Wikisource:American Civil War
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| A collection of various texts closely associated with the American Civil War. |
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[edit] Causes and lead-ups to the war
[edit] Documents of the war
- Mississippi Ordinance of Secession, 1861
- A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union, as it appeared in the Journal of the State Convention
- Letter From John Pelham to Jefferson Davis, 1861 offering to resign his Federal commission and join the Confederate army
- British proclamation of neutrality in the American Civil War, 1861
- Gettysburg Address, 1863 by Author:Abraham Lincoln
- Letter to Mrs. Bixby, 1864, on the death of her sons
- Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End, by Author:Andrew Johnson
- Wikisource:Quantrill's Raid into Kansas
[edit] Articles written during the war
- Near Atlanta, Thursday, Aug. 25, 1864, by B. C. Truman
- Lee at Fredericksburg
- Stonewall Jackson's Last Battle
- The Battle of Fredericksburg
[edit] Andersonville prisoner of war camp
- 1864 Civil War Request for Pay, from the wife of a Union soldier imprisoned at Andersonville
- Wirz Appeal to President Johnson, camp officer appealing his death sentence after the war
- Winder's letter to Walthall, 1875 letter about Wirz's execution
[edit] Poetry
- Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, 1866 by Author:Herman Melville
- The Colored Soldiers, by Author:Paul Laurence Dunbar
- At Port Royal, by Author:John Greenleaf Whittier
[edit] Historical retellings
- A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States of America, 1866
- Letter to the Southern Historical Society, 1877 by Author:Armistead Lindsay Long
- Confederate Military History, 1899
- A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, 1918, by Author:James Ford Rhodes. This work won the Pulizer Prize.
- The Guns of Bull Run, 1914 by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
- The Guns of Shiloh, 1914 by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
- The Scouts of Stonewall, 1914 by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
- The Sword of Antietam, 1914 by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
- The Star of Gettysburg, 1915 by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
- The Rock of Chickamauga, 1915 by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
- The Shades of the Wilderness, 1916 by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
- The Tree of Appomattox, 1916 by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
[edit] Biographical accounts
- Admiral David D. Porter, as it appeared in Harper's
- Harpers - General Robert Edmund Lee, as it appeared in Harper's
- Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, 1885
- Some Personal Recollections of General Sherman, 1894 by Author:S. M. H. Byers
- Robert E. Lee, as it appeared in the 1908 Heroes Every Child Should Know by H. W. Mabie
- The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War
