Cornell University's Making of America website has an online version of the “The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies” located at http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/m/moawar/waro.html
Many of the following references are available in searchable form on Google Books.
- Buresh, Lumir F. October 25th and The Battle of Mine Creek. Kansas City: The Lowell Press, 1977.
- Busch, Walter E. Daily Missouri Democrat Articles. http://mostateparks.com/sites/default/files/article_dmd_09281864%5B1%5D.pdf
- Busch, Walter E. Fort Davidson and Battle of Pilot Knob : Missouri's Alamo. Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010.
- Darr, John C. Price's Raid Into Missouri. Confederate Veteran 11 (1903) 359-362.
- Douglass, Robert S. History Of Southeast Missouri. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1912.
- Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908.
- Edwards, John N. Shelby And His Men: Or, The War In The West. Cincinnati: Miami Printing and Publishing Co., 1867.
- Gifford, Douglas L. The Battle of Pilot Knob Staff Ride and Battlefield Tour Guide. Winfield, Missouri: Instantprint.com, 2003.
- Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Volume One. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885
- Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Volume Two. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1886.
- Hewett, Janet B., Noah Andre Trudeau, and Bryce A. Suderow, Editors. Supplement to the Official records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Part 1. Volume 7. Wilmington, NC : Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1997.
- Holt, Joseph. Report Of The Judge Advocate General On The "Order Of American Knights", Or "The Sons Of Liberty". Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864.
- Marshall, Albert O. Army Life From A Soldier's Journal. Second Edition. Chicago: Chicago Legal News Company, 1884.
- Marshall-Cornwall, James. Grant As Military Commander. New York: Barnes & Nobel Books, 1970.
- Monnett, Howard N. Action Before Westport, 1864 . Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1995.
- Parrish, William E. A History of Missouri: 1860 to 1875. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1973.
- Peterson, Cyrus A. Narrative of the Capture and Murder of Major James Wilson. St. Louis: A. R. Fleming Printing Company, 1906.
- Peterson, Cyrus A. and Joseph M. Hanson. Pilot Knob : the Thermopylae of the West. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1914.
- Ponder, Jerry. General Sterling Price's 1864 invasion of Missouri. Mason, Texas: Ponder books, 1999.
- Stevens, Walter B. Centennial History of Missouri. Volume 1. St. Louis: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1921.
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 volumes in 4 series. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. Series 1, Volume XIII.
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 volumes in 4 series. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. Series 1, Volume XXII.
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 volumes in 4 series. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. Series 1, Volume XXXIV.
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 volumes in 4 series. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. Series 1, Volume XLI.
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 volumes in 4 series. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. Series 1, Volume LI.
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 volumes in 4 series. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. Series 1, Volume LIII.
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 volumes in 4 series. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. Series 2, Volume IV.
- U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 volumes in 4 series. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. Series 3, Volume I.