SYNOPSIS :

1        Native Land

2        American West

3        Call to Arms

4        In Richmond

5        The Mississippi

6        Towards Vicksburg

7        Louisiana

8        Mobile

9        Post-War Period

10      The Diplomatic Career

11      The Spanish-American War

12      Last Years

SOURCES :

Le pays natal

LEDERER, André :
Jean-Baptiste Vifquain, in Biographie Nationale, Tome XLIII - Supplément Tome XV, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 1983-1984, col. 700-735;
Jean-Baptiste Vifquain et les siens, in L’intermédiaire des généalogistes, n° 236, mars-avril 1985, pp. 85-94;
Victor Vifquain, pionnier du Nebraska, général et grand citoyen américain, in Bulletin des Séances de l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, n° 29 (1983-3), pp. 257-266;
Académie de Marine :
Manifestation J.B. Vifquain (Catalogue), Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles, 1982;
Ministère de la Défense Nationale :
Registre de Matricule du 5ème de Ligne, Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire Militaire, Bruxelles;
Commune de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode :
Registre des naissances, 1836;

L’Ouest américain

GREGORY, Annadora Foss :
Pionneer Days in Crete, Lincoln (Nebraska), State Journal Printing Company, 1937, pp. 16-17;
ANONYME (journal) :
Mrs Caroline Vifquain, First White Woman in Saline County, Passes away at Lincoln Home, Wilbur Republican, 28th May, 1926;
HEARD, Eunice Mutz :
Twenty-two years in Keya Paha, in Nebraska History Magazine, Vol. XVII, n° 2, 1936;
JOHNSON, Harrison :
Johnson History of Nebraska, Omaha, H. Gibson, 1880;
MORTON, J. Sterling :
Illustrated History of Nebraska : a History of Nebraska from the Earliest Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi Region..., succeeded by Albert Watkins, as editor-in-chief, George L. Miller, associate editor, Vol. 1, 1905, pp. 423-447, Vol. II, 1906, pp. 184-185, Vol. III, 1913, pp. 356-366, Western Publishing and Engraving Company, Lincoln (Nebraska);
KAURA, J. W. (Ed.) :
Sabine County Nebraska History, Nebraska History, Lincoln (Nebraska), Nebraska Farmer Co., 1962, pp. 1-7;
SMITH, J. A. - State of Missouri, County of Cooper (Copy from -, 19 Febr. 1904) :
Mariage certificate : John B. Victor Vifquain to Miss Caroline Veullman on the 1st day of september 1857, married by U. Jos Meistrer Priest;
UNRUH, John D. :
The Plains Across, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1979;
TAYLOR, Colin F. et STURTEVANT, William C. :
Les Indiens d’Amérique du Nord, Solar, 1992 pour la traduction française;
HYDE, George E. :
The Pawnee Indian, Norman and London, University of Oklahoma Press, 1951;

L’appel aux armes

WHEELER, Gerald E. and STUART PITT, A. :
The 53rd New York : a Zoo-Zoo Tale, New York History, 37, 1956, p. 414-431;
PHISTERER, Frederick :
New-York in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865, Albany, third ed. I. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1912, pp. 2436-2441;
JOHNSON, Charles F. :
The Long Roll (One of the Hawkins Zouaves), East Aurora - New York, The Roycrofters, 1911, pp. 99-105;
GRAHAM, Matthew J. :
The Ninth Regiment New York Volunteers (Hawkins Zouaves), New York, MDCCCC, pp. 138-140;
BALACE, Francis :
Officiers belges de l’armée fédérale américaine, in Revue belge d’histoire militaire, XVIII, 1969, pp. 336-347;
DELPECH, David :
Les zouaves d’Epineuil. D’une faillite collective à la réussite individuelle, in Courrier de la Guerre d’Amérique, Revue du Club Confédéré et Fédéral de France, n° 23, 1992, pp. 14-17;
WHEELER, Gerald D. :
D’Epineuil Zouaves, in Civil War History, Vol II, n° 4, State University of Iowa;
The War of the Rebellion : A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederates Armies, Series I, Vol. IX, Chapter XX, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883;
SMITH, Jeffrey H. :
A Frenchman Fights for the Union, Victor Vifquain and the 97th Illinois, Varna (Illinois), Patrick Publishing;
SAUERS, Richard A. :
The Burnside Expedition in North Carolina, Dayton (Ohio), Morningside House, Inc., 1996;
MARVEL, William :
Burnside, Chapel Hill & London, The University of North Carolina Press, 1991;
McAFEE, Michael J. :
Zouaves, The First and The Bravest, Gettysburg (Pa), Thomas Publications, 1991;

