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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 Soldier Diaries and Correspondence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/