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"All persons held as slaves...within any State in rebellion, shall be...free," 1862, by Abraham Lincoln



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The Two Roads to Peace

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

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

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

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

The Attack on Fort Sumter, 1861

The Mood in Ohio, 1861, by Frederic Pearce

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

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

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

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

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

The Battle of Shiloh, 1862, by Edgar Pearce

The Emancipation Proclamation, 1862, by Mansfield Lovell

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

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

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

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

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

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

Death on the Battlefield, 1863, by Abram Bogart

Gettysburg, 1863, by Josiah C. Fuller

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

Relations Between Indians and Missionaries, 1863, by George Bonga

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

The Confederate Offensive into Pennsylvania, 1863, by Samuel Shenk

The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, by Rufus Blanchard

The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, by Amos Lewis

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

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

Confederate Attitudes, 1864, by John McKinley Gibson

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

Lincoln and Colonization, 1864, by Abraham Lincoln

Military desertions, 1864, by Christian M. Epperly

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

The Election of 1864, 1864, by Andrew Knox

Thirteenth Amendment Resolution, 1864

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

A Union soldier's letter to his parents, 1865

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

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

Total War, 1865, by A.R. Lord

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