About
This blog complements The Civil War in America exhibition, displayed on site at the Library of Congress between November 12, 2012, and June 1, 2013, and online http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/civil-war-in-america. Posts are written by more than forty individuals featured in the exhibition and are excerpts from their diaries, letters, and published memoirs—all eyewitness accounts to the events of the war. To place these excerpts in context, click on the direct link to The Civil War in America embedded at the end of each entry.
Authors
- John M. Schofield
- Abraham Lincoln
- Lewis Henry Douglass
- Mary Ann Loughborough
- Anna Johnson Sanders
- James Longstreet
- Jedediah Hotchkiss
- Clara Barton
- Betty Herndon Maury
- James Steptoe Johnston
- John P. Jones
- Elizabeth Keckley
- "Stonewall" Jackson
- Mary Todd Lincoln
- David Dixon Porter
- James Billingslea Mitchell
- Mr. Gregory
- Alonzo Ameli
- Eugenia Levy Phillips
- John Nicolay
- Michael Shiner
- Robert E. Lee
- Benjamin Tucker Tanner