 |
1859:
"Dixie"
- Confederate song (sound file) and lyrics |
|
|
1859-98:
Sarah
E. Thompson Papers (Union side) |
|
|
1860-61:
Northern Editorial Reactions to Secession |
|
|
1860-64:
Rose
O'Neal Greenhow Papers (Montgomery County, MD - confederate) |
|
|
1860:
South
Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12/25/1860) |
|
|
186?:
"The
cost of a rebel peace. Plain words for working-men" - broadside |
|
|
186?:
A prayer for the southern cause |
|
|
186?:
"What
a real patriot thought of the 'Peace party'" - broadside |
|
|
186?:
"We've
a million in the field" - song lyrics written and composed by Stephen
C. Foster - broadside |
|
|
1861:
Act
Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia (4/16) |
|
|
1861:
Address by Jefferson Davis to the Provisional Congress of the
Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama (4/29) |
|
|
1861:
Anaconda Plan - General Winfield Scott's letter to General George
McClellan |
|
|
1861:
An
Act Relative to Prisoners of War - passed by the Confederate States
of America (5/21) |
|
|
1861:
"Annual
address of the Massachusetts temperance alliance to the people of the
Commonwealth ... Boston" - broadside |
|
|
1861:
"An appeal for peace sent to Lieut. Gen. Scott, July 4, 1861 ... Women
of Maryland" - broadside |
|
|
1861:
Anti-Secession Resolutions of the New York State Legislature (passed
by the NY Assembly, 1/11) |
|
|
1861:
"The
Battle of Manassas" - song lyrics by Susan Archer Talley |
|
|
1861:
"The
Battle Hymn of the Republic" - sonly lyrics by Julia Ward
Howe |
|
|
1861:
"Beat! Beat! Drums! - poem about the Battle of
Bull Run by Walt Whitman |
|
|
1861:
"The
Border States must Unite and Act!" - North Carolina Weekly
Standard (4/24) |
|
|
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) |
|
|
1861:
"Confederate
Flag" - editorial in The Richmond Dispatch (12/7) |
|
|
1861:
Constitution
of the Confederate States of America |
|
|
1861:
"Cornerstone
Speech" - Alexander H. Stevens, Savannah GA (3/21) |
|
|
1861:
"The
Course of Western Commerce" - Cincinnati, Ohio, Daily Commercial,
[Lincoln], 2/20 |
|
|
1861:
DeBow's
Review on the attitudes of non-slaveholders (Jan.) |
|
|
1861:
Draft of Abraham Lincoln's instructions to Maj. Robert Anderson
in command at Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC (4/4) |
|
|
1861:
"Emancipation" - Chicago, Illinois, Tribune
(8/10) |
|
|
1861:
"Emancipation
and Wages" - Chicago, Illinois, Tribune
(8/12) |
|
|
1861:
"Fear
of Insurrection" - Harriet Ann Jacobs |
|
|
1861:
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln |
|
|
1861:
Fragment
on the Constitution and Union - Abraham Lincoln |
|
|
1861:
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs |
|
|
1861:
Inaugural Address of Jefferson Davis (2/18) |
|
|
1861:
"Is
Peaceable Secession Out of the Question?" - New
York Daily News [Breckenridge], 6/12 |
|
|
1861:
James Henley Thornwell on "the State of the Country" |
|
|
1861:
Jefferson
Davis's Farewell Speech to the U. S. Senate |
|
|
1861:
Jefferson
Davis's First Speech to the Confederate Congress |
|
|
1861:
"Jeff Davis going to war and Jeff returning from war" - political
cartoon |
|
|
1861:
Jefferson
Davis's Inaugural Address |
|
|
1861:
Letter by James R. Kelly describing camp life |
|
|
1861:
Letter by Jefferson Davis concerning Fort Sumter |
|
|
1861:
Letter by John Jay on the fate of slave power |
|
|
1861:
Letter to J. J. Crittenden from William Oland Bourne (2/22) - Do We
Have a Government? |
|
|
1861:
"Lincoln and the Outbreak of War" - various documents
(additional documents) |
|
|
1861:
Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Confederate Lady's Diary |
|
|
1861:
Nashville Republican Banner editorial of 1/25 |
|
|
1861:
"Peace
or War" - The
Pittsburgh Post [Douglas], 3/18 |
|
|
1861:
President Abraham Lincoln Calls in the Troops |
|
|
1861:
Proposals
of the Washington Peace Conference |
|
|
1861:
"The
Question of the Day" -
Philadelphia, PA, Public Ledger (1/1) |
|
|
1861:
"The
Question of Force" -
Harrisburg, PA, Daily Patriot and Union [Breckenridge],
(1/4) |
|
|
1861:
"The Question of the Hour," by James Russell Lowell in
The Atlantic Monthly (VII) |
|
|
1861:
Reflections on the Causes of the Civil War - letter by London
Times correspondent, David Hopkins |
|
|
1861:
Richmond Enquirer editorial of 3/23 |
|
|
1861:
"Scientific Racism" -
J. H. Van Evrie |
|
|
1861:
"The Southern Confederacy - What Secession Means: From
The
Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph
(2/23) |
|
|
1861:
Speech of the Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens to the Virginia Secession Convention (4/23) |
|
|
1861:
"The State of
the Country" - James Henley Thornwell |
|
|
1861:
Sullivan Ballou's Letter to his Wife Sarah before the Battle of
Bull Run (Major-2nd Regiment, RI Volunteers) |
|
|
1861:
Unratified Amendment to the U. S. Constitution |
|
|
1861:
Various
Documents on Lincoln and the Outbreak of the Civil War |
|
|
1861:
Virginia
Gov. John Letcher's Conditions for Settlement |
|
|
1861:
Virginia Leaves the Union |
|
|
1861:
A Voice from Harper's Ferry - excerpts from Osborne P.
Anderson |
|
|
1861:
"War Begins!" - NY and SC newspaper accounts of the outbreak of war |
|
|
1861:
The Washington Peace Conference (2/27) |
|
|
1861:
"What is to be Done with the Blacks?" - Chicago,
Illinois, Tribune (6/5) |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1861-62:
From the Diary of a Young Northern Woman |
|
|
1861-63:
A Michigan Civil War Physician's Diary Entry Samples - Dr. Cyrus Bacon |
|
|
1861-63:
Diary Excerpts of Caroline Barrett White |
|
|
1862:
An
Act to Make Disposition of Negro Slaves Captured from Hostile
Indians - Congress of the Confederate States of America (2/17) |
|
|
1862:
"American Civilization" - Ralph Waldo
Emerson in The Atlantic Monthly (April) |
|
|
1862:
An Anonymous Poet Satirizes "Exempts |
|
|
1862:
Battle of Shiloh described in a letter by Edgar Pierce |
|
|
1862:
"The Causes of the Rebellion" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 2, Issue 5, November 1862 /
Issue 6 December 1862 |
|
|
1862:
"Chiefly About War Matters" - Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Atlantic
Monthly |
|
|
1862:
"'The Constitution as It Is - The Union as It Was'."
- Continental Monthly / Volume 2, Issue 4, October 1862] |
|
|
1862+:
"Education among the freedmen ... To the friends of education among
the freedmen" - broadside |
|
|
1862:
Emancipation in the District of Columbia |
|
|
1862:
"The Emancipation Problem in Maryland" - circular (6/17) |
|
|
1862:
The Emancipation Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln |
|
|
1862:
“The Evil Shadow of Slavery No Longer Hangs Over Them” - Charlotte
Forten Describes Her Experiences Teaching on the SC Sea Islands |
|
|
1862:
An Exhortation Delivered by Eliza P. Gurney (a
Quaker) to Abraham Lincoln at the White House |
|
|
1862:
"The
Flag of Secession" - song lyrics of a Confederate tune -
author unkown |
|
|
1862:
Former Slave Elizabeth Keckley and the “Contraband” of Washington, DC |
|
|
1862:
"The Freed Men of the South" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 2, Issue 6, December 1862] |
|
|
