4 OER for American Civil War
Judy Mull
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- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Reading
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): Facts about the Civil War https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112014272568
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): United States. Civil War Centennial Commission
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org)
Primary publisher type: Government
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Copyright: Public Domain, Digitized by Google
Additional notes: The original is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The book contains information about the first occurrence in our nation during the civil war, battles fought, and losses of the war.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Reading
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): History of the Civil War in America By the Comte de Paris. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b540470
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Louis-Philippe-Albert d’Orleans, com de.
Author/creator tags: related advanced degrees, faculty member, professional practitioner:
Editor(s):
John P. Nicholson
Henry Coppee
Louis F. Tasistro
Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University, Library) 5MsSM
Editor tags:
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) J.H. Coates. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008870061
Primary publisher type: Commercial
Resource attribute tags: Student Resource
Copyright: Public Domain, Digitized by Google
Additional notes: The book is written from the perspective of a Frenchman explaining the Civil War to his nation. The book is divided into six books which contain chapters discussing various aspects of the war he witnessed.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): The Republican platform. Revised speech of Hon. E. G. Spaulding, of New York, delivered at Buffalo and Washington, at meetings held to ratify the nomination of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, for president and vice-president. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t56f35302
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Eldridge Gerry Spaulding
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) E. Gerry Spaulding https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102481487
Primary publisher type: Self-published
Resource attribute tags: assignments, case studies
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain
Additional notes: The document is located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The speech includes the Republican stance of the expansion of slavery.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): Constitutionality and Expediency of Confiscation Vindicated. https://lccn.loc.gov/18002944
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Lyman Trumbull
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Washington, Printed at Congressional Globe Office, 1862. Constitutionality and expediency of confiscation vindicated. | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
Primary publisher type: Government
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain, Library of Congress
Additional notes: The speech of Lyman Trumbull for the enactment of the Confiscation Act.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Diagram/illustration
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): Colton’s map of the southern states. Including Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Also showing part of adjoining states & territories locating the forts & military stations of the U. States & showing all the rail roads, r. r. stations, & other internal improvements. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3861p.cw1011000
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins)
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins). 1861. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3860.cw0006500
Primary publisher type: Commercial
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: No known restrictions for educational and research purposes. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Additional notes: The map contains population information from the 1860 census. The map lists the populations of the states in categories of free states, slave states and territories.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): Statistical atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870 with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government. https://lccn.loc.gov/05019329
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): United States. Census office. 9th census, 1870. Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897.
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) [New York] J. Bien, lith., 1874. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3701gm.gct00297
Primary publisher type: Government
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: No known restrictions for educational and research purposes. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Additional notes: The Census provides a comparison of data from 1790 through 1870. The relations of race and nationality to mortality in the United States, by the compiler of the atlas.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): History of Congress : The Fortieth Congress of the United States. 1867-1869. https://lccn.loc.gov/36003752
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Barnes, William Horatio.
Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) New York : W. H. Barnes & Co., 1871. https://www.loc.gov/item/36003752/
Primary publisher type: Commercial
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Library of Congress
Additional notes: The book contains biographies of the fortieth Congress with a list of Senators and Congressmen.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): General orders from Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, issued by Major-General B. F. Butler, from May 1st, 1862, to the present time. https://lccn.loc.gov/08018088
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): United States. Army. Department of the Gulf (1862-1865).
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) New Orleans, E. R. Wagener, printer and stationer, 1862. https://www.loc.gov/item/08018088/
Primary publisher type: Commercial
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Library of Congress
Additional notes: The book contains forty orders given to General Butler from 1861 -1865 while assigned to New Orleans, LA.
9. Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): The United States on the eve of the Civil War: as described in the 1860 census. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015019347742
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Kennedy, J. C. G. (Joseph Camp Griffith)., United States. Civil War Centennial Commission., United States. Bureau of the Census. (1963)
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Washington, D.C.: U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001885970
Primary publisher type: Government
Resource attribute tags: assignments, case studies
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Google digitized.
Additional notes: The 1860 Census includes data on populations, slavery, and immigration.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction; HIST 4050 – History Of Women In America to 1875
Resource type: Primary Source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): The Female Spy of the Union Army. https://lccn.loc.gov/a13001431
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Edmonds, S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn), 1841-1898
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Boston, De Wolfe, Fiske. https://www.loc.gov/item/a13001431/
Primary publisher type: Commercial
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Library of Congress.
Additional notes: Personal narratives of the Civil War 1861 – 1865.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary Source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): History of the United States Secret Service, by General L. C. Baker. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081800702
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): L. Fayette C. (La Fayette Charles) Baker. (1867)
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) L.C. Baker, 1867. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008585346
Primary publisher type: Self-published
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Google digitized.
Additional notes: A narrative of facts in the secret history of the conflict, and mainly and exposure of the manifold and gigantic frauds and crimes of both the openly disloyal and the professed friends of the Republic. (Baker, p. 5, 1867).
