People of the Civil War Project

Nurses and Nursing

A Nurse’s View of Civil War Battle	Civil War Nursing
Civil War Nurses: Angels of the Battlefield	Our Army Nurses
Civil War Nursing: Requirements for Women in Nursing Service Circular #8 by Dorthea Dix	Three Weeks at Gettysburg Civil War Nurses

Doctors and Civil War Medicine

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker	Medicine in the Civil War
Medicine in the Civil War	Caring for the Men - History of Civil War Medicine
Civil War Medicine

Civil War Generals

Civil War Prisoners and Prisoners of War

Civil War Prisons and Prisoners	Civil War Prisoners InternetResources
Brother Bound: Prisoner of War Experience CW	Civil War POW Documents

Civil War Women and the Homefront

Spies in Disguise: Female Civil War Spies	Hearts at Home – War Work
The Civil War Homefront	Civil War Women and the Homefront
Women in the Civil War	Women During the Civil War
The Civil War Homefront	Civilians in Civil War
Hearts at Home Southern Women in the Civil War	Women During the Civil War
Women and the Civil War	Women of the American Civil War
Civil War Women: Primary Sources	Matthew Brady Photos of Civil War Women
Women Were There	Civil War Women Archival papers (letters, diaries)
Alice Williamson Diary	Sarah E. Thompson Papers 1859-1898
Family life during Civil War	Rose O’Neal Greenhow Papers
Families Divided	Women and Children at Home

Reporting the War

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The Valley of the Shadow letters, personal papers	Civil War Gazette (letters/diaries)
Reporting the War Civil War Correspondents	Harper’s Weekly Original Civil War Newspapers (Primary source documents)
Reporting the War	Civil War Correspondent
Communications During Civil War	Telegraph and Signal Towers

Children of the Civil War

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Children of the Civil War	Family life during Civil War
Women and Children at Home	Civil War Took Toll on the Young
Children and the American Civil War (first person accounts)	Children of the Civil War (student report)
Civil War Through a Child's Eyes (PowerPoint)

African Americans and the Civil War

Life as a slave	The Topic: Underground Railroad
The Road to Freedom Webquest	The Story: Life as a Slave
Colored Troops in the Civil War	American Civil War Colored Troops Pictures
African Americans:Slavery and Freedom	The Underground Railroad (video)

Abolitionists

Abolition and the Civil War	Abolitionism - Wikipedia
John Brown - Wikipedia	Frederick Douglass American Abolitionist
Frederick Douglass - Abolitionist/editor	Underground Railroad Quilts and Abolitionist Fairs
Slavery, Abolition and African American Roles in the Civil War	Abolition Primary Source Documents
Famous Abolitionist Quotes	William Lloyd Garrison - Wikipedia
William Lloyd Garrison	William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator Files Garrison newspaper	The Liberator - Wikipedia
Grimke Sisters	Grimke Sisters
Wendell Phillips - Wikipedia	Wendell Phillips - Voice of the Abolitionist Movement

Page updated February 17, 2010

The Topic: Civil War	The Valley of the Shadow letters, personal papers
Library of Congress Civil War resources	Civil War Archives Index Diaries/ letters
Harper’s Weekly Original Civil War Newspapers (Primary source documents)	American Civil War Homepage
The Valley of the Shadow letters, personal papers	Primary Sources: Civil War Effects
Civil War Letters	Civil War Primary Documents (great variety of Primary Source documents)
Selected Civil War Photographs American Memory (LOC)	Civil War Technology Civil War Academy.com
The Civil War (variety of topics)	Civil War Hotlist

Soldiers’ Letters (Battle of Gettysburg)	Soldier Talk and Civil War Slang
Life of Soldier During the Civil War	Kentuckians Fighting in the War
An Illinois Soldier in the Civil War (Private Jefferson Moses)	Life: Civil War Collections
Letters Home From the Civil War

Army Chaplains and Spiritual Care of Soldiers During the Civil War 1861-1865	Fr. Peter Whelan: Serving the Blue and the Gray
Catholic Nuns During the Civil War