1862:
From the Diary of a Young Southern Woman |
|
|
1862:
General Orders, No. 28, New Orleans - issued by General Pierce
G. T. Beauregard |
|
|
1862:
Homestead Act |
|
|
1862:
"Humane and Generous Enemy" - letter from Confederate General Robert
E. Lee to Col. William R. Lee (7/19) |
|
|
1862:
John Wilkes Booth - photo by Charles DeForest Fredericks |
|
|
1862:
Letter by Mansfield Lovell commenting on the Emancipation Proclamation |
|
|
1862:
Letter from Mary Todd Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln advising her
husband to remove the hesitant Gen. George B. McClellan from command
(11/2) |
|
|
1862:
Letter from President
Lincoln to Horace Greeley (8/22) |
|
|
1862:
Lincoln ponders emancipation in this letter |
|
|
1862: Letter
to the Secretary of War from President Lincoln (8/18) |
|
|
1862:
Mary Phinney Recalls her Experiences of August 1862 (army nurse) |
|
|
1862:
Maryland Fugitive Slave to His Wife (1/12) |
|
|
1862:
McClellan's
Letter to President Lincoln (7/7) |
|
|
1862:
Morrill Land Grant College Act |
|
|
1862:
The Originia Gettysburg Address as Written by Abraham
Lincoln |
|
|
1862:
Pacific Railway Act (7/1) |
|
|
1862:
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation |
|
|
1862:
President Lincoln to General McClellan (4/9) - broadside letter |
|
|
1862:
"The President's Proclamation" - by Ralph
Waldo Emerson in Atlantic Monthly (Nov.) |
|
|
1862:
Proclamation by the President (5/19) |
|
|
1862:
Professor John Elliott Cairnes on Slave Power |
|
|
1862:
"Rally for the Union!" - broadside (7/23) |
|
|
1862:
The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and
Probable Designs- Being an Attempt to Explain the Real Issues Involved
in the American Contest - John Elliott Cairnes |
|
|
1862:
"Southern Rights" - Continental Monthly: / Volume
2, Issue 2, August 1862] |
|
|
1862:
Speech by Jefferson Davis assessing the Confederacy's situation |
|
|
1862:
"The
Stars and Stripes" - Union song lyrics - printed in the Baltimore
America (4/23) |
|
|
1862:
"State Rights" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 1, Issue 5, May 1862 |
|
|
1862:
Treaty Between United States and Great Britain
for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (4/7) |
|
|
1862:
"What to Do with the Darkies. A New and Original Plan for
Saving the Union on Southern Principles." - Continental
Monthly / Volume 1, Issue 1, January 1862 |
|
|
1862-63:
Letters
written by Newton Scott, an Iowa soldier in the Civil War |
|
|
1862-64:
Susie King Taylor Assists the First South Carolina Volunteers |
|
|
1862-65:
Comparative Troop Strength, North and South - chart |
|
|
1863:
Additional Article to the Treaty for the Suppression
of the African Slave Trade (2/17) |
|
|
1863:
"Avoid the draft! ... All men who desire to join any particular
regiment of cavalry now in the field, are hereby authorized to present
themselves at any time during the next thirty days ... James B. Fry
Provost Marshal General" (6/2) - broadside
(image) |
|
|
1863:
"Beecher Blasphemy and Negro Patriotism" - The Old Guard /
Volume 1, Issue 2, Feb 1863 |
|
|
1863:
The Bible against slavery, with replies to the "Bible view of
slavery," by John H. Hopkins, D. D., bishop of the diocese of Vermont;
& to "A northern presbyter's second letter to ministers of the
gospel," by Nathan Lord, late president of Dartmouth |
|
|
1863?:
"The
Black Regiment" - song lyrics published by the Supervisory Committee
for Recruiting Colored Regiments |
|
|
1863:
"Boston Hymn" - poem
by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1/1) |
|
|
1863:
"A
