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I. Background and Causes of the War
A. Economic developments in the U.S.
Economics of the Civil War
Causes--Economic and Sectional Differences
The Economics of the Civil War
B. Slavery
Causes of the Civil War: A Balanced Answer
Cooper Union Address
The History Place: Abraham Lincoln
Wikipedia: Origins of the Civil War
C. States Rights vs. Strong Federal Government
Causes of the Civil War: N. Georgia Perspective
Slavery and the Civil War
II. Political and Social Catalysts for the War
A. Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise:Wikipedia
Missouri Compromise:Infoplease
B. Kansas-Nebraska Act
US History: The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The History Place: Kansas-Nebraska Act
C. Dred Scott Decision
The History Place: Dred Scott
Dred Scott v. Sandford
D. John Brown’s Raid
Gerrit Smith: Harper’s Ferry and the Aftermath
John Brown's Raid
E. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Wikipedia: Uncle Tom's Cabin
F. Lincoln Douglas Debates
Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Lincoln-Douglas Debates and Debate sites
G. Presidential Election of 1860
Lincoln Wins the Republican Nomination in 1860
Wikipedia: US Presidential Election in 1860
United States Presidential Election of 1860
III. Major Political and Military Leaders
1. Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis Biography
Jefferson Davis Bio
Jefferson Davis from Wikipedia
2. Alexander Stephens
Wikipedia: Alexander H. Stephens
Alexander Stephens Biography
3. Robert B. Rhett, Louis T. Wigfall, William L. Yancey, Robert Toombs
Causes of the Civil War: The Fire-Eaters
Robert B. Rhett from Wikipedia
Louis Wigfall from Wikipedia
William Lowndes Yancey from Wikipedia
Robert Augustus Toombs from Wikipedia
1. Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Online
Abraham Lincoln Research Site
Abraham Lincoln from Wikipedia
The History Place Presents Abraham Lincoln (Timeline)
Lincoln’s War Cabinet
Lincoln's Faith in God
A Short Biography of Abraham Lincoln
2. William H. Seward
William H. Seward
Wikipedia: William H. Seward
3. Stephen A. Douglas, Charles Summer, Salmon P. Chase
Stephen A. Douglas Image
Wikipedia: Stephen A. Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas NNDB
Wikipedia: Charles Sumner
Wikipedia: Salmon P. Chase
1. Robert E. Lee
R. E. Lee
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee Image
Wikipedia: R. E. Lee
2. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and James Longstreet
“Stonewall” Jackson NNDB
Wikipedia: Stonewall Jackson
Wikipedia: James Longstreet
The Longstreet Chronicles
3. Albert Sidney Johnston and Joseph E. Johnston
Wikipedia: Albert Sidney Johnston
Wikipedia: Joseph E. Johnston Biography
4. Various Others
U.S. Civil War Generals
Wikipedia: Nathan Bedford Forrest
1. Ulysses S. Grant
U. S. Grant Home Page
Wikipedia: Ulysses S. Grant
The White House: Ulysses S. Grant
2. William Tecumseh Sherman and George B. McClellan
William Tecumseh Sherman
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Wikipedia: W. T. Sherman
George B. McClellan Image
Wikipedia: G. B. McClellan
3. Phil Sheridan, George G. Meade, Joshua L. Chamberlain
Wikipedia: Philip Henry Sheridan
Wikipedia: George Meade
George Gordon Meade
Joshua L. Chamberlain
Wikipedia: Joshua L. Chamberlain
4. George H. Thomas, William Rosecrans, Robert Anderson, and Various Others
George H. Thomas, William Rosecrans, Don Carlos Buell, Robert Anderson
Wikipedia: George H. Thomas
Wikipedia: William Rosecrans
Wikipedia: Maj. Robert Anderson
U.S. Civil War Generals
IV. Events & Battles of 1861-1862
1. Secession of the Confederate States
Wikipedia: The Confederate States of America
Secession of the Southern States
2. Fort Sumter
