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     1862 Act to Punish Rebels
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/conact2.htm
     19th Century Documents Project
http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/
     Abraham Lincoln's Springfield ("House Divided") Speech (1858)
http://www.wildwestweb.net/cwdocs/housedivided.html
     Absent Without Leave, Presidential Proclamation, 1863
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/cgi-bin/usamhi/DL/showdoc.pl?docnum=431
     Alabama's Letter to Gov. Magoffin of Kentucky
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/bama3.html
     Amendments Proposed in Congress by Senator John J. Crittenden. December 18
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/amerdoc/critten.htm
     Avalon Project: Documents on Slavery
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/slavery.htm
     Numa Barned Papers
http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/Schoff/B/Barned.html
     Bill to Provide Supplies for the Army
http://docsouth.unc.edu/bill51/bill51.html
     Catechism to be Taught Orally to Those Who Cannot Read
http://docsouth.unc.edu/catechisms/catechsl.html
     Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
     Civil War Documents and Books
http://americancivilwar.com/documents/index.html
     Civil War Release
http://www.rootsweb.com/~kymorgan/CWRelease.html
     Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/
     Clayton Acquires Texas Freedmen's Bureau Papers
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/clayton/aa002.html
     Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
http://www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln/
     Communication from the Secretary of War, February 27, 1863
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/warfeb27/warfeb27.html
     Confederate States of America Documents
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/csapage.htm
     Confederate States of America Veto Message (Slave Trade)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/v022861.htm
     Confederate Symbols and Patriotism
http://www.19thalabama.org/gordon.html
     Conscription of Teachers: Exemptions
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/junius/junius.html
     CSA Impressment Act, 1864
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/wardeptnov28/nov28.html
     Davis's Address to the Provisional Confederate Congress
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/jdmess.html
     Davis's Farewell to the U.S. Senate, January 21, 1861
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/davisexit.html
     Davis's Inaugural Address as President, C.S.A., February 18, 1861
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/jdinaug.html
     Declaration of Causes that Impel Texas to Secede
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html
     Declaration of Causes of Seceding States
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html#South%20Carolina
     Demand For Surrender of Fort Sumter - Date: 4/11/1861
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/DocsFtSumterSurrender.htm
     Democratic Platform of 1860 (Douglas faction)
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/demo_d.html
     Democratic Platform of 1860 (Breckinridge Faction)
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/demo_b.html
     Democratic Party Platform, 1864
http://www.sewanee.edu/faculty/Willis/Civil_War/documents/democratic.html
     Discharge Certificate
http://www.ok13.com/websites/mypahoa/venite/genealogy/cvdischarge.htm
     Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America
http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/
     Documents of the Secession and Early War Era
http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/index.htm#Election
     Excerpts from testimony of Capt. C. B. Wilder before the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission
http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen
     Exhibit: 54th Massachusetts Infantry Casualty List
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/american_originals/54thmass.html
     Exhibit: Lincoln Assassination Report
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/american_originals/lincoln.html
     Freedmen's Bureau Bill
http://www.sewanee.edu/faculty/Willis/Civil_War/documents/Freedmen'sBureau.html
     Frederick Douglass, Speech on the Compromise Measures at the Mass Free Democratic Convention (Oct. 1852)
http://history.furman.edu/~benson/docs/fdouglass52.htm
     Frederick Douglass Papers
http://www.iupui.edu/%7Edouglass/
     G.A.R. War Papers
http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/jones.html
     General Ellison Caper's Report on Ship's Gap and Franklin
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Square/3873/capers1.html
     General Robert E. Lee's Farewell Address
http://www.virtualcities.com/ons/pa/g/as/paga6a17.htm
     Hood's Field Order No.14
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/fieldorder14.htm
     Jefferson on Slavery
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/slavery.htm
     John Brown's Last Speech, November 2, 1859
http://www.tncrimlaw.com/civil_bible/john_brown.htm
     Johnson Impeachment Articles
http://www.vw.vccs.edu/vwhansd/HIS269/Documents/Impeachment.html
     Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwejlink.html#anchor36
     Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwhjlink.html#anchor36
     Journal of the Senate of the United States of America
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsjlink.html#anchor36
     Journals of the Confederate Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwcc.html
     Kansas-Nebraska Act
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/kanneb.htm
     Kentucky Gov. Magoffin's response to Alabama
http://facweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/magoffin.htm
     Lawrence Massacre
http://www.kancoll.org/books/cordley_massacre/quantrel.raid.html
     Legislative and Historical Documents
http://www.adena.com/adena/usa/cw/
     Lee's Peace Proposal letter to Davis
http://www.swcivilwar.com/LeePeaceProposalDavisMD.html
     Levi Hines Papers
http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/Schoff/HK/Index_HK/Hines.ndx
     Lincoln Assassination Police Report
http://library.educationworld.net/txt12/
     Lincoln-Douglas Debates
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/debates.html
     Longstreet's 1st Times Article about the Gettysburg Campaign
