Q. Where can I find information about civil liberties during the Civil War?

Beside general texts about the Civil War (likely found in our Reference section or books classified from E456-E489), I would start by checking out these articles for some info on that: (found in the Academic Search Premier database)

• Posterity's Blush: Civil Liberties, Property Rights, and Property Confiscation in the Confederacy
• On the Fourteenth Amendment: A Textual Analysis
• Civil Liberties in the Confederacy: The Case of North Carolina
• The Supreme Court, Reconstruction, and the Meaning of the Civil War
• and Black from White: How the Rights of White and Black Workers Became "Labor" and "Civil" Rights after the U.S. Civil War