Battle of Gettysburg - Eyewitnesses and Participants
Gettysburg Documents and Letters (look at the authors for these)
Destination Gettysburg: General Robert E. Lee's Farewell Address
The Heart of a Soldier - Letters of George Pickett
From Manassas to Appomattox - James Longstreet
Gordon - Reminiscences of the Civil War: Gettysburg
The Union Cavalry at Gettysburg
John Buford's First Day Defense at Gettysburg
E. P. Alexander at Gettysburg (Artillerist for Longstreet)
A Civil War Journal: First Minnesota Infantry Reports from Gettysburg
Letters of Lt. Col. Rufus Dawes (Union)
Battle of Gettysburg: Memories of a Teenage Girl- Tillie Pierce
Third Wisconsin Infantry at Gettysburg
A Soldier's View of Gettysburg
Other Civil War Primary Sources
Eyewitness to History - Civil War
Eyewitness Accounts (The Civil War) - from the War Times Journal Archives
Selected Civil War Photographs (from American Memory)
Rose O'Neal Greenhow (Letter from a Southern Lady in Prison)
Battle of Pea Ridge (detailed battle description and Confederate and Union reports)
FEE-BASED DATABASES THAT SPECIALIZE IN PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS
Available through BCPS
American History (obtain login and password from your library media specialist)
Student Resource Center Gold (obtain login and password from your library media specialist; choose "Primary Sources" under content type when doing your search)
Available through BCPL
History Reference Center (available through BCPL using a public library card barcode number)
Historical Newspapers (available through BCPL using a public library card barcode number)
USING SEARCH TOOLS TO LOCATE SOURCES:
Another idea for finding primary sources is to use a search tool such as Google or AltaVista
Once there, type your topic in the search window. Be sure to spell it correctly! Add a second key word such as one of the following to try to find primary sources on that topic:
letter
diary
journal
correspondence
battle orders
photographs
autobiography
interview
newspaper article
USE BOOKS THAT SPECIALIZE IN PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS:
The following books may also be very helpful:
Civil War: Primary Sources. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2002. (Call no. 973.7 CIV)
Hillstrom, Kevin and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. American Civil War: Primary Sources. Detroit: UXL, 2000. (Call no. REF 973.7 HIL)
Kirchberger, Joe H. The Civil War and Reconstruction: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 1991. (Call no. REF 973.7 KIR)
Seidman, Rachel Filene. The Civil War: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University, Press, 2001. (Call no. REF 973.7 SEI)
Books by Diane Smolinski - Soldiers of the Civil War, The Home Front in the South, The Home Front in the North, and Key Battles of the Civil War (all in Call no. 973.7 SMO)
Any book from the series Voices of the Civil War (published
by Time-Life books). Various books found in Call no. 973.7.
Last update: April 30, 2008
J. Caldwell