My Favorite Links

The American Civil War
Dakota State University Jim Janke PhD
This site features numerous links to web resources and is one of the oldest
and most popular sites on the web dealing with the American Civil War.

The American Civil War Home Page ("Shotgun's")
. This very comprehensive site designed with the student in mind, just gets better with time.

The American Civil War Institute of Cambellsville University
Located in Cambellsville KY, a noted academic center for Civil War studies
.Very little online material here, however.

American Civil War Resources, Va. Tech
CS and US primary source material, letters, diaries. Some of the larger document
collections presented in synopsis format. Online thesis and dissertations by
Virginia Tech graduate students as well. A lot to like here.

Archives of Appalachia Civil War Materials
East Tennessee State University, I didn't see any digitized materials here,
but they have a large collection and have duplication and loan services.

The August Forsberg Civil War Memoir
Washington and Lee University
Special Collections, James Graham Leyburn Library
From the site's description of the memoir:
"August Forsberg (1831-1910) was a Swedish immigrant and engineer with the Confederate Army. His memoir of his war years includes accounts of Confederate fortifications, marches and battles. Many of his wartime duties were in western Virginia. There is a description of his life in a Union prisoner of war camp. After the war, Forsberg settled in Lynchburg, Virginia, where he held the post of City Engineer for many years."

The Folder Factory
Before the Union is Dissolved:
The 1850s as Experienced by a Prominent Maryland Family of Southern Sympathizers
Excellent project by B. Wiley in conjunction with Duke University

Behind the Stonewall
"360 Degree Panoramic Images From Civil War Battlefields"
A very cool project underway here. Contemporary panoramics from major battlefield sites
that automatically pan, giving a very clear idea of the topography. Also features battle maps
and descriptions. As Stonewall would say, "Very commendable, very commendable".

Blue and Gray Civil War Statistics
Part of The Blue and Gray Civil War Page site

Center of Military History United States Army
Army Historical Series American Military History
The following four links are from the above cited source. They are chapters from this
US Army publication on the military history of the United States Army. Students will find
this a rich source of excellent information and quite useful in their Civil War studies.
The Civil War 1861 Chapter 9
The Civil War 1862 Chapter 10
The Civil War 1863 Chapter 11
The Civil War 1864-1865 Chapter 12

Civil War Images of Northern Virginia
George Mason University Special Collections & Archives
This site hits a happy medium for both the casual and earnest researcher.
The casual visitor will enjoy the amount of images presented and the serious
researcher will appreciate the extensive annotations and bibliography.

Civil War Letters and Diaries
University of Georgia, Primarily links to resources outside UGA

Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection - American Civil War
Impressive collection, University of Georgia

The Civil War in Alabama Homepage
Tarleton State University, TX, Ken Jones PhD
Detailed time line of the war in Alabama with text links to other resources.
Suggested resources for further study

The Civil War in Arkansas
A project of the Civil War Round Table of Arkansas
Nicely done and easy to navigate site with articles on people and places.
Annotated links to other resources, listings of Arkansas related CW groups

Civil War in Georgia
The University of Georgia runs counter to the current trend on the web
with this site. No fancy formatting, bells and whistles, or embedded objects
to crash your browser. Instead they offer solid content simply presented.

Civil War In Miniature
Outstanding site designed with the student in mind.
Also a lot of fun. Imagine that, history being fun

Selected Civil War Letters from the Southern Historical Collection
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The war as told from the point of view of the common enlisted man. Scans of the actual
documents with transcriptions. Confederate and Union letters, attractively presented.

Clayton's Octavo Diary for 1861
The diary of a young boy in his teens attending school
at Greenshade in Decatur County, Georgia.

Civil War Field Fortifications
This site offers far more than the "basic information" the author modestly claims.
One would have to look far and wide on the web to find a better treatise on the subject.
In the works is a CD ROM, which promises even greater coverage and detail.
Outstanding research and presentation.

U.S. Civil War 1861-1865, The History Place
A time line of the Civil War with quotes and photos
Part of The History Place website.

Civil War Virtual Archive Ring
Links to most Civil War web rings

A Confederate Journal
West Virginia Archives and History
The journal of David P. Morgan, which was continued by his nephew, Stephen A.
Morgan documents their Confederate service in West Virginia in the year 1861.

Canadian Confederation: Confederate Operations in Canada
An often overlooked and little known subject

Confederate Irregular Warfare Partisan Ranger's and Guerrilla's
An interesting and well done entry from Sweden

The Confederate States of America
This is the Confederate section of Shotgun's American Civil War Home Page
and as usual with Shotgun's work an outstanding job has been done here.

Crisis at Fort Sumter
Tulane University

Chronological list of Civil War Battles
This site lists battles and casualties suffered by each side

Cyndi's List Civil War/War Between the States
The Civil War/War Between the States section of Cyndi's List.
A fabulous collection of indexed and categorized genealogy links.

Documenting The American South
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The premier resource for original 19th and early 20th century texts in digital
format documenting the development of all phases of Southern life and culture.
In my opinion, the most valuable and useful resource of its kind in existence.