challenge! The rebellion of the southern traitors against the Union
and the government, is a rebellion against the democratic rights of
the people ... [Signed] A Democratic workingman" - NY, 8/25 |
|
|
1863:
"To Colored Men, 54th
Regiment! Massachusetts Volunteers, Of African Descent..." - broadside |
|
|
1863:
A
Confederate Assessment of the War - letter by Christian M. Epperly |
|
|
1863:
A
Confederate Assessment of the War - letter by Daniel H. Hill |
|
|
1863:
"The Confederation and the Nation" - Continental
Monthly / Volume 3, Issue 6, June 1863 |
|
|
1863:
"The Consequences of the Rebellion" - Continental
Monthly / Volume 3, Issue 1 January 1863 |
|
|
1863:
"The
Cost of War and Who Must Pay It" - The Old Guard / Volume 1,
Issue 1, Jan 1863 |
|
|
1863:
"Dan'l
O'Connell ---on--- democracy! ... Irishmen and workingmen! Give your
votes in behalf of freedom and not in behalf of slavery'. A Democratic
workingman. New York, Oct. 13th" - broadside |
|
|
1863:
"The Delusion of the Abolitionists - A Letter to Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher" - The Old Guard / Volume 1, Issue 6, June 1863 |
|
|
1863:
Democratic Catechism of Negro Equality - broadside |
|
|
1863:
"Emancipation Hymn" - song and lyrics by Manuel Fenollosa |
|
|
1863:
Emancipation Proclamation
(image of original text) |
|
|
1863:
"The
Fate of Black Troops in Confederate Prisons" - from
the
Franklin Repository
Chambersbug, PA (12/30) |
|
|
1863:
"The Freedom of the Press" - Continental monthly
/ Volume 4, Issue 4, October 1863 |
|
|
1863:
General Orders Number 73 - General Robert E. Lee |
|
|
1863:
General "Stonewall" Jackson - photo by Mathew Brady |
|
|
1863:
Gettysburg Address (11/19) |
|
|
1863:
"Gettysburg Oration" - Edward Everett - the speech given before
Lincoln's (11/19) |
|
|
1863:
Harriet Beecher Stowe's description of Sojourner Truth in The
Atlantic Monthly (April issue) |
|
|
1863:
"How the War Affects Americans" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 3, Issue 4, April 1863 |
|
|
1863:
“I Hope to Fall With My Face to the Foe” - Lewis Douglass Describes
the Battle of Fort Wagner |
|
|
1863:
“If It Were Not For My Trust in Christ I Do Not Know
How I Could Have Endured It” - Testimony from Victims of New York’s
Draft Riots (July) |
|
|
1863:
Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States
in the Field - General Orders 100 - prepared by Francis Lieber |
|
|
1863:
The Lawrence Massacre by a Band of MO Ruffians under Quantrell
(8/21) |
|
|
1863:
Letter by Amos Lewis commenting on the Emancipation Proclamation |
|
|
1863:
Letter by Joseph Maitland on the issue of racism |
|
|
1863:
Letter by Rufus Blanchard commenting on the Emancipation Proclamation |
|
|
1863:
Letter by William Tecumseh Sherman on slaveholders and the Civil
War |
|
|
1863:
"Lincoln's 150,000 Negro Soldiers" - from the Valley
Spirit, Chambersbug, PA (2/17) |
|
|
1863:
Major General George Meade's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg |
|
|
1863:
Mother of a Northern Black Soldier to the President
(7/31) |
|
|
1863:
“My children are Just Tied Down Here” - Washington Spradling Discusses
the Condition of Free Blacks in the South |
|
|
1863:
National Banking System - letter by Samuel P. Chase |
|
|
1863:
New York City Draft Riots - Martha Derby Perry, Eyewitness Recollections
(July) |
|
|
1863:
"Nullification and Secession" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 3, Issue 2, February 1863 |
|
|
1863:
Proclamation
of Amnesty and Reconstruction |
|
|
1863:
"Proposition to the
president to employ the emancipated negroes at Port Royal ...
