U.S. Civil War: Online Sources

Includes correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material. Most of the items are from the 1850s through Lincoln's presidential years, 1860-65.

About 7,000 different views and portraits made during the Civil War and its immediate aftermath.

The maps, charts, and atlases depict battles, troop positions and movements, engagements, and fortifications. Also included are reconnaissance maps, sketch maps, coastal charts, and theater of war maps.

Digitized versions of two manuals of military field surgery.

Includes recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of popular support for the Union in New York City; photography showing the war's impact, both in the north and south; and drawings and writings by ordinary soldiers on both sides.

Digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.

Includes the journal of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America, proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in Montgomery, Alabama, the provisional and permanent constitutions of the Confederate States, and the journals of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress of the Confederate States of America.

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

A long-term project dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his entire lifetime. The collection is organized into three series: Series I -- Legal Papers, Series II -- Illinois Papers, and Series III -- Presidential Papers.

Contains 1,118 photographs. Most of the images were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects.

Documents related to all aspects of Southern life during the Civil War, including Civil War era maps, broadsides, photographs, printed works, Confederate currency, and manuscript letters and diaries. Part of Documenting the American South.

Digital edition of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.

Digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War.

Letters, essays, maps and general information about the Battle of Perryville.

A digital database of more than 5,800 soldiers who died, were wounded or went missing during the largest Civil War battle in Kentucky.

Volume III of Battles & Leaders of the Civil War, focusing on recollections from the Battle of Perryville.

Sam Watkins' reflections on the Battle of Perryville, from his memoir "Co. Aytch: A Side Show of the Big Show"

Corporal Wesley S. Poulson of the 98th recalls his experience at the October 8, 1862 Battle of Perryville, Kentucky.