The Real Horse Soldiers

by Timothy B Smith

  Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

  Havens Family Papers

  Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH), Jackson, MS

  Archer Family Papers

  Luther S. Baechtel Diary

  John J. Pettus, Correspondence and Papers, 1859-63

  W. A. Rorer Letters

  William T. Sherman Letters

  Subject Files

  Benjamin H. Grierson

  Grierson’s Raid

  Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

  Edward Fontaine Papers

  Miscellaneous Papers

  “Ex-Slave Autobiography,” Joe Rollins, West Point, Mississippi

  National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD

  RG 29, Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007

  Entry 293, Census

  1850 Chickasaw County (MS), Population and Slave Schedules

  1850 Tippah County (MS), Population Census

  1860 Amite County (MS), Population and Slave Schedules

  1860 Copiah County (MS), Population and Slave Schedules

  1860 Jasper County (MS), Population and Slave Schedules

  1860 Jefferson County (MS), Population and Slave Schedules

  1860 Lawrence County (MS), Population and Slave Schedules

  1860 Pontotoc County (MS), Population and Slave Schedules

  1860 Simpson County (MS), Population and Slave Schedules

  1860 Smith County (MS), Population and Slave Schedules

  1860 Winston County (MS), Population and Slave Schedules

  RG 94, Records of the Adjutant General’s Office

  E 57, Muster Rolls of Volunteer Organizations

  6th Illinois Cavalry

  7th Illinois Cavalry

  2nd Iowa Cavalry

  Battery K, 1st Illinois Artillery

  Compiled Service Records

  William D. Blackburn

  William D. Buffington

  Benjamin H. Grierson

  Edward Hatch

  Reuben Loomis

  Edward Prince

  George C. Reinholdt

  Jason B. Smith

  Richard W. Surby

  Samuel L. Woodward

  Erastus D. Yule

  Navarro College, Corsicana, TX

  Charles W. Galentine Letter

  Neshoba County Public Library, Philadelphia, MS

  Historic Neshoba County Maps

  Newberry Library, Chicago, IL

  Charles W. Galentine Letters

  Benjamin Henry Grierson Papers

  Pontotoc County, Chancery Clerk, Pontotoc, MS

  Deed Book 3

  Deed Book 17

  Ripley Public Library, Ripley, MS

  Land Deed Index

  Smith County Chancery Clerk, Raleigh, MS

  Deed Book 0524

  Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO

  Ellen Waddle McCoy Papers

  William H. Dennis Letters

  State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, IA

  Franklin Hammond Collection

  A.B. Rush Letters

  Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

  Benjamin H. Grierson Papers

  Tippah County Chancery Clerk, Ripley, MS

  Deed Index

  United States Army Heritage Education Center (USAHEC), Carlisle, PA

  Civil War Documents

  Collier Family Papers

  University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

  Henry Clinton Forbes Collection

  University of Illinois (UI), Champaign, IL

  William E. Dunaway Papers

  Henry C. Forbes Papers

  Stephen A. Forbes Papers

  University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS

  Wirt Adams Collection

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

  Jason Niles Diary

  University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI

  Edwin D. Levings Papers

  Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, MS

  Edwin C. Bearss, “Grierson’s Raid (April 17-May 2, 1863)”

  E. T. Eggleston Diary, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery File

  “Grierson’s Cavalry Raid: Eastern Mississippi Invaded,” 1937

  Handwritten Notes on Grierson’s Raid

  “Vicksburg 75 Years Ago,” Vicksburg Evening Post, April 22, 1938

  Winston County Public Library, Louisville, MS

  Jennie Newson Hoffman, “A History of Winston County Volume 1,” Federal Writer’s

  Project: Works Progress Administration, 1938

  Civil War in Winston County Vertical File

  Josie Worthy Holman Accounts

  Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI

  H. R. Curtiss Diary

  Newspapers

  Alton (IL) Telegraph

  Canton (IL) Fulton City Register

  Canton (IL) Weekly Register

  Chicago Inter Ocean

  Chicago Tribune

  Cleveland Morning Leader

  Columbus (MS) Republic

  Decatur (IL) Daily Review

  Edgefield (SC) Advertiser

  Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper

  Goshen (IN) Times

  Jackson Daily Mississippian

  Litchfield (IL) Union Monitor

  Memphis Daily Bulletin

  Mississippi Free Trader

  Mobile Advertiser and Register

  Mount Vernon (IL) Register News

  Natchez Daily Courier

  Neshoba (MS) Democrat

  New Orleans Era

  New York Times

  Newton (MS) Record

  Pontotoc (MS) Progress

  Rock Island (IL) Evening Argus

  Rockford Daily Gazette

  Rockford Weekly Gazette

  Sacramento Daily Union

  Simpson County (MS) News

  Smith County (MS) Reformer

  St. Landry (LA) Democrat

  Urbana (OH) Union

  Verdan (OK) News

  Vicksburg Evening Citizen

  Vicksburg Evening Post

  Winston County (MS) Journal

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