Shelby County in the Civil War

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 Civil War Links (in alphabetical order)  

• 16th O.V.I. - including regimental History and Roster list
• 19th Century Ohio Civil War Colored Troops
• 22nd O.V.I. ~ includes Regimental History and Roster list
• 48th O.V.V.I. ~ includes a complete regimental history, the official record of the O.V.V.I. at Shiloh, photos, etc.
• 73rd O.V.I. ~ Contains photos, history, rosters and several links to other regiments from Ohio
• 82nd O.V.I. ~ includes Rgimental History and Roster list
• 126th O.V.I.: Letters, Accounts, and Oral Histories ~
• Civil War Memorial, Darke Co., Ohio ~ contains a listing of Civil War Veterans  in of Darke county and misc. rosters.
• Abraham Lincoln Assassination ~ contains eyewitness accounts, summary of the assassination, conspiracy theories, pictures, and information about the conspiracy trial.
• The American Civil War Homepage
• American Civil War Research Database ~ a searchable database which you must subscribe too.
• Battle of Chancellorsville ~ contains a detailed account of the battle along with a full-length summary of Chancellorsville, plus a brief analysis of it's strategic impact on the war.
• Battle of Fredericksburg ~ contains battle summary, list of casualties, quotes, etc.
• Battle of Murfreesboro
• Bentonville  Battleground: Site of the Civil War Battle of Bentonville ~ Scene of the Last Major Confederate Offensive  of the Civil War. Contains maps, chronology, battle synopsis, among other things.
• Benton Cadets ~ This is a Missouri Regiment. However, Companies E & F were organized in Shelby County Ohio.
• Bullrun.com
• Camp Dennison Civil War Museum Site ~  The military unit Link has an exhaustive listing of regiments, etc.
• Causes of the Civil War ~ contains a chronology of events, maps, Abraham Lincoln's speeches and Letters, other political speeches and letters, editorials, and quotes of the period.
• The Civil War Archive
• Civil War Battle Summaries by State ~ Ohio
• Civil War Photographs ~ from The Library of Congress: American Memory
• Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
• Civil War Surgeons
• Elmira Prison Camp OnLine Library ~ contains original documents dealing with the prison. Letters, diaries, books, journals, photographs, drawings, and other material.
• Famous Civil War Battles of the West ~ features Ft. Henry, Ft. Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg
• Genealogy and the American Civil War
• Hillory Shifflet Letters ~ Compiled by Kate Forster.  The letters  were written by Hillory Shifflet to his wife, Jemima Cox.  Hillory served in the Infantry, Company C, 1st Regiment of Ohio Volunteers.
• Ohio Civil War Genealogy Journal ~ from the Ohio Genealogical Society
• Ohio Civil War Regiments ~ from the  Ohio GenWeb Civil War site
• Ohio in the Civil War
• Ohio Soldiers Aboard the 1865 Sultana
• Official Records of the Union and Confederate Naviesin the War of the Rebellion Journal Contents (1861-1865) ~ 30 volumes transcribed by Cornell University. These volumes are a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate navies published under the direction of the Secretary of Navy, The Honorable H.A. Herbert, Lieut. Commander Richard Bush, Superintendent of Naval War records, U.S. Navy, and Mr. Robert H. Woods in 1894.
• Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
• Remininscences of the Rebellion ~ written by William Archibald Waugh (Born 1843).  He served as a a private soldier of the 5th Massachusetts Light Battery from 1861-1863
• Roster of Ohio Soldiers 1861-1866
• Seige of Petersburg
• U.S. Civil War Center ~ an index of Civil War information available on the internet
• U.S. Civil War Center at Louisiana State University
• The USGenWeb Archives Pension Project *CivilWar* ~ Ohio
• The USGenWeb Archives Pension Project *CivilWar* ~ main page
• U.S. Navy in the Civil War - Western Rivers ~ contains pictures, eye-witness accounts, roster lists, vessell service records.
• War of the Rebellion Journal Contents (1880 - 1901) ~ 60 volumes transcribed by Cornell University. It is a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies published under the direction of the Secretary of War, The Honorary Elihu Root, Brig. Gen. Fred. C. Ainsworth, the Chief of the Record and Pension Office, U.S. War Department, and Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley (Mr. John S. Moodey, indexer).
• Women and the Civil War ~ contains eyewitness account of Gettysburg from a 15 year old girl named Matilda (Tillie) J. Pierce, The Jenny Wade Story, and other eywitness accounts.

  Information was gathered from the following sources: "History of Shelby County, Ohio" by R. Sutton & Co. 1883 "The Union Army, vol. 2" "Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio"  published 1886   ******************************************************* Back to Shelby County OHGenWeb ©1999 by Tina Hursh