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Suggested Search Terms
Try adding these subject headings to narrow your search:
| President Lincoln | General Grant | General Sherman | General Jackson |
| General Lee | General McClellan | Confederate Sates of America | Battle of Gettysburg |
| Battle of Antietam | Battle of Shiloh | Andersonville Prison | Michigan and the Civil War |
| Navel History | Women in the Civil War | Nursing in the Civil War | Doctors in the Civil War |
| Hospitals in the Civil War | Frederick Douglass |
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Catalog Searches
These are just a few sample searches of the Kirtland catalog.
- African Americans - Civil War, 1861-1865
- Abraham Lincoln - Military leadership
- Abolitionists
- Antislavery movements
- Civil War, 1861-1865 - Causes
- Civil War, 1861-1865 - Michigan - History
- Civil War, 1861-1865 - Secret service
- Civil War, 1861-1865 - Participation, Female
- Civil War, 1861-1865 - Participation, African American
- Confederate States of America - Soldiers
- Slaves - Emancipation
- Underground Railroad
On the Shelves of the Kirtland Library
Call Numbers from the Kirtland Catalog
The Library of Congress designates E456-655 as the section where you will find information on The American Civil War .
Check out these sections of the Kirtland Library for specific areas on The American Civil War:
- E 601 .W58 2014 Under the Guns
- E 612 .A5 F88 1999 History of Andersonville Prison
- E 621 .D67 2009 Death is in the Breeze
- E 621 .H39 1989 A Woman Doctor's Civil War
- E 621 .P35 2015 The Sweep of the Whirlwind
- E 621 .P69 2015 Sweet Restorer: Diary of a Civil War Nurse
- E 621 .W67 2014 The Other Side of War 1862