THE CIVIL WAR -- LINKS TO USEFUL SITES

• American Civil War Information Archive
• Civl War Battlefields
• West Virginia in the Civil War
• Grant
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project
  Documents (and some images) by and about slaves and former slaves during the Civil War and information on emancipation during the war.
• History 1651 Home Page
  University page on "The Old South."
• The 1850s: Union in Peril
• Lincoln Memorial Virtual Visitors' Center
• Abraham Lincoln for Primary Children
• Pharaoh's Army
  "Inspired by a true story from the Civil War, this movie examines the relationship between a Confederate woman and a Union captain in rural Kentucky who are forced together by the war and must make sense of their conflicting loyalties. Read reviews of the program and listen to a RealAudio interview with director and writer Robby Henson on National Public Radio's Morning Edition.
• Civil War Publishing Project
  Created by students in American History at the Friedell Center for Ninth Grade Learning in Rochester, Minnesota. The students completed original research using media and library resources.
• Civil War Publishing Project
  Created by students in American History 9 at the Friedell Center for Ninth Grade Learning in Rochester, Minnesota. Students completed original research using resources found in the media lab and public library. Includes Student handouts for Web Publishing Assignment.
• The Civil War in Arkansas
  Fearures "... a searchable database so you can find out what happened in various counties during the war in Arkansas, Civil War stories about ancestors of current Arkansans, information about several groups in Arkansas dedicated to recording, reenacting and studying our Civil War heritage, and an interactive message board in which you can share all you know ..about the Civil War in Arkansas."
• Virtual Antebellum Richmond
• The American Civil War Series
  Featuring all War Times Journal resources relating to the American Civil War.
• General Officers of the Civil War
• Civil War Gazette
  "You are a team of newspaper reporters, living in the civil war era. Battles are raging all around you: brother pitted against brother; father against son; neighbor against neighbor."
• Making of America
  A collaborative effort of the University of Michigan and Cornell University to form "...a thematically-related digital library documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction." The plan is to have over 5,000 volumes with imprints between 1850 - 1877 scanned and made available to the academic communities at each institution. Hope the can showcase a few more for the site. Have students hit the "browse" image and select an item from the data. Pages are present in graphic format, where an image of the page is presented. Takes a little time for the image to form.
• Civil War Interactive
  Zine on the Civil War. Interested in making an Irish Stew for 50 people ?? Find out here.
• Civil War Page
  From Dakota State... a very complete listing of links.
• The Frederick Douglass Museum & Cultural Center
• The African-American Mosaic
  Established and expanding site. See: Personal Stories and ACS New Directions, Abolition Influence of Prominent Abolitionists, Conflict of Abolition and Slavery, Migration, Western Migration and Homesteading, Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration, WPA, Cavalcade of the American Negro, Authors and the Federal Writers' Project, Ex-slave Narratives.
• The American Civil War--1861-1865
• Virginia Military Institute Archives Home Page
• Virginia's Civil War from Page One Inc.
  This is the Civil War site all should visit -- as it features descriptions of many of the major battles and describes tours to visit the battle site today (with out all the flashy tourist hype.
• Civil War Image Map
  Presents a clickable map of the US that generates an image map of battles and national park sites.
• Lincoln's War Cabinet
  With a nice collection of Civil War links.
• Chicago Historical Society: Last Best Hope
  Abraham Lincoln and The Promise of America. Use the "here" button to explore the Lincoln exhibit (half way down page) and return later to explore the other links on the page.
• The District of Columbia Emancipation Act
• Chicago Historical Society: Last Best Hope
  Abraham Lincoln.
• Abraham Lincoln Research Site
  Conducts research in response to e-mail questions concerning President Abraham Lincoln's life and accomplishments.
• In Search of the Real Abe Lincoln
• Abraham Lincoln Assassination
• Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
  Visit Ford's Theatre, reproduced 1865 Lincoln Assassination Newspapers, The Postmortem Career of John Wilkes Booth, Interesting Facts about Lincoln's Assassination and Similarities Between the Lincoln/Kennedy Assassinations.
• Abraham Lincoln
  Graphics published by students of Berwick Academy Class of 2008. The key word here is "published" and the concept can be applied to all grade levels.
• U.S. Civil War Center -- Index of Civil War Information available on the Internet
• Blue and Gray Trail-Introduction
  Stories of the Trail
• American Slave Narratives
  WPA project From 1936 to 1938 involving interviews with thousands of former slaves from across the American South, with first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.
• Project of the Month
  Andrew Jackson's Hermitage.
• Battles of Ft. Henry & Donelson
  Also links to the battles of: Belmont, Lexington & Parkers Crossroads and Johnsonville. Information on the Gunboats and the "Birth of the Blitzkrieg."
• Admiral D. G. Farragut Museum
  Cvil War Photos.
