Daniel Boone Regional Library

Civil War in Missouri

Books & Articles

• Browse books about the Civil War in Missouri in the DBRL catalog.
• Browse books on the border war with Kansas in the DBRL catalog.
• Civil War Sesquicentennial Project
  A series of articles and tweets by Columbia Daily Tribune reporter Rudi Keller on aspects of the Civil War in Mid-Missouri with information on local area events commemorating the war's 150th anniversary.
• “Abraham Lincoln’s election presages divide in state”
  First in a series of articles by Rudi Keller published in the Columbia Daily Tribune, November 6, 2010.

History & Resources

• Civil War in Missouri - State Historical Society of Missouri
  Browse letters and diaries to discover how Missourians, civilians and military, experienced the Civil War through select newspaper accounts of battles, troop movements and guerrilla attacks from 1861-1865.
• Community & Conflict: The Impact of the Civil War in the Ozarks
  Created by the Springfield-Greene County Library District and several organizations in the Ozarks, this site allows you to search documents by county, theme or battle for insights into how the Civil War affected the region as revealed through diaries, journals, court cases and a wealth of other materials.
• Missouri Civil War Heritage Foundation
  Click on History to find biographies, battles (including the Battle of Centralia) and a timeline of events year by year.
• Mid-Missouri Civil War Project
  View historic maps and places of interest in Columbia, plus images and transcriptions of diaries and local accounts of battles.
• Missouri Civil War Sesquicentennial
  Historical background and resources on the war years with links to upcoming state events including reenactments of Missouri Civil War battles.
• Missouri Digital Heritage - Civil War in Missouri
  From the Missouri State Library, a portal to a vast collection of newspapers, diaries, letters, photos, memoirs, military records and more.

Travel & Tourism

• The Missouri Civil War: Civil War Sites, Tours and Reenactments
  Focuses on the historic sites and battles in the Arcadia Valley Region and the Black Valley River area of Iron County and Reynolds County, near St Louis.
• Missouri Dept. of Tourism
  Find information about special events, exhibits and historic sites by region, including historic Missouri cemeteries.

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Civil War - Nation

• See subject guides on Abraham Lincoln and Black Culture and History.
• Browse books and DVD/Videos about the Civil War in the DBRL catalog.
• America’s Civil War Magazine
  Select articles and book reviews by Civil War scholars, including interviews with individuals who supervise the work of battlefield sites. The Columbia Public Library has the current and previous year’s issues.
• CivilWar@Smithsonian
  Online exhibit about the war using the museum's extensive collections.
• The Civil War Home Page
  Contains photos, battle information, documents, statistics, regimental histories, biographies, letters and diaries with a searchable database of other sites.
• Civil War Preservation Trust - Battle Apps
  Take a personal tour of battlefields on iphone with the GPS enabled battle apps. Map out an itinerary of some 600 battlefield sites along the Civil War Discovery Trail and download them from the site.
• National Parks Civil War Anniversary Site
  Visit over 70 parks in the National Parks System with resources related to the Civil War. Search The Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System, an index of those who fought and died on both sides. To obtain microform or original records contact The National Archives (NARA).
• Selected Civil War Photographs Collection – Library of Congress
  Over 1,000 photographs, “most made under the supervision of Mathew B. Brady."

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Opinion

• “Of course the Civil War was about Slavery”
  Article by Emily Badger in the Miller-McCune Magazine online edition, Dec. 20, 2010
• New York Times Disunion Blog
  The blog “revisits and reconsiders America’s most perilous period – using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments” through posts from various authors.

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Civil War - Select Fiction

• A select list of Civil War fiction titles.

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Databases

• American History Online
  Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
• Ancestry.com
  Census data, genealogy and family research. (Due to license restrictions, this resource is only available for use within the library.)
• Historical New York Times
  The New York Times 1851-2005 offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

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