 |
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:
Edward King to Abraham Lincoln (Plan for colonization) |
|
|
1863:
"Emancipation Hymn" - song and lyrics by Manuel Fenollosa |
|
|
1863:
Emancipation Proclamation
(image of original text) |
|
|
1863:
Emancipation Proclamation printed by Rufus Blanchard |
|
|
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
Order Number 143 - creation of the U. S. Colored Troops (5/22) |
|
|
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:
Habeas Corpus Act |
|
|
1863:
Harriet Beecher Stowe's description of Sojourner Truth
("The Libyan Sybil") 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:
"In Support of a Tax-in-Kind"
- Richmond
Examiner editorial (4/3) |
|
|
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 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:
Marriage Certificate of a Black Soldier and His Wife (12/3) -
Virginia |
|
|
1863:
"The Mob in New York," New York Times, v. 12
(7/15) |
|
|
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:
On the War and Its Conduct -
Clement Vallandigham, Congressman from Ohio (1/4) |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1863:
Resolutions and Debate, Woman's National Loyal League Meeting,
New York City - Susan B. Anthony(5/14) |
|
|
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:
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:
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 |
|
|
1863:
"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:
Comments on the 1864 Election - letter by Andrew Knox, a Union
Lieutenant, to his wife |
|
|
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:
General John B. Hood's General Field Order No. 14 (8/12) |
|
|
1864:
George McClellan campaign poster |
|
|
1864:
Impressment of Slaves: Seddon to Davis (11/28) |
|
|
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 from Horace Greeley to Abraham Lincoln (7/7) |
|
|
1864:
Letter to the Editor of the
Anglo-African - Rev. James Lynch |
|
|
1864:
Letter
to Joseph Johnston on Training Slaves to Fight for the Confederacy
(1/2) |
|
|
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:
Regular Democratic Ticket. Ward 8, Boston - broadside |
|
|
1864:
Report of the Board of Education for Freedmen |
|
|
1864:
Republican Party Platform |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1864:
A Stillborn Plan for Confederate Emancipation - letter to Joseph
E. Johnston from Patrick R. Cleburne |
|
|
1864:
"To
all Marylanders in the Confederate States" - George P. Kane - circular |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1864:
Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor, VA - photo by Mathew Brady
|
|
|
1864:
Ulysses S. Grant's commission as lieutenant general signed by
Abraham Lincoln (3/10) |
|
|
1864:
"Union
Not to be Maintained by Force" - Continental Monthly
/ Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1864
|
|
|
1864:
U. S. Sanitary Commission Sketch of Its Purpose
|
|
|
1864:
Wade-Davis Manifesto (8/4)
|
|
|
1864:
"The War a Contest for Ideas" -
Continental Monthly
/ Volume 5, Issue 5, May 1864 |
|
|
1864:
"We Prefer the War" -
Richmond Examiner editorial |
|
|
1864:
"What Jeff Davis thinks of the war. Published by the National Union
executive committee"
- broadside |
|
|
1864-65:
General William Tecumseh Sherman - photo by Mathew Brady
|
|
|
1865:
Joseph Trimble's Oath of Amnesty |
|
|
1865:
"'Abolition of Slavery' Forever Impossible" -
The Old Guard /
Volume 3, Issue 4, Apr 1865 |
|
|
1865:
An Act to increase the military force of the
Confederate States |
|
|
1865:
Address from the Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, to the
People of the United States |
|
|
1865:
Address of the Colored State Convention to the People of the State of
South Carolina |
|
|
1865:
Amnesty Proclamation - Andrew Johnson (5/29) |
|
|
1865:
Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of
Northern Virginia - Generals Lee and Grant (4/9) |
|
|
1865:
The Assassination of President Lincoln - letter by J. B. Stonehouse
|
|
|
1865:
The Assassination of President Lincoln - letter by W. Henry Pearce
|
|
|
1865:
