Mrs. Patterson
Light Tomorrow With Today--Team 8A

CIVIL WAR WEBSITES

SOLDIERS≠ DIARIES
Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
http://www.civilwarletters.com/index.html

Gettysburg
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/voices.htm

Virginia Tech Libraries≠ Special Collections Homepage Civil War Collections
http://spec.lib.vt.edu/civwar/

University of Virginia - American Civil War Collection
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/

University of Virginia - American Civil War Collection
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/cwlettersbrowse.html

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Southern Historical Collection
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/exhibits/civilwar/index.html

Fordham University - U.S. Civil War
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook27.html

Library of Congress - Frederick Douglass, contrabands
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart4.html

Minnesota Historical Society -- Civil War Letters of the Christie Family √ Two brothers from Minnesota who wrote about their experiences during the war
http://www.mnhs.org/library/Christie/intropage.html

Dakota State University, Madison, SD- Diaries, Letters, Memoirs
http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/diaries.htm

Pennsylvania Soldiers Diaries and Histories
http://www.pacivilwar.com/histories.html

University of Chicago -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/333302.html

Louisiana State University Collection of Civil War letters
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/links/links6.htm

Civil War Links -- Diaries, Letters, and Stories and Recollections
http://www.civilwarhome.com/links6.htm

Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences, and Manuscripts of New York Soldiers and Nurses
http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/letters/

Virginia Military Institute Archives √ Records of Civil War Soldiers who were VMI graduates
http://www.vmi.edu/ARCHIVES/manuscripts/msguide2.html

PBS Ken Burns Civil War letters √ scroll down for many links
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/lesson_letters.html

WOMEN≠S DIARIES
Duke University - Rose O≠Neal Greenhow
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/greenhow/roseindex.html

Duke University √ Civil War Women √ Diaries and letters
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/cwdocs.html

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

Middle Tennessee State University √ American Women≠s History -- many links
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-cwar.html

University of Tennessee-Knoxville - American Civil War homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

MEDICINE √ DOCTORS≠ DIARIES AND MEDICAL INFORMATION

Michigan Historical Center √ Doctors≠ Diaries
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-52963--,00.html

Virginia Commonwealth University - Various Doctor≠s Letters
http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/bibs/cwmed.html

Dr. Robert Hunter Peel
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/%7Epeel/lettersrhp.html

Dr. John Alexander Ritter, MD
http://gwillritter.tripod.com/

Amputation √ How it is performed
http://www.huntermcguire.goellnitz.org/amputation.html

CAMP SUMTER/ANDERSONVILLE PRISON √ DIARIES AND PRISON FACTS

Private Samuel Elliot-prisoner
http://www.pa-roots.com/~pacw/reserves/7thres/eliotdiary.html

Alfred H. Voorhees-prisoner
http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/letters/diary.html

Timeline: Record of Activity
http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/diary.html
Description of Andersonville Prison
http://www.wabash.edu/magazine/index.cfm?news_id=3580

PHOTOS

Scroll down to Civil War √any photo you could want
http://community.webshots.com/user/sfrazier77

Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

DOCUMENTS/MISCELLANEOUS

Yale Law School -- Confederate States of America Documents
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/csapage.htm

TeacherNet √ The Civil War Links√Information about life for soldiers
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/civilwar.html#CampLife

Brooklyn Public Library √ Great documents, photographs, diaries
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/civilwar/cw_doc_soldiers.html

Ohio State University -- Records, Diaries, and A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/records/default.cfm

Index of Civil War Information Available on the Internet
http://www.civilwarhome.com/indexcivilwarinfo.htm

Civil War Primary Documents, Personal Diaries, Journals, etc
http://www.teacheroz.com/Civil_War_Documents.htm

U.S. Civil War Era Links
http://www.cyberpursuits.com/gen/civlsrch.asp

Kentucky Educational Television - Primary Sources: Civil War Effects
http://www.ket.org/civilwar/primary.html

Civil War Home Page √ ≥including Photos, Images, Battles, Documents, Southern Historical Papers, Troops Furnished, Death Stats, Associations, Letters & Diaries, Census of 1860, Maps, Official Records≈
http://www.civil-war.net/

Abraham Lincoln
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/speeches.htm

Jefferson Davis
http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/docs.cfm

Mapping the Civil War
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/cwmconm.html

University of Missouri and eMints -- Many good links
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000634.shtml

Mississippi Historical Society √ Many topics
http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/feature16/toc.html

Eye Witness to History √ You may only use primary source documents. (Look for quotation marks.)
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/cwfrm.htm

National Archives √ Click on Documents
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/civil-war-docs/

University of Washington √ Civil War letters
http://content.lib.washington.edu/civilwarweb/collections.html

Library of Congress √ Andersonville Prison and Henry Wirz
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov10.html

University of Notre Dame √ Henry Wirz papers, journals, etc. (Look at index at left)
http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/civil_war/topical_collections/andersonville/index.shtml

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, etc. - Variety of links
http://www.suvcw.org/cwhist.htm

Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, Nebraska