Civil War
Women in the Civil War Era:
PRIMARY SOURCES
The Electronic Text Center is home to a variety of primary source material on the American Civil War, including letters, diaries and newspapers.
Slavery and Emancipation
Civil War Economics
- North and South financing war
- American Currency Exhibit,
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Brief Financial History
of the Civil War, Sullivan Press
- Civil War Currency,
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Civil
War Tokens in Columbus, Ohio
- Confederate Civil War Currency Page, Vance
Poteat, includes many images, history, etc.
- Confederate Coin Page, Vance Poteat
- Confederate Bond Page, Vance Poteat
- Confederate Notes
- The Confederate Treasury
- Crutchfield's Currency
- Money during the Civil War, Arthur W. Henrick,
Paymaster, ACWA
- Southern States Bank Notes,
Phillip B. Lamb, Ltd.
- Stonewall's Civil War
Currency
- Image:$1.50, New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern
Railroad Company, Dated Nov. 16, 1861
- Images: Union (Arthur and Clive Henrick, ACWA)
- Images: Confederate (Arthur and Clive Henrick, ACWA)
- Images: Union and Confederate (Arthur and Clive Henrick, ACWA)
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Weapons, Clothes,
Insignias:
SMALL ARMS
- Civil War Black Powder
Handguns
- Manual of Arms, ACWA
- Replica Firearms, IAR, Inc.
- Replica
Percussion Revolver Collector's Association
- Rifled Musket,
NPS
- Sharps Carbine, issued to Pvt. Charles Nelson, 22nd NY Vol. Cavalry
- Spiller and Burr, Confederate Small Arms
Manufacturer
- U.S. Fire Arms Manufacturing Co.
- Weapons of the Civil
War, Paul Moade
- www.civilwarguns.com
- Weapons of
the Civil War
UNIFORMS
- Preserving Old Uniforms
- Uniforms and
Accouterments
- Union Army Uniforms and
Insignia of the Civil War, Howard Lanham
- Uniforms
MAPS
-
Civil War Maps
- American Civil War
Maps, U of Georgia
- Battles by State,
AmericanCivilWar.com
- Canadian Centre for
Topograghical Information
- Colonial Type and Graphics
- Kirchner's Map of the Confederacy
- Maps,
U of Texas at Austin
- Odden's Bookmarks
- The David Rumsey Collection
FLAGS
- Confederate
Flags
- Battle Flags of the Confederacy
- Civil War Flags of Illinois
- Flag of the United States
- Confederate Flags
Unfurled
- C.S.A. Flags
- Flags of the Confederacy
- Flags of the
Confederacy, SCV-Texas
- Flags of the Confederate States Navy
- Flags of the
Confederate States of America
- Flags of the 28th
Massachusetts
- Iowa Battle
Flags
- Rally
'Round the Flags, Michigan Battle Flags, Michigan Historical Museum
- Texas Flag Information
- What the heck is a guidon?, Guidon Books
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Civil War Music & Poetry; Books:
- "The General's
Mount," John Knox
- Civil War Song Lyrics
- Poetry and Music of the Civil War
- Ashokan
Farewell Site
- African-Americans in Civil War Songs
and Poems
- Confederate,
Lyrics to 13 songs
- Union, Lyrics to 3
songs
- 5th Alabama
Infantry Regiment Band
- 4th Artillery Regimental Brass Band
- Authentic Music of the Civil War, The
Civil War Music Store, Bobby Horton
- The Blue and Gray Brass Brigade
- Civil War Music, Civil
War Interactive
- Civil War Music, David Mercado
- Civil War Music, among Folk Music
- Civil War Music, Jane Kinzle
- Civil War Music Site, Lupher
- Civil War Music Store
- Civil War Poetry & Music, Kathie Fraser
- Civil War Songbook
- Confederate Music and Novelties,
ReWEP Associates
- 8th Georgia Regimental Band
- 37th Georgia Regimental Band
- Libby Prison Minstrels,
"Music of the 1860's"
- Lyrics to
Southern Songs
- Music of the
Civil War, Dayle K.
