Bibliography for California Civil War Research
Colton, Ray Charles (1984). The Civil War in the western territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. University of Oklahoma Press.
Fischer, LeRoy H. (Editor) (1977). The Western Territories in the Civil War. Sunflower University Press.
Fischer, LeRoy H.(Editor) (1981). Civil War Battles in the West. Sunflower University Press.
Hunt, Aurora (2004). Army of the Pacific: its operations in California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Plains Region, Mexico, etc., 1860-1866. Stackpole Books, Mechanicsville, PA.
Hunt, Aurora (1958). Major General James Henry Carleton, 1814-1873: Western Frontier Dragoon. Arthur H. Clark Company.
Lash, Gary (2001). Duty Well Done: Edward D. Baker's California Regiment (71st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry). Butternut and Blue.
McLean, James R. (2000). California Sabers. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-33786-0.
Masich, Andrew E. (2006). The Civil War in Arizona; the Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-1865 [1]University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. ISBN 0-8061-3747-9
Orton, Brigadier General Richard H. (1890). The Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion. Adjutant-General of California.
Strobridge, William F. (1994). Regulars in the Redwoods, The U.S. Army in Northern California, 1852-1861. Arthur Clark Company.
Quinn, Arthur (1994). The Rivals, William Gwin, David Broderick, and the Birth of California. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE.
Talbott, Laurence F. (1998). California in the War for Southern Independence. Hale & Co., Los Angeles, CA.
Official Army Register of Volunteer Force of U.S. Army for Years 1861-1865. (8 parts). Part 7 - Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, California, Kansas, Oregon, Nevada Listing of military units, with officers by rank or position; and individual deaths, promotions, transfers, desertions, missing personnel, discharges; battles; enlisted men who received medals of honor. Alphabetical index in back.. United States, War Department. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1865.
Personal Name Index to the Records of California Men in the War of the rebellion, 1861 to 1867. Gale Research Co., Detroit, MI. 1978.
"The J.P. Gillis Flag, or the 'Biderman' Flag of California" article from the August 27, 2002 issue of The Vidette, the newsletter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, California Division.