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Defining Documents in American History: Civil War (1860–1865)

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Maps




The Approaching Storm




Speeches for and Against the Compromise of 1850




Speech Against the Kansas-Nebraska Act




The Dred Scott Decision




Abraham Lincoln’s “House Divided Speech”




The Lincoln-Douglas Debates




Speech to the Court that Sentenced Him to Death




Disunion: The Sectional Crisis




Cooper Union Address




Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address




The Cornerstone of the Confederacy




South Carolina Convention




The Politics of War




The Chicago Tribune: “Help from England”




Special Message to Congress: Habeas Corpus




Presidential Proclamations on Blockade and Commercial Trade No. 81, No. 82, and No. 86




Speech on the Trent Affair




Habeas Corpus Suspension Act




General Orders No. 100: Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field




Hard War




Governor’s Message on the Suspension of Writ of Habeas Corpus to the General Assembly of North Carolina




President Abraham Lincoln’s Blind Memorandum




Ex Parte Milligan




Jefferson Davis’ Address to the Confederate Congress




Jefferson Davis, Inaugural Address as Elected President of Confederacy




War Stories




General Burnside’s Army and the Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony




Captain Richard W. Burt on the Siege of Vicksburg




On Blockade Duty: Letters from a Lieutenant on the USS Gettysburg




“The Most Terrible Sight I Ever Saw”




Letters from the Vicksburg Campaign




Henry Sheperd’s Narrative of Prison Life




War Diary: Marching through the Stronghold of Secession




The Home Front




“Luxuries Have Been Given Up Long Ago”




The Military Hospitals in Washington




“The Shadows are Darkening”…Jackson is Certainly Dead




The Draft Riots




“There Has Been a Great Deal of Sickness in My Neighborhood”




Gettysburg Address




Reception to the Enlistment of Black Soldiers




Abraham Lincoln’s Last Public Address




Walt Whitman: Military Hospitals




“The Conclusion of the Battle of Gettysburg”




Letters of a Transport Nurse




“The Shattered Remains of Lee’s Army”




“Conquered, Submission, Subjugation”




The Destruction of Slavery




The Confiscation Acts




Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (Lyons-Seward Treaty)




The Emancipation Proclamation




War Department General Order 143




General Sherman Interviews the Freedmen Ministers in Savannah




Special Field Order No. 15: Forty Acres and a Mule




Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution




A Contested Election: Report to Congresss on the Activites of the Ku Klux Klan




Letter to Senator Joseph C. Abbott on the Ku Klux Klan




United States vs. Cruikshank




Exchange of Letters Between Horace Greeley and Abraham Lincoln




“Men of Color, To Arms!”




General Patrick Cleburne Proposes Black Soldiers for the Confederacy




Jefferson Davis on the Employment of Slaves




General Lee on Black Confederate Soldiers




An Act to Increase the Military Force of the Confederate States




Postwar: Politics of Race and Reconstruction




39th Congress: Freedmen’s Bureau Bill




Frederick Douglass: Freedmen’s Monument Speech




Prospects of the Freedmen on Hilton Head




Letters from Louisiana




Reconstruction Acts of 1867




House of Representatives: Articles of Impeachment




Selections of Black Codes in the South




“The North Owes the Colored Race a Deep Obligation”




Ulysses S. Grant: Letter to Daniel H. Chamberlain




Chronological List




Historical Timeline




Web Resources




Bibliography




Index