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The materials listed on this page are specifically related to the U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865; for the period of Reconstruction (1865-1877) following the Civil War, please visit this page: Reconstruction Resources.

Please note that items in bold are described in the Library's online catalog and you will need to review the catalog to obtain the call number of each item. Other items are described in guides in Special Collections and Archives.

I. Manuscript and Archival

II. Books and Published

19th century

20th century

21st century

III. Microfilm in General Collection

IV. Online Resources at Furman

V. Web Sites

I. Manuscript and Archival

Basil Manly, Sr., Papers - military pass, 1864
Charles Manning & Frances Garden Furman - Civil War Correspondence (1861-1865)
The Furman Family Collection - Correspondence between members of the Furman family and friends.
Furman University Historical Records, RG 45 005A - Faculty Reports, 1861
Furman University Historical Records, RG 45 0005A, Faculty Report re: reopening of school, 1866
Mary Bridges Barr Family Collection - Correspondence between members of the Bridges/Barr family (1863-1898).
Samuel McBride Pringle - 2 boxes, Furman student, 1859-1861, Civil War correspondence
Thea Furman Manuscript Collection - 19thc ledger includes examples of Confederate money
Ware Family Papers - Confederate government loan, 1863

II. Books and Published Materials

19th Century

Four years in Secession : adventures within and beyond the Union lines ; embracing a great variety of facts, incidents, and romance ... Junius Henri Browne, special war correspondent of the New York Tribune
An inquiry into the accordancy of war with the principles of Christianity, Jonathan Dymond. With a dedication to Sunday school teachers and scholars, and notes, by Thomas Smith Grimké, 1834
Rifle and light infantry tactics: for the exercise and manoeuvres of troops when acting as light infantry or riflemen prepared under the direction of the War Department, W.J. Hardee, 1856; taken from a Union soldier on the battlefield at Stonebridge by John T. Donaldson (see inscription)
Infantry tactics: or, Rules for the exercise and manœuvres of the United States' Infantry, Major-General Scott, 1858; taken from a Union soldier on the battlefield at Stonebridge by John T. Donaldson (see inscription)
The Ordnance manual for the use of the officers of the Confederate States Army, prepared under the direction of Col. J. Gorgas, 1863
The Prisoner of State, D.A. Mahony, 1863, Mahony was the Democratic editor of the Dubuque, Iowa Herald arrested w/o explanation by the U.S. War Department in 1862. Mahony describes the persecution of Lincoln's dissenters and conditions of political prisoners.
Prisoner of State [Union Prisoner of War], D.A. Mahony, 1863
Three months in the Southern States, Arthur J.L. Fremantle, British citizen traveling in the South, April-June 1863
The Confederate Baptist re: prisons and prisoners July and Dec. 1863; April, June, and Dec. 1864
The Rebellion Record: a diary of American events, with documents, narratives, illustrative incidents, poetry editor by Frank Moore, 1861-1865
The early life, campaigns, and public services of Robert E. Lee, by a distinguished southern journalist J. H. Hummel, 1870
A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee, John Esten Cooke, 1871
A tour of Reconstruction: travel letters of 1875, Philadelphia orator Anna Dickinson's tour of the Reconstruction South, edited by J. Matthew Gallman, 2011
Confederate view of the treatment of prisoners, Rev. J. William Jones, D. D., secretary Southern Historical Society 1876
Advance and retreat. Personal experiences in the United States and Confederate States armies, J. B. Hood Published for the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund [by] G. T. Beauregard, 1880
Reminiscences of the War, C. J. Wood, 1880
American Bastile: A History of the Illegal Arrests and Imprisonment of American Citizens in the Northern and Border States on Account of Their Political Opinions During the Late Civil War (2 volumes), John A. Marshall and John A. O'Neill,1883(reprinted)
The Palmetto Riflemen, James A. Hoyt, 1885
France and the Confederate Navy, John Bigelow, 1888
The Defense of Charleston Harbor, John Johnson, 1890
Letters Acknowledging Receipt of Gov. Benjamin Franklin Perry’s “Letters to his Wife", Mrs. B. F. Perry, 1891
The Confederate soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865 prefaced by a eulogy by Major-General Fitzhugh Lee ; edited by Ben LaBree, c.1894

