Useful Links - Civil War Websites

                     

                                 House Divided Project- Lincoln's Writings - Digital collection featuring 150 of Abraham Lincoln's                                        most teachable documents organized around five major themes. 

                           

 

 

                                 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Digital collection that features more than 60,000                                        unique historical documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection 

                                 

 

 

                                 Library of Congress - The nation's oldest federal cultural institution, also the largest library in the                                      world, with an extensive digital collection

 

 

 

                                 The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies - Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

                                 Promoting the study of Civil War history at Virginia Tech and beyond

 

 

 

                                 The Valley of the Shadow - A digital history project, created by The Virginia Center for Digital                                            History through the University of Virginia, detailing the experiences of Confederate soldiers                                              from Augusta County, VA and Union soldiers from Franklin County, PA. 

 

 

 

                                 Harp Week - A digitized version of Harper's Weekly, the preeminent news and literary journal of the                                  last half of the 19th century

 

 

 

                                 Civil War Trust - Website featuring the latest Civil War preservation news, battle maps for most                                          major Civil War battles, history articles, photos, and much more

 

 

 

                                 Abraham Lincoln's Classroom - Supporting on-line research of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War                                      founded by The Lincoln Institute and The Lehrman Institute

 

 

 

                                 Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln - The Abraham Lincoln Association's multi-volume set of                                            Lincoln's correspondence, speeches, and other writings digitized through the University of Michigan

 

 

Books on the 1864 Election and/or Grant's Virginia Campaign     

                     

                                 Mark Grimsley - And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (Great Campaigns of                                                               the Civil War). Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 

                         

 

 

 

 

                                 David A. Johnson - Decided on the Battlefield: Grant, Sherman, Lincoln, and the Election of 1864.                                                                     Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2012.

                       

 

 

 

 

                                  John C. Waugh - Reelecting Lincoln: the Battle for the 1864 Presidency. New York: Crown                                                                              Publishers, 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

                                  Jennifer L.. Weber -  Copperheads: the Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North. Oxford:                                                                         Oxford University Press, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Books/ Manuscripts Available Online

   The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant - A 31-volume digitial collection courtesy of Mississippi State University

 

   Lee's Dispatches - Unpublished Letters of Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, from the private collections of Wymberley            Jones de Renne (1915), digitized by the University of British Columbia Library

 

   Abraham Lincoln: A Life - An unedited two volume manuscript by Michael Burlingame, digitzed through Knox College

 

   The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan - Selected Correspondence from 1860 to 1865, edited by Stephen Sears

 

   Proceedings of the National Union Convention - Held in Baltimore, Maryland on June 7th and 8th, as reported by D.F.              Murphy of the Official Corps of Reporters forthe U.S. Senate (1864)

 

 

Journals

       Larry T. Balsamo, “’We Cannot Have Free Government without Elections’: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1864,”              Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 94, No. 2 (Summer 2001): 181-199.

 

       Gary L. Bunker, “The ‘Campaign Dial’: A Premier Lincoln Campaign Paper, 1864,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln                     Association 25, No. 1 (Winter 2004): 38-75.

 

       Harold M. Dudley, “The Election of 1864,” The Mississippi Historical Review 18, No. 4 (March 1932): 500-518.

 

       Louis Taylor Merrill, “Benjamin Butler in the Presidential Campaign of 1864,” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review             33, No. 4 (March 1947): 537-570.

 

       Oscar Oshburn Winther, “The Soldier Vote in the Election of 1864,” New York History 25, No. 4 (October 1944):                       440-458.

 

       William Frank Zornow, “The Unwanted Mr. Lincoln,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 45, No. 2 (Summer               1952): 146-153. 

 

Blogs and Political Reference Sites

     Disunion - An Opinionator Blog from the New York Times discussing/ analyzing a variety of issues from the Civil War

 

     Presidential Campaign & Election Reference - online resource created by Bonnie K. Goodman analyzing the various               elements of every presidential election