The California Column
Resource material for the California Column:
Online resource links:
Diary of
Alexander G. Bowman
Company B, Fifth Infantry Regiment
California
Volunteer Army
From the University of Arizona Digital Collection
California Civil War Rosters
From the book "Records of California Men
In the War of The Rebellion"
By Brig. General Richard H. Orton
Diary of
Eli W. Hazen
From The Journal of San Diego History
Spring 1976, Volume 26, Number 2
Books:
Andrew E.
Masich
The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-1865
University of Oklahoma Press, 2008
(available through Amazon; Barnes and Noble, etc.)
Aurora Hunt
The Army of the Pacific: Its Operations in California,
Texas, Arizona, Utah, Nevada,
Oregon, Washington, Plans Region, etc., 1861-1865
Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2004
(available through Amazon; Barnes and Noble, etc.)
Other Links:
Manifest Destiny
Collected
research materials by CA & AZ reenactors who portray Co. F., of
the 1st
California Volunteer Infantry