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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln
 
 

African Americans
A Chronology of African American Military Service
Black Confederates
U.S. Colored Troops
Civil War Contrabands
Freedman's Bureau
Fifty-Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Record of the Service of the Fifty-Fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (1868)
Boston's Colored Veterans (New York Times, July 19, 1883)
Edgar Dinsmore Letters (Journal of Negro History, July 1940)
Greene, Robert Ewell. Swamp Angels: A Biographical Study of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (1990)
Jorgensen, C. Peter. The Making of "Glory" (Civil War Times, Nov/Dec. 1989)
Urwin, Gregory J. W. I Want You To Prove Yourselves Men (Civil War Times, Nov/Dec. 1989)
Westwood, Howard C. Captive Black Union Soldiers in Charleston--What to Do? (Civil War History, 1982)
 

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant

Beauregard Papers, Library of Congress, Contents
Beauregard Papers, Library of Congress, Sept-Oct, 1862
Beauregard Papers, Library of Congress, Sept 1862-Dec. 1863
Beauregard Papers, Library of Congress, June 30-Aug. 22, 1863
Beauregard Papers, Library of Congress, Feb. 1864-March 1965
Beauregard Papers, Library of Congress, April 1866-June 1883
Beauregard Headquarters, Charleston, 1861-1864
Charleston newspaper articles, 1863-1864
Letter to Thomas Jordan, July 12, 1862
George W. Randolph to Beauregard, Nov. 10, 1862, regarding Charleston ironclads
Clifton H. Smith to Col. A. J. Gonzales, with Beauregard response, March 20, 1863
Beauregard to Pierre Soule, Dec. 8, 1863
Narrative of Events relating to the Dept. of So. Ca., Ga. & Fla, from September 1862 to April 1864
Telegrams and letters Feb. 21-Nov. 29, 1865 and Copy Book 1866
Remarks of Gen. Gillmore's book relative to his attack on Charleston, S.C. in 1863
Letter to Senator James L. Orr, April 24, 1863
Letter to Porcher Miles, May 2, 1863, regarding torpedo rams
Letter to Gen. Gillmore, July 4, 1863, on Union Army depradations
Letter to James Seddon, July 20, 1863, on Charleston defenses
Letter to Gen. Gillmore, Aug. 18, 1863, stating that no 54th Mass. officers retained
 

Benjamin, Judah

1850 Louisiana Federal Census
1860 Louisiana Federal Census
1860 Louisiana Slave Census
 
 
 

Forrest, Nathan Bedford

Nathan Bedford Forrest to Genl. Thomas Jordan, Aug, 15, 1862
 
 

Hardee, William J.

Hardee's Defense of Savannah (N. C. Hughes, Jr.)
 

Huguenin, Thomas Abram

Thomas Abram Huguenin Autobiography (Duke University Library)
A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Abram Huguenin, written at the request of my family
 

Jones, Jr., Charles Colcock
Collection at the University of Georgia
Autobiographical sketch, May 11, 1888
Maybank, Liberty County, Georgia, Aug. 26, 1861
Savannah, Aug. 18, 1863
Savannah, Aug. 22, 1863
Savannah, Aug. 31, 1863
Headquarters, Light Artillery, James Island, Sept. 4, 1863
Headquarters, Light Artillery, James Island, Sept. 6, 1863
Headquarters, Light Artillery, James Island, Sept. 7, 1863
Headquarters, Light Artillery, James Island, Sept. 9, 1863
Headquarters, Light Artillery, James Island, Sept. 15, 1863
Headquarters, Light Artillery, James Island, Sept. 22, 1863
Headquarters, Light Artillery, James Island, Oct. 4, 1863
Headquarters, Light Artillery, James Island, Oct. 9, 1863
Headquarters, Light Artillery, James Island, Oct. 12, 1863
Headquarters, Light Artillery, James Island, Oct. 19, 1863
Headquarters, Light Artillery, James Island, Oct. 23, 1863
Headquarters, Hardeeville, Dec. 21, 1864
Headquarters, Pocotaligo, Dec. 27, 1864
Headquarters, Dept, S.C., Ga. & Fla., Charleston, Dec. 29, 1864
Headquarters, Dept, S.C., Ga. & Fla., Charleston, Jan. 7, 1865
Headquarters, Dept, S.C., Ga. & Fla., Charleston, Jan. 9, 1865
Beaufort Dist. S.C., Jan. 15, 1865
Edward C. Anderson to Charles Colcock Jones Jr., Aug. 29, 1870
R. H. Anderson to Charles Colcock Jones Jr., May 24, 1871
W. S. Walker to Charles Colcock Jones Jr., July 4, 1871
Joseph Wheeler to Charles Colcock Jones Jr., July 6, 1871
Albert G. Blanchard to Charles Colcock Jones Jr., July 15, 1871
R. H. Anderson to Charles Colcock Jones Jr., July 18, 1871
William B. Taliaferro to Charles Colcock Jones Jr., Aug. 21, 1871
Samuel Jones to Charles Colcock Jones Jr., Sept. 8, 1872
Ellison Capers to Charles Colcock Jones Jr., May 25, 1885
 

