Tom Glynn
History and Political Science Selector
glynn@rci.rutgers.edu
March 7, 2002

Research Resources: Subject Research Guides: History - American and British:
Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (1830's - 1890's)

Leading up to the War

- Rare Maps from the University of Georgia: - The New World, Colonial, Revolution, Union & Expansion, Nineteenth Century, Transportation & Others.
- Scartoons: Racial Satire and the Civil War: - Political cartoons dating from the years before the Civil War and leading up to Reconstruction.

Abolitionism

- Abolition Exhibit from The Library of Congress
- Civil War Newspapers: Coverage of John Brown's Raid: - Part of "The Valley of the Shadow," collection below.
- Dred Scott, Plaintiff in error, v. John F. A. Sandford.: - Supreme Court of the United States. 60 U.S. 393; 15 L. Ed. 691 December, 1856 Term
- Excerpts from Slave Narratives: - Over 40 narratives primarily from slaves dating from 1682 to the end of the 19th Century. Topics cover their capture as slaves, the passage across the Atlantic, conditions of slavery, and Emancipation.
- A Slave's Story [anon]: - Putnam's Monthly Magazine, 1857
- Third Person, First Person: - Slave Voices From The Special Collections Library Broadside Collection, Special Collections Library, Duke University

- Assorted Campaign Maps
- Confederate Pension Index: - Provides the names, county of residence, and pension number of some 54,634 approved, rejected, and home pensions issued by the Texas government between 1899 and 1975.
- Civil War Photographs: Selected from the Library of Congress
- Civil War Poetry and Music
- The Emancipation Proclamation: - Images of the original document from the National Archives and Records Admin.
- The Gettysburg Address: - Exhibit from The Library of Congress. Includes images of all draft copies of the speech.
- Florida Confederate Pension Application Files: - Collection of Confederate pension records with over 7,300 pensions currently available online
- From Quackery to Bacteriology: - The Emergence of Modern Medicine in 19th Century America
- Secession Acts of the 13 Confederate States
- The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia: - Records from two neighboring communities during the Civil War era: Chambersburg, PA and Staunton, VA. Online resources include the eight newspapers of the two counties for thirty years, the manuscript population and agricultural censuses from the two counties (1850-1880), diaries and more.

- Abraham Lincoln Online
- Diaries of: - William Heyser, Joseph Waddell, Clay MacCauley, Rachel Cormany, and Samuel Cormany
- Ferris, Ben Franklin: - Memoir of a Colorado Volunteer
- WPA Life Histories Project (Search for "civil war")

- Molineaux, Gould D.: - Civil War Diaries via Augustana Univ.
- Orr, James Laughlin. 1838-1919.: - Civil War Diary
- Scott, Newton Robert: - Part of a collection. "Letters from an Iowa Soldier"
- Special Collections at Virginia Tech
- VMI Achives Page: - Collections include: Papers of the likes of Stonewall Jackson. Alumni records from the 19th Century including letters and diaries.
- York, Galutia.: - Previously unpublished Civil War Letters

- Battle of Olustee, Florida: - Site contains the orders of battle, transcribed letters written there, and even a poem amongst other items.
- The Iron Brigade of the West
- Johnson, Edward "Allegheny", Major General CSA Page
- Port St. Marks, Florida
- Records of the 105th. U.S. Colored Troops: - Organized at Charleston, South Carolina during the Spring and Summer of 1865.

- Articles about the 10th Georgia: - Collection of transcribed articles written by members of the Tenth Georgia Regiment for the Atlanta Journal circa 1901.
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System: - From the National Park Service
- Civil War Soldiers & Units Information: - Numerous links to unit records, and histories.
- Corinth, MS. Civil War Resources
- Illinois in the Civil War
- Indiana in the Civil War
- Those Splendid Wisconsin Flags

- Booker T. Washington: The Awakening of the Negro (Atlantic Monthly 1896)
- Booker T. Washington: The Case of the Negro (Atlantic Monthly 1899)
- Booker T. Washington: Signs of Progress Among the Negroes
- Du Bois, W.E.B.: The Freedmen's Bureau (Atlantic Monthly 1901)
- Du Bois, W.E.B.: A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South (Atlantic Monthly 1899)
- Du Bois, W.E.B.: Strivings of the Negro People (Atlantic Monthly 1897)
- Du Bois, W.E.B.: The Training of Black Men (Atlantic Monthly 1902)
- Frederick Douglass: Reconstruction (Atlantic Monthly 1866)
- Frederick Douglass: Appeal to Congress (Atlantic Monthly Jan. 1867)
- Frederick Douglass: My Escape From Slavery
- Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- J. Taylor Wood: The Capture of a Slaver (Atlantic Monthly 1900)
- Jerome Dowd: Paths of Hope for the Negro (Century Magazine 1900)
- On the Abolition of Slavery in Plurimus: - Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on May 5, 1888.

- Civil War Reading List: - Compiled in newsgroup alt.war.civil.usa Summer, 1993
- Slavery Bibliography, Part I: - Parts I and II are from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The collection is on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City.
- Slavery Bibliography, Part II
- Women and the Civil War: - Manuscript sources in the Special Collections Library at Duke University.

- H-AFRICA: - H-NET List for African History Subscription information: Send the message "sub H-AFRICA your name" to listserv@msu.edu
- H-CIVWAR: - H-Net US Civil War History discussion list Subscription information: Send the message "sub H-CIVWAR your name" to listserv@msu.edu
- H-RURAL: - H-Net list for discussion of Rural & Agricultural History Subscription information: Send the message "sub H-RURAL your name" to listserv@msu.edu
- H-SOUTH: - H-Net Southern History Discussion List Subscription information: Send the message "sub H-SOUTH your name" to listserv@msu.edu
- H-WEST: - H-Net Western History List (History of the American West) Subscription information: Send the message "sub H-WEST your name" to listserv@msu.edu; SLAVERY: The history of slavery, the slave trade, abolition and emancipation. Subscription information: Send the message "sub SLAVERY your name" to listserv@listserv.uh.edu

- The American Civil War Homepage: - From the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Very good resource.
- Civil War Links from LSU: - Diaries, bibliographies, books, photographs etc.,
- Civil War Resources at Dakota State University
- Images from the Hargrett Library Special Collection
- Institute for Civil War Studies: - Carroll College, WI
- VMI Achives Page: - Collections include: Papers of the likes of Stonewall Jackson. Alumni records from the 19th Century including letters and diaries.
- Virginia Tech Civil War Home Page