Civil War & Reconstruction Resources at Otterbein College

Among the Northern states, Ohio was third behind New York and Pennsylvania in the number of men who served during the Civil War. Ohio artillery, cavalry, and infantry units took place in all of the major battles and campaigns of the Civil War.

The daily life of the Civil War soldier, the war’s effects on soldiers and their families, and the nation’s post-war experiences during Reconstruction are well-documented. This bibliography represents selected primary and secondary documents available at Courtright Memorial Library, Internet sites pertaining to the Civil War and Reconstruction, and complementary resources that can be found at other local libraries.

Table of Contents

Civil War Overviews Based on 19^th Century Recollections

Civil War Overviews: Reference Works

Civil War Overviews: Secondary Sources

Letters, Diaries and Eyewitness Accounts of the War and Reconstruction

Military Records and Regimental Histories

Ohio’s Involvement in the Civil War

Printed Materials and Press Coverage of the Civil War

Interdisciplinary Coverage of the Civil War

Poetry, Literature and Music

Art and Photography

Reconstruction

United States History, 1865-1898

Guides for Further Primary Source Research

Otterbein Archival Collections

Primary and Secondary Civil War Resources at Other Local Libraries and County

Offices

Internet Sites for the Civil War, Reconstruction and Military Research

Civil War Overviews Based on 19^th Century Recollections

Citation	Call Number
Abbott, John S.C. The History of the Civil War in America, Vols. I, II. New York: Henry Bill, 1863.	E468.A135 v.1 E468.A135 v.2
Beath, Robert B. History of the Grand Army of the Republic. New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co., 1888.	E462.1.A19
Billings, John D. Hard Tack and Coffee; or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life. [Alexandria, Va.] : Time-Life Books, [1982]. Originally published by George M. Smith & Co. in 1887.	E607.B59 1982
Blake, W.O. Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion. Columbus, OH: Gilmore & Segner, 1866.	E464.B64 v.2
Blake, W.O. Pictorial National Records Embracing Descriptions of European and Asiatic Nations; A Statistical View of the United States of America; and a History of the Great Rebellion. Columbus, OH: Gilmore and Brush, 1863. Pages 563 to 1008 cover “The Great Rebellion.”	E464.B64 v. 1
Botkin, B.A. A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore. New York: Random House, 1960. Anecdotal compilations based on newspaper sources and veteran reminiscences.	E655.B65
Commanger, Henry Steele, ed. Civil War Archive: The History of the Civil War in Documents. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 2000.
Devens, R.M. The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes of the Rebellion or the Funny and Pathetic Side of the War, Embracing the Most Brilliant and Remarkable Anecdotal Events of the Great Conflict in the United States, from the Time of the Memorable Toast of Andrew Jackson, Uttered in 1830, in the Presence of the Original Secession Conspirators, to the Assassination of President Lincoln, and the End of the War, with Famous Words and Deeds of Women. Detroit: W.E. Allen & Co., Publishers, 1889.	E655.D44 1887
Headley, J.T. The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States. Hartford: Hurlbut, Scranton and Co.; Baltimore: Jones Bro's [1862].	E468 .H42 1862z  v.1
Kettell, Thomas P. History of the Great Rebellion, from Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving an Account of its Origin, the Secession of the Southern States, and the Formation of the Confederate Government, the Concentration of the Military and Financial Resources of the Federal Government ... Together with Sketches of the Lives of All the Eminent Statesmen and Military and Naval Commanders, with a Full and Complete Index. From Official Sources. Hartford, CT: L. Stebbins; Cincinnati: F.A. Howe, 1865.	E468 .K44
Morton, Joseph W., Jr. Sparks from the Camp Fire; or Tales of the Old Veterans. Thrilling Stories of Heroic Deeds, Brave Encounters, Desperate Battles, Bold Achievements, Reckless Daring, Lofty Patriotism, Terrible Suffering and Wondrous Fortitude, as Re-told Today around the Modern Camp Fire. Philadelphia: Keystone Publishing Co., 1892.	E655.M875
Townsend, E.D. Anecdotes of the Civil War in the United States. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1884.	E655.T74
The War, 1861-1865, As Depicted in Prints by Currier and Ives.	Pamphlets
Under Both Flags: A Panorama of the Great Civil War, As Represented in Story, Anecdote, Adventure, and the Romance of Reality. Written by Celebrities of Both Sides: The Men and Women Who Created the Greatest Epoch of Our Nation's History. Chicago, National Book Concern, 1896.	Folio E468 .U5 1896z

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Civil War Overviews: Reference Works

