Civil War
General
American Civil War Resources - Includes descriptions of some of the Civil War manuscripts holdings at the Virginia Tech University libraries and provides digital images and transcripts of the letters, diaries and memoirs of Confederate and Union soldiers in the collection. In addition, there is a link to Online theses and dissertations authored by Virginia Tech graduate students. (Special Collections, Virginia Tech)
Cemetery Listings - United States Civil War Center - Lists the Federal interments for City Point, Cold Harbor, Fort Harrison, Glendale, Richmond, and Seven Pines National Cemeteries. (Louisiana State University)
Civil War Medicine - (Virginia Commonwealth University)
CSA Collectors Page - Describes all currency, coins, stamps, bonds, and flags made by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861 - 1865).
CWSS - A database of Civil War soldiers and sailors (NPS)
Documenting the American South. The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 - A digital collection of official documents, private correspondence, reports of private companies, samples of currencies, literary and scientific works, sermons, almanacs and pamphlets that describe the Confederate South. The official documents are listed alphabetically by state. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries)
Home of the American Civil War
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies - Provides access to a search engine and to full text documents. (Cornell University/Making of America)
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion - Provides access to a search engine and to full text documents. (Cornell University/Making of America)
Selected Civil War Photographs - The site's 1,118 photographs, many made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, include scenes of military personnel, battle preparations and after-effects, and portraits of Confederate and Union officers, and enlisted men. Can be search by subject and keyword. (Library of Congress)
The American Civil War Homepage
The United States Civil War Center - Indexes over 5,500 links to Civil War related web sites. (Louisiana State University)
Virginia
Civil War Hospitals in Richmond - (Virginia Commonwealth University / Museum of the Confederacy)
Civil War Richmond - Provides photographs, and maps pertaining to wartime Richmond. Information on the city's prisons, hospitals, civilian and military sites and significant events is enhanced by links to full-text newspapers accounts and photographs.
Confederate Section in the Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg - Features a burial roster of the more 2000 Confederate soldiers who died in Lynchburg's military hospitals and were interred in the cemetery.
Death or Liberty. Gabriel, Nat Turner, John Brown - An online exhibit focusing on three dramatic events in Virginia history, dealing with the problem of slavery. ( Library of Virginia)
The Ground Beneath our Feet / Reconfiguring Virginia - "Explores the dimensions of the Virginia debates on secession in 1860-61 and the course of West Virginia's creation." (University of Virginia)
The Guide to Virginia's Civil War - For each of Virginia's major military theatres, provides an overview history, maps, tours, places to visit, and links to specific sites.
The Monitor - (Mariner's Museum)
The Valley of the Shadow - Using newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, and church, census, and military records, the hypermedia archive project explores the dimensions of the Civil War in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. (University of Virginia)
Virginia Military Institute Archives - Features descriptions, full-text, and digital images of Civil War manuscripts in VMI's archives. A "Popular Research Topics" section includes information on VMI's Civil War generals, Stonewall Jackson resources, Robert E. lee's funeral and the execution of John Brown to name a few.
Virginia Battle Sites
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Confederate Units at Yorktown, 1862
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
Hampton Roads. The Battle of the Ironclads - (Mariners' Museum)
Harper's Ferry National Historical Park
Manassas National Battlefield Park
New Market Battlefield - (Virginia Military Institute)
Petersburg National Battlefield