“Fires seen tonight on the Virginia hills. Julia was at the Presidents today, saw Mrs Lincoln, could see the rebel flag on “Munson’s Hill” with the Prests spy glass.”—Horatio Nelson Taft

Observations of the Civil War — sorted by source.

• A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson (183)
• A Diary From Dixie by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut. (278)
• A Few Letters and Speeches of the Late Civil War by August Belmont (DNC Chairman) (44)
• A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, By John Beauchamp Jones (1,426)
• A Soldier's Diary, The Story of a Volunteer, David Lane, (17th Mich. Vol. Infantry) (225)
• A Soldier’s Story of the Siege of Vicksburg–Osborn H. Oldroyd (65)
• Adams Family Civil War letters; US Minister to the UK and his sons. (246)
• administrivia (2)
• Alexander H. Stephens in Public and Private (1)
• An Artilleryman's Diary–Jenkin Lloyd Jones, 6th Battery, Wisconsin Artillery. (997)
• Army letters of Oliver Willcox Norton (Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers) (170)
• Army life in Virginia by George Grenville Benedict, 12th Regiment Vermont Volunteers. (35)
• Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills, (8th Illinois Infantry) (416)
• Civil War Diary kept by W. R. Clack, Co. B, 43rd Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers. (57)
• Civil War Diary of Charles H. Lynch, 18th Conn. Vol's. (355)
• Civil war portrait (115)
• Cornell University Library (1)
• Cruise of the U.S. Flag-Ship Hartford–Wm. C. Holton (236)
• David L Day–My diary of rambles with the 25th Mass (164)
• Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (933)
• Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War by Judith White McGuire (340)
• Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier By Louis Léon [53d North Carolina Regiment, infantry] (297)
• Diary of a Young Officer–Josiah Marshall Favill (57th New York Infantry) (277)
• Diary of Alexander G. Downing; Company E, Eleventh Iowa Infantry (1,439)
• Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd, Co. D of Terry's Texas Rangers (282)
• Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, United States Minister to England 1856 to 1861 (40)
• Diary of Gideon Welles (420)
• Diary of US patent clerk Horatio Nelson Taft. (565)
• Dolly Sumner Lunt Burge – A Woman's Wartime Journal. (27)
• Elisha Franklin Paxton – Letters from camp and field while an officer in the Confederate Army (82)
• Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (25)
• Hancock’s Diary: or, A History of The Second Tennessee Cavalry.–Richard R. Hancock. (50)
• Harper's Weekly (34)
• John C. West–A Texan in Search of a Fight. (69)
• Journal of Surgeon Alfred L Castleman. (276)
• Kate Cumming: A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. (338)
• Letters and diary of Laura M. Towne (137)
• Leverett Bradley: A Soldier-Boy's Letters (1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.) (176)
• Library of Congress (371)
• Memoir of Charles Sumner (1)
• Miscellaneous document sources (383)
• My Diary North and South – William Howard Russell (235)
• National Archives (2)
• New York Historical Society (2)
• New York Times (9)
• news of the day (11)
• Paintings of Conrad Wise Chapman (32)
• Reminiscences of the Civil War, William and Adelia Lyon (373)
• Robert M. Magill—Personal Reminiscences of a Confederate Soldier Boy, 39th Georgia Regiment of Infantry (467)
• The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (6)
• The American Civil War (2,238)
• The Color Guard, A Corporal's Notes, James Kendall Hosmer (48)
• The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln (19)
• The Cruel Side of War – Katherine Prescott Wormeley (42)
• The Diary of a Line Officer, Captain Augustus C. Brown, Co. H, 4th NY Heavy Artillery (107)
• The Journal of Julia LeGrand (65)
• The Life of David Glasgow Farragut. (10)
• The Rebellion Record—A Diary of American Events; by Frank Moore (1,191)
• Three Months in the Southern States–Lieut. Col. Fremantle, Coldstream Guards (110)
• Three Years in the Confederate Horse Artillery — George Michael Neese. (561)
• Through Some Eventful Years by Susan Bradford Eppes (208)
• Trans-Mississippi Photo Archive (4)
• Turning on the Light: A Dispassionate Survey of President Buchanan's Administration, From 1860 to its Close, by Horatio King (26)
• Uncollected Letters of Abraham Lincoln © 1917 (14)
• Village Life in America, 1852 – 1872, by Caroline Cowles Richards (165)
• War diary and letters of Stephen Minot Weld (604)
• War Diary of a Union Woman in the South by Dora Richards Miller (84)
• War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney. (1,298)
• War Letters of William Thompson Lusk. (101)
• War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (310)
• West Point (1)
• Woolsey family letters during the War for the Union (293)