Documentary Records [ back ]

A. Public Documents Confederate States of America Documents (from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School) Laws of War: General Orders No. 100 (from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School) Constitution of Alabama, January 7, 1861 (from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School) Democratic Party Platform, June 18, 1860 (from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School) Civil War Veterans' Letter (Reminiscences from the Galveston, TX, Semi-Weekly, 1908. Follow link to "Historic Newspapers") Congressional Globe (forerunner of the Congressional Record -- General Index) Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (Civil War years) Journal of the Senate of the United States of America (Civil War years) Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Civil War years) United States Statutes At Large (federal laws enacted 1789-1873)

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• Congressional Globe, 36th Congress, 2nd Session (December 1860-March 1861)

• Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, 1st Session (July 4 to August 6, 1861)

• Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, 2nd Session (December 1861-July 1862

• Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, 3rd Session (December 1862-March 1863)

• Congressional Globe, 38th Congress, 1st Session (December 1863-July 1864)

• Congressional Globe, 38th Congress, 2nd Session (December 1864-March 1865)

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• Florida Confederate Pension Application Files

• Journals of the Confederate Congress

• Letters Sent, Medical Officer, CSS Florida, December 28, 1863 - July 31, 1864

• The District of Columbia Emancipation Act

• The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (searchable index)

• War of the Rebellion (from ehistory.com)

• The War of the Rebellion

• Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebllion

• "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives

• Civil War Collections at the Auburn University Archives and Manuscripts Department (Guide to resources)

• Lee's Lost Order: Special Orders No. 191

• Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library (from the Library of Congress -- includes general correspondence, and sections on the Emancipation Proclamation and the assassination)

• Lincoln Assassination Report (from the National Archives)

• The Pearce Civil War Documents Collections, Navarro College (Corsicana, Texas)

• Abraham Lincoln Section (section of the Pierpont Morgan Library's "From Jackson to Lincoln" -- see above)

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Gettysburg Address

• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (text only)

• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (Library of Congress Exhibit)

• Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (text)

• Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (Library of Congress Exhibit)

• Davis's Farewell to the U.S. Senate, January 21, 1861

• Davis's Inaugural Address as President, C.S.A., February 18, 1861

• Davis's Address to the Provisional Confederate Congress (April 29, 1861) (courtesy of Jim Epperson)

• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America

• Some Pennsylvania and Virginia newspapers

• Index of Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton's Telegraph Books (searchable)

• Civil War Quotations (presented by Tom Townshend)

• Declarations of Causes of Seceding States (Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas)

• Mississippi's Declaration re: the Right of Secession (November 1860)

• Records of the 105th U.S. Colored Troops

B. Private/Personal Documents

• William Moore Parkinson; Civil War Letters

• Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience

• Reminiscences of D. S. Howell, as told to Dr. Rupert N. Richardson, 21 May 1923 (PDF format; courtesy of Jim Evans)

• The Writings of Civil War Captain Harmon Hubbard

• Pennsylvania Volunteers of the Civil War; Personal Histories

• Clinton Hogue's Civil War Diary

• A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers

• The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865;Eliza Frances Andrews

• Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier; L[ouis] Leon

• Civil War Reminiscences of Daniel F. Kemp (courtesy of Barbara Covello)

• J. K. Street Letters

• Calvin Shedd Papers; The Civil War in Florida: Letters of a New Hampshire Soldier

• Cornelius C. Platter Diary, 1864-1865

• Washington During the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865

• Fire and Brimstone -- Aboard the USS Cayuga at Forts Jackson & St. Philip; Excerpts from the Journal of Paymaster's Clerk Samuel Massa

• Letters and Diaries of Josiah Feagles

• Letters & Diaries (various collections from ehistory.com)

• Speech of Augustus M. Erwin, Capt., 117 New York Infantry (courtesy of Cynthia L. Kotwicki)

• Samuel J. Bradlee Civil War Letters

• "In a Charge Near Fort Hell" [Petersburg, VA, April 1865]

• 1864 Diary of LaFrancis E. Hackett, 5th Independent Ohio Sharpshooters

• The Steubing Letters (26th Texas Cavalry)

• The Civil War Journal of Andrew Jackson Nickell, 114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

• The Wartime Diary of John Weatherred; Bennett's Regiment or 9th Tennessee Cavalry

• Christmas, 1861-1865

• Civil War Journal of James B. Lockney, Wisconsin 28th Regiment, Company G

• Reminiscences of Lorenzo D. Barnhart, 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company B

• Dwight Henry Cory Letters and Diary

• Reminiscences of an Old 63rd, Ind., Soldier

• The Butler Letters: Henry Butler to his wife Mary during the Civil war, 1862-1865

• Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment, by Capt. John G. B. Adams (edited by Kerry Webb)

• Memoirs, Diary and Life of Private Jefferson Moses, Company G, 93rd Illinois Volunteers

• Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

• Recollections of a Refugee [by J. B. Douglas]

• POW Letters of Brigadier General Montgomery Corse

• Robert K. Byrd to Henry J. Welcker, 24 May 1862

• Civil War Letters (from Old Court House, Roane County, TN)

• The Calvin Shedd Papers:The Civil War in Florida: Letters of a New Hampshire soldier

• Civil War Diaries of Van Buren Oldham (Company G, 9th Tennessee Infantry, 1863-64)

• Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America (via UNC at Chapel Hill)

• Civil War Memories of Robert C. Cardin, Company B, 16th Tennessee Infantry

• Reminiscences of the Rebellion. . . by William Archibald Waugh (5th Massachusetts Light Battery)

• Diary of Valentine L. Spawr (Company C, 14th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment)

• 7th Kansas Cavalry in the Civil War: the Diary of Fletcher Pomeroy

• Albert Underwood Civil War Diary

• War News: Civil War Letters and Diaries

• The Civil War History of John Ritland

• Civil War Diary and Letters of David Humphrey Blair

• Letters from an Iowa Soldier

• Personal Papers from Pennsylvania and Virginia

• Diaries of G. D. Molineaux

• Letters of Richard W. Burt of the 76th Ohio Infantry

• William Newby...or, The Soldier's Return

• Selected Civil War Letters at the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina

• Civil War Resources in the Virginia Tech Libraries Special Collections (some manuscripts online)

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

• VMI Archives: Civil War Sources (includes manuscripts, records, and images)

• The University of Tennessee-Knoxville's online manuscript guides

• Letter of Levi Pennington (December 1862) -- (Courtesy of Paulette Delano Dias)

• Diary of George Ervay (January-March 1863) -- Courtesy of Marjorie Neufer

• Diary of James Laughlin Orr (Nov-Dec 1864) (includes Sherman's March to the Sea)

• The Civil War Letters of Galutia York (transcripts of nearly 50 letters, 1862-1863; includes some images)