The site uses government archives, museum collections, historical societies, preservation guidance, and marketplace categories to explain research methods and historical context.
Military service and unit research
- National Archives: Compiled Military Service Records — the first federal source to consult for a volunteer soldier’s basic military career.
- National Archives: Civil War Records, Basic Research Sources — service, pension, and unit-record pathways.
- National Park Service: Soldiers and Sailors Database — names and unit information used as research leads.
Photographs and manuscripts
- Library of Congress: Liljenquist Family Collection — more than 8,000 ambrotypes, tintypes, and cartes de visite representing Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians.
- Library of Congress: Civil War Glass Negatives and Related Prints.
- Library of Congress: Civil War Collection — photographs, prints, maps, manuscripts, and related resources.
Ohio research
- Ohio History Connection Manuscripts and Audiovisual Collections — the organization describes its Civil War collections as unmatched in Ohio.
- Ohio History Connection Civil War Manuscripts Guide.
- Ohio in the Civil War — statewide historical context, including African American recruitment.
Law and archaeological context
- National Park Service: Looting and Vandalism.
- National Park Service: Battlefield Archaeology at Manassas — unauthorized detection, digging, and possession of detectors on federal property are prohibited.
Marketplace categories
- Original Civil War Documents
- Original Civil War Correspondence and Mail
- Original Civil War Photographs
- Original Civil War Buttons
- Civil War Veterans’ Items
- Civil War Tokens
Source policy: An archive or museum example provides context for a documented object. It does not automatically authenticate a private item that merely looks similar.