Interested in the Civil War? Browse highlights from our collection of Civil War-related objects, images and documents, or explore our interactive features.
Civil War Roll Call
The American Civil War
The Home Front
Army Life
A Union Soldier’s Uniform from the Civil War, around 1865
Excerpt from James Childs Hitchcock’s Civil War Military Journal
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
“A Soldier’s Dream”
Civil War musket with bayonet made by Lamson, Goodnow & Yale
Sketch of the Union Naval Attack on Charleston Harbor
Union Playing Card
Plate and cup
Officers of the 44th Massachusetts Regiment Volunteers
Loading and Firing a Percussion Musket
A Soldier’s Personal View of the Civil War
Letters Home from a Civil War Soldier
Slavery and Emancipation
Emancipation Proclamation Portrait of Abraham Lincoln
Letter to Agnes Gordon Cochran Higginson regarding slavery and democracy
“Our page, Harry”
African American Experiences During the Pre-Civil War Era
Samuel Willard Saxton (1829-1933)
Civil War letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to his brother, Stephen
“The News from Home. Greenfield Items” excerpt on the passage of the Constitution Amendment fr. the Gazette & Courier newspaper