Some of the best books to learn about the Civil War can't be found in print. Many of them were published over 75 years ago and are out of copyright. Thanks to internet sources such as google books, it is much easier to find a lot of these sources. Here we present some of them.
| Military Essays and Recollections - Vol. 1 | This volume is of "Papers Read Before the Commandry of the Sate of Illinois, MOLLUS." Published in 1891 and reprinted on Google Books, check out two papers:
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| War Papers Read Before the Michigan Commandery of MOLLUS - Volume 1, 1893 | The papers read are stories about specific regiments, usually in a particular battle. In this volume, there are stories from the following regiments:
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| War Papers Read Before the Michigan Commandery of MOLLUS - Volume 2, 1898 | The papers read are stories about specific regiments, usually in a particular battle. In this volume, there are stories from the following regiments:
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Annual Report of the Adjutant General for the State of Michigan for the Year 1863 |
A report on the military based in Michigan in 1863. Published in 1864, this is a report on what Michigan men were doing during the Civil War. | Google Book Link |
| Annual Report of the Adjutant General for the State of Michigan for the Year 1864 | Google Book Link | |
| 1861 Johnston's Detroit City Directory | This was a sort of "yellow pages" for the City of Detroit in 1861. Do you want to know where a business was? Where did a Detroit soldier live? Many questions can be answered here. | Google Book Link |
| Camp, Garrison and Guard Duty, with a Modified Manual of Arms for the Officers and Soldiers of the Michigan Infantry - By W. W. Duffield, Colonel, 9th Michigan Infantry | Printed in Detroit and released at Fort Wayne (now Historic Fort Wayne) this was a drill manual written specifically for Michigan troops. | Google Book Link |
| A Soldier's Diary: The Diary of a Volunteer - By David Lane | Published in 1905, this is the diary of a member of the 17th Michigan and tells the story of that regiment through the eyes of a man who marched with them. | Google Book Link |
| Alphabetical General Index to Public Library Sets of 85,271 Names of Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Individual Records - Under supervision of Coleman C Vaughan | This is a great resource! It is a list, organized alphabetically, of every man who served in the Civil War from Michigan. It includes the man's name, company and regiment he served in and the volume and page of the Record of Service books (commonly called the Brown Books) where more information on him can be found. | Google Book Link |