'The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865' documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life. 'Homefront' includes over four hundred digitized and encoded contemporary printed works and manuscripts, accompanied by ca. 1,000 images of currency, manuscript letters, maps, broadsides, title pages, illustrations, and photographs. As Scholarly Advisor to the project, William Barney, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, selected the texts for this project, while the Editorial Board for Documenting the American South guides its development. The texts come from the premier Southern collections in the Academic Affairs Library at UNC-Chapel Hill. 'The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865' was funded by a National Leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Created by the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, the IMLS fosters innovation, technological advances, and support and learning programs in museums and libraries. [self-description]