For the interested reader, this is a listing of useful resources related to the content of Frederic James' diary: people, events, prisons, ships. Some are URLs linking to a specific web site, while others are printed materials also useful in researching the diary. Emails with new links are always welcome.
We start with the publication of the original diary.
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"Frederic Augustus James's Civil War
Diary - Presentation of the original diary of Frederic Augustus James, USN, written in the Confederate Prisons of Salisbury and Andersonville in the year 1864 |
Web Sites
People
American Civil War Research Database
http://www.civilwardata.com
Personnel and regimental records of army personnel who served in the civil war.
Sponsored and maintained by Historical Data Systems, Inc. A work in progress,
does not yet include naval personnel.
Andersonville Prisoner Information Database
www.maconcountyga.org
Contains National Park Service Andersonville prisoner database on-line. Look up information about prisoners by name or by
company and regiment. Another work in progress, some naval personnel in James'
diary are not yet included in this database.
Civil War Interactive
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com
The Daily Newspaper of the Civil War. Regular Civil War features include a
day-by-day look at the events of the war; trivia challenge; interactive
cookbook; television programs; discussion board; games; eBay listings; and Civil
War Interactive's LinkCentral. The Andersonville Diary website is proud to
display a CWi Award on its home page.
Assault on Fort Sumter September 8, 1863
A Confederate Stronghold - 1863-1865
http://www.ego.net/us/sc/chs/tts/page3.htm
A description of the Federal bombardment of Fort Sumter April-September 1863
and subsequent attacks.
American Civil War.com
http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/sc/sc009.html
Facts related to the assault on Fort Sumter September 8-9, 1863
Civil War Military Prisons
Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/CrisisMain.html
Charleston City Jail, Charleston, South Carolina
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/charleston/old,htm
Richland District Jail, Columbia, South Carolina
http://www.geocities.com/cmp_csa/ColaJail.htm
Libby and The Crew's Building, Richmond, Virginia
http://members.aol.com/jweaver300/grayson/libby.htm
Salisbury, North Carolina
www.ci.salisbury.nc.us/prison/csprison1.htm
Andersonville, Georgia
www.nps.gov/ande/
Navy Vessels in Frederic James' life
U.S.S. Columbine
http://www.multied.com/Navy/CWNavy/Columbine.html
http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/bar/uap/legacy/shipwreck.html
U.S.S. Housatonic
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-h/housatnc.htm
C.S.S. Hunley
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-3.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/docs/civilwar/hunley.htm
U.S.S. Ohio
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/o/ohio.htm
U.S.S Water Witch
http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/battles-campaigns/1864/640603.html
U.S.S. Wissahickon
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-w/wisahick.htm
Books and Printed Materials
Andersonville. John McElroy, Toledo, 1879
Andersonville Diary. John Ransom, Auburn, NY 1881
Andersonville Diary and Memories of Charles Hopkins. Editor: William Styple, Belle Grove Publishing Co., 1988
Andersonville Journey. Edward Roberts, Burd Street Publishing, 1998
Andersonville, The Last Depot. William Marvel, University of North Carolina Press, 1994
Andersonville: The Southern Perspective. Editor: J. H. Segars, Atlanta, 1995
Apple Trees Look Gay in Bloom. William Tritt, Glenville, OH 1987
At Andersonville. Josiah Brownell, Glen Cove, NY 1867
Bastiles of the Confederacy. Frank Moran, Baltimore, 1890
Battlefield and Prison Pen. John Urban, Philadelphia, 1882
Captive of War. Solon Hyde, Burd Street Publishing, 1900
Capture, Prison Pen, and the Escape. Willard Glazier, Albany, NY 1866
Civil War Diary of Amos Stearns. Editor: Leon Basile, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981
Civil War Prisons. William Hesseltine, Columbus, OH 1930
Civil War Prisons and Their Covers. Earl Antrim, 1961
Dancing Along the Deadline. Ezra Hoyt Ripple, Persido, Ca 1996
Dark Days of the Rebellion, Life in Southern Military Prisons. Benjamin F. Booth, 1897
Dear Folks at Home. Edited by Milton Flower, Carlisle, PA 1963
Death Before Dishonor. Eugene Forbes, Belle Grove Publishing Co., 1995
Dennison's Andersonville Diary. James Dennison, Kankakee, IL 1987
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Volumes 1-8. 1981
Eighteen Months as a Prisoner. S.S. Boggs, Lovington, IL 1887
From Ashby to Andersonville. George Hitchcock, Campbell, CA 1997
George W. Alexander and Castle Thunder. Frances H. Casstevens, McFarland & Co, NC 2004
History of Andersonville Prison. Ovid Futch, University of Florida Press, 1968
History of Shipbuilding on the North River, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Lloyd Vernon Briggs, 1889
In and Out of Rebel Prisons. A. Cooper, Oswego, NY 1888
In Defense of the Union. John Urban, Chicago, 1887
In Vinculis; or The Prisoner of War. Anthony M. Keiley, Petersburg, VA 1866
Life and Death in Rebel Prisons. Robert Kellogg, Hartford, CT 1865
Martyria. Augustus Hamlin, Boston, 1866
Narrative of Andersonville. Ambrose Spencer, New York, 1866
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies.
