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Civil War-era Digital Collections at the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress Digital Collections contain vast holdings from the Civil War-era. This Research Guide provides links to numerous digital collections at the LOC organized by subjects.

Civil War-era Digital Collections at the Library of Congress, A-Z List

A

Abraham Lincoln Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/about-this-collection/

African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/african-american-perspectives-rare-books/about-this-collection/

Alexander H. Stephens Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/alexander-hamilton-stephens-papers/about-this-collection/

The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana: https://www.loc.gov/collections/alfred-whital-stern-lincolniana/about-this-collection/

America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets: https://www.loc.gov/collections/nineteenth-century-song-sheets/about-this-collection/

American Civil War Sesquicentennial Web Archive: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/american-civil-war-sesquicentennial-web-archive/about-this-collection/

Andrew Johnson Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/andrew-johnson-papers/about-this-collection/

Anna E. Dickinson Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/anna-e-dickinson-papers/about-this-collection/

B

Band Music from the Civil War Era: https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-war-band-music/about-this-collection/

Benjamin Harrison Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/benjamin-harrison-papers/about-this-collection/

Betty Herndon Maury Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/betty-herndon-maury-maury-papers/about-this-collection/

Blackwell Family Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/blackwell-family-papers/about-this-collection/

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

Brady-Handy Collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/brady-handy/about-this-collection/

C

Cartoon Prints, American: https://www.loc.gov/collections/american-cartoon-prints/about-this-collection/

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875:
https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

Charles Wellington Reed Papers, 1776 to 1926: https://www.loc.gov/collections/charles-reed/about-this-collection/

Chester Alan Arthur Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/chester-alan-arthur-papers/about-this-collection/

Chronicling America Newspaper Collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/about-this-collection/

Civil War: https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-war/about-this-collection/

Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints: https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-war-glass-negatives/about-this-collection/

Civil War Maps: https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-war-maps/about-this-collection/

Civil War Sheet Music Collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-war-sheet-music/about-this-collection/

Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/tilton-c-reynolds-papers/about-this-collection/

Clara Barton Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/clara-barton-papers/about-this-collection/

Confederate States of America Records: https://www.loc.gov/collections/confederate-states-of-america-records/about-this-collection/

D

Daguerreotypes: https://www.loc.gov/collections/daguerreotypes/about-this-collection/

Donald Benham Civil War Collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/donald-benham-civil-war-collection/about-this-collection/

Drawings (Documentary): https://www.loc.gov/collections/documentary-drawings/about-this-collection/

E

E. B. Washburne Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/e-b-washburne-papers/about-this-collection/

Edwin McMasters Stanton Papers, 1818 to 1921: https://www.loc.gov/collections/edwin-mcmasters-stanton-papers/about-this-collection/

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/elizabeth-cady-stanton-papers/about-this-collection/

F

Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847 to 1874: https://www.loc.gov/collections/frederick-douglass-newspapers/about-this-collection/

Frederick Douglass Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/frederick-douglass-papers/about-this-collection/

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/frederick-law-olmsted-papers/about-this-collection/

G

George Brinton McClellan Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/george-brinton-mcclellan-papers/about-this-collection/

Gideon Welles Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/gideon-welles-papers/about-this-collection/

Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/gladstone-african-american-photographs/about-this-collection/

Grover Cleveland Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/grover-cleveland-papers/about-this-collection/

H

Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana: https://www.loc.gov/collections/herndon-weik-collection-of-lincolniana/about-this-collection/

Historic Sheet Music Collection, 1800 to 1922: https://www.loc.gov/collections/historic-sheet-music/about-this-collection/

Home Sweet Home: Life in Nineteenth-Century Ohio: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/music-of-nineteenth-century-ohio/about-this-collection/

Horace Greeley Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/horace-greeley-papers/about-this-collection/

Horace H. Lurton Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/horace-h-lurton-papers/about-this-collection/

Hotchkiss Map Collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/hotchkiss-maps/about-this-collection/

J

James A. Garfield Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-a-garfield-papers/about-this-collection/

James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/about-this-collection/

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/jedediah-hotchkiss-papers/about-this-collection/

John Carvel Arnold Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/john-carvel-arnold-papers/about-this-collection/

John G. Nicolay Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/john-g-nicolay-papers/about-this-collection/

Joseph Holt Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/joseph-holt-papers/about-this-collection/

Jubal Anderson Early Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/jubal-anderson-early-papers/about-this-collection/

L

Lewis H. Machen Family Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/machen-family-papers/about-this-collection/

Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/liljenquist-civil-war-photographs/about-this-collection/

M

The March King: John Philip Sousa: https://www.loc.gov/collections/john-philip-sousa/about-this-collection/

Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/mary-ann-bickerdyke-papers/about-this-collection/

Montgomery C. Meigs Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/montgomery-c-meigs-papers/about-this-collection/

N

Nathan W. Daniels Diary and Scrapbook: https://www.loc.gov/collections/nathan-w-daniels-diary-and-scrapbook/about-this-collection/

National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-american-woman-suffrage-association-records/about-this-collection/

P

Patriotic Melodies: https://www.loc.gov/collections/patriotic-melodies/about-this-collection/

Philip Henry Sheridan Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/philip-henry-sheridan-papers/about-this-collection/

Popular Graphic Arts: https://www.loc.gov/collections/popular-graphic-arts/about-this-collection/

Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/broadsides-and-other-printed-ephemera/about-this-collection/

R

Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900: https://www.loc.gov/collections/railroad-maps-1828-to-1900/about-this-collection/

S

Salmon P. Chase Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/salmon-p-chase-papers/about-this-collection/

Samuel J. Gibson Diary and Correspondence: https://www.loc.gov/collections/samuel-j-gibson-papers/about-this-collection/

Slaves and the Courts, 1740 to 1860: https://www.loc.gov/collections/slaves-and-the-courts-from-1740-to-1860/about-this-collection/

Susan B. Anthony Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/susan-b-anthony-papers/about-this-collection/

T

Thaddeus Stevens Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/thaddeus-stevens-papers/about-this-collection/

Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman Papers: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/harned-whitman-collection/about-this-collection/

U

Ulysses S. Grant Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/ulysses-s-grant-papers/about-this-collection/

V

Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/voices-remembering-slavery/about-this-collection/

W

Walt Whitman Papers (Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection): 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/walt-whitman-papers-mmc/about-this-collection/

Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: https://www.loc.gov/collections/feinberg-whitman/about-this-collection/

Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861 to 1865: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/diary-of-horatio-taft/about-this-collection/

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: 
https://www.loc.gov/collections/gladstone-african-american-military-collection/about-this-collection/

William McKinley Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/william-mckinley-papers/about-this-collection/

William T. Sherman Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/william-t-sherman-papers/about-this-collection/

William Oland Bourne Papers: https://www.loc.gov/collections/wm-oland-bourne-papers/about-this-collection/