Jordan, Thomas S.

Thomas S. Jordan
 

Lovell, Mansfield

Mansfield Lovell
 

Ripley, Roswell Sabin

Roswell Sabin Ripley: "Charleston's Gallant Defender" (C. A. Bennett, M.D.

Smith, Gustavus Woodson

Gustavus Woodson Smith Biography
Gustavus Woodson Smith Papers, 1861-1863
Zebulon B. Vance to Jefferson Davis, Feb. 2, 1863
Gustavus Woodson Smith to Jefferson Davis, Feb. 23, 1863
Newspaper articles, 1862-1863
Gustavus Woodson Smith to Lt. Genl. William Hardee, [Dec. 1864]

Watie, Stand

Brigadier General Stand Watie (Charleston Courier, June 11, 1864)

Williams, John S.

Henrietta L. Williams Mexican War Widow Pension
 

South Carolina

South Carolina in the Civil War
 

Le Mat Revolver

Le Mat Revolver (Confederate Handguns)
The LeMat Revolver (Firearms of the Confederacy)
 

Maynard Rifle

Maynard rifle patents
Maynard Longitudinal Pin
The Maynard Rifle (1860 Company pamphlet)
The First Model Maynard Carbine
The Maynard Rifle and Carbine in the Confederate Service
Dr. Maynard's Secessionist Gun (1st Model Maynard)
Maynard Breech-Loading Percussion Carbine
Maynard Rifle (Farrow's Military Encyclopedia)
 

Artillery

Farrow's Military Encyclopedia
 

General Orders of the War Department embracing the years 1861, 1862, 1863
Volume I
Volume II
 

Army of the Potomac
A Citizen-Soldier. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals: As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac (1864)
Barnard, J. G. and W. F. Barry. Report of the Engineer and Artillery Operations of the Army of the Potomac, from Its Organization to the Close of the Peninsular Campaign (1863)
Blake, Henry N. Three Years in the Army of the Potomac (11th Mass. Vols.) (1865)
Bloor, Alfred J. Letters from the Army of the Potomac, Written During the Month of May, 1864 (1864)
Buell, Augustus. "The Cannoneer." Recollections of Service in the Army of the Potomac (1890)
Castleman, Alfred L. The Army of the Potomac: Behind the Scenes (1863)
Joinville, Prince de. The Army of the Potomac: Its Organization, Its Commander, and Its Campaign (1862)
King, Charles. The Iron Brigade: A Story of the Army of the Potomac (1902)
Lyman, Theodore. Meade's Headquarters 1863-65 from The Wilderness to Appomattox (1922)
McClellan, Carswell. The Personal Memoirs and Military History of U.S. Grant versus the Record of the Army of the Potomac (1887)
McClellan, George B. Report of the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac (1864)
Meade, George. The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 1 (1913)
Meade, George. The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 2 (1913)
Reed, William Howell. Hospital Life in the Army of the Potomac (1866)
Rhodes, Charles D. History of the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac (1900)
Stewart, A. M. Camp, March, and Battle-Field; or Three Years and a Half with the Army of the Potomac (Chaplain 102 Reg. Pa. Vol.) (1865)
Stine, James H. History of the Army of the Potomac (1893) Historian First Corps
Swinton, William. Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac (18
Trobriand, Regis de. Four Years with the Army of the Potomac (1889)
Walker, Francis A. History of the Second Corps in the Army of the Potomac (1891)
Wilkeson, Frank. Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac (1887)
Wormeley, Katharine Prescott. The Other Side of War With the Army of the Potomac: Letters from the Headquarters of the U.S. Sanitary Commission During the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia in 1862 (1889)
 

