The Civil War: Letters From the Front

Welcome. This is a collaborative undertaking to make available the many letters from Union soldiers that exist in the Widows' Certificates pension files at the US National Archives. For a complete description, please see the "Project Proposal" page. If you would like to contribute, please read the instruction page and contact the administrator for more information.

Terms of Use

By contributing to this project (in the form of images, transcriptions, tags, etc) you are asserting that you own the images or words posted, and that you grant this site permission to use your material for its express purposes. Letters From the Front will never reproduce your material for any purposes outside of this website. If you participate in any form of scholarship through comments or conversation with other readers in forums, you are likewise giving permission for your words to be accessible by anyone with this web address. If you wish to protect your scholarship published on this site, you are encouraged to license it under Creative Commons.
Otherwise, your work will only be protected by the very open Creative Commons license that this page itself holds. Anyone wishing to quote you must cite you as an individual and list this site as the location source. Your opinions expressed here may be used in published material, and by posting anything here in the public domain you are granting permission for anyone to do so, with the proper citation. If your images are taken reproduced in other forms of scholarship they will be required to be properly linked back to this website, but your identity may or may not be attached to the image ownership depending on your privacy settings as a contributor. While images and transcriptions are work done by you, the contributor, they must always link back to the original source, which is the WC file number and NARA record group information (see citation information).