Citation	Call Number
Adams, James Truslow, ed. Album of American History. New York: Scribner [1969].	Reference E178.5 .A48 1969z  v.1-6
Arksey, Laura, Pries, Nancy, and Reed, Marcia. American Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries and Journals. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983-1987.	Reference Z5305.U5 A74 1983  v.1-2
Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. Includes basic facts, dates and figures of the war, including 2,000 biographical sketches of Civil War leaders, campaigns and battles, and organizations of armies and departments.	Reference E468.B7 1988
Carruth, Gorton. The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1993.	Reference E174.5 .C3 1993  c.2
Derks, Scott. Working Americans, 1880-1999. Lakeville, CT: Grey House Pub., 2000-2002.	Reference HD8066 .D47 2000  v.1-4
Dornbusch, C. E. Military Bibliography of the Civil War. New York: New York Public Library, [1971]. Volume 1 includes regimental publications and personal narratives from the Northern states. Volume 2 includes regimental publications and personal narratives from the Southern, border, and Western states and territories; Federal troops; and Union and Confederate biographies. Volume 3 provides general references and information about armed forces, campaigns and battles.	Reference E470 .D676  v.1  E470 .D676  v.2 E470 .D676  v.3
Editors of Time-Life Books. Prelude to the Century, 1870-1900. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1999.	Reference: E661 .P74 1999
Finkelman, Paul and Miller, Joseph C., eds. Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, Simon & Schuster Macmillan; London: Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, 1998.	Reference HT861 .M24 1998  v.1  HT861 .M24 1998  v.2
Govenar, Alan. African American Frontiers: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/FRNT
Heidler, David S. and Heidler, Jeanne T. Encylopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/CWAR%5FVol1
Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. Atlas of American History. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1978. Pages 148 to 165 cover the Civil War and Reconstruction.	Reference E179.5 .J3 1978
Kutler, Stanley I., ed. Dictionary of American History. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003.	Reference E174 .D52 2003 v. 1-10
Oliver, Philip. The Civil War CD-ROM: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Carmel, IN : Guild Press of Indiana, 2000.	Reference E464 .C58 2000
Oliver, Philip. The Civil War CD-ROM II: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Carmel, IN: Guild Press of Indiana, 1999.	Reference E591 .C58 1999
Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts on File, 1988.	Reference E467 .S56 1988

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Civil War Overviews: Secondary Sources

Citation	Call Number
Baumgartner, Richard A. Buckeye Blood: Ohio at Gettysburg. Huntington, WV: Blue Acorn Press, 2003.	E475.53 .B36 2003
Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.	E468.9 B58 2001
Catton, Bruce (Leekley, John, ed.). Reflections on the Civil War. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. Not only offers views on the meaning and consequences of the Civil War, but also includes drawings of Union soldier John B. Geyser.	E468.C295
Catton, Bruce. This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.	E468 .C3
Civil War History. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. Quarterly periodical about the Civil War. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/15336271/
Davis, William C., ed. The End of an Era. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984.	Folio E470 .E52 1984
Davis, William C. Memorabilia of the Civil War. New York: Mallard Press, 1991. Illustrated volume of Civil War uniforms, insignia, flags, camp equipment, and tents, together with books and newspapers of the era.	E468.D38 M45 1991
Denver, John W. Keeler. Civil War Chronicle. [1967].	Folio E468 .K3
Field, Ron and Smith, Robin. Uniforms of the Civil War. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2001.	UC483 .F64 2001
Geary, James W. We Need Men: The Union Draft in the Civil War. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1991.	E491.G42 1991
Haber, Barbara. From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals. Penguin, 2003. Chapter 2 of this book, titled “Pretty Much of a Muchness: Civil War Nurses and Diet Kitchens,” provides information on how Confederate and Union nurses set up kitchens in military hospitals. Descriptions of Civil War-era recipes illustrate food shortages prevalent during the time, while details on special diets, food preparation and sanitary considerations clarify the challenges these women faced.
Hess, Earl J. The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.
Long, E.B. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971.	E468.3.L6
McPherson, James. The Atlas of the Civil War. Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc., 1994.
McPherson, James M. For Cause & Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Draws on diaries and letters from men on both sides.	E492.3.M38 1997
McPherson, James M. Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1982.	E468 .M23
Miller, Francis Trevelyan, ed. The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes. New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1911.	E468.7 M64 v.1-10
Mitchell, Joseph B. Decisive Battles of the Civil War. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1955.	E470.M69
Nofi, Albert A. A Civil War Treasury: Being a Miscellany of Arms and Artillery Facts and Figures, Muses and Minstrels, Personalities and People. Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, 1992. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=14773
Randall, J.G. and Donald, David. The Civil War and Reconstruction. Boston: Heath, [1961].	E468 .R26 1961
Smith, Page. Trial by Fire: A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.	E468 .S64 1982
Stevenson, Louise L. The Victorian Homefront: American Thought and Culture, 1860-1880. New York: Twayne Publishers; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991.	E169.1 .S834 1991
Varhola, Michael J. Everyday Life During the Civil War: A Guide for Writers, Students and Historians. Writer’s Digest Books, 1999.
Ward, Geoffrey C. The Civil War: An Illustrated History. New York: Knopf, 1990. Available from other OPAL libraries.
Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1952.	E607.U6 W55 1962
Woodworth, Steven E.  While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers.  University Press of Kansas, 2003.

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Letters, Diaries and Eyewitness Accounts of the War and Reconstruction

Resources listed in this section provide first-hand accounts of battles, the daily life of Civil War soldiers and prisoners of war, slave narratives, and women’s experiences working in hospitals.

