Guide to Online Primary Sources: Civil War, U.S.

Contains 100,000 pages of letters, diaries and memoirs written 1861-65, by more than 2000 authors.

Diaries, correspondence and photographs.

Includes official records of the Union and Confederate Navies, as well as reports and correspondence of the War of the Rebellion.

Images include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men.

Discusses how America's press covered the important issues and events of the Civil War. News articles, editorials, and cartoons from the time offer a range of opinions and reports on the crucial events that precipitated, sustained, and eventually concluded this vital chapter in American history and politics.

A selection of letters & diaries; historical texts and documents; oral histories; photographs & maps. Also includes the Official Records of the U.S. Civil War.

Digital primary sources drawn mostly from U.S. archival collections. Collections are arranged into subject modules: Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle; Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War; American Indians and the American West; American Politics & Society; International Relations & Military Conflicts; Revolutionary War & Early America; Women's Studies; Workers, Labor Unions, & Radical Politics.

Histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line. Includes an electronic archives of the sources on which the narrative is based: maps & images, church records, military records, letters & diaries, newspapers and public records.