•Alexander H. Stephens, "The
Honor of This Country"
•John C. Calhoun, "Southern
Address"
•William H. Seward, "A
Higher Law"
•Charles Sumner, "The
Crime Against Kansas"
•Frederick Douglass, "What
to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
•James Henry Hammond, "Cotton
is King"
•Alexander Stephens, "Let
us, therefore, reason together"
•Abraham Lincoln, First
Inaugural Address
•Alexander Stephens, "Cornerstone
Speech"
•Abraham Lincoln, "Gettysburg
Address"
•Abraham Lincoln, Second
Inaugural Address
•Robert E. Lee, "Farewell
to the Army of Northern Virginia"
•Thaddeus Stevens, "Lancaster
(Pa.) Speech," 6 September 1865
Correspondence
•Robert E.
Lee to Winfield Scott, 20 April 1861
•Robert
E. Lee to his siblings, 20 April 1861
•Sullivan
Ballou to "My very dear Sarah," 14 July 1861
•George
B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, 7 July 1862
•Robert
E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 3 September 1862
•Robert
E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 31 July 1863
•William
T. Sherman to Henry W. Halleck, 24 December 1864
•Patrick R.
Cleburne, et al., to Joseph E. Johnston, et al., 2 Jan. 1864
•Joseph E.
Johnston to William Hardee, et al., 31 January 1864
•Robert
E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 25 March 1864
•Robert
E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 30 March 1864
•Robert E.
Lee to Andrew Hunter, 11 January 1865
•56th Virginia
Regiment to Richmond (Va.) Whig, 14 February 1865
•Edwin M.
Stanton to U.S. Grant, 3 March 1865
•William T.
Sherman to U.S. Grant or H.W. Halleck, 18 April 1865
•Robert
E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 20 April 1865
•Edwin M. Stanton
to U.S. Grant, 21 April 1865
•Jourdon Anderson
to My Old Master, 7 August 1865
•Robert W. Flournoy to Thaddeus
Stevens, 20 November 1865
•Thompson Powell to Thaddeus
Stevens, 22 February 1866
Journalism
•William Lloyd Garrison, "The
Liberator"
•Alexis de Tocqueville, "Of
Individualism in Democratic Countries"
•Alexis de Tocqueville, "Why
the Americans are so Restless"
•Alexis de Tocqueville, "Government
of the Democracy in America"
•U.S. Grant, Causes
of the Mexican War
•Albany (N.Y.) Evening
Journal, 23 May 1856
•Springfield Illinois
State Register, 26 May 1856
•Charleston (S.C.) Mercury,
28 May 1856
•Louisville (Ky.) Journal,
28 May 1856
•Richmond (Va.) Whig,
31 May 1856
•Staunton (Va.) Spectator,
13 November 1860
•Staunton (Va.) Spectator,
27 November 1860
•George T. Strong, "whether I am a Republican"
•Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Chiefly
About War Matters"
•U.S. Grant, Meeting
President Lincoln
•U.S. Grant, Taking
Command of the Army of the Potomac
•U.S. Grant, Plans
for the 1864 Campaign
•Charleston (S.C.) Mercury,
13 January 1865
•U.S. Grant, Meetings
with Robert E. Lee, 9 and 10 April 1865
Party Platforms, Pronouncements, and Proposals
•South Carolina, "Exposition"
•Seneca Falls Convention, "Declaration
of Sentiments"
•National
Democratic Party Platform, 1860
•Constitutional
Democratic Party Platform, 1860
•Republican
Party Platform, 1860
•Constitutional
Union Party Platform, 1860
•South Carolina, "Declaration
of the Immediate Causes of Secession"
•John J. Crittenden, Compromise
Proposal, December 1860
•Democratic
Party Platform, 1864
•Republican
Party Platform, 1864
Legislation and Civil Decrees
Military Orders and Agreements
•Robert E. Lee, General
Orders, No. 73
•William T. Sherman, Orders
to the Mayor and City Council of Atlanta
•William T. Sherman, Special
Field Orders, No. 120
•William T. Sherman, Special
Field Orders, No. 15
•U.S. Grant, Meeting
with Robert E. Lee, 9 April 1865
•William T. Sherman, First
Agreement with Joseph E. Johnston, 18 April 1865
Tables
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