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  Documentary Records

    A. Public Documents
    1. War of the Rebellion (from ehistory.com)
    2. The War of the Rebellion
    3. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebllion
    4. "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives
    5. Civil War Collections at the Auburn University Archives and Manuscripts Department (Guide to resources)
    6. Lee's Lost Order: Special Orders No. 191
    7. Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library (from the Library of Congress -- thus far contains sections on the Emancipation Proclamation and the Lincoln Assassination)
    8. Lincoln Assassination Report (from the National Archives)
    9. The Pearce Civil War Documents Collections, Navarro College (Corsicana, Texas) (includes items from Lincoln, Davis, Lee, Grant, Sherman, Longstreet, et al.)
    10. Abraham Lincoln Section (section of the Pierpont Morgan Library's "From Jackson to Lincoln" -- see above)
    11. The Emancipation Proclamation
    12. The Gettysburg Address
    13. Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
    14. Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
    15. Davis's Farewell to the U.S. Senate, January 21, 1861
    16. Davis's Inaugural Address as President, C.S.A., February 18, 1861
    17. Davis's Address to the Provisional Confederate Congress (April 29, 1861) (courtesy of Jim Epperson)
    18. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America
    19. Some Pennsylvania and Virginia newspapers
    20. Index of Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton's Telegraph Books (searchable)
    21. Civil War Quotations (presented by Tom Townshend)
    22. Declarations of Causes of Seceding States (Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)
    23. Mississippi's Declaration re: the Right of Secession (November 1860)
    24. Records of the 105th U.S. Colored Troops
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    B. Private/Personal Documents
    1. Civil War Diaryof Sergt. Hassell Hooper, Company E, 101st Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry
    2. Letters & Diaries (various collections from ehistory.com)
    3. Speech of Augustus M. Erwin, Capt., 117 New York Infantry (courtesy of Cynthia L. Kotwicki)
    4. Samuel J. Bradlee Civil War Letters
    5. "In a Charge Near Fort Hell" [Petersburg, VA, April 1865]
    6. 1864 Diary of LaFrancis E. Hackett, 5th Independent Ohio Sharpshooters
    7. The Steubing Letters (26th Texas Cavalry)
    8. The Civil War Journal of Andrew Jackson Nickell, 114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
    9. The Wartime Diary of John Weathered; Bennett's Regiment or 9th Tennessee Cavalry
    10. Christmas, 1861-1865
    11. Civil War Journal of James B. Lockney, Wisconsin 28th Regiment, Company G
    12. Reminiscences of Lorenzo D. Barnhart, 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company B
    13. Dwight Henry Cory Letters and Diary
    14. Reminiscences of an Old 63rd, Ind., Soldier
    15. Diary of Peter Wiegand, 97th Illinois Infantry, Company A
    16. The Butler Letters: Henry Butler to his wife Mary during the Civil war, 1862-1865
    17. Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment, by Capt. John G. B. Adams (edited by Kerry Webb)
    18. Memoirs, Diary and Life of Private Jefferson Moses, Company G, 93rd Illinois Volunteers
    19. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
    20. Recollections of a Refugee [by J. B. Douglas]
    21. POW Letters of Brigadier General Montgomery Corse
    22. Robert K. Byrd to Henry J. Welcker, 24 May 1862
    23. Civil War Letters (from Old Court House, Roane County, TN)
    24. The Calvin Shedd Papers:The Civil War in Florida: Letters of a New Hampshire soldier
    25. Civil War Diaries of Van Buren Oldham (Company G, 9th Tennessee Infantry, 1863-64)
    26. Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America (via UNC at Chapel Hill)
    27. Civil War Memories of Robert C. Cardin, Company B, 16th Tennessee Infantry
    28. Edgar CLark's Civil War Letters (3rd Michigan)
    29. Reminiscences of the Rebellion. . . by William Archibald Waugh (5th Massachusetts Light Battery)
    30. Diary of Valentine L. Spawr (Company C, 14th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment)
    31. 7th Kansas Cavalry in the Civil War: the Diary of Fletcher Pomeroy
    32. Albert Underwood Civil War Diary
    33. War News: Civil War Letters and Diaries
    34. The Civil War History of John Ritland
    35. Civil War Diary and Letters of David Humphrey Blair
    36. Letters from an Iowa Soldier
    37. Personal Papers from Pennsylvania and Virginia
    38. Diaries of G. D. Molineaux
    39. Letters of Richard W. Burt of the 76th Ohio Infantry
    40. William Newby...or, The Soldier's Return
    41. Selected Civil War Letters at the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina
    42. Civil War Resources in the Virginia Tech Libraries Special Collections (some manuscripts online)
    43. 1861 Diary from Georgia
    44. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    45. VMI Archives: Civil War Sources (includes manuscripts, records, and images)
    46. The University of Tennessee-Knoxville's online manuscript guides
    47. Letter of Levi Pennington (December 1862) -- (Courtesy of Paulette Delano Dias)
    48. Diary of George Ervay (January-March 1863) -- Courtesy of Marjorie Neufer
    49. Diary of James Laughlin Orr (Nov-Dec 1864) (includes Sherman's March to the Sea)
    50. The Civil War Letters of Galutia York (transcripts of nearly 50 letters, 1862-1863; includes some images)
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