Chester, Henry Whipple. Recollections of the War of the Rebellion: A Story of the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, 1861–1865 (Wheaton, IL: Wheaton History Center), 1996. ISBN1888379006
Gause, Isaac. Four Years with Five Armies: Army of the Frontier, Army of the Potomac, Army of the Missouri, Army of the Ohio, Army of the Shenandoah (New York: The Neale Publishing Company), 1908.
Hatton, Robert W. William James Smith's Memoirs of the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Company M (Milford, OH: Little Miami Pub. Co.), 2008. ISBN1932250662
List of Skirmishes, Battles and Raids, Second Ohio Cavalry, Twenty-Fifth Ohio Battery, 1861–1865 (Cleveland, OH: s.n.), 1898.
Ohio Roster Commission (1889). 1st–13th Regiments Ohio Vol. Cavalry, 4th and 5th Independent Battalions of Cavalry, 3rd and 4th Independent Companies of Cavalry, McLaughlin's Squadron of Cavalry, Merrill's Horse or 2nd Missouri Cavalry, Union Light Guard, and Harlin's Light Cavalry, or Company M, 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War on the Rebellion, 1861–1865. Vol. XI. Cincinnati, OH: The Ohio Valley Company. p. 822. hdl:2027/uiug.30112047586075. OCLC633556.
Report and Minutes of the Re-Union of the 2nd Ohio Cavalry and 25th Ohio Battery, Held at Youngstown, Ohio, Oct. 10, 1907 (S.l.: s.n.), 1907.
Report of the Reunion: The 2nd Ohio Cavalry, 25th Ohio Battery, Held at Cleveland, Ohio, October Nineteenth, 1915 (Cleveland, OH: 2nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Association), 1915.
Roberts, Joseph N. Reminiscences of the Civil War (S.l.: s.n.), 1925. [author was a private in Company M]
Second Regiment Ohio Cavalry, 25th Battery: Stenographic Report of Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Reunion Held at Cleveland, Ohio, September 30, 1903 (Cleveland, OH: O. S. Hubbell Print. Co), 1903.
Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (1968). Edward M Kennedy, Chairman (ed.). Medal of Honor, 1863–1968 : "In the Name of the Congress of the United States". Committee print (United States. Congress), 90th Congress, 2nd session. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1087. OCLC1049691780.