Collections

Images, audio, and video created in the modern era that depict events of the Civil War.

Descriptions and photographs of weapons used during the American Civil War.

Documenting the hundreds of Civil War era landmarks, monuments, buildings, and markers throughout the state of Ohio.

The Ohio Historical Society houses and cares for the Ohio Adjutant General's battle flag collection, which includes about 500 Civil War Regimental Flags.

Letters to and from soldiers written during the American Civil War.

Photography bloomed as an artistic and documentary form during the American Civil War, with over 5,000 photographers across the nation capturing soldiers' and civilians' lives (and deaths), as well as battlefields, forts, cities and towns, and the aftermath of war.

Lithographs, sketches, drawings, paintings and other artistic media depicting the Civil War era.

The editorial cartoons that appeared in newspapers and pamphlets across the U.S. before, during, and after the American Civil War illustrate the deep political divisions that led the nation to war.

Songs and poems from or about the Civil War

Photographs of artifacts from the American Civil War.