The Civil War

DIPLOMACY & FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT DURING THE WAR
1861-65: Diplomacy of the Civil War 
  The Diplomacy of the American Civil War 
  The Civil War's Last Great Peace Effort 
  Meeting at Hampton Roads (Lincoln/Confederates) 
  Lincoln's Meeting With Confederates (Hampton Roads)
  USCWC -- Diplomacy/Foreign Involvement 
  Europe and the American Civil War 
  The American Question Abroad in the Civil War 
  Correspondence of the Department of State,  in Relation to the British Consuls 
  DIPLOMACY AND INTRIGUE: Confederate Relations with the Republic of Mexico 
     Images of the Civil War - Foreign Observers 
  Canadians Civil War IN Iowa Regiments 
  The Trent Affair 
  The Trent Affair -- A Documentary History
  The Society of Europe
Hauptmann von Krohllen, Prussian Observer
Foreign Influences in the Civil War 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
 TIMELINE: Abraham Lincoln 
  Abraham Lincoln Research Site
  Abraham Lincoln Online 
  Lincoln the Realist 
   PRIMARY DOCUMENT: LINCOLN'S HOUSE DIVIDED SPEECH, June 1858 
  PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Lincoln Fragment on Slavery 
  The Civil War's Last Great Peace Effort 
  Meeting at Hampton Roads (Lincoln/Confederates) 
  Lincoln's Meeting With Confederates (Hampton Roads) 
  Civil War - Confederacy - Lincoln Plots  
  Creative Quotations from Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 
  For much, much more info on his early career, role in the Civil War, and his assassination, go to my Presidents page and scroll down to PRESIDENT #16!!!  Also, check out Civil War Primary Documents for more speeches by Lincoln. 

LINCOLN ELECTIONS
Abraham Lincoln's Pre-Presidential Political Links 
   Election of 1860
  Democratic PLATFORM OF 1860 (Douglas faction) 
  Democratic Platform of 1860 (Breckinridge Faction) 
The Republican Party Platform of 1860
  Party Conventions, Spring, 1860 - mirror site. 
    Abraham Lincoln: Campaign and Election of 1860 
  ELECTION SURPRISES: LINCOLN'S 1864 RE-ELECTION VICTORY 
  Lincoln and the 1864 Election 
   More on the Election of 1864 
   PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Lincoln 2nd Inaugural Address: "With malice toward none," March 4, 1865
  Lincoln Political Cartoons of the elections of 1860 and 1864 
For much, much more info on his early career, role in the Civil War, and his assassination, go to my Presidents page and scroll down to PRESIDENT #16!!! Also, check out Civil War Primary Documents for more speeches by Lincoln.

HABEAS CORPUS - What is that?
The Provost-Marshal And The Citizen(Habeas Corpus is set aside)
  An Examination of Ex Parte Merryman 

JEFFERSON DAVIS & CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT
TIMELINE: Jefferson Davis
The Papers of Jefferson Davis Home Page
  Jefferson Davis FAQs
  Davis Family Genealogy 
  Jefferson Davis Documents 
  U.S. Senate Historical Minutes - Jefferson Davis' Farewell, 1861 
  Creative Quotations from Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) 
  Causes of the Civil War (Confederate View) 
  Overview of the Confederacy
   The Confederate States of America
  Confederate Government Heads of State 
  Confederate Senators 
  The Great Seal Of The Confederacy 
  Financing The Confederacy
  Museum and White House of the Confederacy 
     White House of the Confederacy - Museum of the Confederacy 
  PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Jefferson Davis's Inaugural Address
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Confederate Provisional Constitution
  PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Jefferson Davis's Proclamation Regarding Captured Black Soldiers, December 23, 1862
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Confederate Law authorizing the enlistment of black soldiers, March 13, 1865
KIRCHNER'S MAP OF THE CONFEDERACY
Sons of Confederate Veterans Home Page - For more on Confederate Lost Cause organizations, check out my Reconstruction and Lost Cause page.

