Civil War Project Resources -- thanks to Westville Middle-High School! This is a great list of sources!
General Resources
Primary Source Documents
The Civil War
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module10/mod_primary.htmlThe Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
The Library of Congress
[Digitized Images of Primary Resources includes posters, drawings, cartoons, photographs...]
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html
Shotgun's Home of the Civil War
Index of Civil War Information Available on the Internet
http://www.civilwarhome.com/indexcivilwarinfo.htm
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
American Memory Project
Selected Photographs of the Civil War
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.htmlTimeline of the Civil War
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html
The Civil War
Memory Gallery B
American Treasures
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr11b.html#civil
The Civil War Home Page
www.civil-war.net/
E-Reference Books
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of online e-Reference Books made available to you through the Connecticut Digital Library (www.iconn.org)
[Scroll down to E-Reference Books and search under Civil War or your topic.]
http://rqst-agent.auto-graphics.com/homepages/customerwide/classicschool.asp?
Grolier Online
Search the Encyclopedia Americana and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
See Ms. Averill for the mcgee user name and password to grolier.
Search with the keywords that describe your topic.
http://auth.grolier.com/login/go_login_page.html?bffs=N
The American Civil War Homepage
sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.htmlThe American Civil War- Dakota University
homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
Civil War Women - Online Archival Collections at Duke
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.htmlAnte-Bellum and the Civil War in the United States
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h42-cw.html
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, by James Ford Rhodes
http://www.bartleby.com/252/Civil War Era Newspapers
Valley of the Shadow
http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/VoS/newspapers/topics.html
American Civil War Manuscript Guides
VT (Virginia Tech) Digital Library and Archives
Includes letters from soldiers. Look for links to the names of the people to see their writings.
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/civwar/Civil War Letters
National Postal Museum
http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/letterwriting/lw04.html
Biographies
The Civil War by Ken Burns
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/biographies/barton.html
Connecticut History Online
[Photographs, Posters, Broadsides...from Connecticut historical collections.
Search under United States Civil War ]
http://www.cthistoryonline.org/cdm-cho/search.php
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the North and South
Why did the North win the Civil War?
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_35_Notes.htmHistorical Background
http://americancivilwar.com/authors/historical.html
Civil War Graphs
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/graphs.htm* Fasttrack to America's Past
http://www.fasttrackteaching.com/TE-S5-P02.htmlUp
North
Park Handbook
Lowell National Historical Park and Tsongas Industrial History Center
http://www.nps.gov/lowe/historyculture/park-handbook.htm
Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills:
"The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us" by Thomas Dublin
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2materials/dublin.html
Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html
Comparative Labor Systems: Plantation Rules/Factory Rules
Unit 2: Early Industrialization
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/index.html
Protective Tariffs Benefit the North
http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/statesrights.html
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South
Ordinance of Nullification [by the people of South Carolina to remove the tariffs]
http://www.adena.com/adena/usa/cw/cw207.htm
First Person Narratives of the American South
Documenting the American South
Library of Congress
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/texts.html
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Battles
Civil War Traveler Podcasts
[Podcasts that recount battles while walking on the battlegrounds. Downloadable maps are also available]
http://www.civilwartraveler.com/audio/index.html
ShilohAntietamGettysburgFirst Bull RunSecond Bull Run
FredericksburgChattanoogaChancellorsvilleVicksburgWar at Sea
Union BlockadeUp
Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing) April 6-7, 1862
http://www.civilwarhome.com/shiloh.htm
The Battle of Shiloh by U.S. Grant
The Century Magazine, Feb. 1885
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fcent%2Fcent0029%2F&tif=00603.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABP2287-0029-136
Shiloh Battlefield
Shiloh National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/shil/historyculture/shiloh-history.htm
Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee
by Albert Dillahunty
NPS Historical Handbook No,. 10
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hh/10/index.htm
Shiloh
Battle Summary
CWSAC
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/tn003.htm
The Battle of Shiloh
Union Victory
Battles of the Civil War
Thinkquest
http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/battles/shiloh.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0928
The Battle of Shiloh
Links to Other Resources
http://faculty.css.edu/mkelsey/usgrant/shil.html
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Antietam
Antietam National Battlefield
http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/index.htm
The Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) September 17, 1862
(The Bloodiest Day of the Civil War)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/antietam.htm
Antietam: Battle Summary
CWSAC
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/md003.htm
The Battle of Antietam
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/battle_1
Antietam on the Web
http://aotw.org/
Carnage at Antietam, 1862
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/antiet.htm
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Gettysburg
1863: A Grim Year
Gettysburg: The Soldiers' Battle
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getteducation/bcast04/prep4.htm
The Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.civilwarhome.com/gettysbu.htm
The Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/gtburg.htm
People
Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/gett/historyculture/people.htm
The Civil War Soldier
Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/soldierlife/soldiers.htm
Choices and Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/44gettys/44gettys.htm
Camp Life: Civil War Collections from Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/index.htm
The Turning Point of the Civil War
http://www.gettysbg.com/battle.shtml
The Battle of Gettysburg
July 1-3, 1863
http://americancivilwar.com/getty.html
The Extraordinary Story of the Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.gettysburg.com/bog/bogstory/story1.htm
Today in History
July 3, 1863
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul03.html
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First Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run (1st Manassas)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/1manassa.htm
The Battle of First Manassas, July 21, 1861
Manassas National Battlefield
http://www.nps.gov/mana/historyculture/first-manassas.htm
Battle summary: Manassas, First
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/va005.htm
First Battle of Bull Run
Today in History, July 21
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul21.html#bullrun
Battle of Bull Run
Confederate Victory
Battles of the Civil War
Thinkquest
http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/battles/bullrun.html
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Second Bull Run
Manassas, Second
CWAS Battle Summaries
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/va026.htm
The Battle of 2nd Manassas
(The Second Battle of Bull Run)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/2manassa.htm
Second Battle of Manassas--Bull Run
Civil War
History Central
http://www.multied.com/civilwar/SecondManassas.html
The Battle of the Second Manassas
Battlefield History
Manassas National Battlefield
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/mana/historyculture/second-manassas.htm
Second Battle of Bull Run
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/second-battle-bull-run.htm
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Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/frsp/fredhist.htm
Fredericksburg I
Battle Summary
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/va028.htm
Fredericksburg II
Battle Summary
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/va034.htm
The Battle of Fredericksburg
http://www.civilwarhome.com/fredrick.htm
The Battle of Fredericksburg, Animated
(ShockWave software is required to run this animation.)
