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- A Close Shave in the U.S. Civil War - Memoirs of Nova Scotian Samuel James Hingley, who served in 3rd Regiment Infantry, New Hampshire Volunteers, and was wounded in General Butler's Bermuda Hundred Campaign.
personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jrose/hingley/civil.htm
- A Yankee Prisoner In Texas - In 1850, William Ryan immigrated to America from Ireland. He and his family settled in East Bloomfield, New York. At the age of 25, he enlisted in the 160th New York Volunteers on September 1, 1862.
www.greeceny.com/ol/herb.htm
- Adventures of Harvey Hogue - Tales of a soldier in the Ohio 115th including a harrowing escape from Andersonville.
www.cartania.com/history/harvey1.html
- Albert Underwood Civil War Diary - The Civil War diary of Albert Underwood of Annapolis, Park County, Indiana. It covers Jan 1, 1864 thru Jan 11, 1865.
dcwi.com/~dave/underwood.html
- Alice Williamson Diary - This diary of a Tennessee schoolgirl chronicles life during the Civil War.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/williamson
- American Civil War Collection - Civil War letters and diary entries include transcriptions and digital images of the manuscripts.
etext.virginia.edu/civilwar
- B. R. A. Scott: Memoirs of the Civil War - Never before published, these memoirs may be of interest to historians, genealogists and Civil War buffs.
home.swbell.net/mck9/brascott
- Battles and Leaders of the Civil War - Originally published as a series of articles in "The Century" magazine between 1884 and 1887,these articles were written by the Leaders of both armies.
www.insmkt.com/battles.htm
- Capt. Richard W. Burt 76th Ohio Infantry - Civil War letters and poems from R.W. Burt.
my.ohio.voyager.net/~lstevens/burt
- Christmas, 1861-1865 - A collection of Union and Confederate narratives. Created for Special Collections, T. Cartter and Margaret Rawlings Lupton Library, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
www.lib.utc.edu/preview/index.html
- Civil War Letter From James L. Johnson - Found folded up in a modern envelope, this letter is copied as exactly as it was written, with no corrections for grammar or spelling.
pw1.netcom.com/~dgh33/letter.htm
- Civil War Letters - Correspondence from William Rees, a confederate soldier from Tennessee who survived the Battle of Shiloh.
members.aol.com/SHelveston/reeslets.html
- Civil War Letters of Edward Nicholas Boots - These letters, being passed down through my family, are presented here in the hopes of a better understanding of the life of a Christian Soldier in the Civil War.
members.aol.com/qmsgtboots/letters.html
- Civil War Letters of John Alexander Ritter, M.D. - Letters from a doctor while serving as Regimental Surgeon in the 49th Indiana Volunteers from 1861 to 1863. Written during the regiment's campaigns in Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
gwillritter.tripod.com
- Civil War Memories - Robert C. Carden was born in Coffee County, Tennessee on July 4, 1843, the youngest of the five children of Reuben and Sarah (nee' Henry) Carden. On May 23, 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army at Manchester.
www2.dmci.net/users/bmacd
- Civil War Narrow Escape of Henry C. Boyer - Henry C. Boyer was in town the other day and the Register reporter had a pleasant talk with him. He belonged to the 173d Ohio, and from the numerous close calls, he told us of, we will tell one that happened in 1864.
www.pacifier.com/~history/NEBoyer.html
- Colonel Henry Tillinghast Sisson - Information on the man who was paymaster and drillmaster First Rhode Island Infantry, skirmisher with the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry, Major of the Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, and Colonel commanding the 5th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery.
henrytsisson.com
- Diary Henry Carl Ketzle Illinois Infantry - Diary of the 37th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Company B, covering enlistment in July 1861 to muster out in May 1866. Battle of Pea Ridge included.
www.ketzle.com/diary
- Diary of LaFrancis E. Hackett - Private, Fifth Independent Ohio Sharpshooters. Covers the day-to-day details of soldiering from January-December, 1864.
www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6964
- Documenting the American South - Memoirs and journals written not because of their historical or political significance, but because they are to the writer the natural expression of what life has meant to him in the moment of living, have a value entirely apart from literary quality.
sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/fpn/texts.html
- E.S.C. Robertson Civil War Biography - Excerpts from the Robertson Colony Collection at the University of Texas at Arlington.
lonestar.texas.net/~mdmclean/ESCR_WAR_BIO.HTML
- G.D. Molineaux Diary - This site includes the Civil War diary of the Illinois volunteer G.D. Molineaux, as well as the movements of his unit.
sparc5.augustana.edu/library/civil2.html
- Gaylesville During the Civil War - This is a continuation of a series of letters contributed by Dr. Joseph Gardner. They were written by his ancestors who lived in Gaylesville and Cherokee County during the Civil War.
www.pacers.org/schools/gaylesville/october/a8.html
- Henry Albert Potter - Letters written by Captain Potter, 4th Michigan Cavalry, from August 1862 to May 1865.
www.public.usit.net/mruddy/letters5.htm
- History and Description of the Voyage of Peter Wiegand - The diary of Peter Wiegand, 97th Illinois Infantry, Company A, begins on the 6th day of August, 1862. Contributed by his descendant, Edward Wiegand.
