Antebellum America

​Henry Clay's resolutions proposing the Compromise of 1850, January 29, 1850

Fugitive Slave Act 1850

An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas

Excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin (Chapter 12)

Indictment of John Brown

Election of 1860

Constitution Union Party Platform

Northern Democratic Party Platform

Southern Democratic Party Platform

Republican Party Platform

Secession

Georgia Secession Document

Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union

Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union

Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union

Confederate Government

Constitution of the Confederate States; March 11, 1861

"Cornerstone Speech"--Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens; Savannah, GA, March 21, 1861

Black Confederates

General Patrick Cleburn's Proposal to Arm Slaves

Letter from Howell Cobb to James Seddon; January 8, 1865

Confederate Law Authorizing the Enlistment of Black Soldiers

Slavery and Emancipation

Manumission Papers for William Jones

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Final Emancipation Proclamation

Battles

General PGT Beauregard's Official Report from the Battle of Shiloh, CSA

General US Grant's Official Report from the Battle of Shiloh, USA

General RE Lee's Official Report from the Battle of Antietam, CSA

General GB McClellan's Official Report from the Battle of Antietam, USA

General A Burnside's Official Report from the Battle of Fredericksburg, USA

General RE Lee's Official Report from the Battle of Chancellorsville, CSA

General RE Lee's Official Report from the Battle of Gettysburg, USA

General GG Meade's Official Report from the Battle of Gettysburg, USA

General B Bragg's Official Report from the Battle of Chickamauga, CSA

General WS Rosecrans' Official Report from the Battle of Chickamauga, USA

Terms of the Army of Northern Virginia's Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

Miscellaneous

General Orders No. 100:  The Lieber Code