SELECTED CIVIL WAR LINKS

 

I.  GENERAL

U.S. Civil War Center. From Louisiana State University
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

Civil War Photograph Collection. Civil War photographs by Matthew Brady's staff and others. From the Special Collections of the Library of Congress,
http://Icweb.loc.gov/spcoll/048.html

Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields. Includes battle reports, pictures of battle fields, etc.
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/cwsac/cws0-1.html

The War between the States, 1861-1865. Contains a large amount of information from the National Park Service, including links to many of the principal battlefields - many of which are now National Parks.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/civllwar.htm

Civil War Order of Battle for Major Engagements. Short, virtually annotated list.
http://www.access.digex.net/~bdboyle/battles/orders.html

Civil War articles from The History Net. Includes the following articles:
I: Rebel Guerrilla's Last Ride
II: The Sperryville Outrage
III: U.S. Grant's Battle with the Bottle
IV: Libby Prison as Tourist Attraction
V: The Savior of Cincinnati
VI: Why the South Lost the Civil War
http://thehistorynet.com/THNarchives/CivilWar/

The American Civil War. A large collection of links from Dakota State University
http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm

The American Civil War Home Page. A very large collection with links to dozens of related, useful sites.
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

Lincoln's War Cabinet. Decent information regarding those around Lincoln at the time of the Emancipation proclamation. Also includes numerous related links.
http://pw1.netcom.com/~rilydia/HistoryPage.html

Remember the Ladies: Women and the Civil War.
http://pweb.netcom.com/~rilydia/chase/kate.html

They Were There: Women in the Civil War
Http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html

Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

Women in the Civil War
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/8558/woman.html

Another site on Women in the American Civil War
http://members.xoom.com/acw_women/brave.html

African Americans, Slavery, and Abolition. An extensive link hub with dozens of applicable links
http://www.cwc.Isu.edu/cwc/links/slave.htm

John Hope Franklin, "The Emancipation Proclamation: An Act of Justice," Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives, summer 1993, vol. 25, no. 2.
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/featured-document/eman/franklin.htm

Virtually annotated chronology of Emancipation during the Civil War.
http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/chronol.htm

54th Mass. Volunteer Infantry, Co. I. Portrays the experience of the African-American soldier in the American Civil War in South Carolina.
http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/54ma.html

Kim A. O'Connell, "African-American Women and Their Role in the Civil War."
http://www.uqrr.org/civil/cw-ess7.html

W. E. B. DuBois, "The Freedman's Bureau" The Atlantic Monthly, 1901.
http://www3.theatlantic.com/issues/01mar/dubois.htm

II. The Civil War Home Front

Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War.
http://bob.ucsc.edu/civil-war-letters/home.htmil

Civil War Women On-line Archival Collections. From Duke University Special Collections. Collection includes the private papers and writings of the following Civil War-era Women:
I: Rose O'Neal Greenhow: Papers. Greenhow was a Confederate spy and ardent secessionist.
II: Alice Williamson: Diary. Williamson was a teenaged schoolgirl who witnessed Northern atrocities in
her beloved South.
III: Sarah E. Thompson: Papers. Spied in Confederate Tennessee for the Union Army.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

Elma Turnage's Reminiscences of Christmases during the Civil War. >From the Library of Congress. Scroll down to find the text of Ms. Turnage's comments.
http://Icweb2.Ioc.gov/ammen/wpa/31131205.html

A collection of Reminiscences from Civil War Christmases. Includes civilians and troops, Northerners and Southerners.
http://www.lib.utc.edu/preview/index.html

Ulysses Grant Memoirs.
http://home.nycap.rr.com/history/grant.html

The Papers of Jefferson Davis.
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pjdavis/

Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War. Site contains actual documents and helpful narrative.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/hearts/

Ms. C. G. Richardson recalls sending her brothers off to fight in the Civil War. From the Library of Congress. Scroll down for text.
http://icweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpa/31040411.html

Ms. Lula Bowers recalls growing up during the Civil War.
http://Icweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpa/30110205.html

Mary Boykin Chesnut: The Most Famous Diarist from Dixie.
http://www.historic.com/schs/chesnut.html

Godey's Lady's Book. An 1850s style magazine for women.
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/godey/

Christmas in the Confederate White House. As told by Mrs. Jefferson Davis.
http://www.access.digex.net/~bdboyle/confed.xmas1.html

Interactive guide to ball gowns from the Civil War era.
http://www/twu/edu/twu/exhibits/firstladies/04/4.html

 

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