- Music of the Civil War,
Native Ground Music
- Music & Poetry,
Florida Star
- Native Ground Music, Music of the
Civil War
- Old Line Fife and Drum, 1st
Maryland
- Old Towne Brass, musical group from
Huntsville, AL which performs in period costume with authentic period instruments
- Old Time Victrola Music on Cassette
- 28th Pennsylvania Regimental Brass Band
- Sandy River Minstrels, Alvaton, KY
- Saxton's Cornet Band
- Songs of the South
- Sound Clips of "Vacant
Chair," "Monitor Grand March," and "John Browns' Body" from
MultiMediaDesign
- 2nd South Carolina String Band
- Southern Horizon, period
music for Civil War balls, etc.
- Southern .wav files,
Savage/Goodner Camp
- "Sultana",
Arkansas Stories
- "The
Walk", Arkansas Stories
- Walk Around, Boys, Minstrel Music
in American, 1829-1865
Bugle Calls
POETRY
- A Civil War Haiku, Melissa M.
Whelan
- Civil War Poetry, U.S. Civil
War Curriculum Connection
- Civil War
Poetry, Kwok
- Civil War Poetry & Music
- Confederate Broadside Poetry
Collection, Wake Forest University
- Contemporary Confederate Poetry,
Lee Murdock Sr
BOOKS
- Civil War Books
First paperback books:
Beadle's Dime Books, extremely popular with Civil War soldiers.
In 1859, Irwin and Erastus Beadle moved to New York city and opened a publishing house on William Street. In 1862, Robert Adams joined the firm. Through partnership changes and moves down William Street, the firm of Irwin P. Beadle, Beadle and Adams, published inexpensive books until the 1890's. In 1861, they began publishing a new type of book, the Dime Novel. This type of book later became synonymous with sensationalized cheap fiction, but in the 1860's the books had not sunk to that level.
Robert E. Lee |
Ulysses S Grant |
Generals
- Brevet Union Generals of the Civil War,
Kerry Webb
- U.S. Civil War Generals, Kerry Webb,
Canberra, Australia
- General Officers of the Civil War,
a gallery of photos of 265 CW generals with more added regularly, maintained by Joe Grau
- The
Generals' Burial Listings
- The Generals of the American
Civil War, Mikel Uriguen, Bilbao, Spain
- Confederate
- Lewis A. Armistead
- Braxton Bragg
- Samuel Cooper, history site
by George Cooper
- Basil Duke
- Nathan
Bedford Forrest, photo
- Nathan Bedford Forrest,
statue controversy
- Forrest's Headquarters, Justin
Brasher
- A.P. Hill
- John Bell Hood
- John Bell Hood, Sam Hood
- Thomas
Jackson, photo
- Thomas Jackson, VMI
- Edward Johnson, biographical site, Eddie
Woodward, FSU
- Robert
E. Lee, photo
- Robert E. Lee, Peter
Rodier
- Robert
E. Lee, biography by Douglas Freeman
- James Longstreet,
biographical site, Brian Hampton
- James Longstreet, The Longstreet Society
- John Hunt Morgan
- John Hunt Morgan,
Scott Williams
- William Wing Loring
- John Hunt Morgan
- John Hunt Morgan
- James Johnston Pettigrew
- James Johnston Pettigrew and his
brigade
- George E. Pickett
- J.E.B.
Stuart, photo
- Union
- Robert Anderson
- Don Carlos Buell
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
- U.S.
Grant, photo
- Ulysses S. Grant Homepage, Candace Scott
- Ulysses S. Grant,
American Experience, PBS
- The Grant Gang
- U.S. Grant Network
- Joseph Hooker
- Winfield Scott Hancock
- W. S.
