• Research Tools
  • Maps
    • Civil War Maps [Library of Congress - an essential resource]
  • Bibliography
    • The United States Civil War Center; Civil War Collections & the Civil War Book Review, LSU
    • The American Civil War Page
    • The American Civil War Index Page Dakota State University
    • US Civil War/War for Southern Independence Resources on the Internet Newsgroup
    • The Civil War Manuscripts Project, from the Connecticut Historical Society
    • Books, Articles, and Dissertations on Clothing, 1840-1865, by Viki Betts [2002]
  • Sources
    • The War of the Rebellion [massive collection of official records in graphic format. Searchable only though index]
    • Official Record. The War of the Rebellion. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies [text format and completely searchable]
    • American Civil War Archives, Libraries, and Institutes
    • Civil War Newspapers, Virgina Center for Digital History
    • HistoryNet Article Index: The American Civil War
    • Kansas Territory: Crucible of American Experience A Collection of Texts, Un. of Virginia
    • Letters Home from a Civil War Soldier
    • Lincoln's Spot Resolutions, from the National Archives and Records Administration.
    • Godey's Lady's Book, 1850
    • The Civil War, from Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874
  • Images
    • Photographs [Library of Congress - an essential resource]
    • Civil War Images of Northern Virginia
  • Booksellers
    • Civil War Books a powells.com bookstore partner
    • Civil War Book News, American Civil War historiography and publishing blog
• Biography and Genealogy
  • Life Stories of Civil War Heroes
  • Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, June 3, 1808-December 5, 1889
  • Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • The Life of Stonewall Jackson by John Esten Cooke (page images at MOA)
  • Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Robert E. Lee (Gutenberg text)
  • The Heart of a Soldier, As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett CSA by George Edward Pickett, contrib. by La Salle Corbell Pickett (illustrated; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan by Philip Henry Sheridan volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States by Jubal Anderson Early (illustrated; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Timelines
  • Expansion, Slavery, and Civil War Timeline
  • 1860s, wikipedia
  • Civil War and Reconstruction Timeline
  • American Literature and Events, 1860-1869
  • Civil War Timeline, from Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874
• History
  • General
    • A Nation Divided: The US Civil War
    • Cyders Civil War and Living History Web Sites
    • Southern Comfort Very large Civil War site.
    • The Rhetoric of Freedom; The Speeches of Lincoln and Others
    • The Civil War: In A Nutshell, shmoop.com
  • Music
    • "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" Text, AmDocs
    • Text of "Dixie Land" [The most popular Southern marching song]
      
    • 1862, Text of Lorena [a popular ballad of the times]
      
    • Music of the Civil War [MIDI files sequenced by Benjamin Robert Tubb - an excellent collection, excellently prepared]
    • More Civil War Music [continuation of the preceding pointer]
    • Songs of the Civil War
    • The Music Of Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) [another extraordinary MIDI collection provided by Benjamin Tubb]
    • Sheet Music of the Civil War
    • Marching Song of the First Arkansas
• The North During the War
  • 1860
  • Administration of James Buchanan 1857-1861
    • James Buchanan
    • The Election of 1860, from Harper's Weekly
• Administration of Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Books
    • History of the Administration of President Lincoln by Henry J. Raymond (page images at MOA)
    • Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (Gutenberg text)
    • Abraham Lincoln: An Essay, by Carl Schurz (HTML at Naked Word)
    • Lincoln: An Account of His Personal Life, Especially of Its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (Gutenberg text)
    • Abraham Lincoln, by William Makepeace Thayer (HTML at Bibliomania)
    • Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes That Made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller, by Alexander K. McClure (Gutenberg text)
  • Society
    • "Liberty and Virtue are Twin Sisters": Southern Presbyterians and Theology of the State,1850-1890, by David W. Hall. from Premise, 4 (1997)
