American Civil War Bibliography - Primary Sources

Primary Sources

• Lincoln, Abraham (1989). Lincoln: Speeches and Writings (2 vol Library of America edition ed.).
• U.S. War Dept., The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies and The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (including the full Atlas), U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901. 70 very large volumes of letters and reports written by both armies. Online at Note: in 1902 a Volume of Additions and Corrections to the Official Records was published: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Additions and Corrections to General Index Volume, Seriel No 130
• American Annual Cyclopaedia for 1861 (N.Y.: Appleton's, 1864), annual issues from 1861 to 1901 in major libraries.
• Abbott, Henry L. Fallen Leaves: The Civil War Letters of Major Henry Livermore Abbott, edited by Robert Garth Scott. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991.
• Alberts, Don E., ed. Rebels on the Rio Grande: The Civil War Journal of A. B. Peticolas. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.
• Anderson, Mary Ann, ed. The Civil War Diary of Allen Morgan Geer, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteers. Denver, Colorado: Robert C. Appleman, 1977.
• Anderson, William M., ed. We Are Sherman's Men: The Civil War Letters of Henry Orendorff. Macomb, Illinois: Western Illinois University, 1986.
• Ballard, Alfred. Gone for a Soldier: The Civil War Memoirs of Private Alfred Ballard, ed. by David Herbert Donald. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, 1975.
• Benson, Evelyn Abraham. With the Army of West Virginia, 1861–1864: Reminiscences & Letters of Lt. James Abraham. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: published by the author, 1974.
• Berkely, Henry Robinson. Four Years in the Confederate Artillery: The Diary of Priate Henry Robinson Berkely, ed. by William H. Runge. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
• Broadhead, Sallie M. The Diary of a Lady of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, from June 15 to July 15, 1863. published by author, no date.
• Buckingham, Peter H. All's For the Best: The Civil War Reminiscenses and Letters of Daniel W. Sawtelle, Eighth Maine Volunteer Infantry. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.
• Bull, Rice C. Soldiering: The Civil War Diary of Rice C. Bull, 123rd New York Volunteer Infantry, edited by H. Jack Bauer. San Rafael, California: Presidio Press, 1977.
• Burg, B.R. Rebel at Large: The Diary of Confederate Deserter Philip Van Buskirk. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2010.
• Cabaniss, Jim R., ed. Civil War Journal and Diary of Serg Washington Ives, 4th Florida, C.S.A. no publisher listed, 1987.
• Campbell, R. Thomas, ed. Southern Service on Land & Sea: The Wartime Journal of Robert Watson, CSA/CSN. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.
• Chapman, Sarah Bahnson, ed. Bright and Gloomy Days: The Civil War Correspondence of Captain Charles Frederic Bahnson, a Moravian Confederate. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
• Cockrell, Thomas D. and Michael B. Ballard, eds. A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
• Commager, Henry Steele (ed.). The Blue and the Gray. The Story of the Civil War as Told by Participants. (1950), excerpts from primary sources
• Daly, Robert W., ed. Aboard the USS Monitor, 1862: The Letters of Acting Paymaster William Frederick Keeler. Annapolis, Maryland: 1964.
• Donald, David, ed. Inside Lincoln's Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase. New York: 1954.
• Durnham, Rober S., ed. A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, A Confederate Soldier from Maine. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
• Eby, Jr., Carl D. A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War: The Diaries of David Hunter Strother. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
• Eisenschiml, Otto; Ralph Newman; eds. The American Iliad: The Epic Story of the Civil War as Narrated by Eyewitnesses and Contemporaries (1947).
• Elder III, Donald C., ed. Love Amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William & Mary Vermilion. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2003.
• Ellison, Janet C. and Mark A. Weitz, eds. On to Atlanta: The Civil War Diaries of John Hill Ferguson, Illinois Tenth Regiment of Volunteers. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
• Frano, Elizabeth Caldwell, comp. Letters of Captain Hugh Black to His Family in Florida during the War between the States, 1862–1864. Newburgh, Indiana: published by the author, 1998.
• Giunta, Mary A., ed. A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondance of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859–1864. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
• Greiner, James M., Janet L. Coryell, and James R. Smither, eds. A Surgeon's Civil War: The Letters and Diaries of Daniel M. Holt, M.D. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994.
• Grimsley, Mark and Todd D. Miller, eds. The Union Must Stand: The Civil War Diary of John Quincy Adams Campbell, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
• Hackemer, Kurt H., ed. To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
• Hesseltine, William B. ed.; The Tragic Conflict: The Civil War and Reconstruction. 1962.
