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US Civil War

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Contents

• The American Civil War
• The Conflict over Slavery
• The Civil War
  • Confederate Documents
  • Union Documents
  • The Military History of the Civil War
  • The Social History of the Civil War
• Reconstruction, and Jim Crow

• WEB Secession Era Editorials Project [At Furman]
  Many online texts, with a a special emphasis on the Civil War and Southern History. Many texts are taken from newspaper editorials.
• WEB Making of America [At Michigan]
  5000 imprints from 1850-75 on line, but as image files rather than text.
• WEB Documenting the American South, [At UNC]

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The Conflict over Slavery

• WEB American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology [At Virginia]
• WEB Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America [At Mystic Seaport]
• WEB Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery, 1794-1850 [At Yale]
• Treaty Between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, April 7, 1862, and Additional Article to the Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade, February 17, 1863 [At Yale]
• Benjamin Drew: The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada [At American Revolution]
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903): A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, 1856 [At American Revolution]
• Nat Turner (1800-1831): The Confessions, 1831 [At American Revolution]
• American Anti-Slavery Society: Declaration of Sentiments, 1833 [At Virginia]
• Angelina E. Grimké: Appeal To The Christian Women of the South, 1836, full text [At Furman]
  Text of one of the few abolitionist treatises published by a Southern
  white woman.
• Rev. Dr. Richard Furman: Exposition of the Views of the Baptists, Relative to the Coloured Population in the United States, 2nd ed, 1838  [At Furman][Added 9/2/98]
  A defence of slavery on Biblical principles.
• American Methodist Episcopal Church Conference: Motions on Slavery and Temperance, 1840 [At CSUSM]
• Frederick Douglass (1817-1895): From The Autobiography, 1845 [At American Revolution]
• Frederick Douglass (1817-1895): Autobiography, 1845 [At this Site][Full Text]
• Frederick Douglass (1817-1895): The Hypocrisy of American Slavery, July 4, 1852 [At this Site]
• Frederick Douglass (1817-1895): The Anti-Slavery Movement in 1855, [At Then Again]
• James Stirling: The Life of Plantation Field Hands, 1857 [At this Site]
• The Fugitive Slave Act, September 18, 1850 [At this Site] or here [At Yale] or here [At American Revolution]
• Henry Carey: Excerpts from: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign, 1853 [At American Revolution]
• John C. Calhoun: The Southern Address, 1849 [At Furman]
• William Henry Seward: "Higher Law" Speech, 1850 [At Furman]
• Calhoun and Seward wordlists, side-by-side [At Furman]
• Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): A Plea for Captain John Brown, 1853 [At Yale][Full Text]
• Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act, 1855 [At USInfo]
  Aimed at hleping runaway slaves.
• Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857 [At Landmark Cases]
  Infamous Supreme court decision defining an enslaved person as "property".
• The Opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case, full texts, [At American Revolution]

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The Civil War

• MEGA Civil War Resources on the Web [At VMI]
• WEB U.S. Civil War on the Web [At CWC]
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): "A House Divided", 1858 [At History Place]
  Delivered June 17, 1858, at the close of the Republican State Convention.
• Democratic Party Platform, 1860 [At Yale]
• James Russell Lowel: The Election in November, The Atlantic Monthly, October, 1860 [At The Atlantic, subscription required].
  Powerful endorsement of Lincoln.
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): First Inaugural Address,  March 4, 1861 [At this Site]
• Carl Schurz: Abraham Lincoln: An Essay,1891 [At Virginia]
• Confederate Documents
  • WEB Confederate States of America: Papers [At Yale]
  • Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883): Cornerstone Address, March 21, 1861  [At this Site]
  • Declaration of Causes of seceding states Winter 1861 [At Civil War.org]
  • Constitution of the Confederate States of America March 11, 1861 [At U Oklahoma] or here [At American Revolution]
• Union Documents
  • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): Special Session Message, July 4, 1861  [At this Site]
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic [At U Oklahoma]
  • McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln July 7, 1862  [At U Oklahoma] or here [At American Revolution]
  • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 [At Yale] or here [At American Revolution]
  • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): The Gettysburg Address [At American Revolution]
  • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill, July 8, 1864 [At American Revolution]
  • The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864 [At American Revolution]
  • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): Second Inaugural Address,   March 4, 1865 [At this Site]
  • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): Last Speech, April 11, 1865 [At American Revolution]
• The Military History of the Civil War
  • Robert E. Lee: Farewell To His Army, 1865 [At this Site]
  • Terms of Lee's Surrender At Appomattox, 1865 [At this Site]
• The Social History of the Civil War
  • Sullivan Ballou: Letter to His Wife, 1861 [At PBS]
  • Abraham Lincoln: Letter to Mrs. Bixby, 1864 [At this Site]
    The letter to a woman who lost all her sons in battle, as used in the film Saving Private Ryan.
  • DeAnne Blanton: Women Soldiers of the Civil War, Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives Spring 1993, vol. 25, no. 1 [AT Archives.gov][Modern Text]
  • WEB Letters from an Iowa Soldier during the Civil War  [At Civil War Letters]

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Reconstruction and Jim Crow

• Proclamation Declaring The Insurrection At An End, 1866  [At this Site]
• Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868): Speech, December 18, 1865 [At American Revolution]
• Address of a Convention of Negroes held in Alexandria, Virginia, August 1865 [At American Revolution]
• Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866 [At American Revolution]
• Map: Reconstruction and Reaction, [At this Site][Added 7/3/98]
• Frederick Douglass (1817-1895): An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Sufferage, January, 1867 [At U Oklahoma]
• Frederick Douglass, Reconstruction, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1866, [At Virginia]
• Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 [At Landmark Cases]
  Established the legal basis for American apartheid in the South.

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