[Genealib] Confederate Regimental History Series

Thu Jul 13 16:21:42 EDT 2006

Thanks John. That's a wealth of information and I appreciate it. 

Tracy E. Luscombe

Genealogy Librarian

McKinney Memorial Public Library

101 E. Hunt Street

McKinney, TX 75069

tluscombe at mckinneytexas.org

972-547-7343

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From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
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johnr238 at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 3:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Genealib] Confederate Regimental History Series

This is John Rigdon, author and Publisher of the Confederate Regimental
History Series referenced in the original Email query.  There are
apparently two sets of books which are being confused.  The Hardback
Set, if I am not mistaken was published by H. E. Howard, Inc. and
basically limited to Virginia Units.  My books cover the other
Confederate states and are paterned after Howard's series.

The quality and amount of information on Confederate Troops varies from
state to state and regiment to regiment.  As a general rule the amount
of details I have on individual soldiers is listed below with the states
with the best information listed first.

Louisiana

Maryland

Georgia - Infantry Units

Arkansas

Alabama

South Carolina

Tennessee

Kentucky

The following states books generally do not contain service records of
the individual soldiers.

North Carolina

Florida

Texas

Mississippi

Missouri

If you want to see an electronic copy of a couple of the books, send me
an email and I will forward a couple of regimental histories as PDF
files so you can get an idea of the contents.

John Rigdon

ResearchOnLine

http://www.researchonline.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan.Scouras at wvculture.org
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Sent: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: [Genealib] Confederate Regimental History Series

Some of the volumes contain rosters, which is useful for genealogy, but
those rosters are probably available from other sources.

Susan Scouras

Librarian

WV Archives and History Library

The Cultural Center

1900 Kanawha Blvd. East

Charleston, WV  25305-0300

(304) 558-0230, Ext. 742

	-----Original Message-----
	From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Tracy
Luscombe
	Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:00 AM
	To: Librarians Serving Genealogists
	Subject: RE: [Genealib] Confederate Regimental History Series
	Importance: Low

	Thanks Susan. I'm considering them more for genealogy so maybe
they aren't the best choice. 

	Tracy

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	From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Susan
Scouras
	Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:44 AM
	To: Librarians Serving Genealogists
	Subject: RE: [Genealib] Confederate Regimental History Series

	Tracy:

	Our in-house Civil War historian and author, Terry Lowry, says
this set is good and is considered one of the "classics" for Civil War
history.  We have the original 12 hardbound volumes in our collection,
but they are not used heavily.  If you have true Civil War historians
and buffs who truly research the Civil War, you will probably want this
set for your library.  If you don't expect much use, the CD-ROM version
would probably be adequate.  There are used sets and individual volumes
widely available in the book market, from what I can see.  This set has
been reprinted several times over the years.

	Hope this helps.

	Susan

	Susan Scouras

	Librarian

	WV Archives and History Library

	The Cultural Center

	1900 Kanawha Blvd. East

	Charleston, WV  25305-0300

	(304) 558-0230, Ext. 742

		-----Original Message-----
		From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Tracy
Luscombe
		Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:20 PM
		To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
		Subject: [Genealib] Confederate Regimental History
Series
		Importance: Low

		Does anyone out there own these books?  If so, what is
your opinion of the work being worth the cost?

		http://www.researchonline.net/catalog/index.htm

		Tracy E. Luscombe

		Genealogy Librarian

		McKinney Memorial Public Library

		101 E. Hunt Street

		McKinney, TX 75069

		972-547-7343

		tluscombe at mckinneytexas.org

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