Index

• Spotlight
• Gateways
• Archives & Libraries
• The Armies
• Art
• Artillery
• Battles, Battlefields, and Historic Sites
• Bibliographies
• Bugle Calls
• Cities and Regions
• College Courses
• Colored Troops
• Commercial Resources
• The Confederacy
• Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs
• Fiction
• Genealogy
• Generals
• Gettysburg
• History
• Lincoln
• Magazines
• Maps
• Medicine
• Money and Stamps
• Museums
• Music
• The Navies
• Organizations
• People
• Photographs and Images
• Poetry
• Re-enactors
• Regimental Histories
• Small Arms
• States in the Civil War
• Sutler's Store
• Uniforms
• Women in the Civil War
• Miscellaneous

Gateways

• American Civil War, History Dept., U of North Texas
• B.D. Boyle's Index
• Civil War Page, U of Tennessee
• The U.S. Civil War Center, Louisiana State U
• The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), Dept. of National Defense, Canada
• Civil War Resources, Cook Memorial Public Library, Libertyville, IL

Archives & Libraries

• Center of Military History, U.S. Army
• Civil War Archives Area, Indiana State Archives
• Civil War Institute, Carroll College
• Civil War Manuscripts, Tulane University
• Civil War Resources, VMI Archives
• Civil War Collection, Milwaukee Urban Archives, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• History Computerization Project, USC/LACHS
• Resources on the American Civil War in the New York Public Library
• Texas Confederate Pension Records
• Texts and Documents, Hanover College History Department
• VMI Archives

The Armies

• Ideal Organization of Confederate Army (1863)
• Overall Organization of Armies, Union and Confederate
• Civil War Slang
• Iron Brigade
• Soldier Vocabulary
• Units File: Contact Persons Interested in Specific Units
• Virginia Units, (searchable)

Art

• Civil War Art, Sondra J. Seeger
• Civil Warr Art
• Gen. R. E. Lee, Heritage West Art
• Marble Art
• Shenandoah Gallery
• Interactive Civil War Adult Coloring Book (This is "different.")

Artillery

• Armstrong Gun, photo
• Artillery at the Grand Review, photo
• 3-in Brooke Rifle, photo
• Caisson and Limber, diagram
• Cannons, four types, diagrams
• Gibson's Mortar Battery, photo
• Limber and 6-pounder, diagram
• Chief Types of Artillery
• Parrott Gun, photo
• Swamp Angel
• Whitworth Gun, photo

Battles, Battlefields, and Historic Sites

• American Battlefield Protection Program, National Park Service (NPS)
• Battlefield Inventory by State, NPS
• Antietam/Sharpsburg
• Antietam NB
• Antietam: Orders of Battle
• Appomattox Courthouse NHP
• Arkansas Post NM
• Beauvoir, Home of Jefferson Davis
• Falmouth
• Fort Duffield, West Point, KY
• Fredericksburg
• Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
• Gettysburg
• Harper's Ferry National Historical Park, Virtual Visitor Center
• Jackson's Mill, boyhood home of Stonewall Jackson, now a conference center
• Lee's Retreat: The Final Days of the Civil War, Virginia Tech
• Manassas
• Mobile Bay
• Monocacy
• Olustee, Florida (Ocean Pond)
• Pickett's Mill State Historical Site
• Shiloh, Paul Gerdes
• Shiloh National Military Park, Alan Murray, (unofficial)
• Spotsylvania
• Staunton River Railroad Bridge, June 25, 1864

Bibliographies

• Basic Published Resources for the American Civil War, Michael K. Smith
• A Civil War Reading List
• A Civil War Reading List, Mark Pitcavage
• A Guide for the Civil War Book Collector, E. E. Billings
• Suggested Reading List, specific to colored troops

Bugle Calls

• Bugle Calls

Cities and Regions

• Charleston, SC
• Corinth, MS, important rail center, near Shiloh battlefield
• Gettysburg
• The Civil War in North Georgia
• Washington, D.C., Civil War Studies at the Smithsonian Institute

College Courses

• Antebellum Richmond: Syllabus, (History 150W-3) William and Mary
• Antebellum Richmond: Papers, (History 150W-3) William and Mary
• Shenandoah 1864: The Valley in Flames, October 10-13, 1996, Winchester, VA. Penn State Alumni College

Colored Troops (The Sable Arm)

