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Causes of the Civil War
The Importance of Cotton
The Role of Industry
Technology
Slavery
Pre-Civil War American Slavery
Battles and Logistics
Spies
Medicine
Women in the Civil War
Biographies
Civil War Prisons
General Resources
Effects & Impacts of the Civil War
Primary Sources
These sources are all original documents pertaining to the Civil War.
Library of Congress: Civil War Diary
Library of Congress: Photographs of Black soldiers
Library of Congress Civil War Photographs