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Primary resources on the Civil War—some examples

Government documents

The war of the rebellion : a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies.  United States. War Dept. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1880-1901.  A 70-volume set found on the first floor in GovDocs Federal at W 45.5: v.

This set is also available on-line, for instance at http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/moawar/waro.html

United States. War Dept. Letters sent by the Department of Texas, the District of Texas, and the 5^th Military District, 1856-1858 and 1865-1870 [microform]  Washington : National Archives, 1981. M&M Microfilm, MF1623 . M1165.  

LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection (Historical Full Text)

Memoirs

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.   Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman / William Tecumseh Sherman. New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, c1990.

Spec. Coll. Military      E467.1.S55 A3 1990

Born in Slavery:  Slave narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938.

            http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/

You can find memoirs and other first-person accounts by using the keywords “personal narratives.”

Newspapers

New York Times (Available online from Proquest Historical Newspapers)

Time of London (Available online from Proquest)

NewspaperARCHIVE.com has several nineteenth-century American newspapers, searchable full-text

Early American Newspapers (1690-1876), Series I (NewsBank/Readex)

Other contemporary magazines and journals

American Periodicals Series Online (1740-1900) (ProQuest)

Photographs

Check American Memory at the Library of Congress at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html 

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