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American Civil War Era Manuscripts

The Department's Civil War manuscript classification includes all manuscript series originating, wholly or primarily, in North America in the years 1861 to 1865. Also included are later manuscript groups of immediate relevance to the war.

For descriptions of our holdings and for images and textual transcriptions of selected items, please proceed to our ongoing digital project, "Manuscripts of the American Civil War."