Citation	Call Number
Alcott, Louisa May. (Jones, Bessie Z., ed.) Hospital Sketches. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960.	E621.A34 1960
Bacot, Ada W. (Berlin, Jean V., ed.) A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860-1863. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.	E625 .B33 1994
Barrett, John G., ed. Yankee Rebel: The Civil War Journal of Edmund DeWitt Patterson. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1966. Patterson was born in Lorain County, Ohio and enlisted in Company D., 9^th Alabama Infantry.	E605.P33
Blackford, W.W. War Years with Jeb Stuart. New York: Scribner, 1945.	E470 .B6
Blair, William Alan, ed. A Politician Goes To War: The Civil War Letters of John White Geary. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Letters of this Union general from Pennsylvania to his wife, Mary, provide information about action on the front and life on the Northern home front.	E467.1.G29 A4 1995
Bond, Otto F. Under the Flag of the Nation: Diaries and Letters of a Yankee Volunteer in the Civil War. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press for The Ohio Historical Society, 1961. Includes muster role of Company K, 42^nd Regiment, O.V.I.; service record of Owen J. Hopkins, and Hopkins’ 1863-1864 diaries during Mississippi campaigns of the Army of Tennessee.	E525.0337 no. 1
Brewer, James D. Tom Worthington’s Civil War: Shiloh, Sherman, and the Search for Vindication. McFarland & Company, Incorporated, 2001.
Cooke, John Eston. Wearing of the Gray; Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of the War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press [1959].	E605 .C77 1959
Edmonds, S. Emma E. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields. Hartford, CT: W.S. Williams & Co., 1865.	E668.E24
Eggleston, George Cary. A Rebel's Recollections. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, [1959].	E487 .E32 1959
Gallman, J. Matthew, ed. The Civil War Chronicle: The Only Day-By-Day Portrait of America’s Tragic Conflict as Told by Soldiers, Journalists, Politicians, Farmers, Nurses, Slaves, and Other Eyewitnesses. New York: Crown Publishers, 2000.	E655.C49 2000
Hartley, James J. and Davidson, Garber A., eds. The Civil War Letters of the Late 1st Lieutenant James J. Hartley, 122nd Ohio Infantry Regiment. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998.
Harwell, Richard B. The Union Reader. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1958.	E464.H34
Hesseltine, William B., ed. The Tragic Conflict: The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: George Braziller, 1962. An anthology of contemporary accounts of economic, social, and intellectual history and military events from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine and Atlantic Monthly.	E464.H4
Jackman, John S. (Davis, William C., ed.) Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade. [Columbia, SC]: University of South Carolina Press, [1990].	E564.5 .J33 1990
Livermore, Mary A. My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, During the War of Rebellion, with Anecdotes, Pathetic Incidents, and Thrilling Reminiscences Portraying the Lights and Shadows of Hospital Life and the Sanitary Service of the War. Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington and Company, 1889.	E621.L79
McCarthy, Carlton. Detailed Minutiæ of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1993. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=41737
Mohr, James C., ed. The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. These diaries were kept by Otterbein students Rachel Bowman and her husband, Samuel Cormany, from 1858 to 1865. Descriptions of camp life are contrasted with Rachel’s experiences at home in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.	E464.C66 1982
Nisbet, James Cooper. (Wiley, Bell Irvin, ed.) 4 Years on the Firing Line. [Jackson, Tennessee]: McCowat-Mercer Press, Inc., 1963.	E605 .N72 1963
Ohio in the Civil War Through Primary Sources. Columbus: The Ohio Historical Society, 2003. This CD-ROM presents 78 authentic documents, images, letters, diary entries, music, and news articles drawn from the Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library’s Civil War collection. These have been digitally scanned and are printable so the images can be viewed in either an electronic or a printed format. Many of the written documents are available with printable transcripts.
Poague, William Thomas (Cockrell, Monroe F., ed.). Gunner with Stonewall: Reminiscences of William Thomas Poague, A Memoir, Written for His Children in 1903. Jackson, TN: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1957.	E605 .P6
Private and Official Correspondence of [Union] General Benjamin F. Butler During the Period of the Civil War. Jessie Ames Marshall, 1917.	E467.1.B87 B915
Robertson, James I. Tenting Tonight: The Soldier’s Life. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1984.	E491.R58 1984
Scott, Robert Garth, ed. Fallen Leaves: The Civil War Letters of Major Henry Livermore Abbott. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1992.	E513.5 20th .F35 1991
Seidman, Rachel Filene. The Civil War: A History in Documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Also provides definitions of primary sources, such as caricatures, symbols, and poses in pictures.	E464.S48 2000
Slave Narratives. New York: Library of America, 2000. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=26002
Taylor, Richard. (Harwell, Richard B., ed.) Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War. New York, Longmans, Green, 1955.	E470 .T24 1955
Welles, Gideon. Diary. New York, W.W. Norton [1960].	E468 .W444  v.1
Wiley, Bell Irvin. The Life of Johnny Reb, the Common Soldier of the Confederacy. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1943].	Otterbein Archives E607 .W5
Woodward, C. Vann, ed. Mary Chesnut’s Civil War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, Chesnut was a famous Civil War diarist.	E487.C5

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Military Records and Regimental Histories