Hancock Society
- Rufus Ingalls
- John A. Logan
- George B. McClellan, The
McClellan Society
- George G. Meade
- William H. Powell
- John A. Rawlins
- John F. Reynolds
- William S. Rosecrans
- William
T. Sherman, photo
- Dan
Sickles, photo
- George H. Thomas
- George H. Thomas
- George H. Thomas,
Redman
- Gouverneur K. Warren Papers,
New York State Library
- Seth Williams
- Alpheus Starkey Williams, Project Plug Ugly,
extensive site about 1862, including the three cigars wrapped in Lee's "lost
orders" and the Battle of Antietam; much more
- Horatio G. Wright
- Generals
Battles, Battlefields, and Historic Sites
- Altoona Pass, Bartow County, GA
- American Battlefield Protection Program,
National Park Service (NPS)
- Antietam (Sharpsburg), NPS
- Antietam: Orders of
Battle
- Appomattox Courthouse NHP
- Arkansas Post NM
- Ball's Bluff, Leesburg, VA
- Battlefield Vacations Forum
- Battles of the Army of the
Cumberland
- Beauvoir, Home of Jefferson Davis, Official Home
Page
- Beauvoir, an
unofficial site
- Bentonville,
NC
- Blakely and Spanish Fort,
AL
- Brice's Crossroads
- Chronological List of Civil War
Battles, Don & Lois Harvey
- Chancellorsville,
Richard W. Dehart
- Civil War Battle Summaries by
State, NPS
- Civil War Virtual
Battlefield Tours
- Coastal Fortifications of
the Gulf of Mexico, Andy Bennett
- Corinth
- Falmouth
- Famous Civil War Battles of the West,
Paul Gerdes
- Fort Delaware
- Fort deRussy, Louisiana
- Fort Donelson National Military Park, NPS
- Fort Donelson, Bruce
Schulze
- Fort
Fisher, NC
- Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, Alabama, Jim Janke
- Fort Pulaski, Jim Janke
- Fort
Pulaski
- Fort Snelling
- Fort Sumter
- Fort Washita
- Franklin, TN, Mark
Mayhew
- Frankllin, Save the Franklin Battlefield,
Inc.
- Fredericksburg
- Fredericksburg
Battlefield Virtual Tour, Jim Schmidt and Curtis Fears
- Fredericksburg, John
Longstreet
- Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military
Park
- Gettysburg, Jim Janke
- Gravelly Springs,
Alabama
- Harper's Ferry National Historical Park,
Virtual Visitor Center
- Kernstown, Kernstown Battlefield
Association
- List of Battles and other
Resources
- Locust Lawn,
- Lookout Mountain
- Manassas
- Mobile Bay
- Monocacy
- Morrisville
- Munfordville, KY
- New Market
- Olustee, Florida (Ocean Pond)
- Ox Hill (Chantilly)
- Palmito
Ranch
- Peachtree Creek
- Pickett's Mill
- Pickett's Mill
Battlefield Historic Site
- Shiloh National Military Park, NPS
- Shiloh National Military
Park, Alan Murray, (unofficial)
- Shiloh, Bruce Shulze
- South Mountain
- Spotsylvania
- Spring Hill and Franklin
- Stones River National Battlefield, NPS
- Tebbs Bend/Green
River Bridge, Kentucky Heritage Council
- Tebbs
Bend, virtual tour, campbellsville.com
- Orders of Battle, Michael Busby
- Vicksburg National Military Park
- Vicksburg Campaign, Bruce Schulze
- The Wilderness, May
5-6, 1864, A Virtual Tour
- Wilson's Creek
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Civil War Soldiers, Cavalry & Politicians:
- Names Index Project a computer databse online that allows you to read information taken from original service records of individuals who served on either the Confederate or Union side.