Crisis at Fort Sumter
Wikipedia: Fort Sumter
3. Mobilization of the North and South
The History Place: Abraham Lincoln (Proclamation for Volunteers)
4. European Intervention and the Trent Affair
Wikipedia: The Trent Affair
Wikipedia: John Slidell
1. First Manassas (Bull Run)
First Manassas
First Manassas
Wikipedia: First Bull Run
2. Forts Henry and Donelson
Wikipedia: Fort Henry
Forts Henry and Donelson
Fort Donelson
Fort Donelson Official Records
Fort Donelson
3. Shiloh (Pittsburg’s Landing)
Battle of Shiloh Facts
Battle of Shiloh
Wikipedia: Battle of Shiloh
4. Shenandoah Valley
History Animated: The Valley Campaign
Wikipedia: First Battle of Kernstown
Wikipedia: Front Royal
Wikipedia: First Battle of Winchester I
Wikipedia: Battle of Cross Keys
Wikipedia: Battle of Port Republic
5. Seven Days
Wikipedia: Seven Days Battles
Seven Days Campaign
6. Second Manassas (Bull Run)
Second Battle of Bull Run
Second Manassas
Wikipedia: Second Bull Run
7. Antietam (Sharpsburg)
Civil War Trust: Antietam
Antietam on the Web
Wikipedia: Battle of Antietam
8. Fredericksburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg, 1862
Wikipedia: The Battle of Fredericksburg
Civil War Trust: Fredericksburg
9. Murphreesboro (Stone’s River)
Stone's River
Stone's River Official Report
Wikipedia: Battle of Stone's River
10. The Trans-Mississippi
Wikipedia: Battle of Wilson's Creek
Wikipedia: Battle of Pea Ridge
1. Blockaders and Blockade Runners
Wikipedia: Union Blockade
Naval War of American civil War
Wikipedia: Confederate States Navy
The History Place: Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Blockade
2. Ironclads
Wikipedia: The USS Monitor
Battle Between the Monitor & the Virginia (Merrimack)
The CSS Virginia Home Page
Wikipedia: Ironclad Warship
1. USS Monitor vs. the CSS Virginia (Merrimack)
Battle Between the Monitor & the Virginia
Wikipedia: Naval Battles of the American civil War
Wikipedia: Battle of Hampton Roads
2. New Orleans
New Orleans During the Civil War
Naval Battle of New Orleans
3. Charleston Harbor
Wikipedia: Second Battle of Charleston Harbor
Wikipedia: Hunley Submarine
4. Mobile Bay
Wikipedia: Battle of Mobile Bay
Civil War Trust: Mobile Bay
5. The CSS Alabama and the USS Kearsarge
CSS Alabama
Wikipedia: CSS Alabama
Wikipedia: USS Kearsarge
1. Emancipation Proclamation and The Thirteenth Amendment
The Emancipation Proclamation
Wikipedia: The Emancipation Proclamation
The Thirteenth Amendment from Great American History
Wikipedia: The Thirteenth Amendment
2. The Gettysburg Address
Wikipedia: The Gettysburg Address
Text of The Gettysburg Address
Our documents: The Gettysburg Address
1. Chancellorsville
Civil War Trust: Chancellorsville
Chancellorsville
Wikipedia: Battle of Chancellorsville
2. Gettysburg
Wikipedia: Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg
History Net: Gettysburg
3. Vicksburg
NPS Vicksburg Page
Wikipedia: The Siege of Vicksburg
4. Chickamauga
Wikipedia: Battle of Chickamauga
Chickamagua- A Civil War Battle
Chickamagua Campaign
5. Chattanooga
National Park service: Chattanooga and Chickamauga
Wikipedia: Chattanooga Campaign
Wikipedia: Second Battle of Chattanooga
Chattanooga- Civil War
VII. Events & Battles of 1864-1865
1. Presidential Election of 1864
Wikipedia: Presidential Election of 1864
Overview of the 1864 Election
2. Copperhead Activities in the North
Wikipedia: Copperheads (politics)
Brittanica: Copperheads (Peace Democrats)
3. Surrender of Lee
Wikipedia: Battle of Appomattox and Surrender of Lee
Surrender at Appomattox
4. Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment
Harper's Weekly Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment from Great American History
Wikipedia: The Thirteenth Amendment
