This is a list of free online books for civil war research involving Pennsylvanians. Included are regimental histories, artillery and calvary units and general histories of the civil war and how it impacted Pennsylvania.
- 28th Regt. Infantry Penna. Volunteers : Coldstream Regiment
Listing of battles, engagements and skirmishes, armies, corps, divisions, and brigades - History of Company K., 1st (Inft,) Penn’a Reserves / by H. N. Minnigh – 30th Infantry
Introductory edition. “The boys who fought at home.” Company K, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves, formed part of the 30th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, during the civil war. - Second brigade of the Pennsylvania reserves at Antietam : report of the Antietam Battlefield Memorial Commission of Pennsylvania and ceremonies at the dedication of the monuments erected by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to mark the position of four regiments of the Pennsylvania reserves engaged in the battle – 32nd Reg
- Fiftieth anniversary of Baxter’s Philadelphia Fire Zouaves 72nd Regt. Penna. Vols., August 10th 1861 to August 10, 1911
Seventy-five survivors of Baxter’s Philadelphia Fire Zouaves 72nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers families and friends met for the fiftieth anniversary of the regiment at Belmont Mansion, Fairmount Park, on Thursday afternoon and evening, August 10, 1911 - Eighty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (Infantry) : address / by Thomas E. Merchant
“At the dedication of the monument on battlefield of Gettysburg, 1889.” - History of the old flag of the Eighty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Civil War, 1861-1865
- Camps and campaigns of the 93d Regiment, Penna. Vols. / prepared by Geo. H. Uhler
Rev. James M. McCarter organized the 93rd Regiment Pa. Vols. And took possession of the grounds of the Lebanon County Agricultural Society for an encampment, September 12, 1861 - Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers (“Gosline’s Pennsylvania Zouaves”) in the Sixth Corps : an historical paper / by G. Norton Galloway, read by Charles N. Snyder
Read at a reunion of the surviving members of the 95th Pennsylvania Volunteers, held at Germantown, Pa., on the 12th of October 1883. To which is added a narrative of the Chancellorsville campaign, the Sixth Corps’ part in that campaign, which includes an official list of casualties in each regiment in the corps, and also the name of every commissioned officer killed or wounded - Reunion of the Ninety-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, October 29th, 1884, “on the old camp ground at Camp Wayne, West Chester, Pa. : an account of the proceedings with a roster of the comrades present / prepared by Isaiah Price
- Brief history of the One Hundredth Regiment (Roundheads)
To which is added short sketches of Colonel Leasure and Chaplain Browne with a few poems by H.B. Durant of Company A composed while in service - History of the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers : a complete history of the organization, marches, battles, toils, and dangers participated in by the regiment, from the beginning to the close of the war, 1861-1865 / by Kate M. Scott
“Wild Cat Regiment” - Music on the march, 1862-’65, with the Army of the Potomac, 114th Regt. P.V., Collis’ Zouaves / by Frank Rauscher
Also known as: Zouaves d’Afrique. Notes and recollections compiled from the diary of the Band Master of the regiment - History of Company F, One hundred and fortieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
Organized August 9, 1862 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the company fought in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Cold Harbor and the Sieges of Richmond and Petersburg. - Address on the three days’ operations of the One hundred and forty-seventh P.V.V.I. at Gettysburg, July 1, 2, and 3, 1863, delivered Sept. 12, 1889, on the occasion of the dedication of the 147th Regt. P.V.V.I. Monument on Gettysburg Battlefield, on Culp’s Hill
Dedication of monument on Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg battlefield to the One Hundred and Forty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Veterans Volunteer Infantry - Genealogy of the 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 2nd Bucktails, 1862-1865 / researched and compiled by Charles Freeland Faust to September 1993.
Supplement to Richard E. Matthews’ One day of glory, a history of the 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 2nd Bucktails, 1862-1865 - General history of Company D, 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers and personal sketches of the members / compiled by John W. Nesbit, with the assistance of the committee and other members and friends of the Company.
Revision of compilation of war history published in the “Oakdale Times” and updated after the reunion of the company held July 25, 1907. - Roll of honor of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, or, One hundred and sixty-second of the line, Pennsylvania Volunteers
- Daily journal of the 192d Reg’t, Penn’a Volunteers, commanded by Col. William B. Thomas, in the service of the United States for one hundred days / by John C. Myers
Organized at Philadelphia for 100 days July, 1864 - History of the One Hundred and Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers : being a complete record of the regiment, with its camps, marches and battles; together with the personal record of every officer and man during his term of service
Also known as: Sixth Union League
Artillery Units
- History of Hampton battery F, Independent Pennsylvania Light Artillery : organized at Pittsburgh, Pa., October 8, 1861, mustered out in Pittsburgh, June 26, 1865 / compiled by William Clark
History of Hampton battery B, National guard of Pennsylvania, in war with Spain, 1898, with complete roster: p. [167]-179 - Oration delivered by Samuel H. Rhoads… at the dedication of the monument erected by the state of Pennsylvania, on the battle field of Antietam, to commemorate the battle record and services of Durell’s Battery “D” Pennsylvania Volunteer Artillery, from September 24th, 1861, to June 13th, 1865
- Register of the members of the “Artillery Corps, Washington Grays” of the city of Philadelphia who served in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 / compiled by Captain John O. Foering
Calvary Units
- Constitution and by-laws of Company H, Third Pennsylvania Cavalry : with a brief history and muster roll
Company H was formed from a previously existing cavalry organization of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, known as the Big Spring Adamantine Guards - Dedication of the monument of the Sixth Penna. Cavalry “Lancers” : on the battlefield of Gettysburg, October 14, 1888
Also known as “Rush’s Lancers” ; Officers and enlisted men who died 1861-1865: p. 31-37 - Leaves from a trooper’s diary – 15th Calvary
Experiences with the 15th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (the Anderson Cavalry). “An account of the mutiny in the Anderson Cavalry, at Nashville, Tenn., December, 1862” (by George S. Fobes) - Short account of the 30th annual banquet held at Philadelphia, October 10, 1902 – 15th Calvary
Includes reminiscences of the Civil War and biographical sketches, with necrology and lists of survivors
Additional Civil War Histories
- The Citizen soldiers at North Point and Fort McHenry, 1814
The intention behind this volume is to provide a factual and impartial account of the various Divisions, Brigades, Regiments, and Companies, along with the rank of every citizen who served their country on September 12th and 13th, 1814, at North Point and Fort McHenry. The information is taken from original rolls on file in the 3rd auditor’s office of the War Department. Contains information about York, Pa. volunteers, attached to the 5th Maryland infantry, and Hanover, Pa. volunteers, attached to the 39th Maryland infantry.