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1859:
"Dixie"
- Confederate song (sound file) and lyrics |
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1859-98:
Sarah
E. Thompson Papers (Union side) |
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1860-61:
Northern Editorial Reactions to Secession |
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1860-64:
Rose
O'Neal Greenhow Papers (Montgomery County, MD - confederate) |
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1860:
South
Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12/25/1860) |
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186?:
"The
cost of a rebel peace. Plain words for working-men" - broadside |
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186?:
A prayer for the southern cause |
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186?:
"What
a real patriot thought of the 'Peace party'" - broadside |
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186?:
"We've
a million in the field" - song lyrics written and composed by Stephen
C. Foster - broadside |
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1861:
Act
Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia (4/16) |
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1861:
Address by Jefferson Davis to the Provisional Congress of the
Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama (4/29) |
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1861:
Anaconda Plan - General Winfield Scott's letter to General George
McClellan |
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1861:
An
Act Relative to Prisoners of War - passed by the Confederate States
of America (5/21) |
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1861:
"Annual
address of the Massachusetts temperance alliance to the people of the
Commonwealth ... Boston" - broadside |
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1861:
"An appeal for peace sent to Lieut. Gen. Scott, July 4, 1861 ... Women
of Maryland" - broadside |
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1861:
Anti-Secession Resolutions of the New York State Legislature (passed
by the NY Assembly, 1/11) |
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1861:
"The
Battle of Manassas" - song lyrics by Susan Archer Talley |
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1861:
"The
Battle Hymn of the Republic" - sonly lyrics by Julia Ward
Howe |
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1861:
"Beat! Beat! Drums! - poem about the Battle of
Bull Run by Walt Whitman |
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1861:
"The
Border States must Unite and Act!" - North Carolina Weekly
Standard (4/24) |
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1861:
Concurrent Resolutions tendering aid to the President of the United
States in support of the Constitution and the Union - by the State of
New York (1/11) |
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1861:
"Confederate
Flag" - editorial in The Richmond Dispatch (12/7) |
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1861:
Constitution
of the Confederate States of America |
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1861:
"Cornerstone
Speech" - Alexander H. Stevens, Savannah GA (3/21) |
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1861:
"The
Course of Western Commerce" - Cincinnati, Ohio, Daily Commercial,
[Lincoln], 2/20 |
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1861:
DeBow's
Review on the attitudes of non-slaveholders (Jan.) |
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1861:
Draft of Abraham Lincoln's instructions to Maj. Robert Anderson
in command at Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC (4/4) |
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1861:
"Emancipation" - Chicago, Illinois, Tribune
(8/10) |
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1861:
"Emancipation
and Wages" - Chicago, Illinois, Tribune
(8/12) |
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1861:
"Fear
of Insurrection" - Harriet Ann Jacobs |
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1861:
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln |
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1861:
Fragment
on the Constitution and Union - Abraham Lincoln |
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1861:
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs |
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1861:
Inaugural Address of Jefferson Davis (2/18) |
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1861:
"Is
Peaceable Secession Out of the Question?" - New
York Daily News [Breckenridge], 6/12 |
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1861:
James Henley Thornwell on "the State of the Country" |
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1861:
Jefferson
Davis's Farewell Speech to the U. S. Senate |
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1861:
Jefferson
Davis's First Speech to the Confederate Congress |
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1861:
"Jeff Davis going to war and Jeff returning from war" - political
cartoon |
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1861:
Jefferson
Davis's Inaugural Address |
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1861:
Letter by James R. Kelly describing camp life |
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1861:
Letter by Jefferson Davis concerning Fort Sumter |
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1861:
Letter by John Jay on the fate of slave power |
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1861:
Letter to J. J. Crittenden from William Oland Bourne (2/22) - Do We
Have a Government? |
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1861:
"Lincoln and the Outbreak of War" - various documents
(additional documents) |
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1861:
Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Confederate Lady's Diary |
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1861:
Nashville Republican Banner editorial of 1/25 |
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1861:
"Peace
or War" - The
Pittsburgh Post [Douglas], 3/18 |
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1861:
President Abraham Lincoln Calls in the Troops |
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1861:
Proposals
of the Washington Peace Conference |
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1861:
"The
Question of the Day" -
Philadelphia, PA, Public Ledger (1/1) |
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1861:
"The
Question of Force" -
Harrisburg, PA, Daily Patriot and Union [Breckenridge],
(1/4) |
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1861:
"The Question of the Hour," by James Russell Lowell in
The Atlantic Monthly (VII) |
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1861:
Reflections on the Causes of the Civil War - letter by London
Times correspondent, David Hopkins |
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1861:
Richmond Enquirer editorial of 3/23 |
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1861:
"Scientific Racism" -
J. H. Van Evrie |
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1861:
"The Southern Confederacy - What Secession Means: From
The
Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph
(2/23) |
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1861:
Speech of the Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens to the Virginia Secession Convention (4/23) |
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1861:
"The State of
the Country" - James Henley Thornwell |
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1861:
Sullivan Ballou's Letter to his Wife Sarah before the Battle of
Bull Run (Major-2nd Regiment, RI Volunteers) |
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1861:
Unratified Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
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1861:
Various
Documents on Lincoln and the Outbreak of the Civil War |
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1861:
Virginia
Gov. John Letcher's Conditions for Settlement |
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1861:
Virginia Leaves the Union |
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1861:
A Voice from Harper's Ferry - excerpts from Osborne P.
Anderson |
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1861:
"War Begins!" - NY and SC newspaper accounts of the outbreak of war |
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1861:
The Washington Peace Conference (2/27) |
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1861:
"What is to be Done with the Blacks?" - Chicago,
Illinois, Tribune (6/5) |
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1861?:
"Who endorsed the Helper book! Who were the inciters to bloodshed?
'The unconditional abolition of slavery', 'Peaceably, if we can;
violently, if we must.' Read? Read? Read" - broadside |
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1861-62:
From the Diary of a Young Northern Woman |
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1861-63:
A Michigan Civil War Physician's Diary Entry Samples - Dr. Cyrus Bacon |
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1861-63:
Diary Excerpts of Caroline Barrett White |
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1862:
An
Act to Make Disposition of Negro Slaves Captured from Hostile
Indians - Congress of the Confederate States of America (2/17) |
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1862:
"American Civilization" - Ralph Waldo
Emerson in The Atlantic Monthly (April) |
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1862:
An Anonymous Poet Satirizes "Exempts |
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1862:
Battle of Shiloh described in a letter by Edgar Pierce |
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1862:
"The Causes of the Rebellion" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 2, Issue 5, November 1862 /
Issue 6 December 1862 |
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1862:
"Chiefly About War Matters" - Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Atlantic
Monthly |
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1862:
"'The Constitution as It Is - The Union as It Was'."
- Continental Monthly / Volume 2, Issue 4, October 1862] |
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1862+:
"Education among the freedmen ... To the friends of education among
the freedmen" - broadside |
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1862:
Emancipation in the District of Columbia |
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1862:
"The Emancipation Problem in Maryland" - circular (6/17) |
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1862:
The Emancipation Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln |
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1862:
“The Evil Shadow of Slavery No Longer Hangs Over Them” - Charlotte
Forten Describes Her Experiences Teaching on the SC Sea Islands |
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1862:
An Exhortation Delivered by Eliza P. Gurney (a
Quaker) to Abraham Lincoln at the White House |
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1862:
"The
Flag of Secession" - song lyrics of a Confederate tune -
author unkown |
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