• African American Civil War Memorial
• Data on Colored Troops in the Civil War, Bennie McRae, Jr.
• Links to Black Soldiers, Jim Hollandsworth
• U.S. Colored Troops
• Louisiana Native Guards, Jim Hollandsworth
• 55th U.S. Colored Troops, (1st Regiment Alabama Volunteers, a.d. [African Descent])
• 54th Massachusetts Infantry
• 54th Massachusetts, Photo of Reenactors
• 1st North Carolina Colored Volunteer Infantry, (35th U.S. Colored Infantry)
• 1st South Carolina Colored Volunteer Infantry, USA

Commercial Resources

• Bookseller List, Al Thorley
• Books etc...
• Civil War Antiques and Artifacts, Sonny Collins, Chamblee, GA
• Civil War Books, Dave Schultz
• Civil War CD, MultiEducator
• Civil War Press, Civil War fonts and clipart for word processing, etc.
• Civil War Simulation, educational simulation, Entrex Software
• Civil War Trading Cards, Card Collectors Co.
• Econo-Clad Books
• Gauley River Book Company, Sterling, VA
• Greatbooks, Carter Thompson
• Guidon Books, Scottsdale, AZ
• Hanna's Books, Ireland
• InfoConcepts, Inc., producers of "American Civil War Regimental Information System" and "Epic Battles of the American Civil War"
• Internet Collectibles & Antiques
• J & T Creations, custom historical mailing labels, etc.
• Milk Creek Mercantile Co., "Quality Reproductions from the Past"
• U.S.S. Monitor CD, MultiMediaDesign
• A Narrative History of the Civil War, Troubadour Interactive
• The Pin Baron, includes some CW pins
• Ruffin Flag Co., Civil War flags and books
• Rank and File Publications
• Shamrock Hill Books, Alpharetta, GA
• Squares-The Civil War Battle Game, Greg Myers
• The Ultimate American Civil War Reference Manual, 2nd Edition, James River Publications
• Valor in Gray, the story of 43 winners of the Confederate Medal of Honor

The Confederacy

• Christmas in the White House, Varina Davis
• Confederate Network
• The Constitution of the Confederacy
• CSANet
• Declaration of Causes: Georgia, Jan. 29, 1861
• Declaration of Causes: Mississippi
• Declaration of Causes: South Carolina, Dec. 24, 1860
• Declaration of Causes: Texas, Feb. 2, 1861
• Diary Excerpts, Carrie Berry, Atlanta, Aug. 1, 1864 - Jan. 4, 1865 (10-years old)
• Evolution of the Confederate Flag
• Rose O'Neal Greenhow, lady spy, photo and newspaper article
• Jefferson Davis, photo
• The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Rice University
• Map of Progress of Secession
• Ordinances of Secession, 13 Confederate States: SC, MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX, VA, AR, NC, TN, MO, KY, with dates of adoption

Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs

• Memoirs: Archibald Atkinston, Jr, Surgeon, CSA, 31st Virgina Infantry and 10th Virginia Cavalry, 1861-65
• Letter: Sullivan Ballou, July 14, 1861
• Letter: Sullivan Ballou, July 14, 1861 (A more complete version accompanied by photos of Sullivan's gravestone.)
• Letters: George Rust Bedinger, 33rd Virginia Vol. Inf., Capt., Co. E, January 10, 1861 to May 14, 1863, letters to and from him
• Diary & Letters: David Humphrey Blair, Co. D, 45th Ohio Volunteers
• Letters: Richard W. Burt, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
• Letter: Benjamin F. Coffman, 33rd Virginia Vol. Inf., Cpl., Co. H; July 12, 1863; June 8, 1864; August 23, 1864
• Diary: Rachel Cormany, Chambersburg, June 14 - July 6, 1863
• Diary: Samuel Cormany, June 30 - July 6, 1863
• Letter: Jacob Golladay, Jr., 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Capt., Co. H, May 8, 1863
• Diary: John H. Grabill, 33rd Virginia Vol. Inf., Lt., Co. C, June 6, 1861 to June 6, 1862
• Diary: James E. Hall, 31st Virginia Infantry, Co. H
• Diary: William Heyser, Sept. 29, 1862 to July 10, 1863
• Letters: Ambrose M. Hite, 33rd Virginia Vol. Inf., Co. H, Pvt., July 21, 1861 and July 19, 1863
• Letters: Willis James, 34th Indiana Infantry
• Letters: Edmond Hardy Jones, Pvt. 64th Georgia
• Letters: "My Dear Josie", April 11 & 12, 1862, relating Battle of Shiloh
• Diary: Clay McCauley, 2nd Lt, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry
• Diary: G.D. Molineaux, May 1, 1865 to March 2, 1866
• Letters: Battle of Olustee, Confederate and Union Participants
• Diary: James Laughlin Orr, Captain, QM Corps, 2nd Div., XIV Corps, Nov. 12 - Dec. 16, 1864
• Letters: Newton Scott, 36th Iowa Volunteer Infantry
• Letters: Selected Civil War Letters, Southern Historical Collection
• Letters: George Granville Sharp, 153rd Indiana Infantry
• Letters: Alexander, Joseph, and Ezra Slagg, 23rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with extensive narration by editor
• Letters: Felix Voltz, 187th New York Volunteer Infantry
• Letters: Galutia H. York, 114th New York Volunteer Infantry
• Diary: Joseph Waddell
• Diary: Alice Williamson, 16 years old, Gallatin, TN, Feb 19 - Sept 27, 1864

