This Web site explores Brooklyn during the Civil War by presenting primary source documents — photographs, letters, newspaper articles, illustrations, and more — that show what life was like during this period.

This online collection provides access to about 7,000 different views and portraits made during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and its immediate aftermath. From the Library of Congress

The pictures listed in this publication are in the Still Picture Branch of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Details life in 2 communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's raid through the era of Reconstruction.