Gettysburg

for Primary Sources

Visit Catalogs and Databases and use ProQuest Historical Newspapers.  Also use Student Resource Center Gold and Biography Resource Center under GaleNet.

American Civil War http://americancivilwar.com/

Battle of Gettysburg (official records and battle descriptions) http://www.civilwarhome.com/gettysbu.htm

Battle of Gettysburg (eyewitness accounts) http://www.ibiscom.com/gtburg.htm

Battle of Gettysburg (day by day) http://americancivilwar.com/getty.html

Battle of Gettysburg http://www.civilwarhome.com/gettysbu.htm

Battle of Gettysburg (interactive battle tour) http://users.lr.net/~duda/

Battlefield at Gettysburg (panorama) http://www.jatruck.com/stonewall/gettysburg.html

Battle of Gettysburg Resource Center (links) http://geocities.com/gburginfo/

Geology and the Gettysburg Campaign http://www.oswego.edu/Acad_Dept/a_and_s/earth.sci/geo_geochem/geol/gettysburg.html

Gettysburg: Confederate Order of Battle http://www.gdg.org/gburg_co.html

Gettysburg: The Soldiers' Battlle (generals' biographies) http://www.nps.gov/gett/getteducation/bcast20/sold~postbc.htm

Gettysburg National Military Park http://www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm

Gettysburg (official site) http://www.gettysburg.com/

Gettysburg (National Park Service) http://www.nps.gov/gett/

History Place: Battle of Gettysburg http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/battle.htm

Military History Online: Battle of Gettysburg http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/gettysburg/

Sickle's Hole http://polyticks.com/Hole/

Three Days at Gettysburg http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/EMS/Gettysburg/Gettysburg.html

Turning Point of the Civil War http://www.800padutch.com/gbgbattle.html

Walking Tour of Pickett's Charge http://members.aol.com/jno1863/intro7.html

Primary Sources

Don't forget ProQuest Historical Newspapers under Catalogs and Databases (use Mozilla)

Try searching Google, AltaVista, or Alltheweb and combining keywords: Gettysburg, diary, journal, letters, 1863, name of your state, important person

American Memory Collections Search Page http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html

American Civil War Collections E-Text http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/civilwar/

Battle of Gettysburg: From the Official Record http://www.civilwarhome.com/gettysbu.htm

Battle of Gettysburg: Quotes http://home.epix.net/~rplr/gettys4.htm

Butler Letters (Virginia) http://www.resourcehelp.com/butler_2.htm

Civil War Journal (Company K, 1st Minnesota) http://www2.smumn.edu/deptpages/~history/civil_war/

Civil War Women Primary Sources http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

Civil War Journal (Minnesota) http://www2.smumn.edu/deptpages/~history/civil_war/

Civil War Nurses http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/CivWar/Nursing/Hancockpg1htm.htm

General Meade's Letters to his Wife http://adams.patriot.net/~jcampi/letters.htm

Tom Chamberlain:  My Brave Young Brother (Maine) http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/TomC.html

Letters of Rufus Dawes (WI) http://www.rootsweb.com/~wijuneau/DawsLtrs.htm

20th Maine: Joshua Chamberlain http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5253/

Selected Civil War Photographs http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

From Manassas to Appomattox (Longstreet's Memoirs) http://www.wtj.com/archives/longstreet/

Gettysburg College Documents http://www.gettysburg.edu/library/specoll/19thcentdocs/

Gettysburg Journal of Marcellus E. Jones (Illinois) http://www.bufordsboys.com/JonesMJournal.htm

Civil War Archive http://www.civilwararchive.com/files.htm

Civil War Diaries and Letters (GA) http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/cwletters.htm

Diary of Samuel Cormany http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/personal/scormany.html

Diary of Rachel Cormany (PA) http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/rcormany.html

Letter from a Gettysburg soldier (Maine) http://modoc1873.com/letwritbyget.html

Longstreet Chronicles (variety of documents by date) http://www.tennessee-scv.org/longstreet/getdocs.htm

Memories of a Teenage Girl http://www.ibiscom.com/gtburg.htm

Three Days at Gettysburg http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/EMS/Gettysburg/Gettysburg.html

Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin http://www.gettysburgguide.com/wis3.html

Pvt. Henry Brown Journal (VA) http://www.espd.com/letters/1863/Letter5_07_10_63.htm

March of the 6th Corps (Wisconsin) to Gettysburg http://www.gettysburgguide.com/march6.html

John Nicholas Boyer Letters (Army of the Potomac) http://www.gettysburgguide.com/boyer.html

Report on the Actions of the 15th Massachusetts http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/primdocs/gburg.htm

Battle of Gettysburg http://www.civilwarhome.com/gettysbu.htm

Wheatfield (9th GA) http://members.aol.com/Gainf9reg/index17.html

Letters of the Harvard Regiment (20th Massachusetts)  http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mmd5f/letters_of_the_harvard_regiment.htm

Valley of the Shadow: Diaries and Letter Search (Virginia) http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/cwletsearch.html

John Caldwell (NC) Papers http://www.unc.edu/lib/mssinv/exhibits/civilwar/caldwell.html

Willima Brown Memories of Gettysburg (NY) http://home.nycap.rr.com/civilwar/wbrown1883.htm

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