Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation

The Civil War Home Front and Military Life and History

Civil War Battle Summaries National Park Service	http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/bystate.htm Entries are arranged by state and for each battle basic information is provided: date, location, principal commanders, forces engaged, estimated casualties, and the result.
Civil War Sailors and Soldiers System National Park Service	http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ "The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System is a computerized database containing very basic facts about servicemen who served on both sides during the Civil War. The initial focus of the CWSS is the Names Index Project , a project to enter names and other basic information from 6.3 million soldier records in the National Archives."
Camp Life : Civil War Collections at the Gettysburg National Military Park National Park Service	http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/ Beautiful images and concise explanations tell the story of the day-to-day life of a soldier, from shaving and cooking to battling boredom.
The Battle of Antietam on the Web	http://aotw.org/ An amazingly detailed and comprehensive source which offers an overview of the battle, maps, discussion of the participants, digitized official records, pertinent articles and exhibits, and a variety of sources. Photographs are superbly reproduced. Also, visit the website of the National Park Service at http://www.nps.gov/anti/home.htm
Military History Online: Gettysburg	http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/gettysburg/ A straightforward day-by-day account of the battle is presented. See also the National Park Service site at http://www.nps.gov/gett/home.htm .
Civil War Recipes	http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/1369/recipes.html Cook up a little hardtack, enjoy some johonnie cake, and wash it all down with a cup of coffee. For many other recipes from the period, from cookbooks from the 1840s and '50s, visit: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Barracks/1369/more_recipes.html
From Quackery to Bacteriology: The Emergence of Modern Medicine in 19 th Century America	http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/quackery/quack-index.html The section on the Civil War is not extensive, but it is instructive. Some 560,000 soldiers died from disease during the war. This section considers the effect of grapeshot, the horror of hospital gangrene, and the distortion of bullets after impact with a human body.
Band Music from the Civil War Era Library of Congress	http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html " Band Music from the Civil War Era makes available examples of a brilliant style of brass band music that flourished in the 1850s in the United States and remained popular through the nineteenth century. Bands of this kind served in the armies of both the North and the South during the Civil War." Photographs of bands are provided and one can hear each piece performed.
The Story of " Dixie " National Public Radio	http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/dixie/ "Adopted as a Confederate anthem, it was offered up by President Abraham Lincoln as a gesture of reconciliation after the war. It's accepted with affection by many whites and scorned by many blacks. And yet it's been recorded by everyone from Elvis Presley to the Robert Shaw chorale." Various renditions of the song, saved as audio files, are available on the site.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Library of Congress	http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000003/default.html A brief discussion of the song is provided, along with bibliography, related links, and a photograph of the song's author, Julia Ward Howe. See also the about.com treatment of the hymn and of Howe at http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_howe_battle_hymn.htm .