- African American Civil War Memorial@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Museums_and_Memorials/African_American_Civil_War_Memorial
- Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Includes the McLean home where Lee surrendered to Grant and the village of Appomattox Court House as well as the home and burial place of Joel Sweeney, who popularized the modern five-string banjo.
www.nps.gov/apco
- Civil War Soldiers Museum
Provides information on Union and Confederate soldiers and their life during the American Civil War.
www.cwmuseum.org
- dcMemorials.com: Civil War
Directory of Civil War memorials, monuments, statues, sculptures and other outdoor art commemorating the Civil War in Washington D.C.
www.dcmemorials.com/index_civ.htm
- Drum Barracks Civil War Museum
Housed in an original building of a Civil War base.
www.drumbarracks.org
- Fort Donelson National Battlefield
Includes the Fort Donelson National Cemetery, the Dover Hotel (Surrender House), and Fort Donelson and its associated earthen rifle pits and river batteries.
www.nps.gov/fodo
- Fort Pulaski National Monument
Includes account of the Union attack on the fort in April, 1862, as well as travel basics, and events calendar.
www.nps.gov/fopu
- Fort Tejon Historical Park
19th Century fort where Civil War reenactment battles are staged regularly.
www.forttejon.org
- Hello to Arms
Article about museum exhibits of heroic limbs and other grisly relics of the U.S. Civil War, from Stonewall Jackson's arm to J.E.B. Stuart;s bullet-riddled jacket. From Roadside America.
www.roadsideamerica.com/set/arms.html
- Lee Hall Mansion
Preserving and documenting the agrarian antebellum Southern society and the events leading up to and during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign.
www.leehall.org
- Manassas National Battlefield Park
Scene of the battles of First and Second Manassas (also known as the First and Second Bull Run). Includes travel information, activities, and events calendar.
www.nps.gov/mana
- Memorial Hall - Confederate Civil War Museum
Contains a collection of Confederate Civil War memorabilia.
www.confederatemuseum.com
- Monocacy National Battlefield
Site of the battle also known as the "Battle that saved Washington." Includes battle overview, events calendar, and travel information.
www.nps.gov/mono
- Museum of the Confederacy
A private, nonprofit institution that maintains the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of military, political and domestic artifacts and art associated with the period of the Confederacy, 1861-1865.
www.moc.org
- National Civil War Museum
Attempts to provide equally-balanced humanistic presentations without bias to Union or Confederate causes.
www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
www.civilwarmed.org
- Pamplin Historical Park & National Museum of the Civil War Soldier
Includes interpretive center, antebellum plantation home, living history demonstrations, historic battlefield (part of the Petersburg Campaign), and trail.
www.pamplinpark.org
- Pea Ridge National Military Park
Site of the successful culmination of a federal effort to secure control of Missouri and the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, protect the arsenal at St. Louis and allow Gen. Grant's Vicksburg campaign to be supplied.
www.nps.gov/peri
- Pearce Civil War Document Collection at Navarro College, TX
Includes over 400 documents, manuscripts, and diaries.
www.nav.cc.tx.us/library/civilwar/main_search.htm
- Petersburg National Battlefield
Site of the longest siege in American history -- June, 1864, to April, 1865. Also includes Poplar Grove National Cemetery.
www.nps.gov/pete
- Port Columbus Civil War Naval Center
Dedicated to telling the story of the war at sea through exhibits, artifacts, and ship recreations.
www.portcolumbus.org
- Shiloh National Military Park
Scene of the first major battle in the Western theater of the Civil War. The park also encompasses the Shiloh National Cemetery, established in 1866 and has more than 3,500 Union graves.
www.nps.gov/shil
- Stones River National Battlefield
Includes Stones River National Cemetery, the Hazen Brigade Monument, and portions of Fortress Rosecrans. Includes travel guide and events calendar.
www.nps.gov/stri
- Stonewall Jackson Museum
Featuring reproductions of Civil War weapons, uniforms, saddles, and toys.
www.waysideofva.com/stonewalljackson
- Stratford Hall Plantation
Historical Colonial house and birthplace of Robert E. Lee. Presents biography of the general, family tree, and more.
www.stratfordhall.org
- USS Constellation
Last surviving ship of the Civil War.
www.constellation.org
- Wilson's Creek National Battlefield
Site of the first major Civil War engagement west of the Mississippi River, August 10, 1861. Includes travel guide, activities, and events calendar.
www.nps.gov/wicr
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