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Accounts at Brigade, Division, and Corps Level

The following accounts are written about the Brigade, Division, or Corps that the Bucktails were attached to during the course of the War.  These works deal with  much larger bodies of troops but inclusion of information about these forces will  reflect on the units within their respective commands and are thus included herein.  As in the previous accounts, the Bucktail regiment is mentioned by name throughout these sources.

Coddington, Edwin B., The Gettysburg Campaign, A Study in Command, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979 pgs 257-258. Cooke, John Esten, The Life of Stonewall Jackson. From official papers, contemporary narratives, and personal acquaintance. By a Virginian.New York, C.B. Richardson, 1863. pg 64, 97.
   
Cooke, John Esten, Stonewall Jackson: a military biography. New York, D. Appleton and company, 1866. pg 169. Doubleday, Abner, "Chancellorsville and Gettysburg", Campaigns of the Civil War, New York, C.Scribner's Sons, 1882, pgs 156-184, 204-207.
   
Dowdey, Clifford, The SevenDays..The Emergence of Robert E. Lee, The Fairfax Press, New York, 1978 Egle, William Henry, An illustrated history of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg, De W.C. Goodrich & co., 1876, pgs, 534, 611, 930.
   
Greeley, Horace, The American conflict: a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-1864; its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for the union. Hartford, O.D. Case & company, London, Bacon & co., 1865-1866, pgs 137, 138, 388, 395,772, 780. Jones, N.Y.."The Pennsylvania Reserves at Gettysburg." Grand Army Scout and Soldiers Mail, November 3, 1883
   
Moore, Frank, Anecdotes, poetry, and incidents of the war: North and South. 1860-1865. Collected d arranged by Frank Moore. New York, Publication office, Bible house, J. Porteus, agent, 1867, pgs 211, 339. O'Reilly, Frank A. "Busted Up and Gone To Hell": The Assault of the Pennsylvania Reserves at Fredericksburg, Civil War Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War. Volume Four, No. 4, pp 1-27.
   
Palfrey, Francis Winthrop, The Antietam and Fredericksburg, New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912, pgs 56-63, 72-80, 147-159. Pennsylvania. Gettysburg Battlefield Commission. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg: Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Monuments Erected by the Commonwealth..  Vol 1. Harrisburg, PA: William S. Ray, 1914
            2nd and 3rd Days--July 2 & 3, 1863, pgs 40-58
            The First Brigade at Gettysburg, pgs 68-78      
|           Services of the Pennsylvania Reserves at Gettysburg, pgs 100-108
            The Reserves at Gettysburg, pgs 108-122           
            The Fifth Corps, pgs 146-147
   
Pollard, Edward Alfred, Lee and his lieutenants; comprising the early life, public services, and campaigns of General Robert E. Lee and his companions in arms, with a record if their campaigns and heroic deeds. New York, E.B. Treat & co., Baltimore, Md., J.S. Morrow, 1867. pg 460. Pollard, Edward Alfred, The lost cause; a new southern history of the war of the Confederates. Comprising a full and authentic account of the rise and progress of the late southern Confederacy--the campaigns, battles, incidents, and adventures of the most gigantic struggle of the world's history. Drawn from official sources, and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. By Edward A. Pollard. With numerous splendid steel portraits. New York, E.B. Treat & co., Baltimore, Md.,L. T. Palmer & co.; [etc., etc.] 1866.pg 275.
   
Pollard, Edward Alfred, The second year of the war. By Edward A. Pollard. Richmond, West & Johnston, 1863.pg 55. Smucker, Samuel M, The history of the civil war in the United States: its cause, origin, progress and conclusion. Containing full, impartial and graphic descriptions of the various military and naval engagements, with the heroic deeds achieved by armies and individuals, touching scenes and incidents in the camp, the cabin, the field and the hospital. And biographical sketches of its heroes. By Samuel M. Schumucker. Rev. and completed by Dr. L. P. Brockett. Illustrated with over one hundred and fifty fine portraits of generals, battle scenes, maps and diagrams.
Philadelphia [etc.], Jones brothers & co.,Chicago [etc.], Zeigler, McCurdy & co. 1865. pgs 14, 256, 265, 282, 315.
 
   
Sherry, Jeffrey F. "The Terrible Impetuosity:" The Pennsylvania Reserves at Gettysburg, Gettysburg Magazine 16 (1997), 68-80 Stackpole, Edward J., The Fredericksburg Canpaign, Drama on the Rappahannock, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, The Telegraph Press, 1957, pgs 156-159, 162-171, 172, 178-198.
   
Stackpole, Edward J., They Met At Gettysburg, Harrisburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1956, pgs 114-118,   Sypher, J.R., History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr and Co., 1865