General

• Civil War Webquest Resource Page
• The U.S. Civil War Center
• The American Civil War Homepage
• Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
• Civil War@Smithsonian: Collecting, Preserving, Remembering the National Experience
• Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (1830's - 1890's)
• American Civil War Research Database
This database is being developed by Historical Data Systems, and it is an attempt to put in one database information about every soldier that fought in the Civil War. With a database of this magnitude historians can do statistical and analytical analysis of the war. Right now the database contains over 2 million soldiers records, over 2000 Civil war regimental rosters, over 2000 regimental chronicles, over 1000 officer profiles, over 1000 Civil War soldier photographs, and over 3000 civil war battle synopses. To use this database you have to subscribe. The subscription cost is 25.00 per year.
• Civil War Money
• The Grand Army of the Republic Museum and Library
• The War of the Rebellion Online at Cornell University
"Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas. In this series the reports will be arranged according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts. The correspondence, etc., not embraced in the "reports" proper will follow (first Union and next Confederate) in chronological order."
• The Valley of the Shadow
• U.S. Government Resources on the Civil War

Politics, Law and Government

Union

• Lincoln North: The Joseph N. Nathanson Collection of Lincolniana
• American Presidents: Abraham Lincoln
• Abraham Lincoln Research Site
• Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
• United and Divided
• Declarations of Causes of Secession [Civil War]
• George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, 7 July 1862 on the Union defeat during the Peninsula Campaign
• The Wade Davis Manifesto, Aug 5, 1864
• The Emancipation Proclamation {1863}
• The Homestead Act, May 1862
• The Second Confiscation Act July 17, 1862

Confederate

• First Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
• Second Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
• Speech of E.S. Dargan to the Alabama Secession Convention
• South Carolina's Address to the Slaveholding States
• Address of George Williamson to the Texas Secession Convention
• Confederate Pension Index
 

Civil War Photograph & Maps Sites

• Assorted Campaign Maps
• U.S. Government Photograph and Maps Resources on the Civil War

Battles and Campaigns

• American Civil War Homepage
• Civil War Index
• US Civil War Generals
• The Civil War Artillery Sites
• Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War
• Illinois in the Civil War
• American Civil War Battles by State
• Virginia Military Institute: Civil War Resources
• Chronological list of Civil War Battles
• Ten Costliest Battles of the Civil War

• 1st Battle of Bull Run Confederate Order of Battle

• Battle of Picacho Pass
• The Battle of Antietam on the Web
• Antietam.com
• Links Related to Antietam Battlefield
• Battle of Secessionville
• Fredericksburg: official records and battle description

• Gettysburg Discussion Group
• Military History Online--Battle of Gettysburg
• Chattanooga: A Road Trip Through Time
• Battle of Armstrong's Hill

• The Red River Campaign
• Atlanta Campaign
• Siege of Petersburg
• Burning Atlanta

• Sherman's March Through South Carolina
• Battle of Bentonville

Individual Regiments

• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
• Confederate Regimental History Links
• The 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry
• Dennis O'Kane and the 69th Pennsylvania Volunteers
• 19th Alabama at Chickamauga
• The Harvard Regiment: 20th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865
• 28th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
• 5th New York Volunteer Infantry: Duryee's Zouaves
• 20th (Russell's) Tennessee Cavalry
• Official Historic Website of the 10th Texas Infantry

Biographies

• The Ulysses S. Grant Association
• The War Times Journal Civil War Series: Longstreet, Sherman, Hood, and Gordon
• Stonewall Jackson Resources at the Virginia Military Institute Archives
• Abraham Lincoln Online
• Abraham Lincoln Research Site
• Lincoln/Net: The Abraham Lincoln Digitization Project
• The Longstreet Chronicles
• U.S. civil War Generals

• Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
• The Calvin Shedd Papers
• The Civil War Diaries of Van Buren Oldham, Company G, 9th Tenn Infantry
• The Civil War Diary of Captain James Laughlin Orr, 42nd Indiana Regiment
• Civil War Diaries--Augustana College Library
• Civil War Diaries & Letters
Contains letters from Georgia Units, and diaries of women and men, some battle reports and other writings
• The Civil War Diaries of Mifflin Jennings. 11th Iowa Infantry
Contains letters and diaries of soldiers from Iowa
• Civil War Letters