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): Four years in the Stonewall brigade. 2d ed., rev. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044012920278
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s):
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Girard, Kan., Appeal publishing company, 1906. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100568212
Primary publisher type: Commercial
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Google digitized.
Additional notes: An account of four years of battles and life in Stonewall’s Brigade.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): Scouts, spies, and heroes of the great Civil War. Including thrilling adventures, daring deeds, heroic exploits, wonderful escapes of spies, scouts, and detectives, with songs, ballads, anecdotes, witty sayings, watchwords, battle-cries, and humorous and pathetic incidents of the war. By Captain Joseph Powers Hazelton.[pseud.] . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn2z17
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): L. P. (Linus Pierpont) Brockett., J. Frank Beale., Star Publishing Company. (1892)
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Star publishing company, 1892. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100484951
Primary publisher type: Commercial
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Google digitized.
Additional notes: A collection of narratives and incidents, personal adventures and sacrifices of the war from newspapers, books, periodicals, annuals, and reports.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Reading
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): History of the civil war military pensions, 1861-1885 no.1-2. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924030375814
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): J. W. (John William) Oliver. (1917)
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Madison, Wis., 1917. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001691161
Primary publisher type: academic/educational consortium
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Google digitized.
Additional notes: A thesis submitted to the University of Wisconsin at Madison that explores the impact of the civil war on the military pension system.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): Confiscate the property and free the slaves of rebels. Speech of Hon. I. N. Arnold, of Ill., in the House of Representatives, May 23, 1862. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t44q81k6b
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): I. Newton Arnold. (1862).
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Washington: Scammell & Co., printers, 1862. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009558385
Primary publisher type: Commercial
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Library of Congress.
Additional notes: The speech of Congressman I. N. Arnold for the enactment of the Confiscation Act.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): The confiscation act of 1861, for the seizure and condemnation of property used for insurrectionary purposes, as prize of war. Brief in the cases of the United States vs. Clark’s foundry [and others]… By Rufus Waples, United States attorney. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764945
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Rufus, Waples. 1825-1902,
United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), Clark’s foundry, United States.
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Issac T. Hinton, 1864. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000776148
Primary publisher type: Commercial
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Google digitized.
Additional notes: A brief by U. S. Attorney Rufus Waples on the behalf of the United States regarding several cases in relation to the Confiscation Act of 1861.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): Civil War naval chronology, 1861-1865 v.1 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106015787218
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): United States. Naval History Division.
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Washington: For sale by the Superintendent of Documents., U. S. Govt. Print. Off, 196166. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000408854
Primary publisher type: Government
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Google digitized.
Additional notes: A chronological history of Naval support during the Civil War.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): Message of the President … Feb. 25, 1863 [transmitting a communication from the secretary of the Treasury, in reference to the amount of funds paid into the Treasury under the operation of the Sequestration act] https://hdl.handle.net/2027/dul1.ark:/13960/t22b9tc53
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Confederate States of America. Dept. of the Treasury. (1863).
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Confederate States of America. Dept. of the Treasury. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010942860
Primary publisher type: Government
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Duke University
Additional notes: Correspondence inquiring about funds received as a result of the Sequestration act.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): A bill to be entitled An act to provide for sequestrating the property of persons liable to military service, who have departed, or shall depart, from the Confederate States without permission. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/dul1.ark:/13960/t5j96xt5v
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives. (1864).
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010942840
Primary publisher type: Government
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Duke University.
Additional notes: Confederate legislation regarding persons that the Sequestration Act was enacted upon.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source.
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): A bill to establish a Nitre and Mining Bureau. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/dul1.ark:/13960/t0xp7s698
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives. (1863).
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010942758
Primary publisher type: Government
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Duke University
Additional notes: Confederate legislation to establish Bureau of Nitre and Mining.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): Mr. Garnett’s amendment to bill of the Senate “To provide for further issue of Treasury notes and for other purposes” . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/dul1.ark:/13960/t6b28pf1v
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives. (1863).
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010942756
Primary publisher type: Government.
Resource attribute tags: Student resources
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Duke University
Additional notes: Confederate legislation regarding treasury note issuance.
- Area(s) of study: History, American History; BA, BS
Relevant course(s) (if applicable): HIST 1110 – American History to 1865; HIST 1120 -American History Since 1865; HIST 2040 – African American History: 1619 – 1865; HIST 2050 African American History: 1865 – 1954; HIST 4180 – The American Civil War Period: From The Texas Revolution Through Reconstruction
Resource type: Primary source.
Resource title (include hyperlink to resource itself): Proposition on finance. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/dul1.ark:/13960/t2v41h763
Author/creator(s) and author/creator affiliation(s): Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives. (1864).
Publisher name: (include hyperlink) Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010942782
Primary publisher type: Government
Resource attribute tags: Student resource
Accessibility:
Copyright: Public domain. Duke University
Additional notes: Confederate legislation for the exchange of old currency for new ly issued currency.