Fiction

• Civil War Fiction, Dean Rehberger, MSU
• Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (Gutenberg Project: text version)
• Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (Gutenberg Project: zip file)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg Project: text version)

Genealogy

• A Barrel of Links, a long list of genealogy resources and a list of CW links, John Lacombe
• Civil War Genealogy, Melissa Calhoun
• Cvil War Soldiers Genealogy Research Service, D & A Lambert
• Electric Cemetery, N. Dale Talkington
• Genealogy
• Guide to Tracing Your African American Civil War Ancestor, Jeanette Braxton-Secret
• How to Order Military and Pension Records for Union Civil War Veterans from the National Archives, Cyndi Howells

Generals

• Roster of Generals, Kerry Webb
• Confederate
  • Jubal Early, photo
  • Richard Ewell, photo
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest, photo
  • Ambrose P. Hill, photo
  • Thomas Jackson, photo
  • Edward Johnson, biographical site, Eddie Woodward, FSU
  • Robert E. Lee, photo
  • James Longstreet, photo
  • James Longstreet, biographical site, Brian Hampton
  • George Pickett, photo
  • J.E.B. Stuart, photo
• Union
  • Ambrose Burnside, photo
  • Joshua Chamberlain, photo
  • U.S. Grant, photo
  • Winfield Hancock, photo
  • George Meade, photo
  • John F. Reynolds, photo
  • William T. Sherman, photo
  • Dan Sickles, photo
  • G.K. Warren, photo

Gettysburg

• At Gettysburg, A Retrospective of Mrs. Tillie Alleman
• The Gettysburg Address
• The Gettysburg Address Exhibit, Library of Congress
• The Gettysburg Archive
• Gettysburg Discussion Group (Includes documents and images)
• Gettysburg Information Center, allows on-line request of Visitors Guide
• R. E. Lee to President Davis, July 5, 1863, Defeat at Gettysburg
• Official Records Online: Vol. XXVII Gettysburg
• Order of Battle: Union, Kerry Webb
• Order of Battle: Confederate, Kerry Webb
• 35 Days to Gettysburg (Dual Diary Entries)
• Image: Pickett's Charge
• Stamp, Commemorative, USPS
• Unofficial Visitor's Guide to Gettysburg, Ralph & Georgina Tartaglia

History

• Causes of the Civil War
• Chronology, emphasizing colored troops
• Civil War Resources on the Internet:
  
  Abolitionism to Reconstruction (1830's - 1890's), Rutgers
• Crisis at Fort Sumter, an interactive historical simulation and decision making program
• Valley of the Shadow, Living the Civil War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, U of VA
• Brief History, 1861-1865, Darmouth

Lincoln

• Abraham Lincoln, photo
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Gettysburg Address
• "A House Divided...", 1858
• First Inaugural Address
• Second Inaugural Address
• Lincoln's Assassination, Roger Norton
• Lincoln Research Site, Roger Norton

Magazines

• Blue and Gray

Maps

• American Civil War Maps, U of Georgia

Medicine

• Ambulance Corps Drill, photo
• Amputations, photo
• Hospital Wall Tent, sketch
• Medical Vocabulary
• Virtual Museum Of Medicine

Money

• Confederate Civil War Currency Page, Vance Poteat, includes many images, history, etc.
• Confederate Coin Page, Vance Poteat
• Confederate Stamp Page, Vance Poteat
• Financing the Civil War, Museum of American Financial History
• Money in the Civil War, Arthur W. Henrick, Paymaster, ACWA
• Images: Union (Arthur and Clive Henrick, ACWA)
  • $1 and $10 US Treasury Notes (Greenbacks), fronts
  • $5 US Treasury Note, front and back
  • $2 Merchants' Bank, New Jersey, front
  • Postal Currency
  • Postal Currency
• Images: Confederate (Arthur and Clive Henrick, ACWA)
  • $3 Bank of Roaring Camp, Virginia, front
  • $1 Planters' Bank of Virginia and $1 Virginia Treasury Note, fronts
  • $5 CSA Treasury Note, front & back
  • $100 CSA Treasury Note, front & back
  • $5 Virginia Treasury Note, front
• Images: Union and Confederate (Arthur and Clive Henrick, ACWA)
  • $1 McKean County Bank, Gettysburg and $10 CSA Treasury Note, fronts
  • $1 Merchants' Bank of NJ and $5 CSA Treasury Note, fronts

