Tintype of an unidentified woman from Monroe County, Kentucky, whose family fought for the Confederate Army
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesTintype of an unidentified woman in antebellum dress with a white bow in her hair. The woman is from Monroe County, Kentucky. Her family members reportedly fought for the 4th Kentucky, USA.
Issue of Republican Extra newspaper, including a report on the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, August 14, 1861
View Full Item in Missouri History MuseumContains report on the Battle of Wilson's Creek.
Receipts for services as a Confederate “home guard Minuteman”
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesFive receipts for "services rendered as home guard minute man." Three of the receipts are dated September 5, 1861. The other two are dated October 11 and October 12. The men named on the receipts rece…
Book titled History of the Soldiers’ Aid Society of Ann Arbor, Michigan
View Full Item in University of MichiganHandwritten resolution of the Tennessee Hospital Association, September 18, 1861
Tennessee Hospital AssociationView Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesHandwritten resolution of the Tennessee Hospital Association--alternately known as the Ladies' Hospital Association of Nashville, the Ladies' Tennessee Hospital Association, the Nashville Tennessee Ho…
Letter from Harriet E. Powe to Sallie Fair describing the hardships of the first Christmas of the war, December 27, 1861
Powe, Harriet E., 1843-1921View Full Item in University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana LibraryLetter from school friend Hattie [Harriet Powe] to Sallie Fair discussing the first Christmas of the war. "We all have our trials, and this year has been an eventful one for us all. Many hearts have b…
Broadside about the lives of women during the war titled “Ladies of Richmond,” 1861
View Full Item in Wake Forest UniversityPrinted on white paper with black ink. First line "Fold away all your bright tinted dresses".
Illustration of Union loyalist Christopher Haun of Tennessee parting from his family before his 1861 execution for blowing up a Confederate railroad bridge
Richardson and CoxView Full Item in Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State UniversityWilliam G. Brownlow, Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession; with a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels (Philadelphia: George W. Childs, Applegate & Co., 1862), p. 312
Ambrotype portrait of a woman wearing a Union officer’s belt buckle
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesAmbrotype of an unidentified woman in antebellum dress wearing a military belt buckle. The woman is from Monroe County, Kentucky. Her family members reportedly fought for the 4th Kentucky, USA.
Letter from Maud Fentress to her son David about life at home in wartime, February 3, 1862
Fentress, Maud CView Full Item in UNT Libraries Special CollectionsTranscript of a letter from Maud Fentress to her son, David Fentress telling him about day to day life. In her letter, she discusses the rising cost of goods and crops, and she also comments on the de…
Illustration of a Soldiers’ Aid Society office during the Civil War
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyWoodcut of an office of a Soldiers' Aid Office during the Civil War
Broadside titled “Confederate Soldier’s Wife Parting from Her Husband,” 1862
View Full Item in Wake Forest UniversityPrinted on yellow paper with black print, text within double line border. Illustrations of soldiers at either side of title. Imprint date from Crandall. First line "Here is thy trusty blade"!
Daguerreotype of an unknown Confederate soldier and his wife
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesCased, brass-matted daguerreotype of an unidentified Confederate soldier and a woman thought to be his wife. Both are seated, and pose with their hands in their laps. Young man wears a uniform jacket…
A letter explaining that tax funds to finance aid to the families of soldiers will not be available before February, Madison, Wisconsin, 1862
Hastings, Samuel DView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyAn open letter explaining that the tax funds to finance aid to the families of soldiers will not be available before February due to the actions of Democratic members of the Wisconsin Assembly.
Program for an evening of “Patriotic Entertainment” to benefit the Soldiers’ Aid Society, Indiana, June 1862
View Full Image in Indiana Historical SocietyA night of music to benefit the Soldiers' Aid Society. This Civil War Home Front collection was funded by LSTA.
