Dakota State University
Madison, SD, USA
The American Civil War
Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs
- Letters: American Civil War
Collections, Electronic Text Center, U of Virginia
- Letters: About the War, assorted
- Letters:
Family War Stories, assorted letters, Bo Lind
- Memoir: John G. B. Adams,
Capt., 19th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

- Memoir: Archibald
Atkinston, Jr, Surgeon, CSA, 31st Virgina Infantry and 10th Virginia Cavalry, 1861-65
- Letter: Sullivan Ballou,
July 14, 1861
- Letter: Sullivan Ballou, July 14,
1861 (A more complete version accompanied by photos of Sullivan's gravestone.)
- Memoir: Lorenzo D. Barnhart, private,
Co. B, 110th Ohio
- Letters: George Rust Bedinger,
33rd Virginia Vol. Inf., Capt., Co. E, January 10, 1861 to May 14, 1863, letters to and
from him
- Letters: Wesley Walk Bradly,
Randolph's Battalion, 5th Texas Partisan Rangers, 1862-65
- Letters: Richard W. Burt, 76th
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
- Memoir: Robert C. Carden, Co.
B, 16th Tennessee Infantry
- Diary: Lawson
"Lott" Hannibal Carley, 2nd Lt, Co. E, 5th Iowa Cavalry
- Letters: Christie
Family, 1st and 2nd MN Light Artillery
- Letter:
Benjamin Franklin Coffman, Cpl, Co. H, 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry,
July 12, 1863, to his wife telling about the Battle of Gettysburg
- Letter:
Benjamin Franklin Coffman, Cpl, Co. H, 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry,
Sept. 18, 1864, to his wife from Fort Delaware POW camp
- Diary: Rachel
Cormany, Chambersburg, June 14 - July 6, 1863
- Diary: Samuel
Cormany, June 30 - July 6, 1863
- Letters: Montgomery Dent Corse,
Brig. Gen, CSA, written as a POW
- Letter: Col. Arthur Cummings,
33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
- Letters: Sgt. Ferdinand Dunlap,
33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
- Letters: Battle of Franklin, Save
the Franklin Battlefield, Inc.
- Letters: Abram
Fulkerson, Col. 63rd TN, CSA
- Questionnaire: Peter
Graham Fulkerson, TN Civil War Veterans
- Letters: Samuel V.
Fulkerson, 37th VA, CSA
- Memoir: Thomas Graham Fulkerson,
CSA
- Letter: Jacob
Golladay, Jr.,
33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Capt., Co. H, May 8, 1863
- Diary: Eugene
Goodwin, 99th New York Infantry
- Memoir: Ulysses S. Grant
- Diary: James E. Hall, 31st Virginia
Infantry, Co. H
- Diary: Alexander Hart,
Major, 5th Louisiana Infantry, July 6, 1864 - May 17, 1865
- Diary: William
Heyser, Sept. 29, 1862 to July 10, 1863
- Memoir: Michael Hileman,
1820-1915, includes Civil War years as Sgt in 96th Illinois
- Memoir: Harvey S. Hogue,
Co. G, 115th Ohio, 1862-65
- Memoir: James K. Hosmer,
Cpl, 52nd Massachusetts, 1862-63
- Memoir: Harmon
Root Hubbard, Capt., 1st and 2nd IL Cavalry, 119th IL Infantry
- Memoir: Simon Hubler, 1st Sgt., 143rd PA Vol.
Inf., Co. I.
- Diary: Frederick James,
U.S. Navy, of his Andersonville experience
- Letters: Edmond Hardy
Jones, Pvt. 64th Georgia
- Letters: "My Dear
Josie", April 11 & 12, 1862, relating Battle of Shiloh
- Diary: Chauncey Pond
Joslin, 64th New York, Co. A
- Diary: Bingham Findley Junkin, Pvt.,
100th Pennsylvania Infantry
- Diary: Henry Carl Ketzle, Co.
A, 37th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
- Letters: Edwin I.
Kursheedt, Washington Artillery, CSA
- Diary and letters:
Abiel
Teple LaForge, Co. C, 85th New York Volunteer Infantry
- Letter: Thomas Langford, Pvt.,
17th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, June 17, 1864; with
photo
- Letters:
Forrest
Little, Pvt., 5th Vermont Volunteer Infantry, Sept. '61 to July '62.