23rd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
23rd Regiment Infantry
23rd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
History of the Twenty Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry: Birneys Zouaves
Davis, Oliver Wilson. Life of David Bell Birney, Major-General United States Volunteers (1867)
David Birney to Edwin Stanton, May 21, 1862
 

114th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers
114th Pennsylvania Regiment Infantry
114th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment
History of the 114th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Court Martial of Colonel Charles H. T. Collis (May 1863)
Memoirs of Alexander Wallace Givin, 114th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Capt. Charles H. T. Collis to Secretary of War, May 16, 1862
Federico Fernandez Cavada to Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, July 21, 1862
 

Peninsula Campaign of 1862
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XI, in three parts. PART I--Reports
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XI, in three parts. PART II--Reports, Etc.
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XI, in three parts. PART III--Correspondence, Orders, and Returns
Cook, Joel. The Siege of Richmond: A Narrative of the Military Operations of Major-General George B. McClellan During the Months of May and June, 1862 (1862)
Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts. Vol. 1. Campaigns in Virginia 1861-1862.
Report of Brig. Gen. Henry M. Naglee, Commanding First Brigade, Casey's Division, Army of the Potomac, of the Part Taken by his Brigade in the Battle of Seven Pines. May 31, 1862. (1862)
Peninsula Campaign (Johnson's 1862 map)
Peninsula Campaign (N.Y. Herald 1862 map)
Peninsula Campaign (March 17-May 31, 1862 map)
Peninsula Campaign (Philadelphia Inquirer map)
Peninsula and Hampton Roads map
Lower Peninsula
Yorktown defenses (Color map)
Yorktown map
Richmond and surrounding country map
Richmond vicinity
Seven Days battlefields
Mechanicsville
Mechanicsville and Beaver Dam (Longstreet Memoirs)
White Oak Swamp (Map)
White Oak Swamp (O.R. Map)
Richmond defenses
Fair Oaks
Fair Oaks Battle
Malvern Hill
Malvern Hill (Philadelphia Inquirer map)
Malvern Hill (Longstreet Memoirs)
Seven Pines (Fair Oaks)
Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) Color map
 

Fredericksburg
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XXI, Nov. 15, 1862--Jan. 25, 1863
Palfrey, Francis Winthrop. The Antietam and Fredericksburg (1882)
Battle of Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Battlefield Park Map
Map showing position of Meade's Division, Dec. 13, 1862
Sumner assault map
Northeastern Virginia map
Northern Virginia 1862
Northern Virginia 1863
 

Operations on the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers (Dec. 7, 1861 to July 31, 1865)
O.R. NAVY, Series 1, Vol. V

Chancellorville -- Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania (Jan. 26-June 3, 1863)
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XXV, in two parts. PART I--Reports
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XXV, in three parts. PART II--Correspondence, Etc.
Campaign map
114th Pennsylvania Regiment at Chancellorsville
Chancellorsville Campaign
Chancellorsville Right Wing
Chancellorsville Friday
Chancellorsville Saturday
Chancellorsville Union line Saturday afternoon
Chancellorsville Union line Sunday morning
Doubleday, Abner. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (1882)
Bates, Samuel P. The Battle of Chancellorsville (1882)
 

Gettysburg
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XXVII, in three parts. PART I--Reports
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XXVII, in three parts. PART II--Reports
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XXVII, in three parts. PART III--Correspondence, Etc.
Map showing Gettysburg July 2 and 3, 1863
114th Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment at Gettysburg
Gen. Charles K. Graham's account of his capture at Gettysburg
Pennsylvania At Gettysburg: Dedication of Monument, 114th Regiment Infantry
114th Pennsylvania Regiment Monument at Gettysburg
Pennsylvania Monument at Gettysburg
Sherfy House at Gettysburg
Gettysburg Battlefield Park Map
Anecdotes, Poetry and Incidents of the War: North and South
Balch, William Ralston. The Battle of Gettysburg: An Historical Account (1885)
Bates, Samuel P. The Battle of Gettysburg (1875)
Fox, William F. New York at Gettysburg (1900)
Long, Capt. James T. Gettysburg: How the Battle Was Fought (1891)
 

