Civil War Sheet Music Collection
Learn More About It
Library of Congress Web Resources
- Civil War Maps
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html - Band Music from the Civil War Era
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html - Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html - A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/tcrhome.html - Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tafthtml/tafthome.html - Selected Civil War Photographs
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html - Search the maps of "Military Campaigns and Battles" to find those related to the Civil War
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/milhome.html - Search under "Civil War and Reconstruction" to find lesson plans on the Learning Page
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/theme.html
Library of Congress: Today in History
- January 21, 1824
Stonewall Jackson's birthday - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan21.html - July 21, 1861
First Battle of Bull Run - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul21.html - August 30,
1862 Second Battle of Manassas - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug30.html - September 17, 1862
The Battle of Antietam - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep17.html - July 1, 1863
Battle of Gettysburg began - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul01.html - July 2, 1863
The second day of the Battle of Gettysburg - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul02.html - July 3, 1863
Pickett's Charge - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul03.html - November 19, 1863
Gettysburg address delivered - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov19.html - Nov. 23, 1863
The Battle of Chattanooga - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov23.html - Sept. 1, 1864
Atlanta won by the Union - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep01.html - December 16, 1864
The Battle of Nashville - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec16.html - Feb. 18, 1865
Charleston surrenders - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb18.html - March 11, 1865
Sherman captures Fayetteville - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar11.html - April 2, 1865
The siege of Petersberg - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr02.html - April 9, 1865
Lee surrenders - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr09.html
Library of Congress: On Abraham Lincoln
Read more Lincoln's assassination, the emancipation proclamation, and other
topics in the Abraham Lincoln Papers or in these other online resources:
- "We'll Sing to Abe Our Song: Sheet music on Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War"
-- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/scsmhtml/scsmhome.html - Lincoln's first inaugural address in American Treasures
-- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr00.html#inaugural - An exhibit on the Gettysburg Address
-- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/ - The assassination of Lincoln in Today in History: April 14, 1865
-- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr14.html
Library of Congress: On Jefferson Davis
- Jefferson Davis elected Today in History: November 6, 1861
-- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/nov06.html - The capture of Davis in Today in History: May 10, 1865
-- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may10.html - Finding aid to the Jefferson Davis Papers
-- http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/davis.html
Library of Congress: On Ulysses S. Grant
- Finding aid to the Ulysses S. Grant Collection
-- http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/grant.html - Grant’s birthday in Today in History: April 27, 1822
-- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr27.html