Photograph of a family of Confederate refugees leaving home, 1862
Barnard & GibsonView Full Image in Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IndianaCDV, mule-drawn wagon holding furniture and passengers, with a woman standing in front, two men standing at left, and other people standing in background behind mules. Written in pencil on reverse: Se…
Letter from an unknown woman to her husband about recent events in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, published in the Raleigh Standard, January 1863
View Full Item in North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesIn January 1863 William Holden, editor of the Raleigh Standard, published a letter from an unidentified woman to her husband. The letter, written over several days, detailed events in Elizabeth City,…
Letter from Solomon Dubois to Johannes Lefevre about life in New Paltz, New York while many of its men are off fighting, February 17, 1863
Dubois, SolomonView Full Item in Historic Huguenot StreetLetter written from Solomon Dubois to Johannes discussing news from home. Sol is concerned that Johannes may be "hard up" for women and then goes on to write about his trip to Plattekill to see Fredri…
Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of southern politican James Chesnut, chronicling her experiences of the war from Columbia, South Carolina
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886View Full Item in University of MichiganBEIN Za C4255 905D: Autograph of Madeleine Forrest and bookseller's label of International Bookfinders.
Tintype portrait of an unidentified African American woman
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesHandcolored ambrotype of unidentified African-American female. She is shown with her hands folded and wears a wedding ring.
Letter from the women involved in the Salisbury Bread Riots to North Carolina governor Zebulon Vance explaining their actions, March 21, 1863
Moore, Mary C., North Carolina Governor (1862-1865 : Vance), Office of the GovernorView Full Item in North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesA letter from the women involved in the Salisbury Bread Riots to Governor Vance explaining their actions. This item was scanned as part of the American Civil War Sesquicentennial commemoration at the…
May 2, 1863 issue of the New South newspaper from Port Royal, South Carolina with news of the war
View Full Item in University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana LibraryVol. 1 no. 35, Printed in Port Royal, S.C.
Letter relating R. Tilghman Smith’s visits to Smithfield and Oakland where the town is suffering, South Carolina, June 7, 1863
Smith, R. TilghmanView Full Item in University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana LibraryLetter relating R. Tilghman Smith's visit to Smithfield and Oakland, the latter, "suffered very severely. They have burnt all the mills except the powder and run off all the Negro[e]s except fifty," M…
Photograph of a hospital yard in Nashville, Tennessee, July 1863
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesScene in the yard of a military hospital in Nashville, showing numerous men and women, some African American, among lines of hanging laundry.
Thank-you letter for donating to the Ladies’ Soldiers’ Aid Society, Curllsville, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1863
Thorne, CharlotteView Full Item in Santa Clara UniversityLetter from Charlotte Thorne to Captain Bernard J. Reid. She thanks him for donated to the Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society.
Illustration of Union soldiers searching for buried Confederate gold on a southern plantation
View Full Item in New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)Image of an illustration of Union soldiers searching for buried Confederate gold on a southern plantation. Approximately ten soldiers stand in the yard of a plantation home, some of whom dig with shov…
Susannah Pullen’s Civil War quilt, created following U.S. Sanitary Commission guidelines and used at Carver and Armory Square Hospitals in Washington D.C., 1863
View Full Item in National Museum of American HistoryMrs. Gilbert (Susannah G.) Pullen and her Sunday school class made this pieced quilt in Augusta, Maine in 1863. She followed the guidelines set by the U.S. Sanitary Commission for bedding to be used i…
Issue of Forney’s War Press reporting on the war, September 12, 1863
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesOriginal newspaper, Forney's War Press, published Philadelphia, September 12, 1863. Woodcut on front page shows guerrillas attacking a cattle train. John W. Forney served as secretary of the US Senate…
Photograph of a woman from Kenosha, Wisconsin wearing traditional women’s clothing from the Civil War period
Pope, Mrs. Charles AView Full Item in University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsThe person in this picture is not known. This photograph illustrates the type of dress made and worn during the days before and after the Civil War.
Daguerreotype portrait of a woman carried by Confederate soldier Guilford Andrews during the war, taken September 26, 1863
View Full Item in East Carolina UniversityDaguerreotype portrait (#P-275/112) of a Civil War-era woman, produced on a silver coated, copper 1/9-plate. The image is dated September 26, 1863, at Orange Court House. Guilford Andrews carried this…
Memoir of Confederate spy and Washington socialite Rose O’Neal Greehnow, 1863
Grenhow, Rose O'Neal, Mrs. d. 1864View Full Item in University of CaliforniaMrs. Greenhow was a secret agent of the Confederate goverrnment.
Pledge to the National Union League, an organization of men established during the war to promote loyalty to the Union
National Union LeagueView Full Item in Western Illinois UniversityA Union League is one of a number of organizations established starting in 1862, during the American Civil War to promote loyalty to the Union and the policies of Abraham Lincoln. They were also known…
Letter from the Attorney General of North Carolina regarding the use of the Home Guard to arrest deserters, November 2, 1863
Rogers, Sion Hart, North Carolina Governor (1862-1865 : Vance), Office of the GovernorView Full Item in North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesThree page letter written to the Governor of North Carolina by his Attorney General regarding the effect of recent court cases on the use of the Home Guard to arrest deserters
Brady family wooden box, built to store valuables and hide them from marauding guerillas in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesThe Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee experienced brutal guerrilla warfare throughout the Civil War. According to local and family lore the Thomas Majors and Samuel Brady families constructed thi…
Photographs of the family of Confederate Sergeant Robert Frederick Johnson
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesSgt. Robert Frederick Johnson, Co. D, 7th Tenn. Cav., CSA, and his wife, Sarah Madison Taylor Johnson hold their daughter, Claudia. The baby died at the age of 15 months after a servant gave her cornb…
Document planning a fundraising fair for the Chicago Sanitary Commission, 1863
Chicago Sanitary CommissionView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyDuring the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission was the largest volunteer organization in national history, with chapters formed all around the northern states. In 1863, the Chicago Sanita…
Pamphlet titled “How Can We Best Help Our Camps and Hospitals?” published by the Women’s Central Association of Relief, New York, 1863
Woman's Central Association of ReliefView Full Item in U.S. National Library of MedicineCover title Will digitize Condition reviewed
Map illustrating the operations of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1864
United States Sanitary Commission, Lindenkohl, H. (Henry), Krebs, Charles GView Full Item in Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public LibraryKey to map symbols for branch supply depots, and distributing depots and relief stations.
Proclamation from the Grand Nation Council Chamber of the Union League of America, devoted to promoting the Union, January 1, 1864
Edmunds, J. M., Irvin, N. R.View Full Item in North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesA Proclamation from the Grand Nation Council Chamber of the Union League of America, January 1, 1864. The documents describe the duties and moral responsibilities that members of the Union League of A…
Letter from Martha Poteet to her husband describing challenges with sickness, death, and speculators in McDowell County, North Carolina, February 4, 1864
Poteet, Martha HendleyView Full Item in North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesEncapsulated letter. Martha is distressed because she and the children are still sick, and Bill Cowen is trying to get them to leave their home by preventing them from farming the land. She says the o…
Political cartoon titled “A Hint for the Sanitary Fair,” March 26, 1864
Unknown, Harper's WeeklyView Full Item in Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg College - GettOpen Public Collection; Political cartoons
An appeal for donations to aid white southern refugees at Cairo, Illinois, 1864
Johnson, John WView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyAn appeal for donations to aid white Southern refugees at Cairo
Sermon given by Dr. F. M. Hubbard on April 4, 1864 in memory of Confederate soldier George Burgwin Johnston, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Hubbard, F. M.View Full Item in North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural ResourcesA sermon given by Dr. F. M. Hubbard on April 4, 1864 in memory of George Burgwin Johnston.