CIVIL WAR WOMEN & THE HOME FRONT
The Civil War Women - On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University will tell you about the war from the woman's point of view.
  Women of the American Civil War Era
  The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865
  Browse: DocSouth
  Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War 
Mrs. Jefferson Davis gives a magazine interview about Christmas in the Confederate White House 
   Women in the Civil War
   Bread Riot  "Starving Women In Richmond"  April 2, 1863
For info on Women's Fashions during the war, please visit my FASHION: PAST AND PRESENT page.

WOMEN & MEDICINE
Clara Barton
  CLARA BARTON’S SEARCH FOR MISSING SOLDIERS 
  Dr. Mary Edwards Walker - Surgeon - Congressional Medal of Honor
  HWS: The Elizabeth Blackwell Exhibit
Sanitary Fairs 
More on Civil War medicine on my Civil War Weaponry page.

WOMEN SPIES & SOLDIERS
Spies in Disguise: Female Civil War Spies
Hearts at Home: Spies 
Civil War - Confederacy - Women Spies
Belle Boyd biography 
Civil War - Union - Women 
  Elizabeth Van Lew Biography - Union Spy
  Sarah Emma Edmonds 
   Rose O'Neal Greenhow Papers at Duke 
  Women Soldiers
More on Confederate spies on my Civil War Weaponry page.

WOMEN & LITERATURE
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) 
  Harriet Beecher Stowe  
  Mary Boykin Chesnut
About Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-1886)
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller. Diary from Dixie: FULL TEXT 
  Angelina Grimke Weld (1805 - 1879) 
  Sarah Grimke (1792 - 1873)

CIVIL WAR FOOD
USCWC -- Food
Recipes of the Civil War Time Period
  PEQUOT MESS RECIPES
  Civil War Plants and Herbs @ foodhistory.com
Bread Riot "Starving Women In Richmond"  April 2, 1863 

VARIOUS HOMEFRONT TOPICS
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
  America's Civil War: Border States' Population, 1860 
  Civilians in the Civil War 
  Children of the Civil War 
  Expert: Civil War took toll on the young 
    Civil War Letters of Galutia York
War Comes Home: Chambersburg, Summer of 1864 
   Home Front 
Jews in the Civil War
10th. S.C. Infantry Ladies Auxiliary
  Steamboats and Paddlewheelers: The Grand Old South 

LABOR, MONEY, & ECONOMY DURING THE CIVIL WAR
USCWC -- Business and Economics
Civil War Currency
  FRBSF Currency Exhibit: Civil War Currency 
  C.S.A. Currency Page 
  American Labor History
Labor Organizations of the Civil War
   Antebellum Labor Reform 
  Labor & the Sectional Conflict 
  War for Free Labor 
  Post-War Social Conflicts 
   Economic Development Prior to the Civil War 
  The Economics of Slavery 
  The Economic Effects of the Civil War 
  Influences of British Imperialist Economic Fortunes on Slavery, Sugar, and Abolition 
  Florida's Role in the Civil War: "Supplier of the Confederacy" 
Information on "The Peculiar Institution" can be found on my Slavery and Abolition page.

AGRICULTURE
OUTLINE: Cotton South 
CHART: America's Civil War: Farm Size Distribution, 1860 
  King Cotton  
    UNESCO Slave Route Project - Welcome - currently being updated 
  Plantation Agriculture: Cotton Culture 
  Plantation Agriculture: Rice Plantations 
  Saragossa Plantation 
  Yeoman Farmer 
  The Planters 
  Historic Latta Plantation, A Living History Farm, Huntersville, NC 
  Virtual Tour of Latta Plantation(NC) 
  Plantation Agriculture 
  Eli Whitney - Inventor of the Cotton Gin 
  Civil Rights: The Invention that brings Life to the slave industry 
  Cotton gin
   The Land Question 
  North Carolina Agriculture History 
  Agriculture rules the South 
  When Rice Was King 
  Sharecropping and Tenancy 
  sharecropping 
  AGRICULTURE: Sharecropping 
  Antebellum Louisiana - Agrarian Life 
  Agriculture an Important Part of Black History 
  A SHORT HISTORY OF ALABAMA AGRICULTURE, 1820-1945 
  Abraham Lincoln Imposes Science On American Agriculture 
  Corpus Christi Online - / King's fortune was made during the Civil War 
  A Capsule History of Tobacco 
  Tobacco History Links
  American Tobacco Historic District 
  WWW-VL: US History: Agricultural History: United States Agriculture 
Much more on the slave culture on my African Americans and the Civil War page.

