Prologue

• Edwin Hergesheimer. Map Showing the Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States of the United States Compiled from the Census of 1860. Washington: Henry S. Graham 1861. Printed map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (001.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0013200]
• Unattributed. [Dividing the] National [Map], 1860. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33122]
• Charleston Mercury Extra, December 20, 1860 . . . Union Dissolved! Broadside. John G. Nicolay Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0003]
• Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835–1923). Diary entry, December 24, 1860. Carter G. Woodson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0004]
  
• Abraham Lincoln. First Inaugural Address (final version), March 4, 1861. Printed manuscript with holographic emendations in Lincoln’s hand. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00) [Digital ID# al0101_04]
• Anthony Berger, photographer. Abraham Lincoln. Albumen silver print of an engraving, 1864. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-24007]
• Brady National Photographic Art Gallery. Hannibal Hamlin. Carte-de-visite photographs, ca. 1861–1865, from a photograph album assembled by Lincoln’s secretary John Hay. James Wadsworth Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0011]
• Holy Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1853. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (005.01.00) [Digital ID# al0102_01, al0102_02]
• Brady National Photographic Art Gallery. Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) and Alexander H. Stephens (1812–1883). Carte-de-visite photographs, ca. 1861–1865, from a photograph album assembled by Lincoln’s secretary John Hay. James Wadsworth Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00, 006.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0005]
• Strobridge & Co. The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States, 1878. Chromolithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-pga-02817]
• Wax impression of the Great Seal of the Confederate States of America, postwar impression. John T. Pickett Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0009]
• Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. Montgomery, Alabama: Barrett, Wimbish & Co., 1861. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (008.01.00) [Digital ID# cw0008_01]

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April 1861–April 1862

• George T. Perry. Part of Charleston Harbor, Embracing Forts Moultrie, Sumter, Johnson, and Castle Pinckney, also Sullivan, James & Morris Islands. . . . Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son, ca. 1861. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0374000]
• Alma Pelot, photographer. Confederate flag Flying [Interior view of Fort Sumter after the evacuation of Major Anderson], April 16, 1861. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (016.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32284]
• James Chesnut (1815–1885) and Stephen D. Lee (1833–1908) to Robert Anderson (1805–1871), April 12, 1861. Robert Anderson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0014]
• Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) to Roger Jones, April 20, 1861. Custis-Lee Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0017, cw0017p1]
• Fourth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. . . . Concord, New Hampshire: Fogg, Hadley & Co., 1861. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0018]
• Unattributed. [Unidentified young soldier in 5th New Hampshire Infantry uniform.] Sixth-plate ambrotype, between 1861–1865. Promised gift of the Liljenquist Family, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-31304]
• George Douglas Brewerton (1820–1901). The Automaton Regiment, or, Infantry Soldier’s Practical Instructor. New York: D. Van Nostrand, [1863]. Marian S. Carson Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0021]
• Orders No. 4, Headquarters 11th Regiment. . . . Broadside, 1861. Marian S. Carson Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0020]
• Freemen! Of Tennessee! Morristown, Tennessee: Neal & Roberts, 1861. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0022]
• Unattributed. Sergeant James Bishop White of Company B, 60th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. Sixth-plate ambrotype, between 1861 and 1865. Promised gift of the Liljenquist Family, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (023.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32092]
• F. F. Mead, Lt. Co. I, 16th New York Volunteers. [Map of part of Fairfax County, Virginia, south of the city of Alexandria and the Orange and Alexandria Railroad], August 30, 1861. Colored manuscript map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (216.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0536400]
• J.B. Elliott. Scott’s Great Snake. Cincinnati: 1861. Printed color map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (025.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0011000]
• “When I wish to catch rats, I first stop their holes—Gen’l Scott.” Wood engraving on gold wove paper envelope, ca. 1861. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (026.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33123]
• “Stampede among the Negroes in Virginia—Their Arrival at Fortress Monroe from Sketches by Our Special Artist in Fortress Monroe,” in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, June 8, 1861. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (028.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33130]
