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American Civil War

Microfilm and Microfiche

Civil War Unit Histories:  Regimental Histories and Personal Narratives.  Over 6,000 fiche.  Available at UNT, UT Arlington, UT Austin, Texas State Library and Archives.

Confederate Military Manuscripts.  Series C:  Holdings of the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.  Part 1:  The Trans-Mississippi West.  25 reels.  Held by Dallas Public Library, Houston Public Library, University of Houston, UT Austin.

Records of U. S. Colored Troops:  Letters Related to Recruitment of African Americans, 1863-1865.  17 reels.  Available at Texas Southern University.

Race, Slavery and Free Blacks:  Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1777-1867.  3 reels.  Available at University of Texas at Austin Library.

Race, Slavery and Free Blacks:  Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1777-1867.  9 reels.  Available at University of Texas at Austin Library.

Slavery in Ante-Bellum Southern Industries.  28 reels.  Available at University of Texas at Austin Library.

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War.  Ongoing project, with 845 reels of diaries, letters, and accounts. Series A-J, L-N--Available at University of Texas at Austin Library.

American Women's Diaries:  Southern Women's Diaries--32 diaries on 34 reels, gathered from 12 southern universities and historical societies.  Life in the South before, during and after the Civil War and leading up to World War I.  Available at Sam Houston State University.

Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century, Papers and Diaries.  Series F--Holdings of the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, 31 reels.--Available at Texas A&M University Library.  Series A, D, E, F, and G--Available at University of Texas at Austin Library. 

New England Women and Their Families in the 18th and 19th Centuries:  Personal Papers, Letters and Diaries.  8 reels.  Available at the University of Texas at Austin Library.

Photographic History of the Civil War.  10 vols.  Originally published 1911-1912.  LAC 23146-23150.

 

 

 

Books

Battles and Leaders of the Civil War:  Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers.  4 vols.  Originally published 1884-1887.  E470 .B3 1982.

Confederate Military History:  A Library of Confederate States History, in thirteen volumes.  Originally published in 1899.  E470 .E85.  UT Tyler has vols. 9-13 hardbound and all volumes in ultrafiche, LAC 22773-22781.

Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln.  vols. 1-8 and index.  E457.91 1953.

Southern Historical Society Papers.  52 volumes originally published between 1876 and 1943.  Available at Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas A&M at Commerce, Sam Houston State University, University of North Texas, Texas A&M, and UT-Austin.

Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War.  12 volumes originally published 1870-1888.  Available at Texas A&M, University of North Texas, Baylor, and University of Houston in reprint; available as original Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion at UT-Austin.

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