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Survey and Assessment of Philadelphia-area Civil War Resources now complete [view reports]

Want to visit Civil-War Philadelphia? Download our visitor's guide and map

Mapping Civil War Philadelphia: interactive map of more than 400 locations (in development) [go there]

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Illustrations: Background, page from James Tanner's transcription of eyewitness accounts of Abraham Lincoln's assassination (The Union League of Philadelphia). Clockwise from upper left: map of known Civil War-era resources in Philadelphia (online); actresses portraying two young women of the Civil War viewing the diaries on which their characters are based (The Historical Society of Pennsylvania); Pennsylvania Civil War Monument (Fairmount Park); a pocket watch that stopped a bullet and saved a life (Civil War & Underground Railroad Museum); USCT Third Infantry reenactors at All-War Monument to Colored Soldiers and Sailors (Fairmount Park).

QUICK LINKS TO
CHARTER MEMBERS

>> Abraham Lincoln Foundation
Union League of Philadelphia
>> African American Museum in Philadelphia
>> Athenaeum of Philadelphia
>> Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia
>> Chester County Historical Society
>> Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia
>> College of Physicians of Philadelphia
>> Free Library of Philadelphia
>> Grand Army of the Republic Museum & Library
>> Historic Germantown Preserved
>> Historical Society of Montgomery County
>> The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
>> Johnson House Historic Site
>> Laurel Hill Cemetery
>> Library Company of Philadelphia
>> Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Pennsylvania Commandery
>> National Archives and Records Administration, Mid Atlantic Region
>> National Civil War Museum
>> National Constitution Center
>> Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  Rosenbach Museum & Library
>> South Jersey Tourism Corporation
>> United States Colored Troops (USCT) Third Infantry Regiment
>> Walnut Street Theatre

 
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