The following pages provide additional links to online resources:

Think of these pages as electronic reserves. Refer students to them for online research.

Each page has a unique URL that you can link to from your own web page.

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- eReserves Index

Chapter 16 - The War of the Union

Images and Maps

Photo Tours of Abraham Lincoln Places

Maps of the Civil War

The U.S. Civil War
(This timeline provides numerous images.)

Civil War Maps

Civil War Related Maps

Images of the Civil War

Civil War: Pictures

PhotoEcho: Images of the Civil War

Civil War Photographs

Selected Civil War Photographs

Letters, Telegrams, and Photographs Illustrating Factors That Affected the Civil War

Images from American Political History, 1850-1900

U.S.A. Civil War Photographs

Civil War Parks
(Links to major National Historic Battlefield Parks)

Antietam: A Photographic Tour

Map of the Presidential Election of 1864

 

Primary Sources

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

Virginia Tech: American Civil War Resources

Official Records of the Civil War

The Crittenden Compromise

Abraham Lincoln Online: Speeches and Writings

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library

Causes of the Civil War

Declaration of Causes of Seceding States

Crisis at Ft. Sumter

Confederate States of America Documents

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Gettysburg Address

Civil War Women: Online Archival Collections

Freedmen and Southern Society Project

Wet with Blood: An Investigation of Mary Todd Lincoln's Cloak

 

Secondary Sources

Articles from America's Civil War
(An online magazine)

Biography of America: The Civil War
(This site contains links to images, primary sources, and secondary sources.)

William C. Kashatus, "A Gallant Rush for Glory"
(An article on the 54th Massachusetts Regiment)

Jerry O. Potter, "A Tragic Postscript"
(An article exploring prisoners of war)

History of African Americans in the Civil War

Civil War Sites Advisory Commission: Battlefield Summaries

Study of Civil War Sites in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia

Bill Eberius, "William Tecumseh Sherman"

"Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Assassins," by Brigadier-General Henry Lawrence Burnett

Carl Zebrowski, "Why the South Lost the Civil War"

 

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