Citation	Call Number
Ambrose, D. Leib. From Shiloh to Savannah: The Seventh Illinois Infantry in the Civil War (A History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry). DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. This source was originally published in 1868 as History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from its First Muster into the U.S. Service, April 25, 1861, to its Final Muster Out, July 9, 1865. This infantry division is listed on Otterbein’s monument.	E505.5 7th .A43 2003
Burton, William L. Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union's Ethnic Regiments. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 1998. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=16257
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence. The Passing of the Armies An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [1998]. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=41436
Cope, Alexis. The Fifteenth Ohio Volunteers and Its Campaigns. Columbus: Self-published, 1916.	E525.5 15th
Curry, W.L. Four Years in the Saddle: History of the First Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Jonesboro, GA: Freedom Hill Press, Inc., 1898 (1984 reprint). This regiment is represented on the Otterbein monument.	E525.G 1^st.c87 1984
Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of the Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers, and Other Reliable Documents and Sources. Dayton, Ohio: National Historical Society, in cooperation with the Press of Morningside Bookshop, 1979.	Folio E491 .D99 1979  v.1  E491 .D99 1979  v.2
Ellison, Janet Correll, ed., with assistance from Mark A. Weitz. On to Atlanta: The Civil War Diaries of John Hill Ferguson, Illinois Tenth Regiment of Volunteers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=71924
Genoways, Ted and Genoways, Hugh H., eds. A Perfect Picture of Hell: Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=67713
Greiner, James M., Coryell, Janet L. & Smither, James R, eds. A Surgeon's Civil War: The Letters and Diary of Daniel M. Holt, M.D. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994. Provides information about the 121^st New York Infantry Regiment. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=27538
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Army Life in a Black Regiment. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1900.	E 492.94 33d. H5 1900
Hitchcock, Frederick L. War from the Inside; Or, Personal Experiences, Impressions, and Reminiscences of One of the "Boys" in the War of the Rebellion. Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1903]. Provides information on the 132^nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment.	E527.5.132d .H63
Leech, Margaret. Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865. New York, London: Harper & Brothers [1941].	E501 .L4
Mulholland, St. Clair A., ed., with an introduction by Lawrence Frederick Kohl. The Story of the 116th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion. New York: Fordham University Press, 1996. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=16357
Pullen, John J. The Twentieth Maine; A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War. Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1957].	E511.5 20th .P8
Stuart, Addison A. Iowa Colonels and Regiments: Being a History of Iowa Regiments in the War of the Rebellion; and Containing a Description of the Battles in Which They Have Fought. Des Moines: Mills & Co., 1865.	E507 .S92
Thackery, David T. A Light and Uncertain Hold: A History of the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=27572
Tri-Star Pictures/ RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video. Glory. 1990. A fictionalized account based on the letters of Robert Gould Shaw, detailing the experiences of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first black Civil War regiment.	PN1997 .G557 1990
United States War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.	Government Documents W 45.5
Wilkinson, Warren. Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen: The Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac, 1864-1865. New York: Quill/Morrow, 1991.	E513.5 57th .W5 1991
Williams, T. Harry. Hayes of the Twenty-Third: The Civil War Volunteer Officer. New York, Knopf, 1965.	E682 .W73
Williams, John A.B. Leaves from a Trooper's Diary. Philadelphia, 1869. Provides the author’s account of the 15th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry.	E601 .W72

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Ohio’s Involvement in the Civil War

Citation	Call Number
Chessman, G. Wallace. Ohio Colleges and the Civil War. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press for The Ohio Historical Society, [1963].	E525.0337 no. 14
Davison, Kenneth E. Cleveland During the Civil War. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press for The Ohio Historical Society, 1962.	E525.0337 no. 10
Frohman, Charles E. Rebels on Lake Erie: The Piracy, The Conspiracy, Prison Life. Columbus: The Ohio Historical Society, 1965. Includes information about Johnson’s Island, Ohio.	E616.J7F7
Harper, Robert S. Ohio Handbook of the Civil War. Columbus: The Ohio Historical Society, 1961.	E525.H3
Harper, Robert S. The Ohio Press in the Civil War. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press for The Ohio Historical Society, [1961].	E525.0337 no. 3
Jones, Robert L. Ohio Agriculture During the Civil War. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press for The Ohio Historical Society, 1962.	E525.0337 no. 7
Leeke, Jim, ed. A Hundred Days to Richmond: Ohio’s “Hundred Days” Men in the Civil War. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999.	E525.4.H86 1999
Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Generals and Soldiers, vols. 1, 2. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1895.	E525.R34 1995 v.1 E525.R34 1995 v.2
Simms, Henry H. Ohio Politics on the Eve of Conflict. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press for The Ohio Historical Society, 1961.	E525.0337 no. 4
Weisenburger, Francis P. Columbus During the Civil War. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press for The Ohio Historical Society, 1963.	E525.O337 no.12
Wheeler, Kenneth W., ed. For the Union: Ohio Leaders in the Civil War. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1968.	E525.W5

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Printed Materials and Press Coverage of the Civil War

Well-known Civil War-era newspapers and magazines, such as Harper’s Weekly and Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, provide rich accounts of the war. Pamphlets also played an important part in mobilizing public opinion during the wars of the 17^th and 18^th centuries, and continued to be a strong force during the Civil War. These items recorded observations about why the North should be fighting, the meaning of the war, and how it should be conducted.

Citation	Call Number
Andrews, J. Cutler. The North Reports the Civil War. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1955.	E609.A6
Andrews, J. Cutler. The South Reports the Civil War. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1970.	E609 .A62
Bosse, David C., ed. Civil War Newspaper Maps. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Crozier, Emmet. Yankee Reporters 1861-1865. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956.	E609.C7
Freidel, Frank, ed. Union Pamphlets of the Civil War, 1861-1865, Vols. I, II. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.	E464.F7 v.1 E464.F7 v.2
Guernsey, Alfred H. and Alden, Henry M. Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War. [New York?]: Fairfax Press: Distributed by Crown, [1977]. A reprint of Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion, New York: Harper, 1866-1868.	Folio E468.7 .G954 1977
Kouwenhoven, John A. Adventures of America, 1857-1900; A Pictorial Record from Harper's Weekly. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1938.	Folio E178.5 .K692
Pratt, Fran. Civil War in Pictures. New York, Harper [1955]. A compilation of drawings and reports, mainly from Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, arranged with commentary.	Folio E468.7 .P7
Sachsman, David B., Rushing, S. Kittrell, and van Tuyll, Debra Reddin, eds., with Burkholder, Ryan P. The Civil War and the Press. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2000. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=49972
The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Co. While Otterbein has issues dating from 1857 to 1932, issues for 1857 through 1901 are available through the Making of America web site in a searchable online database, or by browsing by year to see scanned images of pages: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/browse.journals/atla.html.	Periodicals

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Interdisciplinary Coverage of the Civil War

Literature, music, and art can also serve as valuable primary sources in understanding Civil War America. This section enumerates resources that demonstrate how artists, authors and composers not only lent their talents to the war effort, but also provided future generations with a glimpse of how citizens responded to the crisis.

