U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) in the Yahoo! Directory

About.com: Civil War
Collection of articles, photographs, documents, and other resources relating to the American Civil War.
americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarmenu
American Civil War Collections
From the Electronic Text Center at UVA. Includes contemporary letters and newspaper articles as well as modern texts and student projects.
etext.virginia.edu/civilwar
American Civil War Research Database
Offers a fully searchable database of people, places, and events of the United States Civil War.
www.civilwardata.com
American Memory: Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society
Online exhibit of photographs and printed materials as well as drawings and writings from ordinary soldiers on both sides.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html
AmericanCivilWar.com
Includes a timeline, state battle maps, alphabetic battle list, and feature articles.
www.americancivilwar.com
Bob Koch's U. S. Civil War Site
Civil War photographs, current and 19th Century, concerning the Army of Northern Virginia.
www.usa-civil-war.com
Causes of the Civil War
Presents primary documents from the period of the secession crisis. Includes Republican and Democratic party platforms, The Crittenden Compromise, and political speeches.
members.aol.com/jfepperson/causes.html
Civil War Academy
Features a wide variety of information about the U.S. Civil War. Includes sections on weapons, food, battles, soldiers and uniforms, music, artillery, flags, and more.
www.civilwaracademy.com
Civil War Archive
Regimental histories, corps histories, battle summaries, rosters, reports, letters, links, battle flags and diaries.
www.civilwararchive.com
Civil War at a Glance, The
Offers a timeline and color maps of battle campaigns. From the U.S. Department of the Interior.
www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/civilwar/civilwar.htm
Civil War at the Smithsonian [read review]
Collects, preserves, and remembers the national experience through artifacts.
civilwar.si.edu
Civil War Book News
Provides descriptions of new and forthcoming American Civil War books.
www.cw-book-news.com
Civil War Diaries
Letter, discharge certificate, Pennsylvania muster lists, and more.
www.ok13.com/websites/venite/cwd.htm
Civil War in Miniature
Civil War buff's compilation of documented facts and interesting tidbits.
Civilwarmini.com
Civil War Journeys
Educational site for research and analysis of the American Civil War. Provides a venue to share photographs, present explanations to help foster a better understanding of the war, and serve as a resource for educators and novice historians.
www.civil-war-journeys.org
Civil War Mysteries: Home of the Unknowns
Provides descendants, collectors, historians, and archivists, etc. an avenue for posting unidentified photographs of Civil War soldiers for possible identification.
www.civilwarmysteries.com
Civil War Photography Center
Devoted to the history and presentation of original Civil War photography and methods including ambrotypes, ferrotypes, and stereographs.
www.civilwarphotography.com
Civil War Photos
Over 1,000 Civil War images, photographs, and cartes de visites.
www.civilwarphotos.net
Civil War Series
www.wtj.com/pl/pages/civilwar.htm
Civil War Sketch Artist
Works by Alfred Waud which are housed at the Library of Congress.
lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm041.html
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Online database containing basic facts about soldiers who served on both sides during the Civil War. From the National Park Service.
www.itd.nps.gov/cwss
CivilWar.com
Collection of Civil War resources, including official records, battle information, photos, lesson plans, primary sources, military histories, and more historical and contemporary resources related to the American Civil War.
www.civilwar.com
CivilWarAlbum.com
Modern photos and history related to the Vicksburg Campaign, Battles of Shiloh, Forts Donelson, and Henry, the war in Louisiana, and more. Also features records and maps.
www.civilwaralbum.com
Eye of the Storm
Excerpts from the Civil War diaries of Robert Knox Sneden. Site includes Sneden's watercolors, journals, a forum section, and Flash movies.
www.journale.com/eyeofthestorm
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
Books and documents concerning the history of emancipation during the American Civil War.
www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen
Great Locomotive Chase (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Civil_War__1861_1865_/Great_Locomotive_Chase
HarpWeek: The Civil War Era (1857-1865)
Electronic index of Civil War Era history, literature, advertising, society, and culture, as found in the publication Harper's Weekly.
