Civil War
American Memory Project: The Civil War Featured
memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.htmlThe Library of Congress continues to expand its American Memory Project, providing online collections of documents, artifacts and primary sources: A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers documents the ...
Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union...
www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi..."Black Dispatches" was a common term used among Union military men for intelligence on Confederate forces provided by Negroes. This source of information represented the single most prolific and productive category of intelligence obtained and acted on by ...
CIA Public Affairs Publication: Intelligence in the Civ...
www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/civ...
Intelligence in the Civil War is a look at some of the highlights of how the North and the South gathered and used intelligence information, the important missions, and the personalities. From this special view, the focus is not on the battlefield, but on ...
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The site currently includes basic facts about 6.3 million Union and Confederate soldiers, and ...
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
monitor.noaa.govThe Monitor National Marine Sanctuary protects the wreck of the famed Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, best known for its battle with the Confederate ironclad Virginia in Hampton Roads, Va., on March 9, 1862.
National Archives Teaching with Documents: Civil War Featured
www.archives.gov/education/lessons/civil-war-reconstruction....Civil War and Reconstruction contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States. Teaching with primary documents encourages a varied learning environment for teachers and students alike. Lectu ...
National Park Service Civil War Institute
www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/manassas/index.htmThe Civil War touched every person and influenced every institution more profoundly than any other event in American history. Over half a million young Americans gave their lives fighting for or against the effort by Southern states to secede from the Uni ...
National Portrait Gallery: Civil War@Smithsonian
civilwar.si.eduThis site is produced by the National Portrait Gallery and is dedicated to examining the Civil War through the Smithsonian Institution's extensive collections. Numerous artifacts, portraits, photographs, documents and narratives are on display, and biblio ...
NOAA Historical Map & Chart Collection
nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/ctp/abstract.htmThe Office of Coast Survey's Historical Map & Chart Collection contains over 20,000 maps and charts from the late 1700s to present day. The Collection includes some of the nation's earliest nautical charts, hydrographic surveys, topographic surveys, g ...
NPS Historical Handbook Series
www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/hh/This Historical Handbook series was established in 1949. While some of the information here is a bit dated, the on-line editions of these classic publications can give a sense of early efforts to provide educational and interpretive material for the histo ...
NPS Southeast Archeological Center
www.nps.gov/history/seac/seac.htmThe Park Service's Southeast Archaeological Center has carried out a tradition of archeological research, collections and information management, and technical support for national park units in the Southeastern U.S. There is a full page of features and l ...
Smithsonian Associates Civil War Studies
civilwarstudies.org/start.htmThe Smithsonian Associates is our nation's outstanding adult learning center for Civil War Studies with thought-provoking courses, seminars, and lectures conducted by outstanding scholars.
The American Civil War: Forging a More Perfect Union
cwar.nps.gov/civilwar/This is the official National Park Service Civil War Web site. The approaching Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War (2011-2015) offers the current generation of Americans a most important opportunity to know, discuss, and commemorate this country's ...
U.S. Civil War: Find Selected Resources
www.loc.gov/rr/main/uscw_rec_links/civilwarlinks.html
This guide is a compilation of many of the Civil War resources at the Library of Congress, along with links to selected resources outside the Library. The resources are organized by format. The purpose of this guide is to present researchers with selected ...
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