1860 - Herman Melville - "Misgivings"
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1860-61 - Succession Ordinances of Southern States
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1861 - Abraham Lincoln - First Inaugural Address
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1861 - Constitution of the Confederate States of America
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1861 - Walt Whitman - Poems
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1861 - Harriet Jacobs - "The Jealous Mistress,"
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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1861 - Frederick Douglass - Two Speeches
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1862 - California Legislature - Anti-Coolie Act
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1862 - Julia Ward Howe - Battle Hymn of the Republic
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1862 - Herman Melville - "Monitor"
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1863 - Abraham Lincoln - Emancipation Proclamation
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1863 - Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address
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1863 - Lydia Maria Childs - excerpt, "The Right Way the Safe Way"
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1863 - Herman Melville - "The House-top"
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1863 - Henry Timrod - "Spring" and "Unknown Dead"
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1863 - Emily Dickinson - Poem and Letter
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1864 - Declaration of Wrongs and Rights
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1864 - Jefferson Davis - Speeches
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1865 - Black Code of Louisiana
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1865 - Black Code of Mississippi
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1865 - Mark Twain - "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
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1865 - Abraham Lincoln - Second Inaugural Address
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1865 - Charleston Daily Courier Article Text
1860 - 1865: Civil War Diaries, Letters, and Sermons
Anonymous diary of a northern-born southern wife, 1860
Thanksgiving sermon, Benjamin Palmer, 1860
Correspondence between a Tennessee slaveowner and her former slave, 1860
Charles Minor Blackford, letter, 1861
Letters of Sullivan Ballou, 1861
Sermon by John F. W. Ware, a northern Unitarian minister, 1861
Laura Towne, Sea Island diary and letters, 1862
Diary of Sarah Morgan Dawson of New Orleans, 1862
Letters of John Gilbert, 1862
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, 1863
Diary of Charlotte Forten, 1863
A soldier's final letter home, 1863
Hannah Johnson, Letter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, 1863
Letter from J. W. Lindsay, a free black man in Canada, 1863
Letter to President Lincoln by James Henry Gooding, 1863
Mary Ann Loughborough describes life during the siege of Vicksburg, 1863
Description of New York City draft riots, Mrs. Statts, 1863
Sarah Woodson, Speech, 1863
Affidavit of a Tennessee fugitive slave, 1864
Diary of a southern woman, Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1864
Letter from a Confederate soldier's wife, 1864
Letter from General Pickett to his wife, 1864
Letter home from Private Spotswood Rice of Missouri, 1864
Letter to Lincoln from white surgeons, 1864
Decimus et Ultimus Barziza, prisoner of war, 1865
Diary, Sarah Emma Edmonds, 1865
Dolly Sumner Lunt Burge describes the pillaging of her homestead by troops, 1865
Letter from a freedman to his old master, 1865
Letter from Frederick Douglass' son Lewis to his fiancée while fighting in the Union Army, 1865
Letter from Luther Rice Mills, Confederate soldier, 1865
Thomas Chester describes Lincoln's arrival in Richmond, 1865
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