum was originally founded by the veterans with the aim to remember their local Rockville comrades, we have expanded since then and now have a variety of resources from across the country that include both wartime and post-war veterans groups materials.

Reference Material

State military lists

Biographical dictionaries

Period military manuals

Regimental/Unit Histories

Manuscript Collections

Wartime

CONNECTICUT

4th Connecticut, 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment

Walter Patterson Collection

8th Connecticut Regiment

Roger Ford Collection

Lucius Fox Collection

William Gemmell Collection

14th Connecticut Regiment

Benjamin Hirst Collection

John Hirst Collection

19th Connecticut, 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment

Edward S. Roberts Collection

David E. Soule Collection

Theodore Vaill Collection

21st Connecticut Regiment

Thomas L. Bailey Collection

Thomas F. Burpee Collection

MASSACHUSETTS

51st Massachusetts Regiment

Bowers Davis Collection

56th Massachusetts Regiment

Oscar Gassett Collection

Post-War Veterans Groups

Sedgwick Post #1, (Norwich, CT) Grand Army of the Republic Collection

Merriam Post #8, (Meriden, CT) Grand Army of the Republic Collection

Theodore Stanley Post #11, (New Britain, CT) Grand Army of the Republic Collection

W.W. Perkins Post #47, (New London, CT) Grand Army of the Republic Collection

Thomas F. Burpee Post #71, (Rockville-Vernon, CT) Grand Army of the Republic Collection

Connecticut Association of Prisoners of War

Associated Post-War Groups

Loren D. Penfield Camp #11, (New Britain, CT) Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Collection

Alden Skinner Camp #45, (Rockville-Vernon, CT) Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Collection

Periodicals

Civil War Times Illustrated

Blue & Gray Magazine

America's Civil War

Harpers' Weekly Magazine

Civil War Trust Magazine