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The American Civil War Letters and Diaries collection includes the full-text of primary source documents from over 2000 authors during the era of the U.S. Civil War.

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• Date written
• Place mentioned
• Topic

Browse searches available include:

• Titles, Historical Events, People, Subjects, Place Discussed

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Full text: 100% of items available.

Searching in OneSearch:

OneSearch lists brief information for each of the 376 publications in this collection.  Use the Alexander Street Press interface to search within the text of the 150,000 pages.

Example OneSearch Book record: The Confederate Soldier: and Ten Years in South America

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This collection contains 2,009 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs. Particular care has been taken to index this material so it can be searched more thoroughly than ever. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The product includes 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts such as the letters of Amos Wood and his wife and the diary of Maryland Planter William Claytor. The collection also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.

Platform:  Alexander Street

Full-text: All items

Content Update: Closed/one-time collection

Type of records: Primary source materials, including:

• Letters
• Diaries
• Memoirs / Autobiographies

Number of records: 370 publications / 100,000 pages

Provider: ProQuest - Alexander Street / CSU Collections

OneSearch:

Collection Record: Civil War Letters and Diaries.

OneSearch example book record: The Confederate Soldier: and Ten Years in South America.

Library Guides URL: https://library.csustan.edu/civilwarletters

Library PURL: https://libpurl.csustan.edu/s/purl.php?2459