[email protected] wrote: > > If you want to research the Civil War in the West, you should begin with > "The Official Records of the War of Rebellion," commonly abbreviated as > "the OR's." That will keep one busy for quite some time. The next step > would be use of the four-volume series titles "Battles and Leaders." > Those are available in paperback. > > While the Union perspective, nor the AoT, nor the Army of the Trans > Mississippi are not my areas of interest, a search of the catalogs for > recently published books on Civil War history will reveal more recent > worthwhile books written about those aspects of that War than about the > ANV. > > As far as black migration to the West, that area has probably not been > explored due to limited, and scattered, or poorly cataloged, source > documentation and limited reader interest > > As far as women are concerned, you might try a search for some of the > following, which are just a few of the titles in my library: > > "101 Virginia Women Writers" > "A Share of Honor: Virginia Women 1600-1945" > "Idols, Victims, Pioneers: Virginia's Women from 1607" > "Documenting Women's Lives: A Users Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia > Historical Society" > "Women of the South In War Times" > "Valor and Lace: The Roles of Confederate Women 1861-1865" > "Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern > Homefront" > "Confederate Women" > "Women of the Civil War" (was "Bonnet Brigade") > "Heroines of Dixie" > Ladies of Richmond" > "Noble Women of the North" > "Women of Gettysburg" > "Richmond During the War: Four Years of Personal Observation" > "The Women of the Confederacy" > "Heroines of Dixie: Spring of High Hopes" > "Heroines of Dixie: Winter of Discontent" > "Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60's" > "Hearts of Fire: Soldier Women of the Civil War" > "Trials and Triumphs: The Women of the American Civil War" > "The Edge of the South: Life in Nineteenth-Century Virginia" > "White Society in the Antebellum South" > "The Plantation Mistress" > "A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate Legacy" > "The Southern Lady From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930" > "Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing" > "Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American > Civil War" > "The Woman's War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the > American Civil War" > "Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia" > "Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey" > > Happy Reading! Annette Elam Wetzel > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Harold Miller <[email protected]> > >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > >Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 12:27 AM > >Subject: History books > > >>also a war fought in the "west" - places like MO, Kansas, Arkansas, > Arizona. > >>Finding that in the history books is difficult. Also, the men from the > west > >>were fighting against U.S. Grant at Shilo, Vicksburg, etc. He had to > beat > >>them before he was noticed by the powers that be, and sent against Lee. > > >>Another one of my gripes.....what about women in the history books? > > >>Or what about the colored troops who fought and died in 1860-1865? > >>or the early black immigration to the west? > > ==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== > Please remember that real people read the messages you post. > Got a problem? Got a gripe? Don't take it to the list! > Send me a message, and I'll try to take care of it: > mailto:[email protected] Someone was seeking information on the migration of Blacks to the West. I checked on three references last night. There are many references in the library such as Black History,Author, Benjamin Quarles; "Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas 1528-1995" p. 3-5, 7, 8-12 by Alwyn Barr; "Black Slaveowners: Free Black Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860" by Larry Koger Chapter 2; and "From Slavery to Freedom",(7th Edition) by John Hope franklin and Alfred A. Moss. These material resources are only a few. I strongly urge you to check the library. Blacks are interested in reading Black History.