• Simon Cameron (1799–1889) to Benjamin F. Butler (1818–1893), May 30, 1861. Benjamin F. Butler Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (027.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0027, cw0027p1]
• Henry P. Moore, photographer (1833–1911). Slaves of the Rebel Genl. Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C., [May 1862]. Albumen silver photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (034.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-04324]
• Mr. Gregory (?), Beaufort County, Prince William Parrish, South Carolina. Diary entry, November 22, 1861. Greenwood Plantation Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (033.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0033]
• Civil War illustrated envelopes. [Baltimore: 1861]. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00, 030.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0029, cw0030]
• Die Schlacht bei Springfield in Nord-Amerika. Neuruppin: Oehmigke & Riemschneider, [ca. 1861]. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (035.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33124]
• Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). July 4, 1861, Message to Congress [drafted May–June 1861]. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (031.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0031]
• Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917), photographer. George Brinton McClellan, ca. 1862. Hand-colored salted paper print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (060.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33064]
• John G. Nicolay (1832–1901) to Therena Bates, July 21–22, 1861. John G. Nicolay Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (032.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0032]
• “The Fort Donelson Fortifications.” Newspaper map, n.d. George Brinton McClellan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (038.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0038]
• Alonzo Ameli (1838–1912) to brother Peter Ameli, September 18, 1861. Alonzo Ameli Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (037.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0037p1]
• Edward Mack (1826–1882). “General Grant’s Grand March.” Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, deposited for copyright December 1862. Music Division, Library of Congress (039.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0039]
• Eugenia Levy Phillips (1819–1902). Prison diary, August 28–30, 1861. Philip Phillips Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (036.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0036]
• Henry Bill. The First Battle between “Iron” Ships of War, 1862. Lithograph with hand-coloring. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (043.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33125]
• James Billingslea Mitchell (1844–1891) to his father, February 23, 1862. James B. Mitchell Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (042.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0042]
• Captain Léon J. Frémaux. “Map of the Battle Field of Shiloh, April 6 & 7, 1862.” Manuscript map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (044.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0435300]
• Charles Grobe. “The Battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg Landing.” Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., deposited for copyright 1862. Music Division, Library of Congress (045.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0045]
• Samuel Masury, photographer. [Frances Louisa Clayton and as “Jack Williams” 4th Missouri Artillery, wounded in the battles of Fort Donelson and Stones River], ca. 1865. Albumen silver prints. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (046.00.00, 047.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-30980, LC-DIG-ppmsca-30978]
• Charles Magnus. Magnus’s County Map of the United States, Showing the Forts, Railroads, Canals, and Navigable Waters. Published to Trace the Progress of Operations by the Government, As They Occur, during the War of the Rebellion. New York: [ca. 1862]. Color printed map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (024.01.00) [Digital ID# cw0030200]

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April 1862–November 1862

• Elizabeth Keckley (1818–1907). Behind the Scenes or Forty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. New York: G. W. Carlton, 1868. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (050.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0050p2]
• Philadelphia Inquirer, April 30, 1862. Newspaper Section, Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (052.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0052]
• David Dixon Porter (1813–1891), in the hand of a clerk, to Montgomery C. Meigs (1816–1892), May 14, 1862. Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (051.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0051, cw0051p001]
• Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) to Abraham Lincoln, April 16, 1862. Telegram. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (048.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0048]
• The Slavery Code of the District of Columbia, Together with Notes and Judicial Decisions Explanatory of the Same by a Member of the Washington Bar. Washington, D.C.: L. Towers, 1862. Law Library, Library of Congress (049.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0049]
• General Order, Head Quarters. Charleston, Virginia: 1862. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (054.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0054]
• $1000 Confederate bond, issued May 5, 1862. Confederate States of America Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (055.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0055]
