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Fifty basic Civil War documents

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.

Year: c1965.

Publisher: Van Nostrand.

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Frontmatter

Introduction

PART I THE SOUTH SECEDES

1. South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession

2. Henry Timrod: "A Nation Among Nations"

3. Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline"

4. Alexander Stephens: Slavery the Cornerstone of the Confederacy

5. The Surrender at Fort Sumter

6. Robert E. Lee Goes with His State

7. Sam Houston Refuses to Go with His State

8. Jefferson Davis: Inaugural Address

Part II "THE UNION FOREVER"

9. Lincoln Refuses to Compromise on Slavery in the Territories

10. J. J. Crittenden: A Plea for Compromise

11. Lincoln: First Inaugural Address

12. W. H. Seward: A Plan to Avert Civil War

13. Proclamation of a Blockade

14. The Supreme Court Upholds the Blockade: The Prize Cases

15. Crittenden-Johnson Resolutions on the War

16. Lincoln: Message to Congress

Part III THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR

17. Lincoln: Messages to Congress on Compensated Emancipation

18. Union or Emancipation

19. Emancipation

20. President Lincoln and the Working-Men of Manchester, England

21. Jefferson Davis: Reply to the Emancipation Proclamation

22. Captain Wilkes Seizes Mason and Slidell

23. James Russell Lowell: "Shall It Be Love, or Hate, John?"

24. Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell Consider Recognition or Mediation

25. Charles Francis Adams: "This Is War"

26. Ousting the French from Mexico

27. Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address

Part IV INTERNAL PROBLEMS, NORTH AND SOUTH

28. Kentucky Tries to Be Neutral

29. West Virginia Becomes a State

30. Ex Parte Merryman

31. Ex Parte Milligan

32. A Southern Unionist: James Louis Petigru

33. Discontent in the Confederacy

34. Wartime Legislation

Part V GRAND STRATEGY

35. Confederate Strategy

36. How the Army of Northern Virginia Got Its Ordnance

37. Lincoln Appoints Hooker to Command the Army

38. General Lee Offers to Resign After Gettysburg

39. Lee Foresees Ultimate Defeat

40. Grant's Anaconda Strategy

41. Secretary Benjamin Recalls the Mistakes of the Confederacy

Part VI WARTIME RECONSTRUCTION

42. Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

43. Congress Versus the President

44. Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address

45. Lincoln: Last Public Address

Part VII APPOMATTOX AND THE END

46. Jefferson Davis: Last Message to the People of the Confederacy

47. General Lee Surrenders

48. General Johnson Surrenders

49. The Assassination of Lincoln

50. James Russel Lowell: "Bow Down, Dear Land, For Thou Hast Found Release"

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Title:

Fifty basic Civil War documents : Henry Steele Commager.

Author:

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

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Fifty basic Civil War documents : Henry Steele Commager.
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand, c1965.

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