The carefully selected and edited readings in this book are chronologically arranged so that students can trace the progression of events and understand the thoughts of those living during the critical Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Documents Decoded.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
Half Title Page.
Civil War.
1: Daniel Decatur Emmett’s “(I Wish I Was In) Dixie’s Land”: 1859.
2: South Carolina Ordinance of Secession: December 20, 1860.
3: Jefferson Davis’s Inaugural Address: February 18, 1861.
4: Peace Convention Resolutions: February 27, 1861.
5: The Proposed Corwin Amendment: March 2, 1861.
6: Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address: March 4, 1861.
7: Constitution of the Confederate States: March 11, 1861.
8: Alexander H. Stevens’s “Corner Stone” Speech: March 21, 1861.
9: The First Confiscation Act: August 6, 1861.
10: John C. Fremont’s Order Freeing Slaves of Missouri Rebels: August 30, 1861.
11: Julia Ward Howe’s “ The Battle Hymn of the Republic”: February 1862.
12: An Act for the Release of Certain Persons Held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia: April 16, 1862.
13: The Homestead Act: May 20, 1862.
14: The Pacific Railway Act: July 1, 1862.
15: The Morrill Act: July 2, 1862.
16: The Second Confiscation Act: July 17, 1862.
17: Horace Greeley’s “The Prayer of Twenty Millions”: August 19, 1862.
18: Abraham Lincoln’s Response to Greeley: August 22, 1862.
19: Abraham Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation: September 22, 1862.
20: Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus: September 24, 1862.
21: Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: January 1, 1863.
22: The Conscription and Enrollment Act: March 3, 1863.
23: The Prize Cases: March 10, 1863.
24: Abraham Lincoln’s Letter to Erastus Corning and Others: June 12, 1863.
25: Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation on Troop Quotas: October 17, 1863.
26: Louis Lambert (Patrick Gilmore)’s “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again”: 1863.