Museums

• Hampton Roads Naval Museum
• Joshua L. Chamberlain House & Museum, Pejepscot Historical Society, Brunswick, Maine
• Kennesaw Civil War Museum, Kennesaw, Georgia
• Museum of the Confederacy
• Wisconsin Veterans' Museum, Madison, WI

Music

• Confederate, Lyrics to 13 songs
• Union, Lyrics to 3 songs
• Authentic Music of the Civil War, Bobby Horton
• The Blue and Gray Brass Brigade
• Civil War Poetry & Music
• Civil War Songbook
• Libby Prison Minstrels, "Music of the 1860's"
• Lyrics to Southern Songs
• Music & Poetry, Florida Star
• Old Towne Brass, musical group from Huntsville, AL which performs in period costume with authentic period instruments
• Sound Clips of "Vacant Chair," "Monitor Grand March," and "John Browns' Body" from MultiMediaDesign

The Navies

• Battle of Mobile Bay
• U.S.S. Catskill, deck of the monitor
• Confederate States Navy Page, Confederate American Casting Corp.
• CSS Georgia, photo
• Hampton Roads Naval Museum
• History of Confederate Submarine Hunley and Its Rediscovery, Ray Taylor
• C.S.S. Hunley, recovery and preservation updates
• Hunley Web Site
• Index to Ships of the Confederate States Navy, with descriptions
• Matthew F. Maury, Commander, CSN, 1861-1865, "Pathfinder of the Seas"
• William Lewis Maury, Commander, CSS Georgia
• A Monitor, (The Monitor?)
• Naval Historical Center, U.S. Dept. of the Navy
• Port St. Marks Action, Florida
• Ships of the Confederate Navy, a listing.

Organizations

• Abraham Lincoln Association
• Civil War Institute
• The Ulysses S. Grant Association
• The Ulysses S. Grant Network
• List of Organizations
• Sons of Confederate Veterans
  • Tennessee Division
• Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
• United Daughters of the Confederacy

People

• Mathew Brady, photographer, photo
• John Brown, abolitionist, photo
• John Burns, civilian who fought at Gettysburg, photo
• Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Confederate spy
• Xerxes Knox, Pvt., Co. G, 3rd Iowa Cavalry, history
• Isaac Spears Sanderlin, Pvt., Co. I, 100th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, history
• Alfred R. Waud, artist, photo

Photographs and Images

• Antietam, painting, Wisconsin Veterans Museum
• Archives, Library of Congress
• Civil War Photographic Gallery, Carole Thompson Fine Photographs
• Entrance to Camp Morton, Civil war POW camp, Indianapolis (180 K)
• Maps and Images, (take out the "." after edu in the URLs at the site so they read "edu:70" instead of "edu.:70")
• Other Images
• Picture Gallery, 33rd VA Vol. Inf. Home Page
• Shareware Civil War Images
• Time Line, Library of Congress

Poetry

• Civil War Poetry & Music
• Contemporary Confederate Poetry, Lee Murdock Sr

Re-enactors

• American Civil War Association
  Union Forces
  
  • 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry, Co. G
  • 69th New York Volunteer Infantry, Co. B
  • 79th New York Volunteer Infantry, Co. C
  • 5th U.S. Light Artillery, Battery D
  Confederate Forces
  
