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Civil War Research
 * Key words to search **

When starting any research topic, you should sit down and make a list of key words (important words that go along with your topic) that could be used when looking up the information you need. When generating this list, think of some synonyms for the main topic or related words that usually go along with your topic. Also, generate some questions that you would like to find out. What are the key words in the questions? These too might be words that you could use when looking up information in the library catalogue, online databases, and on the internet.  Some keywords for your Civil War topics might include but are not limited to: Fort Sumter  Rich Mountain  Bull Run 1  Bull Run 2  Monitor and Merrimac  Shiloh  New Orleans  Seven Pines  Harper's Ferry  Antietam  Fredericksburg  Chancellorsville <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Vicksburg <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Gettysburg <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Chickamauga <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Chattanooga <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Wilderness <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Sportsylvania <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Cold Harbor <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Petersburg <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Atlanta <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Fort McAllister <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Nashville <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Mobile Bay <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Cedar Creek <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Franklin <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Fort Henry <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Wilsons Creek <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Fort Donelson <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Pea Ridge <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Hampton Roads <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Fair Oaks <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Corinth <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Perryville <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Murfreesboro <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Kenesaw Mountain <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: center;"> Seven Day Battle ||  || ** __Confederate__ **
 * <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">**BATTLES**

[|Robert E. Lee]

[|Bloody Bill Anderson]

[|Lewis Armistead]

[|Porter Alexander]

[|P.G.T. Beauregard]

[|Barnard Bee]

[|Braxton Bragg]

[|Jubal Early]

[|Richard Ewell]

[|Nathan Bedford Forrest]

[|AP Hill]

[|John Bell Hood]

[|Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson]

[|Albert Sidney Johnston]

[|Joseph Johnston]

[|James Longstreet]

[|John Mosby]

[|John Pemberton]

[|George Pickett]

[|Kirby Smith]

[|Jeb Stuart] || ** __Union__ **

[|Ulysses S. Grant]

[|Robert Anderson]

[|Nathaniel Banks]

[|John Buford]

[|Ambrose Burnside]

[|Benjamin Butler]

[|Joshua Chamberlain]

[|George Custer]

[|Abner Doubleday]

[|Winfield Scott Hancock]

[|Joseph Hooker]

[|Oliver Howard]

[|Arthur MacArthur]

[|George McCllelan]

[|Irvin McDowell]

[|George Gordon Meade]

[|John Reynolds]

[|William Starke Rosecrans]

[|Philip Sheridan]

[|William Tecumseh Sherman]

[|Daniel Sickles]

[|George Thomas] ||






 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt;">Reference materials **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A good place to start looking up research on your topic is in reference books. Reference books, like encyclopedias, give a good overview about what your topic is about. Use the keywords you’ve generated for a starting point. Remember if you are looking up a person’s name in the encyclopedia, look it up by their last name. This is a list of a few of the reference materials we have in our library that you could use.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> These books are located in the Reference Section of the library and do not have call numbers. //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Compton's encyclopedia and fact-index //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">2002. . Vol. 10. Elmhurst, Ill: Success Pub. Group.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">REF <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 973.7 Arms and equipment of the confederacy. Alexandria, Va. : <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> ILL Time-Life Books, c1996.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> A few good non-fiction places to look for books on your Civil War topic would be:
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt;">Good places to browse (Non-fiction section) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">It’s off to the “stacks” we go!

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 92 Biographies <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 342 Constitutional & administrative law <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 355 Military science <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 973 General history of North America United States <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">973.7 Abraham Lincoln works <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">974 General history of North America Northeastern United States <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> 975 General history of North America Southeastern United States


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt;">Books **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">These are some of the non-fiction books, on the civil war, located in the shelving areas listed above:

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> LEE || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Dubowski, Cathy East. Robert E. Lee and the rise of the South. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Silver Burdett Press, c1991. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Recounts the life of the general who commanded the Southern Army during the Civil War. || · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">A biography of the sixteenth President with emphasis on the Civil War years. || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"> c1991. · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">A biography of the courageous woman who rose from slave beginnings to become a heroic figure in the Underground Railroad. || · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">This book looks at the uniforms and standard equipment of both soldiers and officers of various regiments in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. || · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Discusses the changes in politics, transportation, recreation, city and country life, social customs, education, and religion between the Constitutional Convention and the Civil War. || · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">This book describes urban, rural, and Union army camp life in the northern United States during the bloodiest war in America's history. || · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Experiences of women from both the North and South. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">92
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">92 LIN || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Latham, Frank Brown, 1910-. Abraham Lincoln,. New York, : F. Watts, [1968].
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">92 TUB || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">McClard, Megan. Harriet Tubman : slavery and the underground railroad. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Silver Burdett Press,
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">355.1 KAT || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Katcher, Philip R. N. Civil War Confederate troops. Chicago, IL; England : Raintree : Osprey Pub., 2003.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">917.3 WRI || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Wright, Louis B. (Louis Booker), 1899-. Everyday life in the New Nation, 1787-1860,. New York, : Putnam, [1972].
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">973.7 BIE || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Biel, Timothy Levi. Life in the North during the Civil War. San Diego, Calif. : Lucent Books, 1997.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">973.7 CAT || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Catton, Bruce. This hallowed ground : the story of the Union side of the Civil War. Doubleday, 1962. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">973.7 CHA || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Chang, Ina. A separate battle : women and the Civil War. New York : Lodestar, 1991.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">973.7 DOW || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Dowdey, Clifford, 1904-. Death of a nation; : the story of Lee and his men at Gettysburg. [1st ed.]. New York, : Knopf, 1958. ||

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> When using the internet to look up information, keep in mind that not all websites are accurate. Look for websites that end in **.org**, **.edu**, **.net** and, **.gov**. These web sites were created by organizations, educational institutions (schools), networks, and government organizations and should contain accurate information. Also remember to use words like AND, OR, and NOT to make your search fit your needs. If you forget what AND, OR, and NOT do to a search, stop in and I’ll be glad to refresh your memory! This is a brief list of some good websites on the Civil War
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt;">Internet sites **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> [|Civil War Search Directory]- <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Civil War Search Directory allows you to do in-depth search of around 1,500 sites on any Civil War related term.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|The U.S. Civil War] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">- <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Civil War was one of the most devastating events in American History. Read about the causes, see the heroes, and share the horror by exploring the links found on this webpage.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> [|American Civil War] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">- <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A web page that contains brief explanations on different Civil War topics that also link out into more detailed pages on the same related topic.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Civil War Medicine] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- This web site is dedicated to the medicines and medical practices that took place during the Civil War. It has links out to 19 different web sites on this specific area that also includes brief explanations on what it is that the websites will be about.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[|Civil War Biographies] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- C**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-weight: normal;">ontains biographies of some of the major personalities, both North and South, involved in the American Civil War. These biographies are accompanied by an image of the individual where possible. However, they make no attempt to provide information concerning the individuals entire life, merely their contribution to the Civil War. **

[|Civil War Battles] - Contains detailed information on the key Battles of the Civil War. The thumbnails below will take you to extensive research resources, including pictures and maps.

[|The American Civil War Homepage] which contains a varied number of resources, including a chat room (registration required), links to Civil War “web rings”, biographies of various leaders, a calendar which students can see what happened on that date in Civil War history, as well as concise capsule views of various battles and various events that occurred during the war years.

[|The Civil War] This web page lists some of the battle of the Civil War and lists breif information about them.