Documents and Speeches Related to Georgia's Secession
Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia

Elmira Prison Camp Online Library
The predominant feature of this site is solid research. Featured are letters from
prisoners, Confederate Veteran articles from the post war era, documents from
the Southern Historical Society Papers, Chemung County Historical Journal Reports
and other source documents. Combined these sources present an excellent picture of
the prison camp the soldiers would call "Helmira". Elmira did have its defenders as well
and these views are also presented. A fascinating study on the Northern Andersonville.

Florida in the Civil War
Part of the Museum of Florida History website

Friends of the Florence Stockade

Furman University: 19th Century Documents Project

Georgia Historical Organizations and Resources Directory

Generals on the Web
Large index of links to Civil War Generals, both CS and US

About North Georgia History
Extensive resources about N. Georgia's history and more.

Guerre de Sécession d'États-Unis (1861-1865)
United States Civil War (1861-1865), Canadian Forces College

The Handbook of Texas Online
A very rich resource indeed, truly encyclopedic in scope. Simply entering the word Confederate in the site's search utility resulted in over 1,000 articles. This site is a boon for the serious and casual researcher alike. The site's own description characterizes it best: "A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture." This site is part of the University of Texas at Austin

History in the Raw (NARA)
Article on primary sources with a few good tips for teachers.

Jedediah Hotchkiss Collection
The Library of Congress collection of maps by Jed Hotchkiss,
Stonewall Jackson's extraordinary topographical engineer.

Jews in the Civil War
Excellent research makes this outstanding site a joy

The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University.
Huge collection of sheet music including Confederate. Browsable, searchable.

Library of Congress Civil War Maps Collection

Library Of Congress Civil War Photos
THE premier photography collection on the web.
You should make this your first stop in any photo search.

Making of America
Large digital library of primary sources in American social history
from the antebellum period through reconstruction. University of Michigan

Maps of National Historic & Military Parks
University of Texas at Austin

Mason-Dixon Line Civil War Home Page
US and CS resource: CW research, recipes, reenacting,
trivia, medicine, CW women and more.

Military and Naval Laws of the Confederate States of America
UNC Chapel Hill Libraries; Documenting The American South e-text

Mississippi Civil War Information
And a lot of information there is on this student's site from
Mississippi State University. Very impressive work.

Museum Of The Confederacy

NAIL Digital Copies Search Form
National Archives and Records Administration
Search for digital copies of resources in NARA's vast collection.
This link takes you directly to the search form.

Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
Search the original records housed at Cornell University

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies
Search the original records housed at Cornell University

Overview of Confederate Military History

Pearce Civil War Collection
Navarro College, Corsicana, TX. A large and first rate collection of WBTS materials.
The bulk of the collection is not yet online, but nicely done descriptions are provided.
Among the materials from this collection that are online are:
Telegram from Jefferson Davis to General PGT Beauregard, April 13, 1861
Nathan Bedford Forrest Letter; Postwar Re: Ft Pillow
John Bell Hood Letter to Louise Wigfall
Longstreet Letter to General Louis Trezevant Wigfall Oct. 9, 1862
1869 Brady Photo of Robert E Lee

The John De Hart Ross Collection
Washington and Lee University
Special Collections, James Graham Leyburn Library
From the site's description:
"This collection is one of the best of our several that provide eyewitness accounts of the war"

The South Georgia Relic Resource Library
A non-profit organization willing to loan war relics to educators

Tennessee Secession Paper
"How Tennessee Left The Union" by Bryce Wray
An excellent research paper on the secession of Tennessee

U S Civil War Center
Louisiana State University

The University of Georgia Libraries
Rare books, manuscripts, maps, digital archives and more

The Valley Of The Shadow
Two Communities in the American Civil War
This highly acclaimed site is the work of historian Edward L. Ayers and company and is a project of the University of Virginia. The site takes a highly focused and detailed view of the Civil War by using two neighboring communities: Augusta County, Virginia as representative of the southern side of the conflict and Franklin County Pennsylvania as representative of the northern side. The site makes extensive use of primary source documents to convey the story of these two communities before, during and after the war. The main navigation scheme is an image map of the floor plan of Popular Forrest, summer home of Thomas Jefferson. The "virtual rooms" guide you into and between the eight main sections of the archive: Reception, Public Records, Reference Center, Letters and Diaries, Newspapers, Church Records, Military Dossiers and Maps and Images.
All superlatives are inadequate to describe this landmark site.

The Library of Virginia Digital Library Program
Many resources for the researcher

Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Military Institute Archives
Virginia Military Institute

VMI Archives: Civil War Manuscripts Guide
Virginia Military Institute

West Virginia In The Civil War

The Young-Sanders Center for the Study of
The War Between the States in Louisiana

War Department Collection of Confederate Records
National Archives and Records Administration. A guide to Confederate Records at NARA

War of the Rebellion: Making of America Journals Collection
Cornell University Large primary source collection

War for Southern Independence
Outstanding site with a vast amount of information

West Point Historical Map Library
United States Military Academy at West Point

West Virginia Archives and History
Many excellent resources here. Use the search engine to find them all.