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Search Strategies in the Online Catalog:Unit Histories
SUBJECTS:
1. United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 24th (1862-1865)
2. United States. Army. Iron Brigade
3. United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Regimental Histories
4. Michigan—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Regimental Histories
Unit HistoriesUse this “Advanced Keyword Search”
Template
• SUBJECT: CIVIL WAR 1861• SUBJECT: [COUNTRY OR
STATE]• SUBJECT: [TYPE OF UNIT]• Any Field: [NUMERICAL
PERMUTATIONS]
EXAMPLES:
Battles and Campaigns:Use Subject Search:
Names of a Battle or Campaign• Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862• Corydon, Battle of, Corydon, Ind., 1863• Morgan’s Ohio Raid, 1863• New Mexico Campaign, 1862• Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864• Sherman’s March to the Sea • Valverde, Battle of Val Verde, N.M., 1862• Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864
SiegesUse this format in the Subject Catalog[City (State)] – History -- Siege, [date]
• Baton Rouge (La.) – History – Siege, 1862• Charleston (S.C) – History – Siege, 1863• Corinth (Miss.) – History – Siege, 1863• Fort Fisher (N.C.) – History – Siege, 1864-
1865• Knoxville (Tenn.) – History – Siege, 1863• Petersburg (Va.) – History – Siege, 1864-
1865
COMBINE “REGIMENTAL HISTORIES”WITH A BATTLE’S NAME
General Ben “The Beast” Butler
What the !!!???***
West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman. Vol. 2. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005. p195.
PRIMARY SOURCES:Definition
“…items that are directly associated with their producer or user and the time period in which they were created. Examples, include diaries, newspapers articles, government documents, photographs, oral interviews, and news broadcasts.”
Presnell, Jenny L. The information-literate historian : a guide to research
for history students (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007): 93.
CAUTION: MEMOIRS
SOURCE: Hamilton, Milton. "Augustus Buell: Fraudulent Historian", Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1956), 478-92
FINDING PRIMARY SOURCESIN THE ONLINE CATALOG:
1. See if your person wrote something
AUSTIN BLAIR
ONLINE CATALOG SEARCH
RESEARCH IN AN ARCHIVES
FINDING PRIMARY SOURCESIN THE ONLINE CATALOG:
2. RESTRICT BY DATE OF PUBLICATION
JUDAH BENJAMIN: • 2nd Jewish Senator
in U.S. History• Confederate:
– Attorney General– Secretary of War– Secretary of State
• British Legal Expert
FINDING PRIMARY SOURCESIN THE ONLINE CATALOG:
3. STANDARDIZED
SUBDIVISIONS
sources manuscripts
archives notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
archival resources personal narratives, American, Chinese, Finnish
correspondence personnel records
diaries records and correspondence
Operations at Sea: Diary
Memoir of Sarah Emma Edmonds
I was ordered by General H. to pass the rebel lines, and return as soon as possible. I took the train at Warrenton Junction, went to Washington, procured a disguise, that of a female contraband, and returned the same night. I passed through the enemy's lines in company with nine contrabands, men, women, and children, who preferred to live in bondage with their friends, rather than to be free without them. I had no difficulty whatever in getting along, for I, with several others, was ordered to headquarters to cook rations enough, the rebels said, to last them until they reached Washington.
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