• Another Civil War Links Page
• Civil War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction
• Hunley update
  Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sank in the aftermath of her maiden attack on the Union warship USS Housatonic. One of the first submarines, and the first to be used successfully in warfare.
• Archaeology at the Andersonville Civil War Prison Camp, Southeast Archaeological Center
• ANDERSONVILLE
  PBS Movie of the prison.
• MoC Home Page
  New address of The Museum and White House of the Confederacy.
• Civil War - Soviet Viewpoint - Part 1
• A Year of Glory
  The story of the first twelve months of the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee.
• CIVIL WAR COLLECTIONS
  From the MILWAUKEE URBAN ARCHIVES.
• Lee's Retreat
  Although designated as a "driving tour", the site also inlcudes information about the battles and people involved. Follows the path of Robert E. Lee's retreat from Petersburg to his surrender at Appomattox.
• Review of Lee's Retreat
• Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:History:U.S. History:19th Century:Civil War (1861-1865):Museums and Memorials
• VMI Archives. Civil War Web Resources
• The American Civil War Homepage
• CMOHS
  Research the origins of the Congressional Metal of Honor.
• 54th. Mass. Volunteer Infantry, Co. I
  Profile of African American soldier in the American Civil War in South Carolina.
• The American Civil War and Reconstruction
• Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page
• Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:History:U.S. History:19th Century:Civil War (1861-1865):Unit Histories:Union
• Flags of the Confederacy
• The Civil War Page
  Supporting American Civilization II - Spring 1995
• Causes of the Civil War
• Civil War at a Glance
  Text file summary.
• "CivilWar"
• * Welcome to The Florida Star *
  Links for Civil War researchers and reenactors.
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• National Civil Rights Museum
• California Heritage Digital Image Access Project
• United States Presidents
• U.S. History Source Documents
• Antietam - A Photographic Tour
• Texas Historical Commission
• THE CIVIL WAR
  Over 100 sites listed.
• The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia
  Older version site.
• Valley of the Shadow
  Got the address of the newest version?
• The History Place
  Currently showing a photo history of JFK and a series of pages on Lincoln and the Civil War.
• The Civil War Home Page
  Letters & Diaries | Battles | Photo Gallery | General Interest | Genealogy | People| Documents | Unit Information.
• Gettysburg
• Sojourner Truth
• Sojourner Truth Stamp and Reading List
• Selected Underground Railroad Resources
  The Walk to Canada.
• We the Slaveowners -- Fall 95 Policy Review
• Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association
  A non-profit educational and research association on the history of the Custer Battlefield, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and the general study of the Plains Indian Wars.
• United States Civil War
  See "Today in the Civil War."
• The Cemetery
• Lecture 01: Reconstructing the Nation
• The Civil War Online
• The American Civil War, Up Close and Personal
  Encarta lesson plan.
• Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:History:U.S. History:19th Century:Civil War (1861-1865):Unit Histories:Confederate States Of America
• Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:History:U.S. History:19th Century:Civil War (1861-1865):Unit Histories:Union
  Unit histories... Yahoo also lists Confederate unit histories.
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  Features a New World Slavery Syllabus, Slavery Bibliography and Excerpts from Slave Narratives. WPA Life Histories also online.
• CSS Alabama Digital Collection
  Digital versions of documents and images associated with the Confederate raiding ship Alabama.
• The Museum of African Slavery
  See the extensive list of student sites.
• Gettysburg
• Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:History:U.S. History:19th Century:Civil War (1861-1865):Unit Histories:Confederate States Of America
• Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:History:U.S. History:19th Century:Civil War (1861-1865):Unit Histories:Union
  Unit histories... Yahoo also lists Confederate unit histories.
• Duke University Special Collections Library
  Major exhibits: America Votes,Civil War Women, Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library and Still Going On:A multimedia celebration of the centenary of the birth of William Grant. Key links to: Forced Migration - The Slave Trade and the Nature of Chattel Slavery, Plantation America - The Work of Slaves, The Age of Revolutions - Two Kinds of Freedom, Black Southerners in the Old South - The Slave Community, The Problem of Freedom - The Destruction of American Slavery, Freedom's Strange Fruit.
• Gettysburg - The Turning Point in the Civil War
  Page written for the Thinkquest Competition.
• William Tecumseh Sherman
• Chickamauga
  Events leading up to the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
• ACW
  Authentic Music of the Civil War.
• Toni Morrison
  Although this page is linked elsewhere in the index, the historical dimensions of this web site merit assignment to the history page as well. See the links to Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise 0f 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Slavery polarizes the American States, Lincoln Attacks Slavery, Dred Scott Case and Related documents and sites of interest.
• Shenandoah 1864: The Valley in Flames
  Conference site for a Penn State course with good background on the battle available.
• Battlefield of Gettysburg Map
  Detail maps (9) offered on site with some details of the battle.
• Duke University Special Collections Library
  Civil War Women: On-line Archival Collections featuring scanned pages and texts of the writings of women during the American Civil War. Currently includes the 1864 diary of a 16 year old girl and the papers of Confederate spy, Rose O'Neal Greenhow.
