Civil War (SS4H5)

Photograph of a Civil War Battlefield, James C. Bonner Papers, Russell Library. Special Collections

SS4H5 Explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War

Suggested Collections

• American Civil War (Hargrett Library)

• America’s Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia (Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Library)

• Anne Fannie Gorham Diary Collection (Columbus State University. Archives)

• Barnard’s Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign, ca. 1866 (Hargrett Library)

• Coastal Heritage Society, Central of Georgia Rail Road Collection, Carpentry Shop Ledger (Coastal Heritage Society (Ga.))

• Cornelius C. Platter Civil War Diary, 1864-1865 (Hargrett Library)

• Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861-1862 (Hargrett Library)

• Henry L. Benning Civil War materials (Columbus State University. Archives)

• Militia Enrollment Lists, 1864 (Georgia Archives)

• North American Slave Narratives (Documenting the American South)

• Port of Savannah Slave Manifests (Georgia Historical Society)

• Robert Toombs, Letters to Julia Ann DuBose Toombs, 1850-1867 (Hargrett Library)

• The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 (Documenting the American South)

Suggested Searches (DLG)

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry

• Civil War

• United States Civil War

• States’ rights

• Slavery

• Fort Sumter

• Gettysburg

• Atlanta Campaign

• Sherman’s March to the Sea

• Appomattox Court House

• Appomattox Documents

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• “Stonewall” Jackson

• William T. Sherman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Suggested Searches (DPLA)

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• John Brown

• Harper’s Ferry

• Civil war

• States’ rights

• Slavery

• Fort Sumter

• Gettysburg

• Atlanta Campaign

• Sherman's March to the Sea

• Appomattox Court House

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

• William T. Sherman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Appomattox Campaign

Historic Georgia Newspapers

• Civil War

• John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

• "Mr. Lincoln's War"

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Chronicling America Newspapers

• Topics in Chronicling America - Battle of Fort Sumter

• Topics in Chronicling America - Blockade Runners in the Civil War

• Topics in Chronicling America - The Battle of Gettysburg

• Topics in Chronicling America - Civil War Maps in the New York Daily Tribune

• Topics in Chronicling America - Civil War Secessions

• Topics in Chronicling America - The Emancipation Proclamation

• Topics in Chronicling America - Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

• Topics in Chronicling America - Lincoln Assassination

• Topics in Chronicling America - Raid on Harpers Ferry

• Topics in Chronicling America - Sherman’s March to the Sea

• Topics in Chronicling America - Robert E. Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox Court House

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

• Northern Draft Riots During the Civil War

• Secession of the Southern States

• Torn in Two: Mapping the American Civil War

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• The Underground Railroad and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Women in the Civil War

NGE Articles

• Black Troops in Civil War Georgia

• Civil War: Atlanta Home Front

• Civil War in Georgia: Overview

• Civil War Dissent

• Raid on Harpers Ferry

• Slavery in Antebellum Georgia

• Welfare and Poverty During the Civil War

• Women During the Civil War

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources

• Abolitionists

• Civil War | History Detectives

• In the Wake of Sherman’s March

• John Brown's Holy War

• A New Birth of Freedom: Black Soldiers in the Civil War

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

Georgia Historical Society Resources

• Conquered Banners: Georgia's Civil War Banners

• Impact of the Civil War on Georgia

• Keyword search: "Sherman's March to the Sea"

• Primary Sources: The American Civil War at 150

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