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20th Century

Destruction and reconstruction: personal experiences of the late war, by Richard Taylor, 1900
Poems of Henry Timrod, 1901
Sketches and Reminiscences, Joshua Hilary Hudson, 1903
Recollections and Letters of General Lee, R.E. Lee, 1904
Butler and His Cavalry in the War of Secession, 1861-1865, U.R. Brooks, 1909
Reminiscences of a Private, Frank M. Mixson, 1910
Memoirs of the War of Secession, Johnson Hagood, 1910
Echoes and Etchings, E.M. Wilkes, 1910
The Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 1, 1911 - DLL office
South Carolina Troops in Confederate Service, vols. 1-3, A.S. Salley, 1930
The last parade; an editorial by Douglas S. Freeman from "Richmond news leader" of Friday, June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, the last day of the forty-second annual reunion of the United confederate veterans,, Douglas S. Freeman, 1932
Columbia, 1786-1936, ed. Helen Kohn Hennig, 1936
The Last Years of Henry Timrod: 1864-1867, Jay B. Hubbell, 1941
Benjamin F. Perry: South Carolina Unionist, Lillian Adele Kibler, 1946
The Private Journal of Henry William Ravenel, 1859-1887, ed. Arney Robinson Childs, 1947
Lee in the Mountains and Other Poems, Donald Davidson, 1949
Belvidere, A Plantation Memory, Anne Sinkler Fishburne, 1949
South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865, Charles Edward Cauthen, 1950
The Confederacy: based on music of the South during the years 1861-65, Richard Bales; produced by Goddard Lieberson; with essays by Bruce Catton and Clifford Dowdey, 1950
The history of a brigade of South Carolinians, known first as "Gregg's" and subsequently as "McGowan's brigade" J.F.J. Caldwell, 1951
A Confederate surgeon's letters to his wife Spencer Glasgow Welch, 1954
Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army, W.W. Heartsill, ed. Bell Irvin Wiley, 1951
The Road to Appomattox, Bell Irvin Wiley, 1956
The Cokers of Carolina, a Social Biography of a Family, George Lee Simpson, 1956
Remembrances of the Civil War: the notebook of John F. Lanneau, Captain, Brooks Troop, Hampton Legion, South Carolina, June 1861- June 1862, compiled by the late Donald H. Sage, 1960
Sherman's March: a Review, ed. William Light Kinney, Jr., 1960
Department of the South: Hilton Head Island in the Civil War, Robert Carse, 1961
Henry Timrod, Edd Winfield Parks, 1964
The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod, Edd Winfield Parks, 1965
The Verse of Floride Clemson, ed. Harriet R. Holman, 1965
The Siege of Charleston, 1861-1865, E. Milby Burton, 1970
The Land and the People: An American Heritage, Margaret Green Devereaux, 1974
Mary Boykin Chesnut's South: an Anthology, University of South Carolina Southern Studies Program, 1977
James L. Orr and the Sectional Conflict, Roger P. Leemhuis, 1979
The Writings of Benjamin F. Perry, Stephen Meats and Edwin T. Arnold, 1980
Southern bronze: Capt. Garden's (S.C.) Artillery Company during the War between the States, Glenn Dedmondt, 1993
Photographic atlas of civil war injuries: photographs of surgical cases and specimens, Otis Historical Archives, edited by Bradley P. Bengtson & Julian E. Kuz; foreword by Michael Rhode, 1996
South Carolina's African American Confederate pensioners, 1923-1925, Alexia Jones Helsley, 1998

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21st Century

Abstracts of Extant Greenville, South Carolina, Newspapers Concerning Black People, Free and Slave, 1826-1865, Anne K. McCuen, 2000
A Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett, edited William C. Davis, 2000
A History of the 15th South Carolina Infantry, 1861-1865, James B. Clary, 2007
Confederate Soldier's Eloquent War, A, Annotation by Mickey Beckham, 2008
Bold Cautious True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era, Kevin Sharp, 2009
South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, Edited by Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Joan Marie Johnson, 2009
Knights of the Quill: Confederate Correspondents and their Civil War Reporting, Patricia G. McNeely, Debra Reddin van Tuyll, and Henry H. Schulte, 2010

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III. Microfilm in General Collection

James Dawkins papers, 1785-1843; 1861-1862

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IV. Online Resources at Furman

V. Web Sites

UNC Gilmer Civil War Map Collection
Selected Civil War Photographs
Civil War Resources from the VMI Archives
Abraham Lincoln Papers
Lincoln/Net
Harper's Weekly Reports, 1857-1874
Civil War Women
A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers at the Library of Congress American Memory web site
Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865 at the Library of Congress American Memory web site
Civil War Maps, 1861 - 1865 from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection
The Hotchkiss Collection: Confederate Army Maps from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection
Selected Civil War Photographs from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection
Civil War Treasures from the New York Historical Society from the Library of Congress American Memory Collection - Includes recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of popular support for the Union in New York City; photography showing the war's impact, both in the north and south; and drawings and writings by ordinary soldiers on both sides
"Guthrie Civil War Letters at Baylor University" Letters of Major J.N. Coleman of the Third Texas Cavalry and his fiancée, Virginia E. "Jennie" Adkins. The letters from Coleman share the "horrors, excitement, and day-to-day monotony of a soldier's life in the Confederate army".
Selected Civil War-Era Pamphlets, selected pamphlets from the Greenville County Library System, available digitally through Clemson University's South Carolina Digital Library.
Civil War-Era Letters of the Neves Family of Greenville County, correspondence between members of the Neves family, residents of the Mush Creek community, who sent three sons to fight in the Civil War. Available digitally through Clemson University's South Carolina Digital Library.

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