The National Tribune Civil War Index: A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943 (vols 1-3)
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- Author/Editor:
- Richard A. Sauers
- Pub Date:
- November 2019
- ISBN (v1):
- 978-1-61121-364-5
- eISBN (v1):
- 978-1-94066-974-8
- Binding:
- Hardcover, 7 x 10
- Specs:
- 364pp, 382pp, & 392pp.
- Signed bookplates:
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WE GOOFED. The final sets are in the wrong warehouse and have to be moved. Our mistake is your gain.
Sets are band new, and lovely.
(Please note: The gold stamping on the front was only available on the limited "John McElroy special edition" that is sold out. The current printing has gold stamping on the spine only.)
Click HERE to read the Introduction to volume 1, which helps explain how to use this set and the history of the National Tribune.
This is a complete indexing, NOT the articles (that would be dozens of volumes!). This allows you to FIND needles in the haystack, i.e., exactly what you are looking for by subject, name, unit, etc.
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All books are sewn (not glued) for added strength, and printed on acid-free high quality paper.
This is for researchers, writers, or those who want to find and enjoy tens of hundreds of firsthand articles they have likely never seen or read before.
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The National Tribune set is available as a set only (print volumes are not sold separately; you need all three because they are designed to work together.) The Kindle digital volumes are used the same way, but are purchased separately here:
About this Set
From generals to privates, the paper printed articles and long serials on everything from major battles such as Gettysburg and Antietam, to arguments about which battery fired the shot that killed General Leonidas Polk, whether Grant’s army was surprised at Shiloh, and just about every topic in between. Unbeknownst to many, a number of Confederate accounts were also published in the paper. Decades in the making, Dr. Rick Sauers’ unique multi-volume reference work The National Tribune Civil War Index: A Guide to the Weekly Newspaper Dedicated to Civil War Veterans, 1877-1943 lists every article (1877-1943).
Volume 3 consists of an Author Index, a Subject Index, a Unit Index (which consists of articles written by members of these units), and a Units as Sources Index (which includes articles about certain units not necessarily written by members of those units, as well as biographies of members of the unit). All four are alphabetical and are referenced by issue date (1877 to 1943). The major subject headings are broken down into subheadings in order to allow readers seeking finite information on a subject to locate the desired information as quickly as possible. Many of the larger battles and campaigns have the entries broken down into the Union corps and divisions that participated. I felt this approach would be easier than trying to divide the entries by topic. Cross references are used when needed.
Of course, it is also highly entertaining to simply read through the contents of issue after issue just to see what the veterans were writing about and when they were doing so. The National Tribune is a goldmine of information for anyone studying and/writing about the Civil War.
The National Tribune can be found in a variety of libraries across the United States, BUT you need this set to access it with any hope of finding what you are seeking. A few institutions have complete files of the paper, but most repositories seem to have incomplete runs.
The Chronicling America section of the Library of Congress’s website (http://chronicling america.loc.gov) offers a fairly complete list of repositories. The name changes of the paper each has one entry in the Chronicling America section, so be sure to check each one to follow the newspaper’s long history. The Library of Congress microfilm set of 40 reels (1877-1940) was copied for Antietam and Gettysburg, among other places. A gap from October 6, 1904, through September 28, 1905, exists in the Library of Congress’ own holdings. The Ohio Historical Society has a microfilm copy covering this gap.
The following list includes only the major libraries that have extended runs of The National Tribune:
Antietam National Battlefield Park, Sharpsburg, MD. 1877-1917.
Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, IL. 1932-1938, 1942-1946.
Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI. 1896-1940.
Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA. 1877-1940.
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. 1877-1940.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA. 1882-1887, 1889-1895, 1915.
New York Public Library, New York, NY. 1884-1894.
Stars and Stripes Museum/Library, Bloomfield, MO. 1903-1905, 1908, 1910-1995, 1997-1999.
United States Army Heritage & Education Center, Carlisle, PA. 1877-1940.
University of Texas, Austin, TX. 1929-1946.
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH. 1877-1921.
Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY. 1889-1894, 1897, 1903-1917 (lots of missing issues).
Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH. 1883-1916.
Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI. 1882-1917.
Vol. 1: ISBN: 978-1611213645
Vol. 1: eISBN: 978-1940669748
Vol. 2: ISBN: 978-1611213652
Vol. 2: eISBN: 978-1940669755
Vol. 3: ISBN: 978-1611213669
Vol. 3: eISBN: 978-1940669762
Reviews
"While scholars of the veteran experience and Civil War memory will still find these volumes useful, this handsome set—tightly bound and printed on high quality paper—will pay its greatest dividends to traditional military historians." - The Civil War Monitor
A native of Lewisburg, PA, Richard A. Sauers received his B.A. in History from Susquehanna University, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including A Caspian Sea of Ink: The Meade-Sickles Controversy (1989), the highly-acclaimed two-volume Advance the Colors! Pennsylvania Civil War Battle Flags (1987-1991), and his latest, The Fishing Creek Confederacy: A Story of Civil War Draft Resistance (2013). Dr. Sauers serves as the executive director of the Western Museum of Mining and Industry in Colorado Springs.
