Researching the American Civil War and
Reconstruction
Selected Primary Sources in the Oberlin College Library
Bibliographies, including Guides to Published
Primary Sources
- Ryan, Daniel J., The Civil War Literature of Ohio (1911) Z1242.R9
- E. Merton Coulter, Travels in the Confederate States (1948) Z1251.S7C68
- Charles E. Dornbusch, ed., Regimental Publications and Personal Narratives
of the Civil War 2 vols. (1961-1967) Z1242.D6
- Allan Nevins, James I. Robertson, Jr., and Bell I. Wiley, Civil War Books:
A Critical Bibliography, 2 vols. (1967, 1969) Z1242.N35
- Eugene C. Murdock, The Civil War in the North (1987) Z1242.M87
1987
- T. Michael Parrish and Robert M. Willingham, Confederate Imprints (1984)
Z1242.5.P37 1984
- Garold L. Cole, Civil War Eyewitnesses (1988) Z1242.C78 1988
- Richard W. Stephenson, comp., Civil War Maps (1989) Z6027.U5 L5
1988
- Steven E. Woodworth, ed., The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature
and Research (1996) Z1242.A47 1996
Government Documents
- Congressional Globe (Permanent Edition), 23-42 Congress (1834-73)
328.732G
- Congressional Record (Permanent Edition), 43rd- Congress (1873- )
KF35.A25
- United States Congress Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Report of the
Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the first session, Thirty-ninth Congress
(1866) 973.8UN32
- Trial of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, before the Senate
of the United States, on Impeachment by the House of Representatives for High
Crimes and Misdemeanors, 3 vols. (1868) 973.81J63Z
- United States Congress Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs
in the Late Insurrectionary States, Report of the Joint Select Committee
to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States,
so far as regards the Execution of the Laws, and Safety of the Lives and Property
of the Citizens of the United States and Testimony Taken, 13 vols. (1872)
973.8Un33
- United States Electoral Commission, Electoral Count of 1877: Proceedings
of the Electoral Commission and of the Two Houses of Congress in Joint Meeting
Relative to the Count of Electoral Votes Cast December 6, 1876, for the Presidential
Term Commencing March 4, 1877 (1877) 973.8Un3E
- United States War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation
of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 vols.
(1880-1901) 973.7UN3W1 (also known as OR-Armies)
- United States War Department, Atlas to Accompany the Official Records
of the Union and Confederate Armies, 2 vols. (1891-95) 973.7Un3W1 Atlas
(aka OR-Atlas)
- United States Navy Department, Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Navies in the War of the Rebellion, 30 vols. (1894-1922) 973.75UN31
(aka OR-Navies)
Documentary Collections
- James D. Richardson, ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of
the Confederacy, vol. 2 (1905) 353.03C76 vol. 2
- Benjamin B. Kendrick, The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on
Reconstruction, 39th Congress, 1865-1867 (1914) 305C72 vol. 62
- Howard C. Perkins, Northern Editorials on Secession, 2 vols. (1942)
973.68P419N
- Anti-Slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library, microform
(1968) Z1249.S6L67 1968 (microform). For subject access, see Geraldine
Hopkins Hubbard, comp., A Classified Catalogue of the Collection of Anti-Slavery
Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library (1932) Z1249.S6O2 and
Franklyn F. Bright, comp. A Supplement to a Classified Catalogue of the
Collection of anti-Slavery Propaganda in the Oberlin College Library (1941)
Z1249.S6O22 1941a
- Robert M. Myers, ed., The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia
and the Civil War (1972) 975.803M992C
- Ira Berlin et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation,
1861-1867, 4 vols. (1982-93) E185.2 F88
- George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography,
42 vols. (1972-79) E444.A45
- Charles L. Perdue, Jr., et al., Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with
Virginia Ex-Slaves (1976) E444.V57
- C. Peter Ripley, Jr., ed., Black Abolitionist Papers, 5 vols. (1985-92)
E449.B624 1985 and Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865 [microform]
Main Microfilm
- William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson, Secession Debated: Georgia's
Showdown in 1860 (1992) E459.S43 1992
- Rachel Filene Seidman, ed., The Civil War, CD-ROM (1996) E468
.C6225 1996
Papers, Letters, Collected Works of Prominent
Individuals
- John Niven, ed., The Salmon P. Chase Papers, 3 vols. (1993-
), E415.6 .C48 1993
- The Papers of Jefferson Davis, 7 vols, (1971- ) E467.1.D2596
- Dunbar Rowland, ed., Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, His Letters,
Papers, and Speeches, 10 vols. (1923) 973.7D294
- John W. Blassingame, ed., The Frederick Douglass Papers, 5 vols.
(1979- ) E449.D733
- Walter M. Merrill, ed., The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, 6
vols. (1971-81) E449.G245
- John Y. Simon, ed., The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, 10 vols. (1967-
) 973.82G767GP
- Leroy P. Graff and Ralph W. Haskins, eds., The Papers of Andrew Johnson
14 vols. (1967- ) 973.81J63.1967
- Douglas Southall Freeman, ed., Lee's Dispatches, new ed. (1957)
E470.L481957
- Roy P. Basler et al. eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 9
vols.(1953-1955) 973.7L638.1953
- The Abraham Lincoln Papers, microform, 91 reels, Main Microfilm.
See Index to the Abraham Lincoln Papers (1960) Z6616.L599U5
.
- Stephen W. Sears, ed., The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected
Correspondence, 1860-1865 (1989) E467.1.M2A4 1989
- Robert Gould Shaw, Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune (1992) E513.5 54th.S53
1992
- Beverly Wilson Palmer, ed., The Thaddeus Stevens Papers, microform,12
reels (1993) Main Microfilm .S47T5. See Beverly Wilson Palmer,
ed. The Thaddeus Stevens Papers: Guide and Indexes to the Microfilm Edition
(1994) E415.9.S84A4 1993 guide.
