The links below are intended to be starting places for independent research, not an inclusive look at the Civil War. Where possible, I have tried to include multiple links for some information to provide a balance of viewpoints, as well as to prepare for those inevitable days when particular websites are down. Items marked (2) have a second link to another website. Battle names follow those used in the text, which in general uses Union names. For more information on this, follow the link to Civil War Battle Names.
Chapters 1-6
Attack on Fort Sumter (2)
Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) (2)
Battle of Ball's Bluff
Battle of Wilson's Creek
General John Charles Fremont"Jethro listened with fascination to the new names of men and places. He heard admiration voiced for a brilliant young officer named McClellan, who had been put in top command of the army in the East. He became aware of such names as Seward and Chase; he knew who Senator Sumner was and old Thad Stevens, what such names as Wendell Phillips and Henry Ward Beecher stood for, what roles were being played by Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee."
Ulysses S. Grant
Battle of Fort Henry
Battle of Fort Donelson
General Albert Sidney Johnston (CSA)
Battle of Pea Ridge
Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing) (2)
General William Tecumseh Sherman (memoirs of)
Chapters 7-9
General P. G. T Beauregard (CSA)
General Don Carlos Buell
Battle of Corinth (2)
General John Pope
General Philip Sheridan
Battle of Antietam (2)
Battle of Fredricksburg (2)
Battle of Stones River (2)
The Draft in the Civil War and Draft Riots
Desertion (2) of Eb and Court Martial Records
Letter of Pardon from President Lincoln
Chapter 10
Battle of Chancellorsville (2)
General Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker
General Ambrose Burnside
General William "Old Rosy" Rosecrans
General Braxton Bragg (CSA)
General Pemberton (CSA)
Admiral Foote
General George Meade
Battle of Gettysburg (2)
Battle of Vicksburg (2)
President Lincoln writes "The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the Sea."
Chapter 11
Battle of Chickamauga (2)
Emancipation Proclamation
General James Longstreet (CSA)
General George Thomas "The Rock of Chickamauga"
Battle of Logan's Crossroads (2)
General Alexander McCook
General Thomas Crittenden
Gettysburg Address Exhibit and Plain Text Version
Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (Dec. 8, 1863)
General Henry Halleck
Wendell Phillips
Horace Greeley
General Wade Butler
Battle of the Wilderness (2) First Vermont Brigade at the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania
Battle of Cold Harbor (2)
Siege of Petersburg (2)
Admiral Farragut
Battle of Mobile Bay (2)
Fall of Atlanta
General Early (CSA)
Battle of Cedar Creek (2)
General Hood (CSA)
Battle of Franklin (e-book by John Copley)
Battle of Nashville (2)
Chapter 12
Sherman's March to the Sea (2)
Andersonville Prison
Camp Douglas
General John Schofield
13th Amendment to the Constitution
Surrender at Appomattox
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Assassination of President Lincoln
