The American Civil War Homepage
Timelines, diaries, overviews.
American
Experience-America's Civil War http://home.ptd.net/~nikki/civilwar.htm
Trivia, links to Union and Confederate generals, muster rolls, pension,
military records.
Battle Summaries
by Campaign
Select a battle and find out who was in command and an outline of exactly
what happened.
Black
Dispatches: Black American
Contributions to Military Intelligence During the Civil War
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/dispatches/intro.html
“The true
history of this war will show that the loyal army found no friends at the
South so faithful, active, and daring in their efforts to sustain the
government as the Negroes-.” (Frederick
Douglass).
Camp
Life: Civil War Collection from Gettysburg National Military Park
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/
This online exhibit about camp life at Gettysburg
highlights the soldiers' day-to-day existence and how they battled boredom.
Causes of the Civil
War
Primary source documents, including speeches and editorial commentary from the
Civil War period; selected quotes and statistics on slavery.
The Civil War
The surrender at Appomattox, the battles at Antietam and Gettysburg, the
death of Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.
CIVIL
WAR @SMITHSONIAN
http://civilwar.si.edu/
Virtual exhibit produced by the National Portrait
Gallery.
Civil
War.com http://www.civilwar.com/
Links, songs, battles, timeline, generals.
Civil
War Battlefield Medicine
Overview, definitions of common Civil War medical terms, Civil War
dentistry. Medical information on
generations, surgery and surgeons, and primary source documents from medical
personnel.
Civil
War Battlefields Visited http://www.southernartcreations.com/cwbf1.html
Art of each of the major battles of the war.
The
Civil War Cookbook: The Tastes of
Yesterday
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/cookbook.htm
Recreate
a Civil War meal with this online cookbook.
Civil
War Index
A directory of Civil War sites maintained by a professor from Dakota State
University.
Civil
War Sketchbook http://www.gliah.uh.edu/sketchbook.html
The watercolor sketchbook of Private Henry Berckhoff, 8th New York
"German Rifles."
Civil
War Women
http://auto.search.msn.com/results.asp?cfg=DNSERROR&v=1&FORM=DNSERR&q=scriptoruym%2Elib%2Eduke%2Eedu%2Fwomen%2Fcwdocs%2Ehtml
Women’s lives and experiences during the Civil War; includes full content
diary e-texts of Civil War women.
Cotton
is King
Online text of a book by David Christy, published in 1855, explaining
cotton growing’s relationship to agriculture, commerce, and slavery.
Gettysburg
National Military Park Civil War Page for Kids
http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/kidzindex.htm
Fun site
with food, medicine, letters, slang, music, leaders, flags, and more.
Hero
Timeline/Lincoln http://www.imahero.com/timelines/abe_timeline.htm
Summaries of the events leading up to war and summaries of the major
battles.
Historical
New York Times Project http://www.nyt.ulib.org/
Actual issues of the New York Times during the Civil War Years
1860-1866.
Home
of the American Civil War http://www.civilwarhome.com/
Official records of war, battles, medicine, biographies, letters, use of hot
air balloons, causes, Lincoln, border states, spying, strategy, women, etc.
"My
Precious Loulie...": Love letters of the Civil War
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/cwlove/
Civil War
love letters from soldiers.
A Nation Divided
View the timeline of Civil War events or click on specific battle and event
links.
The
National Civil War Association http://ncwa.org/
Learn about the Union and Confederate forces; includes short movie.
New
Jersey Rosters from the Civil War
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/3680/cw/cw-nj.html
http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionnj.htm
http://www.njstatelib.org/cyberdesk/DIGIDOX/Digidox20.htm
Poetry and Music of the War
Between the States
Read Confederate and Union poetry; learn about music of the Civil War.
Rare
Map Collection: The American Civil War
http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/civil.html
Maps of battlefields.
Selected Civil
War Photographs
This site from the Library of Congress allows you to search or browse
through pictures of the Civil W
Strike
the Tent
http://www.strikethetent.com/
Information
and online play about Grant and Lee.
Thinkquest:
American Civil War http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=1027
The Civil War experience from causes to the end of the war.
This Day in
Civil War History
Historic events and facts for today’s date in history.
The Valley of the
Shadow
Franklin County, Pennsylvania and Augusta County, Virginia, were two
communities separated by the Mason-Dixon Line.
Read their letters, diaries and records, and learn about the people.
Includes information on how each community viewed slavery, economics
and the Civil War.
The United States Colored
Troops in the Civil War
Review the history of regiments and the African-American men who fought in
the Civil War.
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