The American Civil War is unquestionably the most written about event in American History. The Civil War was the first time in American history that governmental records and letters, diaries, and memoirs were produced in mass. This mass production of original source material has resulted in significant scholarship and a wide range of professional researchers and hobbyists producing published histories which explore the events, factors, and lives the civil war impacted.
History & Genealogy staff have made a concerted effort to expand Civil War collections to better aide researchers. Early collecting focused on large reference sets such as the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Today, H&G has a sizeable collection of published regimental histories, letters, diaries, memoirs, accounts, action and campaign histories, battle maps, and regional histories related to the Civil War era obtained from source publishers from all over the United States.