    • Hospital Sketches (Boston: James Redpath, 1863) by Louisa May Alcott (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
    • A Visit to "Merry's Museum"; or, Social Values in a 19th-Century American Periodical for Children, by Pat Pflieger
    • Mother Seaton's Susters of Charity in the Civil War
    • Gala-Days, by Gail Hamilton (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863), from Voices from 19th-Century America
    • Anti-Slavery Sentiment in Massachusetts, 1830-1865: A Source Locator
  • Records and Documents
    • Records of the Rebellion [a searchable on-line copy of the federal governments official record of the war, multi-volume, with thousands of documents]
  • Regional Studies
    • Germans in the Civil War, (I goes to fight mit Sigel), by Dr. William Keel, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
    • Kansas Prisoners of War (POW's) at Camp Ford, TX, 1863-1865
    • Kansas, the 'Soldier State' (post-Civil War veterans),
      by Dr. Bruce Kahler, Bethany College, Lindsborg, KS [.pdf file]
  • 1861
    • 1861, Abraham Lincoln, 1st Inaugural Address
    • 1861, "The Civil War, 1861"
    • War Watchers at Bull Run, 20 July 1861, by John J. Hennessey
    • 1861 October 20, "The Battle of Ball's Bluff ", by Ted Ballard [Staff Ride Guide[]
    • "Lincoln's Secret Weapon" [the Monitor]
  • 1862
    • 1862, "The Civil War, 1862"
    • "The Battle of Second Manassas", 29-30 August 1862, by Joseph W. A. Whitehorne [A Self-Guided Tour]
    • The Morrill Act (The Homestead Act)
    • The Valley Campaigns: Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley During the War of the States by Thomas Almond Ashby (UNC)
    • "American Civilization", by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1862
    • "The President's Proclamation," by Ralph Waldo Emerson November 1862 {2006 - requires sign-in]
    • The Dakota Conflict Trials [1862]
    • History of the Sioux War and Massacres of 1862 and 1863, by Isaac V. D. Heard
  • 1863
    • 1863, "The Civil War, 1863"
    • The Emancipation Proclamation, 1 January
    • The New York Draft Riots July
    • The Richmond Bread Riots
    • Thirty-Five Days to Gettysburg. Diaries of Two Americans
    • At Gettysburg: or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle, by Tillie Pierce Alleman (text at Indiana)
    • Quantrell and the Lawrence Massacre, August
    • The Lawrence Massacre by a Band of Border Ruffians Under William Quantrell. August 1863, by Richard Cordley
    • "The Gettysburg Address," Abraham Lincoln, 13 November 1863
    • Gala-Days, by Gail Hamilton [youth literature]
    • All Quiet Along the Potomac Song
  • 1864
    • The Dahlgren Papers Revisited February 1864 [regarding a supposed plan to assassinate Jefferson Davis]
    • 1864, 5 August, The Wade-Davis Manifesto
    • 1864, 8 July, Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill
    • The Wade-Davis Act
    • In God We Trust, 1864, US Treasury
    • Completion of the Chicago Waterworks
    • Bloody Bill Anderson at Albany Missouri 26 October 1864
    • "The Battle of Cedar Creek", Virginia, 19 October 1864, by Joseph W. A. Whitehorne [A Self-Guided Tour]
    • The Election of 1864: Lincoln versus McClellan, from Harper's Weekly
    • A Woman's Wartime Journal: An Account of the Passage Over a Georgia Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, by Dolly Sumner Lunt (UNC)
    • The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864, by Charles Colcock Jones (UNC)
  • 1865
    • Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, 4 March
    • Casuality Reports of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
    • Adevntures of a 'Merry' Boy, from Robert Merry's Museum, February, 865, pp. 49-53, provided by Pat Pflieger.
    • The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
      • Lincoln Assassination Police Report April 14-15, 1865
      • The Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Burke McCarty (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at usit.net)
      • The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend (page images at MOA)
      • The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary by United States Department of State (page images at MOA)
      • The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, from Click2
      • Trial of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators
    • Sultana: A Tragic Postscript to the Civil War , April 1865 (1,700 Union soldiers, released from Confederate prisons, may have died while en route home aboard the steamer Sultana.)