Portrait of Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy who gathered information from occupying Union troops in Martinsburg, Virginia
Unidentified ArtistView Full Item in National Portrait GalleryBorn Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) Belle Boyd was one of the Confederacy's most well-known spies. She first attracted the notice of occupying Union troops in her hometown of Martinsburg, V…
Mathew Brady portrait of activist Sojourner Truth, who helped found the Colored Soldiers’ Aid Society and the National Freedmen’s Relief Association
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894View Full Item in National Portrait GalleryAbolitionist and former slave Sojourner Truth was overjoyed when President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Eager to assist the many refugees from slavery who had flock…
Memoir and letters from nurse Phoebe Pember who served at Confederate Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia
Pember, Phoebe Yates, 1823-1913View Full Item in University of MichiganCarte de visite portrait of Joseph Jefferson Dention, a member of the Home Guard in Cocke County, Tennessee, with his brothers
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesJoseph Jefferson Denton was a member of the homeguard in Cocke County, Tenn. He was born March 8, 1810 died Sept. 9, 1887. He was a strong Union man during the war and joined the Union League in Cocke…
Photograph of an officer’s family on a visit to his miliary quarters
View Full Item in The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. The New York Public LibraryB-5207 [notes in folder] USSC
Broadside from the Confederate Office of Chief Wool Agent restricting the private sale of wool in Georgia, 1864
Confederate States of America. War DeptView Full Item in Duke UniversitySigned: Wm. Hunter, Chief Wool Agent, District "A"; dated: Office of Chief Wool Agent of Confederate States, for District "A". Savannah, May 20, 1864. Caption title.
Diary entries from Martha Canfield about the Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum, which she founded in November 1864
Canfield, S.A. MarthaView Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesPages 15 through 24 of a pamphlet containing diary entries from Mrs. S. A. Martha Canfield with regard to the Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum that she founded. Mrs. Canfield observed the efforts of Rev…
Photograph of a National Sanitary Cake, which was sold at a fair in Arcata, California, to raise money for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1865
Anderson, H. (Hugh S.)View Full Image in Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IndianaCDV, man, standing, right hand on hip, with National Sanitary Cake, which was sold at a fair in Arcata, California, to raise money for the U.S. Sanitary Commission
Letter from the State of South Carolina reviewing the destruction of Columbia and appealing for food for the city, February 27, 1865
Andrew Gordon MagrathView Full Item in University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana LibraryReviews defense, fall and destruction of Columbia; appeals for food for the city
Apportionment for the relief of soldiers’ families, Delaware County, Indiana, approved March 4, 1865
View Full Item in Ball State University. University Libraries. Archives and Special CollectionsWritten by T. B. McCarty, Auditor of the State of Indiana.
Letter from Martha Dooley giving updates on family members who are helping the Parke County Indiana Aid Society, March 14, 1865
Dooley, MarthaView Full Image in Indiana Historical SocietyMartha Dooley gives Rufus Dooley updates on their family members, who are engaged in various activities, from attending meeting to helping with the Aid Society. Dooley, Rufus This Civil War Home Front…
Letter from Rowena McMicken to her husband relating news about the war and life at home in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, April 27, 1865
McMicken, Rowena OstranderView Full Text in University of WashingtonThis letter, from Rowena Ostrander McMicken to her husband, Captain William McMicken of the 10th Minnesota Infantry Volunteers, relates news about the war and life at home in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Sh…
Letter from an unidentified Pro-Union woman living in Gainesville, Georgia to her sister in the North describing Confederate suffering, May 28, 1865
View Full Item in East Carolina UniversityLetter written by an unidentified Pro-Union woman living in Gainesville, Ga., to her sister in the North shortly after the end of the Civil War. She describes wartime conditions of southerners, financ…
Illustration of Richmond women going to receive government rations, June 3, 1865
Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph) (1828-1891)View Full Item in Art and Picture Collection. The New York Public Library
