Primary Documents
Primary Documents
newspapers--memoirs--letters--photographs--maps--miscellaneous--secession
The
Historical New York Times Project: The Civil War Years
Secession Era Editorials
Project at Furman University (newspaper editorials leading up to the Civil
War)
Rare
Civil War Newspapers (for sale, but includes headlines, quotes, and partial
graphics)
"A Tough Story"
in the Cleveland Plain Dealer May 1861
Selected Articles-Cleveland,
Ohio Newspapers 1861-65
US Marine
Corps Deserters' Notice (1865)
The Civil War: A Newspaper
Perspective (Not available to the general public)
Personal Memoirs
by Ulysses S. Grant
Reminiscences of the Civil War
by Gen. John B. Gordon
From Manassas to Appomattox
by Lt. Gen. James Longstreet (CSA)
Advance and Retreat by Lt. Gen.
J. B. Hood (CSA)
The Memoirs, Diary, and Life of Private
Jefferson Moses, Company G, 93rd Illinois Volunteers
Civil War Memories of
Robert C. Cardin, Company B, 16th Tennessee Infantry
Letter from
General Beauregard reporting the fall of Fort Sumter
Letters from Private
Newton Scott of Iowa
POW
Letters of Brigadier General Montgomery Corse
The Butler Letters:
Henry Butler to his wife Mary during the Civil War 1862-1865
The
Follett Collection (letters of the Follett family, 3 sons serving in the
U.S. Army)
Letter from
Captain James W. Grace, white officer of the black 54th Mass. Vol.
Infantry
Photographs and Artwork
Selected
Civil War Photographs (searchable index at the Library of Congress)
Valley
of the Shadow Images Search (searchable index of photos and illustrations of
battles)
Images of Wartime
at The American Civil War Homepage
Photographs of
54th Mass. Vol. Infantry (scroll to near bottom of page)
Civil War
Cartoons (examples of political cartoons; some are difficult to read)
Civil War Album (modern photographs
of battlefields, maps & official reports)
Well-Traveled
Images Online Gallery (modern photographs)
Civil
War Maps (searchable index of historical maps at the Library of Congress)
U.S. National Park Service
Maps Index (search by interest--Civil War & Battlefield/Military Park)
Perry-Castaņeda
Library Map Collection (alphabetical listing of U.S. National Parks &
Monuments)
Rare Civil
War Map Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries
Miscellaneous (diaries, poems, sermons, legislation, etc.)
Documenting
the American South (collection of electronic texts at UNC Chapel Hill)
Documentary
Records at The American Civil War Homepage (public and private
documents)
Military History Index at
the Library of Virginia (Confederate enlistment records & unit information)
Digital Library and Archives at
Virginia Tech (scroll down below photo for listing of documents)
U.S. Sanitary Commission (medical
reports, battlefield results, and advice for soldiers)
Income Tax Records
of the Civil War Years at the National Archives (article on the first income
tax)
Impression
Documentation (Quotes from Soldiers)
Civil War Navies: Official
Records (telegrams and reports about the battle at Hampton Roads)
The Official Records of the
War of the Rebellion (Commanders' After Action Reports)
A
Vast Sea of Misery (history & guide to USA and CSA field hospitals
at Gettysburg)
Confederate States
of America Documents (The Avalon Project at Yale Law School)
Civil
War Women On-line Archival Collections at Duke University
Civil War Documents (miscellaneous
listing at the United States Civil War Center)
Civil War
Documents (smaller listing at the Civil War Index)
Clipart
(modern clipart as well as historical line drawings)
Virginia
Declaration of Rights (1776) prior to Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence
(1776)
The
Constitution of the United States of America (1787)
The Constitution of the
Confederate States of America (1861)
Comparison
of USA vs. CSA Constitutions
South
Carolina Declaration of Secession ( Dec. 24, 1860)
Georgia
Declaration of Causes of Secession (Jan. 29, 1861)
Texas Ordinance of
Secession (Feb. 2, 1861)
Mississippi
Declaration of Secession (?)