- The Works of Charles Sumner, 15 vols. (1874-83) 973.7SU6
- Beverly Wilson Palmer, ed., The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner, 2
vols. (1990) E415.9.S9A4 1990
Published Diaries, Memoirs, Narratives
- S. Emma E. Edmonds, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army (1865) 973.785Ed59N
- Thmas Wallace Knox, Camp-fire and Cotton-field: Southern Adventure in
Time of War (1865) 973.781K777
- Abner Doubleday, Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61
(1876) 973.731.1D743R
- John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier (1879) 973.781B38
- Carlton McCarthy, Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern
Virginia, 1861-1865 (1882) 973.784M12
- Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, 2 vols. (1885-86)
973.741G76.2
- Rufus R. Dawes, Service with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers (1890)
973.747.5J6D
- Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant (1897) 973.741G76P834
- Charles A. Dana, Recollections of the Civil War (1898) 973.781D19
- William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman, Written
by Himself, 2 vols. (1891) 973.7SH5.2
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment (1900)
973.741.5H535
- Eliza Frances Andews, The War-time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
(1908) 973.782AN26W
- Basil W. Duke, Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke (1911) 973.782D885
- Theodore Lyman, Meade's Headquarters, 1863-1865 (1922) 973.781L989M
- Henry Kyd Douglas, I Road with Stonewall (1940) 973.782D746I
- George Templeton Strong, Diary, 4 vols. (1952) 973.6ST88D
- Franklin Aretas Haskell, The Battle of Gettysburg (1958) 973.734.9H273.3
- Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches (1960) 973.776AL19H.2
- John Davis Billings, Hardtack and Coffee (1960) 973.783B496H.2
- Gideon Welles, Diary, 3 vols. (1960) 973.71W459.2
- Suzanne Colston Wilson, Column South: With theFifteenth Pennsylvania
Cavalry from Antietam to the Capture of Jefferson Davis (1960) 973.781W697C
- Walt Whitman, Memoranda During the War (1962) 818.3W596M
- Jerome M. Loving, ed., Civil War letters of George Washington Whitman
(1975) E523.551ST.W451975
- Mary Boykin Chesnut, Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981) E487.C5
- Elisha Hunt Rhodes, All for the Union (1985) E528.5 2nd.R46 1985
- Bernhard Domschcke, Twenty Months in Capitivity (1987) E611.D6713
1987
- Susan Taylor King, A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs (1988) E492.94
33rd.T3 1988
- Edward Porter Alexander, Fighting for the Confederacy (1989) E470.A3725
1989
- Henry Livermore Abbott, Fallen Leaves (1991) E513.5 20th.F35 1991
- James Henry Gooding, On the Alter of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil
War Letters from the Front (1991) E513.5 54th .G66 1991
- Elizabeth Blair Lee, Wartime Washington (1991) E601.L44 1991
- Cornelia Peake McDonald, A Woman's Civil War (1992) E487.M195
1992
- Charles B. Haydon, For Country, Cause and Leader: The Civil War Journal
of Charles B. Haydond (1993) E514.5 2nd .H38 1993
- Josiah Gorgas, The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878 (1995)
E467.1.G68 A3 1995
- Travels in the Confederate States (microform collection)
- Relevant OBIS Subject Headings:
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal Narratives
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal Narratives
Confederate
- United States History Civil War 1861 1865 Regimental Histories
Photographic and Pictorial Collections
- Alfred H. Guernsey, Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion,
2 vols. (1866-68) 973.797G937
- Louis S. Moat, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes
of the Civil War (1896) 973.797L565
- Francis T. Miller, The Photographic History of the Civil War, 10
vols. (1912) 973.797M613
- Hermann W. Williams, The Civil War: The Artists' Record (1961) 973.702.2W672C
- National Gallery of Art (U.S.), The Civil War: A Centennial Exhibition
of Eyewitness Drawings (1961) NC107.A55
- Stephen W. Sears, ed., The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil
War Art (1974) E468.7.A58
- Library of Congress (U.S.), Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865
(1992) E468.7.S44 1992 (CD-ROM)
- Harold Holzer and Mark E. Neely, Jr. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The
Civil War in Art (1993) ND210.H66 1993
- Anne J. Bailey, Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Georgia
in the Civil War (1996) E559.9 .B35 1996
Newspapers, Periodicals, and Relevant
Indexes
- African Repository (1825-92) 326Af83
- DeBow's Review, vols. 1-34 (1846-64) on microform in Main Periodicals
- Harper's Weekly, vols. 1-36 (1857-92) in Main Special Collections
- (Hunt's) Merchant's Magazine and Commercial Review (1839-70) Main
Special Collections
- The Liberator (1832-65) Main Spec Coll 326.5L61
- The Nation (1865-74) Main Special Collections, (1874- ) Main Periodicals
- National Anti-Slavery Standard (1843-70) Main Spec Coll 326.5N213
- New-York Daily Tribune (1854-65) Storage 070.1N48
- National Era (1847-60) Main Spec Coll 326.5N21
- New York Herald (1855-65) Main Mfilm Newspapers
- New York Times (1867-1991) Main Mfilm Newspapers (with Index at
Main Mfilm N Ind)
- North American Review, vols. 13-248 (1821-1940) in Main Periodicals
- Oberlin Evangelist (1838-62) in Main Special Collections and Microfilm
Main Reserve Room
- Periodical Indexes: