General Resources On the Web

    Letters, Accounts, Diaries and Other Documentary Records

    The Secession Crisis and Before

    Graphic Images

    State/Local Studies

    Specific Battles

    Rosters of Combatants & Regimental Histories

    Miscellaneous Military Information



 General Resources...

  1. Abraham Lincoln Online
  2. Abraham Lincoln Research Site
  3. The Museum of the Confederacy
  4. Hampton Roads Naval Museum
  5. Smithsonian Associates Civil War Studies
  6. From Jackson to Lincoln (from the Pierpont Morgan Library)
  7. Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress
  8. A Civil War Chronology
  9. The Gettysburg Archive
  10. The Gettysburg Address Exhibit from the Library of Congress
  11. The American Civil War, 1861-1865: World Wide Web Information Archive
  12. The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Virginia and Pennsylvania
  13. Camp Curtin Historical Society
  14. The Blue and Gray Trail: The Civil War in North Georgia and Chattanooga
  15. Civil War Poetry and Music
  16. The Civil War Music Store
  17. Civil War Chat Room
  18. E-HAWK Cadre
  19. Mil-Hist: The WWW Site for Military History Scholars
  20. U.S. Civil War Center
  21. American Civil War
  22. Carroll College Civil War Institute
  23. Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. I

    24.  Modern Histories and Bibliographies

    1. Chicago and the Midwest in the War -- Call for Papers
    2. A Civil War Reading List
    3. An Alternate Reading List
    4. Frequently Asked Questions, Part 1
    5. Frequently Asked Questions, Part 2
    6. Michigan in the Civil War
    7. Civil War in Miniature
    8. 8th Tennessee Cavalry, CSA
    9. The Louisiana Native Guards
    10. Lt. Gen. Cadmus Wilcox
    11. Money During the War
    12. Confederate Currency Page
    13. Confederate Stamp Page
    14. Confederate Coin Page
    15. The Electric Cemetery
    16. Sectional Conflict
    17. Jewel of the Cotton Fields: A History of Secessionville Manor
    18. Mary's World: The William Bull Pringles in Peace and War, 1800-1884
    19. Mobile Bay:
    20. The Other Battle of Mobile Bay
    21. The Civil War in Knoxville, Tennessee
    22. The Ulysses S. Grant Association
    23. Ulysses S. Grant Network Home Page
    24. The Major General Edward "Allegheny" Johnson, C.S.A. Page
    25. Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
    26. The Papers of Jefferson Davis Home Page


 The Secession Crisis and Before

  1. The Pony Express Home Station
  2. North Georgia Before the War
  3. The Crittenden Compromise
  4. Causes of the Civil War
  5. The Impending Crisis


  Graphic Images

  1. The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
  2. Selected Civil War Photographs
  3. Civil War Images
  4. Pictures of the Civil War
  5. Images of Fredericksburg, VA, during the War
  6. Maps and Images.
  7. Other Images.
  8. Images from the Wisconsin Historical Society
  9. USS Monitor
  10. Jefferson Davis
  11. Geography of Pennsylvania and Virginia
  12. Gettysburg: Image and Caption
  13. U.S. flag during the War
  14. Confederate flags during the War
  15. Comprehensive bibliography and guide
  16. U.S. Army Military History Institute Photograph Database
  17. Selected Civil War Images


  Letters, Accounts, Diaries and Other Documentary Records


    A. Public Documents

    1. Abraham Lincoln Section
    2. The Emancipation Proclamation
    3. The Gettysburg Address
    4. Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
    5. Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
    6. Davis's Farewell to the U.S. Senate, January 21, 1861
    7. Davis's Inaugural Address as President, C.S.A., February 18, 1861
    8. Davis's Address to the Provisional Confederate Congress
    9. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America
    10. Some Pennsylvania and Virginia newspapers
    11. Index of Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton's Telegraph Books
    12. Civil War Quotations
    13. Declarations of Causes of Seceding States
    14. Mississippi's Declaration re: the Right of Secession
    15. Records of the 105th U.S. Colored Troops


    B. Personal Documents

    1. At Gettysburg
    2. 35 Days to Gettysburg
    3. Diary Excerpts
    4. Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 5 July 1864
    5. George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, 7 July 1862
    6. Dabney H. Maury's reminiscences
    7. Varina Davis: Christmas in the Confederate White House
    8. Letters from an Iowa Solider
    9. Personal Papers from Pennsylvania and Virginia
    10. Diaries of G. D. Molineaux
    11. Letters of Richard W. Burt of the 76th Ohio Infantry
    12. William Newby...or, The Soldier's Return
    13. Selected Civil War Letters
    14. Civil War Resources in the Virginia Tech Libraries Special Collections
    15. 1861 Diary from Georgia
    16. Narrative of the Life
    17. VMI Archives: Civil War Sources
    18. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville's online manuscript guides
    19. Letter of Levi Pennington (December 1862)
    20. Diary of George Ervay (January-March 1863)
    21. Diary of James Laughlin Orr (Nov-Dec 1864)
    22. The Civil War Letters of Galutia York