http://www.travelbrains.com/shockhtml/FburgDemo.htm
America's Civil War
http://www.fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Battle/
Behind the Lines: A Special Series on the Battle of Fredericksburg
http://www.fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Battle/Behind_The_Lines
How Civilians Fared During the Battle of Fredericksburg
http://www.fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Battle/civilians.htm
Map of the Battle of Fredericksburg
http://www.civil-war.net/pages/maps/fredericksburg.jpg
General Ambrose Burnside
Report, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, December 17, 1862
http://www.civil-war.net/searchofficialrecords.asp?searchofficialrecords=Burnside%20Fredericksburg
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Chattanooga
Chattanooga
http://ngeorgia.com/history/chat.html
Fighting Commenced in the Battle of Chattanooga, November 23, 1863
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/chattano_1
The Battles for Chattanooga: Electric Map and Museum
http://www.battlesforchattanooga.com/
The Chattanooga Campaign
http://www.civilwarhome.com/chattannoga.htm
Battle Map of the Chattanooga Campaign
http://www.civilwarhome.com/chattanoogamap.htm
The History Behind the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/chch/hrs/history.htm
Chattanooga I (1862)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/tn005.htm
Chattanooga II (August 1863)
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/tn018.htm
Chattanooga III (November 1863)
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/tn024.htm
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Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville (May 1-3, 1863)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/chancell.htm
The Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/frsp/chist.htm
Lee's Greatest Victory: Chancellorsville by Robert K. Krick
http://fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Battle/chancellorsville
Chancellorsville: CWSAC Battle Summary
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/va032.htm
The Battle: Chancellorsville [setting for the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane]
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CRANE/chancellorsville/section2.html
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Vicksburg
The Battle of Vicksburg
http://www.civilwarhome.com/battleofvicksburg.htm
Vicksburg Campaign and Siege March-July 1863The Campaign for Vicksburg
https://sercms.nps.gov/vick/historyculture/vickcamp-siege.htm
Vicksburg
CWSAC Battle Summary
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/ms011.htm
The Vicksburg Champaign from the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
http://www.civilwarhome.com/vicksburgcampaign.htm
The Fall of Vicksburg
The Daily Citizen, Vicksburg, July 2, 1863
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm114.html
The Fall of Vicksburg
Harper's Weekly, August 1, 1863
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/august/fall-vicksburg.htm
The First Naval Conflict Between the Ironclads
Navies
Civil War@Smithsonian
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/navies_firstnavalconflict.html
USS Monitor Center
The Mariners' Museum
http://www.monitorcenter.org/
CSS Virginia [not the Merrimac]
http://cssvirginia.org/
Action Between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia
Civil WAr Naval Actions
Naval Historical Center
U S Navy
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/civilwar/n-at-cst/hr-james/9mar62.htm
War at Sea
Civil War
Price of Freedom
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/printable/section.asp?id=5⊂=5
The H. L.Hunley
The Secret Weapon of the Confederacy
National Geographic
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0207/feature5/
The Blockade
American Civil War
Militory History Encyclopedia on the Web
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_american_civil_war09_waratsea.html
The Union Blockade
North Carolina Digital History
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/5460
Business as Usual in Blockaded Galveston [scroll down to this section]
Under the Rebel Flag: Life in Texas during the Civil War
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/civilwar/1861.html
The Blockade of Confederate Ports, 1861-1865
Timeline in US Diplomatic History
United States Department of State
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cw/106954.htm
Intelligence Overseas
CIA
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/civil-war/p31.htm
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Leaders
LincolnGrantHookerStonewall JacksonPickett
DavisLeeMcClellanShermanSheridanUp
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/small_exhibition.cfm?key=1267&exkey=696&CFID=4020201&CFTOKEN=56619463
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
American President Online Resource
University of Virginia
http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/lincoln.html
The Lincoln Institute
http://www.abrahamlincoln.org/projects/index.html
Lincoln Net
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
Northern Illinois University
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
The Assasination of Abraham Lincoln
The American Experience
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/assassination/
Looking for Lincoln
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/lookingforlincoln/
The Time of the Lincolns
The American Experience
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War Era
Document Library
TeachingAmericanHistory
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?subcategory=4
The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
TeachingAmericanHistory
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/lincoln/
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
http://www.alplm.org/home.html
Jefferson Davis' Farewell
January 21. 1861
United States Senate
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Jefferson_Davis_Farewell.htm
Davis, Jefferson
Biographical Dictionary of the United States Senate
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000113
Conversations with Jefferson Davis
LibraryPoint
Central Rappahannock Regional Library
http://www.librarypoint.org/conversations_with_jefferson_davis
Jefferson Davis Chronology
Museum of the Confederacy
http://www.moc.org/site/DocServer/DavisTimeline.pdf?docID=322
Jefferson Davis Was Captured
America's Story from America's Library
Library of Congress
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_jeffdav_1.html
Jefferson Davis Elected President
America's Story from America's Library
Library of Congress
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_davis_1.html
Beauvoir : The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library
http://www.beauvoir.org/
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Rice Unversity
http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/
A Short History of the Confederate States of America
by Jefferson Davis
http://books.google.com/books?id=nNgBAAAAMAAJ&dq=Jefferson+Davis&printsec=frontcover&source=an&hl=en&ei=PFgNS_LyGMPHlAer1-SPBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CB4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Jefferson%20Davis&f=false
General Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses Grant Memoirs
http://www.bartleby.com/1011/
Ulysses S. Grant
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ug18.html
Ulysses S. Grant:The Troubled President
The American President, PBS
http://www.americanpresident.org/history/ulyssessgrant/