- 54th Massachusetts
- Civil War Rosters
- Civil War Soldier and Sailor System
Soldiers, Sailors, Regiments, Cementaries, Battles, Prisoners, Medals of Honor and National Parks
- Union Regimental Index
- Washington State Union Regimental Index
Cavalry
- About the Cavalry Horse,
Charles Francis Adams, 1st Mass. Cav., May 12, 1863
- Cavalry Bugle Calls,
15th NY Cav.
- Maj. Gen.
George A. Custer, photo
- 15th New York Cavalry:
Table of Contents
- A Trooper,
photo
Colored Troops (The Sable Arm)
- African American Civil War Memorial
- Black Soldiers in the
Civil War, NARA
- Camp Nelson Union Army Depot
- Data on Colored Troops in the Civil
War, Bennie McRae, Jr.
- Friends of the African Union Church
Cemetery
- Gen. Thomas's Use of Colored
Troops, Army of the Cumberland
- Links to Black Soldiers, Jim
Hollandsworth
- U.S. Colored Troops
- U.S.C.T at Munfordville, KY
- Hawkins' Division of Colored
Troops
- Louisiana Native Guards, Jim Hollandsworth
- 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry
- 20th, 26th, 31st U.S. Colored
Troops
- 55th U.S. Colored Troops, (1st
Regiment Alabama Volunteers, a.d. [African Descent])
- 73rd U.S. Colored Troops
- 54th Massachusetts
Infantry, U.S.A.
- 54th Massachusetts,
U.S.A., Photo of Reenactors
- 1st North Carolina
Colored Volunteer Infantry, (35th U.S. Colored Infantry)
- 1st South Carolina Colored
Volunteer Infantry, U.S.A.
- 37th Texas Cavalry, C.S.A.,
"Terrell's"
Native Americans in the Civil War
- Books, Ken Martin
- The Catawba Indians,
York County, South Carolina
- Cherokee Confederate Units in the Civil War,
Lars Gjertveit
- The Cherokee Nation
in the Civil War
- The Civil War in
Indian Territory, Ethel Taylor
- Confederate
Indian Units in the Civil War of the West
- The Thomas Legion of North Carolina,
Ken Martin
The Navies
- C.S.S. Alabama, Naval
Historical Center
- C.S.S.
Alabama Digital Collection, U of Alabama
- The Brown Water Navy, Gary Matthews
- U.S.S. Cairo, USS Cairo Museum, Vicksburg National
Military Park, Vicksburg, MS
- U.S.S. Cairo Photo Album
- Civil War Navies, Foenander
- Confederate States Navy, Museum, Library, and
Research Institute
- The Denbigh
Project, Texas A&M
- CSS
Georgia, photo
- Hampton Roads Naval Museum
- U.S.S. Harvest Moon Home
Page, Walter Smith
- History of Confederate
Submarine Hunley and Its Rediscovery
- C.S.S. Hunley,
recovery and preservation updates
- Hunley Web Site, Friends of the Hunley
- The Hunley in
Historical Context
- Hunley news:
- TNT Movie: The Hunley
- John's Nautical Links List,
"The Mother of all Maritime Links," John Kohnen
- Index of Civil War Naval Forces,
Ken Jones
- Index
of Confederate Naval Vessels, with descriptions
- Ironclads and Blockade
Runners
- Mariners' Museum
- Maritime History
Virtual Archives
- Matthew
F. Maury, Commander, CSN, 1861-1865, "Pathfinder of the Seas"
- William
Lewis Maury, Commander, CSS Georgia
- Monitor National Marine Sanctuary,
NOAA
- Monitor National Marine Sanctuary and
U.S.S. Monitor, Jeff Johnston
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Nautical Terms and Phrases,
NHC
- U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
- United States Naval and Shipbuilding Museum,
Quincy, MA
- Naval Historical Center, (NHC) U.S. Dept. of
the Navy
- Naval Ranks, NHC
- The Naval War
- Navies in
the Civil War
- United States Navy, official Web site
- U.S. Navy Rosters
- C.S.S. Neuse
State Historic Site, Kinston, NC
- Norfolk Naval Ship Yard
- Official Records of Navies, Hampton
Roads Accounts, War Times Journal
- Port Columbus Civil War Naval Center,
Columbus, GA
- Port Columbus Civil War Naval Center, Columbus, GA (Jim
Janke)
- Port St. Marks Action,
Florida
- Ships in Scale magazine, Seaways
Publishing
- Ships
of the Confederate Navy, a listing.
