Authored by: Stan Nash;
Maintained by:
Tom Glynn
British and American History Selector
glynn@rci.rutgers.edu
With assistance from Julie Strange
October 25, 2005
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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
History- North America:
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
African American Mosaic: Conflict of Abolition and Slavery
African American Mosaic: Influence of Prominent Abolitionists
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
The Dred Scott Case
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
John Brown in the Valley of the Shadow
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
The War Years
General Sites
The American Civil War: Forging a More Perfect Union (National Park Service)
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 Soldiers and Sailors
A searchable index of units and individuals from the National Park Services.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Images of the original document from the National Archives and Records Admin.
Florida Confederate Pension Application Files
Collection of Confederate pension records with over 7,300 pensions currently available online
The Gettysburg Address
Exhibit from The Library of Congress. Includes images of all draft copies of the speech.
Ordinances of Session of the 13 Confederate States of America
Poetry and Music in the War Between the States
From Quackery to Bacteriology
The Emergence of Modern Medicine in 19th Century America
United States Civil War Center (Louisiana State University)
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.
MSS Collections: Diaries, Letters, Papers
Abraham Lincoln Online
Diaries of
William Heyser, Joseph Waddell, Clay MacCauley, Rachel Cormany, and Samuel Cormany
Letters and Diaries: Valley of the Shadow, War Years
Messler, Basil H.
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"
WPA Life Histories Project (Search for "civil war")
York, Galutia.
Previously unpublished Civil War Letters
Military Histories
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
Records of the 105th. U.S. Colored Troops
Organized at Charleston, South Carolina during the Spring and Summer of 1865.
Wallkula County Florida, Some Civil War Action
State Studies
Georgia Civil War Units
Illinois in the Civil War
Indiana in the Civil War
Mississippi Soldiers in the Civil War
Those Splendid Wisconsin Flags
Reconstruction Era Documents
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 Related Listservs (Online Discussion Groups)
H-CivWar
H-Slavery
H-South
Bibliography/General Etext Collections
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
