First Virginia Battalion Reading List

Books and magazines about the Irish Battalion,

Coco, Gregory A. Wasted Valor: The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg. Thomas Publications. Gettysburg. 1990. Good account of the dead of Major B.W. Leigh

Davidson, Charles A. Major Charles A. Davidson: Letters of a Virginia Soldier. Ed. Charles W. Turner. Civil War History, Vol.22. #1. March, 1976. Great primary source information by an officer of the 1st. VA.

Driver, Robert J. Jr. and Kevin C. Ruffner. 1st Battalion Virginia Infantry, 39th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, 24th Battalion Virginia Partisan Rangers. H.E. Howard, Inc. Lynchburg, VA. 1996. Unit history and troop roster.

Douglas, Henry Kyd. I Rode with Stonewall. UNC Press. Chapel Hill. 1940. Several good descriptions of Battalion officers and unit actions in the Valley Campaign of 1862

Krick, Robert K. Conquering the Valley. William Morrow & Co. New York. 1998. Information on the Valley Campaign

Krick, Robert K. Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain. UNC Press. Chapel Hill. 1990. Information on the Irish Battalion at the Battle of Cedar Mountain

Radley, Kenneth. Rebel Watchdogs: The Confederate States Army Provost Guard. LSU Press. Baton Rouge. 1989. Information on the Irish Battalion as Provost Guards

Rufffner, Kevin C. "Virginia's Fighting Irish" Civil War: The Magazine of the Civil War Society. March-April, 1991. p.71-85. Magazine article on the 1st Virginia Battalion

Worsham, John H. One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry Ed. James Robertson & Bell Wiley. Broadfoot Publishing Co. Wilmington, NC. 1991. Worsham served in the same brigade with the men of the Irish Battalion.

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