 Modern Histories; FAQs; Bibliographies

  1. Chicago and the Midwest in the War -- Call for Papers
  2. A Civil War Reading List
  3. An Alternate Reading List
  4. Frequently Asked Questions, Part 1
  5. Frequently Asked Questions, Part 2
  6. Michigan in the Civil War
  7. Civil War in Miniature
  8. 8th Tennessee Cavalry, CSA
  9. The Louisiana Native Guards
  10. Lt. Gen. Cadmus Wilcox
  11. Money During the War
  12. Confederate Currency Page
  13. Confederate Stamp Page
  14. Confederate Coin Page
  15. The Electric Cemetery
  16. Sectional Conflict
  17. Excerpts from Jewel of the Cotton Fields: A History of Secessionville Manor
  18. An Excerpt from Mary's World: The William Bull Pringles in Peace and War, 1800-1884
  19. Mobile Bay:
  20. The Other Battle of Mobile Bay
  21. The Civil War in Knoxville, Tennessee
  22. The Ulysses S. Grant Association
  23. Ulysses S. Grant Network Home Page
  24. The Major General Edward "Allegheny" Johnson, C.S.A. Page
  25. Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
  26. The Papers of Jefferson Davis Home Page


 State/Local Studies

  1. Illinois in the Civil War
  2. Indiana in the Civil War
  3. Civil War Monuments in Maryland
  4. Mississippi Civil War Information
  5. Ohio and the War

  6. Ohio in the Civil War
  7. 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
  8. 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
  9. Letters of Richard W. Burt of the 76th Ohio Infantry
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  10. The Civil War in Charleston, SC
  11. The 84th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
  12. The Harvard Regiment--20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865


 Specific Battles

  1. The Great Locomotive Chase: The Story of Andrew's Raiders
  2. Battle of Chickamauga
  3. Battle of Pickett's Mill, Georgia
  4. Battle of Allatoona Pass, Georgia
  5. Battle of Bloody Bridge, or the Battle for Burdens Causeway
  6. Petersburg National Battlefield
  7. A Virtual Tour of the Stones River National Battlefield
  8. Battle of Corinth, MS
  9. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
  10. Orders of Battle at Antietam (Sharpsburg), Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness Campaign
  11. Antietam National Battlefield
  12. Harper's Ferry
  13. Manassas (Bull Run) National Battlefield
  14. Monocacy National Battlefield
  15. Battle of Gettysburg

    1. The Unofficial Visitors Guide to Gettysburg
    2. Gettysburg: Order of Battle
    3. Gettysburg: Order of Battle
    4. Gettysburg Discussion Group
    5. Gettysburg National Military Park
  16. Civil War Advisory Commission Battle Descriptions
  17. Battlefields by State
  18. Lee's Retreat: The Final Days of the Civil War
  19. Battle of Olustee (Florida)


 Rosters of Combatants & Regimental Histories

  1. U.S. Civil War Generals
    1. USA National & States A-I
    2. USA States K-N
    3. USA States O-W
    4. CSA National & States A-M
    5. CSA States N-V
  2. 26th Mississippi Infantry, CSA
  3. New York 16th Regiment Infantry
  4. 2nd Regiment Veteran Cavalry -- "Empire Light Cavalry"
  5. 16th Virginia Cavalry
  6. 29th Virginia Infantry, CSA
    1. 7th Battalion Confederate Cavalry
    2. 64th Virginia Mounted Infantry
    3. 22nd Virginia Cavalry
    4. 198th Virginia Militia -- Bland County
    5. 152nd Virginia Militia -- Carroll County
    6. 78th Virginia Militia -- Grayson County
    7. 94th Virginia Militia -- Lee County
    8. 72nd Virginia Milita -- Russell County
    9. Scott County, Virginia Militia
    10. Washington County, Virginia Militia
    11. 190th Virginia Militia -- Wyoming County
    12. Wythe COunty, Virginia Militia
    13. Roster of the 22nd Virginia Cavalry
  7. Lawton-Gordon-Evans Georgia Brigade (CSA)
  8. 14th Kentucky Infantry
  9. 98th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry
  10. 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry
  11. The Electric Cemetery
  12. Virginia and Pennsylvania Units
  13. 51st Virginia Infantry
  14. The Iron Brigade of the West
  15. 20th Tennessee Cavalry, CSA
  16. Blount County, Alabama Genealogy Home Page
  17. Alabama Regiments in the Army of the United States
  18. Overall Organization of Armies
  19. Ideal Organization of Confederate Army c1863
  20. 22nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
  21. 40th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry
  22. 19th Alabama Regiment, Company H
  23. Pennsylvania Regiments


 Miscellaneous Military Information

  1. The Burton Minié Bullet Drawings
  2. Fort Palmetto
  3. Ships of the Confederate Navy
  4. Slang Used During the War Era
  5. Medical Vocabulary during the War Era
  6. Soldiers' Vocabulary
  7. Chief Types of Artillery
  8. Small Arms
  9. Evolution of the Confederate Flag
  10. General Description of Civil War Uniforms
  11. The Hunley Web Site
  12. Grand Army of the Republic Homepage