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