LINKS TO CIVIL WAR SITES
Index
Abraham Lincoln
The Collected Writings of Abraham Lincoln (including correspondence, speeches, etc.), available at the Abraham Lincoln Association website: http://www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln/
Civil War Battles, Leaders & Military Records
Battle Summaries
Organized by state or campaign; provides summaries of major battles of the Civil War.
Civil War Encyclopedia
A useful place to go for quick chronologies, biographies of generals and military figures, famous politicians, writers and artists and explanations of events and issues.
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
You can search the 128 volumes of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion (often called the OR) online - also available in print form in Fisher Library.
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion (1894 - 1922)
Available through the Making of America website.
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880 - 1901)
Also available through the Making of America website.
Confederacy
Estimate of Confederate Soldiers From Slaveholding Families
A discussion authored by James F. Epperson, formerly Program Director for the Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table.
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Volumes of Jefferson's letters and speeches so far published through Rice University.
Hargrett Rare Books & Manuscripts
University of Georgia's Hargrett Library. Contains a wealth of information relating to Civil War Georgia, including battlefield maps, and images of major southern cities. See also the rare book collection, which has several interesting texts that are available for downloading. And check out the online exhibition relating to the Civil War. Thanks to Scott Parkhill for this info.
Virginia Military Institute
A wealth of information and primary sources is available on this website, including a great exhibition of documents relating to Stonewall Jackson. Further exhibits deal with war in the Shenandoah Valley, life as a cadet at the Virginia Military Academy, Confederate soldiers' letters & diaries (see below also) and more.
Emancipation
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
Project run by scholars working at the University of Maryland, working with documents relating to emancipation held in the National Archives. This site contains an incomparable collection of letters and documents relating to the transition from slavery to freedom.
Civil War Era Statistics
Distribution of Slaveholders by Size of Holdings
Provides a breakdown of slave ownership based on the 1860 census.
Historical Census Browser
Allows you to search the US Census data from 1790 onward. This is a great tool if you want to discover, for example, the number of Irish immigrants in the U.S. in a particular period, or the relative numbers of white and black residents.
Presidential Voting Patterns by State, 1844-1860
Ratio of Slaveholders to Families (1860)
Daily Wage Rates on the Erie Canal, 1845-1870
Geography of Churches (1860 census)
Election of 1856 (map)
Election of 1860 (map)
Guerrilla Warfare
Confederate Irregular Warfare
Short article on the subject
The McNeill Rangers: A Study in Confederate Guerrilla Warfare
Article by Simeon Miller Bright
Metasites
The American Civil War
Created by Jim Janke of Dakota State University; Organized into categories.
The American Civil War Homepage
Links to photographic collections, regimental histories, etc.
United States Civil War Centre
Located at Louisiana State University. Links to over 2,400 sites.
American Civil War
Created by Special Collections Department of the Virginia Libraries at Virginia Tech. This page offers access to a wide variety of soldiers' letters and diaries.
Medical Care
The Medical & Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (6 folio volumes) is available in Fisher Library on DVD Rom. It's listed in the Fisher catalogue as "Complete Civil War DVD-ROm". and is available in AV Reserves at call number:
973.7 161
Battlefield Medicine in the American Civil War
Copies of battlefield reports, eyewitness accounts and other material related to Civil War medicine.
Hospitals, Surgeons and Nurses
Includes primary sources describing medical treatment during the war.
Civil War Medicine
Links to sites dealing with Civil War Medicine
Naval Warfare & Military Technology
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
Site devoted to the famed Civil War ironclad, the Monitor - includes a virtual tour of the Monitor
The Mariners' Museum: USS Monitor
Includes material on the construction of ironclads
The American Civil War: Naval War
Portion of the Civil War Home Page including dozens of links to sites relating to naval history, including good descriptions of both navies during the
Friends of the Hunley
Vivid description of the world's first submarine and its fate during the Civil War.
Ironclads and Blockade Runners
Metasite linking to sites on Civil War naval history
Civil War Fortifications website
The best place to learn about standard fortifications in the Civil War era, plus a dictionary of terms.
Civil War Weaponry
For links to other sites related to weaponry in the Civil War era
Soldiers' Letters and Diaries
Civil War Resources: Virginia Military Institute Archives
Dozens of different online manuscript collections.
