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- 47thPennVols (talk · contribs) (Have been researching the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry for a decade; also currently working on adding content and citations to other Pennsylvania regiment articles and related biographical pages)
- Aquabluetesla (talk · contribs)
- Balin42632003 (talk · contribs) (Been a historian of the Civil War most of my life, and a reenactor. Will help in any area I can).
- BusterD (talk · contribs) (Fascinated by evolution of technology and command/staff structure. Help herd ACW main page. Work on bios specifically related to 19th century America; maintain ACW Portal, but could always use help!)
- Cleverediting (talk · contribs) (I have a great interest in the Civil War in Missouri especially the Ozarks)
- Coemgenus (talk · contribs)
- Daysleeper47 (talk · contribs) (Interested in early war through Gettysburg, especially Manassas campaigns.)
- Djmaschek (talk · contribs) (Write articles about Texas, Illinois, Missouri, and other units, artillery weapons and batteries, battles, biographies)
- Donner60 (talk · contribs) (All aspects, especially battles, campaigns, biographies)
- dwkaminski (talk · contribs) Biographies of participants from Pennsylvania especially those buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery
- FlaLibrarian (talk · contribs) (formerly Amscheip) (Florida during the Civil War. I am a librarian by trade so I have a fair amount of access, especially for local to Florida resources.)
- FloNight (talk · contribs) (Mostly Kentucky biographies related to civil war. Admin so can help with admin chores if needed.)
- GELongstreet (talk · contribs) (Biographies, Unit Histories, OoBs, lists, minor fixes and additions)
- GeneralPoxter (talk · contribs)
- hhfjbaker (talk · contribs) -Lost Cause myth, US volunteer regiments.
- Hog Farm (talk · contribs) (Mostly Trans-Mississippi Theater, especially Missouri)
- ISUtahraptor (talk · contribs) (Literally anything related to the ACW)
- Jojhutton (talk · contribs)
- KBpip (talk · contribs) (Mississippi, Southern Unionists)
- Kges1901 (talk · contribs) (General interest, though mostly unit histories right now)
- Lallint (talk · contribs) (Biographies, expanding stubs)
- Manunuscript (talk · contribs)
- Memer15151 (talk · contribs) (interested in biographies and battles, primarily western theater)
- Mojoworker (talk · contribs)
- NC_Trent (talk · contribs)
- Rjr1960 (talk · contribs)
- RSStockdale (talk · contribs) (mainly Missouri, Florida, Virginia. Also added many footers like xxxx in the Civil War)
- Sf46 (talk · contribs) (Primary interest is in Louisiana, Maryland, and Oklahoma as well as other areas of lesser known Civil War History)
- Smmurphy(Talk) 23:06, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
- Spacini (talk · contribs) (ACW regimental histories, Kentucky in the Civil War, Kansas in the Civil War, & orders of battle.)
- Star Mississippi (talk · contribs), museums and historic sites that happen to be Civil War related.
- STPatrick1982 (talk · contribs) (PhD in Government, interested in the politics and military history of the Civil War)
- TadgStirkland401 (talk · contribs) - Grew up in Va visiting American Civil War battlefields all my life, now living in N Ga. Have ancestors on both sides of the war, and have done an intense amount of study in the area for over 50 years. I hope I can be of assistance on this project.
