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Civil War in
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1864 - The Valley
Aflame
- Alexander Street Press -
The American Civil
War: Letters and Diaries
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American Civil
War - original sources related to Virginia:
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Memoirs: Archibald Atkinson, Jr, Surgeon, CSA, 31st Virgina Infantry and
10th Virginia Cavalry,1861-65
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Letters: George Rust Bedinger, 33rd Virginia Vol. Inf., Capt., Co. E,
January 10, 1861 to May 14, 1863, letters to and from him
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Letter: Col. Arthur Cummings, 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
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Letters: Sgt. Ferdinand Dunlap, 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
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Letter: Jacob Golladay, Jr., 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Capt., Co. H,
May 8, 1863
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Memoir: Phoebe Yates Pember, first 8 chapters of A Southern Woman's Story;
Pember was a nurse at the Confederate Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond
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Charles
Hutson, 22 July 1861, First Battle of Manassas, Va.
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Isaac
Howard, 25 December 1862, Fredericksburg, Va.
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Edward Rowe, 11 May 1863, Chancellorsville, Va.
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Lewis Warlick, 19 May 1864, Spotsylvania, Va.
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Diary: Capt. Michael Shuler, 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
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Archaeology
Magazine - Vanishing Civil War Battlefields
- Bristoe Station
- Bermuda Hundred (In May, 1864 - after Cold Harbor -
General Ulysses S. Grant recognized the futility of attacking entrenched
positions manned with a full complement of Confederate soldiers. Burnside had
failed at Fredericksburg, and Grant himself had failed at Cold Harbor.
However, he knew that thinly-manned or hastily-built fortifications could be
seized - he had already done so in the Overland Campaign at Spottsylvania and
Fredericksburg. The question was... could Grant's subordinate, General
Benjamin Butler, recognize if the trenches blocking the path to Petersburg
were too strongly fortified?)
-
Civil
War at a Glance
- Cedar
Creek Battlefield
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Civil War Generals
- Civil War
Interactive
- Civil War
Preservation Trust
- Civil War Richmond
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Civil War Times
- Civil
War Traveler - Virginia
- Civil War
Virginians of the Allegheny Highlands
- Colonel John Mosby
- Combat Studies Institute
- Ford's Theater
National Historic Site - John
Wilkes Booth
- Historic Tredegar
(in Richmond)
- Library of Congress -
Civil War Maps
- MapMachine (National Geographic) -
Civil War
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Maps of National Historic & Military Parks, Memorials, and Battlefields
- Museum of Confederacy
Flag
Collection
- National Archives "Eyewitness"
Lt.
Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr. - Sinking of the USS Cumberland, 1862
- Virginia units were often raised from one local area.
You can track those soldiers throughout the war:
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Guide to Virginia's
Civil War Battlefields and Sites
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Fredericksburg - Civil War
- National Park Service
- Civil War
Photographs from the Library of Congress,
including pictures of the
Peninsula
Campaign and
Fort Monroe
and Hampton
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"Virginia
Civil War Images" from Harpers Weekly
from George Mason University
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Civil
War Images of Northern Virginia
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Lower Shenandoah Valley Civil War Round Table
- Shenandoah
Valley Battlefields Commission
- for those interested in Central Virginia,
The Civil War
in Central Virginia
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Historic Military Sites in Central Virginia from
Visit Virginia
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Civil War era holdings - VMI Archives
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The
Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad In The Civil War
- Virginia
Division - United Daughters of the Confederacy
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Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (a
National Marine
Sanctuary off Cape Hatteras...)
- Civil War Center
- Bull Run Civil War
Round Table
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West Virginia Military Research (mostly Civil War)
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Battlefields of
Virginia (images in the Alexandria library, from the May 1887 "excursion"
of the veterans of the 57th and 58th Massachusetts to the Civil War
Battlefields of Virginia)
-
John W. Fairfax
- H-CIVWAR
Home Page
- Take the online
Civil War trivia quiz
from Rockbridge Publishing Company
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Matthew Fontaine Maury
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United Daughters of
the Confederacy - Virginia Division
- Terrell's
Texas Cavalry, 34th Regiment CSA
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photos of Manassas
Battlefield, from a
then-and-now site
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The
Fredericksburg Battlefield Virtual Tour from
James M. Schmidt
- "Remember
The Cause" Home Page (with a link to the
Reenactor Ring)
- Buchanan County
(Virginia) Civil War Web Page
- Battle of
Cedar Mountain - August 9, 1862
- Battle of
Brandy Station - June 9, 1863
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Christmas in
the Confederate White House (Varina Davis' Recollections in 1896)
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Women Soldiers of
the Civil War (from Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives - Spring
1993)
- A
Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Being a Record of the Actual
Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer
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Civil War Records -
An Introduction and Invitation (from Prologue: Quarterly of the National
Archives - Spring 1990)
- Welcome
to the Robert E. Lee Memorial (Custis-Lee House)
- from
West
Virginia History
- Richmond
National Battlefield Park
- 2nd U.S.
Cavalry-Company A
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The Virginia
Civil War Home Page, including Virginia Confederate Units by
unit and by
county of origin
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Disney Documents, concerning the canceled Disney's America, Haymarket,
Virginia
- Roads Projects on Manassas Battlefield:
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First Battle of Manassas
- The
Longstreet Chronicles
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Civil War Round
Tables Index
- Eastern National
Park & Monument Association
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Events, Book Signings, and Shows from
civilwarreader.com
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The 48th Virginia
Infantry
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The American Civil War, 1861-1865- World Wide Web Information Archive
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30th Virginia
Infantry (2nd Battalion Virginia Volunteers)
- Sons of Union Veterans of
the Civil War
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Civil War Women -
Primary Sources on the Internet
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Grand Army of the Republic
- United States
Civil War (interactive tour of Virginia's role in the war)
- books...
and links
- The
American Civil War Institute of Campbellsville University in
Campbellsville, Kentucky.
- Civil War
Defenses of Washington Newsletter
- The Civil War Home
Page, with its new Calendar
of Events
-
Antebellum Richmond
- The Bugle
Call
-
Selected Civil War
Letters from the Southern Historical Collection, including a letter from
Charles Hutson on 22
July 1861 (First Battle of Manassas)
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Civil
War Resources on the Internet: Abolitionism to Reconstruction (1830's -
1890's)
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The American Civil War, 1861-1865 from Bryan Boyle
- Virginia Military Institute
- Virginia Tech
Digital Library and Archives
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Lee's Retreat
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Virginia
Civil War Images" from Harpers Weekly
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US Civil War and an excerpt from
Virginia's Civil War: A Self-Guided Tour
- Did you know
James River Publications
has put all the Virginia historical markers on line, by theater?
- Shenandoah Valley/(South)Western
Virginia
- Northern Virginia
- Richmond/Central Virginia
Area
- Tidewater/Southern Virginia
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Gettysburg Discussion Group, with lots of links too
- The Library of Virginia
"Directory of Repositories" of
sites with Civil War holdings,
like the Handley Regional
Library in Winchester.
- The Red Legged Devils of the
14th Brooklyn, with a
great set of links to
other sites
- Civil War
Poetry and Music
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Civil War and Reconstruction list of Web sites, selected by the
History Department at
George Mason University (including the
Library of Congress Civil War Home
Page)
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American Civil War Resources on the Internet from
Dakota State University in - of all places -
Madison, South Dakota
- Yahoo's
Civil War links
- National Park Service
Links to the Past and the
American Battlefield Protection
Program
- The National Park Service's official Web page for
Manassas Battlefield
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Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
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The Battlefield
Web (with Fredericksburg, Falmouth, and Spottsylvania collections)
- The
Smithsonian Associates Civil War Studies [describing local tours, too]
- the moderated
soc.history.war.us-civil-war
newsgroup
- Indiana University's
links for the History
Profession (including the
American Civil
War Home Page, with its Frequently Asked Questions list -
Part 1 and
Part 2 - from
the alt.war.civil.usa newsgroup)
-
Guide to Virginia's
Civil War Battlefields and Sites
- the Library
of VirginiaVA-HIST listserv
Archives
- Civil War
Soldiers and Sailors System
-
Virginia County Vote on the Secession Ordinance, May 23, 1861
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Southern Claims Commission
- Mt Zion Church
Preservation Association
-
The War of
the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies and
Official
Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion
(from Cornell University -
Making of America)
- National Archives
-
Rebel yell
(.wav file)
- Pamplin Park
-
The Civil War
Drawings of Edward Lamson Henry on the James River - "War Sketches Oct &
Nov - 1864"
- The
Southern Homefront, 1861-1865, from
Documenting the American South
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Geographic
Information Systems for Civil War Battlefield Preservation (by William J.
Drummond at the Georgia Institute of Technology)
-
Bull Run Flyby
from the Civil War Center.
- 1862
Peninsula Campaign -
map of the Peninsula
-
Sullivan Ballou's final letter from Manassas
- US Army Center of Military History
Staff Rides:
- Irish units
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Maps of the American Civil War
- Manassas
National Battlefield Park Bypass Study
- Bristoe Station
- The
Battlefield of Manassas
- Documenting the
American South First-Person Narratives (from University of North Carolina)
- A
Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865
-
A Rebel's
Recollections
- A
Sermon Delivered in the Market Street, M. E. Church, Petersburg, Va.: Before
the Confederate Cadets, on the Occasion of their Departure for the Seat of
War, Sunday, Sept. 22d, 1861
- A
Soldier's Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate: With
an Oration on the Motives and Aims of the Soldiers of the South
- A
Southern Girl in '61: The War-Time Memories of a Confederate Senator's
Daughter
- A
Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865
- Acts of the General Assembly of the State of
Virginia, Passed at
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Address of Hon.