• “Greenback” United States $1 bill featuring portrait of Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase (1808–1873), 1862. United States Department of the Treasury Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (053.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0053, cw0053p1]
• Confederate $50 bill, 1864. Rose Bell Knox Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (056.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0056]
• Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (1832–1913) to Generals Andrew A. Humphries (1810–1883) or Randolph B. Marcy (1812–1887), June 9, 1862. Institute of Aerospace Sciences Archives, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (062.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0062, cw0062p1]]
• Arthur Lumley (ca. 1837–1912), artist. Professor Lowe Dictating a Dispatch to G. McClellan during Battle at Fair Oaks, ca. 1862. Wood engraving. Bella Landauer Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (061.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33126]
• Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson (1824–1863) to James Shields (1810–1879), June 11, 1862. Julian DeForest Venter Collection of Stonewall Jackson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (064.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0064, cw0064p1]
• “A Short History of T. J. Jackson” from Histories of Generals. New York: Knapp & Co., ca. 1888. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (063.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0063]
• Congressional Directory 37th Congress. Washington, D.C.: 1862. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (067.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0067, cw0067p1]
• John Bachmann. Birds Eye View of the Seat of War around Richmond Showing the Battle on Chickahominy River, 29 June 1862. New York: John Bachmann, 1862. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (065.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0621000]
• William M’Ilvaine, Jr. (1813–1867). The Chickahominy—Sumners Upper Bridge, [1862]. Watercolor drawing. Marian S. Carson Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (066.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-20015]
• Richmond Whig (Richmond, Virginia), July 2–3, 1862. Newspaper Section, Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (187.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0187, cw0187p1]
• Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries. [Willie and Tad Lincoln, sons of President Abraham Lincoln, with their cousin Lockwood Todd], April 1861. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (069.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-19325]
• Mary Todd Lincoln to Julia Ann Sprigg, May 29, 1862. Mary Todd Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (068.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0068, cw0068p1]
• Uriah Clark. Plain Guide to Spiritualism: A Hand-book for Skeptics, Inquirers, Clergymen, Believers, Lecturers, Mediums, Editors, and All Who Need a Thorough Guide to the Phenomena, Science, Philosophy, Religion and Reforms of Modern Spiritualism. Boston: William White & Co., 1863. Harry Houdini Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (070.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0070]
• E. Clark Isley, composer. “Kiss Me before I Die Mother.” Augusta, Georgia: Blackmar & Bro., ca. 1862. Music Division, Library of Congress (213.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0213]
• Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828–1899). “Map of the Shenandoah Valley,” 1862 and “Sketchbook of Jed Hotchkiss, Capt & To. Eng. Hd. Qurs, 2nd Corps, Army of N. Virginia.” Manuscript map and notebook. Hotchkiss Map Collection, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (057.00.00, 058.00.00) [Digital ID# g3882s-cwh00089, g3880m-gcwh0001]
• Jedediah Hotchkiss. Diary, January 1–November 28, 1863. Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (059.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0059]
• Alexander Gardner (1821–1882). The “Sunken Road” at Antietam. September 1862. Albumen silver print, printed later. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (073.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-07751]
• Stereoscope. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (074.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0074a]
• William H. Willcox. Map of the Battlefield of Antietam. Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son, 1862. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (075.00.00) [Digital ID# g3844s-cw0252000]
• Minie ball, ca. 1862–1865. Nathaniel Sisson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (071.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0071]
• Ordnance Bureau. The Field Manual for Use of the Officers on Ordnance Duty. Richmond: Ritchie & Dunnavant, 1862. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (072.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0072]
• George B. McClellan (1826–1885) to Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), September 13, 1862. Telegram. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (077.00.00, 077.00.01) [Digital ID# cw0077, cw0077p1]
• Robert E. Lee (1807–1870). Special Order No. 191, September 9, 1862. George Brinton McClellan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (078.00.00) [Digital ID# al0143, al0143_p1]
• James Steptoe Johnston (1843–1924) to Mary Green, September 22, 1862. Mercer Green Johnston Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (076.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0076, cw0076p1, cw0076p2]