    • The Fall of the Richmond, Civil War Preservation Trust
    • Recollections of the Evacuation of Richmond, April 2d, 1865 by John Archibald Campbell
    • The Last Flag of Truce by Dallas Tucker Ward (UNC)
    • Charlotte: The Last Capital of the Confederacy
    • The Trial of Captain Henry Wirz, Commandant of Andersonville Prison
    • Life Span of Slaves Compared with Free Americans
• The South During the War
  • The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865
  • The Blockading of the Southern Seaports in the Civil War
  • "Economy Rules the Day: The Civil War Sacrifices of Judith Walker McGuire", by Tim Sheehan
  • CSS Hunley Submarine Recovery Information
    • H.L. Hunley | 1:1 plywood Hunley cutaway
    • H.L. Hunley Related Photos and Links , Nov. 2006
  • Christmas in the Confederate White House
  • Songs of the South [requires RealTime Player]
  • Confederate Textbooks
  • Papers of Jefferson Davis, Rice University
  • Regional Studies
    • The Civil War In Georgia
    • The Civil War in Florida
    • Young-Sanders Center Foundation [the Civil War in Louisiana]
    • The Testimony of a Refugee from East Tennessee by Hermann Bokum (UNC)
    • The Patriots and Guerillas of East Tennessee and Kentucky by John A. Brents (HTML at kih.net)
  • The Tredegar Iron Works
    • Tredegar Iron Works "The South's Major Arsenal"
    • The Tredegar Iron Works [recommended]
    • "Tredegar Iron Works: A Synecdoche for Industrialized Antebellum Richmond", by Sarah Bumgardner and Professor S. Nelson
    • "Tredegar Iron Works. The Backbone of the Confederacy," by Keith L. Graham [archive.org]
    • Federal and Confederate Cannon Makers
  • War-Time Journals
    • The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
      by Eliza Frances Andrews (illustrated; UNC)
    • A Woman's Wartime Journal: An Account of the Passage Over a Georgia Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea
      by Dolly Sumner Lunt (HTML and TEI at UNC)
    • A Confederate Girl's Diary
      by Sarah Morgan Dawson (ilustrated; UNC)
    • The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
      by Eliza Frances Andrews (illustrated; UNC)
    • A Woman's Wartime Journal: An Account of the Passage Over a Georgia Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea (1864)
      by Dolly Sumner Lunt (HTML and TEI at UNC)
    • The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864
      by Charles Colcock Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
    • A Virginia Girl in the Civil War
      ed. by Myrta Lockett Avary (UNC)
    • A Diary from Dixie
      (New York: D. Appleton, 1905), by Mary Chesnut (UNC)
    • From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865 by Mary Ames (UNC)
• African-Americans in the Civil War
  • "Contrabands of War"
  • Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency
  • African American Warriors
  • African Americans in Early American Military History
  • Soldiers and Missionaries
  • Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
  • The Emancipation Proclamation 1863
  • Fighting for Freedom
  • The 62nd & 65th Regiments United States Infantry, Co-Founders of Lincoln University, Missouri
  • Palmito Ranch, The Last Battle of the Civil War 12-13 May 1865. A Gentlemen's Agreement Broken.
  • "Behold the Shackles Fall" - Sojourner Truth
  • Freedmen and the Southern Society Project [documents on the history of emancipation]
• The Aftermath
  • "We shall never any of us be the same," by Peter S. Carmichael, from The Civil War Times
  • "There is a rancor in our hearts ... which you little dream of," by Gary W. Gallagher, from The Civil War Times
  • Sample Documents from Freedom. A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867
  • Freedmen and the Southern Society Project [documents on the history of emancipation]
• Topics
  • Local History
    • The Valley of the Shadow [extensive resources for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania]
    • Women's Revolt in Rowan County 18 March 1863 [North Carolina]
  • Culture and Society
    • Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888
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