NUCMC and the Documentary Heritage of the Civil War - 2011

This Web presentation is part of a five year/five part effort to highlight program cataloging of the last quarter century, along with related visual content, in observance of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.

Part 1 (2011: "A Southern Confederacy will be Formed!")

The election of Abraham Lincoln, the secession crisis, the outbreak of hostilities, mobilizing for war, and foreign public opinion.

• John Tyler letter, February 12, 1820 (Historical Society of Washington, DC)
• Christopher G. Memminger letter, February 7, 1833 (South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC)
• John Greenleaf Whittier papers, 1781-1922 (Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA)
• Republican Rail Splitters of Portland minutes, August-October 1860 (Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME)
• J. William Glaston letter, November 8, 1860 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, TX)
• Abraham Lincoln letter, March 16, 1861 (Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, AR)
• Roger Q. Mills letter, March 24, 1861 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, TX)
• John Allen letter, April 14, 1861 (McLean County Museum of History, Bloomington, IL)
• Civil War letter of Mary Hite, April 12, 1861 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, TX)
• Lucy Webb Hayes letter, April 15, [1861] (Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, OH)
• Marie Ester Brandt diary entry, Monday, April 15, [1861] (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN)
• John Milton letter book and correspondence, 1861-1863 (Florida Historical Society, Cocoa, FL)
• T. Jeff Jobe diary, May 25- August 6, 1861 (Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, AK)
• Uriah Hunt Painter papers, 1837-1900 (Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, PA)
• Logbook of the ship Rebecca Sims, November 20, 1861-January 2, 1862 (New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA)
• Robert Gween letter, January 17, 1862 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, TX)
• George Richards sermon, September 14, 1862 (Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, CT)
• Alexander Hamilton McNeill papers, 1855-1865 (North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC)
• Richard Cobden letter, March 25, 1863 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, TX)
• William Rollinson Whittingham letter, July 4, 1863 (Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Baltimore, MD)
• Charles Kuhn Prioleau correspondence, 1860-1865 (South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC)

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