WWW-VL: History: United States History: Civil War 1861-1865: War between the States, Blue and the Gray, Abe Lincoln, US Grant, General Lee, Jefferson Davis, Union, Confederate, CSA

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

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WWW-VL: History: US History Federal Sources

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