Civil War Resources

Battles

Civil War Battle Summaries by State: http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/bystate.htm

Civil War Links - Battles: http://www.civilwarhome.com/cwinfo2.htm#Battles

Strategies and Tactics of the American Civil War: http://www.civilwarhome.com/strategyandtactics.htm

The War of Rebellion - Official Record of the Union and Confederate Armies: http://www.civilwarhome.com/records.htm

Virginia Military Institute Archives: http://www.vmi.edu/archives/cwsource.html

World and I Magazine - Civil War - Battles and Political Events: http://www.worldandi.com/civilwar/civilwar_b.asp
 

Compromise of 1850
 (Calhoun, Webster
& Clay)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2915.html

http://www.masshist.org/longroad/01slavery/minkins.htm

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000482

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?inhttp://americancivilwar.com/
north/lincoln.htmldex=W000238
 

14th Amendment

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/the_right_to_vote.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_reconstruct.html

http://www.14thamendment.us/birthright_citizenship/original_intent.html

Gettysburg Address

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000044

http://www.gettysburgfoundation.org/learn/gettysburg_address.html

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/gettysburg/

Harriet Beecher Stowe

http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/life/

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/stowe/StoweHB.html

http://americancivilwar.com/women/hbs.html

http://www.nps.gov/history/NR/travel/underground/me1.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun05.htmlhttp://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/
searchlm.php?function=find&exhibit=uncletom&browse=uncletom
 

Images

Civil War Photographs: http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/links/photo.htm

Library of Congress - Selected Civil War Photographs: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/

The National Archives - Pictures of the Civil War: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/

National Portrait Gallery - Mathew Brady's World - Brady and the Civil War: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/war/civilpg.htm

PBS - Images of the Civil War: http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/images/
 

General Information

The American Civil War - Forging a More Perfect Union: http://cwar.nps.gov/civilwar/

Civil War Timeline - Year by year Overview of Events:  http://www.americancivilwar.com/tl/timeline.html

Index of Civil War Information Available on the Internet: http://www.civilwarhome.com/indexcivilwarinfo.htm

PBS American Experience: John Brown's Holy War: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/index.html

PBS American Experience: The Time of the Lincolns: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/

PBS The Civil War by Ken Burns: http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/
 

Reconstruction

Civil War and Reconstruction: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/civilwar/civilwar.html

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/

Home Front

The Civil War Home Front http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-024/

African Americans on the Home Front http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/civilwar.html

The Southern Home Front http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/index.html

Maps

Civil War Battles by State: http://www.americancivilwar.com/statepic/index.html

Civil War Maps: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/

PBS - The Civil War - Maps: http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/map1.html

Rare Map Collection - The American Civil War: http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/civil.html
 

Medicine

Civil War - Medicinal Care, Battle Wounds & Disease: http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarmedicine.htm

Civil War Medicine (great photographs & images): http://www.collectmedicalantiques.com/civilwar.html

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war-medicine.htm

People

Civil War Leaders: http://www.us-civilwar.com/

Civil War Nurses: Angels of the Battlefield: http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarnurses.htm

Civil War Women - Primary Sources on the Internet: http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/cwdocs.html

Famous People of the Civil War Era: http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/galleries/history/1861-1865_Civil_War_people.php

Generals and Other Noteworthy People from  the Civil War: http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1142.html

PBS American Experience - Ulysses S. Grant: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/

Women of the American Civil War: http://americancivilwar.com/women/women.html
 

Personal Accounts

American Civil War Manuscripts Guides: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/civwar/

Civil War Letters of the Christie Family: www.mnhs.org/library/Christie/intropage.html

Eyewitness to History - Civil War: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/cwfrm.htm

Letters About the Civil War: http://www.civilwarhome.com/letters.htm

Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War: http://www.civilwarletters.com/index.html

Love Letters of the Civil War: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/cwlove/

The Soldiers Write: www.alaska.net/~design/civilwar/records.html

The Valley of the Shadow - Letters and Diaries: http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/lettersp2.html

Vermont in the Civil War: http://www.vermonthistory.org/educate/cwletter/cwletter.htm

Virginia Military Institute Archives: http://www.vmi.edu/archives/cwsource.html
 

Songs

The Civil War Music Site: http://www.civilwarmusic.net/

Civil War Songs: www.google.com/musicl?lid=xKdH8sk3OTN&aid=qD8R7meeMDN&sa=
X&oi=music&ct=result

Music and the American Civil War: http://www.pdmusic.org/civilwar.html

Poetry and Music of the War Between the States: http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/
 

Suffrage Movement (Abolitionists) 

http://cghs.dadeschools.net/slavery/anti-slavery_movement/women.htm

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/abolitn/wmhp.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6394/is_/ai_n28880657

http://www.quaker.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=93462

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4narr2.html
 

William Lloyd Garrison

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=167

http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9307251&page=2

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/garrison.htm

http://www.nps.gov/history/Nr/travel/underground/ma2.htm