Poetry, Literature and Music

Citation	Call Number
Aaron, Daniel. The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War. New York, Knopf; distributed by Random House, 1973.	PS88 .A18
Bales, Richard. The Union: A Cantata on Music of the North During the Years 1861-65. Columbia, [1958].	Music LRC RD 4567
Benét, Stephen Vincent. John Brown's Body. New York, Rinehart, [1955].	PS3503.E5325 J6 1955z  c.2
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=56486	PZ3.C852 R4 1991 (Penguin edition)
Fahs, Alice. The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North & South, 1861-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Gramm, Kent. Somebody’s Darling: Essays on the Civil War. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=68665
Heaps, Willard A. and Heaps, Porter W. The Singing Sixties: The Spirit of Civil War Days Drawn from the Music of the Times. University of Oklahoma Press, [1960].	Music ML3551 .H35
Hill, Lois, ed. Poems and Songs of the Civil War. New York: Fairfax Press: Distributed by Outlet Book Co., 1990.	PS595.C55 P64 1990
Marius, Richard, ed. The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Poetry, prose, photos, and songs of the Civil War.	PS595.C55 C65 1994
Melville, Herman. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1960. A facsimile reproduction of the original 1866 Harper publication of this collection of Civil War poems and prose.	PS2384 .B3 1960
Poetry and Songs of the Civil War [videorecording]. [Los Angeles, CA]: OnDeck Home Entertainment, 1999.	PS595.C55 P6 1999
Silber, Irwin. Songs of the Civil War: Piano and Guitar Arrangements by Jerry Silverman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.	Music M1637 .S5
Steinmetz, Lee, ed. The Poetry of the American Civil War. Michigan State University Press, 1960.	E647.S85
The Civil War [sound recording]: The Nashville Sessions. New York: Atlantic, 1998.	Music M1628.2 .C59 1998
Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. New York, Oxford University Press, 1962.	PS211 .W5

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Art and Photography

Citation	Call Number
Eaton, Edward Bailey. Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States, by Mathew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner, Who Operated Under the Authority of the War Department and the Protection of the Secret Service. Hartford, CT: [E.B. Eaton], 1907. Includes rare reproductions from photographs selected from 7,000 original negatives.	Folio E468.7 .E14
Holzer, Harold, ed. Prang's Civil War Pictures: The Complete Battle Chromos of Louis Prang. Fordham University Press, 2001.
Katz, Wendy Jean. Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002.
Ketchum, Richard M., ed. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., [1960].	Folio E468.7 .C3 1960a   v.1 E468.7 .C3 1960a  v.2
Miers, Earl Schenck. The American Civil War: A Popular Illustrated History of the Years 1861-1865 As Seen by the Artist-Correspondents Who Were There. New York: Golden Press, [1961].	Folio E468.7 .M6
Mottelay, Paul Fleury, ed. The Soldier in Our Civil War: A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-1865, Illustrating the Valor of the Soldier as Displayed on the Battle-field. From Sketches Drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and…Other Eye-witnesses. New York and Atlanta: Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, 1893. Includes Frank Leslie's illustrations.	Folio F468.7 .M92 1893z  v.1  F468.7 .M92 1893z  v.2
Sears, Stephen W., ed. The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., [1974].	Folio E468.7 .A58
Stern, Philip Van Doren. They Were There: The Civil War in Action as Seen by its Combat Artists. New York: Crown Publishers, [1959]. Includes six poems by Walt Whitman.	Folio E468.7 .S78
Williams, Hermann Warner. The Civil War: The Artists' Record. Boston, Beacon Press [1962].	E468.7 .W72
Wood, Peter H. Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years. Austin, TX: Menil Collection, University of Texas Press, 1988.	ND237.H7 A4 1988a
Young, Elizabeth.  Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Reconstruction

Consult these secondary resources to gain perspectives on Reconstruction.

