Related Resources
Library of Congress Web Resources
- Civil War Maps
www.loc.gov/collection/civil-war-maps/ - Band Music from the Civil War Era
www.loc.gov/collections/civil-war-band-music/about-this-collection/ - Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
http://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16694coll47 External - A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Collection
www.loc.gov/collection/tilton-c-reynolds-papers/about-this-collection/ - Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft
www.loc.gov/collection/diary-of-horatio-taft/about-this-collection/ - Selected Civil War Photographs
www.loc.gov/collections/civil-war-glass-negatives/about-this-collection/ - Search the maps of "Military Campaigns and Battles" to find those related to the Civil War
www.loc.gov/collections/civil-war-glass-negatives/about-this-collection/ - Browse "Civil War and Reconstruction" to find lesson plans on the Learning Page
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/?fa=partof_type:lesson+plan%7Csubject_era:civil+war+and+reconstruction,+1861-1877
Library of Congress: Today in History
- January 21, 1824
Stonewall Jackson's birthday - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/january-21/#stonewall-jackson - July 21, 1861
First Battle of Bull Run - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/july-21 - August 30,
1862 Second Battle of Manassas - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/august-30/#the-second-battle-of-manassas - September 17, 1862
The Battle of Antietam - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/september-17/#the-battle-of-antietam - July 1, 1863
Battle of Gettysburg began - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/july-01/#the-battle-of-gettysburg - July 2, 1863
The second day of the Battle of Gettysburg - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/july-02/#the-battle-of-gettysburg-day-2 - July 3, 1863
Pickett's Charge - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/july-03/#picketts-charge - November 19, 1863
Gettysburg address delivered - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/november-19/#gettysburg-address - Nov. 23, 1863
The Battle of Chattanooga - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/november-23/#the-battle-of-chattanooga - Sept. 1, 1864
Atlanta won by the Union - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/september-01/#the-fall-of-atlanta - December 16, 1864
The Battle of Nashville - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/december-16/#the-battle-of-nashville - Feb. 18, 1865
Charleston surrenders - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/february-18/#charleston-surrenders - March 11, 1865
Sherman captures Fayetteville - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/march-11/#fayetteville-captured-by-union-troopsorces - April 2, 1865
The siege of Petersberg - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-02/#ulysses-s-grants-army-attacks-confederate-lines-at-petersburg - April 9, 1865
Lee surrenders - www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-09/#lee-surrenders
Library of Congress: On Abraham Lincoln
Read more Lincoln's assassination, the emancipation proclamation, and other topics in the Abraham Lincoln Papers or in these other online resources:
- "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song: Sheet music on Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War"
www.loc.gov/collections/alfred-whital-stern-lincolniana/about-this-collection/ - Lincoln's first inaugural address in American Treasures
www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr00.html#inaugural - An exhibit on the Gettysburg Address
www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/ - The assassination of Lincoln in Today in History: April 14, 1865
www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-14/#lincoln-shot-at-fords-theater
Library of Congress: On Jefferson Davis
- Jefferson Davis elected Today in History: November 6, 1861
www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/november-06/#jefferson-davis-elected - The capture of Davis in Today in History: May 10, 1865
www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/may10.html - Finding aid to the Jefferson Davis Papers
hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007040
Library of Congress: On Ulysses S. Grant
- Finding aid to the Ulysses S. Grant Collection
hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008146 - Grant’s birthday in Today in History: April 27, 1822
www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-27/#birth-of-ulysses-s-grant
Other sheet music collections available from the Library of Congress
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
- "We'll sing to Abe our song!" Sheet Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War
- Historic American sheet music, 1850-1920 (from Duke University)
- African-American Sheet music, 1850-1920 External (from Brown University)