A Richmond

VIFQUAIN, Victor :
Link from a Broken Chain (Historical Reminiscences of the Civil War) relating to an Attempt to Kidnap Jeff Davis, Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln (Nebraska), 1891;
BLAKEY, Archie F. :
General John H. Winder C.S.A., University of Florida Press, pp. 144-145;
LEE, Richard M. :
General Lee’s City. An Illustrated Guide to the Historic Sites of Confederate Richmond, McLean (Virginia), EPM Publications, Inc.;
SMITH, Jeffrey H. :
Victor Vifquain and the Attempt to Capture Jefferson Davis in 1862, in Military Images, Vol. XIII, n° 4, 1992;
CHAITIN, Peter M. :
The Civil War. The Coastal War, Time-Life Books, Morriston (New Jersey), 1985;
MEADE, Robert D. :
Judah P. Benjamin, in Civil War Times Illustrated, Harrisburg (Pa.), Vol X, n° 3, June 1971;
THOMAS, Emory M. :
Wartime Richmond, in Civil War Times Illustrated, Gettysburg (Pa), Historical Times, Inc., 1977;
PARKER, Sandra V. :
Richmond’s Civil War Prisons, Lynchburg (Virginia), H.E. Howard, Inc., 1990;
CARROLL, Daniel B. :
Henri Mercier and the American Civil War, Princeton University Press, 1971;
LETCHER, John:
Colonel Richard Thomas Zarvona, in The Confederate Veteran Magazine, Volume XXII, Alexandria Library, Lloyd House;

Le Mississippi

REECE, J.N. :
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, Volume V, Containing Reports for the Years 1861-66, Phillips Bros. State Printers, Springfield (Illinois), 1901;
BILBY, Joseph G. Ed. :
Memoirs of Military Service of Carlos W. Colby, Comp. G 97th Illinois Infantry, in Military Images, September-October 1981, pp. 24-29;
WILLARD, Samuel :
Willard’s Case Record Book, 1862-1863;
CHAITIN, Peter M. :
The Civil War. The Struggle for Tennessee, Time-Life Books, Morriston (New Jersey), 1985;
The War of the Rebellion : A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederates Armies, Series I, Vol. XVI, Chapter XXVIII, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1885;
DYER, Frederick H. :
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion : 97th Illinois Volunteer Inf. Reg.Organizational History, The Dyer Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1908;
Illinois Military Units in the Civil War, The Civil War Centennial Commission of Illinois, Springfield (Illinois), November 1962;
EDDINGTON, William R. :
History of Service with Company A of the 97th Illinois Infantry, Vicksburg National Military Park, Manuscript Division, Vicksburg (Mississippi);

Vers Vicksburg

L’ECHO DU PARLEMENT (Journal) :
Lettre de Victor Vifquain à sa famille, Bruxelles, 16 août 1863;
PAINTER, John S. :
Bullets, Hardtack and Mud. A Soldier’s View of the Vicksburg Campaign, in Journal of the West, Vol. IV, n° 2, Western Book Stores, California, April 1965, pp. 129-168;
CHAITIN, Peter M. :
The Civil War. War on the Mississippi, Time-Life Books, Morriston (New Jersey), 1985;
WINSCHEL, Terrence J. :
Grant’s March through Louisiana. Opening Phase of the Vicksburg Campaign, in Blue & Gray, Campaign 96, Vol. XIII, Issue 5, Colombus (Ohio), June 1996;
BASTIAN, David F. :
Grant’s Canal. The Union’s Attempt to Bypass Vicksburg, Burd Street Press, Shippensburg (Pa), 1995;
The War of the Rebellion : A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XVII, Chapter XXIX, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886;
The War of the Rebellion : A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XXIV, Chapter XXXVI, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1889;
LANDRAM, William J. :
Official Report of May 25, 1863, Vicksburg National Military Park, Manuscript Division, Vicksburg (Mississippi);

La Louisiane

WINTERS, John D. :
The Civil War in Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1963;
DOBSON, W.H. :
Testimony before T. T. Williams, Notary Public, copy in Victor Vifquain Papers (Nebraska State Historical Society);
WELCHER, Frank J. :
The Union Army, 1861-1865, Organization and Operations, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1993;
The War of the Rebellion : A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XXVI, Chapter XXXVIII, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1889;
The War of the Rebellion : A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XLI, Chapter LIII, Washington, Governement Printing Office, 1893;

