Primary Sources for United States History

Currently includes the Macon Daily Record (Georgia) from 1860 to 1865

Selection of digitized newspapers covering a period ranging from 1836 to 1922

Selection of hundreds of articles from the British magazine published between 1861 and 1863

"Selected materials drawn from a variety of Illinois newspapers published during the American Civil War (1861-1865)"

Digitized SC newspaper from 1862 to 1866

Digitized version of the newspaper from Nov. 1860 to Dec. 1865

Collection of editorials dealing with the Nebraska Bill (1854), the Charles Sumner incident (1856), Dred Scott (1857) and Harper's Ferry (1859)

Major collection: Correspondence and other papers

From the Virginia Military Institute, letters and photographs from Stonewall Jackson's life.

Multiple digital collections of papers, correspondence, images, and ephemera.

Images and documents from the civil war or related to the memory of the civil war.

"Central portal to access digital collections from the Civil War Era (1850-1865)" held by research libraries in the southeast.

Digitized collection of 250 Confederate broadside poems

Archive of "Pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings" and more documenting the causes, conduct and consequences of the war"

Digitized version of the multi-volume official records of the navies

"Collection includes over four hundred Civil War era maps, broadsides, photographs, printed works, Confederate currency, and manuscript letters and diaries" that document all aspects of Southern life during the Civil War.

Major collection: Digitized version of the multi-volume official records of the war

Collection of photographs, drawings, posters and letters

A "selection of digitized journals and correspondence"

More than 500,000 digitized Civil War records including newspapers, diaries, correspondence, images and more

Resources digitized by North Carolina State Archives and the Government & Heritage Library at the State Library of North Carolina including letters, regimental histories, and other historic documents.

Collection includes "books, diaries, sheet music, maps, letters, photographs and illustrations" that document the Civil War in South Carolina.

"The project aims to advance scholarship on the experiences of the northern homefront during the civil war era, beginning in 1851 with Pennsylvanians' resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and ending in 1874 with the revision of the state constitution."

"Collection includes over four hundred Civil War era maps, broadsides, photographs, printed works, Confederate currency, and manuscript letters and diaries" that document all aspects of Southern life during the Civil War.

Military records, census data, diaries, photographs and newspapers illustrating the impact of the Civil War on two towns in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Transcript of the secessional debates

More than 20,000 original documents including diaries, letters, newspaper articles, photographs and more

Collection of Civil War letters and diaries.

Collection of Civil War ephemera, patriotic music, and other historical materials.

Collection of Civil War letters.

Collection of Civil War manuscripts, photogrpahs and imprints.

1863-1865 diaries of an African American woman in Philadelphia

Collection of 650 unpublished drawings created by artists for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper

More than 8000 "views and portraits made during the American Civil War... made under the supervision of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner" and others.

More than 2500 Civil War maps, charts, atlases & sketchbooks

"Over 200 photographs and drawings relating to the work, facilities and Civil War locales associated with the United States Sanitary Commission"

Digitized "photographs, images, albums, and more, relating to the Civil War."

161 maps dating from 1861-1865 covering the south with a focus on North Carolina & Virginia

More than 1200 photographs, mostly portraits, of Civil War soldiers

Over 6000 Brady photographs from the Civil War era.