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/macoupin/war/m_diary.txt
- Iowa Civil War Page - Letters, journals, diaries and oral accounts by Iowa residents and units.
www.iowa-counties.com/civilwar/letters.htm
- James B. Lockney, Wisconsin 28th Regiment, Company G - Two of the original Civil War diaries are in the possession of his great granddaughter Mary Lockney of Brookfield, Wisconsin and his complete works are at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison, WI.
userdata.acd.net/jshirey/cw186308.html
- John C. Birdwell Letters, 1862 - Typed transcriptions of letters of the Nacogdoches County farmer and soldier. Letters are mostly to Birdwell's wife, discussing farming, the Civil War and Confederate camp life.
libweb.sfasu.edu/etrc/collect/manscrpt/birmain.htm
- Letters from Silas Gore - Letters from a private in the US 141st Pennsylavania Volunteers during the War Between the States.
www.geocities.com/Pentagon/1117/gore.html
- Letters From the Front - The Civil War was perhaps the most misnamed war in the history of the United States. It was anything but Civil. The letters written during this time shed light on the war that so few of us know.
www.usps.gov/letters/mainsetcivil.html
- Letters Home from an Iowa Soldier - These letters are part of a collection written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers, during the American Civil War.
www.civilwarletters.com
- Locust Lawn: Civil War History - Presents a serialized, military history with sketches of the US Civil War. Site also depicts social history, gardening, recipes, and architecture of Era.
www.homestead.com/locustlawn
- Primary Sources - Letters, diaries, reminiscences, and manuscripts of New York soldiers and nurses during the Civil War.
www.morrisville.edu/library/local_history/sites/letters
- Revealing Family Ancestry: The Civil War - Letters saved by Margaret Slagg of Michigan, whose brothers served in the Union army.
www.hal-pc.org/~jsb/page11.html
- Robert C. Cardin, Company B, 16th Tennessee Infantry - Memories about how a boy of seventeen went to war, what he saw and some of his experiences.
www2.dmci.net/users/bmacd/default.htm
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow, 1814-1864 - In this 1863 autobiography, the Washington, D.C., socialite and Confederate spy told her story and gave her view of contemporary events.
docsouth.unc.edu/greenhow/menu.html
- Schoff CivilWar Collections - Contains manuscript, photographic and printed materials relating to all phases of the American Civil War.
www.clements.umich.edu/Schoff.html
- The Calvin Shedd Papers - Letters written by Calvin Shedd, a carpenter from New Hampshire, who enlisted in the 7th Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers and served the Union Army.
www.library.miami.edu/archives/shedd/index.htm
- The Confederate Infantry Private - Designed to provide insight about the southern infantry soldier during the War Between the States. Source information is available.
www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/1163
- The Diary of Miss Virginia J. Miller - This diary, from November 15, 1861 to April 17, 1862, begins on a Friday night at Leesburg.
www.mileslehane.com/diary.html
- The Letters of Noah Hart - Information from and about a Union officer in Company F of the 10th Michigan Infantry.
users.rcn.com/harts.ma.ultranet/family/NoahHart/index.shtml
- The Wartime Diary of John Weathered - The exact time when the manuscript was written isn't clear but it was several years after the war while Weathered was in retirement. Bennett's Regiment or 9th Tennessee Cavalry.
www.jackmasters.net/9tncav.html
- Three Koutz Civil War Letters - Civil War era correspondence.
www.qtm.net/~cbryant/kcw.htm
- Vermont Civil War Letters - Archived letters from Elijah Brown and Edwin Horton, plus Civil War links.
www.state.vt.us/vhs/educate/cwletter/cwletter.htm
- William Bishop 1817-1879, Papers, 1839-1891 - Papers of a commander of a Union cavalry unit in northeast Missouri during the Civil War, and State Treasurer of Missouri following the war.
www.system.missouri.edu/whmc/invent/bishop.htm
- William H. Johnson Civil War Letters - Letters of Union soldier William H. Johnson, a sergeant in Co. E, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers. Links to other manuscripts collections.
www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1995/whjohn95.html
- Woman Recalls Civil War Veteran Father - Reminiscences of Effie Turner, 88, daughter of Thomas Wood Machen, who was a soldier in the Confederate Army of Alabama.
www.oakridger.com/stories/102497/aps_civil.html
- Strieby Family Civil War Letters - Among the scanned images of the original letters written to and from Indiana, is a rare letter that includes information about the surrender of Lee and news of Lincoln's death.
home.att.net/~cwletters
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