A Bill to Provide for Raising Two Hundred Thousand Negro Troops
[Senate Bill 190] - Confederate States of America (2/10) |
|
|
1865:
"Black republican and office-holders journal. No. 5. for the elevation
of negroes, gorillas, and ourang-outangs" - leaflet |
|
|
1865?:
"The Conquered Banner" - song lyrics by Abram J. Ryan |
|
|
1865:
Contract for indenture of Susan, a girl of five years (8/19) -
anonymous |
|
|
1865:
"Farewell to the Army of Southern Virginia - speech by General Robert
E. Lee |
|
|
1865:
“A Jubilee of Freedom” - Freed Slaves March in Charleston, South
Carolina, March |
|
|
1865:
Freedman's Bureau Act of 1865 (3/3) |
|
|
1865:
General Lees Letter on Slaves as Soldiers |
|
|
1865:
General Orders 9 - Robert E. Lee |
|
|
1865:
General Robert E. Lee - photo by Mathew Brady |
|
|
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)
|
|
|
1865:
"Good
'Ole Rebel!" - song (sound file) with lyrics
|
|
|
1865:
Grant's
Surrender Terms At Appomatox |
|
|
1865:
"Grasp of War" Speech by
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. - Delivered at a meeting held in Faneuil
Hall in Boston, Massachusetts (6/21) |
|
|
1865:
The Human Cost of War - chart |
|
|
1865:
"Jeffie
Davis the Belle of Richmond" - New York, The American News Company -
broadside |
|
|
1865:
"Lancaster (Pa.) Speech" - Thaddeus Stevens (9/6) |
|
|
1865:
Lee's
Farewell to his Army
1883 broadside |
|
|
1865:
Letter of a Northern Teacher to the Freedman's Bureau
Commissioner (8/4) |
|
|
1865:
Letter to Andrew Hunter on
Employing Negro Troops -
Robert E. Lee (1/11) |
|
|
1865:
A Letter from Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis (4/20) |
|
|
1865:
Letter to John Bright from
Charles Sumner (3/13) |
|
|
1865:
Lincoln's Last Public Address - which prompted John Wilkes Booth
to assassinate him (4/11) |
|
|
1865:
Louisiana Black Codes |
|
|
1865:
Meeting between Black Religious Leaders and Union Military Authorities
(1/12) |
|
|
1865:
Meetings with Robert E. Lee - Ulysses S. Grant (4/9 & 4/10) |
|
|
1865:
North Carolina Black Soldiers to the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner |
|
|
1865:
Police Blotter Report on the Assassination of President Lincoln
(4/14) |
|
|
1865:
Reactions to Emancipation in Virginia |
|
|
1865:
A
Republican View of Andrew Johnson - letter by Mary Y. Prentiss |
|
|
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 |
|
|
1865:
Salmon P. Chase letter to Lincoln on Reconstruction
(4/11) |
|
|
1865:
Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln |
|
|
1865:
"Slaveholding
Reconstructionists" -
Richmond Enquirer
editorial (1/28) |
|
|
1865:
Special Field Orders No. 15 - General William T. Sherman (11/16) |
|
|
1865:
Speech of Thaddeus Stevens (12/18) |
|
|
1865:
“There Was Never Any Pay-day For the Negroes” - Jourdon Anderson
Demands Wages |
|
|
1865:
Total War - letter by A. R. Lord (Union Army) |
|
|
1865:
A Union soldier's letter to his parents |
|
|
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) |
|
|
1865:
"We Want No Confederacy
without Slavery" -
Charleston Mercury |
|
|
1865:
"What the Black Man Wants" - speech by Frederick Douglass
at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Boston (April) |
|
|
1865:
White House Funeral Sermon for President Lincoln - Dr. Phineas D.
Gurley (4/19) |
|
|
1866:
Ex Parte Milligan |
|
|
1866:
Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End |
|
|
1870:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Assesses the Black Soldier |
|
|
1887:
Letter on Harper's Ferry by Annie Brown Adams |
|
|
1889:
At Gettysburg: What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle -
Tillie (Pierce) Alleman |
|
|
1891:
Elizabeth A. Tuttle's
Certificate of Honorable Discharge,
Army of the Potomac (9/19) |
|
|
1891:
A Union Officer’s Account of
the 1864 Election -
J.N. Jones |
|
|
1895:
Red
Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane (full text) |
|
|
1905:
A Diary from
Dixie - Mary Boykin Chestnut |
|
|
1910:
"A
Ballad of Major Anderson" - song lyrics by Mrs. J. C. R. Dorr. N.
Y. Evening Post |
|
|
1916:
Reminiscences of the Civil War - Cora Mitchell |
|
|
1963:
The Political Economy of Slavery - Edmund Ruffin |