www.civilwarliterature.com
History Place: The U.S. Civil War 1861-1865
Chronological overview of the American Civil War, including major political events and battles as well as photos, engravings, and other primary sources.
www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html
History.com: The American Civil War
Learn about the American Civil War, the culmination of four decades of intense sectional conflict that reflected deep-seated economic, social, and political differences between the North and the South.
www.history.com/minisites/civilwar
Images of the Civil War
Pictures of army and navy life, battles, generals, abolitionists, Lincoln's assassination, and more.
www.treasurenet.com/images/civilwar
Malcolm's Civil War Battlefield Photos
Current pictures of various battlefields.
www.angelfire.com/va2/ageofmalcolm
Mike's Civil War
Features artifacts from the American Civil War.
www.mikescivilwar.com
National Archives: Civil War
Guide to Civil War military records, photographs, and other research material held by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
www.archives.gov/research/civil-war
National Park Service: The American Civil War
Official National Park Service Civil War website, offering a history of the war, museum exhibits, links to national parks and battlefields, and information on the sesquicentennial of the war (2011-2015).
cwar.nps.gov/civilwar
New York City Draft Riots@
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/New_York_City_Draft_Riots
PBS: The Civil War
Companion site for the 1990 PBS documentary created by Ken Burns. Includes information about the American Civil War, the creation of the series, and teaching suggestions.
www.pbs.org/civilwar
rdhinstl's Page
Covers the United States revenue stamped paper and die propriety stamps of the Civil War era.
www.rdhinstl.com
Rosters and Military Sources
Comprehensive resource for the Civil War.
jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/rosters/rosters.html
Scartoons: Racial Satire and the U.S. Civil War
Explores visual satire as employed in the Civil War years.
xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/scartoons/cartoons.html
Selected Civil War Photographs
From the Library of Congress. Includes scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects, portraits of Confederate and Union officers and enlisted men.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War
Contains a wide variety of Civil War information including official records, essays, biographies, regimental losses, and battle descriptions.
www.civilwarhome.com
Son of The South: The Civil War
Archive of original Civil War resources. Features photographs, original illustrations, and eyewitness accounts of the defining moments of the American Civil War.
www.sonofthesouth.net
Songs and Poems of the Union
www.civilwar.8m.com
Steam Machines
Briefly describes excavations of the warships USS Monitor and CSS Hunley and noncombatant vessels Maple Leaf and Bertrand. From Archaeology Online.
www.archaeology.org/online/features/steam/index.html
Sultana Disaster@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Maritime_History/Sultana_Disaster
Symbols of Honor: Civil War Flags in National Park Service Collections
Overview of national and unit flags, image gallery, conservation efforts, diagrams, and more.
www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/flags
Time of the Lincolns, The
Film examining the Lincolns' personal history, slavery and freedom, and the Civil War.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns
Trent Affair (6)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Civil_War__1861_1865_/Trent_Affair
Trial of Captain Henry Wirz
Commandant of Andersonville Prison, 1865.
www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/wirz/wirz.htm
U.S. Civil War Discussion Port
Message board for discussing the American Civil War.
classicals.com/federalist/TheCivilWarhall/wwwboard.html
Valley of the Shadow Project
Looks at the Civil War from the perspective of two communities straddling the Mason Dixon Line: Staunton, Virginia, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2
Walk Across the New America
Concerning battles, people, and the end of the American Revolution.
members.aol.com/qballle/american.htm
Wig Wags
Graduate student Rene Tyree provides commentary on military history studies with a focus on the Civil War and 19th Century America.
wigwags.wordpress.com
Wikipedia: American Civil War
Overview of the four-year conflict between the Federal government and the breakaway Confederate States of America. Includes sections on the causes of the war, its theaters of battle, leaders and soldiers, and aftermath.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War