Libby Prison
Libby Life: Experiences of a Prisoner of War in Richmond, Va., 1863-64
Libby Prison
 

Mine Run Campaign
Map of Mine Run Campaign, Nov. 26-Dec. 3, 1863
 

Wilderness Campaign
Schaff, Morris. The Battle of the Wilderness (1910)

Operations in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Aug. 4-Dec. 31, 1863
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XXIX, in two parts. PART I--Reports
 

Correspondence, Orders and Returns Relating to Operations in Kentucky, Southwest Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Alabama, and North Georgia, from Aug. 11 to Oct. 19, 1863.
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XXX, in four parts. PART 3, Correspondence--Union
 

Overland Campaign
Map of the Overland Campaign, 1864-65
Atkinson, C. F. Grant's Campaigns of 1864 and 1865: The Wilderness and Cold Harbor (May 3-June 3, 1864) (1908)
 

Operations in Southeastern Virginia and North Carolina, May 1-June 12, 1864
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XXXVI, in three parts. PART I--Reports
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XXXVI, in three parts. PART II--Reports, Correspondence, etc.
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XXXVI, in three parts. PART III--Correspondence, etc.
 

Operations in Southeastern Virginia and North Carolina, June 13-July 31, 1864
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XL, in three parts. PART I--Reports
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XL, in three parts. PART II--Correspondence, etc.
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XL, in three parts. PART III--Correspondence, etc.
Southern Virginia and North Carolina map
 

Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Aug. 4-Dec. 31, 1864
O.R. Series 1, Vol. XLIII, in two parts. PART I--Reports, Correspondence, etc.
 

North Atlantic Blockading Squadron (May 6-Oct. 27, 1864)
O.R. NAVY, Series 1, Vol. X
 

Civil War Books
Military Service Records in the National Archives
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. III (1884)
Agassiz, George R., ed. Meade's Headquarters 1863-1865: Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from The Wilderness to Appomattox (1922)
Anderson, John. The Fifty-Seventh Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion (1896)
Bartlett, Capt. A. W. History of the Twelfth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers (1897)
Botts, John Minor. The Great Rebellion: Its Secret History, Rise, Progress, and Disastrous Failure (1866)
Cullum, George W. Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, from 1802 to 1867, Vol. II (1841-1867) (1879)
Curtis, Orson B. Twenty-Fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade, Known as the Detroit and Wayne County Regiment (1891)
de Peyster, J. Watts. Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, of Pennsylvania (1886)
Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Vol. 1 (1885)
Humphreys, Andrew A. From Gettysburg to the Rapidan: The Army of the Potomac July, 1863, to April, 1864 (1883)
_____. The Virginia Campaign of '64 and '65 (1883)
Keyes, Erasmus D. Fifty Years' Observation of Men and Events (1884)
Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896)
Marshall, Jessie Ames. Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War, Vol. 1 (1917)
_____. Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War, Vol. 4 (1917)
Moore, Frank. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, Vol. 11 (1868)
Morris, Gouverneur. Sixth Regiment New York Volunteers (1891)
Murphy, Charles J. Reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion, and the Mexican War (1882)
Page, Charles A. Letters of a War Correspondent (1899)
Palmer, Abraham J. The History of the Forty-Eight Regiment New York State Volunteers in the War for the Union (1885)
Paris, Comte de. History of the Civil War in America, Vol. II (1888)
_____. History of the Civil War in America, Vol. III (1888)
_____. History of the Civil War in America, Vol. IV (1888)
Pennypacker, Isaac R. General Meade (1901)
Phisterer, Frederick. Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States (1883)
_____. New York in the War of the Rebellion 1861 to 1865 (1890)
Plum, William R. The Military Telegraph During the Civil War in the United States, Vol. II (1882)
Pollard, Edward A. Southern History of the War: The Second Year of the War (1864)
Sedgwick, John. Correspondence of John Sedgwick Major-General (1903)
Strait, N. A. Roster of All Regimental Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons in the Late War (1882)
Wise, Jennings C. The Military History of the Virginia Military Institute From 1839 to 1865 (1915)