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The Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1890):
Selected Primary and Secondary Sources

Background Information | Using the Catalog | Electronic Periodical Databases | Journals | Internet Sources

		Background Information and Reference Sources

		The Civil War The Civil War Dictionary Everyday Life During the Civil War Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War, 1869 (Located behind the Reference Desk, flat oversized shelf) Who Was Who in the Civil War American History (including The Civil War and Reconstruction periods) American National Biography American Women Writers Annals of America, 20 volumes (Ref 973/Ad59a) The Bazar Book of Decorum: the Care of the Person, Manners, Etiquette, and Ceremonies, 1873 The Black Saga: the African American Experience Black Women in America Dictionary of American Biography Dictionary of American History, 6 volumes (Ref 973.03/Ad1 Dictionary of Literary Biography Documents of American History Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates Encyclopedia of Social History Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Ref 975/En19) Handbook of American Women's History Oxford Companion to American History (Ref 973/J637o) Reader's Companion to American History A Woman of the Century, 1893 Videocassettes on The Civil War and Reconstruction The American Adventure: The End of an Era The American Adventure: Reconstructing the South The Civil War Gettysburg Glory An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

		Using The Catalog

		You will find materials under subject headings and keywords such as:

		Civil War 1861-1865 Pay particular attention to the subheading "personal narratives" Abolitionists United States Antislavery Movements Emancipation Slaves United States Plantation Life Reconstruction Slaves United States Slavery United States Southern States History United States Sanitary Commission United States Social Life and Customs Women United States History Civil War Use also the names of women and men from the period, as both "authors" and "subjects;" for example: Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 Elizabeth Akers Allen 1832-1911 Catharine Beecher 1800-1878 Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887 Lydia Maria Francis Child 1802-1888 Joshua Chamberlain 1828-1914 Dorothea Dix 1802-1887 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825-1911 Isabelle Maria Hoffses 1831- Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 Harriet A. Jacobs 1813-1897 Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896 Thomas Family A sampling of interesting sources include the following: African American Frontiers: slave narratives and oral histories A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War, 1888 The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry An Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Southern Women in the South, 1827-67 Excerpts from the Civil War diary of Eliza Frances Andrews within A Day at a Time Freedom and War; discourses on topics suggested by the times, by Henry Ward Beecher. Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1863. (814/B39) Harriet Beecher Stowe and Octavia Walton Levert; The Woman of the North and the Woman of the South Contrasted, 1867 (MWWC) Hospital Sketches within Alternative Alcott Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, a facsimile edition, 1861 My Story of the War, a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the union army Narrative of Sojourner Truth, published in 1857 No Place for Little Boys: Civil War Letters of a Union Soldier Our Army Nurses . . . one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our Civil War, published in 1895 The Real War Will Never Get in the Books: Selections from Writers During the Civil War The Rebel Yell and the Yankee Hurrah: the Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer Render Me My Song: African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present The Spirit of the Fair U.S. Sanitary Commission. Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of U.S. Officers and Soldiers While Prisoners of War, 1864 (MWWC) Woman's Work in the Civil War To locate Town Histories within the UNE Libraries catalog use the name of the town as the subject heading followed by the subheading "history;" examples are: Blue Hill Me History Cape Elizabeth Me History Cumberland Me History Famingdale Me Town History Hallowell Me History Houlton Me History Madison Me History

		Electronic Periodical Databases

		America: History and Life indexes and abstracts journal articles covering the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

		American Civil War: Letters and Diaries JSTOR NY Times Historical

		Journals

		The following journals from the UNE Libraries Maine Women Writers Collection will be especially helpful: Atlantic Monthly, 1860-1868; 1871-1874 Harper's Magazine, 1860; 1865; 1967-1884 King Lady's Book, 1865, 1866 Lady's Book, 1865 Our Young Folks, 1867 Pickard's Monthly, 1869 Peterson's Magazine, 1865-1866

		Internet Sources

		The Library of Congress American Memory Project Includes a number of Civil War and Reconstruction Era digitized historical collections Index of Civil War Information on the Internet from the United States Civil War Center The American Civil War Homepage from the University of Tennessee Civil War Women Online Archival Collections from Duke University 19th century abolitionist and slave narrative literature in the Maine Women Writers Collection Pennsylvania Civil War newspapers Journal of the Confederate Congress Soldiers and Sailors database Son of the South, courtesy of Harpers magazine. The Valley of the Shadow Official Records of the Rebellion: Complete version: Edited version: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies (complete version): Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project The Abraham Lincoln Papers Battles and Leaders of the Civil War The Congressional Record Virginia Civil War letters

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