1. Read: The War of the Union - Document Overview
2. Read: Major General George Meade's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg, October 1, 1863
3. Read: Robert E. Lee's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 31, 1863
4. Read: The Diary of a Union Soldier (1862)
5. Read: Letters from a Confederate Officer (1862)
6. Read: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp by Susie King Taylor (1902)

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1. View: Civil War Sketch
2. View: U.S. Volunteers attacked by the mob, St. Louis, Missouri, 1861
3. View: Soldier group
4. View: The Merrimack and the Monitor
5. View: Enlisting Union soldiers among Irish and German immigrants
6. View: Thirteen-inch mortars mounted at Battery No. 4 near Yorktown
7. View: Enlisting Union soldiers in New York, 1864
8. View: Lincoln and McClellan in the field, October 1862
9. View: Former slaves on a farm in Cumberland Landing, Virginia, 1862
10. View: The Union view of the Emancipation Proclamation
11. View: The Confederate view of the Emancipation Proclamation
12. View: Come and Join Us Brothers
13. View: Clara Barton (1821-1912)
14. View: Women workers filling cartridges with gunpowder
15. View: A cartoon lampooning Copperhead Democrats for their subservience to the Confederacy, 1864
16. View: Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy
17. View: Harvest of Death
18. View: Ruins of Georgia Railround Roundhouse at Atlanta, 1864
19. View: General Robert E. Lee
20. View: Log hut company kitchen
21. View: Winter quarters
22. View: Refugee family leaving war area
23. View: Black laborers
24. View: Constructing telegraph lines
25. View: Council of War, with Grant and Meade
26. View: Federal-built railroad bridge
27. View: Amputation at Gettysburg
28. View: Volunteer Refreshment Saloon
29. View: Members of the Christian Commission, near Germantown, Maryland
30. View: Gunboat Mendota
31. View: C.S.S. Manassas
32. View: Ruins of Stone Bridge, Bull Run
33. View: Confederate fortifications
34. View: Antietam Bridge
35. View: Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
36. View: Appomattox Court House, 1865
37. View: Columbia, South Carolina ruins
38. View: Ruins in front of the Capitol
39. View: White House of the Confederacy
40. View: Nast Tweed thumb cartoon
41. View: Arlington Mansion
42. View: Smithsonian Institution
43. View: Walruses attack the Trent

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1. View: Secession, 1860–1861
2. View: First Bull Run, July 21, 1861
3. View: Campaigns in the West, February–April 1862
4. View: Campaigns in the West, August–October 1862
5. View: The Peninsular Campaign, 1862
6. View: Campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, 1862
7. View: Vicksburg 1863
8. View: Campaigns in the East, 1863
9. View: Grant in Virginia, 1864–1865
10. View: Sherman's Campaigns, 1864–1865

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1.  Recollections of 1861-1865 Civil War Songs

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