CIVIL WAR & RELIGION
TIMELINE: Slavery and Religion in America: 1440-1866 
Civil War Religion 
  Lincoln's Faith in God 
  Religion in the Civil War: The Northern Side 
  Evangelicalism, Revivalism, and the Second Great Awakening 
  Evangelicalism as a Social Movement 
  The Second Great Awakening: Camp Meetings and Revivals 
  Noah’s Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery  
  Slavery and the Civil War as Viewed by the Churches of God 
  Biblical Defenses of Segregation 
  The theology of slavery 
  The Bible View of Slavery by Rabbi M. J. Raphall, 1861
  Why does the Bible seem to tolerate the institution of slavery? 
  The Slavery Question and Civil War, 1844–1865 
  George Bourne, 1780-1845. A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument 
  Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community 
  African-American Religion in the Nineteenth Century
  Confederate and Christian 
  A Confederate Soldier's Prayer 
  Excerpts From The Soldier's Prayer Book
  RELIGION 466: Religion in the South 
  The Roots of Southern Evangelicalism 
  Religious Revival in Civil War Armies 
  Revival in the Southern Armies During the Late Civil War 
  Journal of Southern Religion 

HAMPTON ROADS - THE LAST PEACE EFFORT
The Civil War's Last Great Peace Effort 
  Meeting at Hampton Roads (Lincoln/Confederates) 
  Lincoln's Meeting With Confederates (Hampton Roads)

THE SULTANA - The Worst ship sinking in US history
The Sultana Disaster 1865 
  Reminiscences of the Sultana 
The Sultana: Death on the Dark River
The Sultana

INVOLVEMENT OF SPECIFIC STATES
23 Union States: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. (Territories of Colorado, Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington also fought on the Union side.)
11 Confederate States (in order of secession): South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee. (Missouri also formed Confederate units.)
The North During the Civil War 
  The South During the Civil War 
  State Participation in the Civil War 
  Facts about Different States in the Civil War
  Arkansas Civil War Info 
  FLORIDA DURING CIVIL WAR 
  Florida's Role in the Civil War: "Supplier of the Confederacy" 
North Georgia History - Index 
  Illinois in the Civil War 
  Iowa Civil War Page 
  The Civil War in Louisiana 
  Michigan Infantry Regiments of the Civil War 
Civil War Gallery, Michigan Historical Museum
  Mississippi Soldiers in the Civil War 
  The Civil War in the Lower Mississippi Valley - Lower Mississippi Delta Region
  Welcome to Nile of the New World - Lower Mississippi Delta Region 
     Civil War in the Delta - Lower Mississippi Delta Region - National Park Service 
Index to the Civil War in Missouri
  New Mexico in the Civil War 
  The Civil War in South Carolina 
  Military Units of SC 
  Narrative History of Texas Secession and Readmission to the Union 
  Civil War Texas 
  TEXAS DURING THE CIVIL WAR 
  Texas Forces in the Civil War - more on Texas and the Civil War can be found on my Texas History page. 
The Virginia Civil War Home Page
  Loyalty & Civil Liberty in Fayette Co.(W. Virginia) During the Civil War 
PBS - THE WEST - Civil War in the West
For more, check out my Battles, Generals, & Soldiers page.

ANTEBELLUM
The capital of the Confederacy - Take a Tour! - Virtual Antebellum Richmond 
Guide to Historic Virginia 
  *** I lived in Charleston for six years.  Civil War @ Charleston will give you loads of info on where the Civil War began.
  Charleston.Net Home Page - Charleston, S.C. focuses on Charleston today! 

VARIOUS TOPICS
American Civil War Glossary
  The Unknown Civil War - People, places, events of the American Illiad.
  USCWC -- Agriculture, Antiques/Relics, Homefront, Quotes, and Trivia/Q&A 
  USCWC -- Films/Theatre, Music, and Writers/Literature 
  USCWC -- Battlefields, Forts, Cemeteries, and Historical Parks 
  USCWC -- Researching People of the Civil War Era
  Propaganda In The Civil War 
  CIVIL WAR VETS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, PART I, PART II, PART III  
    CIVIL WAR SLANG 
  Origin of the word Dixie 
  Was the Confederacy defeated because of its 'Loss of Will?' 
  Jews in the Civil War
Hispanics in Americas Defense, Civil War US
  "Bohemian Brigade": Civil War Newspaper Correspondents 
MEMBERS OF QUANTRILL'S GUERRILLAS IN THE CIVIL WAR
  Unsung Heros of the Civil War
  Civil War Book News - Gateway Page with Special Subjects 
  Guidon Books - Civil War Books 
  Civil War Book Review - civil war, reconstruction, united states history 
  Civil War Humor 
  The Unusual, Strange & Bizarre in the Civil War 
BooneBunny's Historical Hubbub: Civil War Slang 
  The Civil War Tourist - take a vacation! 
  Elms and Magnolias: Old Blue in a Coat of Gray - Yale University and the Civil War.
  Fighting Words: The Civil War - terms that originated during the Civil War. 
  The Olive Tree Genealogy: Civil War - more genealogy sites available on my Civil War Battles & Generals and People: Biographies and Genealogy pages. 
  German American Corner: Civil War and Reconstruction, part 1, part 2, part 3 
Blue vs Gray: The Civil War Card Game 
Need pictures for your report or page - Civil War Clipart Gallery and another Civil War Clipart Gallery. 

CIVIL WAR FOR KIDS & QUIZZES
The Civil War for Kids  
  Make a Civil War Flag Activity
Civil War Drum Making Activity
  Civil War Tic Tac Toe 
  Civil War Coloring Book
  Geobop's Civil War Quiz - Including Alaska & Hawaii!
  QUIZ: Causes of Civil War, Civil War and Reconstruction Vocabulary Review 
  QUIZ: Civil War to Industrial Giant 
Civil War Quizzes
  Civil War Generals Wordsearch 

THE SOUTH TODAY
The South: Where is it? What is it? - with graphs and maps to illustrate.   
  Documenting The American South - Browse: DocSouth 
  Southern Historical Collection and General and Literary Manuscripts, UNC-Chapel Hill
   Southern Scribe 
  The American South Home Page
  Southern Literature: Women Writers 
  Center for the Study of Southern Culture Home Page
    Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
  Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation 
   USCWC -- Sesquicentennial Information 
  Journal of Southern Religion 
  Southern Foodways Alliance 
  Southern Cooking and Casserole Recipes and Big Index of Crockpot Recipes 
  More on Southern Food can be found on my FOOD IN HISTORY & AROUND THE WORLD page. 
The American South Home Page
Southern sayings and southern humor. 
  Translating Southern United States Slang to English 
  How to Speak Southern 
    The Moonlit Road: Strange Folktales from the American South 
  Southern Cities Described With Style 
   Southern Culture and History - Suite101.com 
  SouthernLiving.com: Foods, Gardens, Homes, Houseplans and Travel 
For more info on Southern organizations, the Rebel Flag Controversy, and the Confederate view of the Civil War, check out the section on THE LOST CAUSE on my Reconstruction and After page.

BE SURE TO CHECK OUT INDIVIDUAL SOUTHERN STATES ON MY 50 STATES WEBPAGE!!!