Civil War (1860-1865) /
This collection provides historical documents related to the American Civil War, and analysis of each document, including journals, letters, speeches, government legislation, and court opinions. Discusses war-time policies of President Lincoln and the 37th US Congress. Incorporates lesson plans, stu...
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| Language: | English |
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Ipswich, Massachusetts :
Salem Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Volume 1. The approaching storm
- The sectional crisis
- The politics of war
- War stories
- volume 2. The home front
- The destruction of slavery
- Postwar: politics of race and Reconstruction
- Appendixes: Chronological list ; Historical timeline ; Web resources ; Bibliography ; Index.
- Volume 1. The Approaching Storm. Speeches for and Against the Compromise of 1850 ; Speech Against the Kansas-Nebraska Act ; The Dred Scott Decision ; Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided Speech" ; The Lincoln-Douglas Debates ; Speech to the Court that Sentenced Him to Death
- Disunion: The Sectional Crisis. Cooper Union Address ; Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address ; The Cornerstone of the Confederacy ; South Carolina Convention
- The Politics of War. The Chicago Tribune: "Help from England" ; Special Message to Congress: Habeas Corpus ; Presidential Proclamations on Blockade and Commercial Trade No. 81, No. 82, and No. 86 ; Speech on the Trent Affair ; Habeas Corpus Suspension Act ; General Orders No. 100: Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field ; Hard War ; Governor's Message on the Suspension of Writ of Habeas Corpus to the General Assembly of North Carolina ; President Abraham Lincoln's Blind Memorandum ; Ex Parte Milligan ; Jefferson Davis' Address to the Confederate Congress ; Jefferson Davis, Inaugural Address as Elected President of Confederacy
- War Stories. General Burnside's Army and the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony ; Captain Richard W. Burt on the Siege of Vicksburg ; On Blockade Duty: Letters from a Lieutenant on the USS Gettysburg ; "The Most Terrible Sight I Ever Saw" ; Letters from the Vicksburg Campaign ; Henry Sheperd's Narrative of Prison Life ; War Diary: Marching through the Stronghold of Secession
- Volume 2. The Home Front. "Luxuries Have Been Given Up Long Ago" ; The Military Hospitals in Washington ; "The Shadows are Darkening"...Jackson is Certainly Dead ; The Draft Riots ; "There Has Been a Great Deal of Sickness in My Neighborhood" ; Gettysburg Address ; Reception to the Enlistment of Black Soldiers ; Abraham Lincoln's Last Public Address ; Walt Whitman: Military Hospitals ; "The Conclusion of the Battle of Gettysburg" ; Letters of a Transport Nurse ; "The Shattered Remains of Lee's Army" ; "Conquered, Submission, Subjugation"
- The Destruction of Slavery. The Confiscation Acts ; Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (Lyons-Seward Treaty) ; The Emancipation Proclamation ; War Department General Order 143 ; General Sherman Interviews the Freedmen Ministers in Savannah ; Special Field Order No. 15: Forty Acres and a Mule ; Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution ; A Contested Election: Report to Congresss on the Activities of the Ku Klux Klan ; Letter to Senator Joseph C. Abbott on the Ku Klux Klan ; United States vs. Cruikshank ; Exchange of Letters Between Horace Greeley and Abraham Lincoln ; "Men of Color, To Arms!" ; General Patrick Cleburne Proposes Black Soldiers for the Confederacy ; Jefferson Davis on the Employment of Slaves ; General Lee on Black Confederate Soldiers ; An Act to Increase the Military Force of the Confederate States
- Postwar: Politics of Race and Reconstruction. 39th Congress: Freedmen's Bureau Bill ; Frederick Douglass: Freedmen's Monument Speech ; Prospects of the Freedmen on Hilton Head ; Letters from Louisiana ; Reconstruction Acts of 1867 ; House of Representatives: Articles of Impeachment ; Various Selections of Black Codes in the South ; "The North Owes the Colored Race a Deep Obligation" ; Ulysses S. Grant: Letter to Daniel H. Chamberlain
- Appendixes: Chronological list ; Historical timeline ; Web resources ; Bibliography ; Index.
