Free Civil War Diaries and Personal Narratives

No other chapter of American history has been so voluminously recorded as the American Civil War. Even today, more than 130 years after General Robert E. Lee and the remnant of his loyal, starving army bowed to inevitable defeat at Appomattox, the Civil War continues to fascinate people the world over. What draws us to that terrible conflict is not the struggle over slavery or states' rights, but the human drama it unfolds. The real war was experienced every day by those who fought it and by their families at home. The personal source materials for this conflict include letters, diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, and reports published in books that number into the thousands. Today, more than a century later, thanks to these published letters, memoirs, and documents, we can experience the conflict first hand through the words left us by those who lived through it and by some who died in it. This massive array of materials is invaluable to researchers, Civil War scholars, and others interested in this period of American history. Every war generates a large number of official documents, and the Civil War is no exception. In fact, it prompted many more documents than previous American wars. The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, for example, runs to 70 volumes in 127 parts plus general index and atlas. A great number of documents in this series reveal personal accounts of the combatants, often written just after the event. There are also numerous collections of Civil War letters and diaries, many written by prominent officers, men of considerable literacy, who were quite conscious of the historical importance of the conflict. Almost every general seems to have published his "Memoirs" of the events. We have collected, and continue to collect, Civil War Diaries and Personal Narratives from across the web.

1863 Civil War Diary of Cornelius Byington.pdf

A brief sketch of the first Monitor and its inventor- a paper read before the Buffalo historical society, January 5, 1874 (1874).pdf

A Cavalry Dash - Experience of a Detachment of the 1st Ohio Cavalry.pdf

A Comprehensive Sketch of the Battle of Manassas or Second Bull Run, 1886.pdf

A Comprehensive sketch of the Merrimac and Monitor naval battle.pdf

A Confederate Sergeant's Adventures, 1910-1911.pdf

A Dash for Freedom - How a Party of Salisbury Prisoners effected their escape.pdf

A Deed of Daring - The True Story of the Capture of a Rebel Railway Train.pdf

A Diary -The Eighty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the War, 1862-1865.pdf

A diary of the 30th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers .pdf

A Diary Of The War- What I Saw Of It. By William S. White.pdf

A diary with reminiscences of the war and refugee life in the Shenandoah valley, 1860-1865.pdf

A Far-West Fight - Graphic Sketch of a Campaign Beyond the Mississippi.pdf

A Fighting Regiment's First Battle - A Colonel’s recollections of the Burnside Expedition and capture of Roanoke Island.pdf

A Fire Zouave - Memoirs of a member of the Excelsior Brigade, by Frank Moran, Captain, 73rd New York.pdf

A Freedmen's Bureau Diary.pdf

A Gettysburg Diary - Carroll’s Brigade and the part it played in repulsing the Tigers.pdf

A Graphic Story of the Bombardment of Fort Fisher from an Inside Witness, The daily dispatch., January 09, 1865.pdf

A History of Prison Life in Libby - By Captain John W. Chamberlin, Co. A, 123rd Regiment, O.V.I.pdf

A journal of hospital life in the Confederate army of Tennessee .pdf

A Lost History - Experiences of Company A, 2nd Cal. Cavalry., Not Recorded Officially.pdf

A Prisoner at Camp Ford - Life and incidents at that Texas Prison.pdf

A Prisoner of War - A Veteran Illinois Soldier in Andersonville.pdf

A Scout's Adventures - Making preparations for the famous McCook Raid.pdf

A Scout's Adventures -- Escape from the Prison Pen at Florence, South Carolina.pdf

A Sketch Of The Battle Of Franklin, Tenn.pdf

A soldier's diary; the story of a volunteer, 1862-1865.pdf

A. J. Thompson Civil War diary.pdf

A. Thompson.pdf

A.H. Lewis diary - written between December 15, 1861 and March 19, 1862.pdf

A.J. McRoberts papers.pdf

A&IGO - Orders and Letters of Brig. Gen. G.J. Pillow, Commanding the Conscription Bureau, Army of the Tennessee, 1863, 1863 - 1863.pdf

Aaron S. Oberly.pdf

Aaron Lee - From the Atlantic to the Pacific.pdf

Aaron Pugh letters, 1863-1864.pdf

Abbie M. Brooks Diary (Transcript).pdf

Abbie M. Brooks.pdf

Abbot, Willis J. Battle-fields of '61; a narrative of the military operations of the war for the Union(1889).pdf

Abbot, Willis J. Battlefields and Campfires- A Narrative of the Principal Military Operations of the Civil War, 1890.pdf

Abbot, Willlis J. Battle-fields and victory; a narrative of the principle military operations of the Civil War(1891).pdf

Abbott, John S. The life of General Ulysses S. Grant. Containing a brief but faithful narrative of those military and diplomatic achievements... (1868).pdf

Abbott, Lemuel. Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1908.pdf

Abercrombie, Aycock, Hale, and Hawk family papers.pdf

Abram Rinker.pdf

Absalom Joshua Burum.pdf

Account of the Battle of Bull Run, 1861.pdf

Adair, John M. Historical sketch of the Forty-Fifth Illinois Regiment with a complete list of the officers and privates and an individual record of each man in the regiment (1869).pdf