- South Street Seaport
- Traditions of the Naval Service, NHC
- Underwater Archeology Branch,
Naval Historical Center, U.S. Navy Dept.
- The United States Navy in the Civil War,
Gary Matthews
- C.S.S. Virginia Home Page
- Yazoo Afloat, Civil War
ships in Yazoo County, MS
Politicians
Mathew Brady
Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln, Internet
Public Library, Presidents of the US
- Abraham
Lincoln, photo
- Abraham Lincoln Online
- Abraham Lincoln Papers at the
Library of Congress
- The
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- The Emancipation
Proclamation
- The
Gettysburg Address
- The Gettysburg
Address as a PowerPoint presentation, or "How to Misuse
PowerPoint"
- "A House
Divided...", 1858
- First
Inaugural Address
- Second
Inaugural Address
- Lincoln/Net
- Lincoln's Assassination,
Roger Norton
- Lincoln's
Assassination and the Trial of the Conspirators, recollections of Brig. Gen.
Henry L.
Burnett
- Lincoln's Cabinet,
and other Lincoln material, Lydia Rapoza
- The Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Lincoln Research Site,
Roger Norton
- Lincoln Timeline, The
History Place
- Speeches
of Abraham Lincoln
- Web of Conspiracy, the 1865
Conspiracy Trial
- Gettysburg
Address
- The Assassination
of Abe Lincoln
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Photographs and Images - Old and New
- Past photos featured on the Index Page, Janke
- American Memory of the Civil War
- Antietam,
painting, Wisconsin Veterans Museum
- Antietam - The Lost Images,
Fine Art Photography, Robert A. Zeichner
- Archives, Library of Congress
- Cassie & Tom's Gettysburg Trips (photos)
- Civil War Images
- Civil War Photographs,
contemporary (mostly) photos of sites related to the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert F.
Koch
- Civil War Photographs,
Tom Hughes
- Civil War Photographs, Scorchy Designs
- Civil War Photos of Reenactors, Teddy
Blue
- CivilWarAlbum.com
- Entrance to Camp Morton,
Civil war POW camp, Indianapolis (180 K)
- Kansas City Trading Post Foto
Emporium
- Malcolm's Civil War
Battlefield Photos
- Connecticut CDVs, [CDV =
"carte de visite"; French for "visiting card"]
- Other
Images
- Panoramic Photos of the Gettysburg
Battlefield
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- Picture Gallery, 33rd VA Vol.
Inf. Home Page
- PrintFinity
- Reenactor Photos, Teddy Blue
- Shareware Civil War Images
- Time Line, Library of Congress
- Images of the Civil War
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Medicine and Hospitals
Index of Medicine
Anesthetics in
Field and General Hospitals, C.S.A
E.G. Archer and Son Surgical Instrument Co., Ltd.,
makes CW period surgical instruments
Carolina Legion Hospital
Civil War
Instrument Makers, Identification, Fakes, and Information, Micheal Echols
Civil War Medicine
For the Field Doctor
The
Health Department, Pat Williams
Images, Medical Staff Press
Medical Terminology
Medicine in the Civil
War, U of Toledo
Mower Civil War Hospital
National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Resources in Civil War
Medicine, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Society of Civil War Surgeons
Virginia's Confederate
Military Hospitals
Vocabulary
Diary: David Warman, contract surgeon at Fortress Monroe, April
4 - Sept. 20, 1864
Prisons and Prisoners
Magazines and Newspapers
Reconstruction