Mobile

ANDREWS, C. C. :
History of the Campaign of Mobile, D. Van Nostrand, New York, 1867;
BEYER, W. F. and KEYDEL, Ed. :
Deeds of Valor from Records in the Archives of the United States Government, The Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit (Michigan), 1906, Vol. I, pp. 533-537;
VIFQUAIN, Victor :
Address to the 97th Illinois Volunteers, 1865, Nebraska State Historical Society Collection, Lincoln (Nebraska);
HUFFSTODT, James :
Campaigning for Mobile, in Civil War Times Illustrated, Harrisburg (Pa), Vol. XXI, n° 1, March 1982;
The War of the Rebellion : A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol. XLIX, Chapter LXI, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1897;

L’après-guerre

WALKER, Mabel Gregory :
The Fenian Movement, Colorado Springs, Ralph Myers Publisher, Inc., 1969, pp. 136-137;
O’BROIN, Leon :
Fenian Fever. An Anglo-American Dilemma, New York, New York University Press, 1971, p. 90-91, 157;
VIFQUAIN, Victor :
An Appeal to Nebraska, Newspaper clip in Victor Vifquain Papers (Nebraska State Historical Society);
RILEY, Paul D. :
Red Willow County Letters of Royal Buck, 1872-1873, in Nebraska History, Vol. 47, n° 4, December 1966, pp. 392-393;
ANONYME :
Miss Theresa Vifquain, Denver : Relics of the Civil and Indian Wars, Including an Indian Scalp and American Flag, From Collections by Father, Col. Victor Vifquain, in Nebraska History, Vol. XIX, April-June 1938, n° 2 (Gifts and Accessions);
ANONYME :
Albert Watkins, Biography in Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days, Vol. IV, October-December 1923, pp. 97-98;
KAURA, J. W. (Ed.) :
Sabine County Nebraska History, Lincoln (Nebraska), Nebraska Farmer Co., 1962, pp. 1-7;
MOLLUS :
General Victor Vifquain, in Comm. of Mass. Military Division and Military Records, Natick (Ma), p. 607;

La carrière diplomatique

NEWSPAPER CLIP in Victor Vifquain Papers (Nebraska State Historical Society) :
Col. Vifquain a Mandarin. Col. Bryan’s Successor Decorated by the Emperor of China;
The Flying Day:
An Open Letter from E. P. Ellet to Grover Cleveland, The Shipping List, Barranquilla;
The Adjutant’s General State of Nebraska 1864-1964 : Biographical Data. Military Department of Nebraska, p. 31;
ANONYME :
Sioux Campaign Medal, in (Back Cover) Nebraska History, (Nebraska State Historical Society), Fall 1990, Vol. 71, n° 4;
VIFQUAIN Papers :
Letter Stating the Death of his Girl, Panama, March 1st, 1895 (Nebraska State Historical Society);
MARIENSTRAS, Elise :
Wounded Knee. L’Amérique fin de siècle, Bruxelles, Editions Complexe, 1996;
STATE DEPARTMENT Records :
Appointment File of Victor Vifquain for the First and Second Cleveland Administration, National Archives, Washington;

La guerre Hispano-Américaine
NEWSPAPER CLIPS in Victor Vifquain Papers (Nebraska State Historical Society) :
Thanksgiving Day Recalled by Klondiker, in Dawson Daily News, November 29, 1917;
Congratulate the Boys, October 5, 189?;
First Celebration of the Twenty-Second in Cuba; THIESSEN, Thomas D. :
The Fighting First Nebraska : Nebraska’s Imperial Adventure in the Philippines, 1898-1899, in Nebraska History, Lincoln (Nebraska), Vol. 70, n° 3, 1989, p. 213;
TRASK, David F. :
The War with Spain in 1898, Lincoln (Nebraska), University of Nebraska Press, 1996 (originally published by Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1981);

Les dernières années

MORTON, Sterling J. :
General Vifquain Dead, Pioneer, Nebraskan Soldier and Statesman, in Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, January 8, 1904;
NEWSPAPER CLIP in Victor Vifquain Papers (Nebraska State Historical Society) :
Mrs Caroline Vifquain First White Woman in Saline County, Passes away at Lincoln Home, in The Lincoln Star, July 25, 1926;
VIFQUAIN, Russel M. :
The Vifquain Genealogy, Ames (Iowa), University of Nebraska, August 1956;
HEADQUARTERS NEBRASKA NATIONAL GUARD :
Dead of General Victor Vifquain, General Order nº 44, Lincoln (Nebraska), Jan. 9, 1904;
PENSION FILE OF VICTOR VIFQUAIN (National Archives, Washington) :
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Febr. 21, 1903;
Record and Pension Office, Commissioner of Pensions :
General affidavit in the matter of pension claim by CarolineVifquain, Febr. 19, 1904;
General affidavit in the matter of pension claim by Victor Vifquain, Sept. 18, 1903;
Physician’s affidavit, pension claim of Victor Vifquain for diseases, Sept. 18, 1903.