Attleboro Area Civil War Commemorative Committee

Suggested Book Lists

Good Websites

General

• Civil War | The New York Times | Facebook Links to interesting stories about the Civil War and the sesquicentennial
• The Civil War Month by Month | Gaston-Lincoln Regional Library System  
• Seven Score and Ten: Sesquicentennial Day by Day
• Georgia's Blue and Gray Trail
• That a Nation Might Live
• National Park Service Civil War Site
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailor System
• Prologue: Pieces of History » Inside the Vaults - Discovering the Civil War: National Archives
• The Civil War You Found It! The WEB's Most Extensive Collection of Original Harper's Weekly Newspapers from the Civil War
• Bits of Blue and Gray
• Civil War Letters of Forrest Little Civil War Letters of Forrest Little from Vermont
• Civil War in the Illustrated London News

Massachusetts History

• The History of the 7th Massachusetts Volunteers is on-line  Search Google if the link doesn't work.

• The Massachusetts 7th Regiment

• Massachusetts Civil War Research Center  

• Mass Moments: Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment Organized . Other Mass Moments.
• Lawrence Civil War Memorial Guard | Facebook Welcome to a Facebook Page about Lawrence Civil War Memorial Guard. 
• Massachusetts Historical Society: Civil War Massachusetts in the war, 1861-1865
• New England Travels: The Ames Manufacturing Company - Civil War and the New England Mill Town
• BPL - Exhibitions - 150th Anniversary of the Civil War
• Duxbury in the Civil War  
• Union Regiments - Massachusetts
• 22nd Massachusetts Reenactors
• 28th Massachusetts Reenactors

Articles on Individual Battles

Bull Run

• The story of William Russell, a reporter for the Times of London, who was at Bull Run. It includes a lot of interesting details from several points of view.
• The Battle of Bull Run The Major Battles of the Civil War.  
• Eastern Theater of the American Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  
• Smithsonian Article on Bull Run

Women in the Civil War

• Civil War Women Blog  Biographies and stories about women of the Civil War era, how they lived, what they did to survive, how they fought for women’s rights 
• Women of the American Civil War Soldiers and Nurses Women of the American Civil War Soldiers and supporters of the army nurses.
• Vivandiers of the Civil War Vivandiers, French employment of females in the military service, Daughter of the Regiment, Cantoniere 
• Female Civil War Soldiers & Spies:  story, pictures and information - Footnote.com  
• Prologue: Selected Articles  Article on women soldiers from Prologue, Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration 
• Angel of the Confederacy: Sally Tompkins

African Americans in the Civil War

• The Antislavery Movement - Slavery in the Western Hemisphere  
• Siebert Collection  : About the Underground Railroad
• African-Americans/Underground Railroad in Antebellum Boston  
• United States Colored Troops - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  
• South Carolina Honors African-American troops (Boston Globe article)

Technology

• Lincoln's T-Mails Video and Audio  

Societies Active in the Civil War

• YMCA Armed Services Department
• An Inventory of Its United States Christian Commission Records 

Arts During the Civil War

• Winslow Homer
• Civil War Tintype Photos:  Liljenquist Collection at the Library of Congress