Adam H. Pickel - Transcription by Jennie Erikson.pdf

Adam H. Pickel diary, 1862-1863.pdf

Adam K. Brown papers.pdf

Adams, F. Colburn. High old salts - Letters on the efficiency of the navy and some naval operations of the civil war. A criticism of Admiral Porter (1876).pdf

Adams, James. Reminiscences - 26th Regiment North Carolina Infantry, by Lieut. Col. James T. Adams, n.d..pdf

Adams, John G. B. Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts regiment (1899).pdf

Addeman, Joshua M. Reminiscences of two years with the colored troops (1880).pdf

Addie Tripp.pdf

Addison Bell Diary.pdf

Addison S. Boyce Papers, 1864.pdf

Against the Tide at Shiloh - Reminiscences of an Illinois boy in the Western Army..pdf

Albert Arndt.pdf

Albert Cross.pdf

Albert S. Underwood Diary, 1864 [transcript].pdf

Albert S. Underwood Diary, 1864.pdf

Albright, Mrs. James W. Reminiscences - Mrs. James W. Albright, n.d..pdf

Alden, Carroll S. George Hamilton Perkins, U.S.N.- His Life and Letters, 1914.pdf

Alexander Brown papers.pdf

Alexander E. Steen, Papers, 1861-1862.pdf

Alexander S. Millard.pdf

Alexander, E.P. Military Memoirs of a Confederate- A Critical Narrative, 1907.pdf

Alfred D. Morgan Diary - 1865.pdf

Alfred D. Morgan Diary - Sep. to Nov. 1864.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Correspondence, January-June 1862.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Correspondence, April-July 1863.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Correspondence, August-December 1862.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Correspondence, January-July 1863.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Correspondence, January-March 1863.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Correspondence, July-December 1862.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1861-1864.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Correspondence, November 1861-March 1862.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Correspondence, September-December 1861.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Letterbooks of Ryder Civil War letters Vol 1.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Letterbooks of Ryder Civil War letters Vol 2.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder - Letterbooks of Ryder Civil War letters Vol 3.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder -Transcripts of Civil War letters, 1861-1864.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder -Transcripts of Civil War letters, 1862-1863.pdf

Alfred G. Ryder -Transcripts of Civil War letters, 1862-1864.pdf

Alfred Moore.pdf

Alfred Noble - Diaries, 1863.pdf

Alfred Noble - Diaries, 1864.pdf

Alfred Noble - Diaries, 1865.pdf

Alfred Noble - Diaries, Transcript, 1863.pdf

Alice Williamson Diary.pdf

Allan, Elizabeth Preston. The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, 1903.pdf

Allen D. Candler, 1834-1910. Papers.pdf

Allen, Thomas, ed. Sketches of War History 1861-65, Papers prepared for the Commandery of the state of Ohio, Vol. 2, (1908).pdf

Allen, Thomas, ed. Sketches of War History 1861-65, Papers prepared for the Commandery of the state of Ohio, Vol. 6, (1908).pdf

Almon Hodges Civil_War diary 1862_Sept to 1863_June.pdf

Alonzo B. Lothrop.pdf

Alonzo C. Ide diary, 1864, United States Civil War.pdf

Alonzo Miller Civil War papers.pdf

Alpheus Shreve Badger.pdf

Alphonso Covey - Correspondence Jan -Nov 1864.pdf

Alva Griest.pdf

Amos Guthrie diary, 1864.pdf

Amos W. Abbott - Letters.pdf

Amos W. Avery.pdf

An Historical Sketch of the 162nd Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry (3rd Metropolitan Guard) 19th Army Corps, 1862-1865, 1867.pdf

Anderson, Edward. Camp fire stories - a series of sketches of the Union army in the Southwest (1900).pdf

Anderson, Ephraim McD. Memoirs Historical and Personal; Including the Campaigns of the First Missouri Confederate Brigade, 1868.pdf

Anderson, Thomas J. Life and letters of Judge Thomas J. Anderson and wife, including a few letters from children and others, mostly written during the Civil War (1904).pdf

Andersonville The Story of a Civil War Prison Camp.pdf

Andrew Donaldson Stewart.pdf

Andrew E. Arneson Diary, 1865.pdf

Andrew F. Davis diary, 1861-1862.pdf

Andrew F. Davis papers, 1862.pdf

Andrew F. Davis papers, January-October 1863.pdf

Andrew F. Davis papers, May-December 1861.pdf

Andrew J. P. Giddings Diary and Ledger of Income and Expenses (1863-1865).pdf

Andrew Jackson Cobb.pdf

Andrew Jackson Smith.pdf

Andrews, Andrew Jackson. A sketch of the boyhood days of Andrew J. Andrews, of Gloucester County, Virginia, and his experience as a soldier (1905).pdf

Andrews, Welburn. Sketch of Co. K, 23rd South Carolina Volunteers, 1909.pdf

Anna Hasell Thomas Diary, July 1864 - May 1865.pdf

Anne Fannie Gorham diary.pdf

Anonymous Gettysburg Campaign Reminiscence.pdf

Anson R. Butler letters, 1861-1900.pdf

Applegate, John Stilwell. Reminiscences and letters of George Arrowsmith of New Jersey (1893).pdf