New of Ulysses S. Grant's Death [New York Times, July 24, 1885]
http://starship.python.net/crew/manus/Presidents/usg/usgobit.html
Student's Guide to Grant
Ulysses S. Grant Information Center
http://faculty.css.edu/mkelsey/usgrant/student.html
Ulysses Simpson Grant
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/usgrant.html
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General Joseph Hooker
Joseph Hooker (1814-1879)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/hookbio.htm
Joseph Hooker Source Page
Army of the Cumberland and George Thomas Source
http://www.aotc.net/Hooker_home.htm
Joseph "Fightin' Joe" Hooker
About North Georgia
http://ngeorgia.com/ang/Joseph_'Fighting_Joe'_Hooker
Lincoln's Letter to Major General Joseph Hooker
Abraham Lincoln Online
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/hooker.htm
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General Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson Resources VMI
http://www.vmi.edu/archives.aspx?id=3747
Thomas J. Jackson (1824-1863)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/jackbio.htm
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Life of a Resolute Soldier in Lexington
Life Stories of Civil War Heroes
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6732/files/journal_jackson.html
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General Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee, 1-19-1806 --10-12-1870:Beloved General of the South
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/relee/relee.htm
Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/leebio.htm
General Robert E. Lee
http://americancivilwar.com/south/lee.html
Robert Edward Lee
http://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/lees/robert_e_lee.php
General Robert Edward Lee
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/sidebar/leebio.htm
Robert E. Lee Biography
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/About%20the%20General.htm
The Apotheosis of Robert E. Lee|
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LEE/lee.html
Obituary
Gen. Robert E. Lee
New York Times, October 13, 1870
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0119.html
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General George B. McClellan
George Brinton McClellan
http://www.civilwarhome.com/macbio.htm
General George Brinton McClellan
http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/gbmcclellan.htm
George B. McClellan
Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=258
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William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/sherbio.htm
William Tecumseh Sherman
a North Georgia Notable
(A view from the South)
http://ngeorgia.com/people/shermanwt.html
All About Sherman
ThinkQuest
http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/graphics/experience/people/sherman.html
William Tecumseh Sherman Family Papers
Notre Dame Archives
http://www.archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/html/SHR.htm
George Pickett
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/George_Pickett.htm
George E. Pickett (1825-1875)
Encyclopedia Virginia
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Pickett_George_E_1825-1875
The Heart of a Soldier As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Gen. George E. Pickett CSA
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/pickett/menu.html
Meet General Pickett
Gettysburg National Military Park Kidzpage
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettKidz/gkbios/pickett.htm
General Phill Sheridan
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/sheridan/general-phil-sheridan.htm
Philip H. Sheridan (18313-1888)
Mr. Lincoln's White House
http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/inside.asp?ID=149&subjectID=2
Sheridan, Philip Henry
The Handbook of Texas Online
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/fsh26.html
Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888)
Military History Encyclopedia on the Web
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_sheridan.html
The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan
Project Gutenburg
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5856
Philip Sheridan
[poetry about]
http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/union/officers/sheridan/index.html
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Camp Life
Soldering
Civil War@Smithsonian
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/soldiering_intro.html
UniformsLife/ConditionsFood/RationsEntertainmentMedicine & HospitalsWeaponsUp
Uniforms
Civil War Uniforms
http://civilwarclipart.com/Clipartgallery/clipart2.htm
Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861
http://members.tripod.com/~howardlanham/unireg.htm
U. S. Army in the Civil War
Insignia
http://usarmyinsigniahomepage.110mb.com/armyhome.html
The Use of Distinctive Colors in Civil War Uniforms
(Branch Colors)
http://howardlanham.tripod.com/color.htm
U.S. Civil War Uniforms
http://www.ushist.com/wardrobe/us_cw.htm
Civil War Enlisted Uniforms
http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/1866uniform/
Brigade Sutler Civil War Uniforms and Supplies
http://stores.brigadesutler.com/StoreFront.bok
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Life/Conditions
Life in a Civil War Camp
http://www.civilwarhome.com/camplife.htm
The Civil War Soldiers
What Was Life Like in 1863?
Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/gett/soldierlife/cwarmy.htm
How the Civil War Soldier Lived
http://www.civilwarhome.com/soldierslife.htm
Camp Life
Voices from the Civil War
http://www.hstg.org/online/html/702.html
Camp Life: Civil War Collections
Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/index.htm
The Eye of the Storm: Private Knox Sneden
http://www.musarium.com/eyeofthestorm/main.html
In Their Own Words
Tales from a Civil War Prison
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/civil/words/index.html
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Food/Rations
Civil War Food
Gettysburg National Military Park Kidzpage
http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/hardtack.htm
Civil War Recipes Index
Civil War Interactive
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/recipeindex.htm
Civil War Army Rations
http://www.civilwarhome.com/rations.htm
Civil War Food
http://www.civilwaracademy.com/civil-war-food.html
Civil War Era Foodways
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpioneer.html#civilwar
Provisions for the Army
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/november/civil-war-food.htm
Food and Rations in the Civil War
The Cincinnati Civil War Round Table
http://www.cincinnaticwrt.org/data/ccwrt_history/talks_text/march_food_rations.html
Confederate Receipt Book
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/receipt/receipt.html
Recipes of the Civil War Era
http://www.angelfire.com/me/civilian/recipes.html
Food
Civil War Related Web Links
United States Civil War Center
http://www.civilwarhome.com/links10.htm#Food
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Entertainment
Battling Boredom
Camp Life: Civil War Collections
Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/games.html
Entertainment in a Civil War Camp
http://www.civilwarhome.com/entertainment.htm
Civil War Baseball
Battling on the Baseball Diamond
Fort Ward Museum, Alexandria, Virginia
http://oha.alexandriava.gov/fortward/special-sections/baseball/
Animal Mascots of the Civil War
Fort Ward Museum, Alexandria, Virginia
http://oha.alexandriava.gov/fortward/special-sections/mascots/
Ought it Not Be a Merry Christmas?
