The Civil War Day by Day

Designed to compile a documentary record of the Civil War during the sesquicentennial observance, this Web site was launched in April 2011 and will run through 2015. By the end of the project, The Civil War Day by Day will have compiled a permanent catalog of more than 1,458 primary-source documents—including letters, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides, government records, order books, and sheet music—from the various branches of the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina. The site is actually an innovative blog that provides firsthand accounts of the war to educators and budding historians. As stated on the mission page, “Our hope is that a community of researchers, anxious to share their interpretations, questions, and perhaps, even their transcriptions will emerge as frequent contributors to Civil War Day by Day.” Toward that end, every section of the site, which includes links to several other

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