  • 7th Virgina Volunteer Infantry
  • 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
  • 43rd Battalion of Virgina Cavalry, Co. A
  • Richmond Fayette Artillery
• Washington Civil War Association
• Battle of Secessionville, Nov. 11 and 12, 1995, Charleston, SC
• Battle of Shiloh, April 4, 5, 6, 1997
• Boyle's "Reenactment and Living History" Page
• Camp Chase Gazette, The Voice of Civil War Reenacting
• Living History Re-Enactor Network
• Florida Star
• National Civil War Association, California
  • Union Forces
  • Confederate Forces
• School of the Soldier, including School of the Dead (Dying) and School on Breaking and Running
• Army of the Pacific
• 15th U.S. Infantry
• 19th Alabama Infantry Regiment
• 33rd Alabama Infantry, Co. E
• 48th Alabama Infantry
• Newton's 8th Arkansas Cavalry
• 19th Arkansas Infantry, "Dawson's"
• 1st Florida Vol. Inf.
• 3rd Florida Infantry
• 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Co. H
• 37th Illinois Infantry, Co. B
• 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Co. A
• 38th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Co H
• 42nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry
• 49th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Co. F
• 1st Kansas Volunteer Infantry and Kansas Women's Relief Corps
• 8th Louisiana Infantry (75th New York Infantry), Co. B, Bienville Rifles
• 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Co. I
• 1st Michigan Light Artillery, Third Battery (Co. C)
• 3rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Co. A
• 4th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, Co. E (CSA)
• 1st New York Volunteer Engineer Regiment
• 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, "Duryee's Zouaves
• 14th New York State Militia, a.k.a. 14th Brooklyn, Co. E (The Red-Legged Devils)
• 47th New York Volunteer Infantry, Washington Grays
• 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
• 53rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Co. C
• 114th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, "Collis' Zouaves," Co. A
• 1st South Carolina Artillery, CSA
• 1st South Carolina (Colored) Infantry
• 10th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, CSA
• 10th South Carolina Ladies Auxiliary, CSA
• 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Co. A, "Potomac Guards"
• 44th Virginia Volunteer Infantry
• 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
• Archer's Brigade, CSA
• Meagher's Irish Brigade, USA
• Mifflin Guard
• C.S.Naval Reenactors, Galveston Chapter
• Texas Rifles, Co.G, Trans-Mississippi Battalion
• Regimental Contact Groups
• Civil War Scrapbook, Clive G. Henrick

Regimental Histories

• Union
  • 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery L
  • 8th U.S. Colored Troops
  • 15th US Infantry
  • 12th Indiana Cavalry, Russel I. Poole
  • 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry
  • 49th Indiana Volunteer Infantry
  • 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the "Harvard Regiment"
  • 1st Michgan Light Artillery, Third Battery (Co. C)
  • 16th New York Infantry
  • 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (This regiment had several participants in the Andrews Raid)
  • 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
  • 53rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
  • 84th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
  • 85th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
  • 110th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
  • 114th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
  • 148th Pennsylvania Volunteers
  • 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
• Confederate
  • Alabama Brigade, Ken Jones
  • 19th Alabama Volunteer Infantry
  • 48th Alabama Volunteer Infantry, John & James George
  • 1st Florida Volunteer Infantry
  • 10th Georgia Volunteer Infantry
  • 1st Maryland Cavalry
  • 17th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry
  • 8th/13th Tennessee Cavalry
  • 20th Tennessee Cavalry
  • 7th Texas Infantry, with complete rosters
  • 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
  • 51st Virginia Infantry Regiment
• Civil War Units File (a list of people interested in studying particular units)
  USA National & USA States A-I
  USA States K-N
  USA States O-W
  CSA National & CSA States A-M
  CSA States N-V
  

Small Arms

• Manual of Arms, ACWA
• Small Arms

States in the Civil War

• Georgia
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Rally 'Round the Flags, Michigan Battle Flags, Michigan Historical Museum
• Mississippi
• Ohio
• Rhode Island, with extensive rosters
• Virginia: All Known State-Approved Civil War Historical Road Markers in Virginia
• Wisconsin, Wisconsin Veterans Museum

Sutler's Store

• Civil War Dealers Rolodex
• The Clothier's
• Fall Creek Suttlery
• List of Sutlers, Boyle
• List of Sutlers, Camp Chase Gazette
• List of Sutlers, NCWA
• Jas. Townsend & Son, Inc.
• Triple Image: Civil War Generals T-Shirts

Uniforms

• Civil War Uniforms
• Confederate Uniforms, Confederate American Casting Corp.
• Uniforms and Accouterments

Women in the Civil War

• Civil War Women, Online Archival Collections
• Manuscript Sources in the Special Collections Library, Duke U
• Civil War Women: Primary Resources on the Internet

Miscellaneous

• The American Cyber Civil War Game
• A Civil War Chronology
• Civil War in Miniature
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
• H-CivWar, via H-NET
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), November 19, 1994
• Stamp: Gettysburg Commemorative, issued 1963
• Stamps: Civil War, September, 1995 (182 K); Information
• Soldiers' Memorial Tower, Sweden, NY
• Stonewall Jackson's Bible
• Sullivan Ballou Film Project