• John P. Jones to his wife, August 24, 1862. Donald Benham Civil War Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (079.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0079p1]
• Michael Shiner (1805–1880). Diary entry for September 1862. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (080.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0080]
• Michael Shiner (1805–1880). Diary entries for March–July, 1861. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (080.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0080p1]

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December 1862–October 1863

• Arthur Lumley (ca. 1837–1912), artist. Night. The Sacking of Fredericksburg—& Biovace [sic] of Union Troops, [December 12, 1862]. Pencil on paper. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (081.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-20787]
• Betty Herndon Maury (1835–1903). Diary entry, December 28, 1862. Betty Herndon Maury Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (082.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0082p1]
• Unattributed. Clara Barton, ca. 1862. Albumen silver print in carte-de-visite album. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (083.00.00) [Digital ID# cph-3g06307]
• Clara Barton (1821–1912). Diary, January–February 1863. Clara Barton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (084.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0084, cw0084p1]
• Abraham Lincoln. Initial draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, July 22, 1862. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (153.00.00) [Digital ID# al0153p1, al0153p2]
• A Manual of Military Surgery Prepared for the Use of the C. S. A. Army. Richmond, Virginia: Ayreson & Wade, 1863. Confederate States of America Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (085.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0085, cw0085p1]
• By the President. . . . Emancipation Proclamation. Philadelphia: Leypoldt, 1864. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (087.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0087]
• H. H. Brownell. All Slaves Were Made Freemen by Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, January 1, 1863. Recruitment and "John Brown Song" broadside. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (089.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0089, cw0089p1]
• Southern Illustrated News, November 2, 1862. Confederate States of America Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (088.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0088]
• Abraham Lincoln to General Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (094.00.00) [Digital ID# al0166]
• Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828–1899) to Sara Hotchkiss, May 10, 1863. Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (097.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0097, cw0097p1]
• Alfred R. Waud (1828–1891). Couch’s Corps Forming Line of Battle in the Fields at Chancellorsville to Cover the Retreat of the Eleventh Corps Disgracefully Running Away, May 1–3, 1863. Pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash on brown paper. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (096.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-22527]
• Map of the Battlefield of Chancellorsville, Virginia, 1863. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (095.00.00) [Digital ID# g3884c-cw0528000]
• Petition of Former Representative Clement L. Vallandigham (1820–1871), to the Supreme Court of the United States, October term, 1863. Transcript of testimony before the Military Commission held at Cincinnati on May 6 and 7, 1863. Law Library, Library of Congress (098.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0098, cw0098p1, cw0098p2]
• Jefferson Davis (1808–1889). “To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States of America,” February 3, 1864. Burton Norvell Harrison Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (099.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0099]
• Charles Wellington Reed (1841–1926). Plan of Gettysburg Battle Ground, 1863. Chas. W. Reed, 9th Mass. Battery, deposited for copyright 1864. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (105.00.00) [Digital ID# g3824g-cw0347000]
• Alexander Gardner (1821–1882). Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, 1863. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (102.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33066]
• James Longstreet (1821–1904) to Edward Porter Alexander (1835–1910), July 3, 1863, with annotation of Alexander’s reply. Edward Porter Alexander Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (104.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0104, cw0104p1]
• Anna Johnson Sanders (ca. 1815–1890). Diary entries for July 1863. George Nicholas Sanders Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (106.00.00) [Digital ID# cs0106]
• L. A. Wrotnowski. View of Vicksburg and Plan of the Canal, Fortifications, and Vicinity, 1863. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (107.00.00) [Digital ID# g3984v-cw0294000]
• Mary Ann Webster Loughborough (1836–1887). My Cave Life in Vicksburg. With Letters of Trial and Travel. By a Lady. New York: D. Appleton, 1864. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (110.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0110p4, cw0110, cw0110p1, cw0110p2]
• Adalbert J. Volck (1828–1912). “Cave Life in Vicksburg” in V. Blada’s War Sketches. London [Baltimore]: 1864. Lithograph. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (109.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0109]
