Library

Check 973.7 and REF 973.7. Hint: If you find a book that is right on target check the shelves at the same call number (also check your Public Library - same section).

Also:

REF 904 HIS History in Dispute
REF 920.073 AME American National Biography
REF 973.08 Annals of America

Subsciption Databases

Historical Newspapers - New York Times

Primary source information going back to 1850

Websites

Home of the American Civil War http://www.civilwarhome.com/
Among the many topics covered here are biographies and photos of a great many of the major players; battle details and maps; overview of the war; information on available medical care; the navy and the naval war; the army, its organization, and conditions for soldiers. Also included is a section of "Civil War Potpourri," which contains many diverse subjects from boys' in the war to the ethnic make-up of the troops, as well as one that presents various essays written about the war. This is a well-organized, comprehensive site and would be an excellent resource for student reports.

History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 http://www.bartleby.com/252/
The searchable, full text of the 1918 Pulitzer Prize winning title by historian James Ford Rhodes. This "chronicle of the War Between the States both provides the general reader with a clearly written description of the events of four bloody years as well as reveals the self-educated author's belief in the war's cause as the evil of slavery."

Documenting the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/
This site presents over 800 primary source materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. Currently includes A Digitized Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920, with 100 of the most important Southern literary texts; First-Person Narratives of the American South, with 101 texts that include diaries, memoirs, ex-slave narratives, and travel accounts; The Church in the Southern Black Community, Beginnings to 1920; The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; and North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920. There are author, subject, and title indices, and it's searchable.

Civil War Treasures - New York Historical Society

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html/
This site includes "recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of popular support for the Union in New York City; photography showing the war's impact, both in the north and south; and drawings and writings by ordinary soldiers on both sides." Browse subject headings, name, or archival name. Searchable by keyword. The Before, During, and After the Civil War presentation provides a good background. Another incredible collection from the Library of Congress

Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/dispatches/
"Black Dispatches" highlights the contributions made by African Americans to the intelligence efforts of the Union during the Civil War, describing the work of several slaves, both male and female, who acted as intelligence agents. According to the author, "Black Dispatches was a common term used among Union military men for intelligence on Confederate forces provided by Negroes." This article originally appeared in the Winter1998-1999 edition of the CIA newsletter Studies in Intelligence.

Civil War Photographs http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
This collection of 1,118 Civil War photographs can be searched by keyword, browsed by subject, or viewed by year. There is a list of represented photographers (most of the photographs were made under the direction of Matthew Brady), a brief article on how photographs of the era were made, bibliographies, related links, and an essay, Does the Camera Ever Lie?, about how the photographer got his desired message into his pictures.

Civil War Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/civilwar.html
This site provides an extensive, annotated collection of "links to primary sources on the Internet that are directly related to women and the Civil War." It is organized into three categories: Diaries, Letters, Documents; Photographs and Prints, and General Civil War Pages.

American Civil War http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
Find an extensive directory of links to information on the United States Civil War at this site. See Civil War slang; recipes and medical remedies under Army Life; check the links to Colored Troops for data about African Americans; discover how Chinese Americans, women, and Canadians served during the conflict; view details about Prisons and Prisoners; read Diaries, Letters and Memoirs, Archives; and much more.

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
The project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War.

The History Place http://www.historyplace.com/

Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War http://www.ucsc.edu/civil-war-letters/home.html

American Civil War Ethnography
http://oswego.org/staff/tcaswell/cw/index.html
An ethnography is a tool used by cultural anthropoligists and sociologists in order to research and understand different aspects of a specific society. Some of these topics include: gender relations, race relations, economic factors, use of technology, and political systems.

The American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
Links to a wide range of Internet resources about the "war between the states." Includes texts, soldiers' rosters, battle descriptions, links to museums, and more.

United States Civil War Center http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/
This directory of sources for Civil War information on the Internet includes a registry of cemetaries. For historians, genealogists, buffs, students, reference librarians. More than 2100 links - cataloged, but not annotated. From the Louisiana State Unive rsity Libraries.

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
This database of over 1.2 million soldier records from over 30 states will contain all the 5.4 million names of soldiers and sailors from the Civil War when completed. The completed part of the project includes all of the African American soldier and sailor records. In addition to the names, there are histories of units/regiments and links to significant battles, information on Medal of Honor recipients, and prisoner records from Andersonville and Fort McHenry. Future plans are to include all regimental histories, battles, and monuments.

American Civil War Collections http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/
Civil War letters and diary entries include transcriptions and digital images of the manuscripts. Each collection is annotated, showing if the letters are from spouses, sweethearts, relatives, or others. The site also includes student projects from the University of Virginia and speeches, fictional writings, spirituals, and legal texts relating to the war. A valuable source of primary documents.

Monitor National Marine Sanctuary http://monitor.nos.noaa.gov/
The Monitor was the prototype ironclad warship designed by John Ericsson. Famous for its battle with the CSS Virginia (Merrimack) in early 1862 during the U.S. Civil War, it sank in a storm off Cape Haterras, North Carolina later in 1862. Discovered in 1974, the wreck was considered too expensive to recover. It was declared a National Marine Sanctuary, to remain undisturbed in place. In 1998 the propeller was salvaged.