Aquilla Standifird’s Civil War Journal.pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary part I (Sept 1861-Dec 30th 1861).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part II (Feb-March).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part III (March 1862 - May 1862) Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh, Corinth.pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part III (March 1862 - May 1862).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part IV (June 1862 - Aug 1862).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part IX (Sept 1863-Dec 1863).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part V (Sept 1862 - Nov-1862).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part VI (Dec 1862 - Feb-1863).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part VII (March 1863-May 1863).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part VIII (June 1863-August 1863).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part X (Dec 1863 - Feb-1864).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part XI (March (1864)- May (1864).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part XII (June (1864)- August (1864).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part XIII (Sept. (1864)- Nov.(1864).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part XIV (Dec. (1864)- Feb.(1865).pdf

Arminius Bill - Civil War Diary Part XV (March (1865) until close).pdf

Armstrong, Nelson. Nuggets of experience ; narratives of the sixties and other days, with graphic descriptions of thrilling personal adventures (1906).pdf

Arnold, Isaac Newton. Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln - compiled in most part from the History of Abraham Lincoln, and the overthrow of slavery (1869).pdf

Arthur Tappan Strong diary, January 1 to March 9, 1862.pdf

Asbury L. Stephens.pdf

Ashby, Thomas A. The Valley Campaigns, Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant, 1914.pdf

Aubery, C.B. Twenty-five years on the streets of Milwaukee after dark.pdf

Auchmuty, Richard Tylden. Letters of Richard Tylden Auchmuty, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac. ([189--]).pdf

August Forsberg Memoir Transcription.pdf

Augustin, J. A. War flowers, reminiscences of four years' campaigning. Respectfully dedicated to the ladies of New Orleans (c1865]).pdf

Augustus L. Yenner diary, 1863,.pdf

Austin, J. P. The Blue and the Gray. Sketches of a Portion of the Unwritten History of the Great American Civil War, 1899..pdf

Avary, Myrta Lockett. Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens; his diary kept when a prisoner at Fort Warren,1865; giving incidents and reflections of his prison life (1910.pdf

Bacon, Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey. Letters of a family during the war for the Union. 1861-1865, Vol. 1, (1899).pdf

Bacon, Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey. Letters of a family during the war for the Union. 1861-1865, Vol. 2, (1899).pdf

Badeau, Adam. Grant in peace. From Appomattox to Mount McGregor. A personal memoir (1887).pdf

Bailey, George W. A private chapter of the war (1861-5) (1880).pdf

Baird family papers - Correspondence, 1861-1862.pdf

Baird family papers - Correspondence, 1863 January-June.pdf

Baird family papers - Correspondence, 1863 July-December.pdf

Baird family papers - Correspondence, 1864 and undated.pdf

Barber, J. War letters of a disbanded volunteer- embracing his experiences as honest old Abe's bosom friend and unofficial adviser (1864).pdf

Barber, Lucius. Army Memoirs of Lucius W. Barber, Company D, 15th Illinois Infantry, 1894.pdf

Bardeen, C.W. A Little Fifer's War Diary, 1910.pdf

Barnes, James A. The Eighty-Sixth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. A Narrative of Its Service in the Civil War of 1861-1865, 1895.pdf

Barnet, James. Biographical sketch of Major William H. Medill (1864).pdf

Barnet, James. The martyrs and heroes of Illinois in the great rebellion. Biographical sketches (1865).pdf

Barney, Chester. Recollections of Field Service with the Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers 1865..pdf

Barrett, Orvey S. Reminiscences, incidents, battles, marches and camp life of the old 4th Michigan Infantry in War of Rebellion, 1861 to 1864 (1888).pdf

Barry, Joseph. The Annals of Harper's Ferry - With Sketches of Its Founder, and Many Prominent Characers ... (1872).pdf

Barth Family, Papers, 1852-1907.pdf

Bartlett, John. Memoirs of Rhode Island officers who were engaged in the service of their country during the great rebellion of the South. Illustrated with thirty-four portraits (1867).pdf

Barton, George. Angels of the battlefield - a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late Civil War, 1898 (2).pdf

Basil H. Messler.pdf

Batten, John. Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy (1881).pdf

Battle of Pittsburg Landing- Volunteers of Ohio. Remarks of John Sherman, of Ohio in the Senate of the United States, May 9, 1862.pdf

Battle of the Crater - First person narrative from a soldier of Company A, Sixteenth Virginia Infantry, Petersburg, July 30, 1864..pdf

Battle, Kemp. Reminiscences - The Chatham Railroad Company, nd.pdf

Battle, Laura Elizabeth.pdf

Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee.pdf

Baylies, Francis. A narrative of Major General Wool's campaign in Mexico, in the years 1846, 1847, and 1848 (1851).pdf

Baylies, Francis. A narrative of Major General Wool's campaign in Mexico, in the years 1846, 1847, and 1848 (1852).pdf

Beale, Howard K. ed. The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859-1866, 1933.pdf

Bean family letters, 1862-1863.pdf

Bearss, Edwin C. Protecting Sherman's Lifeline- The Battles of Brices Cross Roads and Tupelo 1864.pdf

Beatty, John. The Citizen Soldier or Memoirs of a Volunteer, 1879.pdf

Beck, Stephen C. A true sketch of his army life (1914).pdf

Beecher, Herbert W. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. Vol. 1, (1901).pdf

Beecher, Herbert W. History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. Vol. 2, (1901).pdf