• Lesson Plan The Civil War
• Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers at Duke
  Story of "...a leader in Washington society, a passionate secessionist, and one of the most renowned spies in the Civil War.
• Alice Williamson Diary
  Duke University Special Collections Librarydiary of a Tennessee schoolgirl chronicles life during the Civil War.
• What's New on Yahoo - Arts:Civil War
• Civil War Artillery Web Site
  A great page. I especially liked the link for "What is Artillery?" and the grapic with the major parts of an artillery piece (soon to be an image map) with links to descriptions and explanations.
• The Sinking of the Steamship SULTANA near Memphis
• The Underground Railroad
• Education First's Black History Month Website
  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
• Memorial Day
  Links to War, Peace, Memorials, links to 0ther Sites, Literature, Poetry, Letters, What They had to say on War and Peace. The Memorial Day was first applied after the Civil War and later applied to those who died in all American wars.
• Virtual Antebellum Richmond
  A collection of student papers on: The Ladies' Aid Society (Confederate service), Richmond Theatre: fire!, Anna Chalmer's school for girls, Offices of the Southern Planter, The seedier pubs at Rocketts Landing, Jackson Ward: free people of color, Richmond Female Academy, Offices of the Southern Literary Messenger, Tredegar Iron Works (draft), The Governor's Mansion (draft), Governor Henry Wise's office (draft), Rail crossing: watch your step!, First Baptist Church of Richmond: meet Lott Cary.
• Civil War Poetry and Music Home Page
  Poetry and music from both sides of the Mason Dixon Line, with links to other Civil War sites.
• TSA: Civil War Studies
  The Smithsonian Associates Civil War Studies.
• MUSEUM OF THE CONFEDERACY
• Camp Moore Confederate Cemetery and Museum
• The War Between the States (American Civil War)
  From the National Park Service. Links to all the sites with Civil War associations and an essay on the war. Links to Civil War battlefields that are part of the Park Service. SeeMonocacy National Battlefield as an example of a "typical" Civil War page.
• U.S. Grant Network Home Page
• U.S. Civil War Center
  Louisiana State University -- Baton Rouge. See the excellent Index of resources!
• THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
  For the student in search of some depth on the document. Drafts of the Address are available with information on preservation techniques.
• Chicago Historical Society
  Special exhibit on Lincoln with a photo essay.
• The Works of Abraham Lincoln
• Abraham Lincoln Online
  Links to: Lincoln Quiz, Speeches/Writings, Historic Places, Lincoln Resources, Lincoln's Thinking.
• Quotes from President Abraham Lincoln
• Civil War Images
  Indexed by subject and location.
• Ohio in the Civil War
  Infantry Infantry, Cavalry, Other Units Bibliography, Prison Camps, War Stories and Research Sites.
• Major General Edward Johnson, C.S.A. OnLine
  Confederate General.
• Civil War data
  Major emphasis - the American Civil War of 1861-1865. Secondary emphasis - publishing cemetery records of various Oklahoma Counties. Links to Union Soldiers buried in Oklahoma and Kansas, Sinking of the steamship SULTANA, 8th Iowa Cavalry, Cahaba Prison, Grand Army of the Republic, plus records of many Oklahoma cemeteries.
• Virginia Tech Libraries Special Collections Home Page CIVIL WAR
  Letters and diaries from Union and Confederate soldiers, homefront letters, memoirs, and contemporary research files.
• Cincinnati CWRT Home Page
  Cincinnati Civil War Round Table.
• The Ulysses S. Grant Association
  Links to The Papers of Ulysses S. Grantand Grant's Military Service and Death of General Grant and a poem by Walt Whitman. You might want to visit the Walt Whitman Home Page - American Memory Collection, to see the recovered notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman Collection. Offers access to four Walt Whitman notebooks and a cardboard butterfly that disappeared from the Library of Congress in 1942 and was returned in 1995. Broad site topics: the arts, celebrities and prominent individuals, poetry, war (Civil War). While you are at the site, click on "Future Collections" for a view of what is planned for the future.
• Civil War Order of Battle
• Illinois in the Civil War
  Histories of Illinois Regiments, Heroes from Illinois, Sites in Illinois, etc., 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Senatorial Election Debates, Dyer's Histories of: 102nd--103rd--104th--105th Illinois Infantries, History of the 119th Illinois Infantry, US Postal Service Civil War stamps, Famous Illinoisians with Civil War ties, Flags of Illinois Regiments, Brief Intro to Genealogy & the American Civil War.
• THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
• Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
• Welcome to the U.S. Civil War Center!
  The "... only comprehensive Civil War research center in existence."
• Civil War Documents and Books
• U. S. History Maps
  From the Perry Castaneda Library.
• 19th Alabama at Chickamauga
  An Alabams Infantry Regiment's Perspective.

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