The following list is a Bibliography of American Civil War Union military unit histories.For a guide to publishers see Woodworth, The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research (1996), pp. 659–77 More details on each book are available at WorldCat.
For an overall national view see Bibliography of the American Civil War. For histories of the Confederacy see Bibliography of American Civil War Confederate military unit histories.
For a guide to the bibliography see:
Eicher, David J. The Civil War in Books An Analytical Bibliography (1997), an annotated guide to 1100 titles Murdock, Eugene C. Civil War in the North: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1987), 765pp Woodworth, Steven E.; ed. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Greenwood Press, 1996.
Union military units Boyle, Frank A. A Party of Mad Fellows: The Story of the Irish Regiments in the Army of the Potomac. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, 1996. Burton, William L. Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union's Ethnic Regiments. Ames, Iowa: State University Press, 1988. Embick, Milton A. History of the Third Division, Ninth Corps Army of the Potomac. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: C.E. Aughinbaugh, 1913. Hearn, Chester. Ellet's Brigade: The Strangest Outfit of All. 2000. Lause, Mark A. Race and Radicalism in the Union Army. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Starr, Stephen Z. The Union Cavalry in the Civil War, three volumes. 1979, 1981. Stephenson, Darl L. Headquarters in the Brush: Blazer's Independent Union Scouts. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2001. Stevens, C.A. Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, 1861–1865. Dayton Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1972. Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War: The First Year. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1997. . Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War: The Second Year. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc, 1997. . Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War: The Third Year. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1998. . Sullivan, David M. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War: The Final Year. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Books, 2000. . Vernon, George Washington Fayette and Thomas Hudson McKee. Civil War Regiments from Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia, 1861–1865. eBooksOnDisk.com, 2006.
Union brigades Banes, Charles. History of the Philadelphia Brigade: Sixty-Ninth, Seventy-First, Seventy-Second, and One Hundred and Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J.B. Lippincott, 1876. Bilby, Joseph G. The Irish Brigade in the Civil War: The 69th New York and Other Irish Regiments of the Army of the Potomac. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1995, 1997. . Bitter, Rand K. Minty and his Cavalry: A History of the Saber Brigade and its Commander. published by the author, 2006. Britton, Wiley. The Union Indian Brigade in the Civil War. Kansas City, Missouri: Franklin Hudson Publishing Company, 1922. Conyngham, D.P. The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns. New York: Fordham University Press, 1994. Gottfried, Bradley M. Stopping Pickett: The History of the Philadelphia Brigade. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Books, 1999. Katcher, Philip, ed. Building the Victory: The Order Book of the Volunteer Engineer Brigade, Army of the Potomac, October 1863-May 1865. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Man, 1998. McLean, Jr., James L. Cutler's Brigade at Gettysburg. Baltimore, Maryland: Butternut & Blue, 1994.
Western Iron Brigade Gaff, Alan D. Brave Men's Tears: The Iron Brigade at Brawner Farm. Dayton Ohio: Morningside House, 1991. Gaff, Alan D. On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996. Herdegen, Lance J. The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory: The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter. Savas Beatie, LLC, 2012. . Herdegen, Lance J. Those Damned Black Hats!: The Iron Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign. Savas Beatie, 2010. Herdegen, Lance J. The Men Stood Like Iron: How the Iron Brigade Won Its Name. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1997. Nolan, Alan T. The Iron Brigade, A Military History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961. . Nolan, Alan T. and Sharon Eggleston Vipond, editors. Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1998. Wert, Jeffry D. A Brotherhood of Valor: The Common Soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade, C.S.A., and the Iron Brigade, U.S.A. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. .
United States field armies Hunt, Aurora. The Army of the Pacific: Its Operations in California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Plains Region, Mexico, Etc., 1860–1866. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2004. . Longacre, Edward G. Army of Amateurs: General Benjamin F. Butler and the Army of the James, 1863–1865. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1997. Prokopowicz, Gerald J. All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861–1862. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. . Woodworth, Steven E. Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee 1861–1865. New York: Vintage Books, 2005. .
Army of the Cumberland Cist, Henry M. The Army of the Cumberland. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881. Daniel, Larry J. Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861–1865. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Dodge, William Sumner. History of the Old Second Division Army of the Cumberland. Chicago, Illinois: Church & Goodman, 1864. Van Horne, Thomas B. History of the Army of the Cumberland two volumes. Cincinnati, Ohio: Robert Clarke & Co., 1875.
