Published in 1901, the index alone to this monumental work contains over 1,100 pages and more than 100,000 listings. Civil War period graphics housed at the Society comprise prints, drawings, cartoons, maps, and photographs. For overviews of the war, the Society offers a large selection of published general histories, and back issues of periodicals such as Civil War Times. back to top Facts, figures, more For researchers interested in statistics and logistics of the Civil War, there are ledger books and journals, as well as maps, in the A. A. Humphreys Collection. Pennsylvania 52nd Infantry Regiment Reports contain muster roles and general orders, while a portion of the collection from William H. Horstmann and Sons gives specifications for Civil War military uniforms. On their long marches south, Union troops would stop at Voluntary Refreshment Saloons for coffee and rest.
Records kept by the saloons are mostly statistical.
However, troops often befriended saloon proprietors and later wrote them accounts of battles in which they fought. The Society's collection includes these records. Other perspectives on the Civil War come from the Society's collection of Sanitary Commission Reports. The sanitary commissions were formed to care for wounded soldiers, and did so for troops from both sides. Sanitary commissions often held fund-raising events such as the large 1864 Sanitary Fair at Philadelphia's Logan Square, and accounts of these activities describe the treatment of casualties and the civilian concerns about the war.