Civil War Manuscripts at the Southern Historical Collection
Includes a small collection of Union and Confederate letters.
Captain Richard W. Burt's Civil War Letters
Letters, poems and songs written by a soldier in the 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Civil War Diary of Bingham Findley Junkin
Diary entries of a soldier from the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, March 1864 to June 1865.
Civil War Letters
Twelve letters written by Private Samuel S. Dunton of the 114th New York Infantry between 1862 and 1865.
Civil War Diaries at Augustana College Library
Two diaries written by Illonois Soldiers during the Civil War.
Albert Underwood Civil War Diary
Diary of a soldier in the 9th Indiana Light Artillery, covering the period between Jan 1, 1864 - Jan 11, 1865.
Dwight Henry Cory Letters and Diary
Collection of documents relating to a soldier from the 6th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.
John Freeman Diary
Diary of a soldier who served with Co. I of the 34th Mississippi Volunteers.
Civil War Letters of the Christie Family
Transcribed letters of several brothers who enlisted in the First Minnesota Battery of Light Artillery. Minnesotta Historical Society.
Iowa Civil War Site
Discusses Iowa in the Civil War, including letters, diaries, unit histories and photos.
James Laughlin Orr Diary
Diary of James Laughlin Orr who served in the Quartermaster's Dept in the 42nd Indiana Regiment. This short diary covers Sherman's March to the Sea
Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
Letters of Private Newton Robert Scott of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers.
Overall Family Civil War Letters
Letters of Isaac Overall, a private with Company I of the 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, written between 1862 and his death in 1863.
Pearce Civil War Document Collection
Navarro College website, includes variety of letters, documents and diaries.
Love Letters of the Civil War
Letters from a variety of soldiers to their sweethearts, from the Special Collections Department, Virginia Tech.
Absolom A. Harrison Letters
Letters written by a soldier in Company D, 4th Regiment, Kentucky Calvary Volunteers.
Virginia Military Institute
Includes links to soldiers' diaries and letters.
Popular Culture in the Civil War Era
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
Includes Confederate and Union poetry and music.
Band Music from the Civil War Era
Library of Congress, American Memory website. The collection features over 700 musical compositions, as well as 8 full-score modern editions and 19 recorded examples of brass band music in performance.
Scartoons: Racial Satire and the Civil War
Interesting site discussing the history of caricature and cartoons and analysing the way race figured in Civil War popular culture.
Secession
Secession Editorials Project
Site designed by Lloyd Benson, sponsored by Furman University in South Carolina. Provides editorials related to four pre-Civil War events: the Nebraska Bill, the Dred Scott case, Harpers Ferry and the caning of Charles Sumner.
Causes of the Civil War
A website run by James F. Epson, formerly a Program Director for the Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table. This site includes Republican and Democratic Party platforms and ordinances of secession, State and local resolutions and correspondence relating to secession in the South, and Northern resolutions relating to secession, compromise proposals, editorial commentary on secession; and a chronology of the secession crisis.
Photographs
Selected Civil War Photographs
Part of the American Memory project of the Library of Congress, this site presents Matthew Brady's photographs as well as detail regarding photography in this period.
Virginia Military Institute
online photograph database containing thousands of prints and images.
Women in the Civil War
Civil War Women
Primary sources relating to women in the civil war, including diaries, letters and reminiscences.
Women of the American Civil War
Biographies of a dozen or so women active in the Civil War era.
The Woman in Battle
This is a memoir written by a female soldier, published in 1867 and titled The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures and Travels of Madama Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Burford, Confederate States Army. You can access the entire text of this memoir through the Documenting the American South website.
Female Soldiers in the Civil War
An article "Known But to God": Female Soldiers in the Civil War, written by Richard Hall.
Dolly Burge's Journal
Dolly Lunt Burge, A Woman's Wartime Journal: an Account of the Passage over Georgia's Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (nee Mrs. Thomas Burge), New York: The Century Co., 1918.
The Southern Homefront
Part of the Documenting the American South website
established by University of North Carolina. I've listed the writings of two Southern women above. There are dozens more fascinating documents on this site, including sermons, journals, diaries, letters etc.
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