Army of the Potomac Beatie, Russel H. The Army of the Potomac, Volume 1: Birth of Command, November 1860 – September 1861. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2002. Beatie, Russel H. Army of the Potomac, Volume 2: McClellan Takes Command, September 1861 – February 1862. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo, 2004. Beatie, Russel H. Army of the Potomac, Vol. 3: McClellan's First Campaign, March - May 1862. Savas Beatie, 2007. . Catton, Bruce. The Army of the Potomac. 3 volumes. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1951–1953. . Catton, Bruce. The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1952. . Catton, Bruce. The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1951. . Catton, Bruce. The Army of the Potomac: A Stillness at Appomattox. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1953. . Collins, Darrell L. The Army of the Potomac: Order of Battle, 1861–1865, with Commanders, Strengths, Losses and More. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2013. . Conner, Albert Z., and Chris Mackowski. Seizing Destiny: The Army of the Potomac's "Valley Forge" and the Civil War Winter that Saved the Union. El Dorado Hills, California: Savas Beatie, 2016. . French, Samuel Livington. The Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 1863. New York: Publishing Society of New York, 1906. Gregg, David M. The Second Cavalry Division of the Army of the Potomac in the Gettysburg Campaign. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: published by author, 1907. Joinville, Prince de. The Army of the Potomac: Its Organization, Its Commander, and Its Campaign. Translated by William H. Hurlbert. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1862. Kreiser, Jr., Lawrence A. Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2011. Naisawald, L. VanLoan. Grape and Canister: The Story of the Field Artillery of the Army of the Potomac, 1861–1865. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole, 1999. Stine, J.H. History of the Army of the Potomac. Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers, 1893. Swinton, William. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1866. Walker, Francis Amasa. History of the Second Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. Wert, Jeffry D. The Sword of Lincoln: The Army of the Potomac. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. .
United States corps
Kreiser, Jr., Lawrence A. Defeating Lee: A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2011. . Mulholland, St. Clair A. The Gettysburg Campaign: The Story of the Second Corps on the March and in Battle. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: McLaughlin Brothers, 1880. Petrie, Stewart J. and George Earl Judson. Bloody Path to the Shenandoah: Fighting with the Union VI Corps in the American Civil War. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Burd Street Press, 2004. . Powell, William H. The Fifth Army Corps (Army of the Potomac): A Record of Operations during the Civil War in the United States of America, 1861-1865. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. Walker, Francis Amasa. History of the Second Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. Woodbury, Augustus. Major General Ambrose Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps: A Narrative of Campaigns in North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee, during the War for the Preservation of the Republic. Providence, Rhode Island: S.S. Rider and Brother, 1867.
Unit histories by state
Alabama units Hoole, William Stanley. Alabama Tories: The First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., 1862–1865. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Confederate Publishing Company, 1960.
California units Masich, Andrew Edward. The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Parson, Thomas E. Bear Flag and Bay State in the Civil War: The Californians of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2001. Pettis, George Henry. Frontier Service during the Rebellion; or, A History of Company K, 1st Infantry, California Volunteers. Providence, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society, 1885.
Colorado units no author listed. The March of the First: Being a History of the Organization, Marches, Battles and Services of the First Regiment, of Colorado Volunteers, the Names of the Members of the Regiment, a List of Officers and Promotions, with a Full List of Killed Dead and Wounded by a Private of the Regiment. Denver, Colorado Territory: Thomas Gibson, 1863. Hollister, Ovando J. History of the First Regiment of Colorado Volunteers. Denver, Colorado Territory: Thomas Gibson, 1863. Williams, Ellen. Three Years and a Half in the Army: History of the Second Colorados. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1885.
Connecticut units no author listed. 17th Connecticut Volunteers at Gettysburg, June 30th and July 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 1863. Bridgeport, Connecticut: The Standard Association, 1884. Beecher, Herbert W. History of the First Light Battery, Connecticut Volunteers, 1861–1865; Personal Records and Reminiscences; The Story of the Battery from its Organization to the Present Time; Compiled from Official Records, Personal Interviews, Private Diaries, War Histories, and Individual Experiences. New York: A.T. DeLaMare Printing and Publishing Company, 1901 Blakeslee, Bernard F. History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers. Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood, and Brainard, 1875. Hamblen, Charles P. Connecticut Yankees at Gettysburg. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1993. Hubbell, W.S., A.M. Crane, and D.D. Brown. The Story of the Twenty First Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, 1861–1865. Middletown, Connecticut: The Stewart Printing Company, 1900. Marvin, Edwin E. The Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. Hartford, Connecticut: Wiley, Waterman and Eaton, 1889.