• Heth, Henry. The Memoirs of Henry Heth, ed. by James L. Morrison, Jr. Westport, Commecticut: Greenwood Press, 1974.
• Hewitt, Janet B. et al., eds. Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 95 volumes. Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1994–99.
• Holcomb, Julie. Southern Sons, Northern Soldiers: The Civil War Letters of the Remley Brothers, 22nd Iowa Infantry. De Kalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004.
• Johnson, R. U., and Buel, C. C., eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. 4 vols. New York, 1887–88.
• Longacre, Glenn V. and John E. Hass, eds. To Battle for God and the Right: The Civil War Letterbooks of Emerson Opdyke. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
• Marten, James. Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front. ABC-CLIO, 2003. 346 pp.
• Mitchell, Charles W. "Maryland Voices of the Civil War." 2007.
• Mushkat, Jerome, ed. A Citizen–Soldier's Civil War: The Letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris. De Kalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002.
• Oeffinger, John C., ed. A Soldier's General: The Civil War Letters of Major General Lafayette McLaws. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
• Patrick, Jeffrey L. and Robert J. Willey, eds. Fighting for Liberty and Right: The Civil War Diary of William Bluffton Miller, Company K, Seventy–fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
• Patrick, Marsena R. Inside Lincoln's Army: The Diary of Marsena Rudolf Patrick, Provost Marshall General, Army of the Potomac, edited by Davis S. Sparks. New York: Yoseloff, 1964.
• Paxton, Frank. The Civil War Letters of General Frank "Bull" Paxton, CSA, edited by John Gallatin Paxton. Hillsboro, Texas: Hill Junior College Press, 1978.
• Reiger, Paul E., ed. Through One Man's Eyes: Civil War Letters of James G. Theaker. Mount Vernon, Ohio,: Printing Arts Press, Inc., 1974
• Reinhart, Joseph R. A German Hurrah!: Civil War Letters of Fredrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stangel, 9th Ohio Infantry. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2011.
• Risley, Ford, ed. The Civil War: Primary Documents on Events from 1860 to 1865. Greenwood, 2004.
• Robertson, Jr., James I., ed. The Civil War Letters of General Robert McAllister. New Jersey Civil War Centennial, 1965.
• Robertson, Jr., James I., ed. Soldier of Southwestern Virginia: The Civil War Letters of Captain John Preston Sheffey. Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
• Roper, John Herbert, ed. Repairing the March of Mars: The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861–1865. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2001.
• Samito, Christian G. Fear Was not in Him: The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis Barlow, U.S.A. New York: Fordham University Press, 2004.
• Schafer, Joseph, ed. Intimate Leters of Carl Schurz, 1841–1869. Madison, Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1928.
• Schiller, Herbert M., ed. A Captain's War: The Letters and Diaries of William H.S. Burgwyn, 1861–1865. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing Co., 1994.
• Scott, Robert Garth. Forgotton Valor: The Memoirs, Journals, & Civil War Letters of Orlando B. Wilcox. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1999.
• Sizer, Lyde Cullen and Cullen, Jim, ed. The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources. Blackwell, 2005.
• Summersell, Charles G. The Journal of George Townley Fullam: Boarding Officer of the Confederate Sea Raider Alabama. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1973.
• Tate, Thomas K., ed. The Civil War Letters of a Confederate Artillery Officer (Col. Frank Huger, C.S.A.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2011.
• Thompson, Robert M. and Richard Wainwright, eds. The Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus V. Fox, two volumes. New York, 1919.
• Turner, Nat, ed. A Southern Soldier's Letters Home: The Civil War Letters of Samuel Burney, Army of Nothern Virginia. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2003.
• Ward, Eric, ed. The Civil War Letters of George G. Benedict. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2002.
• Yearns, W. Buck and Barret, John G.,eds. North Carolina Civil War Documentary, 1980.
• Confederate official government documents major online collection of complete texts in HTML format, from U. of North Carolina
• The Civil War Letters of Forrest Little a digitized collection of actual letters from an ordinary Union soldier chronicling his everyday life and the drama of battle, from Saint Mary's College of California
• Photographs of the Civil War - a Library of Congress exhibition This exhibition from the Library of Congress features Civil War-era ambrotype and tintype photographs of Union and Confederate soldiers. The collection’s detailed portraits document the soldier uniforms, weapons, musical instruments and other possessions and include significant representation of African American troops and the families of soldiers.