The Civil War

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Now you can study The Civil War from first-hand perspective. This essential eBook includes 65 primary source accounts from 1861 to 1865. No source is better than the original. It is untainted and tells the history as it happened.

The content in this eBook is included in our colossal "First-hand History of America" collection with over 1,200 primary source accounts.

*Includes 65 Accounts:

  • Lincoln and Reconstruction – General John B. Gordon
  • Edward Baker's Reply to Breckenridge – Edward D. Baker
  • Lincoln's Inauguration – William H. Herndon
  • Secession as a Constitutional Right – Robert Toombs
  • Beauregard Reports the Fall of Fort Sumter – G. T. Beauregard
  • Grant Asks for a Commission in the Army – Ulysses S. Grant
  • The First Battle of Bull Run – Alexander H. Stephens and General Joseph E. Johnston
  • Bull Run as Seen Through Critical English Eyes – William Howard Russell
  • The Trent Affair – John Bigelow
  • Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address to the Senate – Jefferson Davis
  • Inaugural Address of Jefferson Davis – Jefferson Davis
  • Toombs on Resigning from the Senate – Toombs
  • Lincoln's Farewell Words in Springfield – Abraham Lincoln
  • The Siege and Capture of Fort Sumter – John Gray Foster
  • Lincoln and His Cabinet – Charles A. Dana
  • The Capture of Fort Donelson – Chicago Tribune
  • The Monitor and the Merrimac in Action – Charles Martin
  • The Battle of Shiloh – Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss
  • The Capture of New Orleans – David G. Farragut
  • The Peninsular Campaign – George B. McClellan
  • The Second Battle of Bull Run – Thomas Jonathan Jackson
  • Antietam – George B. McClellan
  • How the Emancipation Proclamation was Drafted – Francis C. Carpenter
  • Hooker Placed in Command of the Army of the Potomac – Abraham Lincoln
  • The Battle of Chancellorsville – Robert E. Lee
  • The Death of Stonewall Jackson – Mary Anna Jackson
  • Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg – La Salle Corbell Pickett
  • The Siege of Vicksburg – Ulysses S. Grant
  • The Battle of Chickamauga – George H. Thomas
  • Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge – George H. Thomas
  • The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 – Abraham Lincoln
  • The Battle of Gettysburg – Frank Aretas Haskell
  • Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863 – Abraham Lincoln
  • Proclamation of Amnesty – Abraham Lincoln
  • Lee and Grant in the Wilderness – Charles Anderson Dana
  • The Sinking of the "Alabama" – Captain Raphael Semmes
  • Sheridan's Ride from Winchester – Philip Henry Sheridan
  • Sherman's March to the Sea – General Sherman
  • Farragut in Mobile Bay – Admiral Farragut
  • Lincoln Reelected President – William H. Herndon
  • The Battle of Fredericksburg – Ambrose Everett Burnside
  • Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby, 1864 – Abraham Lincoln
  • Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 – Abraham Lincoln
  • Lincoln's Last Words in Public – Abraham Lincoln
  • Lincoln's Presentiment on the Day of His Assassination – Charles Dickens
  • Assassination of Lincoln—Stanton's Official Announcement – Edwin Stanton
  • The Assassination of Lincoln – John George Nicolay and John Hay
  • The Death of Lincoln as Reported in the New York Tribune – New York Tribune
  • The Funeral of Lincoln – James G. Blaine
  • The Pursuit, Capture, Death and Burial of Booth – Ray Stannard Baker
  • Thomas Defeats Hood at Nashville – John Bell Hood
  • The Hampton Roads Conference – Alexander H. Stephens
  • The Evacuation and Fall of Richmond – Horace Greeley and Edward A. Pollard
  • The Last Stand of Lee's Army – John B. Gordon
  • The Surrender of Lee at Appomattox – Ulysses S. Grant
  • Davis's Flight from Richmond and Capture in Georgia – Jefferson Davis
  • The Disbanding of the Federal Army – James G. Blaine
  • Terms of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox – Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
  • Lee's Farewell to His Army, 1865 – Robert E. Lee
  • General Grant Reviews Post-War Conditions in the South – Ulysses S. Grant
  • Robert E. Lee's Attitude After the War – Robert E. Lee
  • General Carl Schurz's Conclusion – Carl Schurz
  • Beecher's Speech in Liverpool – Beecher
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1866 – Edward A. Pollard
  • Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End – Andrew Johnson

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