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Time Line
1854 - The Republican party was formed by men opposed to the extension of slavery.
1855-1856 - Warfare in Kansas between slavery and anti-slavery factions. John Brown, a radical abolitionist born in Torrington, Connecticut, led a raid on pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas, killing five.
1858 - A review of Ohio's military forces was held.
10/16-18/1859 - John Brown and his followers captured the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (later West Virginia), planning to use the arms to incite a slave revolt in the south. U.S. Marines, led by Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee, forced them to surrender.
12/2/1859 - Convicted of murder and treason against Virginia, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Va.
1860 - Republican Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States. South Carolina is the first state to secede from the Union in protest.
SECEDED STATES
- 12/20/1860 South Carolina. Readmitted to the Union in 6/25/1868
- 1/9/1861 Mississippi. Readmitted to the Union in 2/17/1870
- 1/10/1861 Florida. Readmitted to the Union in 6/25/1868
- 1/11/1861 Alabama. Readmitted to the Union in 6/25/1868
- 1/19/1861 Georgia. Readmitted to the Union in 7/15/1870
- 1/26/1861 Louisiana. Readmitted to the Union in 6/25/1868
- 2/23/1861 Texas. Readmitted to the Union in 3/30/1870
- 4/17/1861 Virginia. Readmitted to the Union in 1/16/1870
- 5/6/1861 Arkansas. Readmitted to the Union in 6/22/1868
- 5/20/1861 North Carolina. Readmitted to the Union in 6/25/1868
- 6/8/1861 Tennessee. Readmitted to the Union in 7/24/1866
1/29/1861 Kansas becomes the 34th state.
2/8/1861 - The Confederate states are organized in a convention at Montgomery, Alabama, their first capital. When Virginia seceded from the Union, Richmond became the new capital of the Confederacy.
2/9/1861 - Jefferson Davis is elected President of the Confederate states.
3/4/1861- President Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated.
4/12/1861 - The Civil War begins at 4:30 a.m. - South Carolina's Confederate troops attack federal Fort Sumter at Charleston, South Carolina.
4/14/1861 - Fort Sumter surrenders.
4/15/1861 - President Lincoln calls upon states and territories for 75,000 militiamen to serve for 90 days.
4/17/1861 - Western delegates at Virginia Convention oppose Virginia's secession from the Union.
6/20/1861 - West Virginians choose a governor who is loyal to the Union.
1/1/1863 - President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in areas controlled by the Confederacy.
6/20/1863 - West Virginia becomes the 35th state, separating itself from Virginia.
7/1-3/1863 - General Robert E. Lee invades Pennsylvania, is turned back at Gettysburg by General Meade's Union Army.
10/31/1864 - Nevada becomes the 36th state.
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes the Supreme Commander of the Union Armies. Grant pushed the Confederate Army south into Virginia, while General William T. Sherman advanced from the west to Atlanta, Georgia, on his "Grand March to the Sea".
1864 - Lincoln is elected for a 2nd term as President.
4/9/1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox courthouse in Virginia.
4/14/1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He died the next day.
4/15/1865 - Andrew Johnson is sworn in as the 17th President of the United States.
5/26/1865 - Surrender of the last Confederate army at Shreveport, Louisiana, ending the Civil War.
12/18/1865 - Slavery is abolished by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. constitution.
3/2/1867 - The Reconstruction Act was passed, organizing the southern states into five military districts.
10/18/1867 - Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million.
5/30/1868 - In this year, Saturday, May 30th was set as the date on which to observe "Decoration Day." This tradition was begun on May 5, 1866 and had been repeated on May 5, 1867. ("The Towpath" - April, 1997)
7/28/1868 - Citizenship was granted to former slaves by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
3/4/1869 - Ulysses S. Grant was inaugurated as the 18th President of the United States
Monuments
Communicate with Project Members
- WikiTree U.S. Civil War Project Google+ Community - Open to everyone and anyone!
Wiki Tree Resource Pages
Federal Laws
Images
General Images
Veteran Badges
E Cards
Flags
Maps
- County Maps by State
- Civil War Maps Battle of Gettysburg
- Library of Congress Civil War Maps Collection
- Civil War Trust Maps
- pbs.org The Civil War: Maps
- vox.com 37 Maps that Explain the Civil War
POW Camps
Hospitals
- Soldier's Guide to which hospital the sick and wounded of each state are sent. From the Richmond Sentinel, 8/10/1863
Resources By Union or Confederate
- This site is now subscription $25.00 a year, Covers both Sides: Civil War Research and Genealogy Personnel Directory: https://civilwardata.com/active/pers_dir.html, http://www.civilwardata.com
- Biographical Register of Officers who graduated from Military academy from 1802-1867
Union Resources
Headstones Provided for Union Civil War Veterans
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Family Search: United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890
Confederate Resources
War Department Collection of Confederate Records
Confederate American Pride Clipart: Free downloads of clip art, nice selection of flags.
Index to Confederate Veteran Magazine
Sons of the South Welcome to The Civil War, the WEB's most extensive source of original Civil War resources. This site has over 7,000 pages of original Civil War content, and is full of incredible photographs, original illustrations, and eye-witness accounts of the defining moments of this Historic Struggle.