Springfield, VT" - broadside |
|
|
1863:
"Reconstruction"
- Continental monthly / Volume 4, Issue 6, December 1863 |
|
|
1863:
Recruitment of African-American soldiers - letter by Benjamin
F. Butler |
|
|
1863:
Relations between Indians and missionaries - letter by George
Bonga |
|
|
1863:
Remarks on Bishop Hopkins' letter on the Bible view of slavery |
|
|
1863:
Reminiscences of the Civil War -
Confederate General John B. Gordon's memoirs -
Chapter 11 ("Gettysburg") |
|
|
1863:
Review of Bishop Hopkins' Bible view of slavery, by a presbyter
of the church in Philadelphia |
|
|
1863:
"The
Right and the Wrong of Secession" - The Old Guard / Volume 1,
Issue 3, Mar 1863 |
|
|
1863:
"The
Riots in New York City" - pictures in Harper's Weekly
(8/1) |
|
|
1863:
Robert E. Lee's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg |
|
|
1863:
Rose O'Neal Greenhow- Excerpt from Diary of a Confederate Spy |
|
|
1863:
Six Thousand Humanities - A. J. H. Duganne |
|
|
1863:
Slave Treatment (photo) |
|
|
1863:
"The Slavery Status of the North" - The Old Guard / Volume 1,
Issue 10, Oct-Dec 1863 |
|
|
1863:
"Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl" - Harriet Beecher Stowe in The
Atlantic Monthly 11 (April 1863): 473-481 |
|
|
1863:
A
Soldier's View of Lincoln - letter by a soldier from the 12th
Vermont militia |
|
|
1863:
"The South" - The Old Guard / Volume 1, Issue 10, Oct-Dec 1863 |
|
|
1863:
"Southern and Northern Nations" - The Old Guard / Volume 1,
Issue 10, Oct-Dec 1863 |
|
|
1863:
"Southern
slavery and the Christian religion" - broadside |
|
|
1863:
"Stamp
duties imposed by the act of Congress of July 1, 1862 and its
amendment of March 3, 1863" - broadside |
|
|
1863:
"State Sovereignty" - The Old Guard / Volume 1, Issue 7, July
1863 |
|
|
1863:
"Ten-Percent Plan" - Abraham Lincoln |
|
|
1863:
Testimony by a South Carolina Freedman before the American Freedmen's
Inquiry Commission, June
|
|
|
1863:
Testimony by the Superintendent of Contrabands at Fortress Monroe,
Virginia, before American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission (5/9)
|
|
|
1863:
Thanksgiving Proclamation - Abraham Lincoln - set the precedent
to make it a national holiday
|
|
|
1863:
"A
Traitor Congress and a Traitor President" - The Old Guard /
Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan 1863 |
|
|
1863:
"Trial by Commissions" - The Old Guard / Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan
1863 |
|
|
1863:
"Two-Headed Rebellion" - The Old Guard / Volume 1, Issue 8, Aug
1863 |
|
|
1863:
"Two
Southern Mothers" - a poem in Continental Monthly
/ Volume 4, Issue 5, November 1863 |
|
|
1863:
"The Union" - Continental Monthly / Volume 3,
Issue 1, January 1863 |
|
|
1863:
"The Value of the Union" - Continental
Monthly / Volume 3, Issue 5, May 1863 |
|
|
1863:
“We Feel as Though Our Country Spurned Us” - Soldier James Henry
Gooding Protests Unequal Pay for Black Soldiers |
|
|
1863:
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" - song (sound file) and lyrics |
|
|
1963:
"White slaves. It is of the greatest importance to the workingmen of
the United States to understand the true sentiments and objects of the
leading traitors of the South ... [Signed] A democratic workingman.
NY, Sept. 28th 1863" - broadside |
|
|
1863-64:
Illustrations of the United States Colored Troops - Harper's
Weekly |
|
|
1864:
"Abe
Lincoln's Battle Cry" - song lyrics by James D. Gay |
|
|
1864:
Alice WIlliamson's whole diary (without images, to make
it easier to print). Includes historical annotations |
|
|
1864:
"American Women" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 6, Issue 4, October 1864 |
|
|
1864:
"Automaton Negro Dancer" - advertisement |
|
|
1864:
"Banking
and the currency. Letter from James Gallatin, Esq., to the bank
committee", New York (4/7) - broadside |
|
|
1864:
The Breakdown of the Plantation System - letter by Tobias Gibson |
|
|
1864:
"The Capture of Fort Pillow" - from the Franklin
Repository, Chambersbug, PA |
|
|
1864:
Celebration of the Abolition of Negro Slavery in Maryland
- Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (11/19) |
|
|
1864:
The Colonization of Blacks in Africa - letter by Abraham Lincoln |
|
|
1864:
Comments on the 1864 Election - letter by Andrew Knox, a Union
Lieutenant |
|
|
1864:
Confederate Attitudes - letter by John McKinley Gibson |
|
|
1864:
"The Constitutional Amendment" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 6, Issue 3, September 1864 |
|
|
1864:
Copperhead Democrats.
