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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

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
Unsorted

Related Sites:

WWW-VL: History: USA: The Coming of the Civil War 1850-1860

WWW-VL: History: USA: Reconstruction 1865-1880

Documents for the Study of American History: 1860-1865 documents

WWW-VL: American West History

WWW-VL: History: US History Federal Sources

WWW-VL: History: Military History

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