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• The Library of Congress commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with “The
  Civil War in America,” a free exhibition revealing the complexity of the war through
  those who experienced it firsthand. More than 200 items, many of which have never
  been seen by the public, are featured in the exhibition that will be open through
  June 1, 2013. A
  complete list of related programming and events is available here.

• Ancestry.com, in partnership with the US Department
  of Veterans Affairs and National Archives and Records Administration, has released
  two new online searchable collections, the US
  Headstone Applications, 1925-1963 and US
  Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960. 

• Familyrelatives.com has released three
  new military collections containing lists of more than 35,000 British and Dominion
  Officers who were killed or captured during the Great War:

British
Officers Prisoners of War 1914-1918

Officers Who
Died in the Great War 1914-1919 

The Bond
of Sacrifice (a biographical record of British officers who fell in the Great
War)