Citation	Call Number
Allen, James S. Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy (1865-1876). New York: International Publishers, [1937].	E668 .A45
Belz, Herman. Reconstructing the Union: Theory and Policy During the Civil War. Ithaca, NY: Published for the American Historical Association by Cornell University Press, [1969].	E459 .B4
Buck, Paul Herman. The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1937].	E661 .B84
Carter, Hodding. The Angry Scar: The Story of Reconstruction. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959.	E668 .C3
Cox, LaWanda and Cox, John H. Politics, Principle, and Prejudice, 1865-1866: Dilemma of Reconstruction America. [New York]: Free Press of Glencoe, [1963].	E666 .C84
Craven, Avery. Reconstruction: The Ending of the Civil War. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1969].	E668 .C9
Crowe, Charles, ed. The Age of Civil War and Reconstruction, 1830-1900: A Book of Interpretative Essays. Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press, 1966.	F209 .C7
Current, Richard N., ed. Reconstruction, 1865-1877. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, [1965].	E668 .C98
Dickerson, Donna. Reconstruction Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1865 to 1877. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003.
Dunning, William Archibald. Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Harper & Row, [1965].	E668 .D926 1965z
Dunning, William Archibald. Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865-1877. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1907.	E178 .A54  v.22
Ferrell, Claudine. Reconstruction. Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 2003.
Fleming, Walter L. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational and Industrial, 1885 to the Present Time. Vols. I, II. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906.	E668.F58
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988. Based on manuscript collection and primary source research about how America responded to changes brought about by the Civil War.	E668.F66 1988
Foner, Eric and Mahoney, Olivia. America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War. Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction: After the Civil War. [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, [1961].	E668 .F7
Golay, Michael. A Ruined Land: The End of the Civil War. New York: Wiley, 1999. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=26104
Henry, Robert Selph. The Story of Reconstruction. Gloucester: P. Smith, 1963.	E668 .H516 1963
Hesseltine, William B., ed. The Tragic Conflict: The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: G. Braziller, 1962.	E464 .H4
Hyman, Harold M. Era of the Oath: Northern Loyalty Tests During the Civil War and Reconstruction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1954.	E458.8 .H9 E458.8 .H9
Hyman, Harold M., ed. The Radical Republicans and Reconstruction, 1861-1870. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1967].	E668 .H985
Jenkins, Wilbert L. Seizing the New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.	F279.C49 N427 1998
Lynd, Staughton. Reconstruction. New York: Harper & Row, [1967].	E668 .L983
Murphy, Richard W. The Nation Reunited: War's Aftermath. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1987.	E668 .M93 1987
Patrick, Rembert W. The Reconstruction of the Nation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.	E668 .P32
Reynolds, John S. Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865-1877. Columbia, SC: State Co., 1905.	F274 .R46
Richardson, Heather Cox. The Death of Reconstruction. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Saville, Julie. The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.	F274 .S38 1996
Sawrey, Robert D. Dubious Victory: The Reconstruction Debate in Ohio. University Press of Kentucky, 1993.
Silber, Nina. The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=13972
Stampp, Kenneth M. The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877. New York: Knopf, 1965.	E668 .S79
Stampp, Kenneth M. and Litwack., Leon F., eds. Reconstruction: An Anthology of Revisionist Writings. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1969].	E668 .S792
Thomas, Emory M. The American War and Peace, 1860-1877. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, [1973].	E415.7 .T48
Williamson, Joel. After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, [1965].	E185.93.S7 W73
Woodward, C. Vann. Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction. Boston: Little, Brown, [1966].	E681 .W83 1966

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United States History, 1865-1898

These secondary resources can also yield information about 19^th century America.

Citation	Call Number
Faulkner, Harold Underwood. Politics, Reform, and Expansion, 1890-1900. New York: Harper, [1959].	E661 .F3
Ginger, Ray. The Nationalizing of American Life, 1877-1900. New York: Free Press, [1965].	E661 .G5
Keller, Morton. Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977.	E661 .K27
Morgan, H. Wayne. Unity and Culture: The United States, 1877-1900. [London]: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, [1971].	E661 .M58 1971
Smith, Page. The Rise of Industrial America: A People's History of the Post-Reconstruction Era. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.	E661 .S58 1984
Sparks, Edwin Erle. National Development, 1877-1885. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1907.	E178 .A54  v.23
Taft, Robert. Photography and the American Scene: A Social History, 1839-1889. New York: Dover Publications, [1964, 1938].	TR23 .T3 1964
Weymouth, Lally. America in 1876: The Way We Were. New York: Vintage Books, 1976.	E661 .W47
Williams, William Appleman. The Roots of the Modern American Empire; A Study of the Growth and Shaping of Social Consciousness in a Marketplace Society. New York, Vintage Books, [1970].	HC105 .W54

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Guides for Further Primary Source Research

Citation	Call Number
Munden, Kenneth W. and Beers, Henry Putney. Washington Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.	CD3047 .M8
Schweitzer, George K. Civil War Genealogy.
Sellers, John R. Civil War Manuscripts: A Guide to Collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1986.	Government Documents LC 4.2:C 49

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Otterbein Archival Collections

Course catalogs, student publications, and other sources of local history are available for research in the Otterbein Archives. Some of these resources are available in microform; to view uncataloged resources, contact the Otterbein Archivist.

Citation	Location
Otterbein course catalogs (uncataloged)	Otterbein Room
Otterbein Aegis. Westerville, Ohio: Philophronean Publishing, June 1890-June 1917. The Otterbein periodicals section has v.18(1907) to v.23(1913); also see the Otterbein Room.
Otterbein Dial (published January-December 1876)	Otterbein Room
Otterbein Review (published monthly, except July and August, from September 1880 to June 1885)	Otterbein Room
Public Opinion (Westerville’s newspaper). Westerville, Ohio: A.R. Keller, 1885-1916. Otterbein has issues from 1880 to 1916 in its microforms collection. The Westerville Public Library also has issues beginning in 1880 on microfilm, although reels from May 9,1885 to April 22, 1887 are missing.	Microforms
Religious Telescope, the newspaper of the United Brethren Church, published from 1834 to 1946. Otterbein has an incomplete bound set, uncataloged, together with the entire run on microfilm.	Microforms
Vertical files, including registers listing students and faculty who served in the Civil War (uncataloged)	Otterbein Room

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Primary and Secondary Civil War Resources at Other Local Libraries and County Offices