Shotgun's Civil War Home Page From the blood soaked plains of Manassas, to the smoke filled skies of Atlanta, and finally to the tear filled eyes at Appomattox. For four of the bloodiest years in the history of this Republic the war raged. It started as Yanks and Rebs, it ended as "Americans!!"
Confederate Prisoner Record Search
Sons of Confederate Veterans Grave Etiquette
Family Search Confederate Soldiers' Home Records
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Civil War Research Center: Cemeteries - Confederate Burials
Library of Congress The Confederate States of America, A Resource Guide
Deaths of Confederate Soldiers in Confederate Hospitals 14 Volumes. Watkins, Raymond W., compiler. (Worldcat) (FHL book 975 V2w.)
- Confederate Burials 28 Volumes. Watkins, Raymond W., compiler. (Worldcat Confederate Burials) (FHL book 975 V3w.)
Petersburg, Virginia roster of war dead
List of Patients at Confederate Hospital #4 in Wilmington, NC.
African American Resources
On the Battlefield: Records of Soldiers, Veterans and Refugees. Also see G2G Explanation of Website
54th Regiment Massachsetts Volunteers This unit lost two-thirds of their officers and half of their troops, was memorably dramatized in the film Glory.
African American Soldiers and Sailors who were awarded the Medal of Honor: Civil War
US Archives African American Research resources
University of Washington History: African American
Gladstone Collection of African American Civil War Soldiers
Kid Port Reference Page Social Studies
Best of History Teaching resources
Civil War Trust, teacher resources
Cyndi's List related to Civil War
Casualties A list of resources that you can use to build your charts and graphs with as well as write your report.
Confederate Veteran, Volume 28
Confederate Quartermaster and Corps of Engineer Payrolls for Enslaved Labor
Native Americans
A total of 7,860 Native Americans participated in the Confederate Army, as both officers and enlisted men. Civil War Resource Database. These troops were mostly from the Five Civilized Tribes: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole nations.
- Wikipedia Five Civilized Tribes. The Cherokee Nation in the. Civil War . The Union did not incorporate Native Americans into its regular army.Civil War Resource Database.
Native American Resource Page US Civil War: War Between the States
Native American Records in the National Archives
Native American Genealogy Smithsonian
Family Search Native Americans in the Civil War
Wikipedia: Native Americans in the Civil War
Native Americans Sign Treaty With Confederacy
Native Americans: A Study of Their Civil War Experience
National Indian Law Library Tracing your. Genealogy
Military History: Tribe vs. Tribe
Guide to Native Indian Genealogy US Department of the Interior
Guide to Tracing Your Native American Ancestry
Images/Photos
Center for Civil War Photography
Civil War Battle Maps, listed by state
National Park Service Digital Image Archives. All images posted in this archive are free, and may be used without a copyright release from the National Park Service, but must not be used to imply NPS endorsement without permission.
Ball State University Digital Images. The purpose of the project is to build a digital repository of unique U.S. Civil War materials from East Central Indiana for teaching, learning, and research by elementary, high school, college/university students and faculty, and the public. Users will be able to remotely access, examine, and study letters, diaries, photographs, videotaped readings, and other Civil War documentation that have been previously available only onsite.
United Daughters of the Confederacy
American Civil War Photo Gallery A compilation of Civil War photos that are in the public doman and free to use.
Major Battle Resource Pages
Resources By State
US Military Records by Family Search
loc.gov Civil War Manuscripts (PDF) Civil War Manuscripts (PDF)
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Florida
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Iowa
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Kansas
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Louisiana
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Maine
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Maryland
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Massachusetts
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Michigan
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Mississippi
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Missouri
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Montana
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Nebraska
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Nevada
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New Hampshire
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New Jersey
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New Mexico
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New York
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North Carolina
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North Dakota
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Ohio
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Oklahoma
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Oregon
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Pennsylvania
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South Carolina
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South Dakota
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Tennessee
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Texas
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Utah
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Vermont
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Virginia
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Washington
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West Virginia
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Wisconsin
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Wyoming
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Exterior Online Resources
- CIVIL WAR MANUSCRIPTS families, names in War
- Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers. 4 volumes; free, complete online access
- American History TV Civil War Page
- American Civil War Battles, overviews, summaries, sortable by casualties, outcomes. This site also has databases for looking up soldiers and sailors.
- Cemetery Records, listed by state
- Civil War Teaching and other resources.
- Civil War Battle Summaries, listed by state or by campaign.
- Civil War Resource Page The Civil War Home Page dedicated to the participants, both North and South, in the great American Civil War 1861 - 1865
- Library of Congress US Civil War: Selected Resources.
- The Official Records of the War of Rebellion. Contains original records from the Civil War, plus papers of the Southern Historical Society written by Civil War veterans in the late 19th century.
- US Civil War: War Between the States Resource Page
- POW Camps Page Terri Rick and Terry Wright set up. Much nicer than mine listed above.
Miscellaneous
State Template Page
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Confederate Veteran-Vol.10, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Confederate_Veteran/Z9E_AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Here is a link for more of the Volumes- at the bottom just click "more editions", click each one to get to the individual volumes, they have published years on each. within them are details along with photos, families, parents, marriages, children etc https://www.google.com/books/edition/Confederate_Veteran/Z9E_AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=editions
240 North Carolina Confederate soldiers died at the Gordonsville Receiving Hospital 1862-1865
http://onslow.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/military/gordonsvilleroster.htm