Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs
REPORT OF FLAG-OFFICER FRANKLIN BUCHANAN, C.S. NAVY After-action report written by the commander of the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (former USS Merrimack) after her famous battles at Hampton Roads on March 8 and 9, 1862.
- Memoirs: Archibald Atkinston, Jr, Surgeon, CSA, 31st Virgina Infantry and 10th Virginia Cavalry, 1861-65
- Letter: Sullivan Ballou, July 14, 1861
- Letter: Sullivan Ballou, July 14, 1861 (A more complete version accompanied by photos of Sullivan's gravestone.)
- OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES Orders, Telegrams and Reports from the navies of the United and Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
- Letters: George Rust Bedinger, 33rd Virginia Vol. Inf., Capt., Co. E, January 10, 1861 to May 14, 1863, letters to and from him
- Diary & Letters: David Humphrey Blair, Co. D, 45th Ohio Volunteers
- Letters: Richard W. Burt, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
- Letter: Benjamin
F. Coffman, 33rd Virginia Vol. Inf., Cpl., Co. H; July 12, 1863; June
8, 1864; August 23, 1864
- Diary: Rachel Cormany, Chambersburg, June 14 - July 6, 1863
- Diary: Samuel Cormany, June 30 - July 6, 1863
- Letter: Jacob Golladay, Jr., 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Capt., Co. H, May 8, 1863
- Diary: John H. Grabill,33rd Virginia Vol. Inf. Lt. Co. C, June 6, 1861 to June 6, 1862
- Diary: James E. Hall, 31st Virginia Infantry, Co. H
- Diary: William Heyser, Sept. 29, 1862 to July 10, 1863
- Letters: Ambrose
M. Hite, 33rd Virginia Vol. Inf., Co. H, Pvt., July 21, 1861 and July
19, 1863
- Letters: Willis James, 34th Indiana Infantry
- Letters: "My Dear Josie", April 11 & 12, 1862, relating Battle of Shiloh
- Diary: Clay McCauley, 2nd Lt, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry
- Diary: G.D. Molineaux, May 1, 1865 to March 2, 1866
- Letters: Battle of Olustee, Confederate and Union Participants
- Diary: James Laughlin Orr, Captain, QM Corps, 2nd Div., XIV Corps, Nov. 12 - Dec. 16, 1864
- Letters: Newton Scott, 36th Iowa Volunteer Infantry
- Letters: Selected Civil War Letters, Southern Historical Collection
- Letters: George Granville Sharp, 153rd Indiana Infantry
- Letters: Alexander, Joseph, and Ezra Slagg, 23rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with extensive narration by editor
- Letters: Felix Voltz, 187th New York Volunteer Infantry
- Letters: Galutia H. York, 114th New York Volunteer Infantry
- Diary: Joseph Waddell
- Diary: Alice Williamson, 16 years old, Gallatin, TN, Feb 19 - Sept 27, 1864
- Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
- "The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia" Captain Richard W. Burt, Civil War Letters From The 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry