Journal kept at the hospital, Georgetown, D.C. / Louisa May Alcott, 1862
"What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852
A Plea for Captain John Brown" / Henry David Thoreau, 1859
First Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861
"Cornerstone" Speech / Alexander H. Stephens, March 21, 1861
Speech for Succession of Virginia / Robert Montague, April 1-2, 1861
Speech for Virginia Remaining in the Union / Chapman Stuart, April 5, 1861
Excerpt from Reading the Man / Elizabeth Brown Pryor, 2007
"The Private History of a Campaign that Failed" / Mark Twain, 1885
Excerpts from Sarah Morgan / Sarah Morgan, May 9 and May 17, 1862
Part 3. Making sense of Shiloh
"What I Saw of Shiloh" / Ambrose Bierce, 1881
Excerpt from The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Ulysses Grant, 1885
Excerpt from Shiloh / Shelby Foote, 1952
"Shiloh" / Bobbie Ann Mason, 1982
Speech to the Army of Mississippi / General Braxton Bragg, May 3, 1862
Excerpt from This Republic of Suffering / Drew Gilpin Faust, 2008
"The Net Result of the Campaign was in Our Favor: Confederate Reaction to the Maryland Campaign" / Gary W. Gallagher, 1999
Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes / Abraham Lincoln, August 14, 1862
"Memorys of the Past" / John M. Washington, 1873
Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863
"Men of Color, To Arms!" / Frederick Douglass, March 1863
Letter to James C. Conkling and Albert G. Hodges / Abraham Lincoln, August 26, 1863 and April 4, 1864
Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863
Reports on US Colored Calvary in Virginia / James S. Brisbin, October 20, 1864 and Thomas J. Morgan, November 23, 1864
Petition to the Union Convention of Tennessee Assembled in the Capitol at Nashville / Colored Citizens of Nashville, Tennessee, January 9, 1865
Excerpt from Jubilee / Margaret Walker, 1966
Excerpt from Been in the Storm So Long / Leon F. Litwack, 1979
Second Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln / March 4, 1865
Images of War: Firsthand Drawings and Printed Engravings / Judith Bookbinder
Dedication of a Monument to the Memory of the Heroes of the New Hampshire Regiment Killed in the Battle of Winchester / James E. Taylor, April 10, 1865
The United States General Hospital at Georgetown, D.C., Formerly the Union Hotel / from Frank's Illustrated Newspaper, July 6, 1861
Squirrel Rifles: Sketch at the Depot in Xenia, Ohio / Henri Lovie, September 5, 1862
Citizens volunteers assisting wounded in the field of battle / Alfred R. Waud, September 17, 1862
Colored Troops Under General Wild Liberating Slaves in North Carolina / from Harper's Weekly, January 3, 1864.
