Colorado Civil War Bibliography



  • Adams, Blanche V., "The Second Colorado Cavalry in the Civil War," Colorado Magazine, VII, 3, May 1931.
  • Carey, Raymond G., "Colonel Chivington, Brigadier General Connor, and Sand Creek," Denver Posse of the Westerners 1960 Brand Book. Boulder: The Johnson Publishing Company, 1961;
  • _________"The Bloodless Third' Regiment, Colorado Volunteer Cavalry," Colorado Magazine, Vol. 38 No. 4, October 1961.
  • Colton, Ray C., The Civil War in the Western Territories. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.
  • Hoig, Stan. The Sand Creek Massacre. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961.
  • Hollister, Ovando J., History of the First Regiment of Colorado Volunteers, Denver: Thomas Gibson & Co., 1863. Reprint: Colorado Volunteers in New Mexico, 1862. Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., The Lakeside Press, 1962.
  • Howbert, Irving. Memories of a Lifetime in the Pike's Peak Region. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925.
  • Hyde, George E. Life of George Bent Written from his Letters. Savoie Lottinville, editor. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.
  • Ickis, Alonzo Ferdinand. Bloody Trails Along the Rio Grande. Nolie Mumey, editor. Denver: The Old West Publishing Company, 1958.
  • Nankivell, Major John H., History of the Military Organizations of the State of Colorado. Denver: The W.H. Kistler Stationery Co., 1935.
  • Sanford, Mollie Dorsey. Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 1959.
  • Smith, Duane A., The Birth of Colorado: A Civil War Perspective. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
  • U. S. War Department. The Official Records of the American Civil War. A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Four series, 128 vols. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
  • Whitford, William C., Colorado Volunteers in the Civil War. Denver: Colorado State Historical Society, 1909; Golden, Colorado: Pruett Press, 1963. Colorado in the New Mexico Campaign, 1906
  • Williams, Mrs. Ellen. Three Years and a Half in the Army; or, History of the Second Colorados. New York: Fowler & Wells Company, 1885.

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