Beidelman family papers.pdf

Belknap, George E. ed., Letters of Capt. Geo. Hamilton Perkins, 1886..pdf

Belmont, August. A few letters and speeches of the late Civil War (1870).pdf

Benedict, George Grenville. Army life in Virginia.pdf

Benedict, George Grenville. Vermont at Gettysburgh. A sketch of the part taken by the Vermont troops, in the battle of Gettysburgh (1870).pdf

Benham, Henry Washington. Recollections of West Virginia campaign, with The three months troops, May, June, and July 1861 (1873).pdf

Benjamin Benner.pdf

Benjamin D. Pritchard on the capture of Jefferson Davis.pdf

Benjamin F. White Diary, 1861.pdf

Benjamin Henry Pope.pdf

Benjamin T. Hunter, 1861 (tranbscription).pdf

Benjamin T. Hunter, 1861.pdf

Benjamin T. Strong's biography 1913.pdf

Benjamin Whitcomb.pdf

Bennett, Charles. Historical Sketches of the Ninth Michigan Infantry with an account of the Battle of Murfreesboro,1913.pdf

Bennett, William. A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the southern armies during the late civil war between the states of the federal union (1877).pdf

Berry Benson diary 1861-1865.pdf

Berry, Chester. Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors, 1892.pdf

Betty Herndon Maury Maury.pdf

Biddle, Ellen McGowan. Reminiscences of a soldier's wife (1907).pdf

Bill Arp from the Uncivil War to Date.pdf

Bill, Ledyard. Pen Pictures of the War - Lyrics, Incidents and Sketches of the Rebellion, 1864.pdf

Biographical Sketch of the Late Gen. B.J. Sweet- History of Camp Douglas. A Paper Read Before ... (1878).pdf

Biographical sketches and pictures of Company B, Confederate veterans of Nashville, Tenn (1902).pdf

Bircher, William. A Drummer-Boys Diary, comprising four years of service with the 2nd regiment Minnesota Veteran Volunteers, 1889.pdf

Birdsong, James C. Brief sketches of the North Carolina state troops in the war between the states, 1893.pdf

Birkimer, William. Historical sketch of the organization, administration, matériel and tactics of the artillery, United States Army (1884).pdf

Bishop, Judson. The Story of a Regiment.pdf

Blackburn, J.K. Reminiscences of the Terry Rangers, 1919.pdf

Blackwood, Emma Jerome, ed. To Mexico With Scott- Letters of Captain E. Kirby Smith to His Wife., 1817.pdf

Blakeman, A. Noel. Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion- Address before Commandery of New York, First Series, 1907.pdf

Blakeman, A. Noel. Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion- Address before Commandery of New York, Fourth Series, 1907.pdf

Blakeman, A. Noel. Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion- Address before Commandery of New York, Second Series, 1907.pdf

Blakeman, A. Noel. Personal Recollections of the War of the Rebellion- Address before Commandery of New York, Third Series, 1907.pdf

Blanding, Stephen. Recollections of a Sailor Boy- Or - The Cruise of the Gunboat Louisiana, 1886.pdf

Bliss, George. Reminiscences of service in the First Rhode Island Cavalry (1878).pdf

Bloodgood, J. D. Personal reminiscences of the war (1893).pdf

Bloor, Alfred Letters from the army of the potomac.pdf

Boardman family papers.pdf

Boggs, William Robertson. Military reminiscences of Gen. Wm. R. Boggs, C.S.A. (1913).pdf

Boies, Andrew J. Record of the Thirty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, from Aug. 1862 to Aug. 1865 (1880).pdf

Bolton, Horace. Personal reminiscences of the late war (1892).pdf

Bond, Christiana, Recollections of Robert E. Lee, The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 24,1925.pdf

Booth, Edwin. In war time. Two years in the confederacy and two years north. With many reminiscences of the days long before the war (1885).pdf

Booth, George W. Personal Reminiscences of a Maryland Soldier in the War Between the States, 1898.pdf

Bowman, Col. S. M. Sherman and his Campaigns, 1865.pdf

Bowman, T.H. Reminiscences of an ex-confederate soldier; or, Forty years on crutches (1904).pdf

Boyce, Charles W. A Brief History of the Twenty-Eighth Regiment New York State Volunteers, 1896.pdf

Boyden, Anna. War reminiscences- a record of Mrs. Rebecca R. Pomroy's experience in war-times.pdf

Boyle family papers.pdf

boyles Reminiscences of the Civil War.pdf

Boynton, Henry V. Sherman's Historical Raid - The Memoirs - Based upon compilations from the files in the War Office, 1875.pdf

Bradley, George S. The star corps; or Notes of an army chaplain, during Sherman's famous march to the sea. (1865).pdf

Braun, Herman. Andersonville, A Critical Sketch, 1892.pdf

Braxton Bragg papers.pdf

Brayton, Mary Clark. Our acre and its harvest. Historical sketch of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio (1869).pdf

Brearley, William. Recollections of the East Tennessee campaign - battle of Campbell Station, 16th Nov., 1863, siege of Knoxville, 17th Nov.-5th Dec., 1863 (1871).pdf

Brinkerhoff, Roeliff. Recollections of a lifetime (1904).pdf

Britton, Wiley. Memoirs of the rebellion on the border, 1863 (1882).pdf

Brockett, L. P. Men of our day.pdf

Brockett, L. P. Our great captains. Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Sheridan, and Farragut (1866).pdf

