Civil War Era Scrapbook

General Sites

• Index of Civil War Information Available on the Internet
• Civil War Related Web Links - diaries, letters, stories - links
• Abolition and Slavery - links
• Selected Civil War Photographs Collection - American Memory - Library of Congress
• The American Civil War Homepage - links
• The American Civil War

Battles

• National Park Service Battlefield Sites - link

Children

• Children in the Civil War - links
• Civil War Women - Children and the American Civil War - excerpts from letter
• William James Potter

Clergymen/Religious Leader

 

Everyday Life

• Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 - from the Library of Congress, American Memory Project
• Civilian Strife

Factory Workers

• Business and Economics - links

Farming

• A history of American Agriculture
• Early 19th-Century Milling and Wheat Farming - scroll down to mid 1900

Medicine

• Medicine - links
• Civil War Medicine

Soldier's Life

• Uniforms and Dress - links
• Uniform for Officers of the United States Navy - links
• The Civil War Artillery Page
• Andersonville Civil War Prison
• How the Civil War Soldiers Lived
• The Civil War Armies - many different aspects of a soldier's life
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System - a list of soldiers and sailors - look for a relative?
• American Civil War Soldier Letters Home

Women

• Women in the Civil War - links
• CIVIL WAR WOMEN & THE HOME FRONT
• Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet - links
• Clara Barton
• Civil War Women - Children and the American Civil War - excerpts from letters
• Women In Uniform In The Civil War
• Women of the American Civil War

Reconstruction

• RECONSTRUCTION!! Confederate Military History, Volume 12 - from southern point of view - see links at bottom
• American Experience | Reconstruction: The Second Civil War | PBS - excellent
• Reconstruction and Its Aftermath