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Internet Modern History Sourcebook

US Civil War

See Main Page for a guide to all contents of all sections.

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 Avalon Project: American 19th Century Documents [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
• WEB American History: From Revolution to Reconstruction for Documents and Essays [At RUG] [Internet Archive backup here]
• WEB Milestone Documents: The New Nation 1754-1820 [At National Archives] [Internet Archive backup here]
• WEB Making of America [At Michigan] [Internet Archive backup here]
  5000 imprints from 1850-75 on line, but as image files rather than text.
• WEB Secession Era Editorials Project [At Furman] [Internet Archive backup here]
  Many online texts, with a a special emphasis on the Civil War and Southern History. Many texts are taken from newspaper editorials.
• WEB Documenting the American South [At UNC] [Internet Archive backup here]

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The Conflict over Slavery

• WEB American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology [At Virginia] [Internet Archive backup here]
• WEB North American Slave Narratives [At UNC] [Internet Archive backup here]
• WEB Slavery and Abolition: Primary Source Collections Online [At SHSU] [Internet Archive backup here]
• WEB Slavery: Primary Sources [At LoneStar] [Internet Archive backup here]
• WEB Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery, 1794-1850 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
• WEB Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture [At Virginia] [Internet Archive backup here]
• The Confessions of Nat Turner (1800-1831) [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
• Treaty Between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, April 7, 1862 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Additional Article to the Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade, February 17, 1863 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Benjamin Drew: The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903): A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, 1856 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
• American Anti-Slavery Society: Declaration of Sentiments, 1833 [At Virginia] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Angelina E. Grimké: Appeal To The Christian Women of the South, 1836, full text [Was At Furman, now Internet Archive]
  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 [Was At Furman, now Internet Archive]
  A defence of slavery on Biblical principles.
• American Methodist Episcopal Church Conference: Motions on Slavery and Temperance, 1840 [Was At CSUSM, now Internet Arrchive]
• Frederick Douglass (1817-1895): From The Autobiography, 1845 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
• 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, [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
• James Stirling: The Life of Plantation Field Hands, 1857 [At this Site]
• The Fugitive Slave Act, September 18, 1850 [At this Site] or excerpts here [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Henry Carey: Excerpts from: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign, 1853 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
• John C. Calhoun: The Southern Address, 1849 [Was At Furman, now Internet Archive]
• William Henry Seward: "Higher Law" Speech, 1850 [Was At Furman, now Internet Archive]
• Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): A Plea for Captain John Brown, 1853 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act, 1855 [At USInfo] [Internet Archive backup here]
  Aimed at hleping runaway slaves.
• The Opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case, full texts, [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]

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The Civil War

• WEB Civil War Resources [At VMI] [Internet Archive backup here]
• WEB U.S. Civil War on the Web [At CWC]
• WEB Civil War and Reconstruction: Primary Sources [At LoneStar] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Wikipedia: American Civil War
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): "A House Divided", 1858 [At History Place] [Internet Archive backup here]
  Delivered June 17, 1858, at the close of the Republican State Convention.
• Democratic Party Platform, 1860 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
• James Russell Lowell: The Election in NovemberThe Atlantic Monthly October, 1860 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
  Powerful endorsement of Lincoln.
• Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): First Inaugural Address,  March 4, 1861 [At this Site]
• Carl Schurz: Abraham Lincoln: An Essay 1891 [Was At Virginia, now Internet Archive]
• Confederate Documents
  • WEB Confederate States of America: Papers [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883): Cornerstone Address, March 21, 1861  [At this Site]
  • Declaration of Causes of seceding states Winter 1861 [At Battlefields] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • Constitution of the Confederate States of America March 11, 1861 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Union Documents
  • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): Special Session Message, July 4, 1861  [At this Site]
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic [At Wikipedia]
  • McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln July 7, 1862 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): The Gettysburg Address [At Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865): Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill, July 8, 1864 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • 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] [Internet Archive backup here]
• 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 [Was At PBS, now Internet Archive]
  • 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(1998).
  • 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] [Internet Archive backup here]
  • WEB Letters from an Iowa Soldier during the Civil War  [At Civil War Letters] [Internet Archive backup here]

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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] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Address of a Convention of Negroes held in Alexandria, Virginia, August 1865 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Wikipedia: Reconstruction Era
• Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
• Map: Reconstruction and Reaction, [At this Site]
• Frederick Douglass (1817-1895): An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Sufferage, January, 1867 [Was At Oklahoma, now Internet Archive]
• Frederick Douglass, Reconstruction, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1866, [Was At Virginia, now Internet Archive]
• Wikipedia: Jim Crow Laws
• Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive backup here]
  Established the legal basis for American apartheid in the South.

NOTES:

The Internet Modern Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. The date of inception was 9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of  Fordham University, New York. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and other medieval components of the project, are located at the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.The IHSP recognizes the contribution of Fordham University, the Fordham University History Department, and the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies in providing web space and server support for the project. The IHSP is a project independent of Fordham University.  Although the IHSP seeks to follow all applicable copyright law, Fordham University is not the institutional owner, and is not liable as the result of any legal action.

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