Mireault - Civil War: Websites/Primary Sources

Index of all items that are digitized related to the Civil War

Links to web sites about the civil war.

General information on the war, battles, people and events.

Important information of the Civil War.

Home to a variety of primary source material on the American Civil War, including letters, diaries and newspapers. University of Virginia Library.

Explore Civil War records that feature everything from personal accounts to historic writings that would shape a nation.

Links and information collected by the Smithsonian.

Maps, biographies, historical documents and related links.
Check out the Facts page.

A set of online resources indexed by topic.

Military Records Search

A summary of battles listed by state or by campaign. Location, description of battle and est. casualties.

Search the History Channel's site to find your battle, find information about the battles. Many have videos.

Maps of the Civil War.

Selected prints and photograph of the Civil War.

An interactive map to see battles and timelines of the Civil War.

A full library of Civil War Trust battle maps, animated maps, historical maps and more.

National archive - photographs

Direct link to search for civil war photographs.

Links to participants in Civil War. Politicians, Activists, Military, Spies, Religious Figures. Soldiers and Civilians.

Biography information in relation to Civil War.

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 Alice Williamson, a 16 year old girl from Gallatin, Tennessee, the papers of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a renowned Confederate spy, and the papers of Sarah E. Thompson, a spy for the Union.

From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.

Selection of soldiers' letters that have been digitized by the University of Washington.

Two communities in the Civil War.

Manuscript collections contain letters and diaries from both Union and Confederate soldiers, homefront letters, memoirs, and contemporary research files.