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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)