LINKS TO OTHER CIVIL WAR SITES AND ARCHIVES (All links were verified on August 15, 1998)

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• Edward G. Gerdes Civil War Home Page - Many lists and links to units (primarily Arkansas) but Illinois and Missouri as well.
• Valley of the Shadow Project - looks at the Civil War from the perspective of two communitites on either side of the Mason Dixon Line: Staunton, Virginia and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
• American Civil War - Part of TravelWeb - Search Engine for places to stay in Civle War Historic areas plus historical images and stories.
• Battle Flags of the Confederacy and Civil War Guns - renditions of Confederate pattern battle flags with histories; also some photos of Civil War guns with histories.
• Civil War History - General information for the Civil War enthusiast
• Civil War Information, Documents, and Archive - The American Civil War, 1861-1865 - World Wide Web Information Archive
• Civil War Miscellany - Just what it says - Misc...
• Civil War Poetry and Music - Poetry and Music of the War Between the States.
• Civil War Series - This Series combines onto one page, all War Times Journal resources relating to the American Civil War. Included are rare and valuable archives such as memoirs by many of the senior commanders involved in the conflict. It will eventually include image galleries and articles specially researched and written for the series.
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System - The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) will be a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. (Under Construction as of 8/31/97)
• Civil War Timeline - The History Place - U.S. Civil War 1861-1865.
• Dakota State University - The American Civil War - Extensive links and refernce page.
• Rosters and Military Sources - Some of the most detailed sources of information on the men of the nineteenth-century United States were the rosters of their military service. Historians Robert Driver and Lee Wallace have compiled detailed rosters of the Staunton Artillery and the Fifth and Fifty-Second Virginia Infantries for their books in the Virginia Regimental Series, published by H. E. Howard. The authors and publisher have graciously given us their permission to scan these rosters and make them available to the Valley project.
• Selected Civil War Photographs - The Selected Civil War Photographs Collection contains 1,118 photographs. Most of the images were made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady, and include scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men.
• Time Line of the Civil War - from the Library of Congress.
• The United States Civil War Center
  Housed at Louisiana State University. Its mission is to provide a comprehensive center for all Civil War interests, both scholarly and popular. It succeeds admirably in this effort.
• The National Park Service
  The National Park Service site offers changing features on history, archeology, cultural studies, and ethnogrophy.
• The National Archives
  NARA makes available to the public the historically valuable records of the three branches of federal government: executive (including the President), legislative, and judicial. National Archives holdings include textual; audiovisual; cartographic and architectural; and electronic records.
• The Library of Congress
  Documents, photographs, movies, and sound recordings that tell America's story. Resources for Educators: The Learning Page. Two New Collections: 'Votes for Women' Suffrage Pictures and Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs. New Feature: Today in History.
• The Smithsonian Institution
  This is one of the most comprehensive and exciting sites for history. Explore the Smithsonians different museums, or get information on programming, events, and other resources.
• The Gilder Leherman Institute of American History
  The Gilder Lehrman Collection contains approximately 70,000 items relating to American history from its European discovery and settlement through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Their website contains electronic documents relating to slavery and the slave trade.

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The above site information was collected from our own research, Internet Search Engines and other Civil War Sites.
If you would like to add a link, or send in an update to an existing link - please e-mail to: CWLinks@altonweb.com