Contains a letter of Corporal Henry McNeal, 5th Iowa Volunteers, who writes while on the march in October 1861, The Diary of First Lieutenant Wilson DeGarmo, 33rd Iowa Volunteers in 1864, the Hospital Letters of Private Allan McNeal, 33rd Iowa Volunteers
• The Valley of the Shadow


The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of  thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries,  photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records.   Students can explore every dimension of the conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the  life stories of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families. The project is  intended for secondary schools, community colleges, libraries, and universities.
• Albert Underwood's Civil War Diary

Naval Operations

• CSS Neuse State Historic Site
• The Denbigh Project
• Monitor: History and Legacy
• Friends of the H. L. Hunley
• Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War: Naval War
• The War Times Journal: Civil War Navies

Slavery and Emancipation

• The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
• African American Women: On-line Archival Collections
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
• Jesuit Plantation Project: Maryland's Jesuit Plantations, 1650-1838
• Levi Jordan Plantation Project
• Race and Place: African American Community Histories
• Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library

  Blacks in the Civil War

• The Black Military Experience
• The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920

Women in the Civil War

• Civil War Women: On-line Archival Collections
This site contains the (1) Rose O'Neal Greenow Papers.  Rose O'Neal Greenhow was born in Montgomery County, Maryland in 1817. "Wild Rose", as she was called from a young age, was a leader in Washington society,  a passionate secessionist, and one of the most  renowned spies in the Civil War. The collection is  mostly correspondence with Rose Greenhow related to  her activities on behalf of the Confederate States of  America, and contains both scanned images and transcripts of her letters. A second woman was Alice William Diary.  The third is the Sarah E. Thompson papers.  Sarah E. Thompson (1838-1909)  worked alongside her husband (a recruiter for the Union Army)  assembling and organizing Union sympathizers in a  predominately rebel area around Greeneville,   Tennessee. After he was killed in 1864, she continued  to work for the Union, providing intelligence that in one  case led to the capture of a Confederate General. This collection includes transcripts and scanned images of correspondence that contains testimonials of  Thompson's services to the Federal government and her subsequent post-war struggles against poverty.
• Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War
• The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
• The Alice Williamson Diary
"This small, leather-bound volume is the 36-page diary kept by schoolgirl Alice Williamson at Gallatin, Tennessee from February to September 1864.
The main topic of the diary is the occupation of Gallatin and the surrounding region by Union forces under General Eleazer A. Paine. The diary relates many atrocities attributed to Paine. Frequently mentioned is presence of black contrabands in and around Gallatin, attempts to give them formal schooling, and their abuse by Union Eastern Tennessee troops."

The Home Front

• The New York Draft Riots
• Conscription (Military Draft) In the Civil War
• Report of the Committee of Merchants for the relief of Colored People Suffering in the Late Riots in the City of New York
• Articles from the New York Herald on the Richmond Bread Riot, 1863
• The Civil War at Endview Plantation, Newport News, Virginia
• The South During the Civil War
• Proceedings at the Mass Meeting of Loyal Citizens, On Union Square, New York, 15th Day of July, 1862, under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, the Union Defense committee of the citizens of New York, the Common council of the city of New York, and other committees of loyal citizens

Prisons and Prisoners of War

• Alton in the Civil War: Alton Prison
• Illinois in the Civil War: Civil War Prisons in Illinois
• A List of Civil War Prisons
• Archeology at Andersonville
• Civil War Prisoner/Prison Research Site

Medicine & Health

• Civil War Medicine
• Caring for the Men: A History of Civil War Medicine
• National Museum of Civil War Medicine
• eHistory.com: Civil War Battlefield Medicine
• Whitman's Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals

Teaching the Civil War

• The Truth Marches on: A Web Unit on the Civil War
• Divided and United: Slavery, Abolition, the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement

The Civil War in Oklahoma

• Oklahoma Civil War Map of Battles
• The Civil War in Indian Territory Index Page
• Oklahoma Freedmen in the Civil War
• Civil War Sites in Oklahoma

Newspapers and other Periodicals

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1902
• Civil War Newspapers
• Civil War Newspapers: Gleanings from several issues of Civil War Era Newspapers of Pennsylvania and Boston
• The Atlantic Monthly, 1857-1901, Boston
• The Continental Monthly, 1862-1864, Boston & New York
• Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1850-1899, New York
• The North American Review,1815-1900, Ceder Falls, Iowa
• Scientific American, 1846-1869, New York
• The Southern Literary Messenger, 1834-1864, Richmond, VA
• Vanity Fair, 1860-1862, New York
• The Richmond Daily Dispatch