http://www.swcivilwar.com/LongstreetGettys1stPhilArticle.html
     Longstreet's 2nd Times Article about the Gettysburg Campaign
http://www.swcivilwar.com/LongstreetGettys2ndPhilArticle.html
     Missing 13th Ammendment
http://www.w3f.com/patriots/13/13th-14.html
     Missing 13th Ammendment Titles of Nobility and Honor
http://w3f.com/patriots/13/13th-01.html
     New York Legislature's Anti-Secession Resolutions
http://facweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/nylegres.htm
     Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html
     Pacific Railway Act
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/five/railact.htm
     Party Platforms and Secession Documents
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/plat.html
     Pearce Civil War Collection at Navarro College
http://pearcecollections.us/civilwar/full_text_docs.php
     Backgrounder on the Pendleton Act
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/28.htm
     Plessy v. Ferguson
http://www.watson.org/%7Elisa/blackhistory/post-civilwar/plessy.html
     Posse Comitatus Act
http://law.wustl.edu/WULQ/75-2/752-10.html
     Report of Adolph Majer, Chief Medical Officer, U.S. Forces, District of Florida, on the engagement at Olustee, Florida
http://extlab1.entnem.ufl.edu/Olustee/reports/majer.htm
     Republican Party Platform of 1860
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/repub.html
     Republican Party Platform, 1864
http://www.sewanee.edu/faculty/Willis/Civil_War/documents/republican.html
     Theodore Roosevelt: Address at the Charleston Exposition
http://www.boondocksnet.com/expos/wfe_tr020409.html
     S.C. Gov. Pickens' Inaugural Message (Dec 1860)
http://facweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/sccccn01.htm
     Scholar's Spelling Assistant
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/carpenter/carpenter.html
     Sherman's March to the Sea
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/marchsea.htm
     South Carolina Secession Declaration Debate
http://history.furman.edu/~benson/docs/scdebate3.htm
     Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
http://www.ashbrook.org/library/19/lincoln/peoria.html
     Stephen Douglas's Compromise of 1850 Speech
http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/Douglas50.htm
     Supreme Law Library: There is No 14th Amendment
http://www.supremelaw.org/authors/lawrence/no14th.htm
     Tenure Of Office Act
http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE051244.html
     Thaddeus Stevens Speech  -  Date: 12/18/1865
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/DocsThadStevensSpeech1865.htm
     The Turnbo Manuscripts
http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/turnbo/index.html
     United Confederate Veterans Association Records
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/u1357.html
     United States Statutes At Large
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsl.html
     Wade-Davis Manifesto -  August 5, 1864
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/DocsWadeDavisManifesto.htm
     War of the Rebellion: Official Records (Confederate and Union)
http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/index.cfm
     Gouvernour Kemble Warren Papers, 1848-1882
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc10668.htm
     White's Article about the Gettysburg Controversy
http://www.swcivilwar.com/WhitesArtGettCont.html
     Return to the Link Index
indexcivilwarinfo.htm
     7th North Carolina Congressional District papers, 1862-1865
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/c/C.S.A.Bureau_of_Conscription.html
    
Act to Admit Texas to the Confederacy

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/secession/1march1861.html
     Address of George Williamson to the Texas Secession Convention
http://www.americancivilwar.com/documents/williamson_address.html
     Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html
     Articles of Confederation of the United States of America (1777)
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/artconf.html
     Bill of Rights
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/bill_of_rights/bill_of_rights.html
     Bill of Rights (1791)
http://memory.loc.gov/const/bor.html
     Cornerstone Speech
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/corner.html
     Confederate and US Constitutions Comparison
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/civil_war_usa/CSA.documents/constit.csa
     Confederate Constitution
http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/selections/confed/const.html
     Constitution of the CSA
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/csa.htm
     Constitution of the Confederate States of America
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/csa.constitution.html
     Constitution of the Confederate States of America
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/csaconst.htm
     Constitution of Alabama, January 7, 1861
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/al/ala1861.htm
     Constitution of the State of Mississippi
http://www.mscode.com/msconst/
     Constitution of the United States
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/constitution/constitution.html
     Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775)
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/arms.html
     Declaration of Independence (1776)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/declaration/declaration.html
     Declaration of Independence
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
     Federalist Papers Index
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed.htm
     Federalist Papers #10
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed10.htm
     Federalist Papers #51
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed51.htm
     First Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
http://www.americancivilwar.com/documents/isham_harris.html
     Great Seal Of The Confederacy
http://www.civilwarhome.com/confederateseal.htm
     National Constitution Center
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/
     Official Documents of the War of Rebellion
http://www.civilwarhome.com/records.htm
     Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/index.cfm
     Ordinances of Secession
http://www.americancivilwar.com/documents/ordinance_secession.html
     Paris Peace Treaty of 1783
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/paris.html
     Ratification of the CSA Constitution
