I still prefer to crack a book open than to click a mouse when it comes to research. Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to build up a small reference library that I constantly use when working on the magazine.
I’ve been looking for a set of the three-volume New York Monuments Commission’s Final Report of the Battlefield of Gettysburg, and I finally found an affordable one in decent shape. The series was published in 1900 by J.B. Lyon Company of Albany, N.Y. The state of New York contributed more soldiers to the fight than any other in the Union, and therefore has the most monuments on the field, 87.
Volume One kicks off the series with a history of the battle, including data tables on daily itineraries, regimental rosters, casualties
