- Selected Civil War Photographs
 - From the Library of Congress. Includes scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects, portraits of Confederate and Union officers and enlisted men. - CivilWar.com
- Collection of Civil War resources, including official records, battle information, photos, lesson plans, primary sources, military histories, and more historical and contemporary resources related to the American Civil War.
- Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War
- Contains a wide variety of Civil War information including official records, essays, biographies, regimental losses, and battle descriptions.
- Wikipedia: American Civil War
- Overview of the four-year conflict between the Federal government and the breakaway Confederate States of America. Includes sections on the causes of the war, its theatres of battle, leaders and soldiers, and aftermath.
- AmericanCivilWar.com
- Includes a timeline, state battle maps, alphabetic battle list, and feature articles.
- Causes of the Civil War
- Presents primary documents from the period of the secession crisis. Includes Republican and Democratic party platforms, The Crittenden Compromise, and political speeches.
- American Civil War Research Database
- Offers a fully searchable database of people, places, and events of the United States Civil War.
- United States Civil War
- Includes battle summaries, leaders, picture tours of the battlefields, and recipes.
- Civil War Archive
- Regimental histories, corps histories, battle summaries, rosters, reports, letters, links, battle flags and diaries.
- Civil War in Miniature
- Civil War buff's compilation of documented facts and interesting tidbits.
- CivilWarAlbum.com
- Modern photos and history related to the Vicksburg Campaign, Battles of Shiloh, Forts Donelson, and Henry, the war in Louisiana, and more. Also features records and maps.
- Civil War Photography Center
- Devoted to the history and presentation of original Civil War photography and methods including ambrotypes, ferrotypes, and stereographs.
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
- Online database containing basic facts about soldiers who served on both sides during the Civil War. From the National Park Service.
- New York City Draft Riots@
- PBS: The Civil War
- Companion site for the 1990 PBS documentary created by Ken Burns. Includes information about the American Civil War, the creation of the series, and teaching suggestions.
- American Memory: Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society
- Online exhibit of photographs and printed materials as well as drawings and writings from ordinary soldiers on both sides.
- Valley of the Shadow Project
- Looks at the Civil War from the perspective of two communities straddling the Mason Dixon Line: Staunton, Virginia, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
- Civil War Photos
- Over 1,000 Civil War images, photographs, and cartes de visites.
- Civil War at the Smithsonian
- Collects, preserves, and remembers the national experience through artifacts.
- Civil War Book News
- Provides descriptions of new and forthcoming American Civil War books.
- Civil War at a Glance, The
- Offers a timeline and colour maps of battle campaigns. From the U.S. Department of the Interior.
- Mike's Civil War
- Features artifacts from the American Civil War.
- Civil War Mysteries: Home of the Unknowns
- Provides descendants, collectors, historians, and archivists, etc. an avenue for posting unidentified photographs of Civil War soldiers for possible identification.
- HarpWeek: The Civil War Era (1857-1865)
- Electronic index of Civil War Era history, literature, advertising, society, and culture, as found in the publication Harper's Weekly.
- History Place: The U.S. Civil War 1861-1865
- Chronological overview of the American Civil War, including major political events and battles as well as photos, engravings, and other primary sources.
- Trial of Captain Henry Wirz
- Commandant of Andersonville Prison, 1865.
- Great Locomotive Chase (5)
- Sultana Disaster@
- Connecticut CDVs
- Collection of photographs of Connecticut Civil War soldiers, many identified and with additional information.
- Rosters and Military Sources
- Comprehensive resource for the Civil War.
- Scartoons: Racial Satire and the U.S. Civil War
- Explores visual satire as employed in the Civil War years.
- Civil War Series
- Time of the Lincolns, The
- Film examining the Lincolns' personal history, slavery and freedom, and the Civil War.
- American Civil War Collections
- From the Electronic Text Centre at UVA. Includes contemporary letters and newspaper articles as well as modern texts and student projects.
- Trent Affair (7)
- Images of the Civil War
- Pictures of army and navy life, battles, generals, abolitionists, Lincoln's assassination, and more.
- Freedmen and Southern Society Project
- Books and documents concerning the history of emancipation during the American Civil War.
- Civil War Sketch Artist
- Works by Alfred Waud which are housed at the Library of Congress.
- Bob Koch's U. S. Civil War Site
- Civil War photographs, current and 19th Century, concerning the Army of Northern Virginia.
- rdhinstl's Page
- Covers the United States revenue stamped paper and die propriety stamps of the Civil War era.
- U.S. Civil War Discussion Port
- Message board for discussing the American Civil War.
- National Park Service: The American Civil War
- Official National Park Service Civil War website, offering a history of the war, museum exhibits, links to national parks and battlefields, and information on the sesquicentennial of the war (2011-2015).
- Songs and Poems of the Union
- Walk Across the New America
- Concerning battles, people, and the end of the American Revolution.
- Eye of the Storm
- Excerpts from the Civil War diaries of Robert Knox Sneden. Site includes Sneden's watercolours, journals, a forum section, and Flash movies.
- Symbols of Honor: Civil War Flags in National Park Service Collections
- Overview of national and unit flags, image gallery, conservation efforts, diagrams, and more.
- Civil War Diaries
- Letter, discharge certificate, Pennsylvania muster lists, and more.
- Malcolm's Civil War Battlefield Photos
- Current pictures of various battlefields.
- Steam Machines
- Briefly describes excavations of the warships USS Monitor and CSS Hunley and noncombatant vessels Maple Leaf and Bertrand. From Archaeology Online.
- About.com: Civil War
- Collection of articles, photographs, documents, and other resources relating to the American Civil War.
- Civil War Academy
- Features a wide variety of information about the U.S. Civil War. Includes sections on weapons, food, battles, soldiers and uniforms, music, artillery, flags, and more.
- Civil War Journeys
- Educational site for research and analysis of the American Civil War. Provides a venue to share photographs, present explanations to help foster a better understanding of the war, and serve as a resource for educators and novice historians.
- History.com: The American Civil War
- Learn about the American Civil War, the culmination of four decades of intense sectional conflict that reflected deep-seated economic, social, and political differences between the North and the South.
- National Archives: Civil War
- Guide to Civil War military records, photographs, and other research material held by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
- Son of The South: The Civil War
- Archive of original Civil War resources. Features photographs, original illustrations, and eyewitness accounts of the defining moments of the American Civil War.
- Wig Wags
- Graduate student Rene Tyree provides commentary on military history studies with a focus on the Civil War and 19th Century America.
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