5. Assasination of Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln's Assasination
The Assasination of Abraham Lincoln
Wikipedia: The Assasination of Abraham Lincoln
1. Atlanta
History Animated: Battle for Atlanta
The Atlanta Campaign
Wikipedia: Battle of Atlanta
2. Wilderness
Wikipedia: Battle of the Wilderness
Civil War Trust: The Wilderness
3. Spotsylvania Courthouse
National Park Service: Spotsylvania Court House
Spotsylvania Court House: Offical Records
Wikipedia: Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
4. Cold Harbor
Wikipedia: Cold Harbor
Battle of North Anna and Cold Harbor: Official Records
5. Sherman’s March
Sherman's March
The History Channel: Sherman's March
Wikipedia: Sherman's March
6. Franklin
John Bell Hood: Franklin
Wikipedia: The Second Battle of Franklin
7. Petersburg
Wikipedia: The Second Battle of Petersburg
Civil War Trust: Petersburg
8. Nashville
Nashville
Wikipedia: The Battle of Nashville
9. Appomattox Campaign
Civil War Trust: Appomatox Courthouse
Wikipedia: Battle of Appomattox Court House
Appomatox Courthouse: Official Records
VIII. Civilians and Miscellaneous
A. Women During the Civil War
Women in the Civil War
Wikipedia: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wikipedia: Women in the American Civil War
About.com: Women and the Civil War
B. African-Americans in the Civil War
National Archives: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
Wikipedia: Frederick Douglass
Wikipedia: Harriet Tubman
United States Colored Troops: The Civil War
Wikipedia: Fifty-Fourth Massachussetts Infantry
A Short Biography of Frederick Douglass
Wikipedia: The Underground Railroad
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
Our History as News
C. Native Americans in the Civil War
Native Americans in the American Civil War
Wikipedia: Native Americans in the Civil War
Native Americans in the Civil War
D. Religious leaders and events in the Civil War
Religious Revival in Civil War Armies
Civil War and Religion
The Christian Commission
Wikipedia: The United States Christian Commission
E. Hospitals & Medicine
Medicine in the American Civil War
Wikipedia: Clara Barton
Civil War Medicine
F. Prisons
Civil War Prisons
Civil War Prison Camps
Andersonville NPS Site
Wikipedia: Andersonville Historic Site
G. Photography and Matthew Brady
Wikipedia: Matthew Brady
Selected Civil War Photographs
Center for Civil War Photography
Wikipedia: Photographers of the Civil War
H. Railroads
Wikipedia: Confederate Railroads in the Civil War
Historynet: Railroads in the Civil War
Railroads in the Civil War
I. Newspapers and the Press
Harper's Weekly Civil War Newspapers
Civil War Newspapers
Wikipedia: Horace Greeley
J. Weapons of War
Wikipedia: Lists of Weapons of the Civil War
Wikipedia: Field Artillery in the Civil War
Civil War Weapons
Civil War Technology
K. Civil War Food and Cooking
L. Civil War Music
M. Hispanic-Americans in the Civil War
A. The Struggle for Equality
B. Actions of the US Government
C. Ratification of 13th, 14th, 15th Amendment
Civil War Food
How Civil War Soldiers Lived
Civil War Rations: Food?
Civil War Music Teacher's Guide
Music of the Civil War
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
Wikipedia: Music of the Civil War
Wikipedia: Hispanics in The Civil War
The Civil War in the West
Hispanics in the Confederacy
Hispanics in The Civil War
African-American Leaders During Reconstruction
Wikipedia: Reconstruction
Reconstruction
The History Place- Abraham Lincoln: A Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution
Wikipedia: Andrew Johnson
The Thirteenth Amendment
Wikipedia: The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Wikipedia: The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
Wikipedia: The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States