by Catherine L. Hughes, 254 pages, 2004. Includes listings of all county soldiers killed in action, illustrated.

This 40 page booklet was first published in 2004 for the county’s bicentennial and quickly sold out. This 2007 revised edition has added information, more newspaper clippings and additional photos.

IN THE PENNSYLVANIA APPALACHIANS, by Robert M. Sandow. During the Civil War. This explores one of these least-known inner civil wars, the widespread, sometimes violent opposition in the lumbering country of Pennsylvania. A hardbound, 6 x 9 inch, 229 page publication with index.

A Civil War tribute to the Elk County Rifles, Company G of the Pennsylvania Bucktails. By Robert Winslow Nay – A collection of people, facts and experiences of this distinguished, proud fighting unit.

John Bard’s scrapbook, The Story of the Old Bucktails, was published in the Curwensville Herald newspaper in the 1880’s. Unavailable to the public since then, it is a compelling read. Bard’s Scrapbook takes the reader back to a time when the veterans of the American Civil War were still alive.

Written by Emma Gavazzi, takes us through Thompson’s life as a Bucktail. Readers will learn about the man & the fight of Union soldiers.

About Pvt. Adams S. Johnston of Co. D, 79th Reg. He was wounded at Battle of Chaplin Heights, captured in 1863, survived Libby and Danville Prison Camps, paroled April 1864. 159-page, paperback.