NOTE: The list which follows is incomplete and I will be updating it within a few days. I am particularly grateful to those individual scholars who took the time to write me or to answer my phone calls during this project.

Primary Resources

"The War of the Rebellion: A Compilaton of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies," Series 3, Vol. 4, Part 1 (Union Letters, Orders, Reports) and Series I, Volume XXXVIII, Part 1, Reports, Published under direction of the War Department, Government Printing Office, 1891.

Illustrated History of Atlanta, by Edward Young Clarke

Pioneer Citizen's History of Atlanta, 1833-1902, published by the Pioneer Citizens' Society, Atlanta

Atlanta and Its Builders, a Comprehensive History of the Gate City, Volumes 1 and 2, by Thomas H. Martin

Story of Atlanta Georgia, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, by Wallace Putnam Reed

De Bow's Review, Volume 27, by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, William MacCreary Burwell

Yesterday's Atlanta, by Franklin M. Garrett

Atlanta and Its Environs, by Franklin M. Garrett

Souvenir Book of the General Assemblies, Atlanta., Ga., May 14-25 1913, Published by Committee on Souvenir Book, Lucian Lamar Knight, Charrman

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Atlanta, 1886

"The Three Years' Service of the Thirty-Third. Mass. Infantry Regiment, 1862-1865) And the Campaigns and Battles of Chancellorsville, Beverly's Ford, Gettysburg, Wauhatchie, Chattanooga, Atlanta, The March to the Sea and Through the Carolinas, In Which It Took Part," By Adin B. Underwood, former Colonel of the Regiment, Brig. Gen. and Brevet Maj. Gen., U.S. V., published in Boston 1881

Modern Works

The Railroads of the Confederacy, by Robert C. Black

Richard Peters: Champion of the New South, by Royce Shingleton

"My Brave Mechanics": the First Michigan Engineers and their Civil War, by Mark Hoffman

The Historic Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta: Speaking Stones, by Cathy J. Kaemmerlen

Lineage and Tradition of the Herring, Conyers, Hendrick, Boddie, Perry Families, by Rebecca Herring Hendrick

Cotton, Fire and Dreams: the Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry, by Robert Scott Davis

History of Service: Atlanta Fire Department Commemorative Yearbook, published by Turner Publishing Company.

Sam Richard's Civil War Diary; a Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front, Edited by Wendy Hamand Venet

Lincoln's Generals, by Gabor S. Boritt and Stephen W. Sears

"Two Confederate Hospitals and Their Patients: Atlanta to Opelika," Jack D. Welsh

"Requiem For a Lost City: A Memoir of Civil War Atlanta and the Old South," by Robert Scott Davis

"This Business of War: The Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster," By William Gates Le Duc, Edited by Adam Scher (page 127)

Magazine Articles

"The John Brown Pikes," by Frank Heywood Hodder, Kansas Historical Quarterly, November, 1933 (Vol. 2, No. 4), pages 386 to 390

The Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal; Westmoreland, Miller and Gray, editors,Vol. XXV (old series) Vol 1 (new series) March 1884- February, 1886

"Joe Brown's Pikes: Southern Cold Steel in Close Quarters," by LTC (Ret.) Joe Griffith, Journal of the HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE GEORGIA NATIONAL GUARD. Vol. 8, No. 2. Fall 2000

"Concert After Atlanta Fell," the Atlanta Journal Magazine, Nov. 6, 1927

“History of West End, 1830-1910,” by Cornelia E. Cooper, Atlanta Historical Bulletin, Vol. VIII, Jan. 1947, No. 31, pp 65-85.

Numerous editions of the Atlanta Historical Bulletin

Online Resources

Dixie Gentlemanly Capitalism: Studies in the British Finance of the Confederacy, by Michael Lloyd Weisel, A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University

"Oakland Cemetery Book," Website of the Office of the Georgia Secretary of State

Private Correspondence

Robert Scott Davis, M. Ed., M. A., Senior Professor of Genealogy, Geography, & History and Director, Family & Regional History Program, Wallace State College, Hanceville, Alabama

Dave Williams, unoffical historian of the Atlanta Fire Department

Dr. Daniel A. Brown, Historian/Archivist, US Army Signal Center, Ft Gordon, Georgia

Wendy H. Venet, professor of History, Georgia State University

Hari Jones, Curator, African American Civil War Museum, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Frank Smith, African American Civil War Museum, Washington, D.C.

Adam Scher, Vice President of Operations, The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Ironworks in Richmond Virginia

Newspapers

The New York Times, April 18, 1888

The New York Times, Nov. 8, 1866,

The Atlanta Constitution, Sept. 18, 1874

The Atlanta Intelligencer, 1864 editions

The Memphis Appeal, 1864 editions