Brown family papers.pdf

Brown, Augustus Cleveland. The diary of a line officer (1906).pdf

Brown, Philip F. Reminiscences of the War of 1861-1865, 1912.pdf

Brown, Spencer Kellogg. Spencer Kellogg Brown, his life in Kansas and his death as a spy, 1842-1863- as disclosed in his diary (1903).pdf

Browne, Frederick W. My service in the U.S. colored cavalry - a paper read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, March 4, 1908 (1908).pdf

Browne, Samuel T. et al. , Series I, 1881.pdf

Browne, Samuel T. et al. , Series IV, n. 1-10, 1881.pdf

Browne, Samuel T. et al. , Series IV, n. 11-20, 1881.pdf

Browne, Samuel T. et al. , Series II, n. 1-11 1881.pdf

Browne, Samuel T. et al. , Series II, n. 11-20, 1881.pdf

Browne, Samuel T. et al. , Series III, n. 1-10, 1889.pdf

Browne, Samuel T. et al. , Series III, n. 11-20, 1889.pdf

Browne, Samuel T. et al. , Series V, n. 1-10, 1889.pdf

Browne, Samuel T. et al. , Series VI, 1889.pdf

Browne, Samuel T. et al. , Series VII, 1889.pdf

Brownlow, William. Parson Brownlow, and the Unionists of East Tennessee- with a sketch of his life .pdf

Brownlow, William. Sketches of the rise, progress, and decline of secession - with a narrative of personal adventures among the rebels (1862).pdf

Browse diaries offline.pdf

Bruce Elmore.pdf

Bruno Trombly Diary and Records, 1866.pdf

Buehler, Fannie. Recollections of the Rebel Invasion and One Woman's Experience During the Battle of Gettysburg, 1900.pdf

Buell, Augustus C. The Cannoneer or Recollections of Service in the Army of the Potomac, 1890.pdf

Buell, P. L. The poet soldier. A memoir of the worth, talent and patriotism of Joseph Kent Gibbons, who fell in the service of his country during the great rebellion (1868).pdf

Bugle Notes from Dixie - Personal Recollections of a Confederate Cavalryman, The National Tribune, Feb 14, 1901.pdf

Bunker, Christopher Wren. Christopher Wren Bunker letters, 1863-1864 (1863).pdf

Burge, Dolly Sumner. A woman's wartime journal(1918).pdf

Burgwyn, William. William H. S. Burgwyn Diary, August 1, 1862 - March 2, 1863.pdf

Burgwyn, William. William H. S. Burgwyn Diary, January 21, 1864 - September 28, 1864.pdf

Burgwyn, William. William H. S. Burgwyn Diary, September 29, 1864-March 11, 1865.pdf

Burr, Fearing. The town of Hingham, Massachusetts in the late Civil War with sketches of its soldiers and sailors (1876).pdf

Butler, Benjamin F. Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler, Butler's Book, 1892.pdf

By a Good Templar. Recollections of a checkered life,(1868).pdf

By an English Combatant. Battle-fields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh ; with sketches of the Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps (1864) - vols 1&2.pdf

Byron M. Cutcheon Autobiography 1883-1888 of Civil War experiences 1862-1865.pdf

C.P. Lacey diary, 1864.pdf

C.T. Kimmel.pdf

Cain, S.J.B. Reminiscences - The last days of war in Ashville, written by S. J. B. Cain..pdf

California Civil War diary of an Unknown Soldier, 1862-1863.pdf

Calvin Leach Diary and Letters, 1861-1867.pdf

Calvin Leach Diary, 1861-1863 vol. 1.pdf

Calvin Leach Diary, 1861-1863 vol. 2.pdf

Calvin Leach Diary, 1861-1863 vol. 3.pdf

Cammack, John H. Personal Reminiscences of Private John Henry Cammack, 1920.pdf

Camp Life of a Confederate Boy, of Bratton's Brigade, Longstreet's Corps, C. S. A..pdf

Camp Morton 1861-1865, Indianapolis Prison Camp.pdf

Camp, field and prison life.pdf

Campaigns of a non-combatant, and his romaunt abroad during the war.pdf

Campbell, Edward L. Historical Sketch of the Fifteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Corps, 1880.pdf

Campbell, John Archibald. Recollections of the evacuation of Richmond, April 2d, 1865 (1880).pdf

Campbell, John Archibald. Reminiscences and documents relating to the Civil War during the year 1865 (1887).pdf

Cannon, Le G.B. Recollections of the Iron Clads, Monitor and Merrimac, and Incidents of the Fights, 1875.pdf

Cannon, Le Grand B. Personal reminiscences of the Rebellion, 1861-1866 (1895).pdf

Captured by Mosby's Guerillas - An Exciting Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Brewster..pdf

Cardozo, J.N. Reminiscences of Charleston, (1866).pdf

Carey's record of the great rebellion.pdf

Carlos Colby letters, 1862-1864.pdf

Carrie Berry.pdf

Carter, Howell. A Cavalryman’s Reminiscences of the Civil War, 1900.pdf

Casler, John O. Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade, 1906.pdf

Castle, Henry The army mule and other war sketches.pdf

Castleman, Alfred L. The Army of the Potomac-Behind the Scenes, 1863.pdf

Cavanagh, Michael. Memoirs of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, lectures and miscellaneous writings, including personal reminiscences , 1892.pdf