Fort Ward Museum, Alexandria, Virginia
http://oha.alexandriava.gov/fortward/special-sections/christmas/fw-christmas.html
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/
Authentic Music of the Civil War performed by Bobby Horton
The Civil War Music Store
http://www.civilwarmusicstore.com/
Music of the Civil War
Gettysburg National Military Park Kidzpage
http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/music.htm
Civil War Music (mostly)
http://home.att.net/~dmercado/music.htm
Bucktails (The 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, Company B)
Civil War Songs
http://pabucktail.com/songs.htm
American Civil War Music (1861-1865)
http://www.pdmusic.org/civilwar2.html
Civil War Band Music
Audio clips of Recreated Band Concert
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmconcert.html#0014
Civil War Music
http://www.civilwarmusic.net/fife.php
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Medicine & Hospitals
Civil War Medicine
http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarmedicineintro.htm
Civil War Battlefield Medicine
http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/index.cfm
Medicine in the Civil War
Gettysburg National Military Park Kidzpage
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/doctor.htm
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
http://www.civilwarmed.org/Index.aspx
Dyer's Compendium (Union) Summary of Loss by State
Dyer's Compendium access is in the right column under Troops Furnished & Deaths
http://www.civil-war.net/
Stonewall's Surgeon: a biographical Web site devoted to Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire, MD
http://www.huntermcguire.goellnitz.org/
Civil War Medical Care: Photographs from the United States Sanitary Commission Collection, 1861-1872
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=203
Photographs
Medicine and Hospitals
http://www.civil-war.net/searchphotos.asp?searchphotos=Medical%20and%20Hospitals
Mower General Hospital
http://www.webspawner.com/users/spsci80/
Casualties and Medical Care
http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/CasualtiesAndMedicalCare/index.html
Field and Temporary Hospitals by Deering J. Roberts, M.D., Surgeon Confederate States Army
http://www.civilwarhome.com/fieldhospitals.htm
Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/alcott/sketches/sketches.html
Civil War Medicine
The Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war-medicine.htm
The Santiary Commission
Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project
NPR
http://www.npr.org/programs/disability/ba_shows.dir/work.dir/highlights/sanitary.html
Whitman's Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals by Angel Price
http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7ECAP/hospital/whitman.htm
Civil War Weaponry and Medicine: A Disastrous Mismatch
UMBC Center for History Education
http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=43&heading=3
Army -- United States -- 1860's
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=697850&word=
Weapons
Civil War@Smithsonian
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/weapons_intro.html
Civil War Small Arms
The Civil War Soldier
Gettysburgy National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/soldierlife/webguns.htm
The Artillary
The Civil War Soldier
Gettysburgy National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/soldierlife/artillery.htm
Why the Civil War Was So Lethal
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=92
Civil War Weapons
Harper's Weekly, 1860's, various digitized issues
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/august/civil-war-weapons.htm
Up
Total War
Civil War
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=119
Sherman's Meridian Campaign: Practice Run for the March to the Sea
By Kevin Dougherty
Mississippi History Now
Mississippi Historical Society
http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/2/shermans-meridian-campaign-a-practice-run-for-the-march-to-the-sea
The Nature of War
Civil War
Biography of America
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog11/transcript/page02.html
General Sherman in the Civil War
Harper's Weekly, various digitized issues
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/sherman/general-sherman-civil-war.htm
Civil War (1861-1865)
White House Commission on Remembrance
http://www.remember.gov/HistoryOfSacrifice/CivilWar/tabid/79/Default.aspx
A House Divided: Money and the Civil War
Money Museum
American Numismatic Association
http://www.money.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ExploretheWorldofMoney/MoneyMuseum/CurrentExhibits/Civil_War_Exhibit.htm
Money Troubles by R. Neil Fulghum
Southern Homefront, 1861-1865
Documenting the American South
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/currency/currnc.html
Speculation During the Civil War
Encyclopedia of Virginia
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Speculation_During_the_Civil_War
Paper Money in the Civil War
North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction
North Carolina Digital History
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/4622
Financing the Confederacy's War Effort
Center for Technology and Teacher Education
University of Virginia
http://www.teacherlink.org/content/social/instructional/inflation/background.html
Exorbitant Prices
The Spectator, October 27, 1863
Center for Technology and Teacher Education
University of Virginia
http://www.teacherlink.org/content/social/instructional/inflation/exorbitant.html
Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial
Museum of African American History, Boston
http://www.afroammuseum.org/site1.htm
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment Marches Through Boston, May 28, 1863
Mass Moments
http://massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=157
Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment
Boston African American National Historic Site
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/boaf/historyculture/shaw.htm
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment Photographs, 1860-1880
Massachusetts Historical Society
http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap036
54th Mass Casualty List
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/54thmass.html
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Duke Univerisity
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/cwdocs.html
Women in the Civil War
Thomas Nast Civil War Collection
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/Women_Civil_War_II.htm
Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War
University of Virginia
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/hearts/
The Civil Disobedience of Women During the Civil War
Maryland State Archives
http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000084/html/t84.html
Why Did Women Fight in the Civil War?
Smithsonian Civil War Studies
http://civilwarstudies.org/articles/Vol_1/women-in-the-civil-war.shtm
The Women's Civil War
Electronic New Jersey: A Digital Archive of New Jersey History
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/CivWar/Blackman/cwwomen.html
Women Soldiers in the Civil War by DeAnne Blanton
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html
Woman's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience.
By L. P. Brockett and Mrs. Mary C. Vaughan. With an introduction, by Henry W. Bellows.
Philadelphia, Boston [etc.]: Zeigler, McCurdy & co., R. H. Curran, 1867.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ACP3511
Nurse and spy in the Union army: comprising the adventures and experiences of a woman in hospitals, camps and battle-fields
by S. Emma E. Edmonds.
Hartford, Philadephia: W. S. Williams & co., Jones bros. & co, 1865.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABV2963
The American Red Cross
http://www.clarabartonbirthplace.org/red_cross/cb_redcross
Clara Barton
Antietam National Battlefield
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/clarabarton.htm
Clara Barton: Advocate for Human Rights
Clara Barton's House, Reading 1
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/27barton/27facts1.htm
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almintr.html
Chronology of Emancipation during the Civil War
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/chronol.htm
The Civil War and Emancipation
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html
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Lee's Surrender to Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse
The Battle at Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/appomatt.htm
The Death-Knell of the Confederacy: The Final Battles at Appomattox Station and the Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
April 8-9, 1865
http://www.nps.gov/apco/battle.htm
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
The Surrender, April 9, 1865
http://www.nps.gov/apco/surrend.htm
Surrender at Appomattox
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
Appomattox Surrender Document
http://www.wildwestweb.net/cwdocs/surrender.html
The Quiet and Compelling History at Appomattox by James T. Yenckel
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/civilwar/appomatt.htm
Robert E. Lee's Farewell to His Troops [General Order #9]
Stratford Hall Plantation: The Birthplace of Robert E. Lee
http://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/lees/farewell.php
Chapter 43a Appomattox
From Manassas to Appomattox
War Times Journal
http://www.wtj.com/archives/longstreet/long43a.htm
Up
Civil War Slang
Soldier Talk and Civil War Slang
http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/soldslang.htm
Civil War Slang
"Gettysburg: The Soldiers' Battle" Activity
http://www.nps.gov/gett/getteducation/bcast04/04activities/activity05.htm
Gettysburg: The Soldiers' Battle Activity
Civil War Vocabulary
http://www.nps.gov/gett/getteducation/bcast04/04activities/activity07.htm
Definitions of Civil War Terms
http://www.civilwarhome.com/terms.htm
Historical Hubbub Featuring Civil War Slang by BooneBunny
http://members.tripod.com/BooneBunny/hubbub.html
Glossary of Civil War Terms
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/glossary.html
Up
Letters from Soldiers
American Civil War Collection at the Electronic Text Center
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/#Letters
Letters and Diaries
http://www.civil-war.net/searchlinks.asp?searchlinks=Letters%20and%20Diaries
Civil War Letters of the Christie Family
http://www.mnhs.org/library/Christie/td_christie.html
Voices from the Past
Alexandria, Virginia, 1861-1865
Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site
http://oha.alexandriava.gov/fortward/special-sections/voices/
50 Years of Victorian Fashion Plates
[scroll down to the 1860's]
http://www.copyrightexpired.com/fashionillustrations/index.html
The Costumer's Manifesto
1860's
http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/victlinks.htm#1860%27s
Primary Source Documents
The Civil War
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module10/mod_primary.htmlThe Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
The Library of Congress
[Digitized Images of Primary Resources includes posters, drawings, cartoons, photographs...]
