Bibliography for Kansas Civil War Research

Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, reprint 1987. Originally published in 1956.

Etcheson, Nicole. Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865 By Dudley Taylor Cornish

Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, The Civil War's First African American Combat Unit By Ian Michael Spurgeon

Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865 By Noah Andre Trudeau

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kansas, 1861-1865. Vol. 1. (Reprinted by Authority) Topeka, Kansas: The Kansas State Printing Company. 1896.

The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves By Andrew Ward