CelestiaLeeBarker.pdf

Chamberlaine, Captain William W. Memoirs of the Civil War, 1912.pdf

Chapin family papers, 1862-1870.pdf

Charles A. James Martin family papers, 1864.pdf

Charles A. Rubright.pdf

Charles Arad Gates letters, 1861-1863.pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, April 3 - May 18, 1862 [Folder 12].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, April 30 - June 9, 1861 [Folder 1].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, August 17 -August 31, 1861 [Folder 4].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, December 30, 1861 - January 14, 1862 [Folder 10].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, December 6, 1863 - February 21, 1864 [Folder 14].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, February 16 - April 3, 1862 [Folder 11].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, July 27-August 16, 1861 [Folder 3].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, June 11 - July 26, 1861 [Folder 2].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, May 19, 1862 - February 8, 1864 [Folder 13].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, November 30 -December 29, 1861 [Folder 9].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, October 17 - November 28, 1861 [Folder 8].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, October 4 - October 17, 1861 [Folder 7].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, September 1 - September 19, 1861 [Folder 5].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Diaries, September 20 - October 3, 1861 [Folder 6].pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Transcript of diaries April 30, 1861-January 24, 1863.pdf

Charles B. Haydon - Transcript of diaries , July 18-December 21, 1861.pdf

Charles Berry papers.pdf

Charles Brownpdf.pdf

Charles Butler - Correspondence, 1862-1864.pdf

Charles C. Nott - Sketches of the war a series of letters to the North Moore street school of New York.pdf

Charles C. Phillips Civil War diary and Signal Corps message book, 1864.pdf

Charles Cady letters, 1862-1864.pdf

Charles Carroll Gray Diary vol. 1.pdf

Charles Carroll Gray Diary vol. 2.pdf

Charles Carroll Gray Diary vol. 3.pdf

Charles Craver Pocket diary. 1861, Dec. 21 -- 1862, Dec. 23.pdf

Charles Craver Pocket diary. 1862-1864.pdf

Charles Craver Pocket diary. 1863, Apr. 8 -- Oct. 23.pdf

Charles Craver Pocket diary. 1863, Jan. 1 -- Apr. 7.pdf

Charles Darwin Elliot Diary , 1863-1864.pdf

Charles E. Ripley diary, 1863-1864.pdf

Charles F. Bates papers, 1861.pdf

Charles F. Bates papers, 1862.pdf

Charles F. Bates papers, 1863.pdf

Charles F. Bates papers, 1864.pdf

Charles F. Weller, Pocket sized diary, beginning in 1862 and ending in 1864.pdf

Charles F. Weller, Pocket sized diary, from January to June of 1865.pdf

Charles Francis Adams, Sr. The Civil War Diaries Unverified Transcriptions_1861.pdf

Charles H. Knox diary and letters, 1864-1865..pdf

Charles H. Peterson Diary, 1863.pdf

Charles H. Peterson Diary, 1864.pdf

Charles H. Peterson Diary, 1865.pdf

Charles Kroff.pdf

Charles Oscar Adams - Letters, 1861-1862.pdf

Charles S. Brown papers.pdf

Charles S. Wainwright.pdf

Charles Sigwalt , With Sherman from Chattanooga to Atlanta.pdf

Charles Sigwalt, Diary 1 (January 6, 1862 - December 31, 1862).pdf

Charles Sigwalt, Diary 2 (January 1, 1863 - January 21, 1864).pdf

Charles Sigwalt, Diary 3 (January 1, 1864 - December 31, 1864).pdf

Charles Sigwalt, Diary 4 (January 1, 1865 - October 17, 1865).pdf

Charles Wood diary, 1857-1869.pdf

Chase, William C. Story of Stonewall Jackson - A Narrative, 1901.pdf

Chesnut, Mary Boykin. A Diary from Dixie, 1905.pdf

Chetlain, Augustus L. Recollections of Seventy Years, 1899.pdf

Childs, George W. Recollections of General Grant, 1890.pdf

Chittenden, Lucius. Personal reminiscences, 1840-1890 (1893).pdf

Church, Frank L. Civil War Marine -A Diary Of The Red River Expedition, 1864.pdf

Civil War Diary of D. W. Nelson.pdf

Civil War diary kept by Leroy Warren.pdf

Civil War Diary of Charles W. Chapman, 1862-69.pdf

Civil War Diary of Confederate soldier George D. Wise.pdf

Civil War Diary of Edwin B. Weist.pdf

Civil War Diary of George A. Cook, 27th NY Volunteer Infantry Regiment_diary_trans.pdf

Civil War Diary of George A. Cook, 27th NY Volunteer Infantry Regiment.pdf

Civil war diary of Henry B. Sparks, company C, 3rd Indiana cavalry, 1864.pdf

Civil War Diary of James Robertson, 1861 account book & diary.pdf

Civil War Diary of James Robertson, 1861-62.pdf

Civil War Diary of James Robertson, 1862.pdf

Civil War Diary of John W. Chambers, 1863.pdf

Civil War Diary of L.Stone Hall, 1864-65.pdf

Civil War Diary of Sgt. F. M. McMillen.pdf

Civil War Diary of Sumner Ansel Holway 1st ME Cavalry 1862.pdf

Civil War Diary of Sumner Ansel Holway 1st ME Cavalry 1863.pdf

Civil War diary of Thomas Sparrow.pdf

Civil War diary of William A. Dewey.pdf

Civil War Diary written by David J. Minto.pdf

Civil War diary, 1864-1865.pdf

Civil War Diary, Union soldier, 1861-1863.pdf

Civil war letters of members of John Pentelow, 9th Michigan cavalry, 1865-1865 (1864).pdf

