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Civil War Resources in the Norwich Archives: General Resources

Historical Collections at Norwich University

Norwich University Archives and Special Collections:

Sullivan Museum and History Center:

  • Museum catalog: Search the online catalog to the museum's collections

 

Tip: Try starting with searches for United States History Civil War, 1861 1865 or for a specific person or event.

You can also search for documents created in a certain date range, such as between 1861 and 1865.

Norwich University Histories and the Civil War

Kershaw, Alex, and Gordon R. Sullivan. Citizens & Soldiers: The First 200 Years of Norwich University. Northfield, Vt.: Norwich University Press, 2018.

Norwich University Bicentennial Commemoration Committee, and Norwich University. Archives. 200 Things About Norwich. Norwich, Vt.: Norwich University Press, 2019.

Medal of Honor Recipients of Norwich University. Norwich, Vermont: Norwich University, 2017.

Poirier, Robert G. "By the Blood of Our Alumni" : Norwich University Citizen Soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. 1St hardcovered. Mason City, Iowa: Savas Pub, 1999.

Shepard, William A, Friends of the Norwich University Library, and Norwich University. Library. The Hospital That Became a College : Sloan U.S. Army General Hospital, Montpelier, Vermont. Occasional Paper / Norwich University Library, No. 1. Northfield, Vt.: Norwich University Press, 1983.

Guinn, Robert Darius. The Contribution of Norwich University to the Civil War. [Norwichiana Collection], 1960.

Ellis, William Arba, and Grenville M Dodge. Norwich University, 1819-1911; Her History, Her Graduates, Her Roll of Honor. Montpelier, Vt: Capitol city Press, 1911.

Previous Student Scholarship

Antonitis, Kyle. “Romanticizing the Civil War: The Norwich Cadets in the genre of 19th century Civil War prose,” 2009.

Bisson, Wilfred M. “A new look at the relationship between Norwich University and the state of Vermont, 1819-1916,” 1999.

Brooks, Kyle M. “Training citizen-soldiers: Norwich University's contribution to the Vermont militia system, 1819-1865,” 2007.

Camburn, Daniel. “Union navy leaders from Norwich,” 2010.

Chapman, Mark. “Partridge’s Confederate commodores,” 2014.

Del Dotto, James. “The road to Union victory: Grenville M. Dodge’s role in southern railroad reconstruction during the American Civil War,” 2009.

Greenleaf, Christian D. “Follow me: Norwich officers in union colored regiments,” 2006.

Gaebelein, Thad. “The near collapse of Norwich University, 1865-1890,” 2009.

Martin, Charles. “James Evans’s journey: a Union soldier’s account of his captivity in Confederate prisons,” 2010.

Sosa, Levi. “Norwich alumni: training and mobilization of union troops,” 2009.

Toft, Ryan. “Changing times in a changing world? Norwich University during the Civil War,” 2008.

York, Daniel. “James M. McKaye: behind the lines of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments,” 2009.

Researching Alumni Contributions

Biographical information compiled by others about Norwich affiliates in the Civil War may also be found in the Norwich University Archives.

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