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html
Shotgun's Home of the Civil War
Index of Civil War Information Available on the Internet
http://www.civilwarhome.com/indexcivilwarinfo.htm
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
American Memory Project
Selected Photographs of the Civil War
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.htmlTimeline of the Civil War
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html
The Civil War
Memory Gallery B
American Treasures
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr11b.html#civil
The Civil War Home Page
www.civil-war.net/
E-Reference Books
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of online e-Reference Books made available to you through the Connecticut Digital Library (www.iconn.org)
[Scroll down to E-Reference Books and search under Civil War or your topic.]
http://rqst-agent.auto-graphics.com/homepages/customerwide/classicschool.asp?
Grolier Online
Search the Encyclopedia Americana and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
See Ms. Averill for the mcgee user name and password to grolier.
Search with the keywords that describe your topic.
http://auth.grolier.com/login/go_login_page.html?bffs=N
The American Civil War Homepage
sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.htmlThe American Civil War- Dakota University
homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
Civil War Women - Online Archival Collections at Duke
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.htmlAnte-Bellum and the Civil War in the United States
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h42-cw.html
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, by James Ford Rhodes
http://www.bartleby.com/252/Civil War Era Newspapers
Valley of the Shadow
http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/VoS/newspapers/topics.html
American Civil War Manuscript Guides
VT (Virginia Tech) Digital Library and Archives
Includes letters from soldiers. Look for links to the names of the people to see their writings.
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/civwar/Civil War Letters
National Postal Museum
http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/letterwriting/lw04.html
Biographies
The Civil War by Ken Burns
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/biographies/barton.html
Connecticut History Online
[Photographs, Posters, Broadsides...from Connecticut historical collections.
Search under United States Civil War ]
http://www.cthistoryonline.org/cdm-cho/search.php
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the North and South
Why did the North win the Civil War?
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_35_Notes.htmHistorical Background
http://americancivilwar.com/authors/historical.html
Civil War Graphs
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/graphs.htm* Fasttrack to America's Past
http://www.fasttrackteaching.com/TE-S5-P02.htmlUp
North
Park Handbook
Lowell National Historical Park and Tsongas Industrial History Center
http://www.nps.gov/lowe/historyculture/park-handbook.htm
Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills:
"The Oppressing Hand of Avarice Would Enslave Us" by Thomas Dublin
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2materials/dublin.html
Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html
Comparative Labor Systems: Plantation Rules/Factory Rules
Unit 2: Early Industrialization
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/index.html
Protective Tariffs Benefit the North
http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/statesrights.html
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South
Ordinance of Nullification [by the people of South Carolina to remove the tariffs]
http://www.adena.com/adena/usa/cw/cw207.htm
First Person Narratives of the American South
Documenting the American South
Library of Congress
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/texts.html
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Battles
Civil War Traveler Podcasts
[Podcasts that recount battles while walking on the battlegrounds. Downloadable maps are also available]
http://www.civilwartraveler.com/audio/index.html
ShilohAntietamGettysburgFirst Bull RunSecond Bull Run
FredericksburgChattanoogaChancellorsvilleVicksburgWar at Sea
Union BlockadeUp
Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing) April 6-7, 1862
http://www.civilwarhome.com/shiloh.htm
The Battle of Shiloh by U.S. Grant
The Century Magazine, Feb. 1885
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fcent%2Fcent0029%2F&tif=00603.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABP2287-0029-136
Shiloh Battlefield
Shiloh National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/shil/historyculture/shiloh-history.htm
Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee
by Albert Dillahunty
NPS Historical Handbook No,. 10
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hh/10/index.htm
Shiloh
Battle Summary
CWSAC
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/tn003.htm
The Battle of Shiloh
Union Victory
Battles of the Civil War
Thinkquest
http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/battles/shiloh.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0928
The Battle of Shiloh
Links to Other Resources
http://faculty.css.edu/mkelsey/usgrant/shil.html
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Antietam
Antietam National Battlefield
http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/index.htm
The Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) September 17, 1862
(The Bloodiest Day of the Civil War)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/antietam.htm
Antietam: Battle Summary
CWSAC
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/md003.htm
The Battle of Antietam
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/battle_1
Antietam on the Web
http://aotw.org/
Carnage at Antietam, 1862
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/antiet.htm
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Gettysburg
1863: A Grim Year
Gettysburg: The Soldiers' Battle
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getteducation/bcast04/prep4.htm
The Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.civilwarhome.com/gettysbu.htm
The Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/gtburg.htm
People
Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/gett/historyculture/people.htm
The Civil War Soldier
Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/soldierlife/soldiers.htm
Choices and Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/44gettys/44gettys.htm
Camp Life: Civil War Collections from Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/index.htm
The Turning Point of the Civil War
http://www.gettysbg.com/battle.shtml
The Battle of Gettysburg
July 1-3, 1863
http://americancivilwar.com/getty.html
The Extraordinary Story of the Battle of Gettysburg
http://www.gettysburg.com/bog/bogstory/story1.htm
Today in History
July 3, 1863
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul03.html
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First Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run (1st Manassas)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/1manassa.htm
The Battle of First Manassas, July 21, 1861
Manassas National Battlefield
http://www.nps.gov/mana/historyculture/first-manassas.htm
Battle summary: Manassas, First
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/va005.htm
First Battle of Bull Run
Today in History, July 21
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul21.html#bullrun
Battle of Bull Run
Confederate Victory
Battles of the Civil War
Thinkquest
http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/battles/bullrun.html
Up
Second Bull Run
Manassas, Second
CWAS Battle Summaries
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/va026.htm
The Battle of 2nd Manassas
(The Second Battle of Bull Run)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/2manassa.htm
Second Battle of Manassas--Bull Run
Civil War
History Central
http://www.multied.com/civilwar/SecondManassas.html
The Battle of the Second Manassas
Battlefield History
Manassas National Battlefield
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/mana/historyculture/second-manassas.htm
Second Battle of Bull Run
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/second-battle-bull-run.htm
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Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/frsp/fredhist.htm
Fredericksburg I
Battle Summary
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/va028.htm
Fredericksburg II
Battle Summary
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/va034.htm
The Battle of Fredericksburg
http://www.civilwarhome.com/fredrick.htm
The Battle of Fredericksburg, Animated
(ShockWave software is required to run this animation.)
