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Tools & Resources
The computer age has made possible the availability and accessibility
of vast amounts of data and historical information thus simplifying
the task of doing research that in years past would have required
spending countless hours in libraries, archives and other research
facilities. Much of the initial research necessary to produce
this work was done using a computer keyboard to access popular
research websites. The following is a list of such websites:
Ancesty.com and it's Images
On Line technology made it possible to search for Military Records
and Pension Applications for the soldiers. Once a file was located,
additional research at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
was necessary to review the contents of any individual pension
file.
Since the objective of this book was to identify College Point men who fought
in the Civil War, www.Civilwardata.com
was a particularly helpful Civil War Research Database to locate a number of "hard
to find" soldiers.
George Bearsdslee, whose son Frederick
is profiled in the book, invented a communications instrument that
was used during the early stages of the Civil War. It was called
the Beardslee Telegraph Machine. To learn more about this
invention and its use during the war, check out this link: www.beardsleetelegraph.org
To look deeper into a unit that attracted many men from the College
Point area, a comprehensive retelling of the story of the 20th
New York Infantry, written by Gary Kappesser, can be found at:
http://gkkapp.home.infi.net/20NYSV.htm.