Published: The Library of America, 2011
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4 volumes : maps ; 21 cm.
Contents:
“…Writ of Habeas Corpus, Maryland, May 1861 / Roger B Taney, (Opinion in Ex parte Merryman, June 1, 1861) -- I rejoice in this war, Virginia, June 1861 / Henry A Wise, (Speech at Richmond, June 1, 1861) -- Blinded, fanatical North, Georgia, June 1861 / Charles C Jones Jr to Charles C Jones Sr and Mary Jones, June 10, 1861 -- Anglo-American Relations, London, June 1861 / Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams Jr, (June 10-11, 1861) -- Cherokee neutrality:
Indian Territory, June 1861 / John Ross to Benjamin McCulloch, (June 17, 1861) -- Emancipating Northern Opinion, June 1861 / James Russell Lowell, (Pickens-and-Stealin's Rebellion, June 1861) -- Washington, DC, July 1861 / Abraham Lincoln, (Message to Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861) -- Unobserved Holiday, Louisiana, July 1861 / Kate Stone, (Journal, July 4, 1861) -- Facing the enemy, Missouri, July 1861 / Ulysses S Grant (From Personal Memoirs of US Grant) -- Defeats in Western Virginia, July 1861 / Sallie Brock, (From Richmond During the War) -- Farewell Letter, July 1861 / Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou, July 14, 1861 -- Battle of Manassas, Virginia, July 1861 / Charles Minor Blackford, (From Letters from Lee's Army) -- Union Army retreats, Virginia, July 1861 / William Howard Russell, (From My Diary North and South) -- Death and confusion everywhere, Virginia, July 1861 / Samuel J English to his Mother, (July 24, 1861) -- News of Manassas, South Carolina, July 1861 / Emma Holmes, (Diary, July 22-23, 1861) -- Straggling soldiers, Washington, DC, July 1861 / Elizabeth Blair Lee to Samuel Phillips Lee, (July 23, 1861) -- Terrible shock, Washington, DC, July 1861 / Walt Whitman, (From Specimen Days) -- Washington, DC, July 1861 / Abraham Lincoln, (Memoranda on Military Policy, July 23, 1861) -- Celebrating Victory, Virginia, July 1861 / Mary Chesnut, (Diary, July 24, 1861) -- Noninterference with Slavery, July 1861 / Crittenden-Johnson Resolutions, (July 22-25, 1861) -- Assuming command, Washington, DC, July 1861 / George B McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, (July 27, 1861) -- Our men are not good Soldiers, July 1861 / William T Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, (July 28, 1861) -- Our late awful disaster, July 1861 / Horace Greeley to Abraham Lincoln, (July 29, 1861) -- Washington, DC, August 1861 / George B McClellan, (Memorandum for the President, August 2, 1861) -- Measure against slavery, August 1861 / Confiscation Act, (August 6, 1861) -- Presdt is an idiot, August 1861 / George B McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, (August 8, 9, and 16, 1861) -- Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, August 1861 / E F Ware, (From The Lyon Campaign in Missouri) -- Confederate Artillery at Wilson's Creek, Missouri, August 1861 / W E Woodruff, (From With the Light Guns in '61-'65) -- Freeing the slaves of rebels, Missouri, August 1861 / John C Fremont, (Proclamation, August 30, 1861) -- Modifying a Proclamation, September 1861 / Abraham Lincoln to John C Fremont, (September 2, 1861) -- Need for black soldiers, September 1861 / Frederick Douglass, (Fighting rebels with only one hand, September 1861) -- Revoking Fremont's Proclamation, September 1861 / Abraham Lincoln to Orville H Browning, (September 22, 1861) -- Cherokee-Confederate Alliance:
Indian Territory, October 1861 / John Ross, (Message to the National Council, October 9, 1861) -- Battle of Ball's Bluff, Virginia, October 1861 / Henry Livermore Abbott to Josiah Gardner Abbott, (October 22, 1861) -- Replacing Winfield Scott, October 1861 / George B McClellan to Mary Ellen McClellan, (October 25, 26, 30, and 31, 1861) -- I am tired of incompetents, November 1861 / Charles Francis Adams Jr to Henry Adams, (November 5, 1861) -- Preparing for the next battle, November 1861 / George B McClellan to Samuel LM Barlow, (November 8, 1861) -- Battle of Belmont, Missouri, November 1861 / Ulysses S Grant to Jesse Root Grant, (November 8, 1861) -- Doctor at Belmont, Missouri, November 1861 / Lunsford P Yandell Jr to Lunsford Yandell Sr, (November 10, 1861) -- Capture of Port Royal, South Carolina, November 1861 / Samuel Francis Du Pont to Sophie Du Pont, (November 13-15, 1861) -- Former slave remembers, South Carolina, November 1861 / Sam Mitchell, (Narrative of the capture of the Sea Islands, November 1861) -- Confederate Sermon, Georgia, November 1861 / Henry Tucker, (God in the War, November 15, 1861) -- Richmond, Virginia, November 1861 / Jefferson Davis, (Message to the Confederate Congress, November 18, 1861) -- Army of the Potomac, Virginia, November 1861 / Harper's Weekly, (Great Review) -- Slavery and the Press, November 1861 / Ulysses S Grant to Jesse Root Grant, (November 27, 1861) -- Shortages and Inflation, Virginia, Autumn 1861 / Sallie Brock, (From Richmond during the war) -- Trent Affair, London, November-December 1861 / Benjamin Moran, (Journal, November 27-December 3, 1861) -- War with England, London, November 1861 / Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams Jr, (November 30, 1861) -- Washington, DC, December 1861 / Abraham Lincoln, (Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861) -- Preparing to enlist, Boston, December 1861 / Charles Francis Adams Jr to Henry Adams, (December 10, 1861) -- Song of the Contrabands, Virginia, 1861 / Let My People Go -- Not Relying on Foreign Aid, December 1861 / Robert E Lee to George Washington Custis Lee, (December 29, 1861) -- President's duty to act, Washington, DC, December 1861 / Edward Bates, (Diary, December 31, 1861) -- Lincoln and McClellan, Washington, DC, January 1862 / Irwin McDowell, (Memorandum, January 10-13, 1862) -- Bottom is out of the tub, Washington, DC, January 1862 / Montgomery C Meigs, (Memoir of Meetings with President Lincoln, January 10-13, 1862) -- This army has got to fight, January 1862 / Edwin M Stanton to Charles A Dana, (January 24, 1862) -- Chronology -- Biographical notes -- Note on the texts -- Notes -- Index.…”
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