>From Helen Austin Since some of you enjoyed the sources I sent yesterday, I want to share the information that my friend and colleague, Robert Scot Davis of Wallace State College, Hanceville, AL (North of Birminham) sent today on his monthly newsletter. Since his total resource list, as compiled, is copyrighted, I only sent a portion of this to you. I am still trying to decide which John Austin, a civil war soldier, is mine, as there are many. If you want more information you could contact him for a full copy or to get on his email list for the newsletter. One of his interesting genealogy courses due to start next week, is a specialized course for Civil War genealogy. I have taken all his lecture courses at least once, and some, twice as he is an amusing but informative lecturer. genws@hiwaay.net robert.davis@wallacestate.edu You may be familiar with Bob's many genealogy books on Georgia and the South, found in most libraries. Okay, here is the partial list of great websites for research: The American Civil War Homepage (free) http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ The Civil War Home Page (free) http://www.civil-war.net/ CivilWar.com (free) http://www.civilwar.com/ Civil War Forum (free, part of the Genforum genealogical web sites) http://genforum.genealogy.com/civilwar/ ROSTERS AND LISTS Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (free) http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ Rootsweb Civil War Rosters (free) http://surnamesupersearch.com/military/rootswebcivilwar.htm Veterans Administration National Grave Site Locator (free but incomplete) http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1 Ancestry.com (subscription required; includes Confederate and Union soldiers; index to federal Civil War pensions) http://www.ancestry.com/ BOOKS THAT CAN BE SEARCHED BY ?[PHRASE]? AND/OR WORD Making of America (MOA) Cornell (free; includes the original War of the Rebellion and the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies series; the supplement to the War of the Rebellion is not yet on the Internet) http://library8.library.cornell.edu/moa/ Making of America (MOA) University of Michigan http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ Google books (free; go to Google.com and click on ?more? then ?books?) Questia (free searches but a subscription is required to see the actual pages of the books) http://www.questia.com/popularSearches/ MANUSCRIPT CATALOGS Some libraries have spectacular Civil War holdings that can be searched from their individual library web sites including Tulane, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Southern Historical Collection), Emory University, and the William L. Clements Library. Almost all National Park Service battlefields and other Civil War sites have libraries with manuscript materials. First Search OCLC (free in Alabama through the Alabama Virtual Library, also includes books and some articles) http://www.avl.lib.al.us/ Archives Grid (free identification of collections but to learn libraries that have specific collections requires a subscription) http://www.archivegrid.org/web/index.jsp NEWSPAPERS THAT CAN BE SEARCHED AND ARTICLES READ Many large research libraries subscribe to data bases of such newspapers as the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. We plan to have those subscriptions this year. We have on CD-ROM disk selected articles from the Civil War New York Herald, Richmond Examiner, and Charleston Mercury. Often newspapers reprinted stories from others newspapers. Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1860-1865 (free) http://dlxs.richmond.edu/d/ddr/ Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1842-1902 (free) http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/ Colorado Newspapers (free) http://www.cdpheritage.org/collection/chnc.cfm NewspaperArchive.com (subscription required but includes more than 55 million pages) http://www.newspaperarchive.com/ Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle (subscription) http://www.augustaarchives.com/ MAPS (all free) Library of Congress American Memory (includes Civil War era maps from the Library of Congress, National Archives, and Virginia Historical Society) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/ Alabama?s historical maps http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/index.html Georgia?s historical maps http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gamaps.htm. Bibliographies of web sites for historic and modern maps include the Air University: http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/lane.htm and the Perry-Castaneda Map Collection of the University of Texas: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ MISCELLANEOUS Civil War Richmond (free; newspaper articles, photographs, and more on Richmond) http://www.mdgorman.com/ Vicki Bett?s site on newspaper articles from throughout the country (1861-1865) on social history (particularly women) during the Civil War (free) http://uttyler.edu/vbetts/