The Second NJ Brigade

Online Research Resources:

• A Guide to Historical Reenactment - https://wizardpins.com/blogs/education/a-guide-to-historical-reenactment-authentic-depictions-from-period-language-to-patches

• Civil War homepage - thousands of documents/movies/information compiled in one area http://www.civil-war.net/

• National Archives - Civil War documents https://www.archives.gov/research/military/civil-war/resources.html

• Library of Congress suggested resources http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/uscw_rec_links/external.html 

• Civil War Primary Sources http://libguides.southernct.edu/c.php?g=200161&p=1316516

• Civil War research center at Mississippi Univeristy http://www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu/ 

• Women & the War http://guides.library.duke.edu/civilwarwomen 

• Gettysburg Research Center https://www.nps.gov/gett/learn/historyculture/research-center.htm

• United States Volunteers http://www.usvolunteers.org/

• Nursing & Medicine - http://onlinedegrees.bradley.edu/nursing/msn-fnp/nursing-and-medicine-in-the-civil-war/

  - https://online.shrs.pitt.edu/blog/history-of-nurse-practitioners/

• Clara Barton's Career - https://online.maryville.edu/online-doctorate-degrees/doctor-nursing-practice/clara-barton/

Bestselling Research Books:

• African Americans and the Civil War. Ronald Reis. 2009

• A Stillness at Appomatox. Bruce Canton. 1953

• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. James McPherson. 2003

• Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy. Seymour Reit. 2001

• Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave. Ernest Fergesun. 1992

• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. Tony Horwitz. 1999

• Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War. Charles Bracelen Flood. 2006

• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam. Stephen Sears. 2003

• Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War. Karen Abbot. 2015 

• The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans. Charles Royster. 1993

• They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War. De Anne Blanton. 2003

• The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. James McPherson. 2003

• This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Drew Gilpin Faust. 2009

2nd NJ Brigade Favorites:

• Andersonville Diary & Memoirs of Charles Hopkins, 1st New Jersey Infantry. Charles Hopkins. 1988

• Cold Mountain. Charles Frazier. 1997

• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. Tony Horwitz. 1999

• Give it to Them, Jersey Blues. John Hayward. 1998

• Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life. John D. Billings 2016

• Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam. Stephen Sears. 2003

• Upon the Tented Field. Bernard A. Olsen. 1993

Uniform & Equipment Suppliers 

• Blockcade Runner Sutlers

• Brigade Sutler

• C&C Sutlery

• Crescent City Sutler

• Fall Creek Sutlery

• Military Uniform Supply

• Mill Creek Mercantile

• Mercury Supply Company

• Regimental Quartermaster

Ladies Clothing & Civilian Supplies

• Civil War Lady

• Gettysburg Emporium

• Timeless Stitches