- African-American Regiment: 54th Massachusetts, included a son of Frederick Douglass - (see fifth paragraph)
- America's Civil War: Unforgettable Sights
- Amistad Incident: A North/South disagreement over how to handle captured Africans pushed the United States closer to Civil War
- Andersonville Prison: Infamous POW camp in Georgia - (see last two bullets)
- Antietam, Battle of: Deadliest day of war (and in U.S. history)
- Appomattox Court House: Virginia village was scene of CSA surrender
- Army Disease: Addiction to morphine - (see fifth bullet from the bottom)
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Event which stunned the nation
- Barton, Clara: "Angel of the battlefield" - (see third paragraph)
- Beauregard, P.G.T.: A hero of battles at Bull Run, Ft. Sumter
- Bull Run, First Battle of War: A Confederate victory
- Confederate States: Famous officers
- Deadly War: Americans killing Americans led to huge casualties
- Discharge Papers, Union: Example of
- Draft Laws (1863): Laws that favored rich over poor
- Draft Riots (1863): Deaths in New York City
- Battle of the Crater: Death and Destruction at Petersburg
- Booth, John Wilkes: Capture and death of Lincoln's assassin
- Burnside, Ambrose: "Not fitted to command an army," according to General Grant - (see fourth and fifth paragraphs)
- Bull Run: The First Battle of the Civil War
- Camp Life: Civil War soldiers in the field - photographs from the national archives
- Cave-Dwellers of the Confederacy: Hiding from the South's "Home Guard"
- Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence: Accepted Confederacy surrender
- Chancellorsville: Annotated battle maps from U.S. Military Academy - (see bullets)
- Chancellorsville, Brilliant Strategy: The South's high point of the war
- Chancellorsville: Robert E. Lee's greatest victory
- Civil War: Impact on America
- Coal Miner's Battle Idea: Tunnel under Confederate lines, explode munitions - (see fourth paragraph)
- Coal Miner's explosion: Union disaster at Petersburg
- Confederacy School Books: Examples from southern archives
- Confederate Currency: Examples of Money Used by the Civil-War South
- Conspiracy Trial: Plotters accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth were tried and executed
- Fredericksburg: A Union Defeat
- Fredericksburg: Photographs of mercy and death, from national archives
- Grant, Ulysses S., Union General: Command Commission
- Hood, John Bell: Resigned command
- Home Guard: Terror in the Confederate States
- Hooker, Joseph: Union commander made inaccurate predictions, Chancellorsville
- Irish Brigade: Unit decimated at Chancellorsville
- Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall": General Robert E. Lee's "right-hand man"
- Lee, General Robert E.: Commander of Confederate forces
- Longstreet, James: Lee’s “old war horse”
- "Malice Toward None": Lincoln’s approach to the South (from his second inaugural)
- "March to the Sea," Sherman's Journey: Photographs from the national archives
- Miles, Nelson: Became General-in-Chief of the Army
- Petersburg: Strategically important, Virginia city
- Photographers of America's Civil War: Matthew Brady, Alexander Gardner, etc.
- Pickett, George: Gettysburg, “Pickett’s Charge”
- Primary Sources, Confederacy: Click on “treasury” (second paragraph)
- John Wilkes Booth: Capture and death of the presidential assassin
- Reconstruction: The South rejoins the Union
- River Defense Fleet: Building a Confederate navy - (see sixth bullet)
- Shape-Note Singing: Featured in Cold Mountain - definition/examples
- Shenandoah Valley: Grant’s instructions - "Lay waste to it"
- Sherman, William Tecumseh: Destructive “March to the Sea”
- Siege of Petersburg: Led to end of war
- Siege of Petersburg, Photographs: Lee forced to evacuate city (2 April 1864)
- Slaves, Freed: Freed slaves fought for the Union
- South, Rejoins Union: Painful years of "reconstruction"
- "Stonewall Brigade": Stonewall Jackson’s troops
- "Stonewall" Jackson: Lee's "right-hand" man killed by "friendly fire"
- Stuart, "Jeb": Famous Confederate cavalry officer
- Stuart, "Jeb": Had a key role at Chancellorsville
- Surrender: Lee and key officers surrender to Union in April of 1865 - (see last two paragraphs which include link to Confederates' flag of truce)
- Tissue Samples, Deceased Soldiers: Preserved in paraffin for future study
- Transcontinental Railroad Commenced: With the South seceded from the Union, Congress passed laws to build the first transcontinental railroad
- Union Officers: Photos of federal officers, from the national archives
- Union Troops: Pictures of soldiers in the field, from national archives
- "White House," Richmond (VA): Home of Confederacy's president, Jefferson Davis
- Wirz, Henry: Commander of infamous Andersonville Prison