American Military & War Primary Source Collections: American Civil War
Civil War Primary Sources
- Early American Imprints Series I, Evans: 1639-1800Books, pamphlets, and broadsides published during the 17th and 18th centuries
- Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926Books, periodicals, pamphlets, and other documents published both in Europe and the Americas on topics ranging from exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the Western movement, Native Americans, military actions and many others
- Civil War VoicesA comprehensive and searchable archive of correspondences, diaries and letters of soldiers who served during the Civil War
- Documenting the American South: The Southern Homefront 1861-1865Maps, broadsides, photographs, printed works, manuscript letters and diaries related to all aspects of Southern life during the Civil War.
- The Civil War Archive: Letters Home from the Civil WarA collection of letters from both Union and Confederate soldiers, organized by name and regiment
- The Civil War Collections at Michigan State UniversityHundreds of pages of correspondence, diaries, musters, reminiscences, and photographs. See also the guide to resources: http://archives.msu.edu/collections/documents/civilwar.pdf
- Internet Archive Civil War documentsVarious primary source documents related to the Civil War archived by the Internet Archive
Civil War Primary Source Directories
- The American Civil War: A collection of free online primary sourcesA diverse collection of free websites of primary sources for the study of the Civil War, including digitized newspaper archives for both the Union and Confederate sides of the struggle, collections of letters and diaries, digitized photographs, maps, and official records and dispatches from the battlefields.
- The Civil War: Women and the Homefront: Primary Sources OnlineGuide to print and manuscript materials related to women and their roles in the Civil War.