http://www.travelbrains.com/shockhtml/FburgDemo.htm
America's Civil War
http://www.fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Battle/
Behind the Lines: A Special Series on the Battle of Fredericksburg
http://www.fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Battle/Behind_The_Lines
How Civilians Fared During the Battle of Fredericksburg
http://www.fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Battle/civilians.htm
Map of the Battle of Fredericksburg
http://www.civil-war.net/pages/maps/fredericksburg.jpg
General Ambrose Burnside
Report, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, December 17, 1862
http://www.civil-war.net/searchofficialrecords.asp?searchofficialrecords=Burnside%20Fredericksburg
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Chattanooga
Chattanooga
http://ngeorgia.com/history/chat.html
Fighting Commenced in the Battle of Chattanooga, November 23, 1863
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/chattano_1
The Battles for Chattanooga: Electric Map and Museum
http://www.battlesforchattanooga.com/
The Chattanooga Campaign
http://www.civilwarhome.com/chattannoga.htm
Battle Map of the Chattanooga Campaign
http://www.civilwarhome.com/chattanoogamap.htm
The History Behind the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/chch/hrs/history.htm
Chattanooga I (1862)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/tn005.htm
Chattanooga II (August 1863)
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/tn018.htm
Chattanooga III (November 1863)
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/tn024.htm
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Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville (May 1-3, 1863)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/chancell.htm
The Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/frsp/chist.htm
Lee's Greatest Victory: Chancellorsville by Robert K. Krick
http://fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Battle/chancellorsville
Chancellorsville: CWSAC Battle Summary
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/va032.htm
The Battle: Chancellorsville [setting for the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane]
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CRANE/chancellorsville/section2.html
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Vicksburg
The Battle of Vicksburg
http://www.civilwarhome.com/battleofvicksburg.htm
Vicksburg Campaign and Siege March-July 1863The Campaign for Vicksburg
https://sercms.nps.gov/vick/historyculture/vickcamp-siege.htm
Vicksburg
CWSAC Battle Summary
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/ms011.htm
The Vicksburg Champaign from the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
http://www.civilwarhome.com/vicksburgcampaign.htm
The Fall of Vicksburg
The Daily Citizen, Vicksburg, July 2, 1863
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm114.html
The Fall of Vicksburg
Harper's Weekly, August 1, 1863
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/august/fall-vicksburg.htm
The First Naval Conflict Between the Ironclads
Navies
Civil War@Smithsonian
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/navies_firstnavalconflict.html
USS Monitor Center
The Mariners' Museum
http://www.monitorcenter.org/
CSS Virginia [not the Merrimac]
http://cssvirginia.org/
Action Between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia
Civil WAr Naval Actions
Naval Historical Center
U S Navy
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/civilwar/n-at-cst/hr-james/9mar62.htm
War at Sea
Civil War
Price of Freedom
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/printable/section.asp?id=5⊂=5
The H. L.Hunley
The Secret Weapon of the Confederacy
National Geographic
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0207/feature5/
The Blockade
American Civil War
Militory History Encyclopedia on the Web
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_american_civil_war09_waratsea.html
The Union Blockade
North Carolina Digital History
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/5460
Business as Usual in Blockaded Galveston [scroll down to this section]
Under the Rebel Flag: Life in Texas during the Civil War
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/civilwar/1861.html
The Blockade of Confederate Ports, 1861-1865
Timeline in US Diplomatic History
United States Department of State
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cw/106954.htm
Intelligence Overseas
CIA
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/civil-war/p31.htm
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Leaders
LincolnGrantHookerStonewall JacksonPickett
DavisLeeMcClellanShermanSheridanUp
Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/small_exhibition.cfm?key=1267&exkey=696&CFID=4020201&CFTOKEN=56619463
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
American President Online Resource
University of Virginia
http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/lincoln.html
The Lincoln Institute
http://www.abrahamlincoln.org/projects/index.html
Lincoln Net
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
Northern Illinois University
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
The Assasination of Abraham Lincoln
The American Experience
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/assassination/
Looking for Lincoln
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/lookingforlincoln/
The Time of the Lincolns
The American Experience
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War Era
Document Library
TeachingAmericanHistory
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?subcategory=4
The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
TeachingAmericanHistory
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/lincoln/
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
http://www.alplm.org/home.html
Jefferson Davis' Farewell
January 21. 1861
United States Senate
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Jefferson_Davis_Farewell.htm
Davis, Jefferson
Biographical Dictionary of the United States Senate
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000113
Conversations with Jefferson Davis
LibraryPoint
Central Rappahannock Regional Library
http://www.librarypoint.org/conversations_with_jefferson_davis
Jefferson Davis Chronology
Museum of the Confederacy
http://www.moc.org/site/DocServer/DavisTimeline.pdf?docID=322
Jefferson Davis Was Captured
America's Story from America's Library
Library of Congress
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_jeffdav_1.html
Jefferson Davis Elected President
America's Story from America's Library
Library of Congress
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/civil/jb_civil_davis_1.html
Beauvoir : The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library
http://www.beauvoir.org/
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Rice Unversity
http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/
A Short History of the Confederate States of America
by Jefferson Davis
http://books.google.com/books?id=nNgBAAAAMAAJ&dq=Jefferson+Davis&printsec=frontcover&source=an&hl=en&ei=PFgNS_LyGMPHlAer1-SPBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CB4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Jefferson%20Davis&f=false
General Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses Grant Memoirs
http://www.bartleby.com/1011/
Ulysses S. Grant
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ug18.html
Ulysses S. Grant:The Troubled President
The American President, PBS
http://www.americanpresident.org/history/ulyssessgrant/
New of Ulysses S. Grant's Death [New York Times, July 24, 1885]
http://starship.python.net/crew/manus/Presidents/usg/usgobit.html
Student's Guide to Grant
Ulysses S. Grant Information Center
http://faculty.css.edu/mkelsey/usgrant/student.html
Ulysses Simpson Grant
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/usgrant.html
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General Joseph Hooker
Joseph Hooker (1814-1879)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/hookbio.htm
Joseph Hooker Source Page
Army of the Cumberland and George Thomas Source
http://www.aotc.net/Hooker_home.htm
Joseph "Fightin' Joe" Hooker
About North Georgia
http://ngeorgia.com/ang/Joseph_'Fighting_Joe'_Hooker
Lincoln's Letter to Major General Joseph Hooker
Abraham Lincoln Online
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/hooker.htm
Up
General Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson Resources VMI
http://www.vmi.edu/archives.aspx?id=3747
Thomas J. Jackson (1824-1863)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/jackbio.htm
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Life of a Resolute Soldier in Lexington
Life Stories of Civil War Heroes