Westerville Public Library

www.wpl.lib.oh.us

With over 2000 photographs, several diary collections, an index to local newspapers dating from 1880 (including obituaries), census information, cemetery records, a high school yearbook collection, as well as archival files on people, places and events, the Westerville Public Library Local History Resource Center is an excellent resource for research. The center also holds a copy of n index of The center is open Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Recommended resources in the Westerville Public Library’s collection are:

Citation	Call Number
Directory of Historical Organizations in Ohio. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Historical Society. This directory can point to research possibilities in other Ohio cities.	Adult Reference 977.1 DIR
Mohr, James C., ed. The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. The Local History Resource Center’s copy of this book is accompanied by an index of all names in Westerville appearing in the book.	Local History 973.781 COR
Ohio Adjutant General’s Department. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866. Akron: Werner, 1893.	Adult Reference 973.7471 OHI v. 1-12

The Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library

www.ohiohistory.org

The Ohio Historical Society’s Archives/Library maintains an extensive collection of materials pertaining to Ohio’s participation in the Civil War. Regimental histories; publications regarding individual battles and campaigns; books on firearms and uniforms; newspapers; periodicals; manuscript letters; diaries; battle reports; artwork; draft records; recruiting officers’ records; regimental records; officers’ records; militia and National Guard records; prisoner of war records; Ohio Secretary of State records pertaining to soldiers’ votes in the presidential election of 1864; photographs; and battle flags are among OHS holdings.

Browse the citations to collections of primary source materials with connections to the Civil War in the Guide to Primary Resource Collections at OHS, available at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/civilwar.html.

Specific sources in the OHS Archives/Library collection that may be helpful for this project include:

Citation	Call Number
Cole, Garold. Civil War Eyewitnesses: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles, 1986-1996. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.	R 016.97379 C674c1
Fox, William F. Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the Extent and Nature of the Mortuary Losses in the Union Regiments, with Full and Exhaustive Statistics Compiled from the Official Records on File in the State Military Bureaus and at Washington. Albany: Albany Publishing Co., 1898 (The fourth edition of this book is also available at the State Library of Ohio, in the Genealogy section: E491 .F79 1898 X)	973.7419 F834r, 1889
Johnson, Richard S. How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Been in the Military. Spartanburg, SC: MIE Publishing, 1996.	R 355.02573 J636h, 1996
Nichols, Clifton M. One Hundred Days of Soldier Life with the 152d Regiment, Ohio National Guards, and the 35^th Battalion, from Clarke Co. Springfield: Hastings and Nicols, 1864.	MSS 1000 AV: William Hunt Family Papers.
Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866. Akron: Werner Co., 1886-95. Accompanied by an alphabetical index to this document.	R Ohio Docs 973.7471 A2 Microfilm: FLM 290 Index: R Ohio Docs 973.7471 A2 Index Or in microfilm, FLM 291 OHS ed.
Poland, Charles A. Army Register of Ohio Volunteers in the Service of the United States ... Compiled from Official Records in the Adjutant General's Office, Columbus, Ohio, for July, 1862. Columbus: Ohio State Journal Printing Co., 1862.	973.7471 A2p
Report of the Adjutant General for a variety of states, including Rhode Island and Providence, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, West Virginia, and Iowa.
United States Adjutant-General’s Office. Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65. Washington, DC: 1865-67. OHS has parts 3, 4, 6, and 8; Part 5 includes Ohio.	353.6 Un3o2
Van Sickle, Ron R. General Index to Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States, 1861-1865. Gaithersburg, MD: Ron R. Van Sickle Military Books, 1987	R 353.6 Un3o2 1987 Index

Columbus Metropolitan Library (Main Branch, 96 South Grant Avenue)

www.columbuslibrary.org

The downtown branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library has regimental histories, records of Ohio soldiers, and a limited collection of abstracted records for various Ohio counties. Rosters list soldiers’ age, date entered service, date mustered out or date discharged or died. The index for the Civil War roster is on microfilm. Indexes to National Archives pension records (based on death or disability claims made by veterans and their families) can be located in the 929.30973 area of the CML collection.

State Library of Ohio (274 East First Avenue)

http://winslo.state.oh.us/

The State Library has complete national and state lists, several state and regimental war histories and rosters, rolls of honor for national cemeteries, pension indexes, and a complete MOLLUS set (Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U.S.). The library also offers a complimentary copy of Military Sources for Genealogical Research, which might be helpful for this project.

Franklin County Recorder’s Office (373 South High Street, 18^th Floor)

http://www.co.franklin.oh.us/recorder/

The Franklin County Recorder’s Office has soldiers’ discharge books beginning in 1862.

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Internet Sites for the Civil War, Reconstruction and Military Research

Internet sites abound with digital reproductions of Civil War and Reconstruction-era primary sources.

Otterbein Civil War Soldiers Biographies Website

http://faculty.otterbein.edu/SRHEFTHR/index2.html

Dr. Fatherly’s Web site collects the information discovered to date regarding the personal lives and war records of the veterans memorialized on Otterbein’s monument to over 100 Union soldiers during the Civil War who had Otterbein connections.

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/

This database contains basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The Names Index Project enters names and other information from 5.4 million soldier records in the National Archives.

Civil War Resources

http://www.vmi.edu/archives/cwsource.html

This site includes collections held by the VMI Archives, and presents many manuscripts and featured topics in full-text format.

Civil War Records

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/military/civil_war_records.html

This page on the National Archives and Records Administration’s Web site is a guide to what types of records those living during the Civil War may have created and where to find them.