Civil War Papers - Prepared for the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (1900).pdf

Civil War Papers - Prepared for the Commandery of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. 2 (1900).pdf

Civil War Papers - Read before the Commandery of the State of Indiana, (1898).pdf

Civil War record of John Claude Buchanan.pdf

Civil War reminiscences by soldiers and sailors in Central Park Hospital, New York, N.Y., 1864-1865.pdf

Civil War Reminiscences of Cyrus Bussey, 1864.pdf

Civil Way Private Diary of John L Ryno.pdf

Claiborne, J F. H. A Sketch of Harvey's Scouts formally of Jackson's Cavalry Division, Army of Tennessee, 1885.pdf

Clapp Diary.pdf

Clark, Charles A. Campaigning with the Sixth Maine - a paper read before the Iowa Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (1897).pdf

Clark, Olynthus B. Downing’s Civil War Diary, 1916.pdf

Clark, William H. Reminiscences of the Thirty-fourth regiment, Mass. Vol. Inf.- original poems, 1875.pdf

Clark, William H. Reminiscences of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, Mass. Vol. Infantry (1871).pdf

Clarke County States Rights Association Papers.pdf

Clarke, H.C. Diary of the War for Separation, 1862 (copy 1).pdf

Clarke, H.C. Diary of the War for Separation, 1862 (copy 2).pdf

Clarke, H.C. Diary of the War for Separation, 1862 (copy 3).pdf

Clarke, H.C. Diary of the War for Separation, 1862 (transcript).pdf

Clarke, James Freeman. Anti-slavery days - a sketch of the struggle which ended in the abolition of slavery in the United States (1884).pdf

Claudius B. Grant - Diaries, 1862 [Folder 2].pdf

Claudius B. Grant -Diaries, 1863 [Folder 3].pdf

Claudius B. Grant -Diaries, 1864 Apr.-Dec.pdf

Claudius B. Grant -Diaries, 1864 Jan.-Mar. [Folder 4].pdf

Claudius B. Grant -Diaries, 1865 [Folder 6].pdf

Clay-Clopton, Virginia. A belle of the fifties; memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, 1853-1866. Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling (1905).pdf

Clements, Bennett A. Memoir of Jonathan Letterman .. (1884).pdf

Cleveland, Henry. Alexander H. Stephens, in public and private, with letters and speeches, before, during, and since the war (1866).pdf

Coddington, David Smith. Speeches and addresses of the late Hon. David S. Coddington, with a biographical sketch (1866).pdf

Coffin, Charles. Stories of our soldiers - war reminiscences (1893).pdf

Colby Short -Civil War diary, August 1861-August 1862.pdf

Cole, Emmett. Emmett Cole letters, 1861-1862 (1861).pdf

Collins Diary - 1.pdf

Collins Diary - 2.pdf

Collins Diary - 3.pdf

Collins, George K. Memoirs of the 149th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, 1891..pdf

Colonel Archibald Gracie's The truth about Chickamauga- paper read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, February 7th, 1912 (1912).pdf

Colonel Archibald Gracie's The truth about Chickamauga, paper read before the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, February 7th, 1912 (1912).pdf

Colonel E.D. Baker's defense in the battle of Ball's Bluff ; and, slight biographical sketches of Colonel Baker and Generals Wistar and Stone (1888).pdf

Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Essays and Recollections, vol. 1, 1899.pdf

Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Essays and Recollections, vol. 2, 1899.pdf

Commandery of the State of Illinois, Military Essays and Recollections, vol. 3, 1899.pdf

Conerly, Luke Ward A Historical Sketch of the Quitman Guards, Company E, Sixteenth Mississippi Regiment, Harris’s Brigade, 1866.pdf

Confederate diary of Charles A. Canavella.pdf

Confederate monitor and patriot's friend. Containing sketches of numerous important and thrilling events of the present revolution.pdf

Confederate soldier - being a memorial sketch of George N. and Bushrod W. Harris, privates in the Confederate army, 1868.pdf

Confederate wizards of the saddle; being reminiscences and observations of one who rode with Morgan.pdf

Confederate women of Arkansas in the civil war, 1861-'65 ; memorial reminiscences, United Confederate Veterans. Arkansas Division (1907).pdf

Conrad Noll - Diaries 1863 [Folder 2].pdf

Conrad Noll - Diaries 1864 [Folder 3].pdf

Conrad Noll - Diaries 1865 (part) [Folder 4].pdf

Conyngham, David Power. Sherman's march through the South. With sketches and incidents of the campaign (1865).pdf

Cook, Joel. The Siege of Richmond A Narrative of Military Operations of Major-General George B. McClellan During the Months of May and June, 1862, 1862..pdf

Cooke, Chauncey Herbert. Soldier boy's letters to his father and mother, 1861-5 (1915).pdf

Cooke, Giles B. Reminiscences - The Battle of Shiloh, written by Major Giles B. Cooke..pdf

Cooke, John Esten. The life of Stonewall Jackson. From official papers, contemporary narratives, and personal acquaintance (1863).pdf

Copp, Colonel Elbridge J. Reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865, 1911.pdf

Copy of diary of J. H. Rogers, Company G, 42nd Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, Tennessee and Georgia.pdf