Over the Deadline. S.M.Dufur, Richford, VT 1902
Pennsylvania Quaker in Andersonville. Charles Smedley, 1865
Plymouth Memoirs of an Octogenarian. William T. Davis, 1906
Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War. Lonnie R. Speer, Stackpole Books, 1997
Prison Life in Andersonville. John Maile, Los Angeles, 1912
Prison Life in Dixie. Vawter, Chicago 1881
Prison Life in the South. A.O.Abbott, New York, 1866
Prisoner of War in Virginia. George Haven Putnam, New York, 1912
Raising the Hunley. Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf, Ballantine Books, NY 2002
Recollections of Prison Life. C. A. Smith, Raleigh, NC 1997
Recollections of a Prisoner of War. Andrew Roy, Columbus, OH 1905
Siege of Charleston. E. Milby Burton, U.of South Carolina Press, 1970
Sketches of Prison Camps. Charles Nott, New York 1865
Smoked Yank. Melvin Gregsby, 1888
Soldier's Story of His Captivity at Andersonville. Warren Lee Goss, Boston, 1867
State Monuments at Andersonville:
New Jersey Andersonville Monument Commission, Somerville,1899
Report of the Committee of Andersonville Monument, Boston, 1902
Report of the Ohio Andersonville Monument Commission, Clyde, 1902
Report of the Joint Special Committee, Providence, 1903
Report of the Maine Andersonville Monument Commission, Augusta, 1904
Report of the Michigan Andersonville Monument Committee, Lansing, 1905
In Memory of the Men of Connecticut, Hartford, 1908
Dedication of Monuments Erected by the State of Iowa, Des Moines, 1908
In Memory of the Soldiers of Indiana, Indianapolis, 1909
Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Memorial, Harrisburg, 1909
Report of the Wisconsin Monument Commission, Madison, 1911
Report Report of the Illinois-Andersonville Memorial Commission, Springfield, 1913
Dedication of Monument Erected by New York at Andersonville, Albany, 1916
Report of the Minnesota Commission, St. Paul, 1916
Report of the Unveiling and Dedication of the Tennessee Union Soldiers’ Monument in Andersonville Prison Park, Sevierville, TN, 1916 Record-Republican
The Knightly Soldier. Chaplain H. Clay, Trumbull, Boston, 1865
The Salisbury Prison. Louis A. Brown, 3rd Edition, Wilmington, NC 1992
The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape. Albert D. Richardson, Hartford, CT 1865
The Southern Side., R. Randolph Stevenson, Baltimore, MD 1876
This Was Andersonville. Roy Meredith, New York 1957
Tragedy of Andersonville. N.P. Chipman, San Francisco, 1911
True Story of Andersonville Prison. James Madison Page, Werner Co., 1908
Twelve Months in Andersonville. Lessel Long, Huntington, IN 1886
Andersonville Stockade -
1864-1865
(Reconstructed c1990)