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6732/files/journal_jackson.html
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General Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee, 1-19-1806 --10-12-1870:Beloved General of the South
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/relee/relee.htm
Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/leebio.htm
General Robert E. Lee
http://americancivilwar.com/south/lee.html
Robert Edward Lee
http://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/lees/robert_e_lee.php
General Robert Edward Lee
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/sidebar/leebio.htm
Robert E. Lee Biography
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/About%20the%20General.htm
The Apotheosis of Robert E. Lee|
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LEE/lee.html
Obituary
Gen. Robert E. Lee
New York Times, October 13, 1870
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0119.html
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General George B. McClellan
George Brinton McClellan
http://www.civilwarhome.com/macbio.htm
General George Brinton McClellan
http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/gbmcclellan.htm
George B. McClellan
Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=258
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William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/sherbio.htm
William Tecumseh Sherman
a North Georgia Notable
(A view from the South)
http://ngeorgia.com/people/shermanwt.html
All About Sherman
ThinkQuest
http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/graphics/experience/people/sherman.html
William Tecumseh Sherman Family Papers
Notre Dame Archives
http://www.archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/html/SHR.htm
George Pickett
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/George_Pickett.htm
George E. Pickett (1825-1875)
Encyclopedia Virginia
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Pickett_George_E_1825-1875
The Heart of a Soldier As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Gen. George E. Pickett CSA
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/pickett/menu.html
Meet General Pickett
Gettysburg National Military Park Kidzpage
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettKidz/gkbios/pickett.htm
General Phill Sheridan
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/sheridan/general-phil-sheridan.htm
Philip H. Sheridan (18313-1888)
Mr. Lincoln's White House
http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/inside.asp?ID=149&subjectID=2
Sheridan, Philip Henry
The Handbook of Texas Online
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/fsh26.html
Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888)
Military History Encyclopedia on the Web
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/people_sheridan.html
The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan
Project Gutenburg
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5856
Philip Sheridan
[poetry about]
http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/union/officers/sheridan/index.html
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Camp Life
Soldering
Civil War@Smithsonian
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/soldiering_intro.html
UniformsLife/ConditionsFood/RationsEntertainmentMedicine & HospitalsWeaponsUp
Uniforms
Civil War Uniforms
http://civilwarclipart.com/Clipartgallery/clipart2.htm
Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861
http://members.tripod.com/~howardlanham/unireg.htm
U. S. Army in the Civil War
Insignia
http://usarmyinsigniahomepage.110mb.com/armyhome.html
The Use of Distinctive Colors in Civil War Uniforms
(Branch Colors)
http://howardlanham.tripod.com/color.htm
U.S. Civil War Uniforms
http://www.ushist.com/wardrobe/us_cw.htm
Civil War Enlisted Uniforms
http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/1866uniform/
Brigade Sutler Civil War Uniforms and Supplies
http://stores.brigadesutler.com/StoreFront.bok
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Life/Conditions
Life in a Civil War Camp
http://www.civilwarhome.com/camplife.htm
The Civil War Soldiers
What Was Life Like in 1863?
Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/gett/soldierlife/cwarmy.htm
How the Civil War Soldier Lived
http://www.civilwarhome.com/soldierslife.htm
Camp Life
Voices from the Civil War
http://www.hstg.org/online/html/702.html
Camp Life: Civil War Collections
Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/index.htm
The Eye of the Storm: Private Knox Sneden
http://www.musarium.com/eyeofthestorm/main.html
In Their Own Words
Tales from a Civil War Prison
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/civil/words/index.html
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Food/Rations
Civil War Food
Gettysburg National Military Park Kidzpage
http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/hardtack.htm
Civil War Recipes Index
Civil War Interactive
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/recipeindex.htm
Civil War Army Rations
http://www.civilwarhome.com/rations.htm
Civil War Food
http://www.civilwaracademy.com/civil-war-food.html
Civil War Era Foodways
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodpioneer.html#civilwar
Provisions for the Army
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/november/civil-war-food.htm
Food and Rations in the Civil War
The Cincinnati Civil War Round Table
http://www.cincinnaticwrt.org/data/ccwrt_history/talks_text/march_food_rations.html
Confederate Receipt Book
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/receipt/receipt.html
Recipes of the Civil War Era
http://www.angelfire.com/me/civilian/recipes.html
Food
Civil War Related Web Links
United States Civil War Center
http://www.civilwarhome.com/links10.htm#Food
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Entertainment
Battling Boredom
Camp Life: Civil War Collections
Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/games.html
Entertainment in a Civil War Camp
http://www.civilwarhome.com/entertainment.htm
Civil War Baseball
Battling on the Baseball Diamond
Fort Ward Museum, Alexandria, Virginia
http://oha.alexandriava.gov/fortward/special-sections/baseball/
Animal Mascots of the Civil War
Fort Ward Museum, Alexandria, Virginia
http://oha.alexandriava.gov/fortward/special-sections/mascots/
Ought it Not Be a Merry Christmas?
Fort Ward Museum, Alexandria, Virginia
http://oha.alexandriava.gov/fortward/special-sections/christmas/fw-christmas.html
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/
Authentic Music of the Civil War performed by Bobby Horton
The Civil War Music Store
http://www.civilwarmusicstore.com/
Music of the Civil War
Gettysburg National Military Park Kidzpage
http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/music.htm
Civil War Music (mostly)
http://home.att.net/~dmercado/music.htm
Bucktails (The 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, Company B)
Civil War Songs
http://pabucktail.com/songs.htm
American Civil War Music (1861-1865)
http://www.pdmusic.org/civilwar2.html
Civil War Band Music
Audio clips of Recreated Band Concert
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmconcert.html#0014
Civil War Music
http://www.civilwarmusic.net/fife.php
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Medicine & Hospitals
Civil War Medicine
http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarmedicineintro.htm
Civil War Battlefield Medicine
http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/index.cfm
Medicine in the Civil War
Gettysburg National Military Park Kidzpage
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/doctor.htm
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
http://www.civilwarmed.org/Index.aspx
Dyer's Compendium (Union) Summary of Loss by State
Dyer's Compendium access is in the right column under Troops Furnished & Deaths
http://www.civil-war.net/
Stonewall's Surgeon: a biographical Web site devoted to Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire, MD
http://www.huntermcguire.goellnitz.org/
Civil War Medical Care: Photographs from the United States Sanitary Commission Collection, 1861-1872
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=203
Photographs
Medicine and Hospitals
http://www.civil-war.net/searchphotos.asp?searchphotos=Medical%20and%20Hospitals
Mower General Hospital
http://www.webspawner.com/users/spsci80/
Casualties and Medical Care
http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/CasualtiesAndMedicalCare/index.html
Field and Temporary Hospitals by Deering J. Roberts, M.D., Surgeon Confederate States Army
http://www.civilwarhome.com/fieldhospitals.htm
Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/alcott/sketches/sketches.html
Civil War Medicine
The Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war-medicine.htm
The Santiary Commission
Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project
NPR
http://www.npr.org/programs/disability/ba_shows.dir/work.dir/highlights/sanitary.html
Whitman's Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals by Angel Price
http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7ECAP/hospital/whitman.htm
Civil War Weaponry and Medicine: A Disastrous Mismatch
UMBC Center for History Education
http://asp1.umbc.edu/newmedia/sites/chetah/lessondisplay.cfm?lesson=43&heading=3
Army -- United States -- 1860's
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=697850&word=
Weapons
Civil War@Smithsonian
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/weapons_intro.html
Civil War Small Arms
The Civil War Soldier
Gettysburgy National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/soldierlife/webguns.htm
The Artillary
The Civil War Soldier
Gettysburgy National Military Park
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/soldierlife/artillery.htm
Why the Civil War Was So Lethal
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=92
Civil War Weapons
Harper's Weekly, 1860's, various digitized issues
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/august/civil-war-weapons.htm
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Total War
Civil War
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=119
Sherman's Meridian Campaign: Practice Run for the March to the Sea
By Kevin Dougherty
Mississippi History Now
Mississippi Historical Society
http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/articles/2/shermans-meridian-campaign-a-practice-run-for-the-march-to-the-sea
The Nature of War
Civil War
Biography of America
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog11/transcript/page02.html
General Sherman in the Civil War
Harper's Weekly, various digitized issues
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/sherman/general-sherman-civil-war.htm
Civil War (1861-1865)
White House Commission on Remembrance
http://www.remember.gov/HistoryOfSacrifice/CivilWar/tabid/79/Default.aspx
A House Divided: Money and the Civil War
Money Museum
American Numismatic Association
http://www.money.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ExploretheWorldofMoney/MoneyMuseum/CurrentExhibits/Civil_War_Exhibit.htm
Money Troubles by R. Neil Fulghum
Southern Homefront, 1861-1865
Documenting the American South
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/currency/currnc.html
Speculation During the Civil War
Encyclopedia of Virginia
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Speculation_During_the_Civil_War
Paper Money in the Civil War
North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction
North Carolina Digital History
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/4622
Financing the Confederacy's War Effort
Center for Technology and Teacher Education
University of Virginia
http://www.teacherlink.org/content/social/instructional/inflation/background.html
Exorbitant Prices
The Spectator, October 27, 1863
Center for Technology and Teacher Education
University of Virginia
http://www.teacherlink.org/content/social/instructional/inflation/exorbitant.html
Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial
Museum of African American History, Boston
http://www.afroammuseum.org/site1.htm
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment Marches Through Boston, May 28, 1863
Mass Moments
http://massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=157
Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment
Boston African American National Historic Site
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/boaf/historyculture/shaw.htm
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment Photographs, 1860-1880
Massachusetts Historical Society
http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fap036
54th Mass Casualty List
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/54thmass.html
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Duke Univerisity
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/cwdocs.html
Women in the Civil War
Thomas Nast Civil War Collection
Sons of the South
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/Women_Civil_War_II.htm
Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War
University of Virginia
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/hearts/
The Civil Disobedience of Women During the Civil War
Maryland State Archives
http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000084/html/t84.html
Why Did Women Fight in the Civil War?
Smithsonian Civil War Studies
http://civilwarstudies.org/articles/Vol_1/women-in-the-civil-war.shtm
The Women's Civil War
Electronic New Jersey: A Digital Archive of New Jersey History
http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/CivWar/Blackman/cwwomen.html
Women Soldiers in the Civil War by DeAnne Blanton
The National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html
Woman's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience.
By L. P. Brockett and Mrs. Mary C. Vaughan. With an introduction, by Henry W. Bellows.
Philadelphia, Boston [etc.]: Zeigler, McCurdy & co., R. H. Curran, 1867.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ACP3511
Nurse and spy in the Union army: comprising the adventures and experiences of a woman in hospitals, camps and battle-fields
by S. Emma E. Edmonds.
Hartford, Philadephia: W. S. Williams & co., Jones bros. & co, 1865.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABV2963
The American Red Cross
http://www.clarabartonbirthplace.org/red_cross/cb_redcross
Clara Barton
Antietam National Battlefield
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/clarabarton.htm
Clara Barton: Advocate for Human Rights
Clara Barton's House, Reading 1
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/27barton/27facts1.htm
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almintr.html
Chronology of Emancipation during the Civil War
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/chronol.htm
The Civil War and Emancipation
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html
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Lee's Surrender to Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse
The Battle at Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/appomatt.htm
The Death-Knell of the Confederacy: The Final Battles at Appomattox Station and the Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
April 8-9, 1865
http://www.nps.gov/apco/battle.htm
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
The Surrender, April 9, 1865
http://www.nps.gov/apco/surrend.htm
Surrender at Appomattox
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm
Appomattox Surrender Document
http://www.wildwestweb.net/cwdocs/surrender.html
The Quiet and Compelling History at Appomattox by James T. Yenckel
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/tours/civilwar/appomatt.htm
Robert E. Lee's Farewell to His Troops [General Order #9]
Stratford Hall Plantation: The Birthplace of Robert E. Lee
http://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/lees/farewell.php
Chapter 43a Appomattox
From Manassas to Appomattox
War Times Journal
http://www.wtj.com/archives/longstreet/long43a.htm
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Civil War Slang
Soldier Talk and Civil War Slang
http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/soldslang.htm
Civil War Slang
"Gettysburg: The Soldiers' Battle" Activity
http://www.nps.gov/gett/getteducation/bcast04/04activities/activity05.htm
Gettysburg: The Soldiers' Battle Activity
Civil War Vocabulary
http://www.nps.gov/gett/getteducation/bcast04/04activities/activity07.htm
Definitions of Civil War Terms
http://www.civilwarhome.com/terms.htm
Historical Hubbub Featuring Civil War Slang by BooneBunny
http://members.tripod.com/BooneBunny/hubbub.html
Glossary of Civil War Terms
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/glossary.html
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Letters from Soldiers
American Civil War Collection at the Electronic Text Center
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/#Letters
Letters and Diaries
http://www.civil-war.net/searchlinks.asp?searchlinks=Letters%20and%20Diaries
Civil War Letters of the Christie Family
http://www.mnhs.org/library/Christie/td_christie.html
Voices from the Past
Alexandria, Virginia, 1861-1865
Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site
http://oha.alexandriava.gov/fortward/special-sections/voices/
50 Years of Victorian Fashion Plates
[scroll down to the 1860's]
http://www.copyrightexpired.com/fashionillustrations/index.html
The Costumer's Manifesto
1860's
http://www.costumes.org/HISTORY/100pages/victlinks.htm#1860%27s