Civil War Documents

History 269 The Civil War and Reconstruction

Course Documents


© David C. Hanson, Virginia Western Community College. [Copyright notice]
Compromise of 1850	Davis' 2nd Inaugural Address
The Dred Scott Case	Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's House Divided Speech	Davis to Lee after Gettysburg
John Brown's Last Speech	Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address	Grant's Surrender Order to Lee
Constitution of the CSA	Lee's General Order Number 9
Davis' 1st Inaugural Address	Lee's Surrender: Letter to Davis
Lincoln's Call for Troops	Grant's Memoirs (Excerpts)
Richmond Dispatch April 15	Freedmen's Bureau Act
Virginia Ordinance of Secession	Johnson Impeachment Articles
Lee's Resignation	Reconstruction Amendments
Lee's Lost Order (SO 191)	F. Douglass on Freedmen
Lincoln's August 23 Letter
Emancipation Proclamation	Course Exhibits