The American Civil War Homepage

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

Maintained by personnel at the University of Tennessee, this site organizes Web resources in an extensive subject directory.

The United States Civil War Center

http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/#browse

Maintained by a department of the Louisiana State University Libraries, this Web site promotes a multidisciplinary approach to studying the Civil War. Most helpful is the page devoted to researching people of the Civil War era, http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/genealogy/faq-gene.htm.

Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University

http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/cwlink.html

This Web site provides links to other comprehensive Civil War sites, Ohio regimental histories, diaries and letters of the era, Civil War battlefields and historic sites, photographs and images, and tips on researching people from the Civil War era.

Beginner’s Guide to Family History Research: Military Records

http://www.arkansasresearch.com/g-mil.html

This introductory Web site provides information about different wars and where to find records.

Military Research Room: American Civil War, 1861-1865

http://www.lineages.com/military/mil_cw.asp

The Military Research Room is an online resource with historical information and research tips that will help you find an individual’s military records.

Union Army Regimental History Index

http://www.tarleton.edu/~kjones/unions.html

Ken Jones, a librarian at Tarleton State University, provides links to sites that maintain information about Union Army regimental histories.

Ohio Memory

www.ohiomemory.org

This is an online collection of over 25,000 primary sources documenting Ohio’s history. To access Civil War items, search by subject, including Civil War, Military Ohio, and Recruiting & Enlistment. Additionally, you can browse over 50 items Otterbein contributed to the project, including the 1922 photo of Calvin Coolidge dedicating the soldiers’ monument.

Ohio Pix

http://www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/ohiopix/index.cfm

Search the Ohio Historical Society’s online database of photographs for “Civil War” to discover photographs of camps, illustrations of wounds, Ohio Volunteer Infantry flags, soldiers and veterans (including the Color guard of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry with the national colors of their regiment, listed on the monument).

Fight for the Colors: The Ohio Battle Flag Collection

http://www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/fftc/relicroom/index.cfm?war=2

This Web site presents a virtual display of the Ohio Historical Society’s Ohio Battle Flags collection. The collection contains 366 flags from the Civil War, representing 177 infantry, cavalry troops and artillery regiments. Flags in the Civil War section of this online collection are organized by unit type and displayed in regiment number order.

The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920

http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/

This digital collection of manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and pamphlets is a joint project of American Memory and the Ohio Historical Society. To locate Civil War documents, perform a keyword search using the Ohio-History-Civil War, 1861-1865 subject heading or browse any of the media listed above.

American Memory

http://memory.loc.gov/

American Memory provides online access to more than 7 million primary source materials. Searches can be limited to documents (including manuscripts and printed texts), maps, motion pictures, photos & prints. Try narrowing a search to Ohio and Civil War for resources specific to this project. Several examples of Civil War sheet music can be found here, including:

Historic American Sheet Music: 1850-1920

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html

Civil War songs and music:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(SUBJ+@band(Civil+War+songs+music)):heading=Civil+War--Songs+and+music

"We'll Sing to Abe Our Song!": Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War from the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html

America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amsshtml/amsshome.html

HarpWeek

http://www.harpweek.com

HarpWeek provides electronic access to Harper’s Weekly, the illustrated 19th century "Journal of Civilization" from 1857 to 1912. A searchable index, full-text search capability, and scanned images of each issue provide access to illustrations, cartoons, news, literature, editorials, and advertisements.

In “A Sampler of Civil War Literature” (http://civilwarlit.harpweek.com/default.asp), you can experience military and civilian life through 15 Civil War stories, news articles, illustrations, cartoons and commentary. You can also view 19^th century advertisements for Civil War products, including metallic artificial legs and bullet-proof vests from 1862 and 1863 at http://advertising.harpweek.com/.

Index to Civil War Letters, Henry County, Ohio Newspapers

http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/ltrinxhc.html

During the Civil War, newspapers printed letters from local soldiers to provide in-depth coverage of war news. Since regiments were recruited geographically, most of the men serving in a unit were neighbors. Some soldiers specifically arranged to send reports of company news to their hometown newspapers. This index records all soldiers' correspondence printed in the Napoleon North-West Ohio newspapers during the Civil War.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online, 1841-1902

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/index.htm

After clicking “Log In,” you can view the paper by date or search by keyword. The “Selected Subjects” tab provides links to articles and photographs discovered by subject experts. Select “Civil War” from this selected subjects list to access links to coverage of battles, war intelligence, and popular opinion about the war.

Ohio in the Civil War

http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/

This Web site includes information about Civil War infantry, artillery, cavalry, prisons, war stories, and musicians.

American Experience:The Time of the Lincolns
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns

Explore the Lincolns’ era, including arguments for and against slavery, America’s economic growth during the mid-19th century, women's suffrage, and the Civil War. The site features extensive primary sources and the experiences of a Confederate and a Union soldier.

America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html

This Web site presents an online version of Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney's exhibit on Reconstruction.

American Experience: John Brown's Holy War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/

Learn about the man whose violent crusade against slavery would spark the Civil War. The site features virtual tours of locations in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia that are important to Brown's story, and an exploration of the song, "John Brown's Body."

American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/index.html

Spanning the momentous years from 1863 to 1877, this Web site tracks the stories of American citizens as they shape new lives for themselves.

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This bibliography was compiled as a Word document 2/2004. Many thanks to the dedication and hard work provided by Betsy Butler in making this bibliography. Any questions about Civil War resources at Otterbein College should be directed to Allen Reichert at 823-1164 or email: preichert@otterbein.edu