Major Collections:
Library of Congress Digital Collections Historic photographs, presidential papers, and more from the Library of Congress (migrated from the American Memory project)
Digital Public Library of America Over 20 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from "America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions"
Selection of digitized newspapers covering a period ranging from 1770-1963
"Selected materials drawn from a variety of Illinois newspapers published during the American Civil War (1861-1865)"
Digitized SC newspaper from 1862 to 1866
Digitized version of the newspaper from Nov. 1860 to Dec. 1865
Collection of editorials dealing with the Nebraska Bill (1854), the Charles Sumner incident (1856), Dred Scott (1857) and Harper's Ferry (1859)
Major collection: Correspondence and other papers
From the Virginia Military Institute, letters and photographs from Stonewall Jackson's life.
Multiple digital collections of papers, correspondence, images, and ephemera.
Images and documents from the civil war or related to the memory of the civil war.
Library of Congress primary source sets
Digitized collection of 250 Confederate broadside poems
Digitized version of the multi-volume official records of the navies
"Collection includes over four hundred Civil War era maps, broadsides, photographs, printed works, Confederate currency, and manuscript letters and diaries" that document all aspects of Southern life during the Civil War.
Major collection: Digitized version of the multi-volume official records of the war
Civil War Era Collection - This digital collection contains a sampling of items from our various Civil War Era artifiact and manuscript collections. Much of this collection features political cartoons, letters, photographs, maps, artifacts, manuscript materials, and sheet music from 1830-1877
Collection of photographs, drawings, posters and letters
A "selection of digitized journals and correspondence"
More than 500,000 digitized Civil War records including newspapers, diaries, correspondence, images and more
"The project aims to advance scholarship on the experiences of the northern homefront during the civil war era, beginning in 1851 with Pennsylvanians' resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and ending in 1874 with the revision of the state constitution."
"Collection includes over four hundred Civil War era maps, broadsides, photographs, printed works, Confederate currency, and manuscript letters and diaries" that document all aspects of Southern life during the Civil War.
Military records, census data, diaries, photographs and newspapers illustrating the impact of the Civil War on two towns in Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Transcript of the secessional debates
More than 20,000 original documents including diaries, letters, newspaper articles, photographs and more
Collection of Civil War letters and diaries.
Collection of Civil War ephemera, patriotic music, and other historical materials.
Collection of Civil War letters.
Collection of Civil War manuscripts, photogrpahs and imprints.
1863-1865 diaries of an African American woman in Philadelphia
Collection of 650 unpublished drawings created by artists for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly Newspaper
More than 8000 "views and portraits made during the American Civil War... made under the supervision of Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner" and others.
More than 2500 Civil War maps, charts, atlases & sketchbooks
Digitized "photographs, images, albums, and more, relating to the Civil War."
161 maps dating from 1861-1865 covering the south with a focus on North Carolina & Virginia
More than 1200 photographs, mostly portraits, of Civil War soldiers
Over 6000 Brady photographs from the Civil War era.