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Ancestry.com. Semi-history of a boy-veteran of the Twenty-eighth Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers, in a black regiment [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data: Hobart, Edwin L.,. Semi-history of a boy-veteran of the Twenty-eighth Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers, in a black regiment : a diary of 28th Ill. from organization to veteranizing : History of the Fifty-eighth Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry, with some closing reminiscences with the former, and a rounding out of my long service with the latter regiment : some startling incidents of the great Civil War not heretofore found in histories and of interest to every soldier of the Western Army : Sultana disaster, explosion of Marshall's Warehouse at Mobile, Ala., Chattanooga Campaign, Meridian Expedition with expedition from Yazoo City under Colonel Coats, and expedition from Memphis under General William Sooy Smith, itinerary of the 17th Army Corps with full report of General Marcelus M. Crocker, commanding Fourth Division. Denver?: unknown, 1905?.