Portal:American Civil War

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Causes

Slavery	Secession
Brazilian and United States Slavery Compared, Herbert B. Alexander Fugitive Slave Act, U.S. Congress Dred Scott v. Sandford, U.S. Supreme Court (and reaction) John Brown (and reaction)	The Doctrine of State Rights, Jefferson Davis South Carolina Ordinance of Secession Mississippi Ordinance of Secession ...Declaration of Mississippi's Secession

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Wartime

Documents:

• Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
• Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln

Battles:

• The Battle of Fredericksburg, 1886, James Longstreet
• Lee at Fredericksburg, 1886, James Horace Lacy
• Stonewall Jackson's Last Battle, 1886, James Power Smith
• The May Campaign in Virginia (July 1864) featured in Volume 14, Number 81 of The Atlantic Monthly.
• "Negroes of Savannah", New York Tribune, 13 February 1865
• The Retreat from Lenoir's and the Siege of Knoxville featured in Volume 18, Number 105 of The Atlantic Monthly. (July 1866)

Miscellaneous:

• British proclamation of neutrality in the American Civil War, 1861, Queen Victoria
• English Opinion on the American War by William Michael Rossetti
• George G. Meade's Pipe Creek Circular (1863)
• Encrypted message to John Pemberton, July 4, 1863, probably by John Grimes Walker
• Near Atlanta, Thursday, Aug. 25, 1864, B. C. Truman
• First Actions of Wounded Soldiers
• A narrative of service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry, 1912, Julian Wisner Hinkley
• The Story of Aunt Becky's Army-Life, (1867), Sarah A. Palmer
• The Wilderness by John Townsend Trowbridge in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1866)
• Alexander Keith memo

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Aftermath

• Proclamation Declaring the End of the Insurrection, Andrew Johnson
• Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington
• The Johnson Party featured in Volume 18, Number 107 of The Atlantic Monthly. (September 1866)
• The President and his Accomplices featured in Volume 18, Number 109 of The Atlantic Monthly. (November 1866)
• The Usurpation featured in Volume 18, Number 108 of The Atlantic Monthly. (October 1866)
• Reconstruction, by Frederick Douglass featured in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, Number 110, pages 761–765. (December 1866).
• Three Months among the Reconstructionists featured in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, Number 100, (February 1866).

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Letters

• Letter From John Pelham to Jefferson Davis, John Pelham
• Letter to Mrs. Bixby, Abraham Lincoln

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History

• A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States of America, 1866, Jubal Anderson Early
• Letter to the Southern Historical Society, 1877, Armistead Lindsay Long
• Confederate Military History, 1899, Clement Anselm Evans
• History of the Ninth Virginia Cavalry, in the War Between the States, 1899, Richard Lee Tuberville Beale
• The Civil War in America, 1907, John Acton
• History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, 1917, James Ford Rhodes
• The parallel between the English and American civil wars (1910) by Charles Harding Firth

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Scandal

Suspension of Habeas Corpus:

• The Suspension of Habeas Corpus during the War of the Rebellion, Sydeny G. Fisher
  • ...Within the Armed Forces, Abraham Lincoln
  • ...Throughout the United States, Abraham Lincoln

Andersonville:

• Wirz Appeal to President Johnson, Henry Wirz
  • ...1864 Civil War Request for Pay, Lucy Sullivan
  • ...Winder's letter to Walthall, R. B. Winder

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Biography

• Admiral David D. Porter, (Harper's)
• General Robert Edward Lee, (Harper's)
• “Six Weeks in Uniform” in Historical and biographical sketches, 1883, Samuel W. Pennypacker
• Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant
• Some Personal Recollections of General Sherman, 1894, S. M. H. Byers
• Robert E. Lee (Heroes Every Child Should Know), 1908, H. W. Mabie

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Fiction

• The Red Badge of Courage, 1895, Stephen Crane
• The Guns of Bull Run, 1914, Joseph Alexander Altsheler

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Verse

• At Port Royal, 1864, John Greenleaf Whittier
  • ...In War Time, and Other Poems (collection)
• Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, 1866, Herman Melville
• The Colored Soldiers, 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar
• "The Death of Slavery" featured in Volume 18, Number 105 of The Atlantic Monthly. (July 1866)

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