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Pathfinder: American Civil War
Scope|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Videos|Web Sites
SCOPE: 620,000 American Soldiers died in the Civil War and thousands more were wounded. The issue of race and slavery was at the heart of the cause of the war that divided our nation. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for the student in locating resources in the subject area of the Civil War, which will provide an in-depth analysis of this topic.
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF E 467.H656 1999 American Civil War. Biographies
REF E468.H556 2000 American Civil War. Almanac
REF Z1242.A47 1996 E456 The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research
REF G1201.S5A85 1994 The Atlas of the Civil War
CIRCULATING
BOOKS
Some representative books from the Circulating Collection (located upstairs in the library) are:
Cozzens, Peter. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Faust, Drew Gilpin.
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War.
Chapel Hill, N.C: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Faust, Drew Gilpin.
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil
War.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Gallman, J. Matthew. The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1994.
Goodrich, Th.
The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American
Tragedy.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.
Leonard, Elizabeth D. Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.
Marvel, William. Andersonville: The Last Depot. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Women in the Civil War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
Still, William N.
Raiders & Blockaders: The American Civil War Afloat.
Dulles, VA:
Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, 2000.
Sullivan, Walter. The War the Women Lived: Female Voices from the Confederate South. Nashville: J.S. Sanders, 1995.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a
list of full text journals available through our databases in:
VIDEOS
WEB SITES
Primary Source Materials from the Library of Congress
The American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
has made primary materials (letters, manuscripts,
interviews, voice recordings, and photographs) available
by means of the digital collections listed below. These
sources provide first-hand observations about life in
the Civil War era.
American Slave Narratives
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal
Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300
first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white
photographs of former slaves. These narratives were
collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers'
Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and
assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the
seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of
Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former
Slaves.*
Civil War Maps
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/
An extensive archive of over 2240 Civil War maps as well
as 200 maps from the Library of Virginia and 400 maps
from the Virginia Historical Society. This digital
collection is part of the American Memory project at the
Library of Congress.
A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment:
Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/tcrhome.html
A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment:
Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers documents
the Civil War experience of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds,
a member of the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania
Volunteers. Comprising 164 library items, or 359 digital
images, this online presentation includes
correspondence, photographs, and other materials dating
between 1861 and 1865.*
The Selected Civil War Photographs Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
The Selected Civil War Photographs Collection contains
1,118 photographs. Most of the images were made under
the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes
of military personnel, preparations for battle, and
battle after-effects. The collection also includes
portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a
selection of enlisted men. An additional two hundred
autographed portraits of army and navy officers,
politicians, and cultural figures can be seen in the
Civil War photograph album, ca. 1861-65.*
Voices from the Days of Slavery
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
The almost seven hours of recorded interviews
presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine
Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between
1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about
slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their
families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs,
many of which were learned during the time of their
enslavement. It is important to note that all of the
interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of
their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are
reflected in these recordings. The individuals
documented in this presentation have much to say about
living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s,
and beyond.*
Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio
Nelson Taft, 1861-1865
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tafthtml/tafthome.html
Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio
Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 presents three manuscript
volumes, totaling 1,240 digital images, that document
daily life in Washington, D. C., through the eyes of
Horatio Nelson Taft (1806-1888), an examiner for the U.
S. Patent Office. Now located in the Manuscript Division
at the Library of Congress, the diary details events in
Washington during the Civil War years including Taft's
connection with Abraham Lincoln and his family. Of
special interest is Taft's description of Lincoln's
assassination, based on the accounts of his friends and
his son, who was one of the attending physicians at
Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was shot, on April 14,
1865. Transcriptions for all three volumes have been
made by Library of Congress staff and are available
online along with the digital images.*
* Collection descriptions from the American Memory
Project of the Library of Congress.
The American Civil War
Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
Very
comprehensive site on every aspect of the Civil War
including biographical info, military, bibliographies,
documents, and images.
Updated
07/24/2008
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