Copybook, Milton S. Koontz, 1863.pdf

Corbin, Richard Washington. Letters of a Confederate officer to his family in Europe during the last year of the War of Secession (1913).pdf

Corby, William. Memoirs of Chaplain Life, 1893.pdf

Cornelia C. Hampton Reminiscences by Mrs. C. C. Hampton of Texas in the Civil War.pdf

Cornelius C. Platter Civil War diary 1864-1865.pdf

Correspondence (1831-1865, bulk 1831-1855.pdf

Cowper, Pulaski. Extracts of Letters of Major-General Grimes to His Wife. Written While Serving in the Army of Northern Virginia,1884.pdf

Cox, Jacob Dodson. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Vol. 1, 1900.pdf

Cox, Jacob Dodson. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Vol. 2, 1900.pdf

Cramer, Michael. Ulysses S. Grant - conversations and unpublished letters; ([c1897]).pdf

Crippen, Edward W. The Diary of Edward W. Crippen, Private 27th Illinois Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, August 7, 1861 to September 19, 1863, 1909.pdf

Critchell, Robert Siderfin. Recollections of a fire insurance man, including his experience in U.S. Navy (Mississippi squadron) during the Civil War (1909).pdf

Crone, James. Civil war letters of James Crone and R. V. White, Gordon county, Georgia, 1864 (1864).pdf

Crook, William. Through five administrations - reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, body-guard to President Lincoln (1910).pdf

Cuffel, Charles A. Durell’s Battery in the Civil War, 1903.pdf

Cullum, George. Memoir of Brevet Major-General Robert Ogden Tyler, U. S. army(1878).pdf

Cummings, Charles L. The great war relic ...Together with a sketch of my life, service in the Army...many interesting incidents illustrative of the life of a soldier (1870).pdf

Currey, Milton. Civil war letters of Milton Currey of Metamora, Indiana, sergeant in company C, 68th Indiana infantry (1863).pdf

Curtis, Chauncey. Reminiscences -The Burnside Expedition to Roanoke, by Chauncey W. Curtis..pdf

Curtis, Newton Martin. From Bull Run to Chancellorsville; the story of the Sixteenth New York Infantry together with personal reminiscences (1906).pdf

Cutler, Cyrus Morton. Letters from the front - from October, 1861 to September, 1864 (1892).pdf

Cutter, Orlando Phelps. Our battery; or, The journal of Company B, 1st O.V.A. (1864).pdf

Cyrena Bailey Stone diary, 1864 - transcript.pdf

Cyrena Bailey Stone diary, 1864 .pdf

Cyrus Bacon 1861-1863 diary transcript.pdf

Cyrus Bacon 1861-1863 diary.pdf

Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War diary, 1861-1862.pdf

Cyrus Thomas Diary transcript,1862.pdf

Cyrus Thomas Diary, 1862.pdf

Cyrus Vanmatre.pdf

D. Coleman Diary, 1863-1864.pdf

D. H. Hill Papers, 1848-1865.pdf

D. H. Hill Papers, 1866-1869.pdf

D. H. Hill Papers, 1879-1951 and undated.pdf

D.H. Strother - Eighth Paper - Cedar Mountain - Personal Recollections of the War.pdf

D.H. Strother - Fifth Paper - Valley of the Shenandoah - Personal Recollections of the War.pdf

D.H. Strother - First Paper - Personal Recollections of the War.pdf

D.H. Strother - Fourth Paper - Expectancy - Personal Recollections of the War.pdf

D.H. Strother - Ninth Paper - Groveton - Personal Recollections of the War.pdf

D.H. Strother - Second Paper - Pattersons Campaign - Personal Recollections of the War.pdf

D.H. Strother - Seventh Paper - Concentration - Personal Recollections of the War.pdf

D.H. Strother - Sixth Paper - Valley of the Shenandoah - Banks Retreat - Personal Recollections of the War.pdf

D.H. Strother - Third Paper - Balls Bluff - Personal Recollections of the War.pdf

Dahlgren, John Adolphus. Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren (1872).pdf

Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton. Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, Rear Admiral United States Navy, 1882..pdf

Dame, William Meade. From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spotsylvania campaign; a sketch in personal narration of the scenes a soldier saw (1920).pdf

Dana, Charles A. Recollections of the Civil War- with leaders at Washington and in the field in the sixties, 1898.pdf

Daniel Bond.pdf

Daniel Butterfield Pease family papers, 1864-1866.pdf

Daniel White Wells.pdf

Daniel, Ferdinand. Recollections of a Rebel surgeon, and other sketches or, in the doctor's sappy days (1901).pdf

Daniel, John W. Life and reminiscences of Jefferson Davis 1890.pdf

Dark days of the rebellion, or, Life in Southern military prisons.pdf

Darwin G. Palmer.pdf

David B. Arthur.pdf

David E. Curtis.pdf

David H. Reynolds.pdf

David Homer Bates.pdf

David James Palmer papers, August-December 1863.pdf

David James Palmer papers, December 1864-May 1865.pdf

David James Palmer papers, January 1863-February 1887.pdf

David James Palmer papers, January 1863.pdf

David James Palmer papers, January 1864-May 1865.pdf

David James Palmer papers, January-June 1864.pdf

David James Palmer papers, July-December 1864.pdf

David James Palmer papers, November 1862 - November 1928.pdf

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