- TwoScars (talk · contribs) (Cavalry in east, especially Virginia & West Virginia)
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- Benjamin D. Fearing • James B. Speers • Charles S. Steedman • Battle of Barton's Station • Lawrence P. Graham • Frederick S. Sturmbaugh • Mexico and the American Civil War • Savannah Campaign Confederate order of battle • Battle of Lafayette • Battle of Sunshine Church • Tangier Difficulty • Requested American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients • Battle of Tazewell • John T. Sprague
- Expansion needed
- Battle of Boonsborough • Battle of Guard Hill • Battle of Rice's Station • Battle of Simmon's Bluff • Battle of Summit Point • Charleston Arsenal • Edenton Bell Battery • First Battle of Dalton • Blackshear Prison • Edwin Forbes • Hiram B. Granbury • Henry Thomas Harrison • Louis Hébert (colonel) • Benjamin G. Humphreys • Maynard Carbine • Hezekiah G. Spruill • Smith carbine • Edward C. Walthall • Confederate States Secretary of the Navy • Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury • David Henry Williams • Battle of Rome Cross Roads • Delaware in the American Civil War • Ironclad Board • United States Military Railroad • Kansas in the American Civil War • Rufus Daggett • Ebenezer Magoffin • Confederate Quartermaster-General's Department • First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia • Francis Laurens Vinton • Henry Maury • Smith's Expedition to Tupelo • Ambrose Dudley Mann • Patrick Neeson Lynch • Stone Fleet (add international reactions and diplomacy) • Other American Civil War battle stubs • Other American Civil War stubs
- Images needed
- Preston Pond, Jr. • Melancthon Smith
- Merging needed
- 1st Regiment New York Mounted Rifles and 7th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry
- Citations needed
- 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Union) • 4th Maine Battery • 33rd Ohio Infantry • 110th New York Volunteer Infantry • Battle of Hatcher's Run • Camp Dennison • Confederate colonies • CSS Resolute • Dakota War of 1862 • Florida in the American Civil War • Ethan A. Hitchcock (general) • Fort Harker (Alabama) • Gettysburg (1993 film) • Iowa in the American Civil War • Second Battle of Fort Sumter • Samuel Benton
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- Grand Unified Timeline of Human History • An ambitious Chronology project at Meta
- Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War • A precursor to the planned Timeline of the American Civil War and Timeline of the Reconstruction (American Civil War) (See discussions)
- Timeline of Kentucky in the Civil War • Example of a contextually scoped timeline skeleton
- Image:American Civil War Battles by Theater, Year.png • A nice public domain map by brian0918 of the USA, showing battles, theatres and years of the Civil War.
- Harper's Weekly Original Civil War Newspapers
- A Concise History of the War: Designed to Accompany Perrine's New Topographical War Map of the Southern States, with an Introduction and Statistical Appendix, Comp. from Authentic Sources - A book that provides a brief description for every battle from 1861-1863. Available to read on Google Books.
- A compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Volume 1 - Similar to the aforementioned book, but with battles listed by state and listing the units involved.
- Shapell Manuscript Foundation some good CW primary documents; have to use the search bar to find stuff though...
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper was a general illustrated news magazine out of New York City. There are numerous articles and wood engravings of events before, during, and after the American Civil War (many based on war artist sketches). Note that due to the news cycle for images at the time, the corresponding illustrations may be weeks or months after the event in question occurred. Likewise, many place names are misspelled and idiosyncratic or uncommon names for battles are used. NOTE: To extract an image at high-resolution, zoom in to the highest magnification in the browser-viewer, then right-click save.
- Vols. 9-10 (Jan. - Nov. 1860)
- Vols. 11-12 (Nov. 1860 - Nov. 1861)
- Vols. 13-14 (Nov. 1861 - Sept. 1862)
- Vols. 15-16 (Sept. 1862-Sept. 1863)
- Vols. 17-18 (Jan. - Sept. 1864)
- Vols. 19-20 (Sept. 1864-Sept. 1865)
- Vols. 21-22 (Sept. 1865-Setp. 1866)
Selections of the various wood engravings were later collected and presented in the following volumes, where those that are selected are usually in more-pristine condition than in the original newspaper (there is less newsprint bleed):
- Incidents of the Civil War in America (1862)
- The Soldier in Our Civil War (1893), Vol. I and Vol. II
- Frank Leslie's Scenes and Portraits of the Civil War (1894)
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Weekly was a rival illustrated newspaper to Frank Leslie's, published in New York City and operating in much the same format. Note that due to the news cycle for images at the time, the corresponding illustrations may be weeks or months after the event in question occurred. Likewise, many place names are misspelled and idiosyncratic or uncommon names for battles are used. NOTE: To extract an image at high-resolution, zoom in to the highest magnification in the browser-viewer, then right-click save.
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion are a collection of primary sources of the civil war in the form of reports and correspondence of the armies and navies of the Union and the Confederacy. Material from both sides was collected during and in the decades after the war and edited into over 100 volumes.
- The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies @ Cornell University / HathiTrust (Master index, online hosting and download)
- The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies @ Ohio State University (Inter-volume search engine and online hosting)
- Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion @ Cornell University / HathiTrust (Master index, online hosting and download)