A political cartoon lampooning their subservience to the Confederacy |
|
|
1864:
"Cotton
vs. currency. Ought the cotton trade to be opened?" - broadside |
|
|
1864:
Criticizing the Union Army Occupation - letter by Tobias Gibson |
|
|
1864:
"The
Conscription Act of March 3d, 1864" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1864 |
|
|
1864:
Democratic Party Platform |
|
|
1864:
"James Fennimore Cooper on Secession and State Rights"
- Continental Monthly / Volume 6, Issue 1, July 1864 |
|
|
1864:
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Charles Sumner outlining the president's
belief that the dependents of black and white soldiers should
be treated equally (5/19) |
|
|
1864:
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby concerning the loss
of her sons in the Civil War (11/21) - a much debated letter as
to its authenticity as being written by Lincoln |
|
|
1864:
Letter from General Meade to L. Montgomery Bond (4/8) |
|
|
1864:
Letter to the Editor of the Anglo-African - Rev. James Lynch |
|
|
1864:
Lincoln and his Son Tad - photo by Mathew Brady |
|
|
1864:
Lincoln Campaign Poster |
|
|
1864:
Marching Song for the First Arkansas Volunteers |
|
|
1864:
Maryland Slave to the President (8/25) |
|
|
1864:
Missouri Black Soldier to His Enslaved Daughters, and
to the Owner of One of His Daughters (9/3) |
|
|
1864:
National Bank Act (6/3) |
|
|
1864:
"Our Domestic Relations; or, How to Treat the Rebel States"
- Continental Monthly / Volume 5, Issue 5, May 1864 |
|
|
1864:
"Our Government and the Blacks" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 5, Issue 4, April 1864 |
|
|
1864:
"Pay of Colored Troops" - memorandum from Col. Thomas Wentworth
Higginson |
|
|
1864:
"Peace Coming Through Bankruptcy" - The Old Guard / Volume 2,
Issue 2, Feb 1864 |
|
|
1864:
Plantation Regulations by a U.S. Treasury Agent,
February |
|
|
1864:
Proclamation on Reconstruction - President Lincoln (7/8)
|
|
|
1864:
"The Progress of Liberty in the United States" - Continental
Monthly / Volume 6, Issue 5, November 1864
|
|
|
1864:
Radical Republican Party Platform |
|
|
1864:
Regular Democratic Ticket. Ward 8, Boston - broadside |
|
|
1864:
Report of the Board of Education for Freedmen |
|
|
1864:
"Slavery and the next President" - broadside
|
|
|
1864:
Special Field Orders, No. 120 - General William T. Sherman |
|
|
1864:
"Startling revelations from the Department of South Carolina, and
expose of the so called National Freedmen's Relief Association" -
Thomas P. Knox, late contract surgeon in U.S. Army |
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1864:
A Stillborn Plan for Confederate Emancipation - letter to Joseph
E. Johnston from Patrick R. Cleburne |
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1864:
"To
all Marylanders in the Confederate States" - George P. Kane - circular |
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1864:
"The
two roads to peace! How shall we end the rebellion - shall we coax it,
or crush it? ... The Chicago platform .... The Baltimore platform ....
Published by the National Union Executive Committee, Astor House, New
York" - broadside |
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1864:
Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor, VA - photo by Mathew Brady
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1864:
Ulysses S. Grant's commission as lieutenant general signed by
Abraham Lincoln (3/10) |
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1864:
"Union
Not to be Maintained by Force" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1864
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1864:
U. S. Sanitary Commission Sketch of Its Purpose
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1864:
Wade-Davis Manifesto (8/4)
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1864:
"The War a Contest for Ideas" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 5, Issue 5, May 1864 |
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1864:
"What Jeff Davis thinks of the war. Published by the National Union
executive committee"
- broadside |
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1864-65:
General William Tecumseh Sherman - photo by Mathew Brady
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1865:
Joseph Trimble's Oath of Amnesty |
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1865:
"'Abolition of Slavery' Forever Impossible" - The Old Guard /
Volume 3, Issue 4, Apr 1865 |
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1865:
An Act to increase the military force of the
Confederate States |
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1865:
A
Letter to Jefferson Davis - Raleigh, NC (1/29)
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1865:
Address from the Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, to the
People of the United States |
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1865:
Address of the Colored State Convention to the People of the State of
South Carolina |
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1865:
The Assassination of President Lincoln - letter by J. B. Stonehouse
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1865:
The Assassination of President Lincoln - letter by W. Henry Pearce
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1865:
A Bill to Provide for Raising Two Hundred Thousand Negro Troops
[Senate Bill 190] - Confederate States of America (2/10) |
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1865:
"Black republican and office-holders journal. No. 5. for the elevation
of negroes, gorillas, and ourang-outangs" - leaflet |
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1865:
Casuality Reports of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
Regiment |
