Primary and secondary sources related to the Civil War held on campus in Special Collections at Seidman House.

Online full-text searchable archive of black abolitionist speeches and editorials.

Transcribed and digitized collections relating to the Civil War, including hundreds of pages of correspondence, diaries, musters, reminiscences, and photographs.

Brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are the detailed battle maps made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss for Generals Lee and Jackson, General Sherman's Southern military campaigns, and maps taken from diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts all available for the first time in one place.

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture.

Improved & enlarged collection from the National Archives

Civil War era photographs in many different formats

Details life in two American towns, one Northern, one Southern, from John Brown's raid through Reconstruction. Includes thousands of original letters, diaries, newspapers, speeches, census and church records.

All the government reports from the Civil War

Includes links to newspapers, maps, diaries, letters, etc.