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Documents of the Civil War

Civil War

The Attack on Fort Sumter, 1861

Robert E. Lee Takes Sides, 1861, by Robert E. Lee

The Mood in Ohio, 1861, by Frederic Pearce

A Soldier Describes Camp Life, 1861, by James R. Kelly

The War and the Fate of the Slave Power, 1861, by John Jay

Reflections on the War's Causes, 1861, by David Hopkins

Lincoln and the Formulation of Military Strategy, 1861, by Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln Approves the Execution of a Slave Trader, 1862, by Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln Ponders Emancipation, 1862, by Abraham Lincoln

The Battle of Shiloh, 1862, by Edgar Pearce

General Orders, No. 28, New Orleans, 1862, by General Pierre G.T. Beauregard

Assessing the Confederacy's Military Situation, 1862, by Jefferson Davis

John Ross to President Abraham Lincoln, 1862, by John Ross

Abraham Lincoln to Major John J. Key, 1862, by Abraham Lincoln

The Significance of Names

The Emancipation Proclamation, 1862, by Abraham Lincoln

The Emancipation Proclamation, 1862, by Mansfield Lovell

The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, by Rufus Blanchard

The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, by Amos Lewis

A Soldier's View of Lincoln, 1863, by A soldier in the 12th Vermont Militia

The Hardships of Soldiering, 1862, by David V.M. Smith

The War's Human Costs, 1862, by George C. Burling Burling

A National Banking System, 1863, by Samuel P. Chase

A Confederate Assessment of the War, 1863, by Daniel H. Hill

Slaveholders and the Civil War, 1863, by William Tecumseh Sherman

The Issue of Racism, 1863, by Joseph M. Maitland

The Confederate Offensive into Pennsylvania, 1863, by Samuel Shenk

Gettysburg, 1863, by Josiah C. Fuller

A Confederate Assessment of the War, 1863, by Christian M. Epperly

Death on the Battlefield, 1863, by Abram Bogart

Relations Between Indians and Missionaries, 1863, by George Bonga

The Plight of Former Slaves, 1863, by James E. Yeatman

Recruitment of African American Soldiers, 1863, by Benjamin F. Butler

Lincoln and Colonization, 1864, by Abraham Lincoln

Thirteenth Amendment Resolution, 1864

Confederate Attitudes, 1864, by John McKinley Gibson

Criticizing the Union Army of Occupation, 1864, by Tobias Gibson

Military desertions, 1864, by Christian M. Epperly

The Breakdown of the Plantation System, 1864, by Tobias Gibson

A Republican Views Andrew Johnson, 1865, by Mary Y. Prentiss

The Two Roads to Peace

The Election of 1864, 1864, by Andrew Knox

Total War, 1865, by A.R. Lord

General Orders 9, 1865, by Robert E. Lee

The Assassination of President Lincoln, 1865, by J.B. Stonehouse

The Assassination of President Lincoln, 1865, by W. Henry Pearce

A Union soldier's letter to his parents, 1865

Conditions in the Postwar South, 1865, by Edwin H. McCaleb

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