Civil War Documents

Miscellaneous Documents

1862 Act to Punish Rebels
1870 Tennessee Constitution
19^th Century Documents Project
The Avalon Project: Documents on Slavery
Numa Barned Papers
A Bill to Provide Supplies for the Army
Camp Morton Records
General Ellison Caper's Report on Ship's Gap and Franklin
Catechism to be Taught Orally to Those Who Cannot Read
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873
Civil War Documents and Books
Civil War Era Documents belonging to John Copeland
Civil War Release
Clayton Acquires Texas Freedmen's Bureau Papers
Combat Studies Institute 1990 MMAS Theses
Communication from the Secretary of War, February 27, 1863
Concerning the treatment of POWs
Confederate Symbols and Patriotism
Conscription of Teachers: Exemptions
CSA Impressment Act, 1864
Declaration of Causes that Impel Texas to Secede
Declaration of Causes of Seceding States
A Discharge Certificate
The Frederick Douglass Papers
Excerpts from testimony of Capt. C. B. Wilder before the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission
Exhibit: 54^th Massachusetts Infantry Casualty List
Exhibit: Lincoln Assassination Report
G.A.R. War Papers
General Robert E. Lee's Farewell Address
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The Collection. The Newly Discovered Documents.
Levi Hines Papers
Hood's Field Order No.14
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Lawrence Massacre
Lee's Special Orders No. 191
Legislative and Historical Documents
The Missing 13^th Ammendment
The Missing 13^th Ammendment "Titles of Nobility and Honor"
Backgrounder on the Pendleton Act
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Posse Comitatus Act
Report of Adolph Majer, Chief Medical Officer, U.S. Forces, District of Florida, on the engagement at Olustee, Florida
Theodore Roosevelt: Address at the Charleston Exposition
The Scholar's Spelling Assistant
Sherman's March to the Sea
Special Orders Assigning Regiments into Sherman's Division
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
Supreme Law Library: There is No 14th Ammendment
Tenure Of Office Act
The Turnbo Manuscripts
United Confederate Veterans Association Records
War Document Ordered by Edward Stanton, Secretary of War
War of the Rebellion: Official Records (Confederate and Union)
Gouvernour Kemble Warren Papers, 1848-1882

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Founding Documents of the USA and CSA

7^th North Carolina Congressional District papers, 1862-1865
Act to Admit Texas to the Confederacy
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
Articles of Confederation of the United States of America (1777)
The Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights (1791)
The Charters of Freedom (images)
The Cornerstone Speech
Confederate and US Constitutions Comparison
Confederate Constitution
Constitution of the CSA
The Constitution of the Confederate States of America
Constitution of the State of Mississippi
The Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
The Declaration of Independence
The Federalist
Federalist Papers Index
Federalist Papers #10
Federalist Papers #51
National Constitution Center
Official Documents of the War of Rebellion
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783
Ratification of the CSA Constitution
Scanned Originals of Early American Documents
Search The Federalist
Search The United States Constitution
The Secession Acts of the 13 Confederate States
The Statutes at Large of the CSA
A.S51 William Henry Seward Papers, 1730-1917
The United States Constitution
The Virginia Declaration of Rights

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Presidential Documents

James Buchanan's 1857 Inaugural Address
Jefferson Davis

President Davis' Proclamation Against General Butler
Jefferson Davis's Farewell to the US Senate
Jefferson Davis' First Message to the CS Congress
Jefferson Davis' Inaugural Address
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Second Inaugural Address of President Jefferson Davis

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln's Speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 1860
Another Message from Lincoln to McClellan
The District of Columbia Emancipation Act
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation: First Draft
The Emancipation Proclamation (images)
The Emancipation Proclamation (text of)
Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Navy General Order No. 4 of 14 January 1863
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address: Drafts
The Gettysburg Address
Letter by Lincoln on Slavery
Lincoln's Farewell at Springfield
Abraham Lincoln's House Divided Speech
Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby
Lincoln's Letter to Mary Todd Lincoln Regarding Tad's Goat
Lincoln's Message to the Army of the Potomac
Lincoln's Message to "Fighting" Joe Hooker
Lincoln's Message to George Gordon Meade
Lincoln's Message to McClellan
Lincoln's Message to Ulysses S. Grant
Lincoln's Order of Retaliation
Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Lincoln's Proclamation of Blockade Against Southern Ports
Lincoln's Proclamation of a Day of Fasting
Lincoln's Proclamation of Thanksgiving
Lincoln's Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
Lincoln's Speech to the 148^th Ohio Regiment
Meade, Lincoln, and the Historicus Article
On Abraham Lincoln
President's General War Order No. 1
The Works of Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant's First and Second Inaugural Addresses

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