• Vicksburg Daily Citizen, July 2, 1863. Vicksburg, Mississippi. Newspaper printed on wallpaper. Newspaper Section, Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (108.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0108, cw0108p1]
• Edwin Forbes (1839–1895). Pickett’s Charge from a Position on the Enemy’s Line Looking toward the Union Lines, Ziegler’s Grove on the Left, Clump of Trees on Right, between 1866 and 1870. Oil on canvas. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (103.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-22571]
• Storming Fort Wagner. Chromolithograph. Chicago: Kurz & Allison Art Publishers, 1890. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (116.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-pga-01949]
• Lewis Henry Douglass (1840–1908) to Helen Amelia Loguen, July 20, 1863. Carter G. Woodson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (117.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0117, cw0117p1]
• Light Cavalry. Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1861. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (101.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0101]
• Unattributed. [Private David M. Thatcher of Company B, Berkeley Troop, 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment], between 1861 and 1865. Sixth-plate, hand-colored ambrotype. Promised gift of the Liljenquist family, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (100.00.00)[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32680]
• “Certificate of Exemption on Account of Having Furnished a Substitute,” issued to Sylvanus Cadwallader (1825–1908), September 30, 1864. Sylvanus Cadwallader Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (112.00.00)[Digital ID# cw0112]
• Frank Wilder, composer. “Wanted a Substitute.” Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., deposited for copyright 1863. Music Division, Library of Congress (111.00.00)[Digital ID# cw0111]
• Unattributed. [Civil War induction officer with lottery box], ca. 1863. Sixth-plate tintype. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113.00.00)[Digital ID# ds-00292]
• “The Mob in New York. Resistance to the Draft—Rioting and Bloodshed,” New York Times, July 14, 1863. Newspaper Section, Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (114.00.00)[Digital ID# cw0114]
• Abraham Lincoln to James C. Conkling (1816–1899). Draft letter, August 26, 1863. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (115.00.00)[Digital ID# cw0115]
• Confederate Receipt Book. Richmond, Virginia: West & Johnston, 1863. Confederate States of America Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (091.00.00)[Digital ID# cw0091, cw0091p1]
• Lancaster & Co. “Table of Prices in Confederate Currency of Gold and Greenbacks,” February 19, 1866. Manuscript document. Burton Norvell Harrison Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (093.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0093]
• John M. Schofield (1831–1906). “Events in Missouri, 1863” journal, August 26, 1863, entry. John McAllister Schofield Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (119.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0119, cw0119p1]
• James Fuller Queen (ca. 1820–1886), artist. John Clem: A Drummer Boy of 12 Years of Age Who Shot a Rebel Colonel upon the Battle Field of Chickamauga, Ga. September 20, 1863, between 1863 and 1869. Lithograph. Philadelphia: P. S. Duval & Son, ca. 1865. Marian S. Carson Collection, Prints and Photographs Division (121.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ds-00297]
• Alfred R. Waud. Chickamauga, [September 18–20, 1863]. Chinese white and black ink wash on paper. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (120.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-21066]
• Richard W. Johnson (1827–1897) to Harry Johnson, January 27, 1864. Richard W. Johnson Correspondence, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (122.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0122]
• Attributed to Royan M. Linn, photographer. [Seven unidentified officers and soldiers in Union uniforms and one officer identified as Major Charles S. Cotter of 1st Ohio Light Artillery Regiment, with telescope, at Point Lookout, Tennessee], ca. 1863. Half-plate, hand-colored tintype. Promised gift of the Liljenquist family, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (123.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-34275]
• Quartermaster’s Department, Confederate States of America. Train ticket from Macon, Georgia, to Richmond, Virginia, December 27, 1862. Confederate States of America Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (124.00.00, 124.00.01) [Digital ID# cw0124, cw0124p1]
• Isaac H. Bonsall. [Railroad Yard, Chattanoogna, Tenneessee], 1863 or 1864. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (125.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32286]
• G. H. Blakeslee. Sketch Map Showing Fortifications, Union/Confederate Picket Lines, Rifle Pits, ‘Rebel camp[s]’, Roads, Railroads, and Streams, 1863. Pen and ink manuscript map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (126.00.00) [Digital ID# g3964c-cw0398200r]

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November 1863–April 1865

• Unattributed. [Petersburg, Virginia. Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry playing cards in front of tents]. Albumen silver print, August 1864. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (134.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33068]
• Henry R. Bishop (1786–1855), composer. “Home Sweet Home.” Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, ca. 1850s. Music Division, Library of Congress (136.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0136]
