They also have a new beta site that is helpful:
http://pilot.familysearch.org/
This site is helpful for their forums which you can sort by state, county, etc.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/
And finally, this site is great for scans of actual documents from the Civil War, Revolutionary War, etc. They are a subscription site but they often have free access to groups of documents for a couple of weeks at a time.
http://www.footnote.com/
Thank you for those links.