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/m042961.htm
     Secession Acts of the 13 Confederate States
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/civil_war_usa/CSA.documents/ordin.all
     Second Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
http://www.americancivilwar.com/documents/isham_harris_second.html
     South Carolina's Address to the Slaveholding States
http://www.americancivilwar.com/documents/south_carolina_address.html
     Speech of E.S. Dargan to the Alabama Secession Convention
http://www.americancivilwar.com/documents/dargan_speech.html
     Statutes at Large of the CSA
http://docsouth.unc.edu/statutes/statutes.html
     William Henry Seward Papers, 1730-1917
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/rbk/SEWARDX.HTM
     United States Constitution
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html
     Virginia Declaration of Rights
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/virginia.htm
     Return to the Link Index
indexcivilwarinfo.htm
     James Buchanan's 1857 Inaugural Address
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/James_Buchanan/Inaugural_Address/
     J. W. Daniel's Tribute to Jefferson Davis
http://www.swcivilwar.com/DavisTribute_SHSP.html
     Jefferson Davis Documents
http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/docs.cfm
     Jefferson Davis' Proclamation Against General Butler
http://www.civilwarhome.com/davisbutlerproclamation.htm
     Jefferson Davis's Farewell to the US Senate
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/davisexit.html
     Jefferson Davis' First Message to the CS Congress
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/davis.html
     Jefferson Davis' Inaugural Address
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/jdinaug.html
     Jefferson Davis on Robert E. Lee
http://www.swcivilwar.com/DavisOnLee.html
     Papers of Jefferson Davis
http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/
     Proclamation of Jefferson Davis Authorizing Privateers
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/p041761.htm
     Second Inaugural Address of President Jefferson Davis
http://www.federalist.com/histdocs/JeffDavis2InauguralAddress.htm
     Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/lincoln.html
     First
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Abraham_Lincoln/First_Inaugural_Address/
     Second
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Abraham_Lincoln/Second_Inaugural_Address/
     Abraham Lincoln's Speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 1860
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/newhaven.html
     Another Message from Lincoln to McClellan
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/lett-2.htm
     District of Columbia Emancipation Act
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/featured_documents/dc_emancipation_act/index.html
     Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html
     Emancipation Proclamation: First Draft
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt025.html
     Emancipation Proclamation (images)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/american_originals_iv/sections/emancipation_proclamation.html
     Emancipation Proclamation (text of)
http://www.nps.gov/ncro/anti/emancipation.html
     Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Navy General Order No. 4 of 14 January 1863
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq57-2.htm
     George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, 7 July 1862 on the Union defeat during the Peninsula Campaign
http://www.americancivilwar.com/documents/mcclellan_lincoln.html
     Gettysburg Address
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/blgettysburg.htm
     Gettysburg Address
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/
     Gettysburg Address: Drafts
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/gadrft.html
     Letter by Lincoln on Slavery
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt027.html
     Lincoln's Farewell at Springfield
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/farewell.htm
     Lincoln's House Divided Speech
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/divided.htm
     Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby
http://www.netins.net/showcase/creative/lincoln/speeches/bixby.htm
     Lincoln's Letter to Mary Todd Lincoln Regarding Tad's Goat
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/goat.htm
     Lincoln's Message to the Army of the Potomac
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/lett-3.htm
     Lincoln's Message to Fighting Joe Hooker
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/lett-4.htm
     Lincoln's Message to George Gordon Meade
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/lett-6.htm
     Lincoln's Message to McClellan
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/lett-1.htm
     Lincoln's Message to Ulysses S. Grant
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/lett-5.htm
     Lincoln's Order of Retaliation
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/retal.htm
     Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/proc-4.htm
     Lincoln's Proclamation of Blockade Against Southern Ports
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/proc-2.htm
     Lincoln's Proclamation of a Day of Fasting
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/proc-3.htm
     Lincoln's Proclamation of Thanksgiving
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/thanks.htm
     Lincoln's Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill
http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/texts/1864wad2.html
     Lincoln's Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
http://www.freemaninstitute.com/lincoln.htm
     Lincoln's Speech to the 148th Ohio Regiment
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/ohio.htm
     Meade, Lincoln, and the Historicus Article
http://www.civilwarhome.com/lincolnhistoricus.htm
     On Abraham Lincoln
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/on_abraham_lincoln.html
     President's General War Order No. 1
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/order-1.htm
     Works of Abraham Lincoln
http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Lincoln/Default.htm
     First
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Ulysses_S_Grant/First_Inaugural_Address/
     Second
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Ulysses_S_Grant/Second_Inaugural_Address/