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1865?:
"The Conquered Banner" - song lyrics by Abram J. Ryan |
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1865:
Contract for indenture of Susan, a girl of five years (8/19) -
anonymous |
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1865:
"Farewell to the Army of Southern Virginia - speech by General Robert
E. Lee |
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1865:
“A Jubilee of Freedom” - Freed Slaves March in Charleston, South
Carolina, March |
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1865:
Freedman's
Bureau Act of 1865 |
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1865:
General Lees Letter on Slaves as Soldiers |
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1865:
General Orders 9 - Robert E. Lee |
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1865:
General Robert E. Lee - photo by Mathew Brady |
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1865:
Grant's
Surrender Terms At Appomatox |
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1865:
"The
Governing Passion of My Soul" - speech given by William Lloyd
Garrison at Charleston, South Carolina, only a month after Sherman's
march through the state and five days after Lee had surrendered
at Appomattox (4/14)
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1865:
"Good
'Ole Rebel!" - song (sound file) with lyrics
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1865:
The Human Cost of War - chart |
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1865:
"Jeffie
Davis the Belle of Richmond" - New York, The American News Company -
broadside |
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1865:
"Lancaster (Pa.) Speech" - Thaddeus Stevens (9/6) |
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1865:
Lee's
Farewell to his Army
1883 broadside |
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1865:
A Letter to Jefferson Davis |
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1865:
Lincoln's Last Public Address - which prompted John Wilkes Booth
to assassinate him (4/11) |
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1865:
Louisiana Black Codes |
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1865:
Meeting between Black Religious Leaders and Union Military Authorities
(1/12) |
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1865:
Meetings with Robert E. Lee - Ulysses S. Grant (4/9 & 4/10) |
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1865:
North Carolina Black Soldiers to the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner |
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1865:
Order by the Commander of the Military Division
of the Mississippi (1/15) |
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1865:
Police Report on the Assassination of President
Lincoln (4/14) |
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1865:
Reactions to Emancipation in Virginia |
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1865:
A
Republican View of Andrew Johnson - letter by Mary Y. Prentiss |
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1865:
"Sad news'. the president assassinated! War department, Washington,
April 15, 1 A. M. ... The President dead! ... Abraham Lincoln died
this morning at twenty-two minutes after seven o'clock ... - They will
appear in this evening's Record" - broadside |
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1865:
Salmon P. Chase letter to Lincoln on Reconstruction
(4/11) |
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1865:
Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln |
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1865:
Special Field Orders No. 15 - General William T. Sherman (11/16) |
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1865:
Speech of Thaddeus Stevens (12/18) |
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1865:
“There Was Never Any Pay-day For the Negroes” - Jourdon Anderson
Demands Wages |
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1865:
Total War - letter by A. R. Lord (Union Army) |
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1865:
A Union soldier's letter to his parents |
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1865:
"Vol.
I. Pictorial history of the cause of the great rebellion. Witchcraft.
These pictures are intended to show that modern spiritualism of A. D.
1865 ... was described and practised thousands of years since under
the names of
witchcraft" - broadside (3 pages) |
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1865:
"What Shall Become of the Freedmen?" - from the Franklin
Repository,
Chambersburg, PA (2/8) |
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1865:
White House Funeral Sermon for President Lincoln - Dr. Phineas D.
Gurley (4/19) |
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1866:
Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End |
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1870:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Assesses the Black Soldier |
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1887:
Letter on Harper's Ferry by Annie Brown Adams |
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1889:
At Gettysburg: What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle -
Tillie (Pierce) Alleman |
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1895:
Red
Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane (full text) |
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1905:
A Diary from
Dixie - Mary Boykin Chestnut |
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1910:
"A
Ballad of Major Anderson" - song lyrics by Mrs. J. C. R. Dorr. N.
Y. Evening Post |
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1916:
Reminiscences of the Civil War - Cora Mitchell |
