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HIS 306 : The United States Civil War Era

A guide to sources within Bradley University Special Collections Center .

Published Works

  • Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay  SPEC E 664 .H41
  • The Civil War Diary of a Common Soldier: William Wiley of the 77th Illinois Infantry SPEC E 505.5 77th .W55 2001
  • The Diary of James T. Ayers: Civil War Recruiter SPEC E 601 .A997D
  • Sergeant Allen and Private Renick  (11th IL CAV) SPEC E 505.6 11th .S47
  • A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital  (J B Jones) SPEC E 487 J77R
  • Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, etc. (Frank Moore) SPEC E 468 .R29
  • A Diary from Dixie (Mary Chestnut) SPEC E 487 .C52 1949 Sours Collections and SPEC E 487 .C542D  
  • Diary of Gideon Welles, Secy of Navy Under Lincoln and  Johnson SPEC E 468 .W449D
  • Diary . . . (Adam Gurowski) SPEC E 601 .G981
  • This Infernal War: The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard SPEC E 505.5 103rd .S75 2018
  • Field of Battle: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Halsey SPEC E 470 .K65 1996
  • Love and Valor: The Intimate Civil War Letters between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner  (1st IA Inf and 25th IA Inf)  SPEC E 507.5 .L68 2000
  • Surviving Dixie (Lt. Samuel A. Poland 11th IL CAV) SPEC E 505 .S98 2004
  • This Infernal War: Confederate Letters of Edwin H. Fay  SPEC E 605 .F25 Ehrlicher Collection
  • Lee's Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E Lee, CSA, to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America 1862-65. From the private collection of Wymberley Jones DeRenne, of Wormsloe, Georgia.  SPEC E 470 .L48 1952