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Music of the Civil War Era

Civil War Band Collection, 1st Brigade Band of Brodhead, Wisconsin

Primary Source Set: Civil War Music (from the Library of Congress)

To Gettysburg: Songs Inspired by the Famous Battle [NB: Songs are present day compositions]

2nd South Carolina String Band

Band Music from the Civil War Era (from the Library of Congress)

Music of the American Civil War

The Civil War Music Site

Poetry and Music of the War Between the States

Historic American Sheet Music: 1860-1869 (from Duke University)

Civil War Poetry and Music

The Civil War Music Store

Civil War Songs Radio (NB: This site has a commercial character)

Selections by 33rd NJVI Reenactors (NB: This site has a commercial character)

Music of the Civil War Radio (NB: This site has a commercial character)
 

Other General Resources

Lincoln's Army new 31 August 2006

U.S. Civil War Markers

American Civil War in the News

The Confedeate Salt Company

A Brief History of the Civil War

American Civil War Magazine and Journal Index

Civil War Books and Authors [Blog]

American Civil War Gaming & Reading Blog

The Civil War: America Divided (traveling exhibit from the Cincinnati Museum Center)

Virtual Civil War

Sons of Confederate Veterans, Captain Moses T. Fowler, Camps 1721

Old Abbeville SCV Camp 39

The Civil War

The Connection Between the American Civil War and the Chinese Taiping Civil War

Civil War News (NB: This site has a commerical character)

The Hotchkiss Map Collection: Confederate Army Maps

The National Park Service: The American Civil War

Today in U.S. Civil War History

Accessible Archives (NB: This site has a commercial character)

Wikipedia: the American Civil War

Civil War Maps (from the Library of Congress)

U.S. Regulars Archive

CivilWar-History.com [NB: Requires free registration]

Civil War Talk Radio

Online Civil War Indexes, Records & Rosters: A Genealogy Guide

Presidential Elections, 1860-1912 (Cartoons from the pages of Harper's Weekly and other Leading Journals)

Full-Text Newspaper Articles from the War Era (Compiled and Edited by Vicki Betts)

Oldvets New Posthome

Civil War Bookshelf: American Civil War historiography blogged daily

American Civil War Search Directory (formerly DHQ's Civil War Portal)

Official Register of the Government of the United States, 1861

America's Civil War

Gods and Generals: The Story Behind the Movie

Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet

Women of the American Civil War Era

Women in the Civil War

A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln

Belgians in the American Civil War, 1840-1865

United Confederate Secessionists

Southern History Net

Interactive Dig: Unlocking a Civil War Prison (from Archaeology)

This Day in History -- the Civil War (from the HistoryChannel.com)

Confederate Railroads

The Unknown Civil War

American Civil War Encyclopedia

History of the United States Capitol (by William C. Allen) see Chapter 9, "Calm and Calamity" -- requires Adobe Acrobat Reader -- get it here)

Civil War Cartoons

Bits of Blue and Gray: An American Civil War Notebook

Civil War Prison Camps

Civil War Weekly: A Journal of the Civil War

The Civil War: The War that Never Ended

The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony

1890 Veterans Census Northern Virginia

Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society

Civil War Treasures (the Lincoln Assassination flag -- from the Connecticut Historical Society)

United Daughters of the Confederacy: Ellen Renshaw House

Civil War in Maps

U.S. Civil War Factbook

Maps of the American Civil War (from West Point)

The American Civil War: The Struggle to Preserve the Union

RebSojer's Forever Southern Home Page

Income Tax Records of the Civil War Years

Civil War Antiques Prservation Society (NB: This site has a commercial character)

North Carolina Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans

SCV of Oregon

The Hunt-Phelan Home; Historic Southern Auction (NB: This site has a commercial character)

The Civil War Experience (NB: This site has a commercial character)

Mason-Dixon Line American Civil War Home Page

Civil War Tidbits and Trivia

Documenting the American South; the Southern Homefront, 1861-1865

"A Nation Divided" (online Magazine)

Sterling Price Camp, No. 145, Sons of Confederate Veterans

Money in the 1860s

"Civil War Women" (presented by Women's History ALIVE) (NB: This site has a commercial character)

Sons of Confederate Veterans -- General Benjamin J. Hill Camp #1615

Sons of Confederate Veterans -- General Lloyd Tilghman Camp #1495

Confederate Military Lodge of Research

Tom Hughes' Civil War Homepage

United States Colored Troops in the Civil War

Sons of Confederate Veterans, Tennessee Division

Greenville M. Dodge, Camp #75, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

Blue and Gray Museum of Fitzgerald, GA

Guide to Virginia's Civil War Battlefields and Sites

The Civil War Home Front Project

Civil War Preservation Program [KY]

The Blue and the Gray

Elmira [NY] Prison Camp OnLine Library

Savage/Goodner Camp 1513, Sons of Confederate Veterans

Nathan Bedford Forest Camp 215, Sons of Confederate Veterans

Kirchner's Map of the Confederacy (NB: This site has a commercial character)

Phil's Civil War

Civil War Reflections

Mark Backus Homepage (Many links to Civil War-related pages)

United States Sanitary Commission

American Civil War Institute of Campbellsville University

The Civil War Trust

The Central Virginia Battlefields Trust

Civil War Interactive

Europe Camp #1612, Sons of Confederate Veterans

The Civil War Virtual Archives

Jewish-American History on the Web: Jews in the Civil War

Jewish-American U.S. Civil War Veterans

Outline of the Civil War (from Great American History)

Civil-War List Homepage

H-CIVWAR (via H-NET)

Indiana Coalition to Honor Civil War Dead

Gettysburg Address Visitors Center (NB: The site has a commercial character)

The B&O Railroad Museum in Historic Ellicott City, MD

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America (via UNC at Chapel Hill)

Confederate Broadside Poetry Collection (via Wake Forest University)

United States Army Military History Institute

Camp Curtin Historical Society (Harrisburg, PA)

The Blue and Gray Trail: The Civil War in North Georgia and Chattanooga

The Museum of the Confederacy

Hampton Roads Naval Museum

Smithsonian Associates Civil War Studies

Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress

The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Virginia and Pennsylvania

U.S. Civil War Center

Carroll College Civil War Institute