• Diocesan Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia. The Army and Navy Prayer Book. Richmond: Chas. H. Wynne, 1865. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (131.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0131]
• Reverend A. M. Stewart (1814–1875). Camp March and Battle-field or Three Years and a Half with the Army of the Potomac. Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rogers, 1865. General Collections, Library of Congress (132.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0132]
• Charles W. Reed (1841–1926) to Roxanna R. Reed, August 29, [1863]. Charles Wellington Reed Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (135.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0135, cw0135p1]
• The Southern [Flag] Song Book, Containing All the New and Choice Southern Songs & Melodies, with the Popular Ballads, Comic and Sentimental. Vicksburg and Natchez: Mississippi: H. C. Clarke, ca. 1861. Music Division, Library of Congress (137.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0137]
• William Wells Brown (ca. 1814–1884). Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States. Boston: J. Redpath, 1864. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (138.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0138, cw0138p1]
• Gilbert Thompson (1839–1909). “My Journal 1861–65,” March–April, 1864 entries. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (140.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0140, cw0140p1, cw0140p2, cw0140p3, cw0140p4]
• Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) to Julia D. Grant (1826–1902), June 7, 1864. Ulysses S. Grant Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (146.00.00, 146.00.01) [Digital ID# cw0146p1, cw0146p2]
• Benjamin Brown French (1800–1870). Diary entries, November 22–29, 1863. Benjamin B. French Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (130.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0130, cw0130p1, cw0130p2]
• Abraham Lincoln. “Nicolay Copy” of the Gettysburg Address, 1863. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (129.00.00) [Digital ID# al0186p1, al0186p2]
• Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) to Edwin M. Stanton (1814–1869), May 11, 1864. Ulysses S. Grant Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (144.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0144]
• Alfred R. Waud (1828–1891). Genl. Wadsworth’s Division in Action in the Wilderness, near the Spot Where the General Was Killed, [May 5–7, 1864]. Pencil and Chinese white on paper. Published in Harper’s Weekly, June 4, 1864. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (142.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-20999]
• M. Ritchie to Fitzhugh & Jenkins. Telegram announcing death of General James Wadsworth (1807–1864), May 9, 1864. James Wadsworth Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (143.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0143]
• Christian Fleetwood (1840–1914). Diary entry, June 15–22, 1864. Christian A. Fleetwood Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (147.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0147, cw0147p1]
• Hospital Slippers for the Sick and Wounded Soldiers of the Union. Philadelphia, 1861. Printed broadside pattern. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (151.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0151]
• T. J. S. Landis after Thomas O’Dea, Co. E. 16th Maine Inf. Vols. Andersonville Prison, Camp Sumter, Ga., As It appeared August 1st 1864, When It Contained 35,000 Prisoners of War. Lithograph. New York: Henry Seibert & Bro. Art Litho., ca. 1885. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (155.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-10762]
• Samuel J. Gibson to Rachel A. Gibson, June 12, 1864, and diary entries of August 7–18, 1864. S. J. Gibson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (156.00.00, 157.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0156, cw0157]
• Unattributed. [Unidentified girl and boy, probably siblings], between 1861 and 1865. Hand-colored tintype in carved bone ring. Liljenquist Family Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (214.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-27480]
• Total Receipts of the Woman’s Central Relief Association. New York, 1863. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (152.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0152]
• H. Junius, artist. Sketch included in letter from James W. Duke to his cousin, August 31, 1864. Charles Buford Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (159.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0159, cw0159p1]
• Edward Mack (1826–1882). “The Sanitary Fair Grand March.” Philadelphia, 1864. Music Division, Library of Congress (153.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0153]
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892). List of synonyms and notes for “Ashes of Heroes” [first published as “Hymn of Dead Soldiers”]. Holograph notes. Feinberg-Whitman Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (148.00.00, 148.00.01) [Digital ID# cw0148p1, cw0148]
• Walt Whitman. Drum-Taps (first issue). New York, 1865. Walt Whitman Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (149.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0149, cw0149p1]
• Alexander Gardner (1821–1882), photographer. Sheridan and His Generals [pictured from left to right: Generals Wesley Merritt (1834–1910); Philip Henry Sheridan (1831–1888); George Crook (1828–1890); James W. Forsyth (1835[?]–1906); and George A. Custer (1839–1876) around a table examining a document, January 2, 1865. Albumen silver print, printed later by Moses P. Rice. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (160.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-24021]
• Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Hospital Sketches. Boston: J. Redpath, 1863. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (150.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0150]
• Montgomery C. Meigs (1816–1892). Diary entries, June 8–11, 1864. Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (154.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0154, cw0154p1]
• Richard W. Habersham (ca. 1844–?) to Harriett E. Habersham, November 12, 1864. Habersham Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (161.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0161, cw0161p1]
• Unattributed. [Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters]. Quarter-plate ambrotype, between 1863 and 1865. Liljenquist Family Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (163.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-36454]
• Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1823–1896), photographer. For President Abraham Lincoln—For Vice President Andrew Johnson. Tintypes with metal casing, 1864. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (164.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-19442, LC-DIG-ppmsca-19443]
• Unattributed. [Gen. George McClellan campaign button for 1864 presidential election], 1864. Tintype with metal casing. Promised gift of the Liljenquist family, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (165.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32109]
• George N. Barnard (1819–1902), photographer. City of Atlanta, No. 2, 1866. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (167.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33069]
• William Waud (d. 1878). Pennsylvania Soldiers Voting, Army of the James, [October 1864]. Pencil, Chinese white and black ink wash on paper. Published in Harper’s Weekly, October 29, 1864. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (162.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-21710]
• Campaign in Virginia, 1864. Painted lead figures. Marian S. Carson Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (170.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0170b]
• Charles R. Rees, photographer. [Unidentified young boy holding a photograph of a soldier], between 1861 and 1865. Sixth-plate ambrotype. Promised gift of the Liljenquist family, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (169.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32461]
• Washington Baird (d. 1868). The Confederate Spelling Book. Macon, Georgia: Burke, Boykin & Company, 1864. Rare Book and Special Collection Division, Library of Congress (171.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0171]
• LeRoy Wiley Gresham (1847–1865). Diary entries, November 16–November 20, 1864. Lewis H. Machen Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (173.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0173, cw0173p1, cw0173p2, cw0173p3]
• Leroy Wiley Gresham. Sixth-plate hand-colored ambrotype, ca. 1856. Lewis H. Machen Family Papers, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (172.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33535]
• Mary Ann Bickerdyke (1817–1901) to James Bickerdyke, August 23, 1864. Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (168.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0168, cw0168p1]
• William Kossak and John B. Muller. Military Map Showing the Marches of the United States Forces under Command of Maj. Genl. W. T. Sherman . . . During the Years 1863, 1864, 1865. Sherman Map Collection, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (166.00.00) [Digital ID# g3866s-cw0072000]
• Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers III (1838–1933). “Sherman’s March to the Sea.” Manuscript poem. Music Division, Library of Congress (175.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0175, cw0175p1]
• J. O. Rockwell, music. “Sherman’s March to the Sea.” Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1882. Music Division, Library of Congress (174.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0174]
• David Homer Bates (1843–1926). November 1863–June 1865 diary, entries for December 19–27, 1864. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (177.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0177, cw0177p1, cw0177p2]
• Unattributed. The Original Four Operators of the United States Military Telegraph Corps (standing: Samuel M. Brown (d. 1877); front row, left to right: David Strouse (1838–1861), David Homer Bates, and Richard O’Brien (1839–1923), between 1861 and 1866. Quarter-plate ambrotype. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (176.00.00) [Digital ID # LC-DIG-ppmsca-34371]
• Thirty-eighth Congress of the United States. Ceremonial copy of the Thirteenth Amendment [signed by Abraham Lincoln and members of Congress], February 1, 1865. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (180.00.00)[Digital ID# at0100]
• William T. Sherman (1820–1891) to Caroline Carson (1820–1892), January 20, 1865. James Louis Petigru Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (179.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0179, cw0179p1, cw0179p2]
• William T. Sherman. Special Order No. 15, January 16, 1865. William T. Sherman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (178.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0178, cw0178p1]
• John S. Rock (1825–1866) to Mr. Jollife, December 13, 1864. William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (181.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0181]
• William Waud (d. 1878). The Burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865. Wood engraving. Published in Harper’s Weekly, April 8, 1865. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (186.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33131]
