American History: The Civil War and Reconstruction: Links about the Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln Association
• Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
• Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
• American Civil War Manuscript Guides (Virginia Tech)
• African American Sites in the Digital Collections (Library of Congress)
• Britain and the American Civil War
• Civil War Trust
• The Civil War (PBS)
• Civil War Maps, 1861-1865
• Civil War on the Western Border
• Crisis of the Union: The Civil War
• Civil War Documents (Internet Archive)
• Civil War Era Collection (Gettysburg College)
• Civil War: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints
• Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
• Compiled Records of Military Units in Voluntary Union Organizations (Internet Archive)
• Compiled Records of Military Units in Voluntary Confederate Organizations (Internet Archive)
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• One Life: The Mask of Lincoln
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Digital Suite
• Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War
• Papers of Jefferson Davis
• Papers of Abraham Lincoln
• Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War
• Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: Civil War (Library of Congress)
• Robert E. Lee Papers
• Selected Civil War Photographs
• Southern Homefront 1861-1865
• Virginia Secession Convention
• Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

• Jews in the Civil War
• Civil War Washington
• Congressional Globe
• Visualizing Emancipation
• Intelligence in the Civil War
• Visual Culture of the Civil War
• Decisive Moments in the Battle of Gettysburg
• American Civil War: Forming a More Perfect Union
• Civil War Sesquicentennial: Research and Commemoration
• Confederate State of America: Documents at the Avalon Project
• A Century of Lawmaking: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875.

The only confirmed photo of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, three hours before the Gettysburg Address.
(Lincoln is seated to the left of the man in the stovetop hat.)

Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in front of U.S. Capitol Building March 4 1861

Engineers of the 8th New York State Militia 1861. No. Ill-B-499

Company E 4th U.S. Colored Infantry Fort Lincoln Washington D.C.
Photo by William Morris Smith 1863-1865

Lincoln and McClellan at Generals Headquarters Tent at Antietam October 4, 1862

President Lincoln visiting the battlefield at Antietam Maryland October 3, 1862.
General McClellan and 15 members of his staff are in the group.
Photographed by Alexander Gardner. 165-SB-23.

Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant standing by a tree in front of a tent, Cold Harbor Virgina June 1864. 111-B-36.

General William T. Sherman on his horse at Fort No. 7 before Atlanta in August 1864

Gen. Robert E Lee April 1865.
Photographed by Mathew B. Brady. 111-B-1564.

Ruins of Richmond Virginia 1865

Execution of Mary E. Surratt, Lewis T. Powell, David E. Herold, and George A. Atzerodt as as conspirators in the Lincoln Assassination, July 7,1865.
Photographed by Alexander Gardner. 111-BA-2034