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The American Civil War Letters & Diaries contains 849 authors and  approximately 52,000 pages of letters, diaries and memoirs.  When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials.   Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. 

The product includes some previously unpublished manuscripts - for example, the letters of Amos Wood and his wife.

  The collection also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.

CWLD uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and the full-text elements within the database.

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