AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOURCES Based on Presentation Delivered to
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OUTLINE Civil War Search Strategies in the Online Catalog
Online Reference Tools Finding Primary Sources Online Catalog
American Memory Am. Civil War Letters & Diaries Official
Records Harpers Weekly Questions
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Search Strategies in the Online Catalog: Unit Histories
SUBJECTS: 1.United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 24 th
(1862-1865) 2.United States. Army. Iron Brigade 3.United
StatesHistory Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental Histories
4.MichiganHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865 Regimental Histories
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Unit Histories Use this Advanced Keyword Search Template
SUBJECT: CIVIL WAR 1861 SUBJECT: [COUNTRY OR STATE] SUBJECT: [TYPE
OF UNIT] Any Field: [NUMERICAL PERMUTATIONS]
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EXAMPLES:
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Battles and Campaigns: Use Subject Search: Names of a Battle or
Campaign Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 Corydon, Battle of,
Corydon, Ind., 1863 Morgans Ohio Raid, 1863 New Mexico Campaign,
1862 Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864 Shermans March to the
Sea Valverde, Battle of Val Verde, N.M., 1862 Wilderness, Battle of
the, Va., 1864
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Sieges Use this format in the Subject Catalog [City (State)]
History -- Siege, [date] Baton Rouge (La.) History Siege, 1862
Charleston (S.C) History Siege, 1863 Corinth (Miss.) History Siege,
1863 Fort Fisher (N.C.) History Siege, 1864- 1865 Knoxville (Tenn.)
History Siege, 1863 Petersburg (Va.) History Siege, 1864- 1865
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COMBINE REGIMENTAL HISTORIES WITH A BATTLES NAME
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General Ben The Beast Butler
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West's Encyclopedia of American LawWest's Encyclopedia of
American Law. Ed. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman. Vol. 2. 2 nd
ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005. p195.
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PRIMARY SOURCES: Definition items that are directly associated
with their producer or user and the time period in which they were
created. Examples, include diaries, newspapers articles, government
documents, photographs, oral interviews, and news broadcasts.
Presnell, Jenny L. The information-literate historian : a guide to
research for history students (New York : Oxford University Press,
2007): 93.
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CAUTION: MEMOIRS SOURCE: Hamilton, Milton. "Augustus Buell:
Fraudulent Historian", Pennsylvania Magazine of History and
Biography 80 (1956), 478-92
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FINDING PRIMARY SOURCES IN THE ONLINE CATALOG: 1. See if your
person wrote something
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AUSTIN BLAIR
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ONLINE CATALOG SEARCH
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RESEARCH IN AN ARCHIVES
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FINDING PRIMARY SOURCES IN THE ONLINE CATALOG: 2. RESTRICT BY
DATE OF PUBLICATION
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JUDAH BENJAMIN: 2 nd Jewish Senator in U.S. History
Confederate: Attorney General Secretary of War Secretary of State
British Legal Expert
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FINDING PRIMARY SOURCES IN THE ONLINE CATALOG: 3. STANDARDIZED
SUBDIVISIONS
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sourcesmanuscripts archivesnotebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
archival resourcespersonal narratives, American, Chinese, Finnish
correspondencepersonnel records diariesrecords and
correspondence
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Operations at Sea: Diary
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Memoir of Sarah Emma Edmonds I was ordered by General H. to
pass the rebel lines, and return as soon as possible. I took the
train at Warrenton Junction, went to Washington, procured a
disguise, that of a female contraband, and returned the same night.
I passed through the enemy's lines in company with nine
contrabands, men, women, and children, who preferred to live in
bondage with their friends, rather than to be free without them. I
had no difficulty whatever in getting along, for I, with several
others, was ordered to headquarters to cook rations enough, the
rebels said, to last them until they reached Washington.
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GENERAL SIBLEY
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OFFICIAL RECORDS SETS
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War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of
the Union and Confederate Armies
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VOL. 9 PRINT INDEX VOL. 9 ONLINE SEARCH RESULTS
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Vol. 9
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A MICHIGANDER: G.A. CUSTER
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QUESTIONS
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DRILL 1.Did the Union Navy build submarines? (Actual question)
2.Did Black Confederate units fight Union troops? 3.Was the cause
of the war Slavery or States Rights? 4.Does the library have any
alternative history books on the South winning the war? 5.Whats a
Civil War bounty jumper? Family stories says that one of our Quebec
relatives did that.
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Did the Union Navy build submarines? 1.Reference Universe.
Keyword: Civil War submarine* Submarines: An Illustrated History of
its Impact -- 2007, ABC-CLIO [V857.F65 2007]Submarines: An
Illustrated History of its Impact -- 2007, ABC-CLIO [V857.F65 2007]
2.OPAC Subject searches: a.united states navy history civil war
1861-1865 b.Submarines (Ships) -- History. c.Submarines (Ships) --
United States History 3.America, History & Life: civil war
& submarine* -- Portrait of possibility: The Submarine
Alligator.Portrait of possibility: The Submarine Alligator. By:
Maloney, Janet M.. Civil War Times, Dec2005, Vol. 44 Issue 5,
p34-40 4.Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in
the War of the Rebellion. a.Hunley & Charleston = Submarine
torpedo boat b.Submarine torpedo boat & Alligator
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Did Black Confederate units fight Union troops? 1.America,
History & Life: black soldiers & confed* -- a.Black
Soldiers, Southern Victory? By: Van Der Linden, Frank. Civil War
Times, Oct2007, Vol. 46 Issue 8, p28-35,Black Soldiers, Southern
Victory? DE "SOLDIERS, Black & DE " CONFEDERATE States of
America. Army 2 hits a.MORE BLACK CONFEDERATES? By: Lowry, Thomas
P.; Ledoux, Albert H.. North & South: The Official Magazine of
the Civil War Society, Jul2009, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p58-60,MORE BLACK
CONFEDERATES?
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INDEX: Slavery See Also: African American Soldiers C.S.A.
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African American Soldiers C.S.A. (page 18) Aside from the
service of the Louisiana Native Guards at the outbreak of the war,
and the several companies of African-Americans organized in
Richmond in March 1865, there is little documentation indicating
that blacks served as combat soldiers in Southern armies in
anything but the most negligible of numbers.
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Was the cause of the war Slavery or States Rights? INDEX: State
rights, 387, 1531-1536 as basis of secession, 1373
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SECESSION Secession Looms (p. 1376) Young slaveholding lawyers
and planters spearheaded secessionTheir recently acquired wealth in
land and slaves rested on a rickety structure of credit that
required rising slave prices to keep from collapsing. Economic self
interestdrove them to secession once Lincolns election threatened
to limit Southern growth by ending the expansion of slavery.
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Does the library have any alternative history books on the
South winning the war?
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Whats a Civil War bounty jumper? AHL: "bounty jumper* &
1861-1865 THE BOUNTY JUMPERS OF INDIANA. THE BOUNTY JUMPERS OF
INDIANA. By: Barnett, James. Civil War History, Dec1958, Vol. 4
Issue 4, p429-436, GOOGLE BOOKS "bounty jumper AND canadian