John S. Preston, Commissioner from South Carolina, to the Convention of
Virginia, February 19, 1861
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Address of the
Baptist General Association [of] Virginia: June 4th, 1863
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Call for enlistment
of Virginians in the Potomac Military Department
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Correspondence between the President of the Virginia Central Rail Road
Company and the Postmaster General, in Relation to Postal Services
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Diary of Anita Dwyer Withers
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God our Refuge and Strength in this War. A Discourse Before the
Congregations of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches, on the Day of
Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, Appointed by President Davis, Friday, Nov.
15, 1861
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He That
Believeth Shall Not Make Haste." A Sermon Preached on the First of January,
1865, in St. Paul's Church, Richmond
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How a One-Legged Rebel Lives: Reminiscences of the Civil War: The Story of
the Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, as Told by a High Private in the "Foot
Cavalry": From Alleghany Mountain to Chancellorsville: With the Complete
Regimental Rosters of Both the Great Armies at Gettysburg
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of
Virginia for the
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Journal of the
Sixty-Eighth Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia.
Held in St. Paul's Church, Richmond, on the 20th, 21st and 22nd May, 1863
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Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A.: Autobiographical Sketch and
Narrative of the War between the States
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Life Gleanings
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Memoir and Memorials: Elisha Franklin Paxton, Brigadier-General, C.S.A.;
Composed of his Letters from Camp and Field While an Officer in the
Confederate Army, with an Introductory and Connecting Narrative Collected
and Arranged by his Son, John Gallatin Paxton
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Message from the Execttive [sic] of the Commonwealth: With Accompanying
Documents, Showing the Military and Naval Preparations for the Defence of
the State of Virginia, &c. &c.
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One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry: His Experience and what He Saw During the War
1861-1865, Including a History of "F Company," Richmond, Va., 21st Regiment
Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division, Second Corps, A. N.
Va.
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Opinion of the
Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in Regard to Liability to Military
Service of the Principals of Substitutes
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Recollections Grave and Gay
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Remarks on the
Subject of the Ownership of Slaves, Delivered by R. R. Collier of
Petersburg, in the Senate of Virginia, October 12, 1863
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Report of the
Auditing Board of the State of Virginia
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Report of the
Committee on Banks, Relative to the Currency, &c. &c. &c. Doc. No. XIV
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Social Life in Old
Virginia before the War
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Some Reminiscences
- The
End of an Era
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The General
Military Hospital for the North Carolina Troops in Petersburg, Virginia
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The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George
E. Pickett C.S.A
- The
Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby
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The Partisan Leader:
A Novel, and an Apocalypse of the Origin and Struggles of the Southern
Confederacy
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The Soldiers'
Almanac for 1863
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The Story of a
Confederate Boy in the Civil War
- The
Valley Campaigns: Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between
the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley During the War of the States
- The
War; "Stonewall" Jackson, His Campaigns, and Battles, the Regiment as I Saw
Them
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To Arms! To Arms!
$50 Bounty. Do Not Wait To Be Drafted, but Volunteer!!
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True Courage: a
Discourse Commemorative of Lieut. General Thomas J. Jackson
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True Eminence Founded on Holiness. A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of
Lieut. Gen. T. J. Jackson, Preached in the First Presbyterian Church of
Lynchburg, May 24th, 1863
- Papers of Jefferson Davis:
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Jeff Davis telegram
from Manassas, July 21, 1861
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Buena Vista
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Beauregard's report on
First Manassas
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Jefferson Davis to
Congress of the Confederate States, Richmond, February 25, 1862
- The people of the Confederate States being
principally engaged in agricultural pursuits, were unprovided at the
commencement of hostilities with ships, ship-yards, materials for
shipbuilding, or skilled mechanics and seamen in sufficient numbers to
make the prompt creation of a navy a practicable task even if the required
appropriations had been made for the purpose. Notwithstanding our very
limited resources, however, the report of the Secretary will exhibit to
you a satisfactory progress in preparation, and a certainty of early
completion of vessels of a number and class on which we may confidently
rely for contesting the vaunted control of the enemy over our waters.
-
Lee re: invading
Maryland
- Civil War
Preservation Trust
-
Virginia Ordinance of Secession
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The Valley
Campaigns; Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between the Lines
in the Shenandoah Valley During the War of the States
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A Virginia
Girl in the First Year of the War
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A Virginia
Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Being a Record of the Actual Experiences of
the Wife of a Confederate Officer
- WideAwake.org
(battlefield preservation)
-
Coalition to Save Chancellorsville
- Central Virginia
Battlefields Trust
-
Civil War Maps and Charts of Virginia (US Coast and Geodetic Survey)
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Battle of Five
Forks
- Flags of the
Confederacy
- VA-HIST listserver:
discussion of Confederate Flag (March, 2004)
- USS Alligator (the first US submarine)
- University of Virginia
Confederate Cemetery - Manassas National Battlefield Park
(click on images for larger versions)
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