- Journal: James B. Lockney,
Pvt, Co. G, 28th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
- Letters: Dr. Albion Martin, 33rd
Virginia Volunteer Infantry
- Letters: Newspapers of Massachusetts,
Tom Hayes
- Diary: Clay
McCauley, 2nd Lt, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry
- Letters: Archibald McKee,
15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry
- Diary: G.D. Molineaux, May 1,
1865 to March 2, 1866
- Memoir, Diary: Jefferson Moses, Co. G, 93rd
Illinois
- Memoir: Thomas Newton, Pvt., Co. I, 6th
Wisconsin, relating his experiences at Andersonville
- Letters: Battle of
Olustee, Confederate and Union Participants
- Diary: James Laughlin Orr,
Captain, QM Corps, 2nd Div., XIV Corps, Nov. 12 - Dec. 16, 1864
- Letters: 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
- Letters: William
Moore Parkinson, Co. C, 11th Illinois, later Capt, 8th Louisiana
(colored)
- Memoir: Phoebe
Yates Pember, first 8 chapters of A Southern Woman's Story; Pember was a nurse
at the Confederate Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond
- Diaries: Timothy J. Regan, Corp.,
9th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
- Papers: Tilton C. Reynolds,
105th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
- Memoir: Milton Asbury Ryan,
Pvt., Co. B, 14th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry
- Memoir: Bradford Riply Alden Scott,
boy living in Fredericksburg, VA
- Letters: Newton Scott,
36th Iowa Volunteer Infantry
- Diary: Eleanor Cohen
Seixas, Columbia, SC, Feb 28, 1865 - Sept. 10, 1865
- Letters: Selected Civil War Letters,
Southern Historical Collection
- Letters: George
Granville Sharp, 153rd Indiana Infantry
- Letters: 16th South
Carolina Volunteer Infantry
- Diary: Capt. Michael Shuler,
33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
- Letter: Jesse
B. Sims, Pvt., Co. D, 21st Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, Oct. 27, 1864
- Diary: George Sinsel, 8th
NY Heavy Artillery, Co. D, April 1864-
- Letters: Alexander, Joseph, and Ezra
Slagg, 23rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with extensive narration by editor
- Letters: Jake and Nancy Steubing,
Company B, 26th Cavalry Regiment (Debray's Regiment), C.S.A.
- Letters: John
Kennedy Street, 9th Texas Infantry, Co. A
- Diary: Henry W. Tisdale,
Sgt., 35th Massachusetts, Co. I
- Letters: Felix Voltz,
187th New York Volunteer Infantry
- Letters: Galutia
H. York, 114th New York Volunteer Infantry
- Memoir: W. H. Younce,
58th North Carolina Infantry
- Diary: Joseph
Waddell
- Diary: David Warman, contract surgeon, Fortress Monroe, April
4-Sept. 20, 1864 (updated)
- Letter: Delano Warren,
Pvt., 183rd NY Vol. Inf., Feb. 5, 1865
- Diary: John Weathered,
9th Tennessee Cavalry
- Letter: Powhatan
Bolling Whittle, officer, 38th Virginia Volunteer Infantry, June 22,
1861
- Diary: Alice Williamson, 16
years old, Gallatin, TN, Feb 19 - Sept 27, 1864
- Diaries, Letters: 5th and 33rd Iowa
Volunteer Infantry
- Letters: 26th Wisconsin,
particularly those of Maj. Frederick C. Winkler; he wrote a lot of letters

February 21, 2008