• [C.S.A.] Senate Bill No. 190. “A Bill to Provide for Raising Two Hundred Thousand Negro Troops,” February 10, 1865. Confederate States of America Collection, Law Library, Library of Congress (184.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0184]
• The True Peace Commissioners. New York: Currier & Ives, 1864. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (182.00.00) [Digital ID# cph-3b38537]
• [C.S.A.] House of Representatives. Joint Resolutions Expressing the Sense of Congress on the Subject of the Late Peace Commission, February 20, 1865. Confederate States of America Collection, Law Library, Library of Congress (185.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0185]
• Jefferson Davis (1808–1889). Address of the President. To the People of the Confederate States of America. Danville, Virginia, 1865. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (191.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0191]
• David Knox, photographer. Mortar Dictator in Front of Petersburg, October 1864. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (188.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-32420]
• Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). Inaugural Address, March 1865. Pasted-up typeset reading copy. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (190.00.00) [Digital ID# al0206_05]
• Unattributed. Memoranda. April 8, 1865. 10 o’clock A.M. Clover Hill (Appomattox Court House), Virginia, 1865. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (193.00.00) [Digital ID# g3884a-cw0525000]
• General Lee’s Farewell Address. Petersburg, Virginia: Ege’s Print., [1865]. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (194.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0194]
• Andrew J. Russell (1829–1902). [Ruins on Carey Street, Richmond, Virginia, showing two women dressed in black approaching a shell of a four-story building gutted by fire], April 1865. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (189.00.00) [Digital ID# cph-3g04593]
• Unattributed. Ruins on Carey Street, Richmond, Virginia, April 1865 [printed later]. Albumen silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (189.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33070]
• 3rd New Hampshire Regiment. “Star-Spangled Banner” for 1st E flat cornet and closed manuscript part book. Music Division, Library of Congress (195.00.00, 195.01.00) [Digital ID# cw0195, cw0195_01]
• [The ceremony at Fort Sumter during which General Robert Anderson raised the flag he had been forced to take down exactly four years before], April 14, 1865. Reproduction from glass plate negative. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (196.00.00) [Digital ID# cwpb-02464]
• Lincoln realia, 1865. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (198.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0198b]
• James Suydam Knox (1840–1892) to Rev. J. P. Knox, April 15, 1865. Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (197.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0197, cw0197p1, cw0197p2, cw0197p3]
• Dion Haco. J. Wilkes Booth, The Assassinator of President Lincoln. New York: T. R. Dawley, 1865. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (215.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0215]

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Epilogue

• F. Welcker. Jeff’s Last Skedaddle Off to the Last Ditch, 1865. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (201.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-33128]
• Varina Davis (1826–1906) to Montgomery Blair (1813–1883), June 6, 1865. Blair Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (202.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0202, cw0202p1, cw0202p2]
• Edmund Ruffin (1794–1865). Diary entry, June 18, 1865. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (205.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0205p1]
• Frederick Douglass (1818–1895). Address at the Graves of the Unknown Dead at Arlington, Virginia, May 30, 1871. Frederick Douglass Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (211.00.00, 211.00.01) [Digital ID# cw0211, cw0211p1]
• Exhibition—Left Handed Penmanship, 1866. Pamphlet. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (206.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0206, cw0206p1, cw0206p2]
• John Chase, Company B, 3rd Maine Volunteers. Left-handed penmanship entry and photograph, submitted December 1865. William Oland Bourne Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (207.00.00, 208.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0208, cw0208p1, cw0207]
• Clara Barton (1821–1912). Roll of Missing Men. No. 1. Washington, D.C.: 1865. Rare Book Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (204.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0204]
• Co. B, 53rd Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Ribbon, n.d. Silas W. Browning Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (209.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0209]
• Winchester Camp No. 4. Ribbon, n.d. Jubal Anderson Early Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (210.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0210]
• The Myriopticon, A Historical Panorama of the Rebellion. Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, [before 1890]. Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (212.00.00) [Digital ID# cw0212]
• [Thirty-six star flag], between 1864 and 1867. Color woodcut on linen. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (201.00.00) [Digital ID# pga-02834]

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